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Art Subject: Bride
Basket in Red. Oil on panel. Expressionist Still-life with abstract background
Located in Segovia, ES
Basket in Red (Canasto en rojo). Aracely Alarcón oil on panel. Expressionist Still-life on abstract background. Dimension art : 38 x 46 x 03 cm. Dimen...
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Early 2000s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

"FRIDA" Portrait Oil Painting 48" x 36" inch by Isaac Pelayo
Located in Culver City, CA
"FRIDA" Portrait Oil Painting 48" x 36" inch by Isaac Pelayo Medium: oil and aeorosl on canvas ABOUT THE ARTIST: Isaac Pelayo is a head on crash collision between The Renaissance ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Baroque Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Spray Paint

Blue Blooms
Located in Napa, CA
My paintings are layered bursts of energy inspired by nature’s movement, blending the here and now with memories. Forms and lines fall into a sea of emotion. Shapes and reflections d...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite

Mid Century Figure Painting in the Studio Study
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid century figure study of nude models and a painter in the studio by California artist Genevieve Rogers (American, 1904-1984). Unsigned, but a...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil, Paper

"Nativity Process" Water Colors & Pencils on Paper 19" x 12" inch by Ragheb Ayad
Located in Culver City, CA
"Nativity Procession" Water Colors & Pencils on Paper 19" x 12" inch by Ragheb Ayad signed & dated Water Colors & Pencils on Paper Ragheb Ayad was born i...
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20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

Nettuno Ovvero Neptune Oil Painting Sea Contemporary In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Nettuno Ovvero Neptune Oil Painting Sea Contemporary In Stock Giovanni Tommasi Ferroni (1967, Rome) descended from an artistic Tuscan family. His...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Evolve & Wait"- Richly Colorful, Figurative/Abstract Mixed Media Painting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
John-Herbert was born in Miami and moved to New York city when he was 3 years old. As the son of a Filipno mother and bi-racial father, his multi-cultural roots at first felt like a challenge but with time, and especially through his creative explorations, he would create his own unique world. This would immerse into his work; containing multiple points of views. Inspirations from Basquiat to Van Gogh, Monet to Dali and Matisse; John-Herbert developed a Neo-Expressionist approach infused with surrealism, figurative, and abstract renderings. From the tender age of eight, Wright gravitated to painting as an escape expressing a rich inner world. His work heavily relies upon dark figurations amongst an urban landscape leaving the viewer space to navigate the world he creates. An analogy of the human condition; centering the female nude/mother and child as the protagonist, he tells the story of the broken seeking respite, the downcast, the other. Wright seeks to illuminate the universe of darkness within all of us, within himself, and that darkness contrasted with fragility has always been at the epicenter of his work. Wright has managed to create a niche for himself as a painter and street-wear designer, contributing to the role the graphic t-shirt played in disseminating New York street culture across the globe. Transferring the techniques of garment making onto his canvases, Wright’s paintings feature backdrops of multiple layers of silk-screened images, drawings and text. He has also expanded his avenues of expression, creating installations and even multi-sensory exhibitions, building even more detailed spaces to travel with him through. Although his success has been celebrated, in many ways till recently, Wright has also kept his own story on fade. This changed last year with his highly lauded solo show “Rewind & Reflect” (at the Blue Gallery...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Art Nouveau Painting of a Maiden and Mischievous Cupids 19th Century by Rontini
Located in Rochester, NY
Art nouveau painting of beautiful maiden and mischievous angels. An allegory of Spring. Watercolor painting by Alessandro Rontini (Italian born 1854). In beautiful custom floral deco...
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19th Century Art Nouveau Figurative Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Japanese Contemporary Art by Teppei Ikehila - Untitled
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Teppei Ikehila is a Japanese artist born in 1978 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. He is graduated from Shimane University in 2001. Since 2000, he has held many priva...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Playing hide and seek", 19th Century Oil on Panel by Vicente Palmaroli, Spanish
Located in Madrid, ES
VICNTE PALMAROLI y GONZÁLEZ Spanish, 1834 - 1896 PLAYING HIDE AND SEEK signed "V. Palmaroli" (lower right) oil on mahogany panel 17-3/4 x 13-1/2 inches (45 X 34 cm.) framed: 25-1/4 X 21-1/4 inches (64 X 53.7 cm.) PROVENANCE Leslie Hindman Inc., Auctionners Private Collector, Madrid Oil on table by Vicente Palmaroli...
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Late 19th Century Romantic Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

“Profil de Danseuse”
Located in Southampton, NY
Outstanding original oil on canvas painting of a young ballerina in profile. The artist is German born artist, Dietz Edzard. Signed lower left by the artist. Titled and dated verso...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antinoo. Figurative, Human figure, Realism, surrealistic, mythology
Located in MADRID, ES
Hand signed by artist Antinoo. Figurative, Human figure, Realism, surrealistic, mythology, acrylic and oil on panel
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Panel, Wood Panel

Cracker Jacks (huge original painting)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed and dated lower front by Doug Bloodworth. Canvas size 48 x 60 x 2 inches (stretched). Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of au...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Daffodils by Christophe Dupety - Floral painting, yellow, figurative, colorful
Located in Paris, FR
Daffodils is a unique oil on canvas painting by contemporary artist Christophe Dupety, dimensions are 146 × 114 cm (57.5 x 44.5 in). The artwork is signed, sold unframed and comes wi...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

LOVE AND HORSES
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original art by Daria Kusto. Acrylic on canvas Shipped rolled in a tube From Spain
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Permanent Marker

"She's Stealin' Flowers, Mrs. Atherton!"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1934 Medium: Gouache on Pencil on Board Dimensions: 19.25" x 19.75" Signature: Inscribed and Signed Illustrated for "The Sea Remembers" by Gordon Malherbe Hillman, American Ma...
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board, Pencil

Color Glamour, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Mary Pratt revisits one of her favorite compositions, depicting five women in various poses. Dressed in crayon-like colors with matching bold hats, they ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Rhythm-2, Dancers, Acrylic on Canvas, Green, Red, Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Bappa Halder - Rhythm - 2 - 30 x 36 inches (unframed size) Acrylic on Canvas. Style : According to Bappa Halder, “My work seeks to explore ideas rooted in realistic world. I am ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

On the Balcony, Two Women Seated at Table, Woman Cleveland Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Thelma Frazier Winter (American, 1905-1977) On the Balcony Pastel on paper Signed lower right 20 x 16 inches Thelma Frazier Winter was an American enamelist, ceramic sculptor, and p...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pastel

The Scuffle
Located in Miami, FL
An illustrator working in a painterly, narrative style as N. C. Wyeth, Howard Pyle, Dean Cornwell from the Golden Age Of Illustration. Surface quality is post impressionist with hea...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Georgian Contemporary Art by David Popiashvili - Girl with a Lamb
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas
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2010s Medieval Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

20th Century French Oil Painting Elegant Lady in Hat with Flower Large Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Lady by Annie Faure (French 1940-2021) signed lower corner oil painting on canvas, framed framed: 46 x 26 inches canvas size: 39 x 20 inches condition: overall very goo...
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Late 20th Century French School Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Painting Moses Saved by the Waters, 17th-18th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. The scene recounts the biblical episode from the book of Exodus in which baby Moses, whom his mother had entrusted to the river inside a basket to save him from the s...
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Late 17th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Young Beauty
Located in Mc Lean, VA
An Orientalist figurative or genre painting by Conrad Kiesel.
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Mid-19th Century Academic Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Korean Contemporary Art by Kim Soo Young - Queen 12
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media on hanji paper (Korean traditional paper) Kim Soo Young is a Korean artist born in 1978 who lives and works in Seoul, South Korea. Through over two decades of deep imme...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

Japanese Contemporary Art by Miyuki Takanashi - Holding Knee
Located in Paris, IDF
Tempera, ink & egg emulsion Miyuki Takanashi is a Japanese artist born in 1961 who lives & works in Sapporo in Japan. She is graduated from Hokkaido University of Education Iwamiza...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Emulsion, Ink, Tempera

French Impressionist Winter Street Scene with Figures and Church Spire
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Winter Street Scene with Figures and Church Spire by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 7.25 inches (height) x 9.75 inches (width) Oil painting on cardboard...
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20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Magic Realism Figurative Artwork, "Honey and Bees" by Evgeniya Golik
Located in San Diego, CA
An 18” x 18” Magic Realism Figurative Artwork by artist Evgeniya Golik. A certificate of authenticity will accompany the piece upon its purchase or delivery. Evgeniya Golik (also k...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel, Color Pencil, Graphite

W. D. Halloway - 1888 Oil, Mother and Child on the Moors
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming depiction of a barefoot mother and child before a wild moorland landscape. Signed and dated. Presented in a gilt frame. On canvas.
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Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Jacques Le Coultre - French School Early 20th Century Oil, Playing in the Sand
Located in Corsham, GB
Jacques Le Coultre, French School, oil on board. A charming composition depicting a mother and child playing in the sand with gentle sea waves lapping the shoreline. Signed to the lo...
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20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Chinese Contemporary Art by Diao Qing-Chun - Painting Of The Serving Girl No.4
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media on canvas Diao Qing-Chun is a Chinese artist born in 1972 who lives & works in Beijing, China. The artist uses oil painting as a medium to create works, Diao Qing-Chun'...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Pre-Raphaelite Style Painting of Mothers and Babies in WWII
Located in Miami, FL
Babies are falling from the sky and not bombs. British female artist and illustrator Noel Laura Nisbet makes a passionate twist to the reality of En...
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1940s Pre-Raphaelite Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Mixed Media, Tempera

Spanish Contemporary Art by Leticia de Prado - Baby Blue
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas infused with rhinestones & silk mixed media Leticia de Prado is a Spanish artist born in 1964 who lives and works in Estepona, near Marbella, Spain. She is best known ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Portrait Woman in Tank Top
Located in Tulsa, OK
"Portrait 02" by János Huszti is a moody, neutral toned oil painting on wrapped canvas. Featuring a woman with her hair loosely pulled back, the piece measures 83" x 63". The blurred...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Four Women in a Fanciful Garden Setting, Decorative Screen
Located in Fort Washington, PA
A beautiful decorative screen featuring elegant women in a garden setting painted by the renowned American illustrator Howard Chandler Christy. Medium: Oil on Panel in Three Parts D...
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1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

An Exceptional Mid-Century Modern Oil Painting of a Reclining Nude Female Model
Located in Chicago, IL
An Exceptional Mid-Century Modern Oil Painting of a Reclining Nude Female Model by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. This alluring studio scene, painted in the 1960s, exemplifi...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Nude Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Farmers Working in Sunlit Landscape Beneath a Deep Blue Sky French Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Toiling in the Fields by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) size: 8.75 x 10.75 inches oil painting on board, unframed condition: the painting is in very good condition. It has previously bee...
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20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

The First Lady (Grey & Gold Ed. /15)
Located in Dallas, TX
"The First Lady" 22 layer hand cut stencil Spray paint on $1 bill 15.6 x 6.6cm Signed HPM of 15 2013 British stencil artist Jim Penfold aka Penny (aka Onepennypiece) is known for ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Spray Paint, Stencil

Winter Cabin by Geri Eubanks, Petite Framed Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Atlanta, GA
In Geri's own words: "My love for art began in my early teens when I signed up for art class in high school and soon discovered that I had a passion for drawing and oil. Growing up i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Embracing Couple on Sailboat , Art Deco Style Romantic
Located in Miami, FL
Love at sea. A nautical romance is captured as a handsome couple embrace. The big splash of water at the peak moment of drama symbolizes passion and defines Falter's creativity in communicating a romantic narrative. This is a companion piece to a romance story. Most likely done on assignment for a major newsstand magazine. Hand-signed by artist, sticker label, Magazine Illustration circa 1940 Oil on board Signed lower right h: 28.5 x w: 30 in / h: 72.4 x w: 76.2 cm Morris Weiss collection...
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1940s Art Deco Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Painting with The Resurrection of Lazarus mid-nineteenth century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. Bottom signed Cornienti and dated 1844; on verso attributive inscription to Cherubino Cornienti. It is not possible to confirm this attribution to the important 19th-c...
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Mid-19th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Untitled - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Subtle Female Portrait, Vibrant
Located in Warsaw, PL
KATARZYNA SZYDLOWSKA (born in 1969) Katarzyna Szydlowska studied at the European Academy of Arts under prof. Jerzy Duda Gracz, Antoni Fa?at and Franciszek S...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Swiss Contemporary Art by Ludimilla Moshek - A Glance
Located in Paris, IDF
Ludmilla Moshek is a Swiss artist born in 1953 who lives & works in Chemex, Switzerland.
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Father of His Country
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed & Dated Lower Left:
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1930s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Bold Expressionist Painting of a Village Pathway with Cottages and Trees
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Bold Expressionist Painting of a Village Pathway with Cottages and Trees by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Signed: Yes Size: 10.5 inches (height) x 12.75 inches (width) Acrylic pa...
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20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

In Rodie - Painting Colors White Red Blue Pink Pastel Brown Purple
Located in Sofia, BG
"In Rodie" is a painting by Maestro Alexander Brittsev. About the artwork: TECHNIQUE: oil painting STYLE: Impressionist, Contemporary Edition : Unique, signed Weight: Approximately...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Fashion Illustration of Elegant woman in Bob Mackie dress perhaps for Cher
Located in Miami, FL
Most likely done for Cher. Gouache and watercolor on Arches paper. There is some minor undulation of the paper suface but only visible under raking light. Nicely framed and read...
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1980s Art Deco Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache

Portrait of Woman - Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli- 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of woman is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s. Mixed colored oil painting. Not signed. Good conditions Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887...
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paint, Oil

Mask #6 Zahra Zeinali Contemporary painting Iranian artist art animal doll child
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Unique work Hand-signed by the artist THE IMAGINARY LAND OF ZAHRA ZEINALI “Over time Zahra Zeinali develops her universe, which evolves slowly according to ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Kirké with Swine II - Greek Goddess of Sorcery, Original Oil on Canvas, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
Kirké fascinated both the ancient Greeks and Romans because the stories told about her were unbelievable but too enticing to ignore. She was called the Dread Goddess for a very good ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A Surreal Encaustic on Wood "I Dreamed of a Great Escape"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original encaustic mixed media artwork by Tiffany Bociek. Its dimensions are 13.4 x 19.5 x 2 in. A certificate of authenticity will follow delivery. Create...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Thread, Paper, Encaustic, Oil

The Craft Sisters
Located in Pasadena, CA
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist UNFRAMED: 24" x 30" FRAMED: 30.5" x 36.5" x 2.5" Artist Statement “This painting captures a tender moment of Western country life,...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Linen, Oil

The Letter
Located in New Orleans, LA
A red-robed cardinal chuckles at the letter in his hand in this oil on canvas by the Italian painter Andrea Landini. The vibrantly hued piece illustrates the artist’s genius at rendering charming narratives in remarkable detail. Entitled The Letter, the work is a superb example of Landini's technical virtuosity — from the finely carved and upholstered chair to the neoclassical painting in the background, every detail is meticulously depicted. Such works satirizing the clergy would have been severely censured just a generation earlier. Yet, by the time Landini picked up the brush, the European public had grown discontent with the hypocrisy of the clergy, many of whom enjoyed lavish lifestyles. Cardinal paintings such as this became highly popular during the period, and Landini emerged alongside Georges Croegaert, Marcel Brunery and Jehan Georges Vibert as the leading painters of the genre. Born in Florence in 1847, Andrea Landini trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, first under the animal painter Riccardo Pasquini and later with religious painter Antonio Ciseri...
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Late 19th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Study for Jo III, modern fabric painting with nudes, by Anne Valérie Dupond
Located in Dallas, TX
ANNE-VALÉRIE DUPOND (b. 1976, France) Anne-Valérie Dupond, born in 1976, studied at Marc Bloch University in Strasbourg, and obtained her Master’s degree in Fine Arts in 2000. Sinc...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Fabric, Trimming, Charcoal

Gondola In Venice, 1947
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Masonite Signature: Signed Upper Left Original Use: Interior Illustration for The American Magazine Excellent Condition This luminous, expressive oil on masonite wa...
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1940s Figurative Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

French Riverside Village with Trees and Church Spire Watercolour
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Riverside Village with Trees and Church Spire Watercolour by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Signed: Yes Size: 8.25 inches (height) x 10.25 inches (width) Watercolor paintin...
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20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

Odalisque, by Georges Philippe Jacqmotte (1876–1949), signed and dated
Located in London, GB
Orientalist painting by Georges Philippe Jacqmotte (1876–1949), a Belgian painter known for his Impressionist landscapes and still lifes. 'Odalisque' is the French term odalisque c...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Cowboying
Located in Bozeman, MT
This is a framed original painting. Biography Creating paintings inspired by western movies and by Remington and Russell, he is a native of the West, having been born and raised in rural Colorado. He studied art at Baylor University in Waco, Texas; at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, and at the University of Colorado, Boulder where he earned a Master's Degree in 1979. For two decades he worked as curator at the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings, Montana, before leaving in 1999 to begin work as a full-time painter and independent curator. His work is in the collections of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming; the Art Museum of Missoula; and the Yellowstone Art Museum; the Federal Reserve Bank in Helena, Montana; and the Deaconness Medical Center in Billings, Montana. Artist Statement For a long time, the images in my paintings have been identifiably, even iconically, western-stagecoaches and false-front main streets, poker games and gun battles, cowboys, Indians, cavalry troopers and horses, all suspended in a choreographed matrix of dancing paint. Distinct from the traditional western genre-which inventories the minutia of cowboy gear or tells sentimental stories of rangeland romance-my paintings embody something more elemental and timeless, animated and abstract. The images tend to be stark, graphic, and charged with painterly energy. Though they are derived from fugitive television images, the paintings, as paintings, are still, silent and non-ephemeral. They register the technological transfer of primal shadows onto the electroluminescent screens of our collective consciousness, a shimmering blur of perception and memory transposed in an interchange of gesture and description, painted marks simultaneously arresting and embodying movement. I've always liked what a painter friend, Marc Vischer, wrote in 1988 about an early group of my western paintings. Now, I'm fourteen years closer to actualizing my vision for this work, and his astute remarks seem more pertinent today than they did then. He wrote in part, "For McConnell, a searing light emanates from a new desert: that of television. And from that most desolate backdrop, he salvages fragments from a movie world that spoke of honor in a land that was lawless. In a romantic sense, McConnell's works are a visual seance. Figures, like specters distorted through intense heat waves, are captured from their eternity of 24 frames a second. Their shapes and shadows are brought back into a radically different world and given substance and texture. It is an impossible attempt to freeze them, to arrest the present's ceaseless molestation of the past, to close off the continuum. Sometimes this is done darkly and thickly as an emphatic gesture of permanence. In other works a few light strokes quickly applied suggest the ephemeral nature of film and perhaps the fleeting nature of our own lives." I have been examining new imagery in my paintings, drawing subjects from Mexican graphic novelas, modern women and men of romance and mystery from the mid-20th century, motorcycles and airplanes. The end titles of movies, stated in several languages, have inspired me to begin a new series of cross-media translations in both acrylic and watercolor. My paintings have long begun where the movies have left off. The elements of water and light co-mingle in some pieces from this series and in others which take the viewpoint of a swimmer, watching other swimmers from the wet side of this aqueous membrane, looking up toward the light. My arrival in Montana in 1982 brought me into intimate contact with some of the most storied places of the historic West and also gave me the opportunity to study the paintings of two of the most influential codifiers of western imagery, Frederic Remington and Charlie Russell...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

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