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Portrait Paintings For Sale
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POW
Located in New York, NY
Unique glass spheres are arranged to create a playful portrait of young woman. The light reflects off the glass spheres and the woman's sunglasses, creating a dynamic interplay. Pop...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Glass

Bottoms Up
Located in New York, NY
Unique glass spheres are arranged to create a colorful portrait of young woman. The light reflects off the glass spheres, creating a dynamic interplay. In the latest series, inspire...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Glass, Mixed Media

Gobsmacked
Located in New York, NY
Unique glass spheres are arranged to create a colorful portrait of young woman. The light reflects off the glass spheres, creating a dynamic interplay. Fashion, brands, magazine, ha...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Glass, Mixed Media

Boogie Woogie
Located in New York, NY
Unique glass spheres are arranged to create a playful portrait of ayoung woman. The light reflects off the glass spheres and the woman's sunglasses, creating a dynamic interplay. Ro...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Glass, Mixed Media

Blue Harlequin. Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Blue Harleking - a beautiful piece from Berlins' Harleking series. This mesmerising painting is cooler and more sculptural in its construct. The sculptural quality & cooler palette d...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Crying Marilyn on purple haze
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Acrylic on canvas with diamond dust
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic

Free and Clear - Contemporary Female Pop Portrait - (Yellow + Pink + Black )
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Free and Clear" is a collage painting on canvas by LA-based street artist Amy Smith. She is best known for her empowering images of women and motivational text pieces. You can see h...
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2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

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Stencil, Crayon, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Sally - Contemporary Female Portrait of Sally Kristen Ride (Teal + Yellow)
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Sally" is a collage painting on canvas by LA-based street artist Amy Smith. She is best known for her empowering images of women and motivational text pieces. You can see her murals...
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2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Stencil

Make it Happen - Contemporary Pop Street Art of Black Woman (Blue+Green)
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Make it Happen" is a collage painting on canvas by LA-based street artist Amy Smith. She is best known for her empowering images of women and motivational text pieces. You can see h...
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2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Stencil

Jennifer
Located in New York, NY
Alea Pınar du Pre was born in Vienna, where she grew up under the intense influence of the artistic legacy left by the Vienna Secession and the Wiener Werkstatte. Du Pre studied mark...
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2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Fabric, Canvas, Glitter, Acrylic

Portrait of a Lady
Located in New York, NY
This unique painting was created by using the technique of cake pipe painting; the pipes used for cake decorating. Pinar du Pre would pipe acrylic paint onto the canvas in parallel ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Luma
Located in New York, NY
Alea Pınar du Pre was born in Vienna, where she grew up under the intense influence of the artistic legacy left by the Vienna Secession and the Wiener Werkstatte. Du Pre studied mark...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Fabric, Canvas, Glitter, Acrylic, Mixed Media

"Blue notes", acrylic painting, three, female, figures, blanket, serene, white
Located in Natick, MA
Frantz Lexy’s “Blue notes” is a 40 x 30 inch acrylic painting on canvas. Three female figures are holding on to one another under a white blanket. Their ey...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Peter Robert Keil Acrylic on Canvas Colorful Portrait
Located in Hudson, NY
Peter Robert Keil painting on stretched thick canvas. Lovely colorful portrait.
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paint, Canvas

“Rear View Portrait” Contemporary Abstract Figurative Magazine Collage of a Man
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract surrealist collage of a man by contemporary Houston artist Scott Woodard. The work features a portrait of a man from behind assembled out of magazine cuttings. Currently hun...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Magazine Paper

The Chess Players
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Born in Latvia, Kalman Aron(1924 - 2018), survived four years in camps during the Holocaust surviving in many ways due to his natural artists talent. As liberations came with the end of the war, he was able to study art at the Fine Art Academy of Vienna. Kalman Aron spent his life paintings portraits, landscapes, cityscapes as well as imagery from his impression of the war. He was widely commissioned and collected. The Chess Players...
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1960s Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil

Closed - contemporary hyperrealistic close-up detail eye human face oil painting
Located in London, GB
Anne's work has mutated but the same themes have remained constant i.e: close up & detailed observation of the skin, facial features & texture; montaged images; ambiguity. The main area of interest has always been the human face...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

19th Century French Impressionist Period Oil Painting - Portrait of Bearded Man
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, late 19th century, indistinctly monogrammed upper left corner. Title: Portrait of a Bearded Man Medium: oil painting on canvas laid to board, unframe...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Portrait of a Young Eero Saarinen", Painted By His Father Eliel Saarinen, Oil
Located in Detroit, MI
This portrait of a precocious young boy is significant for two reason: the subject is Eero Saarinen, the famed designer of tulip chairs and architect best known for designing the Washington Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C., the TWA Flight Center in New York City, and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, and the painter is his father Eliel Saarinen, the Finnish-American architect who designed the Helsinki Central railway station, the National Museum of Finland, the Vyborg railway station, the Hvitträsk, and the Kleinhans Music Hall in Finland and the famous Cranbrook Academy campus, where he would then go on to teach at the Cranbrook Academy of Art and become its president in 1932. It's provenance is Eero Saarinen's own son, the award-winning cinematographer Eric Saarinen. The painting is Painting is 23.25 x 16.25. Eliel Saarinen was born in 1873 in Rantasalmi, Finland. was educated in Helsinki at the Helsinki University of Technology. From 1896 to 1905 he worked as a partner with Herman Gesellius and Armas Lindgren at the firm Gesellius, Lindgren, Saarinen. His first major work was showcased at the Finnish pavilion at the 1900 World Fair in Paris. His early style was known as Finnish National Romanticism. After moving to the United States he designed the Gulf Building in Houston and became a visiting professor at the University of Michigan. In 1925 he was requested to design the Cranbrook campus. His work has been exhibited in many prestigious places, such as his iconic tea urn at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the St. Louis Art Museum, Cranbrook Art Museum, the British Museum in London, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The touring exhibition Modernism in American Silver: 20th-Century Design, organized by the Dallas Museum of Art, which also traveled to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. the British Museum in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art also hold tea urn-related Eliel Saarinen designs. Eero Saarinen was born in 1910. He grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and took courses in sculpture and furniture design at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He had a close relationship with fellow students Charles and Ray Eames, and became good friends with Florence Knoll (née Schust). He began his studies in sculpture at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, France, in September 1929. He then went on to study at the Yale School of Architecture, completing his studies in 1934. In 1940 he designed his famous Tulip chairs and in 1948 he designed what would be his most well-known sculpture, the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. His Crow Island School in Winnetka, Illinois would also achieve international acclaim while the first major work by Saarinen, in collaboration with his father, was the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan, which follows the rationalist design Miesian style, incorporating steel and glass but with the addition of accent of panels in two shades of blue. After his father's death in July 1950, Saarinen founded his own architect's office, Eero Saarinen and Associates. He was the principal partner from 1950 until his death. The firm carried out many of its most important works, including the Bell Labs...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Tre Grazia - Marilyn, Madonna and Brigitte Bardot, Mixed Media
Located in San Francisco, CA
"Tre Grazia - Marilyn, Madonna and Brigitte Bardot" is a mixed media edition piece by Israeli artist Dganit Blechner. She expresses a unique perspective on urban life and pop culture...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Mixed Media

The Ladies 2
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic on canvas.
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2010s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

'Populus Marilyn' - "Money Machine"
Located in New York, NY
Canvas Original of the great Marilyn Monroe from world renowned artist with unique, one of a kind style. About the Artist: In his prolific career is a culmination of textbook arti...
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2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

"Untitled 4" Acrylic on Canvas painting 39" x 39" inch by lvovich
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 4" Acrylic on Canvas painting 39" x 39" inch by lvovich born in saint-petersburg, raised in moscow, attended various art courses, however never received a professional ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

First Class Girl
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media. Pop Art. Humorous. On canvas. Play off First Class on Plane. Girl featured. Vibrant colors. About the Artist: NELSON DE LA NUEZ ...
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2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Canvas

High Maintenance
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media. Pop Art. Humorous. On canvas. About the Artist: NELSON DE LA NUEZ is one of the most sought-after contemporary Pop artists practicing today. His striking, vivi...
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2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

CARLOS CARNERO (1922-1980) ORIGINAL DRAWING BY FERNAND LEGER STUDIO WORKER
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Landscape" by Carlos Carnero (Uruguay/ French 1922-1980) `Charcoal on paper, unframed paper: 10.5 x 8.25 inches provenance: the artists estate, Paris Fine original French drawing by the important and fascinating painter, Carlos Carnero (1922-1980). The painting has excellent provenance, having come from the artists estate sale in Paris. The artists close connection to one of the 20th centuries most important artists, Fernand Leger is of important significance, with his own work being widely collected and appreciated. The artist: Carlos Carnero (1922-1980), a native of Montevideo, emigrates to Paris and joins Fernand Léger's studio workshop at the end of the 1940s. Located on the Boulevard de Clichy, the workshop-school has some seventy-five students. At the end of his life, Léger elaborates a protest against Cubism advocates the return to the human figure. The head of the workshop, Nadia Khodasievich, brilliant painter, first pupil of Malevich, then of Leger in the mid-1920s, became the assistant thenthe mistress of this one and the wife in 1952. In the workshop, Carlos Carnero, soon nicknamed "Carlos" is noted for his talent and involvement. In addition to art education, the couple Léger entrusts the task of the secretariat of the workshop: movements of the stocks, inventory paintings, material organization of exhibitions. After the death of Léger in 1955, Carlos becomes very close to Nadia, rigorous in the construction of the posterity of the master. With his new companion Georges Bauquier, they found, on their own funds, the museum Fernand Léger de Biot - Carnero gives his assistance. Carnero's style is very close to that of his master, filled with joy and colorful dynamism. At the beginning of the 50's, he tried the cubisante figuration of the portraits of Picasso then adopts the abstract balances between lines, shapes and colors of Léger. Some dates: Classical studies in Montevideo (Uruguay). 1941 to 1946 School of Fine Arts, architecture section (Montevideo). 1947 Travel grant (Italy, Spain, France). 1948 Painting workshop at André Lhote workshop. 1949 Entered the Académie Fernand Léger, first student, then 1949 to 1955 Assistant-collaborator of Fernand Léger. 1955 to 1970 Collaborator of Nadia Khodasievitch and Georges Bauquier. Exhibitions: 1950 Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, Atelier Fernand Léger, Exposition collective, juillet 1950. 1951 Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Atelier Fernand Léger, exposition annuelle, décembre 1951. 1953 Salon des Artistes indépendants, Paris. 1953-1954 Galerie Gentilhommière, Paris, Groupe 53. 1957-1958 Première Biennale de la “Jeune Peinture”, musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, mai-juin 1957, Francfort, Montréal, 1958. 1959 “École de Paris” à Vienne, Linz, Gratz. Galerie de France, “Cinq peintres – Un sculpteur”. 1960 Galerie Création à Roubaix. Exposition personnelle. 1961 Galerie Pierre Weiller à Paris. Exposition personnelle. Salon des Réalités nouvelles. Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles. Exposition personnelle, mai 1961. 1962 Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, “Antagonismes 2 - L’objet”, juillet-octobre 1962. Galerie Pierre Weiller, Paris, “Poèmes Peints”, mars-avril 1962. Exposition personnelle. Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris : “L’art latino-américain à Paris”. 1962-1963 Exposition de peinture contemporaine, Communauté européenne, Prix Marzotto. Italie, Allemagne, Belgique, France. Exposition des Artistes latino-américains, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris. “Expressions Nouvelles”, Antibes. 1962 à 1965 Salon “Comparaisons”. L’Oeil de Boeuf, Galerie 7...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Portrait Paintings

Materials

Charcoal

Sisters with Green Eyes - Handsigned oil on canvas
Located in Paris, FR
Jean-Baptiste VALADIE Sisters with Green Eyes, 1962 Original oil on canvas Signed right bottom Size of the canvas 61 x 38 cm (c. 24 x 15 inch) Presented in a golden wood frame 78 x ...
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1960s Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mosler Junior
Located in Kansas City, MO
Due to the current situation related to the Novel Coronavirus pandemic, our gallery will donate 10% of our commission from this sale to the Kansas City Artists Coalition, which has been supporting local Kansas City Artists for the past 40 years. The Kansas City Artists Coalition (KCAC), is a non-profit, artist-centered, artist-run alternative space, supporting artists at every level in their career through exhibitions, continuing education and artist studios. Artist: Joseph Broghammer Title: “Mosler Junior” Materials : Chalk pastel and pencil on Arches Paper Date : 2019 Dimensions : 42 x 43 in. Omaha based artist Joseph Broghammer is as much of a storyteller as he is an artist. His one-of-a-kind pastel drawings in “Animals” are chronicles of his life. The creatures Broghammer creates are vehicles to uncover the varying characteristics of the artist’s personal identity. Hence, Broghammer’s “Animals” translates as a flowing stream of consciousness. The different birds and livestock staring back at the viewer are ornamented with iconographic symbols – small surprises along the way. These trinkets are keys to understanding the stories Broghammer is sharing. Broghammer began mastering his “dry painting” technique during his B.F.A. in Visual Art at the University of South Dakota. He graduated in 1986 and a year later went on to study his M.F.A. at the University of Wisconsin. In 2009, he studied at Creative Capital in Omaha, Nebraska. As storytellers often do, Broghammer later went on to become an educator himself, teaching at WhyArts? and becoming an Artist Assistant at Vera Mercer...
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2010s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings

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Chalk, Color Pencil, Pencil, Archival Paper, Pastel

Contemporary Abstract Reverse Flag Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract painting of a reversed colored flag with a portrait of a female and a shark. The work is signed by the artist and dated. The canvas is not framed.
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Prensa One
Located in Santa Monica, CA
From the "Fake News" Series Juri Koll has exhibited at museums such as the Long Beach Museum of Art Annex, Torrance Art Museum and the Museum of Art and History in Lancaster, Califo...
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2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Dye, Ink, Pigment

"Sun le Chemin" Cubist Style French Abstract, Original Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Sun le Chemin" Cubist Style French Abstract, Original Oil Painting By French artist Beatrice Werlie, early 21st Century Signed by the artist on the lower right hand corner Titled a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Binding
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This is an original oil painting on panel by Lauren Rinaldi measuring 12in x 6in. Lauren Rinaldi's work inhabits the space where objectification, female power and sexual empowermen...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Continuidad de los sueños
Located in New York, NY
Julio Alan Lepez Continuidad de los sueños, 2013 Mixed Media on board 33.8 x 17.3 in (85.85h x 43.94w cm)
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Board, Mixed Media, Oil

Contraseñas
Located in New York, NY
Julio Alan Lepez Contraseñas, 2017 Oil on canvas 20 x 24 in (50.8h x 60.96w cm)
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

'Old Woman Living Near Sea' Oil on Canvas Portrait White Grey Green
By Vu Nhu Hai
Located in Rye, NY
Vu Nhu Hai's oil on canvas portraits have a photo realistic quality to them. His portraits are highly detailed and capture the spirit of the person within his canvas.
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled (Self Portrait #3)
Located in New York, NY
Untitled (Self Portrait #3)
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic Polymer

Metaphysical Portrait from series: Artists and the Silver Screen
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Colette is a gauze-draped pillar of the New York art world, a maker of installations, a painter and a performance artist.” - Anthony Hayden-Guest for The Art Newspaper Undercurrent...
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Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Metaphysical Portrait from series: Artists and the Silver Screen
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Colette is a gauze-draped pillar of the New York art world, a maker of installations, a painter and a performance artist.” - Anthony Hayden-Guest for The Art Newspaper Undercurrent...
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Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Metaphysical Portrait from series: Artists and the Silver Screen
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Colette is a gauze-draped pillar of the New York art world, a maker of installations, a painter and a performance artist.” - Anthony Hayden-Guest for The Art Newspaper Undercurrent...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Metaphysical Portrait from series: Artists and the Silver Screen
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Colette is a gauze-draped pillar of the New York art world, a maker of installations, a painter and a performance artist.” - Anthony Hayden-Guest for The Art Newspaper Undercurrent...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Shop Antique and Vintage Portrait Paintings

An elegant and sophisticated decorative touch in any living space, portrait paintings have remained popular throughout the years and are widely loved pieces of art for display in many homes today.

Portrait paintings are at least as old as ancient Egypt, where realistic, lifelike depictions of the recently deceased — commonly known as “mummy portraits” — were painted on wooden panels and affixed to mummies as part of the burial tradition.

For centuries, painters have used portraiture as a means of expressing a subject’s nobility, societal status and authority. Portraits were given as gifts in Renaissance Europe, and a portrait artist might have been commissioned to help mark a significant occasion such as a wedding or a promotion to high office. Prior to the advent of photography, which eventually replaced painted portraits as a quicker and more efficient way of capturing a person’s essence, the subject of a portrait had to sit for hours until the painter had finished. And during the 18th century in particular, if an artist commissioned for a portrait struggled with how to adequately memorialize and capture a subject’s likeness, sometimes a portrait painting wasn’t completed for up to a year.

Whether it’s part of the gallery-style approach to your living-room or dining-room walls or merely inspiration as you devise an eye-grabbing color scheme in your home, a portrait painting is a timeless decorative object for any interior. A landscape painting or sculpture might give you the kind of insight into a specific region of the world or a different culture that you can ascertain only through art. Similarly, when you take the time to learn about the subject of a portrait painting that you bring into your home — the sitter’s history, the relationship between the sitter and the artist should one exist, the story of how the portrait came to be — that work can become intensely personal in addition to its place as an object for an art-hungry corner of your apartment or house.

On 1stDibs, visit a vast collection of famous portrait paintings or works by emerging artists. Search by medium to find the right portrait paintings for your home in oil paint, synthetic resin paint and more. Find portrait paintings in a variety of styles, too, including contemporary, Impressionist and Pop art, or search by artist to find unique works created by painters such as Mark Beard, Steve Kaufman and Montse Valdés.

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