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Medium: Tempera
DOUBLE DAMBLE..Colin Fraser contemporary Scottish artist
DOUBLE DAMBLE..Colin Fraser contemporary Scottish artist

DOUBLE DAMBLE..Colin Fraser contemporary Scottish artist

By Colin Fraser

Located in Pollenca, Illes Baleares

There is no greater pleasure than seeing artwork from the gallery come to life in a collector’s home. A great painting activates the four walls of a space and can complete a room. Th...

Category

2010s Realist Tempera Paintings

Materials

Egg Tempera

Portrait with Dad

Portrait with Dad

By Anthony Leone

Located in Buffalo, NY

An original tempera on paper painting by emerging contemporary artist Anthony Leone, currently featured in the artist's solo exhibition Grape Farm.

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Tempera Paintings

Materials

Paper, Tempera

High Drama Adventure Scene - Italian Illustrator Mid-Century Jules Verne
High Drama Adventure Scene - Italian Illustrator Mid-Century Jules Verne

High Drama Adventure Scene - Italian Illustrator Mid-Century Jules Verne

Located in Miami, FL

Original illustration was done by Renna for the novel "Journey to the Center of the Earth" by Jules Verne, published in 1963. What makes this work special is how brilliantly the subj...

Category

1960s Surrealist Tempera Paintings

Materials

Tempera, Illustration Board

Strange Woods, 20th Century Surrealist Painting by Cleveland Artist
Strange Woods, 20th Century Surrealist Painting by Cleveland Artist

Strange Woods, 20th Century Surrealist Painting by Cleveland Artist

Located in Beachwood, OH

Gretchen Oldfather Troibner (American, b. 1953) Strange Woods Casein on paper Signed with monogram lower right 16.5 x 12.75 inches 27.5 x 22.5 inches Gretchen Troibner is an America...

Category

Late 20th Century Surrealist Tempera Paintings

Materials

Casein

Nude Figure (Nude woman)
Nude Figure (Nude woman)

Nude Figure (Nude woman)

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Serge Hollerbach (1923-2021). Nude Figure, 1968. Casein on illustration board, image measures 8.5 x 11 inches; 14.5 x 17 inches in a custom Kulicke welded steel frame. Signed and dated lower margin. Painter, Instructor Born in Pushkin, Russia November 1, 1923. Education : Academy of Fine Arts in Munich; Art Students League with Ernest Fiene; American Art Scholarship with Gordon Samstag. Holdings : St. Paul Gallery...

Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Tempera Paintings

Materials

Casein

Bibi & Babu, Tempera on Board, (Set of 2 works) by Modern Indian Artist-In Stock
Bibi & Babu, Tempera on Board, (Set of 2 works) by Modern Indian Artist-In Stock

Bibi & Babu, Tempera on Board, (Set of 2 works) by Modern Indian Artist-In Stock

By Lalu Prasad Shaw

Located in Kolkata, West Bengal

Lalu Prasad Shaw Babu & Bibi Tempera on Board 21 x 14inches, 2017 (Set of 2 works) ( Unframed & Delivered ) This painting beautifully captures the elegance and charm of traditional ...

Category

2010s Modern Tempera Paintings

Materials

Tempera, Board

The Magician oil and tempera painting by Julio de Diego
The Magician oil and tempera painting by Julio de Diego

The Magician oil and tempera painting by Julio de Diego

By Julio de Diego

Located in Hudson, NY

Julio De Diego’s Atomic Series paintings made an extraordinary statement regarding the shock and fear that accompanied the dawn of the nuclear age. In the artist’s own words, “Scientists were working secretly to develop formidable powers taken from the mysterious depths of the earth - with the power to make the earth useless! Then, the EXPLOSION! . . . we entered the Atomic Age, and from there the neo-Atomic war begins. Explosions fell everywhere and man kept on fighting, discovering he could fight without flesh.” To execute these works, De Diego developed a technique of using tempera underpainting before applying layer upon layer of pigmented oil glazes. The result is paintings with surfaces which were described as “bonelike” in quality. The forms seem to float freely, creating a three-dimensional visual effect. In the 1954 book The Modern Renaissance in American Art, author Ralph Pearson summarizes the series as “a fantastic interpretation of a weighty theme. Perhaps it is well to let fantasy and irony appear to lighten the devastating impact. By inverse action, they may in fact increase its weight.” Exhibited 1964 Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas This work retains its original frame which measures 54" x 42" x 2" About this artist: Julio De Diego crafted a formidable persona within the artistic developments and political struggles of his time. The artist characterized his own work as “lyrical,” explaining, “through the years, the surrealists, the social-conscious painters and the others tried to adopt me, but I went my own way, good, bad or indifferent.” [1] His independence manifested early in life when de Diego left his parent’s home in Madrid, Spain, in adolescence following his father’s attempts to curtail his artistic aspirations. At the age of fifteen he held his first exhibition, set up within a gambling casino. He managed to acquire an apprenticeship in a studio producing scenery for Madrid’s operas, but moved from behind the curtains to the stage, trying his hand at acting and performing as an extra in the Ballet Russes’ Petrouchka with Nijinsky. He spent several years in the Spanish army, including a six-month stretch in the Rif War of 1920 in Northern Africa. His artistic career pushed ahead as he set off for Paris and became familiar with modernism’s forays into abstraction, surrealism, and cubism. The artist arrived in the U.S. in 1924 and settled in Chicago two years later. He established himself with a commission for the decoration of two chapels in St. Gregory’s Church. He also worked in fashion illustration, designed magazine covers and developed a popular laundry bag for the Hotel Sherman. De Diego began exhibiting through the Art Institute of Chicago in 1929, and participated in the annual Chicago Artists Exhibitions, Annual American Exhibitions, and International Water Color Exhibitions. He held a solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in the summer of 1935. Though the artist’s career was advancing, his family life had deteriorated. In 1932 his first marriage dissolved, and the couple’s young daughter Kiriki was sent to live with friend Paul Hoffman. De Diego continued to develop his artistic vocabulary with a growing interest in Mexican art. He traveled throughout the country acquainting himself with the works of muralists such as Carlos Merida, and also began a collection of small native artifacts...

Category

1940s American Modern Tempera Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil, Tempera

Wilhelm Ohm (1905-1965), Double Portrait with Chairs, circa 1950
Wilhelm Ohm (1905-1965), Double Portrait with Chairs, circa 1950

Wilhelm Ohm (1905-1965), Double Portrait with Chairs, circa 1950

Located in Greding, DE

Expressive portrait of a man and a woman looking directly at the viewer as well as indicated chairs. The execution of a series of chair paintings served Wilhelm Ohm (1905 Stettin -...

Category

1950s Abstract Expressionist Tempera Paintings

Materials

Paper, Tempera

The Holy Family
The Holy Family

The Holy Family

Located in London, GB

The artist trained in his native Cotignola, the same city where Bernardino and Francesco Zaganelli were also working, whose works during the first decade of the 16th century were str...

Category

16th Century Tempera Paintings

Materials

Panel, Tempera

First Floor Systems

First Floor Systems

By Kory Twaddle

Located in Kansas City, MO

Artist : Kory Twaddle Title : First Floor Systems Materials : Acrylic, tempera, gouache, paintbrushes, and mixed media on drawing paper pad back with spiral Date : 2018 Dimensions ...

Category

2010s Abstract Impressionist Tempera Paintings

Materials

Paint, Paper, Conté, Charcoal, India Ink, Acrylic, Tempera, Watercolor, ...

The Sea, Vibration - Contemporary Nature, Landscape, Seascape, Water Painting
The Sea, Vibration - Contemporary Nature, Landscape, Seascape, Water Painting

The Sea, Vibration - Contemporary Nature, Landscape, Seascape, Water Painting

By Justyna Smoleń

Located in Salzburg, AT

“Water is soft and supple, but also hard and inflexible.It flows or is still. It is silent and loud; it possesses every nature. Pure and clear, muddy and blind, wet and dry, salty an...

Category

2010s Contemporary Tempera Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Egg Tempera

Eclipse

Eclipse

By Kory Twaddle

Located in Kansas City, MO

Artist : Kory Twaddle Title : Doorway Materials : Acrylic and sand medium on photographic advertisement board (cardboard) Date : 2018 Dimensions : 8 x 10 x...

Category

2010s Color-Field Tempera Paintings

Materials

Paint, Paper, Acrylic, Tempera, Watercolor, Graphite

Mid-Century Market
Mid-Century Market

Mid-Century Market

Located in Houston, TX

French modernist tempera painting of an open air market in the streets of town by artist Schwerb, circa 1950. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. ...

Category

1940s Tempera Paintings

Materials

Paper, Tempera

Colorful Surreal Abstract Expressionist Painting of a Macabre Group of Clowns
Colorful Surreal Abstract Expressionist Painting of a Macabre Group of Clowns

Colorful Surreal Abstract Expressionist Painting of a Macabre Group of Clowns

Located in Houston, TX

Surreal abstract expressionist painting of a group of clowns in the style of Belgian painter James Ensor. Combining the macabre with the playful, the work features distorted clowns a...

Category

1990s Surrealist Tempera Paintings

Materials

Tempera

"Tree Pond 2" Abstract Painting, Oil & Resin on linen, 44x44 Inches, framed
"Tree Pond 2" Abstract Painting, Oil & Resin on linen, 44x44 Inches, framed

"Tree Pond 2" Abstract Painting, Oil & Resin on linen, 44x44 Inches, framed

By Darius Yektai

Located in Sag Harbor, NY

A textural oil painting by Darius Yektai (b. 1973 / Southampton, NY) of a tree over a pond filled with lily pads. A moody ground of colors, jewel tone purples, blues and greens, are ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Tempera Paintings

Materials

Linen, Resin, Oil, Casein

Inevitable Day – Birth of the Atom oil and tempera painting by Julio De Diego
Inevitable Day – Birth of the Atom oil and tempera painting by Julio De Diego

Inevitable Day – Birth of the Atom oil and tempera painting by Julio De Diego

By Julio de Diego

Located in Hudson, NY

Julio De Diego’s Atomic Series paintings made an extraordinary statement regarding the shock and fear that accompanied the dawn of the nuclear age. In the artist’s own words, “Scientists were working secretly to develop formidable powers taken from the mysterious depths of the earth - with the power to make the earth useless! Then, the EXPLOSION! . . . we entered the Atomic Age, and from there the neo-Atomic war begins. Explosions fell everywhere and man kept on fighting, discovering he could fight without flesh.” To execute these works, De Diego developed a technique of using tempera underpainting before applying layer upon layer of pigmented oil glazes. The result is paintings with surfaces which were described as “bonelike” in quality. The forms seem to float freely, creating a three-dimensional visual effect. In the 1954 book The Modern Renaissance in American Art, author Ralph Pearson summarizes the series as “a fantastic interpretation of a weighty theme. Perhaps it is well to let fantasy and irony appear to lighten the devastating impact. By inverse action, they may in fact increase its weight.” Bibliography Art in America, April 1951, p.78 About this artists: Julio De Diego crafted a formidable persona within the artistic developments and political struggles of his time. The artist characterized his own work as “lyrical,” explaining, “through the years, the surrealists, the social-conscious painters and the others tried to adopt me, but I went my own way, good, bad or indifferent.” [1] His independence manifested early in life when de Diego left his parent’s home in Madrid, Spain, in adolescence following his father’s attempts to curtail his artistic aspirations. At the age of fifteen he held his first exhibition, set up within a gambling casino. He managed to acquire an apprenticeship in a studio producing scenery for Madrid’s operas, but moved from behind the curtains to the stage, trying his hand at acting and performing as an extra in the Ballet Russes’ Petrouchka with Nijinsky. He spent several years in the Spanish army, including a six-month stretch in the Rif War of 1920 in Northern Africa. His artistic career pushed ahead as he set off for Paris and became familiar with modernism’s forays into abstraction, surrealism, and cubism. The artist arrived in the U.S. in 1924 and settled in Chicago two years later. He established himself with a commission for the decoration of two chapels in St. Gregory’s Church. He also worked in fashion illustration, designed magazine covers and developed a popular laundry bag for the Hotel Sherman. De Diego began exhibiting through the Art Institute of Chicago in 1929, and participated in the annual Chicago Artists Exhibitions, Annual American Exhibitions, and International Water Color Exhibitions. He held a solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in the summer of 1935. Though the artist’s career was advancing, his family life had deteriorated. In 1932 his first marriage dissolved, and the couple’s young daughter Kiriki was sent to live with friend Paul Hoffman. De Diego continued to develop his artistic vocabulary with a growing interest in Mexican art. He traveled throughout the country acquainting himself with the works of muralists such as Carlos Merida, and also began a collection of small native artifacts...

Category

1940s American Modern Tempera Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil, Tempera

Rock Me Baby  Oil 14 x 20 Framed  Water Movement  Figurative Portraiture
Rock Me Baby  Oil 14 x 20 Framed  Water Movement  Figurative Portraiture

Rock Me Baby Oil 14 x 20 Framed Water Movement Figurative Portraiture

Located in Houston, TX

LOOK FOR FREE SHIPPING AT CHECKOUT Rock Me is a 14 x 20 figurative oil painting by E. Melinda Morrison. It was painted in 2019. Rock Me shows the movement of the water rocking the ...

Category

2010s Impressionist Tempera Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Egg Tempera, Panel

Intriguing Surrealist Painting of Downtown Chicago by James Mesplé
Intriguing Surrealist Painting of Downtown Chicago by James Mesplé

Intriguing Surrealist Painting of Downtown Chicago by James Mesplé

Located in Chicago, IL

An Intriguing 1991 Surrealist painting of downtown Chicago by artist James Mesplé. Artwork size: 22 1/2" x 18 1/2". Framed size: 25 1/2" x 21 1/2". Mesplé studied painting at th...

Category

1990s Surrealist Tempera Paintings

Materials

Oil, Tempera, Panel

St. Gerome - Holy Turk

St. Gerome - Holy Turk

By Barnaby Fitzgerald

Located in Dallas, TX

A professor of painting at Southern Methodist University since 1984, Barnaby Fitzgerald spent his childhood in Italy where he earned a printmaking degree in Urbino. He received a BFA...

Category

2010s Contemporary Tempera Paintings

Materials

Birch, Egg Tempera

Irises (abstract floral still life painting)
Irises (abstract floral still life painting)

Irises (abstract floral still life painting)

By Elizabeth Osborne

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Elizabeth Osborne (b.1936). Irises, 1966. Casein and charcoal pencil on paper, sheet measures 10.5 x 12 inches. Unframed. Excellent condition with no fading or damage. A very tiny area of paper loss in lower right corner. Biography: Elizabeth Osborne, born in Philadelphia PA, has exhibited extensively throughout the United States for over forty years. She lives and works in Philadelphia. Her work is included in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Pennsylvania Academy...

Category

1980s Abstract Expressionist Tempera Paintings

Materials

Archival Paper, Charcoal, Casein

Landscape Abstract Painting - "Landscape interwoven with blue and green"
Landscape Abstract Painting - "Landscape interwoven with blue and green"

Landscape Abstract Painting - "Landscape interwoven with blue and green"

Located in Winterswijk, NL

Landscape Abstract Painting - "Landscape interwoven with blue and green" In this unique painting "Landscape Green Blue Woven" by the artist Skadi Engeln, a semi-abstract landscape i...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Tempera Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Chalk, Tempera

Teppiche - Abstract, Contemporary, Painting, Woman, 21st Century,

Teppiche - Abstract, Contemporary, Painting, Woman, 21st Century,

By Fides Becker

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

‘Teppiche' Acrylic and Eggtempera on Canvas, 115 x 85 cm, 2016 Fides Becker The leading theme of the artist’s interventions is the staging of temporality, transience, and change. ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Tempera Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Egg Tempera

Untitled - Mixed Media by Mark Tobey - 1969
Untitled - Mixed Media by Mark Tobey - 1969

Untitled - Mixed Media by Mark Tobey - 1969

By Mark Tobey

Located in Roma, IT

Untitled is an artwork by Mark Tobey. Monotype with tempera, heightened with tempera on Japan paper. Hand signed and dated lower right: Tobey 69. Provenance: Henze Ketterer Gallery B...

Category

1960s Abstract Tempera Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Tempera

The Soul of the Opossum

The Soul of the Opossum

By Barnaby Fitzgerald

Located in Dallas, TX

A professor of painting at Southern Methodist University since 1984, Barnaby Fitzgerald spent his childhood in Italy where he earned a printmaking degree in Urbino. He received a BFA...

Category

2010s Contemporary Tempera Paintings

Materials

Birch, Egg Tempera

Tapetenzunge

Tapetenzunge

By Fides Becker

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

'Tapetenzunge’ by Fides Becker Acrylic and Eggtempera on Canvas, 115 x 85 cm, 2017 Fides Becker The leading theme of the artist’s interventions is the staging of temporality, trans...

Category

2010s Contemporary Tempera Paintings

Materials

Egg Tempera, Canvas, Acrylic

Procession
Procession

Procession

By Colin Fraser

Located in Pollenca, Illes Baleares

Colin Fraser was born in Glasgow in 1956, studied art in Brighton and currently lives and works in Sweden. Fraser is represented by Mira Godard Gallery and has exhibited internationa...

Category

2010s Realist Tempera Paintings

Materials

Egg Tempera

Parent and Child
Parent and Child

Parent and Child

Located in Houston, TX

Mid-century tempera painting on paper in warm orange tones of parent with child by French artist Clairet, 1956. Signed and dated lower right. Original artwork on paper displayed on ...

Category

1950s Tempera Paintings

Materials

Tempera

Woman IV - XXI Century Contemporary Oil & Tempera on Canvas Painting, Portrait

Woman IV - XXI Century Contemporary Oil & Tempera on Canvas Painting, Portrait

By Joanna Rusinek

Located in Warsaw, PL

Joanna Rusinek (1979) Polish contemporary painter. Diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk in 2007 at the Graphics Studio under the supervision of prof. Jadwiga Okrassa. Annex...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Feminist Tempera Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Tempera

Schlüsselloch

Schlüsselloch

By Fides Becker

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

'Schlüsselloch' by Fides Becker Acrylic and Eggtempera on Canvas, 33 x 54 cm, 2017 The leading theme of the artist’s interventions is the staging of temporality, transience, and change. Fides Becker (* 1962) developed and pursued her picturesque strategies in the illusionistic pictorial space. Her practice explores intimate worlds through objects and materials we associate with the private sphere in everyday life. Sofas, beds, curtains, mirrors, and sheets are reconstituted in her paintings as fragments, details or dissolving surfaces that engage with the ambiguities between presence and absence, past and present, and personal and collective images. Fides Becker (*1962 in Worms) studied at the Städel School in Frankfurt a.M., at the Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in Rotterdam, and at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. Her works can be found in numerous national and international collections, such as the National Collection of Rhineland-Palatinate, the Art Collection of the German Bank...

Category

2010s Contemporary Tempera Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Egg Tempera

Crepe Myrtle

Crepe Myrtle

By Barnaby Fitzgerald

Located in Dallas, TX

“Barnaby Fitzgerald’s outrageously gorgeous paintings are a guilty pleasure - yet the guilt is unnecessary, for they do not cloy or fatten us. They are as intellectually challenging ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Tempera Paintings

Materials

Birch, Egg Tempera

'The Belfry of Bruges' by Jules Van de Leene (1887 – 1962)
'The Belfry of Bruges' by Jules Van de Leene (1887 – 1962)

'The Belfry of Bruges' by Jules Van de Leene (1887 – 1962)

By Jules Van De Leene

Located in Knokke, BE

Jules Van de Leene Ixelles 1887 – 1962 Auderghem Belgian Painter 'The Belfry of Bruges' Signature: signed lower right 'J. Van de Leene' Medium: mixed media, tempera on paper Dimens...

Category

Early 20th Century Impressionist Tempera Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Tempera

Christian Prisoner - Original Tempera on Cardboard - 20th Century
Christian Prisoner - Original Tempera on Cardboard - 20th Century

Christian Prisoner - Original Tempera on Cardboard - 20th Century

Located in Roma, IT

Prisoner is an original drawing in tempera and white lead applied on cardboard, realized by an Anonymous artist of the XX century. The state of preservation of the artwork is good a...

Category

20th Century Modern Tempera Paintings

Materials

Tempera

Foulard

Foulard

By Barnaby Fitzgerald

Located in Dallas, TX

A professor of painting at Southern Methodist University since 1984, Barnaby Fitzgerald spent his childhood in Italy where he earned a printmaking degree in Urbino. He received a BFA...

Category

2010s Contemporary Tempera Paintings

Materials

Birch, Egg Tempera

Painter's Palette
Painter's Palette

Painter's Palette

By Miles Cleveland Goodwin

Located in Dallas, TX

After a tour of duty in the US Navy, Miles Cleveland Goodwin earned a BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon, in 2007, and eventually returned to coastal Missi...

Category

2010s Contemporary Tempera Paintings

Materials

Egg Tempera, Oil, Panel

Daenerys morning
Daenerys morning

Daenerys morning

Located in Zofingen, AG

Once upon a time, a wonderful girl posed for Evgeniy, outwardly very similar to the well-known blonde from Game of Thrones. Almost a doppelganger of her fairy-tale sister .. And then...

Category

2010s Realist Tempera Paintings

Materials

Oil, Tempera, Wood Panel

Touch

Touch

By Barnaby Fitzgerald

Located in Dallas, TX

“Barnaby Fitzgerald’s outrageously gorgeous paintings are a guilty pleasure - yet the guilt is unnecessary, for they do not cloy or fatten us. They are as intellectually challenging ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Tempera Paintings

Materials

Birch, Egg Tempera

Tempera paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Tempera paintings available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add paintings created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, green, yellow and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Kory Twaddle, Giorgio Lo Fermo, Anastasia Kurakina, and Sergio Barletta. Frequently made by artists working in the Contemporary, Abstract, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Tempera paintings, so small editions measuring 0.1 inches across are also available