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Art Subject: Face
Vintage Watercolor Painting - On the Terrace
By Clive Carpenter
Located in Houston, TX
Soft and sunlit acrylic painting of two figures enjoying a gorgeous day outside on a terrace by artist Clive Carpenter, circa 1960.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white m...
Category
1950s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
$500 Sale Price
33% Off
The Happy Couple, Mid Century Surrealist Fantasy Landscape by Ohio artist
By Mary Spain
Located in Beachwood, OH
Mary Spain (American, 1934-1983)
The Happy Couple
Oil on canvas
Signed middle right, signed and titled verso
22 x 26 inches
Set in a realm of fantasy, Mary Spain’s work exhibits oddly distorted figures in a child-like manner with an underlying sense of absurdity. Through her toylike and primitive style, Spain created surrealistic dramas that puzzle and entrance the viewer.
Born in Raleigh, North Carolina, Mary Spain studied art at Syracuse University and moved to Ohio in the 1960s to teach art at Chagrin Falls...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Skylark Lounge" By Mikael Olson, Original Impressionist Interior Oil Painting
By Mikael Olson
Located in Denver, CO
Mikael Olson's (US based) "Skylark Lounge" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts interior of the famous Skylark Lounge Bar, located in Denver, Colorado.
Artist Biograph...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
I'm Rare
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Signed on the front side and accompanied by a Certificate of Au...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
FRANCINE BRANIARD - HUGE FRENCH SURREALIST SIGNED OIL - SALON DES INDEPENDANTS
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Francine Braniard (French contemporary), signed
Title: titled verso
Artist/ School: Francine Braniard (French contemporary), signed...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Blind Date on Brooklyn Bridge", Whimsical, Theatrical, Oil Painting, 2010
Located in Natick, MA
Alexandra Rozenman’s “Blind Date on a Brooklyn Bridge” is a 34 x 34 x 2 inch oil painting on linen. This piece is from her “Air Fire Water” series. In this body of work the shared th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen, Acrylic
"Shores of Next Year" Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Todd Carpenter's (US based) "Shores of Next Year" is an oil painting that depicts a black and white landscape of vast plains with a small river winding into the distance and swirling...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Siren -original modern female figurative-seascape painting-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
"Siren" by Ayline Olukman is a captivating portrayal of feminine allure and coastal beauty, depicted through the lens of modern impressionism. This original still figurative painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
$3,855 Sale Price
20% Off
FRANCINE BRANIARD - HUGE FRENCH SURREALIST SIGNED OIL - FANTASY FIGURES
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Francine Braniard (French contemporary), signed
Title: 'La Source', titled verso and to exhibition label
Medium: oil painting on c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large French Modernist Painting Young Boy Harvesting Lavender Provence Fields
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Huguette Ginet-Lasnier (French 1927-2020)
Ginet-Lasnier, the wife of the painter Jean Lasnier, was born in the Seine-Maritime region of France and went onto study at...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Angel Painting - SECRET GARDEN STORY, oil on canvas - 32*34in (80*85cm)
Located in Zofingen, AG
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
"Secret Garden Story" unfolds a narrative of quiet contemplation and unity with nature. Two ethereal beings, mirrored in posture and poi...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Olo Alaia - Julien Calot, 21st Century art, Contemporary figurative painting
By Julien Calot
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas
Signed lower right
Unique work
"Let‘s focus on the smiles, the energy, the movement, the emulation, the strength of life, the colours, the whirlwinds, the cr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Snow Waltz
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this piece, I've poured my love for the whimsical dance of winter. Using expressive brushwork, I've materialized two joyful figures against a tapestry of icy blues and frosty whit...
Category
2010s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mini Mona Lisa Defaced
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Mini Mona Lisa Defaced", oil on canvas, figurative, pastel.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Scale Surrealist Portrait in Acrylic on Board
Located in Soquel, CA
Large Scale Surrealist Portrait in Acrylic on Board
Bold surrealist portrait by Robert William Hinds (American, b. 1926). This piece has a dream-like quality, with the subject stand...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Masonite, Stretcher Bars
Girls with tulips - XXI century, Oil figurative painting, Colourful, Interior
By Martta Węg
Located in Warsaw, PL
MARTTA WĘG (born in 1978) Martta Węg graduated from the European Academy of Arts in Warsaw with a special mention in 2002. Her first individual exhibition took place in Gallery Art P...
Category
Early 2000s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
FRANCINE BRANIARD - HUGE FRENCH MODERNIST SIGNED OIL
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Francine Braniard (French contemporary), signed
Title: titled verso
Medium: oil painting on canvas, framed
Size: framed 37 x 29.5...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
NICO ARVANITIDIS (B.1943) HUGE SIGNED GREEK OIL - NUDE FEMALES MODERNIST WORK
By Nico Arvanitidis
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Nico Arvanitidis (Green, born 1943), signed lower corner.
Title: Nude Females
Medium: oil painting, on canvas, framed.
Size: frame: 40 x 33 x 2 inches
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Faith and Flesh on I-70
Located in Columbia, MO
Joel Sager (1980) was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri, the son of a minister and a stay-at-home mother who fostered from an early age his love of drawing and painting. It was under th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Family house by Ernest Voegeli - Oil on canvas 46x61 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$608 Sale Price
30% Off
Portrait of Woman, Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of Woman, Signed Oil Painting
By French artist Claude Benard, (1926 - 2016)
Signed by the artist on the lower right hand corner,
Oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas size...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Children Landing a Catfish', 19th Century American School, Large Nocturnal Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial, mid-to-late 19th century American School nocturnal landscape showing a view of three children, accompanied by their terrier, fishing by ...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fusion
Located in Columbia, MO
ALEXANDRA LEVASSEUR
Fusion
c. 2020
Mixed media on panel
20 x 16 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Mixed Media
Impressionist Figures, Bright Colours, Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Impressionist Figures, Bright Colours, Oil Painting
by Pamela Cawley, British 20th century
oil painting on board, unframed
board: 20 x 16 inches
Stunning original Impressionist oil...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Le Source 2
Located in Denver, CO
Le Source 2, 2016
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Maple
The Characterful Face, Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of an Elderly Woman, Signed Oil Painting
By French artist Claude Benard, (1926 - 2016)
Signed by the artist on the lower left hand corner,
Oil painting on canvas, unframed
d...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
In the style of Johannes Evert Hendrik Akkeringa Beach Scene Oil Painting c.1920
Located in San Francisco, CA
In the style of Johannes Evert Hendrik Akkeringa Oil on Panel Beach Scene C.1920
Original oil on panel
Dimensions 23" wide x 20" high
The painting is in good condition - Signed in...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Sunbath, 2021, seascape, female figure, swimmer, ocean, sun, blue, yellow, gold
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Female figure, swimmer, bathing, ocean, sunshine, rocks; acrylic ink, flashe and pastel on 300g Arches hot press paper; custom wooden frame, shallow shadow box frame. Deep blue, turq...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Pastel, Acrylic, Archival Paper
"Seasonal Mix" Colorful Figurative Female Portrait Oil Painting
Located in East Quogue, NY
Born in Monroe, Georgia, Leslie Wilkes received a BA from the University of Texas and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She attended the Skowhegan School of Pai...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Artist's Dream VIII - Waking Up, Contemporary Surreal Self-Portrait on Beach
Located in Soquel, CA
Contemporary surreal figurative landscape featuring a self-portrait of the artist by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b.1957). The reclining nude male...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'River Landscape, Provence', Salon d'Automne, Paris, Benezit, Danish Modernist
By Karl Larsen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Karl Larsen' (Danish, 1897-1977) and dated 1922; additionally inscribed and stamped verso with provenance information.
Provenance: Formerly in the collection of ...
Category
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"From the sea"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
The painting was painted based on the original sketch. The sketch was created in 2019 after a trip to the sea. The image came in a dream. This sea creature lives on the seabed and ha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape, Watercolour, Ink on Paper by Modern Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Prakash Karmakar - Landscape - 20 X 30 inches (unframed size)
Watercolour, Ink on Paper
Delivery of shipment in ready to hang condition.
Style : Legendary master artist Lt. Prokash ...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
$1,200 Sale Price
40% Off
Pleasant Thoughts oil painting by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait
Located in Hudson, NY
This painting is listed in the W.H. Cadbury and H.F. Marsh book Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait: Artist in the Adirondacks, Newark, Delaware, 1986, no.59.36t. It is hand-signed "AF Tait...
Category
1850s Hudson River School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Our People Arrive with Jasper... - Paint by Dario Cusani - 1997
Located in Roma, IT
TECHNIQUE PHOTO-PAINTING
The technique used was defined as PHOTO-PAINTING by the art critic Silvia Pegoraro of Ravenna Italy and was an Artist's invention in 1994. In fact, since 19...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Salvador
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a recent original mixed media surreal painting by American artist Darren LeGallo.
"Salvador", an homage to artist Salvador Dali, is an original mixed media on heavy art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
The fish seller, Geneva 1814
Located in Genève, GE
Woodworking
Golden wooden frame
128 x 96 x 3 cm
Category
Early 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bernadette Kelly (b.1933) - 20th Century Oil, Sunset in The Mountains
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. On board.
Category
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Climbing - Oil on Canvas School of Dusseldorf -19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Climbing is a colored oil painting on canvas realized by Anonymous artist of Dusseldorf School in the early XIX century.
Canvas dimensions: cm. 124 x 97
The scene is set in a n...
Category
19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
New York City - Contemporary figurative Painting, Pop art, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
DANUTA DĄBROWSKA-SIEMASZKIEWICZ Painter and graphic artist. Her works have been published in "The New Yorker", "Marie Claire", "Newsweek". One of her projects has been rewarded in a ...
Category
20th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Boy Climbing Tree Oil Painting
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Boy Climbing Tree.
Artist signed, canvas size 24x20 with frame 35x30
Roy Austin (Canadian, 1910-1997) oil on canvas depicting boy climbing tree looking at the bird nest in light bl...
Category
1980s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
The Blue Column
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
The Blue Column transports us to a space where time appears to stand still. The composition divides the canvas into two parts: at the top, a narrow strip reveals the head of a classi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
A is for Alfie who plunged from a blimp
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rendering traditionally cheerful images and concepts into frightening, yet humorous, tableaus, Michael Mararian often focuses on children as the last bastion of innocence to explore ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Ivan Mazeppa, 19th Century - From The Poem By Lord Byron
Located in Blackwater, GB
Mazeppa, 19th Century
From The Poem By Lord Byron
English School
Large 19th Century English scene from Lord Byrons narrative poem "Mazeppa", oil on canvas. Excellent quality circa...
Category
19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,423 Sale Price
20% Off
Untitled II
By Bai Ming
Located in Kansas City, MO
Bai Ming, is a famous contemporary ceramic artist and painter born in September 1965 in Yugan, Jiangxi Province of China.
•Director of the Department of Ceramic Art in the Academy of Arts & Design of Tsinghua University.
•Executive Vice Director of the Art Museum in the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University
•Member of the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC) of UNESCO.
•Secretary-General of the Ceramic Art Council of China Artists Association (CAA).
•Deputy Director of Ceramic Art Institute,China National Academy of Painting.
•Member of China Oil Painting Society (COPS).
•Art Director of China Ceramic Art Net
•Executive Editor of Chinese Ceramist magazine.
•Director of “Shangyu Celadon” Contemporary International Ceramic Art Center.
In 1998, the organizers of the Taipei International Art Fair held the joint exhibition of Bai Ming’s and Picasso’s ceramic works named “Vallauris in France & Jingdezhen in China”.
•In 2000, he was honored with the gold prize of The Invitational Exhibition of China Young Ceramic Artists.
•In 2004, he was awarded for Contribution to Promotion of the Contemporary Ceramic Art of China in the Great Hall of the People.
•Also in 2004, the book Jingdezhen Traditional Ceramic-Making Techniques which written by Bai Ming received the National Book Award.
In 2010, at the invitation of IAC, Chinese Cultural Center in Paris and Confucius Institute of Poitiers University, he held the “Oriental Ceramic Story—Bai Ming Ceramic...
Category
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
$1,499 Sale Price
58% Off
Early 20th Century Figurative -- The Paper Boy and His Comics
By Louise Miller Clark
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful 1940s figurative of paper boy reading the comics by Louise Miller Clark (American, 20th Century). Signed "Louise Miller" lower right. Unframed. Im...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
"Stepping Forward", Contemporary Landscape, Blue, Flowers, Bird, Oil Painting
Located in Natick, MA
“Stepping Forward” by Alexandra Rozenman is a large horizontal 58 x 26 x 3 inch oil on canvas, which by the way it is structured, gives us an illusion of the two worlds, maybe past a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mourning at Gruszka's place - XXI Century, Contemporary Portrait Oil Painting
By Janusz Szpyt
Located in Warsaw, PL
Janusz Szpyt was born in 1960, he is a Polish painter. He graduated from the Graphic design faculty and painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. 1983 onward, he became the m...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
''Summer''
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Summer”
The painting “Summer” reveals to the viewer a picture of life, full of light, harmony and warmth. The artist Oleksandr Khrapachov skillfully captured the traditional Ukrainia...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
British Impressionist Watercolor of a Portrait of a Woman in Thoughtful Repose
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: British Impressionist Watercolor of a Portrait of a Woman in Thoughtful Repose
By Anthony Avery (British 1946-2023)
Original watercolor on artists paper, unframed
Signed: Yes
...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Life's a Beach, Contemporary Figurative Coastal Beach Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Contemporary figurative coastal beach landscape by San Francisco, California artist Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th c.). A woman in a bathing ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,460 Sale Price
20% Off
“This is me in a field full of lies” Contemporary Figurative Dark Humor Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful dark humor painting by Memphis-based contemporary artist Alex Paulus. The work features a small nude male figure standing in a field of tombsto...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mid Century Bayside View, San Francisco
Located in Soquel, CA
Stunning large-scale, Bay Area Figurative School, painting of a woman sitting by a window overlooking a lakeside view, influenced by her teacher Richard Diebenkorn, by Sally Kissing...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$6,800 Sale Price
20% Off
View with a church - XXI century, Oil on canvas, Figurative, Landscape
Located in Warsaw, PL
MAGDALENA SPASOWICZ Studied painting under prof. Jan Cybis and graphic arts with prof. Tadeusz Kulisiewicz at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She received her diploma in 1953. He...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"El Grito" Texas Modern
By Nellie Buel
Located in San Antonio, TX
Nellie Buel
1908-2002
Comfort Texas
Image Size: 36 x 24
Frame Size: 42 x 30
Medium: Print
Circa 1960s
"El Grito"
Biography
Nellie Buel 1908-2002
Nellie V. Buel (nee Upton), was born in 1908. Nellie attended Oregon State in Corvallis and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a BA in Anthropology and Art. After many years as a faculty and Air Force wife and mother, Nellie resumed her full time interest in art. She studied under many notable artist-teachers, including Harding Black, Harold Roney, Dennis Olson and Kent Rush.
Nellie Buel's work has been accepted in local and national juried shows. She has won numerous awards and prizes from art groups such as the San Antonio Art League and the San Antonio Watercolor Group, among others. Nellie's work is also included in permanent collections at St. Mary's University, the Healy-Murphy Learning Center, McAllen International Museum, the Hal Prince Collection (NY), Tamarind Institute Archives (Albuquerque, NM), and the McNay Art Museum Study Collection.
Nellie V. Buel died in the United States in 2002.
Nellie V. (Upton) Buel, born January 15, 1908, Portland, OR, died November 15, 2002. She attended Oregon State in Corvallis and graduated from University of California-Berkeley with a BA in Anthropology and Art. After many years as a faculty wife, Air Force wife and mother, Nellie resumed her full time interest in art. She studied under many notable artist-teachers, including Harding Black, Harold Roney, Dennis Olson, and Kent Rush. Although she was equally talented and proficient in all media, her interests soon specialized in graphics, in particular hand-pulled, limited editions of etchings, calligraphy, monotype, and woodblocks on handmade papers. Her work has been accepted in local and national juried shows, with awards and prizes from art groups such as San Antonio Art League, San Antonio Watercolor Group, Hill Country Arts Foundations, Texas Watercolor Society, and International Society of Experimental Artists. Nellie's work is also included in permanent collections at St. Mary's University, Healy-Murphy Learning Center, McAllen International Museum, Hal Prince Collection (NY), Tamarind Institute Archives (Albuquerque, NM) and McNay Art Museum Study Collection. After she and her husband retired to Boerne, they founded the Cibolo Studio in Comfort, Nellie's art studio and gallery, which she shared with Debbie Little-Wilson. Working in her studio, participating in shows, and sharing knowledge, techniques, and ideas with other artists, she continued to expand her artistic endeavors and creativity until very recently. She also gave of her time and talent through her teaching and critiquing other artists' works. Sadly, the contents of Cibolo Studio were heavily damaged during July, 2002 floods, causing closure of the studio after 30 years at the same location. She is predeceased by her husband of 58 years, Col. (USAF) Jack Buel. She is survived by her daughter, Ellen Todd Hanks (George); son, John Thomas Buel; three grandaughters, Kathryn Buel, Elizabeth Buel, and Natalie Mund (Randy) and three great-grandchildren. She is also survived by a host of artist friends and colleagues, but most especially by Debbie Little-Wilson, Dripping Springs...
Category
1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Flower Garden
By Ramon Chirinos
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Flower garden with children.
Ramon Chirinos Venezuelan was born in 1950.
Painter and draftsman. He studied drawing and painting with Professor Andrés Guzmán. In the mid-seventies, he obtained the title of professor of physics at the Pedagogical Institute of Barquisimeto, a profession he held for a time until he decided to dedicate himself completely to art. In its beginnings, its pictorial theme shows a deep interest in landscaping and traditional scenes such as cockfights, processions of the Divina Pastora...
Category
1880s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
French Mod Surrealist Commedia dell'arte Circus Scene Oil Painting J.P. Serrier
Located in Surfside, FL
Jean Pierre Serrier (French, 1934-1989)
Oil on canvas painting depicting four figures
Hand signed lower right.
Measures (frame) 26.5" x 30" wide, and (sight) 18.25." x 22.25" wide.
Jean Pierre Serrier (1934 – 1989) was a French painter known for surrealism and absurdist art. Jean-Pierre Serrier was born in Montparnasse, Paris and attended the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
the son of Louis and Solange Serrier. His father fought in World War II and became a prisoner of war. In 1940, as a six-year-old, he and his mother fled Paris for Corrèze in southwest France. Childhood memories of close escapes from German bombardments would later influence his absurdist philosophy of life. Passionate about drawing, in 1951 he applied and was admitted to the École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués et des métiers d'art in Paris. He shared an attic apartment in the 16th arrondissement with fellow student Jean-Baptiste Valadié. For income, he decorated shop windows. A trip to Spain provided motifs for early works. His student work might be characterized as art naïf (Naive art). While still a student, he sold a ceramic artwork to the poet and publisher Pierre Seghers, who would later commission drawings from him. He frequented jazz clubs in Saint-Germain des Près, and while listening to Sidney Bechet at the Vieux Colombier, he met his wife, Yvette.One of the last French Surrealist and follower of Nietzsche. His art conveyed the message to all of mankind that we are only human. The other Surrealist to center his art in philosophy was Rene Magritte whose paintings reflect his understanding of Sigmund Freud. He had his first exhibition in 1955, before being sent to Algeria to complete his military service. After graduating in 1955, he was drafted for military service, spent time in Germany and Morocco, and was sent to the front lines of the Algerian War. In 1959 he exhibited works at two Parisian galleries and at Juan-les-Pins on the Côte d'Azur. From 1961, he exhibited annually at the Salon des Artistes Français. In 1962, the City of Paris purchased his painting Un dimanche In 1961, Serrier made his first visit to the United States to exhibit at a New York gallery. In 1975 and 1979, he had successful exhibitions in New Orleans, and his work was included in art and news magazines, including Time and Newsweek.
Beginning in the 1950s, his works included stylized portraits similar in some ways to the "big eyes" art of Margaret Keane, though it is uncertain that either artist influenced the other. Keane painted children, and so did Serrier, sometimes from life, but Serrier’s models are usually somewhat older, though uniformly slender and with androgynous features.
A gallery owner introduced Serrier to American collectors Edgar Garbisch and his wife, Bernice Chrysler (daughter of Chrysler founder Walter P. Chrysler), who had a particular interest in naïve art; they commissioned a series of portraits from Serrier. At the same time, he met Reine Ausset in Paris, who in 1961 invited him to New York to take part in an exhibition at Galerie Norval on 57th Street. The show also included work by Moïse Kisling, and the exhibition program explicitly linked the two artists, saying that Serrier, who considered Moise Kisling "the Master," had found his own technique, but "the same vision joins the grand Kisling to the young Serrier: plenitude of shapes, sureness of palette, precision in outlines."
In the 1960s he began painting slender, young, androgynous figures in groups, set in sparse landscapes with suggestions of the surreal and sometimes wearing costumes of the Commedia dell'arte. In some of these paintings the eyes of the figures are completely black, a motif that would continue in his later work. In 1965, he exhibited at Forest and Reed Gallery in London. Also in 1965, he discovered the small town of Martel, and with his old roommate Jean-Baptiste Valadié purchased a house that they opened as the gallery La Licorne (The Unicorn) in 1967.
Responding to the political upheavals of May 1968 in France, and following the advice of Geneva gallery owner Roger Ferrero, Serrier's work became increasingly complex, idiosyncratic, and surreal. Imagery included the Tower of Babel, bodies suspended in space, and crowds of people all dressed alike, with identical features and entirely black eyes. Mannequins, playing cards, nudes, and levitating orbs also figured in the work. In a nod to Magritte, his men sometimes wear bowler hats. Another influence may have been the works of the Franco-Belgian surrealist Gaston Bogaert (1918-2008). Serrier's first major exhibit of these works, in Geneva in 1971, was titled Le Réalisme Fantastique. (Magic Realism)
In 1972, he was made a member of the Société du Salon d'Automne, under whose auspices he was invited by the Polish government to exhibit in Warsaw in 1973, as part of a cultural exchange across the Iron Curtain. In 1976, he served on the jury of the Salon d'Automne.
In 1975, New Orleans gallery owner Kurt E. Schon brought his work to several cities in the United States. A copiously illustrated monograph in English, Surrealism and the Absurd: Jean Pierre Serrier, was published in 1977. Author Thomas M. Bayer wrote: Serrier's world is one where—to use Friedrich Nietzche's term—the "human herd animal" is being confronted with the overwhelming task of coping with the world, his solitude, and at times, his resignation in the face of its monstrous size and duration. It is a world where the characterless, "blind" man faces the institutions, rules and symbols that made him into the being he now is…But Serrier does not lose himself in this world he portrays. He never forgets the old French tradition, the "black" humor, à la Molière. This classical humor at times is more felt than seen, in a manner that can be terribly funny, because it is horrifying, laughable, poignant and always true. Serrier told a friend, "In each of my paintings there's a message of hope amid the crowd of stereotypical figures. It could be an escaping dirigible, or a nymphet who flees like a deer under the red and blue trees of paradise...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La Nouvelle
Located in New York, NY
The basis of Beatriz's painted scenes is an exploration of the construction of reality. She represents this by analyzing all the things that are contained in a given space — and what...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
On the edge of the cliff. 2007, oil on canvas, 60x60 cm
Located in Riga, LV
On the edge of the cliff. 2007, oil on canvas, 60x60 cm
Biruta Delle (born 1944.17.I)
studied in Latvia Art academy (1964 – 67) and one of her most impor...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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"Forget Me Not" figurative painting pigments on silk smile kindness warmth girl
By Maki Kuchida
Located in Kowloon, Hong Kong
A 2023 work of Maki Kuchida. Maki paints with natural mineral pigments and uses aluminum and copper leaves (laminated) on silk.
Maki loves to capture the sentiments we feel in our...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Foil