Modern Art Figurative Paintings

In continuing with representing fine artists that are connected to the music industry we are please to announce that we are the only gallery in the United States representing the oil on canvas paintings of acclaimed British artist George Underwood. That is great news for collectors based in the United States. They do not have to pay any import fees or international shipping costs or any international tariffs which are costly. So this is a great opportunity to purchase a work of art by this acclaimed British artist. His paintings have been described as Magical with a touch of Fantasy. When David Bowie, a life long friend of George Underwood, was asked about the paintings of George Underwood, Bowie said "George has, over the years, refined his work to the point where I would put him among the top figurative painters coming out of the UK.... There's a sublime isolation surrounding his subjects that really touches the viewer, the figures being both heroic and vulnerable simultaneously". George Underwood, a life-long friend of David Bowie, were in early bands together and Underwood was asked by Bowie to created the classic cover artwork for David Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust" album and also for David's "Hunky Dory" album. George felt that his friend artist Terry Pastor would better create the hand colored airbrush look for the album covers so he had Terry create the cover artwork. A fun fact is that David and George were both in the same art class taught by Peter Frampton's Dad when they were youngsters and they remained great friends throughout David's life. I have included some images of Bowie and George Underwood over the years in this listing to show the close relationship they had since they were young lads. This oil painting by George Underwood is titled "Another Dress Rehearsal...

María Corte (*1983, Barcelona) is a Catalan-Argentine painter and illustrator who stands out on the contemporary art scene for her colorful and energetic work. She completed her stud...

"All That Glitters" is a resurged work that Indian artist Ritu Sinha created. Created in 2014, this work has come around to represent the current world condition during the pandemic,...

The picture of angel seraphim using expressive brush work.

Oil on canvas realized by Alberto Gallerati (b. 1945) in 1970s. Hand signed. Very good condition.

Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of an Interior Scene with Draped Fabric by Bernadette Kelly (French b. 1933) Unsigned Medium: oil painting on board, unframed Painting size: ...

Juris Dimiters is among the most intellectual and witty artists of his generation. The characters of his works – paintings and posters – mostly are anthropomorphized fruits and objec...

In this painting, I sought to merge the surreal with the natural, portraying a woman emerging from a whimsical, flower-laden landscape that blurs into a vintage-style ambiance. The s...

At the heart of the painting is a female figure with her face turned upward, gazing at the sky where a bird is flying. Her gaze reaches not only outward but into the unseen realm of ...

An Art Deco painting of a Fashionable Lady by contemporary artist Erik Freyman. Watercolor with pastel on paper, signed in pencil Size: 15 x 12 in. (38.1 x 30.48 cm)

Belongs to my "human behaviour series" .Inspired by the dramatics artworks of Francisco Goya. :: Painting :: Surrealism :: This piece comes with an offi...

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...

This vivacious still life painting draws inspiration from Matisse's iconic 1910 masterpiece 'Dance' and the enchanting ambiance of the French 'salon'. The artist adds a contemporary ...

Reference number A147 Not framed but could be with a natural oak floated frame (add 200 euros) 33 x 27 xm This work is painted with oil on a wood panel and represents French flags...

In this painting on masonite, the enduring appeal of vintage style is vividly captured. Attention to detail embodies the chic aesthetic of times past. Layers of paint and loose brush...

Dancer in black leotard 1969. Oil on canvas, 92.5x92.5 cm Painting depicts the slim figure of a woman in a black leotard against a blue curtain with floral patterns. This choice of...

John Edward Costigan, N.A. American, 1888-1972 Bathers Oil on canvas Signed ‘J.E. Costigan N.A.’ lower left 20 by 24 in. W/frame 26 by 30 in. John Costigan was born of Irish-American parents in Providence, Rhode Island, February 29, 1888. He was a cousin of the noted American showman, George M. Cohan, whose parents brought the young Costigan to New York City and was instrumental in starting him on a career in the visual arts. They were less successful in encouraging him to pursue formal studies at the Art Students League (where, however, he later taught) than in exposing him to the commercial art world through the job they had gotten him with the New York lithographing firm that made their theatrical posters. At the H. C. Miner Lithographing Company, Costigan worked his way up from his entry job as a pressroom helper, through various apprenticeships, to the position of sketch artist. In the latter capacity he was an uncredited designer of posters for the Ziegfeld Follies and for numerous silent films. Meanwhile, he had supplemented his very meager formal studies in the fine arts with a self-teaching discipline that led to his first professional recognition in 1920 with the receipt of prizes for an oil painting and watercolor in separate New York exhibitions. A year earlier, Costigan had wed professional model Ida Blessin, with whom he established residence and began raising a family in the sleepy little rural New York hamlet of Orangeburg, the setting for the many idyllic farm landscapes and wood interiors with which he was to become identified in a career that would span half a century. John Costigan’s first national recognition came in 1922 with his winning of the coveted Peterson Purchase prize of the Art Institute of Chicago for an oil on canvas, “Sheep at the Brook.” It marked the start of an unbroken winning streak that would gain him at least one important prize per year for the remainder of the decade. The nation’s art journalists and critics began to take notice, making him the recurring subject of newspaper features and magazine articles. The eminent author and critic Edgar Holger Cahill was just a fledgling reporter when he wrote his first feature, “John Costigan Carries the Flame,” for Shadowland Magazine in 1922. Costigan had his first one-man show of paintings at the Rehn Gallery on New York’s 5th Avenue in November, 1924, to be followed less than three years later by another at the Art Institute of Chicago. In addition, Costigan’s work has been—and continues to be included, side-by-side with that of some of America’s most high-profile artists, in museum and gallery exhibitions throughout the country. His renown had peaked in the early 1930s, by which time his work had been honored with nearly every major award then being bestowed in the fine arts and had been acquired for the permanent collections of several prestigious American museums, including New York’s Metropolitan (which only recently, in 1997, deaccessioned his “Wood Interior,” acquired in 1934). Although Costigan’s celebrity had ebbed by the late 1930s, the Smithsonian Institution saw fit in 1937 to host an exhibition exclusively of his etchings. And, in 1941, the Corcoran Gallery (also Washington, D.C.) similarly honored him for his watercolors. (Another Washington institution, the Library of Congress, today includes 22 Costigan etchings and lithographs in its permanent print collection.) During World War II, Costigan returned briefly to illustrating, mainly for Bluebook, a men’s pulp adventure magazine. A gradual revival of interest in his more serious work began at the end of the war, culminating in 1968 with the mounting of a 50-year Costigan retrospective at the Paine Art Center and Arboretum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Oils, watercolors and prints were borrowed from museums and private collections throughout the country, and the exhibition was subsequently toured nationally by the Smithsonian Institution. John Costigan died of pneumonia in Nyack, NY, August 5, 1972, just months after receiving his final prestigious award —the Benjamin West Clinedinst Medal of the Artist’s Fellowship, Inc., presented in general recognition of his “...achievement of exceptional artistic merit...” in the various media he had mastered in the course of his career. This painting depicts one of the artist's favorite themes --the farm family bathing...

Wonderful Bay Area School figurative of tan man with blue hat by Patricia Gren Hayes (American, 20th Century), 1980. Signed, titled and dated on ve...

From the estate of Jerry Opper & Ruth Friedman Opper Backside c. 1950's Gouache on Paper 15" x 18" Unframed *Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expect framing time between 3-5 weeks. From the estate of Ruth Friedmann Opper & Jerry Opper. Ruth was the daughter of Bauhaus artist, Gustav Friedmann. San Francisco Abstract Expression A free-spirited wave of creative energy swept through the San Francisco art community after World War II. Challenging accepted modes of painting, Abstract Expressionists produced highly experimental works that jolted the public out of its postwar complacency. Abstract Expressionism resulted from a broad collective impulse rather than the inspiration of a small band of New York artists. Documenting the interchanges between the East and West Coasts, she cites areas of mutual influence and shows the impact of San Francisco on the New York School, including artists such as Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt. San Francisco's Beat poets...

Everett Spruce (1908 - 2002) Austin Artist Image Size: 18 x 15 Frame Size: 28 x 25 Medium: Oil on paper / Mixed Exhibited at a University of Texas Faculty art show in 1947 Unsigned Biography Everett Spruce (1908 - 2002) The following, submitted by a researcher of the Ashworth Collection of Native American and Western Art, is from the artist's obituary in the Fort Smith, Arkansas "Times Record" newspaper, October 20, 2002. Everett F. Spruce, well-known artist, teacher, professor emeritus, died Friday, Oct. 18, 2002, at age 94. Everett Spruce was born on a farm in Conway to William E. and Fannie McCarty Spruce. He came to Dallas, at age 17, on a scholarship to study at the Dallas Art Institute, under Olin Travis and Thomas M. Stell Jr. In 1931, he became gallery assistant at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts and in 1934 married Alice V. Kramer, a fellow art student. He was one of the "Dallas Nine" group of Southwest artists...

Gazing at Stars is an original painting by Esther Oyeyemi. Esther created Gazing at the Stars with Acrylic on a primed 36W by 36H canvas Esther Oy...

Mia Bergeron's (US based) "Luminalia" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a candle with a dusky evening sky. Mia Bergeron's interest in art was cultivated early on, b...

One of a kind acrylic expressionist canvas painting by Linda Coppola.

"Chronicles From My Apartment" (FRAMED) Painting 24" x 18" inch by Isaac Pelayo Painting size: 24" x 18" in Size framed: 30" x 24" in Medium: Oil, oil stick, and aerosol on wood "...

Badrinarayan The Cockerel Water colour on Paper 22 x 14 inches 55.8 x 35.5 cm This work features in the Book on Badrinarayan Written by Ms. Prema Vishwanathan & Published by Ma...

A dynamic abstract depiction of a busy road lined with streetlights. Cars full of commuters drive towards the distance in a haze of headlights and tarmac. Signed and dated to the low...

Rodion Petroff (b. 1985) graduated from the Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts and has been exhibiting in Europe and abroad since 2005. He has had 15 solo exhibitions in Lithuania, Sweden...

America Martin "Woman on Lawn Blanket" Oil & Acrylic on Canvas 45 x 80 in. 46.75 x 81.75 in Framed Exploring the identity of both her namesake and country, LA-based America Martin ...

America Martin "KO" Oil & Acrylic on Canvas 105 x 50 in. 106.5 x 51.5 in. Framed Exploring the identity of both her namesake and country, LA-based America Martin draws inspiration ...

A very striking work by Ewart Johns, a notable figure in the Modern British art movement. The painting is characterised by vibrant colours, bold brushwork, and a fusion of abstract a...

Painting Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.

After Fernand Leger “Two Figures, Naked on Red Bottom” Oil on canvas Signed "Ryan" 18" W x 24" H 23.75" W x 27.75" H

"Pink Islands I" Oil Painting 39" x 47" inch by Yevhenii Shapovalov AAT: Artwork ships rolled in a tube ABOUT: Yevhenii Shapovalov is a highly talented...

A painting by Nathan Oliveira. "Nude Stepping from the Carpet" is a contemporary painting, oil on canvas in a palette of reds, greens, and beiges by Bay Area figurative artist Nathan Oliveira. The artwork is signed in the lower right, "N Oliveira 62". During the early years, Oliveira’s lone figures often suggest an existential angst similar to that of Giacometti, but there is also a weightlessness and a transcendent aura that envelopes these figures; they appear as elemental, universal and eternal projections of selfless consciousness better understood within the bodiless realm of metaphysics. These qualities would remain in his work throughout his long career, yet he would find other themes to explore — the natural world where the essential nature of birds and animals exist in equal profundity with their human counterparts, the transient world of evanescent perception when memory must reconstruct momentary experience, and later, the ‘site’ paintings and monoprints that suggest the abandoned remnants of a long-lost civilization or tribe uncovered at an archeological dig. Nathan Oliveira has left us with a legacy of art that will surely remain untarnished by time or changing trends. His work exists within a realm rarely achieved by artists striving in a similar mode of expression. Unclouded by ego or wayward sentiment, it is also in the warmth and humble nature...

This stunning work, acrylic and pencil on paper, is captivating in its vibrant primary colors. Diogo Barros Pires (b. 1985) is a figurative contemporary artist from Lisbon. Having ...

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....

Charles Liberte (XX), Cubist Seated Female Nude, Oil on Canvas, signed to verso, unframed. 33" H x 25" W. Provenance: From the Allen Tucker Memorial Collection.

Oil paint and pastel on paper pasted on canvas Hand-signed and dated lower left by the artist News from Eéa “At the time of the last cosmogony I heard from Eéa In the middle of the...

John Bellany was an influential Scottish painter. Credited with pioneering a style of painting that melded the influences of Impressionism with Naive painting, Bellany’s work explored endemically Scottish symbolism and histories. "What he was doing in the mid-1960s in many ways changed the course of Scottish painting,” Keith Hartley, the senior curator of the Scottish National Gallery, has said of Bellany’s importance. “It was like a manifesto: I don't want to do paintings for Edinburgh drawing...

This painting will come to you stretched on a wooden stretcher and completely ready to be placed in the interior. ABOUT THE ARTWORK "White Transparent Apples" presents a scene suffu...

Winter Shadows 38 by Eleanor Wooley [November 2021] original Oil Paint on Canvas Image size: H:15 cm x W:15 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:15 cm ...

Judith Brenner Rich Seated 1 Original Figurative Painting Mixed Media on Paper Size: H 84.1cm x W 59.4cm x D 0.1cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look. Rich Seated 1 is a contemporary nude painting by Judith Brenner.This is an original drawing from life on paper using acrylic, pan pastel , ink and watercolour pencil. The idea is to capture the essence of the pose using line and wash...

Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Fendi Poolside (Rosie Huntington-Whiteley)" Series: Eclecticism *Signed by Graves lower right. It is also signed, titled, and date...

Oil on canvas in six parts With each subsequent exhibition, Green has expanded the botanical content from single trees, bushes and weeds to now entire gardens--teeming with growth and rich with animal and plant life. Depicting plants blooming and thriving during the night, her cast of anthropomorphic characters includes Starlings, Stargazer Lilies, King and Queen Proteas, Peace Lilies, Royal Mushrooms and Monarch Butterflies. Enveloped in darkness yet illuminated by the starry sky, Green’s lush and mystical environments invite viewers to sit amidst the gardens of metaphors and uncover the stories within. The crown jewel of this series is the monumental and eponymous painting The Night Garden...

Featured in "Kevin Gilmore: Lonely Family Reunion" at Reeves Art + Design in Houston, TX. In "Lonely Family Reunion", local Houston artist Kevin Gilmore embarks on a poignant explo...

Oil paint and pastel on paper Signed and dated lower left by the artist

America Martin "Portrait In Olive & Peach" Oil & Acrylic on Canvas 30 x 24 in. Exploring the identity of both her namesake and country, LA-based America Martin draws inspiration fro...

Artist: Anton Refregier Title: Picnic Year: 1959 Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed and dated l.r. Size: 24 x 44 inches (61 x 112 cm) Frame: 31.5 x 51.5 inches

Crater Valley Farm and Crater Cottages 3 diptych Overall size cm : H100 x W100 Crater Valley Farm is a limited edition print by Anya Simmons, inspired by ...

Ulrich Gleiter's (EUR based) "Olive Orchard (Croatia)" is an oil painting that depicts a impressionistic plains of yellow and green dotted with Olive trees and foliage Bio/Artist St...

Daphne Sweet, artist working and living in Missoula, Mt. Using acrylic, oil, clay, and fabric. Bouncing between classical references and personal allegory, the paintings and found ...

A natural ability for art runs in the Marshall family. Neil’s late father produced some excellent ink drawings many years ago. Art college beckoned in 1972 having been prolific in ar...

Clementine Chan is famous Hong Kong artist and illustrator. Born in Hong Kong, Clementine graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong major in Journalism. She studied past...

Outsider artist Scott Harbison imagines a world of curious alien beings and wide-eyed mutant animals, naively navigating unknown territory. His mischievous figures are activated by s...

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 ...

"Resilience" is an artwork created by Ogunniyi Oluwatosin, a Nigerian artist who uses his art to showcase the strength and resilience of women in s...

Figure March by Fanch Lel Size: 11 x 13.5 inches (height x width) Oil painting on board, unframed Condition: Good condition overall with minor surface handling marks and light wear t...

Mixed media (acrylic, gouache,oil) on canvas Miyuki Takanashi is a Japanese artist born in 1961 who lives & works in Sapporo in Japan. She is graduated from Hokkaido University of E...

"ADawn Chorus" is a 2023 unique acrylic on canvas painting by German mid-career artist Dr. Michael Pröpper. Comes with certificate on back. 80 x 60 cm (HxW) It depicts a luminescent play of colors in abstract forms. Comes with Certificate. The artists Michael Pröpper recent works focus on luminescent abstract squares which fill the entire canvas. A painted picture is not in the least a two-dimensional representation of a figurative reality with color and canvas. It is much more. A painted picture is a living force-object, which releases the stored energy and soul for years at every sight. Each of these moments is an encounter with the depth, the feeling, the power and the inspiration that has been inscribed to it. Dr. Michael Pröpper, born 1968, artist and anthropologist, lives and works as a painter and installation artist near Hamburg. Various national and international exhibitions and art fairs, e.g. in Belgium, Denmark, England Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Namibia, Austria, Sweden. For Dr. Michael Pröpper art and anthropology are two field that enrich each other and are important to one another. It is abut the pictorial reflection on how modern people...

Acrylic on canvas