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French Contemporary Art by Caroline de Piedoue - 3 Girls on a Street
Located in Paris, IDF
Caroline de Piedoue is a French artist born in 1954 who lives & works in Berchères-sur-Vesgre, Eure-et-Loire, France. Her theme of her paintings is largely urban but also beach scene...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Salutary Outburst", Neue Constructivist Geometric Abstract Acrylic Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This artwork makes a great diptych with "Floating Comma" (see pictures). This item is not framed. Antony Squizzato is a talented French artist who likes to experiment with differen...
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2010s Constructivist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Chinese Contemporary Art by Judy C. Zheng - Bathroom
Located in Paris, IDF
Xi Guan Style Judy C. Zheng ( Xiajuan Zheng ) was born in Guangdong of China. She is Canadian professional painter. She is representative of the Canadian International Artists...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Blonde in Red Swim Suit
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charles Levier, French (1920 - 2003) Title: Blonde I Year: circa 1960 Medium: Watercolor on paper, signed l.l. Size: 16 x 11 inches Paper Size: 25 x 19.5 in. (63.5 x 49.53 cm)
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1970s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

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Watercolor

Jennifer Hornyak Portrait of a Woman in Orange C.1980s
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jennifer Hornyak Portrait of a Woman in Orange C.1980s Original oil on canvas Canvas dimensions 18" wide x 14" high The frame measures 21.5" wide x 18.5" high Signed by the artis...
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Late 20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

The inseparable I -Timothy Archer, 21st Century, Contemporary painting
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint and pastel on paper Hand-signed and dated lower right by the artist
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil

Mid 20th Century French Fauvist Painting - Amazing Colors - pupil of Andre Lhote
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Abstract Figure' Suzanne Vattier, French 1901-1996 signed and dated on back 1971 gouache painting on artist paper, framed size: 13 x 19.5 inches Fabulous 1970s abstract goauche pai...
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Mid-20th Century Fauvist Portrait Paintings

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Gouache

THE RAT PACK AT THE SANDS HOTEL
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed by the artist on verso. Hand Painted Unique Silkscreen on Canvas. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable offers will ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Seated Girl on Chair
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1918 Medium: Oil on Canvas Board Dimensions: 27.00" x 20.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right American Art Works Calendar Image
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1910s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"In One Ear, Out the Other, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
MJ Lindo's "In One Ear, Out the Other" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a woman running her long blue acrylic fingernails through her short ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Wood Panel, Oil

Susannah and Her Pistol I
Located in Denver, CO
This is an unframed painting from her "Mountain Drag II" series. June Glasson is an artist, illustrator, and designer. She live in Laramie, WY. Her paintings have been exhibited at t...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Buffalolady
Located in Denver, CO
This is an unframed painting from her "Mountain Drag II" series. June Glasson is an artist, illustrator, and designer. She live in Laramie, WY. Her paintings have been exhibited at t...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Wood Panel, Oil

"Aqua Study, Awe" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Rob Rey's (US based) "Aqua Study, Awe" is an oil painting that depicts a woman's face partially submerged in the Turquoise background. Rob strives to paint n...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Girl in Plaits , Acrylic on Canvas, Yellow Green, Red, Blue colours "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Shipra Bhattacharya Untitled - 18 x 18 inches (unframed size) Acrylic on canvas Style : Shipra, is a leading contemporary mid career artist of India. Shipra Bhattacharya’s work has ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

"Aqua Study, Wonder" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Rob Rey's (US based) "Aqua Study, Wonder" is an oil painting that depicts a woman's face partially submerged in the Turquoise background. Rob strives to pain...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Hunny, Painting, Pop Art, Street Art
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5 Winnie-the-Pooh is sticking a poster to the wall with Honey JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar figures and symb...
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2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

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Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment

Re Vision, Acrylic on Canvas by Contemporary Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Birendra Pani - Re Vision - 66 x 42 inches (unframed size) Acrylic on Canvas , 2010 ** Will be delivered in rolled form. Should you want the work in ready to hand condition please contact gallery for freight calculation. In this series of works - “Boy - Dancer”, Gallery Kolkata revisits the artists very popular and well lauded ‘Boy Dancer’ suite of paintings on the plight of traditional Gopitua dancers from his native land, Odisha. The boy dancers who perform a devotional dance ritual are quickly declining in today’s cosmopolitan world. Pani entwines his empathy for the dying art with an opinion on our post-Modern era. In that respect, Pani does not try to create nostalgia for the decline in the taste for the dancers, instead he problematizes the issue by bringing in a dispassionate view of the issue. The ten canvases on display in this exhibition, features the Gopitua dancers in different situations. The canvases are a hyper-real portrait, far & close shots of a Gopitua dancers with liquid innocent eyes and a small smile playing upon his lips as he confronts the viewer. The blade is a recurring motif in Pani’s work and it has multiple functions and meanings. In this instance its meaning is rather clear — one where modernity eclipses tradition. Style : His fresh, perspective and contemporary canvases have loud and vivid images and use colors like green and shocking pink unashamedly. Pani says his works are preoccupied with exploring contemporary materials, culture and current lives of people, the negligence of local places, their culture, history, memory and their identity in present times. Further he feels the consumerist attitude has penetrated deep into the human psyche. Human beings are being consumed by the commodity rather than them consuming it. In his works, Pani explore the struggles, contradictions, dichotomies and critical reflections of the embodied selves with changes in value, knowledge and culture in our present society. “I have extensively used body parts like brain, heart and other organs, and everyday objects like capsule, syringe, blade etc to create a new visual language. Deriving from life experiences, my idea is to create a new vision by the juxtaposition of the above experience with the rich legacy, diverse visual culture and sensibility of the vast tradition of Odisha’s miniatures and Pata paintings, stone carvings, monumental visuals of temples and dance forms like Gopitua dance and Chhau-dance in Odisha.” Pani, thus attempts to create a new phenomenology and the reinvention of ‘self’ in a globalized and yet very localized world. About the Artist and his work : BORN : 1969, Bhadrak, Odisha, India. FINE ARTS EDUCATION : 1997-1999 MFA – (First class with Distinction) Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda. 1991-1997 BFA - Kala Bhavan, Viswa Bharati University, Shantiniketan, West Bengal. 1987-1990 2nd world “Studio for Fine Arts”, Bhadrak, Odisha. SOLO EXHIBITION IN INDIA AND ABROAD : 2017 Towards a new Viewership / Audience & Reproduction Aesthetics, Curated by Dr. Rajashree Biswal, organized by New Bridge India and North Odisha University, Baripada, Odisha. 2016 “Mahanadi”- A Journey through History, Memory and Culture curated by Maurice O Riordan of Australia at Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi. 2015 Re-Vision / Relationship- a visual literary engagement of Birendra Pani and poet Jayanta Mahapatra, curated by Dr. Rajashree Biswal, and organized by New Bridge India, Forum on Contemporary Theory, Vadodara, Sarat Chandra Library, Baripada and Revenshaw University, Cuttack, Odisha at Revenshaw University, Cuttack. 2012 “Soft- Subversion” at Red Earth Art Gallery, Baroda. 2011 “Re – Vision” at Aakriti Art Gallery, Kolkata. 2010 “Re – Vision” at Gallery Sumukha, Bengalore. 2009 “Re – Vision” at Gallery Espace New Delhi and R.L.Fine arts, New York. 2007 “Boy Dancer’’-The convergence and continuum, at Gallery Espace, New Delhi. 2007 “Boy Dancer’’-The convergence and continuum, at Faculty Gallery, M.S.U., Vadodara. 2006 “Risk’’-The Double Edge of Society, at Gallery Espace, New Delhi. 2005 “Echo” at Kaleidoscope Art...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Susannah and Her Pistol II
Located in Denver, CO
This is an unframed painting from her "Mountain Drag II" series. June Glasson is an artist, illustrator, and designer. She live in Laramie, WY. Her paintings have been exhibited at t...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Wood Panel, Oil

Transcendence
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Benjamin is a British artist and designer, a true genius who works in an absolutely unique technique, whose works are held in numerous public and private collections, including the M...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Boy Dancer with Mahanadi, Acrylic on Canvas by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Birendra Pani - Boy Dancer with Mahanadi - 66 x 42 inches (unframed size) Acrylic on Canvas , 2009 ** Will be delivered in rolled form. Should you want the work in ready to hand condition please contact gallery for freight calculation. In this series of works - “Boy - Dancer”, Gallery Kolkata revisits the artists very popular and well lauded ‘Boy Dancer’ suite of paintings on the plight of traditional Gopitua dancers from his native land, Odisha. The boy dancers who perform a devotional dance ritual are quickly declining in today’s cosmopolitan world. Pani entwines his empathy for the dying art with an opinion on our post-Modern era. In that respect, Pani does not try to create nostalgia for the decline in the taste for the dancers, instead he problematizes the issue by bringing in a dispassionate view of the issue. The ten canvases on display in this exhibition, features the Gopitua dancers in different situations. The canvases are a hyper-real portrait, far & close shots of a Gopitua dancers with liquid innocent eyes and a small smile playing upon his lips as he confronts the viewer. The blade is a recurring motif in Pani’s work and it has multiple functions and meanings. In this instance its meaning is rather clear — one where modernity eclipses tradition. Style : His fresh, perspective and contemporary canvases have loud and vivid images and use colors like green and shocking pink unashamedly. Pani says his works are preoccupied with exploring contemporary materials, culture and current lives of people, the negligence of local places, their culture, history, memory and their identity in present times. Further he feels the consumerist attitude has penetrated deep into the human psyche. Human beings are being consumed by the commodity rather than them consuming it. In his works, Pani explore the struggles, contradictions, dichotomies and critical reflections of the embodied selves with changes in value, knowledge and culture in our present society. “I have extensively used body parts like brain, heart and other organs, and everyday objects like capsule, syringe, blade etc to create a new visual language. Deriving from life experiences, my idea is to create a new vision by the juxtaposition of the above experience with the rich legacy, diverse visual culture and sensibility of the vast tradition of Odisha’s miniatures and Pata paintings, stone carvings, monumental visuals of temples and dance forms like Gopitua dance and Chhau-dance in Odisha.” Pani, thus attempts to create a new phenomenology and the reinvention of ‘self’ in a globalized and yet very localized world. About the Artist and his work : BORN : 1969, Bhadrak, Odisha, India. FINE ARTS EDUCATION : 1997-1999 MFA – (First class with Distinction) Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda. 1991-1997 BFA - Kala Bhavan, Viswa Bharati University, Shantiniketan, West Bengal. 1987-1990 2nd world “Studio for Fine Arts”, Bhadrak, Odisha. SOLO EXHIBITION IN INDIA AND ABROAD : 2017 Towards a new Viewership / Audience & Reproduction Aesthetics, Curated by Dr. Rajashree Biswal, organized by New Bridge India and North Odisha University, Baripada, Odisha. 2016 “Mahanadi”- A Journey through History, Memory and Culture curated by Maurice O Riordan of Australia at Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi. 2015 Re-Vision / Relationship- a visual literary engagement of Birendra Pani and poet Jayanta Mahapatra, curated by Dr. Rajashree Biswal, and organized by New Bridge India, Forum on Contemporary Theory, Vadodara, Sarat Chandra Library, Baripada and Revenshaw University, Cuttack, Odisha at Revenshaw University, Cuttack. 2012 “Soft- Subversion” at Red Earth Art Gallery, Baroda. 2011 “Re – Vision” at Aakriti Art Gallery, Kolkata. 2010 “Re – Vision” at Gallery Sumukha, Bengalore. 2009 “Re – Vision” at Gallery Espace New Delhi and R.L.Fine arts, New York. 2007 “Boy Dancer’’-The convergence and continuum, at Gallery Espace, New Delhi. 2007 “Boy Dancer’’-The convergence and continuum, at Faculty Gallery, M.S.U., Vadodara. 2006 “Risk’’-The Double Edge of Society, at Gallery Espace, New Delhi. 2005 “Echo” at Kaleidoscope Art...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

‘Young Woman With Hat’ Figurative Female Model Contemporary By Shana
Located in Carmel, CA
Shana’s portraits adorned two covers of Time Magazine. Shana’s work is about the face and eyes. Young face, old face, black or white. Her subjects are confused, lonely, ragged and ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Sisters
Located in New York, NY
Innocence of childhood. Portrait. About the Artist: My art is a visual recording of the powerful imagines that occur regularly in life, distilling them down and preserving the ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Doorway, Abstract Art, Contemporary Figurative Art, Blue Art, Turquoise Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Dan McDermott's painting 'Doorway' is an original oil painting on linen. This artwork is sold unframed - but ready to hang. - measuring at Size : H 90 cm x W 120 cm x D 3 cm. Dan Mc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Linen, Organic Material, Oil

"K in Turquoise" Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Valentin Fischer's (DE based) "K in Turquoise" is an oil painting that depicts a blonde woman looking down while cast in a blue glow that melts into t...
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2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

"L in Ultramarine" Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Valentin Fischer's (DE based) "L in Ultramarine" is an oil painting that depicts a dark haired woman looking outwards while cast in a blue glow that m...
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2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

"Breathe" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Bernard Lee's (US based) "Breathe" is an oil painting that depicts a figure clutching their chest as soft white feathers fall all around the blue backgroun...
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2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Blonde, Watercolor Painting by Charles Levier
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charles Levier, French (1920 - 2003) Title: Blonde Year: circa 1970 Medium: Watercolor on paper, signed l.l. Size: 16 x 11 inches Paper Size: 25 x 19.5 in. (63.5 x 49.53 cm)
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1970s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

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Watercolor

See the sea #1 Caroline Veith, 21st Century art Contemporary figurative painting
Located in Paris, FR
Vinyl paint on tracing paper and cut paper Signed and dated lower left Unique work
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Paper, Vinyl

LEAPHOG
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed on front by the artist. Canvas is stretched. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offe...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Exercises - Expressionism Painting, Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Born in 1966 in Wroclaw. Works mainly in oil and acrylic painting. He studied at Wroclaw Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of Professor Konrad Jarodzki and Andrzej Klimczak Dobrzani...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Blanket
Located in Denver, CO
Figure wrapped in red and blue blanket
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2010s Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Beautiful Boy Portrait
Located in Soquel, CA
Stunning acrylic and pencil figurative of a beautiful young man by California artist Erika Whiteway (American, b. 1954). Signed and dated lower right "Whiteway, 2/90". Unframed. Size...
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1990s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Color Pencil, Acrylic, Canvas, Board

Dance with me - Joanna Flatau, 21st Century, Contemporary Expressionist painting
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Signed Unique work Joanna Flatau was born in Varsaw, Poland. She graduated from Varsaw History of Arts University and from the Fine Arts Varsaw Academy in ...
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2010s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

ELIZABETH TAYLOR - CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed by the artist on verso. Hand Painted Unique Silkscreen on Canvas. Artwork is in excellent condition. Canvas is not stretched. Certificate of authenticity included. All ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

See the sea #2 Caroline Veith 21st Century art Contemporary figurative painting
Located in Paris, FR
Vinyl paint on tracing paper and cut paper Signed and dated by the artist Unique work
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Paper, Vinyl

See the sea #3 Caroline Veith, 21st Century art Contemporary figurative painting
Located in Paris, FR
Vinyl paint on tracing paper and cut paper Signed and dated lower right Unique work
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Paper, Vinyl

Marilyn Monroe - Baubles, Bangles & Beads
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Marilyn Monroe - Baubles, Bangles & Beads Signed Lower Left.
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20th Century Other Art Style Portrait Paintings

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Panel, Acrylic

I Just Call - Figurative Acrylic Painting White Black Blue Grey
Located in Sofia, BG
"I Just Call" is a painting by Maestro Stanislav Belovski. About the painting: Style and Technic: POP ART, Contemporary, Acrylic on canvas The painting is unframed. “The impressio...
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2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Handsome Men at Race Track , Horse Racing
Located in Miami, FL
Done most likely for Look Magazine, Sports Illustrated and Playboy or perhaps an advertising agency. Work is framed in a simple metal frame
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1970s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic

ORANGE DIVER
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting. Hand signed, dated, and titled on verso by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be con...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

The look of hope
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Born in Lille in 1984, Thomas Mainardi lives between Paris and his hometown. A painter with a colorful and pop universe, he exhibits all over the world: New York, Shanghai, Dublin, Tel Aviv ... Combining the best of popular culture with a sensitive skin, his art is borrowed from abstract expressionism, street art and pop art, making him a resolutely urban artist and in tune with his time. He paints his vision of modern man, which is for him an inexhaustible source of inspiration, through his paradoxes, his incredible strength, his choices, his doubts and his faults. Thomas Mainardi paints the human in his most beautiful, ruthless and mysterious. The look...
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2010s Portrait Paintings

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Mixed Media

Cover of Etude Magazine
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Man sitting on a chair playing the accordion. Signed Lower Left on Reverse.
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1920s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Looking on Lightyears
Located in Denver, CO
Figure sitting in ethereal light
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2010s Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of Football coach Paul Bear Bryant
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor on Paper Under Glass Signature: Signed Lower Right Dimensions: Approximately 12.00" x 16.00" Portrait of Football Coach Paul Bear Bryant
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1980s Portrait Paintings

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Watercolor, Paper

The War of Independence
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"The War of Independence" is an original oil painting on canvas by Katherine Fraser in a handmade wood frame measuring fifty-nine inches in height ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Child With Owl, blue wire and oil on canvas with white frame - sculpural art
Located in Dallas, TX
Born in Hereford, England, Fiona Morley’s artwork is a combination of illustration and sculptural relief that is achieved with wire, as the line can be taken off the page and into sp...
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2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Wire

Marilyn In Terry Cloth Robe Norma Jean
By George Torjussen
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Marilyn In Terry Cloth Robe, Norma Jean large paintig. Acrylic on artist shaped D2 canvas and wood panel. George Torjussen was born in Brooklyn, NYC in 1932...
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2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Classic Blue. Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Using his unique approach of layering diverse techniques Berlin creates the opportunity of "seeing into portraits". He offers a "portal into the creation of [an] enigma". The stunnin...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Shadow of a Man in Paris with Paper and Briefcase
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
This contemporary figurative painting was inspired by my aerial view of the pedestrians below from my hotel balcony in Paris. My signature Pixel Impressionist...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Future Worship - Contemporary, Blue, Internet, Woman, Redhead, Female
Located in Berlin, DE
Future Worship, 2012 Oil on canvas (Signed on reverse) 86.61 H x 47.24 W in 220 H x 120 W cm "Worship" represents the worshiped objects of the consumerist society – oil, money and I...
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2010s Photorealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Man Riding Skateboard on Santa Monica Boardwalk
Located in San Francisco, CA
Man Riding Skateboard on Santa Monica Boardwalk Warren Keating Oil painting on stretched canvas One-of-a-kind Signed on front back 2015 48 in. h x 36 in. w x 1.5 in. d 15 lbs. 0 oz....
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Gambler's Girl
Located in Fort Washington, PA
This illustration was published as the paperback cover for Gambler's Girl by Kermit Welles, Original Novels 704, 1951.
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1950s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Colossal Hand - Colossal Head - Colossal Foot (Triptych) -21st Century, Blue
Located in Berlin, DE
Colossal Hand - Colossal Head - Colossal Foot (Triptych), 2003 Acrylic on canvas (Signed on front) 78 7/10 H × 236 1/5 W in (78 7/10 H × 78 7/10 W in eac...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Maja" A Contemporary Reclining Nude Maja, Acrylic on Canvas by José Palacios
Located in Madrid, ES
JOSÉ PALACIOS Spanish, 1970 - MAJA signed "JAPALACIOS" (lower right) signed again "JAPALACIOS" and inscribed "MAJA" (on the reverse) acrylic, spray, wax and graphite on canvas 65-1/4 X 47-1/2 inches (165 X 120 cm.) unframed. Palacios's admiration for Goya and his Nude Maja, or Matisse's odalisque made him create this work that was an interesting play of color and alteration of the human figure. José Palacios was born in 1970. Influenced by the Spanish artists of the 80s belonging to the Madrid Movement, he began his artistic career linking the world of Painting and Illustration. Years later, Palacios developed a figurative style combining neo-cubism and pop art. His current work is based on a combination of abstraction with pop art winks made with a palette of refreshing and bold colors. His works are present in different private collections in Europe, United States and Asia José Palacios work has been exhibited at Wanrooij Art Gallery (Amsterdam, Holland), Bridge Gallery (Beijing, China), Art Angler Gallery / New York, USA), Plastique Art Gallery (Madrid), Actual Arte Contemporáneo & Galería Luis Carvajal...
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2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Treachery in Trieste, Paperback Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1954 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 24.75" x 15.5" Signature: Signed Lower Left This illustration was published as the paperback cover of Treachery in Trieste by Charl...
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1950s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"In The Deep End" Mixed Media Figurative Collage Composition on Panel Board
Located in New York, NY
This piece depicts a colorful collage composition portrait of a Pin-up model from the 1950s, as Jon Davenport explores the process of deconstructing iconic imagery from the past and present. Davenport start’s out with photos of his paint-stained studio floor and collages in articles/advertising from an array of vintage magazines collected over the years; plus any other interesting stuff captured on his travels. He then transfers the images to a panel board, layering them on with gel medium, together with strokes, splashes, drips, and splats of paint. Once it's dry, another layer of gel medium is poured on to give it a melting effect. After it drys off again, another layer of paint is added to embellish a few areas and to accentuate or fade out certain aspects. And then, he finally adds a coat of polyurethane for protection and making the colors pop. This unique work is executed on a wood panel board and comes ready to be displayed with hanging wire on verso, signed by the artist lower right. Art measures 36 x 36 inches From biology student to owning and running a creative agency in London to a career as a fine artist, life has taken Jon Davenport on a rewarding and unconventional journey. Despite his scientific beginnings, he’s always had a strong artistic streak weaving its way through his different career paths. Growing up in Ipswich, UK, Jon was always an avid drawer, and could often be found with a pencil and paper in hand. With the arrival of his first computer, he embraced the new frontier of digital art and had work published in one of those early computer magazines. His creative urges took a backseat to get a biology degree at Brunel University in London. It was afterward, in his first job working at the Archant newspaper group in Ipswich, that he quickly progressed from plate maker to becoming an integral member of the art studio. It was during this time that he taught himself photoshop, desktop publishing, and graphic & web design. After a few years, he set up a design agency, and eventually went full time and moved to London. This proved to be a successful move, working for a number of clients such as Nike and Virgin, and gaining praise from the likes of Richard Branson and Tony Blair. It wasn’t until Jon moved to the USA to marry his wife, Atlanta artist Christy Kinard...
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2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

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Mixed Media, Wood Panel, Polyurethane

"Shades" oil portrait of short haired woman with sunglasses on orange background
Located in Edgartown, MA
Joseph Lorusso was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1966 and received his formal training at the American Academy of Art. He went on to receive his B.F.A. degree from the Kansas City Ar...
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2010s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

This Week Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right This Week Herald Tribune, February 5, 1939 EXHIBITED: The Dana Room, Steinman College center, Franklin and Marshall College, ...
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1930s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

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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