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Boy Scout with a Pipe and Billiard Ball: Surrealist Portrait in Oil on Polyester
Located in Soquel, CA
Clean, surreal depiction of a Boy Scout by Robert Peluce (American, 1937-2004). Dressed in full uniform, a Boy Scout holds a pipe to his lips. Above the ...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Polyester, Oil
Signed Aleardo Villa Male Moustache Portrait 1890 circa oil canvas
Located in Florence, IT
The painting is signed on the right side "AVILLA".
Aleardo Villa was a pupil of Giuseppe Bertini and Bartolomeo Giuliano and he graduated at the Fine Arts Academy of Brera, becoming ...
Category
Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
J.W. Anderson fall 23. Watercolor fashion drawing on archival paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
J.W. Anderson fall 23, by Manuel Santelices
Ink and watercolor on paper
Image size: 15" H x 11" W inches.
Unframed
2023
Manuel Santelices explores the world of fashion, society, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Archival Paper
Brume écarlate - Contemporary Oil on Canvas Portrait
Located in PARIS, FR
Peinture à l'huile sur toile par l'artiste française Marina Taleb.
Ses visages, envoutants, souvenirs vagues de moments endormis entremêlent le désir d’atteindre une vérité et l’env...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Heat Lightning Herald I" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Amanda Seckington's "Heat Lightning Herald I" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a face transposed over a green, yellow, and blue skyscape that's exploding with light...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Tattoo me 3 2002., Cardboard, mixed media, 153x117 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Tattoo me 3
2002., Cardboard, mixed media, 153x117 cm
Juris Utāns (1959-2022)
was a Latvian painter. Worked in the field of critical realism, socially a...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Cardboard
Tattoo me 4 2002., Cardboard, mixed media, 153x117 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Tattoo me 4
2002., Cardboard, mixed media, 153x117 cm
Juris Utāns (1959-2022)
was a Latvian painter. Worked in the field of critical realism, socia...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Mixed Media
Manner of Marcel Vertes Portrait of a Lady Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Mid century, manner of Marcel Vertes, 20th century painter, printmaker and illustrator.
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Amazon - original painting on round canvas Paula Craioveanu Neo-Mythology
Located in Forest Hills, NY
Inspired by the mythological Greco-Roman origins, these works of art are dreamlike superimposed views of expressive and sometimes sensual figures.
Like the immortal mythological heroes, my subjects remind us of the human ability to remain beautiful and noble despite de passing of time and damage it brings.
Amazons, mysterious female warrior, were recognized as heroines and embodied features like independence, courage, strength. This double portrait of an amazon is a combination of a deconstructed, sectioned ancient marble head...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Prada puffy coats. Watercolor fashion drawing on archival paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Prada puffy coats by Manuel Santelices
Ink and watercolor on paper
Image size: 15" H x 11" W inches.
Unframed
2023
Manuel Santelices explores the world ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Archival Paper
Band of moonlight
Located in PUIFLIJK, NL
Over the last few years Francien has created a series of paintings, which stylistically dovetail into its overall work. This interesting new series came about by the birth of her lon...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Marilyn Monroe Icon XII /// Pop Art Hollywood Actress Portrait Painting Model
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "Marilyn Monroe Icon XII"
Series: Icon
*Signed by Graves lower right. It is also signed, titled, and dated on verso
Year: 2023
Medium...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Acrylic
Orit Fuchs: Vivid 21 - Giclee print. female figure painting. 19.6/19.6"
By Orit Fuchs
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Orit Fuchs lives and works in Tel Aviv, a storyteller with a deep, pure, and unquenchable appetite for artistic self-expression. Her medium spans the gamut - sculptures, pa...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil
Orit Fuchs: Vivid 2 - Giclee print on canvas female figure painting. 29.5/29.5”
By Orit Fuchs
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Orit Fuchs lives and works in Tel Aviv, a storyteller with a deep, pure, and unquenchable appetite for artistic self-expression. Her medium spans the gamut - sculptures, pa...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Giclée
Bill Bate, Reflections, Original Figurative Painting, Nude Artwork, Water Art
By Bill Bate
Located in Deddington, GB
Reflections by Bill Bate [2022]
original
Oil on Canvas
Image size: H:122 cm x W:92 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:122 cm x W:92 cm x D:3cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Marie Madeleine - Large Contemporary Oil on Canvas Portrait
Located in PARIS, FR
Peinture à l'huile sur toile par l'artiste française Marina Taleb.
Ses visages, envoutants, souvenirs vagues de moments endormis entremêlent le désir d’atteindre une vérité et l’envi...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Orit Fuchs: Vivid 2 - Giclee print on canvas female figure painting. 19.6/19.6"
By Orit Fuchs
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Orit Fuchs lives and works in Tel Aviv, a storyteller with a deep, pure, and unquenchable appetite for artistic self-expression. Her medium spans the gamut - sculptures, pa...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Giclée
Orit Fuchs: Vivid 2 - Giclee print on canvas female figure painting. 55/55”
By Orit Fuchs
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Orit Fuchs lives and works in Tel Aviv, a storyteller with a deep, pure, and unquenchable appetite for artistic self-expression. Her medium spans the gamut - sculptures, pa...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Giclée
Woman with Earrings, Portrait of a Woman by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Woman with Earrings" is an oil on board portrait painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon of an elegantly dressed woman sitting on a chair. This work features a second environmental portrait on verso. The painting is 40" x 34" in size and is signed "Harmon" on verso. Figurative expressionism in the style of Alice Neel.
Provenance: Estate of the Artist; Gratz Gallery & Conservation Studio, Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
Bernard Harmon was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1935. Harmon was primarily a portrait painter and a well loved teacher in the Philadelphia area. A graduate of the Philadelphia Museum School and Temples Tyler School of Art, Harmon traveled extensively in Europe and South America. Beloved by many, Harmon taught in the Philadelphia School District for 32 of his 54 years of life. Beginning his career as an art teacher at West Philadelphia High School, in the early 1960s he became one of the district's artists in residence, traveling from school to school to demonstrate for students how an artist works. Returning to the classroom, Harmon joined the art department at Central High School where he taught for 14 years and became an innovator in art curriculum, developing a program offering advanced placement art classes to gifted students. In his final years Harmon became a supervisor, mentoring teachers and overseeing programs in the Philadelphia school systems District #1. During his short life Harmon taught collage preparatory art classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, summer classes at the University of the Arts, and a Saturday program for gifted children at Drexel University. Among Harmon's portraits were commissioned by Philadelphia Jazz organist Jimmy Smith and Mayor Richardson Dilworth. Bernard Harmon was active in promoting African American Artist throughout his life time. He organized many early shows such as the "Afro American Artists 1800 - 1969" at the Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center in 1969. He was considered a Renaissance man by friends and colleagues for his interests not only in art but music and theater as well. He was familiar and friends with many other African American artists such as Doc Thrash, Selma Burke...
Category
1970s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
La Guadalupe
By Jose Bedia
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
José Bedia
(Havana, Cuba, 1959) Lives and works in Miami, FL
José Bedia is the most solid representative of post-1959 revolution Cuban art. He was part of the now mythical group s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The Muse - unique piece by Paula Craioveanu - Mask - Neo Mythology
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"The Muse".
This painting was inspired by ancient masks and statues and it's part of my Neo-Mythology series.
Painted with acrylic on round canvas (20cm ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Robin Hood
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1934
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 24.75" x 16"
Signature: Initialed Lower Left
Cover Illustration for American Boy Magazine, May 1934
Includes copy of magazine
Category
1930s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Stairs & Streets_America Martin_Oil Pastel/Acrylic/Ink/Cotton Paper_Figurative
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Stairs & Streets"
Oil Pastel, Acrylic & Ink on Cotton Paper
26.5” x 40.5”
AMERICA MARTIN is an internationally represented Colombian-American fine artist based in L...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Oil Pastel, Acrylic
Armenian Beauty
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
The painting's canvas size is 20"x16". Signed lower right and on verso. Gallery certificate of authenticity is included.
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Orit Fuchs: Vivid 62 - Giclee print on canvas female figure painting. 16/16"
By Orit Fuchs
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Orit Fuchs lives and works in Tel Aviv, a storyteller with a deep, pure, and unquenchable appetite for artistic self-expression. Her medium spans the gamut - sculptures, pa...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Giclée
Orit Fuchs: Vivid 58 - Giclee print on canvas female figure painting. 16/16"
By Orit Fuchs
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Orit Fuchs lives and works in Tel Aviv, a storyteller with a deep, pure, and unquenchable appetite for artistic self-expression. Her medium spans the gamut - sculptures, pa...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Giclée
1940's Fashion Illustration - Three Elegant Women Walking Through The Park
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas.
The painting, executed in gouache and pencil.
The sketch is original, vintage and me...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Orit Fuchs: Vivid 47 - Giclee print on canvas female figure painting. 29.5/29.5”
By Orit Fuchs
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Orit Fuchs lives and works in Tel Aviv, a storyteller with a deep, pure, and unquenchable appetite for artistic self-expression. Her medium spans the gamut - sculptures, pa...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Giclée
Portrait study
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Orit Fuchs: Vivid 62 - Giclee print on canvas female figure painting. 24/24”
By Orit Fuchs
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Orit Fuchs lives and works in Tel Aviv, a storyteller with a deep, pure, and unquenchable appetite for artistic self-expression. Her medium spans the gamut - sculptures, pa...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Giclée
Orit Fuchs: Vivid 47 - Giclee print on canvas female figure painting. 19.6/19.6"
By Orit Fuchs
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Orit Fuchs lives and works in Tel Aviv, a storyteller with a deep, pure, and unquenchable appetite for artistic self-expression. Her medium spans the gamut - sculptures, pa...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Giclée
Orit Fuchs: Vivid 57 - Giclee print on canvas female figure painting. 24/24”
By Orit Fuchs
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Orit Fuchs lives and works in Tel Aviv, a storyteller with a deep, pure, and unquenchable appetite for artistic self-expression. Her medium spans the gamut - sculptures, pa...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Giclée
Portrait of a Rabbi, Belgian Impressionist Painting
By Dieudonne Jacobs
Located in Surfside, FL
Dieudonne Jacobs ( 1887 - 1967 ), an impressionist painter from Liège spent his life as an artist between the Belgian Ardennes and the French Riviera, especially between Spa and La Garde ( Toulon ).
He enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Liège, and was a part of great contemporaries, Richard Heintz , Ludovic Janssen , Joseph Bonvoisin , Emmanuel Meuris , Albert Raty...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Orit Fuchs: Vivid 57 - Giclee print on canvas female figure painting. 16/16"
By Orit Fuchs
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Orit Fuchs lives and works in Tel Aviv, a storyteller with a deep, pure, and unquenchable appetite for artistic self-expression. Her medium spans the gamut - sculptures, pa...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Giclée
Orit Fuchs: Vivid 58 - Giclee print on canvas female figure painting. 24/24”
By Orit Fuchs
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Orit Fuchs lives and works in Tel Aviv, a storyteller with a deep, pure, and unquenchable appetite for artistic self-expression. Her medium spans the gamut - sculptures, pa...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Giclée
The Eclectic
Located in Sempach, LU
This is my personal vision of life, which could be
the life that everyone has the right to,
the life that Russian aggression deprived me of...
This is my virtual life, because real l...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
The Angel oil on canvas painting surrealist
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Ramón Llovet (1917-1987) - Angel - Oil on canvas
Canvas measures 92x73 cm.
Frame measures 94x75 cm.
Ramon Llovet Miserol (Barcelona, August 7, 1917 - Barcelona, August 2, 1987...
Category
1980s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait Of The 3rd Foot Grenadier Regiment, Napoleon's Imperial Guard
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A Soldier & Officer Of The 3rd Foot Grenadier Regiment, Napoleon's Imperial Guard, circa 1810
Rare French School Napoleonic Wars Era
Large...
Category
Early 19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Untitled
Located in Napoli, IT
Untitled, Scissione , oil Thinner and ink on canvas
Eclectic artist, born in Atri in Abruzzo in 1980, he works in the field of contemporary art with conceptual creations from the ag...
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Oil
El
Located in New York, NY
Oil paint on paper.
Category
2010s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Audrey Hepburn Icon /// Contemporary Fashion Model Actress Pop Art Painting
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "Audrey Hepburn Icon"
Series: Icon
*Signed, dated, and titled by Graves on verso
Year: 2017
Medium: Original Acrylic Painting on Canv...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Acrylic
3-9-22 (Duptych) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
“I paint the human figure and explore further till I reach the Beauty of Being, the Soul.. the part of Human Being where everything is in total Serenity, Goodness and Harmony, where ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman and Table IIIIII_America Martin_Oil Pastel, Ink, Acrylic on Cotton Paper
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Woman and Table IIIIII"
Oil Pastel, Ink, Acrylic on Cotton Paper
50” x 36” Framed
AMERICA MARTIN is an internationally represented Colombian-American fine artist ba...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Ink, Acrylic
4-9-22 (Diptych) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
“I paint the human figure and explore further till I reach the Beauty of Being, the Soul.. the part of Human Being where everything is in total Serenity, Goodness and Harmony, where ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Contemporary French Oil Painting - Portrait of a Figure in Blue, signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, late 20th century/ early 21st century
Title: Abstract portrait of a figure
Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed, signed
Size:
canvas: 29.5 x ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
''Eos'' Contemporary Underwater Portrait Painting, Girl Swimming in Pool
By Amy Devlin
Located in Utrecht, NL
Amy Devlin portrays people, animals, or nature in her works. But what really matters to her is light and water, which she wants to capture in the form of a physical memory. By following her passion for paint, she tries to represent reality and thereby express her feeling in the expressive colors she uses. Her paintings show a fascination with the movement and texture of water, which is depicted in vivid colors in her works. Her hybrid painting style combines realism with impressionism in a very interesting way, providing a different view of the world and our memories of it. Devlin loves the unexpected, looks at things from a crazy angle and imagines. Since 2014 she mainly paints underwater portraits...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Self Portrait #3
Located in Albuquerque, NM
Acrylic on canvas board
Category
2010s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Verde
Located in Napoli, IT
Eclectic artist, born in Atri in Abruzzo in 1980, he works in the field of contemporary art with conceptual creations from the age of 18 years. He currently lives in Puglia.
In his s...
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Verde
Located in Napoli, IT
Eclectic artist, born in Atri in Abruzzo in 1980, he works in the field of contemporary art with conceptual creations from the age of 18 years. He currently lives in Puglia.
In his s...
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Portrait of the artist's mother
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Elisabeth DUJARRIC de LA RIVIÈRE
(Jouy-en-Josas 1930 – Excideuil 2005)
Portrait of the artist's mother
Oil on canvas
H. 171 cm; L. 70 cm
Signed on the back
Provenance: Private collection, Périgord
Born in the heart of the Bièvre valley, a few kilometers from Versailles...
Category
1950s Cubist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Responsibility
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy.
Signed on the front side and accompanied by a Certificate of Auth...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Age of Innocence - original round painting by Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Age of Innocence", original unique painting
A feminine, innocent presence, portrait of a girl with a Venetian mask.
acrylic on canvas
20in / 50cm, round
Shipped directly from the artist from Forest Hills, NY. Registered airmail, well packed.
Don't hesitate to contact me for any info.
Artist Statement
"I started by painting interiors, being interested in space and perspective through my studies. These scenes evolved, when I added the human figure. I focused more on the human figure and its relation to the background. The human figure is more present than ever in my paintings now.
As a woman artist I’ve been preoccupied with the female form and its imagery. One of my goals was to capture the solitary moments and the nude’s relation to the surrounding space.
My interest turned from depicting the space to rendering the atmosphere and the scene as a whole, the feeling a woman adds to the environment: warmth, desire, joy, a feeling of power and control, or the opposite – sadness, despair.
Here is a collection of figurative paintings, exploring the nudes in interior spaces, seeing the nudes from my perspective, as a woman artist, considering the physical and spiritual realities of a woman’s body, in a new level of intimacy. My paintings are the opposite of objectifying a woman’s or a man’s anatomy. Painted works, featuring female nudes and a also men nudes, in a reversal of the male-artist/female-muse pattern, validate the feminine experience, defining myself through it.
I was interested in how one experiences the body in a sensual form, and later focused on my own body, as I experience it myself, looking into the mirror and reconnecting.
My work challenges the tradition of the nude by capturing my point of view, the gaze of a female painter, by using photography, drawings, sketches, and painting on canvas, for, both physical and psychological exploration.
My art tries to create a visual language for emotion, beauty, feelings of intimacy and in the same time autonomy, captured with paint and vivid colors. My intense interest in colour and the gestures of the brush strokes are the means I see and convey the subjects in space, as living, passionate beings."
Paula Craioveanu
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Chassidic Rabbi, Judaica Expressionist Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
In this painting, Nussbaum depicts a Rabbi as his subject; a recurrent figure in his body of work. The artist uses gestural marks and vibrant blue colors in this composition.
Nussba...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Omidan 6
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The rhythmic beads on her waist miming to the soft music of the two bilabial mountains flouncing in majesty on her back. I see her and I trance. The curvaceous smile on her face quie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Old Friends
Located in Dallas, TX
Old Friends
2022
Acrylic, Color pencil, on Washi (Japanese handmade paper) over wood panel.
Brooklyn-based Japanese artist Masaya Nakayama creates work by wrapping wooden panels with Washi (Japanese handmade paper) followed by “drawing” with a special painter's tape. After covering the panels with a mix of acrylic, colored pencil, and gold leaf, Nakayama pulls up the tape to reveal his motif.
The artist’s current body of work details his life in the USA as an immigrant on the path to citizenship. He centers on iconic images with themes representing what the artist equates with American culture through the lens of an artist of color...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel, Handmade Paper, Color Pencil
Alexander the Great Icon V /// Contemporary Pop Art Portrait Historical Figure
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "Alexander the Great Icon V"
Series: Icon
*Signed by Graves lower left. It is also signed, titled,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Paint
Nude Posing on the Sofa
Located in London, GB
'Nude Posing on the Sofa', oil on canvas, by Louis Latapie (circa 1940s). From a long line of renowned paintings whose subject is reclining nudes, this ext...
Category
1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Remix’D-6 (Peach Tea)" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Grant Gilsdorf's "Remix’D-6 (Peach Tea)" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a Black female model eclipsed by flora iconography.
About the Artist:
Grant Gilsdorf is ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
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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