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Art Subject: Men
17th Century By Johann Carl Loth Saint Mark Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Johann Carl Loth (Munich, Germany, 1632 - Venice, Italy, 1698)
Title: Saint Mark
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 65 × 72 cm - with frame 82.5 x 88 cm
Expertise by Professor Dario Succi
Publications: Lo studiolo...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Conductor with Orchestra, Figurative Oil Painting by William Harnden
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: William Harnden, American (1920 - 1983)
Title: Conductor with Orchestra
Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed
Image Size: 15.5 x 19 inches
Frame Size: 18 x 21 inches
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Beth Dacey, "Orange Dress", 36x36 Vintage Woman and Car Oil Painting on Canvas
By Beth Dacey
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Beth Dacey's "Orange Dress" is a 36x36 oil painting on canvas of a woman in a burnt orange dress holding a emerald green purse. She is posed next to a nav...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Cafe in Madrid, Oil on Board Painting, Signed and Dated 1950, English Artist
Located in London, GB
Oil on board, signed and dated '50 bottom right, entitled on reverse
Image size: 13 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (34.5 x 23 cm)
Original frame
Exhibitions
1989, Belgrave Gallery, 22 Mason's Yard, Duke Street, St. James', London SW1 'Clifford Hall (1904-1973) 15th June - 14th July, no.12.
Clifford Hall
Clifford Hall was born in Wandsworth in 1904, and spent his youth in nearby Richmond upon Thames...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Drehnung I / Rotation I
Located in Wien, 9
Walter Strobl opens a new chapter in his explorations of the neverending tension between stillness and movement. Strobl´s vibrant nudes capture women in movement: they are there and gone again, letting the pictoral space pulsate with both the presence and absence of the outlines of their bodies. He paints women with a keen interest in the lived experience of the body, avoiding clichees in his depictions. The viewer is excluded from this inner sensation, but it is precisely the privacy of the model`s slumber that permits us to revel in our own proprioception. His cityscapes and still lives tell their...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wonderers (coyote, ukulele, man, nature, animal portrait, surrealist painting)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Wanderers" by Rudolf Kosow is an evocative painting that captures the kindred spirit of the traveler and the wild. A coyote, poised and attentive, gazes upward, its fur rendered with fine, delicate brushstrokes that give it a soft, ethereal quality against the blue canvas. The wolf's eyes, alight with a sense of knowing, seem to look beyond the confines of the canvas, into a distance only it can see.
Below, a human figure with a ukulele, lost in the music, embodies the essence of a wanderer, his song rising to mingle with the untamed essence of the wolf. Both figures, though disparate in their nature, share a moment of connection through their mutual embrace of freedom and exploration.
Kosow's "Wanderers" speaks to the universal call of the wild that resonates within us all, a call to seek, to explore, and to express. It's a celebration of the souls that roam with a song in their heart, finding harmony with the wilderness around them. This piece invites us to reflect on our inner wanderer and the paths we tread, both in the physical world and in the vast landscapes of our imagination.
keywords; painting on canvas, surrealist painting, animal vs human, americana, nature, man, man vs nature, surrealism, giant animal...
Category
2010s Surrealist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
20th Cent French Modernist Oil Painting Nude Lady Reclining in a Dreamlike Pose
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Modern Oil French Impressionist Piece of a Nude Reclining in a Dreamlike Pose
by Bernadette Kelly (French b. 1933)
Signed
Medium: oil painting on board, unframed
Painting siz...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Contemporary Art by Karine Bartoli - Chaises Longues Bois de Boulogne
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Karine Bartoli was born in 1971 in Ajaccio. She enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Marseille where she graduated in 1997. Since then she has ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Modern Cubist Painting w/ Figures of Children by Spurlock c.1950
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid century modern figural abstract painting with a touch of cubism.
Original oil on canvas.
Dimensions 35 1/2" x 23 1/2". Frame dimensions 41" x 29".
Very good vintage conditi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Warning
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Edward Lamson Henry (American, (1841 - 1919))
“The Warning”
Grisaille on paper mounted on board, signed lower left ‘E L Henry’ (partially obscured by frame)
...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Laid Paper
Italian Contemporary Art by Matteo Nannini - The Mermaid
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Matteo Nannini is an Italian artist born in 1979 in Bologna who lives and works in Cento, Ferrara, Italy. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. Painter b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Little bird - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Bright Colors
By Monika Rossa
Located in Warsaw, PL
MONIKA ROSSA
studied painting at the University of Arizona, in the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and at the Escuela de Diseno in Barcelona. She practices drawing and easel painting....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Karine Bartoli - Man’s Back
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Karine Bartoli was born in 1971 in Ajaccio. She enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Marseille where she graduated in 1997. Since then she has ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Scouting
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Scouting" is an oil on canvas painting by Frank Tenney Johnson. The framed piece measures 23 3/4 x 27 3/4 x 3 1/4 inches.
Johnson was well-known for his work of the American west, particularly for his portrayal of cowboys at night, lit by moonlight. Johnson utilized knives and fingers when painting, so his work is recognizable for its distinctive marks.
Provenance:
Biltmore Galleries, Scottsdale...
Category
Early 20th Century American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Popular Dance at Corsica, I. By Swedish Artist Dick Beer, c.1924
Located in Stockholm, SE
Dick Beer (b. London 1893 - d. Stockholm 1938)
Folkliv på Korsika, I (Popular Dance at Corsica, I)
oil on canvas
signed Dick Beer
c. 1924
canvas dimensions 88 x 100 cm
Exhibited:
The Royal Academy Stockholm 1973;
Millesgården – Dick Beer – Impressionist & Kubist, 2012
Dick Beer was born in 1893 in London as Richard Beer, the youngest of five brothers. His father, John Beer (1853-1906), was a watercolourist who was born in Stockholm and left Sweden at the age of 17. John Beer instructed his sons in drawing and painting, among other things. A number of sketchbooks bear testimony to the boys’ talent.
Dick Beer’s parents died in 1906 and 1907. Barely 15 years old, Beer arrived in Sweden as an orphan. First he lived with relatives and finally he ended up at Reverend Laurell in Västergötland.
Dick Beer began his artistic studies at the Althin School of Painting in Stockholm in 1908 and continued at the Royal Academy of Arts in the autumn of 1910, but in September 1912 he broke off his studies and travelled to Paris. He rented a studio and enrolled at the Colarossi and Grande Chaumière academies.
In the summer of 1913, Dick Beer travelled to Pont-Aven in Bretagne in order to paint. In September the same year, he held his first solo exhibition in Stockholm which he gave the French title Exposition des tableaux de Bretagne et autour de Paris. The exhibition proved a success. Many of the paintings were executed in a light palette in a style inspired by the impressionists.
In 1914, Dick Beer undertook an extensive study trip to Italy, Tunis, Morocco and Spain, which resulted in canvases overflowing with colours and light. When the French army mobilised, he volunteered and was enlisted in the French Foreign Legion. In 1915 Dick Beer sustained severe head injuries in a grenade attack, which resulted in deafness and a nervous condition that would plague him for the rest of his life. Two of his brothers died the following year, fighting for the English army.
Dick Beer was hospitalised and convalesced at Château de Rochefort. Here he started painting again, in an impressionist style, a painting dominated by blue and green hues.
In 1918, Dick Beer married Ruth Öhrling, a dentist, and their son John was born later in the year. During this time, Beer began experimenting with cubist painting and created several large compositions, including the painting “The Arab Café”.
In the years that followed, Dick Beer was based in Paris, where he often moved house. He was instructed by André Lhote, who encouraged his students to work freely in the studio and provided them with individual critique. Beer often travelled to Bretagne or Provence. His artist friends came from all over Europe and included Amedeo Modigliani. Dick Beer exhibited fairly regularly in Paris between 1919 and 1934 and made a name for himself in French artist circles.
In the summers, Ruth regularly rented a house in the countryside, often at Lake Mälaren. She kept a large house with many models and friends and there was a lot of painting and discussions. In 1933, the couple divorced but Ruth still loved Dick...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Prelude, Early 20th Century Egg Tempera on board
Located in London, GB
Francis Plummer
1930 - 2019
The Prelude
Egg Tempera on board
Image size: 39 ½ x 49 ¼ inches
Original Frame
This work comes from a rare collection of w...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera
Anubis Reimagined: Abstract Figurative Painting, Mythological & Surreal Themes
Located in Dallas, TX
This captivating oil painting by Michele Mikesell is a striking fusion of abstract and figurative styles, masterfully crafted on a large 51 x 38-inch canvas (130 x 97 cm). Titled "Anubis Reimagined", this piece embodies an evocative exploration of mythological and surreal themes. The central figure, elongated and adorned with a crown-like element, exudes an enigmatic presence, reminiscent of ancient Egyptian deities merged with contemporary abstract expressionism.
The muted gray-green background, punctuated by delicate marks and textures, serves as a minimalist stage that accentuates the vivid colors and layered details within the figure. Subtle strokes of bold yellows, reds, and blues blend seamlessly with the raw textures, creating a sense of depth and intrigue. This artwork invites viewers to interpret its narrative while showcasing Mikesell’s signature style—a harmonious balance of mystery, abstraction, and symbolism.
Perfect for collectors and art enthusiasts seeking a bold yet contemplative centerpiece, this painting complements modern, eclectic, and minimal interiors alike. Its large-scale format and compelling design make it ideal for gallery walls, luxury residences, or professional spaces.
MICHELE MIKESELL
b. 1973, Alabama, USA
In 2002, Michele Mikesell earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with a minor in graphic design from Texas Women's University in Denton, TX. Mikesell completed her Master of Fine Arts at the University of Oklahoma in Norman in 2004.
“Creating individuals is what I find most interesting in the studio. It is my hope that these portraits will be familiar characters to the viewer, subjects we recognize and identify with. My work consistently travels along a general vein of the universal human experience. This particular group of paintings...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Vintage Signed Surreal Black Farming Figures Modernist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist surreal landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Divine Seed and Ascension
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Divine Seed and Ascension" is a visual masterpiece that instantly intrigues with its symbolic and poetic composition. At its center stands a man, a figure shrouded in a raincoat, ev...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Teofimo Lopez , The Champ, egg tempera, World Champion, Finalist PSA
Located in Houston, TX
"The Champ" is an egg tempera painting of Teofimo Lopez who is also known as The Takeover after winning four belts in his last fight. He is ranked # 1 in his weight class. The painting by E. Melinda Morrison...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera
English School, 19th Century oil painting 'A busy shoe shop'
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
English School, 19th Century
Dever’s, A busy shoe shop
Oil on canvas
17 x 14 in. (43.2 x 35.7 cm.)
Category
19th Century English School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Yogi and Ted - Baseball Greats Yogi Berra and Ted Williams, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Chicago, IL
Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra was an American professional baseball catcher who later took on the roles of manager and coach. He played 19 seasons in Ma...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Dante and Virgil on the Edge of the Styx
Located in Pasadena, CA
Louis-Camille d'Olivier,
A painter of history and portraits, he returned to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1850 and appeared at the Salon de Paris between ...
Category
1860s Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Ficus, Cat, and She...
Located in Zofingen, AG
The woman sits as if she’s just signed a decree to cancel all problems. Her sunglasses have slid down her nose, revealing a gaze that radiates calm while subtly asking, "What now?" T...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Large Tel Aviv Orchestra Israeli Bezalel School Modernist Painting Moshe Matus
By Moshe Matus (Matusovsky)
Located in Surfside, FL
Moshe (Matusovski) Matus (Polish Israeli , 1908-1958),
Depicting an orchestral concert.
Hand signed lower right.
Dimensions: (Frame) H 31" x W 37", (Sight) H 21" x W 28"
Moshe Matus (Matusovski) 1908, Warsaw, Russian Poland - November 23, 1958 Toronto, Canada. was a Polish Israeli modernist painter who lived during the last decade of his life in The United States and Canada. Matus was born in 1908 in the Russian city of Warsaw, into a traditional and Zionist family, the eldest of the three children of Dr. Josef Matusovsky, a dentist, and was a member of Hashomer Hatzair in Warsaw in 1924. When he was 15, He studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in the 1920s with Boris Schatz and was educated at the Herzliya Gymnasium where he studied painting and sculpture. He studied for several years at École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (Bose-R) in Paris. He returned to Tel Aviv and lived there on Sheinkin Street. From the 30s was one of the most prominent artists in the country. he exhibited In shows general as well as in solo shows - which exhibition at the Herzliya in Tel Aviv, which opened Benzion friends (1932); in Allenby 15, Tel Aviv (1935) exhibition in Pomrock , which opened the poet Saul Tchernichovsky and Moses (1936), at the Steimatzky Gallery in Jerusalem , opened by Dr. Moshe Duchan (March 23, 1937); An exhibition at the Cosmopolitan Gallery in Tel Aviv (formerly the Bach Gallery, 1 Hess Street), opened by Mayor Israel Rokach (March 5, 1938); and an exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum (1946).
He painted the stage...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Antique Tapestry Orientalist Scene "Capturing Wild Arabian Horses" Dated 1852
Located in Rochester, NY
Antique French or Belgian tapestry. Depicting Persian horseman capturing wild Arabian horses. It is in the original frame behind glass. The glass has preserved the vivid colors. Date...
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Textile
The Money Maze
By Sue Coe
Located in Miami, FL
This is an early work from Sue Coe's oeuvre. Prior to being a fine art artist Coe was an illustrator .
Signed lower right. Inscribed on lower margin, "The Money Maze To Dawn Love ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
David's pool at night - figurative painting, landscape painting
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful minimalist figurative painting by Ana is from her latest body of works.
It is acrylic on canvas and comes signed dated along with a certificate of authenticity.
"I pai...
Category
2010s Minimalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Maro on Chrome and Yellow Vinyl Modern Side Chair - Original Oil Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
This classically painted figure study demonstrates the artists understanding of the human figure. A study for a series of larger paintings based on motion capture studios. Here the model is placed in a contrived position on a midcentury modern chair surrounded by props used in the motion capture process.
Andrew S. Conklin
Maro on Chrome & Yellow Vinyl Modern Side Chair, 2016
oil on panel
18h x 13w in
45.72h x 33.02w cm
Motion Capture Paintings, Chicago
My recent painting series describes the reality of motion capture environments by showing the interplay between female athletes and male technicians. These paintings are meant to explore conventions of female representation in Western figurative art and to contrast this past practice with the contemporary imagery of that subject via computer-based image technology.
This project was instigated by a number of things: first, by my abiding interest in depicting the human form in paint, as I find its versatility in a design, its invitation to empathy, and its difficulty, to be something worth attempting to depict with success. In addition, my curiosity regarding the new ways to depict the form using electronic technology seem to challenge to the traditional methods I rely upon, and I wanted to comment on the similarities and differences between the studios of the painters and the technicians.
In this way, I aim to continue my investigation into what I see as the contrasting quality of human nature, and symbolically represent opposites such as mind and body, analog and digital, realism and idealism, terrestrial and the transcendent.
Andrew S. Conklin is a figurative painter. He holds an MFA from the Academy of Art University, and studied painting at the National Academy of Design in New York City with Harvey Dinnerstein...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"The Card Game", 19th Century Oil on Canvas by Joaquín Domínguez Bécquer
Located in Madrid, ES
JOAQUÍN DOMÍNGUEZ BÉCQUER
Spanish, 1817 - 1879
THE CARD GAME
signed, located & dated "Joaq. D. Becquer. Sevilla - 1849." (lower left)
oil on ...
Category
1840s Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sailor and Reading Woman, Impressionist Oil Painting by Robert Philipp
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Philipp, American (1895 - 1981)
Title: Sailor and Reading Woman
Year: circa 1950
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. and verso
Size: 22 in. x 18 in. (55.88 cm x 45.72 c...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Gossips
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Fantastic magazine cartoon illustration by American Artist, Leo Nowak (1907-2001).
Ink, gouache and crayon in illustration paper, image measures 7.5 x 9.5 i...
Category
1940s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Ink, Gouache
Paul Anton Kaulbach (1864 Hanover - 1930 Berlin) Male Nude
Located in Greding, DE
Depiction of a male nude in diffuse architectural scenery. Signed lower right (Paul) Anton Kaulbach (1864 Hannover - 1930 Berlin).
Oil on canvas, in gold-patinated frame. Image size:...
Category
20th Century Abstract Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Plastic Figure 4" Oil Painting
By Jason Walker
Located in Denver, CO
Jason Walker's (CAN based) "Plastic Figure 4" is an oil painting that depicts a lone pink plastic Cowboy figure toy drawing his weapon in the darkness.
...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pretending (The Great Performance)
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Signed and dated '1890' lower right
Category
1890s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
No Limit
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Every girl, Lady, or woman has the potential to make this world a better place. When you educate them, you educate a generation. A strong lady or woman builds her own world by follow...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Large Naive European Folk Art Oil Painting Jovan Obican Klezmer Jazz Musician
By Jovan Obican
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Other
Subject: People
Medium: Oil
Surface: Canvas
Dimensions: 35" x 16.5
Dimensions w/Frame: 35.5" x 17.25
This depicts a Jazz or Klezmer musician. This one is a bass player.
The last photo shows it in a group of three that I have available. This listing is for the one painting.
The artist Jovan Obican iconic style is child-like yet masterfully adult; a style that tells a story with sociological overtones. His funny little people are always colorful, full of spirit, living with music and birds to bring them happiness.
JOVAN OBICAN
Cannes, France, b. 1918, d. 1986
Jovan Obican (1918-1986) artist, painter, sculpture and mosaic ceramic artisan was born in Cannes, France, to his Yugoslavian parents. From childhood on, Jovan practically devoted himself to art, scratching designs into the dirt when paper was unavailable. He trained with many recognized teachers and with many styles. He finished his training, imbued with the spirit of his native country, the people, their legends, and their philosophy. It has been said that his work has a "timeless quality" and a naive, folk art, outsider art brut quality, child-like primitive style. Obican is identified with his style the world over, a style that is simple yet sophisticated; child-like yet masterfully adult; a style that tells a story with psychological, philosophical or sociological overtones. His funny little people are always colorful, full of spirit, living with music and birds to bring them happiness. Best known for his depictions of folklore and traditional costumes rendered in a playful, childlike style and for his happy Jewish wedding scenes. He often used bright colors and black outlines in his renderings of figures and animals, giving his work an illustration-like quality. Thematically, the artist’s work is similar to Marc Chagall and Jean Dubuffet for its dreamlike images and so-called naïve style of painting. Over the course of his career, the artist maintained a studio in Boca Raton, Florida and Dubrovnik, Croatia—part of former Yugoslavia— where he developed an interest in Eastern Europe’s Jewish culture. Many of his mature works depict Jewish traditions and ceremonies, including traditional Jewish weddings, the dancing of the Hora, and traditional music. There is a display of his works in his former Dubrovnik studio.
His style is a unique conglomerate of tradition, history, legends, heroes, old customs and folklore. It is a self-standing style, recognizable, cheerful, whimsical and a happy creation. Naïve art is any form of visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes (in anatomy, art history, technique, perspective, ways of seeing). Unlike folk art, naïve art does not necessarily evince a distinct cultural context or tradition. Naïve art is recognized, and often imitated, for its childlike simplicity and frankness. Paintings of this kind typically have a flat rendering style with a rudimentary expression of perspective.
One particularly influential painter of "naïve art" was Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), a French Post-Impressionist who was discovered by Pablo Picasso. Naïve art is often seen as outsider art that is by someone without formal (or little) training or degree. While this was true before the twentieth century, there are now academies for naïve art. Naïve art is now a fully recognized art genre, represented in art galleries worldwide.
Museums devoted to naïve art now exist in Kecskemét, Hungary; Riga, Latvia; Jaen, Spain; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Vicq France and Paris. "Primitive art" is another term often applied to art by those without formal training, but is historically more often applied to work from certain cultures that have been judged socially or technologically "primitive" by Western academia, such as Native American, sub saharan African or Pacific Island art (see Tribal art). This is distinguished from the self-conscious, "primitive" inspired movement primitivism. Another term related to (but not completely synonymous with) naïve art is folk art. There also exist the terms "naïvism" and "primitivism" which are usually applied to professional painters working in the style of naïve art (like Paul Gauguin, Mikhail Larionov, Paul Klee).
At all events, naive art can be regarded as having occupied an "official" position in the annals of twentieth-century art since - at the very latest - the publication of the Der Blaue Reiter, an almanac in 1912. Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, who brought out the almanac, presented 6 reproductions of paintings by le Douanier' Rousseau (Henri Rousseau), comparing them with other pictorial examples. However, most experts agree that the year that naive art was "discovered" was 1885, when the painter Paul Signac became aware of the talents of Henri Rousseau and set about organizing exhibitions of his work in a number of prestigious galleries. The Earth Group (Grupa Zemlja) were Croatian artists, architects and intellectuals active in Zagreb from 1929 to 1935. The group included the painters Krsto Hegedušić, Edo Kovačević, Omer Mujadžić, Kamilo Ružička, Ivan Tabaković, and Oton Postružnik, the sculptors Antun Augustinčić, Frano Kršinić, and the architect Drago Ibler. A term applied to Yugoslav (Croatian) naive painters working in or around the village of Hlebine, near the Hungarian border, from about 1930. Some of the best known naive artists are Dragan Gaži, Ivan Generalić, Josip Generalić, Krsto Hegedušić, Mijo Kovačić, Ivan Lacković-Croata, Franjo Mraz, Ivan Večenaj and Mirko Virius. Camille Bombois (1883–1970) Ferdinand Cheval, known as 'le facteur Cheval' (1836–1924) Henry Darger (1892–1973) L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) Grandma Moses, Anna Mary Robertson (1860–1961) Nikifor (1895–1968) Poland, Horace Pippin (1888–1946) Jon Serl (1894-1993) United States Alfred Wallis (1855–1942) Scottie Wilson (1890–1972) Gesner Abelard (b. 1922) Jan Balet (1913–2009) Michel Delacroix (b. 1933) France Howard Finster (1916–2001) Ivan Rabuzin (1921–2008)
Spontaneous Art Museum in Brussels
Art en Marge Museum in Brussels
MADmusée in Liege
International Museum of Naive Art of Brazil...
Category
20th Century Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Picture of People Sitting Before Painting - National Gallery, Washington DC
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Axiomatic Appeal" Oil Painting
By Ron Hicks
Located in Denver, CO
Ron Hick's (US based) "Axiomatic Appeal" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an impasto rendering of a male figure with dark hair and an abstracted background.
Ron Hi...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"The Veil Of Now" - Mixed Media Abstract Figurative Portrait 2024
Located in Denver, CO
Crafted in 2024, The Veil of Now is an original mixed media on panel by artist Jon Wassom, measuring 16 x 12 x 1.50 inches. This striking figurative portrait demonstrates Wassom’s ad...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
AT THE WINDOW
By Anna Karpowicz-Westner
Located in Three Oaks, MI
This exceptional piece is a shining example of her signature "Looking Out the Window" series. With its vivid palette and masterful interplay of light, the painting invites viewers in...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
"Morning Light" by Shana Wilson - Figurative Nude - Woman with Brown Hair in Bed
By Shana Wilson
Located in Carmel, CA
Shana Wilson (Canadian, born 1966)
"Morning Light" 2012
Oil Paint, Board
The artist signed the back of the painting.
About the Artist:
Shana Wilson, born in Edmonton in 1966, has ca...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
In the yard. 1869, watercolor on paper, 30, 5 x 47, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
In the yard. 1869, watercolor on paper, 30, 5 x 47, 5 cm
C. J. W. Huns was born in the family of Estonian teacher, organ player and sacristan Karl Fridrich Huhn.
He studied in Rig...
Category
1860s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Picnic in May, Impressionist Oil Painting by Andre Racz after Pal Szinyei Merse
By André Racz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Andre Racz, Romanian (1914 - 1994) - After Pal Szinyei Merse, Hungarian (1845 - 1920)
Title: Picnic in May
Year: of original: 1873
Medium: Oil on...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
After Rubens - 19th Century Oil, Christ and the Woman Taken Into Adultery
Located in Corsham, GB
After Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640). A charming 19th Century oil study of 'Christ and the Woman Taken Into Adultery'.
Presented in an ornate Florentine gilt frame featuring pier...
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sitting Pretty
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Art is a form of expression that can take many shapes and forms. One such form is painting, and Esther Obiwuru is an artist who has created a powerful piece of artwork titled "Sittin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
French Contemporary Art By Carole Leprince - Teenagers
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylics on canvas
Carole Leprince is a French artist born in 1966 who lives & works in Houilles, France. Over the years, her personal photos have been the inspiration for painting...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Epiphany
Located in Greenwich, CT
Figural painting
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Aunque usted no lo crea. Works on Paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Aunque usted no lo crea, 2010, by Alvaro Barrios
Watercolor on paper
Image size: 33 H cm. x 20 W cm.
Frame size: 38 H x 50 W x 5 D. cm.
Unique
Discover the captivating universe of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
GENEVIEVE ZONDERVAN (1922-2013) FRENCH POST IMPRESSIONIST PAINTING - NUDE LADY
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
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by Geneviève Zondervan (French 1922-2013)
acrylic painting on artist paper
paper: 12.5 x 19.75 inches
Superb mid-century oil painting on board by the French artist, Geneviève Zo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The Race
By William John Hennessy
Located in New York, NY
William John Hennessy was born in Ireland. He came to America in 1849 with his mother and brother a year after his father had fled their homeland after taking part in the unsuccessful Young Ireland Party uprising. The Hennessys settled in New York, and when young William came of age, he decided upon a career as an artist. At the age of fifteen, he enrolled at the National Academy of Design, where he learned to draw from the antique, and the following year he was granted admission to the Academy’s life-drawing class.
Hennessy first exhibited at the National Academy in 1857, starting a continuous run of appearances in their annuals that lasted until 1870, when he expatriated himself to Europe. During his time in America, Hennessy was principally known as a genre painter and prolific illustrator for such publications as Harper’s Weekly and a number of books, including illustrated works of William Cullen Bryant...
Category
19th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Belle Epoque Post Impressionist oil painting by French artist Ludovic Vallee
By Ludovic Vallée
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Ludovic Vallee (French 1864 – 1939)
Soiree a la guinguette
Signed ‘L Valle’ (lower right)
Oil on board
27 x 22 cm.
It has an inscription on the reverse...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mrs. K and Cherrybomb, colorful sleeping woman and red parrot
Located in Brooklyn, NY
*ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagina...
Category
Early 2000s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Claire Denarie-Soffietti - Sisterhood
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas
Claire Denarie-Sofietti is French painter born in 1923 who lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. Born and raised in Versailles, France, Claire was an autodi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Dessert in the Garden
Located in Missouri, MO
Provenance:
This is an early painting by Huldah Mae Cherry (also known as Huldah Cherry Jeffe), done in her "Impressionist years" and painted after a painting by another American I...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
No Pasaran - Lone Soldier Symbolizing the Human Desire for Equality and Freedom
Located in Chicago, IL
Hugh Goffinet stares out from the canvas in the dress of a soldier, without being one. He is a reenactor of an African American volunteer in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. His inspiration is the Lincolns—the battalion’s volunteers—but they are pictured only symbolically, in his dress. Their inspiration was Lincoln, who many decades earlier helped give meaning to the American Civil War, but who is invisible in the painting except by implication—the pose of Hugh Goffinet—which carefully emulates Lincoln’s pose in the celebrated presidential portrait by George Healy. Entirely hidden, at the deepest layer of history, is the true source of inspiration: the human desire for equality and freedom. To understand, honor, and preserve it requires remembrance, in this case with history animating reenactors who animate art that animates memory.
"No Pasaran" - an expression of determination to defend a position against an enemy - channels the spirit of Winslow Homer's war imagery, bringing it into the contemporary world, asking us to reflect upon the decisions forced to be made in wartime, some of which will never leave us. As for the paintings, William uses materials and methods of the Civil War era. The linen on which he paints was in use at that time as well as the tubed oil paints. He is one of the few artists who tacks his canvas to the stretchers using similar tacks that would have been used by Winslow Homer. While he leaves the works unframed for this reason, the artwork could certainly be framed. This piece is unframed. Please contact the gallery for framing options.
William Blake
No Pasaran
oil on linen
48h x 30w in
121.92h x 76.20w cm
WIL047
Known for his highly charged depictions of Civil War reenactments, William Blake’s powerful paintings show the recursive bodies of reenactors as they gesture across time. Participating in over 40 reenactment events, Blake currently interprets as the artist-correspondent Winslow Homer at these battle reenactments. He immerses himself in the materiality of his own obsession by constructing period clothes, camping on battlefields, and documenting the reenactment similar to Homer’s documentation of the authentic war.
The figures in the paintings reverberate the past with respect and with a desire to educate, humble, and play. With each annual iteration of American Civil War reenactments, the reanimation of the past encourages a review of history and aids in its continuous revision.
For his second exhibition with Gallery Victor Armendariz, William Blake presents A Great Battlefield, a collection of new paintings depicting US Marines at the Gettysburg National Military Park. A Great Battlefield, takes its title from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address which poetically looks to the battlefield as a site of rebirth. Following the tradition of nineteenth-century American history painting...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Capricio Oil Painting on Canvas Framed Mythology Rome Landscape In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Capricio Oil Painting on Canvas Framed Mythology Rome Landscape In Stock
Giovanni Tommasi Ferroni (1967, Rome) descended from an artistic Tuscan family...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Kolkhoz in winter. 1950, oil on cardboard, 28.5x35.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
skiers by Kolkhoz at winter
A. Zviedris was a member of the Latvian Artists’ Union since 1945 and had more than 50 solo exhibitions in Latvia. He travelled extensively by yacht aroun...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard