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Portrait Paintings For Sale
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"Bats the Matter" Large 36x24" Acrylic and spray paint on canvas 2022
By Chris RWK
Located in Southampton, NY
We are please to present the larger works on canvas of Chris RWK. While his street art painted on buildings around New York City and Brooklyn are very large, most of his fine art pa...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Spray Paint, 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
B. Simon - Signed & Framed 1999 Acrylic, Sweat Lodge
Located in Corsham, GB
Native American woman sits around a small hut as spirits fog a deep blue sky during a purification ceremony, also known as a sweat. The sweat is intended as a religious ceremony, with its purpose being for prayer and healing.
Every aspect of a sweat lodge...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Self Portrait w/ Red Drawing 1" Teal & Red Abstract Contemporary Self-Portrait
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful abstract contemporary painting by Houston, TX artist Saralene Tapley. This painting features the artist, Saralene, with face paint and a green...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Silk, Canvas, Pigment
Tim in Blue
By Cal Lane
Located in Montreal, Quebec
With a practice rooted in materials and found objects, Cal Lane (b. 1968 in Halifax, NS) toys with gender roles and social expectations.
Soft mattresses coated with layers of paint, protecting from found particles left from those who slept there before, where others now have their sleeping portraits...
Category
2010s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Wood, Acrylic
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
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
Miss Jessica
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The underlying body of work is an exploration of texturizing distortion as a language of expression. The works explore an awaking of an Afrocentric consciousness connected to gender,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Afro Blue (2020), pop surreal figurative portrait, street art, muralist, pattern
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Afro Blue" (2020), by Brittany Williams, based in the Finger Lakes region of NY state
Figurative portrait painting, pop surreal portraiture, street art, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Acrylic
Young Marilyn at the Beach tug of war, Large 68x88 Oil and Acrylic on canvas
By Ceravolo
Located in Southampton, NY
This large almost 8 feet wide oil and acrylic on canvas painting brings the feel of the ocean right into your home. The blues and aqua of the background of the painting along with th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Blue is Cool, Negro Are Cool
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The underlying body of work is an exploration of texturizing distortion as a language of expression. The works explore an awaking of an Afrocentric consciousness connected to gender,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Remix’D-4 (Blue Slushie)" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Grant Gilsdorf's "Remix’D-4 (Blue Slushie)" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a female model eclipsed by other figural forms.
About the Artist:
Grant Gilsdorf is a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Portrait of Woman with Irises
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of Woman with Irises', oil on cardstock paper (1976), by Raymond Debiève. Here the artist paints a young woman holding a bunch of enchanting iris flowers in his post-cubist...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Eye of the Sparrow
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
Charcoal, Canvas, Acrylic
The Gaze
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authent...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Solemn Promise
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
This work is meant to cherish and embrace love and give love to those who definitely deserve love from every individual. The inspiration from this work is from personal experience at...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mermaid by José Gerson - Ink on paper 46x64 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper to frame
Category
1980s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink
Growing Up - Contemporary art, Portrait, Figurative
Located in Coquitlam, BC
Artist: Liang Li
Born in 1985 Henan China, and currently living in Beijing
In 2003, he joined the Basic Department of CAFA Modeling
In 2004, he joined the Second Studio of Oil Painti...
Category
2010s 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
'Meme Money 000: Goochi Sponge, ' by XVALA, Mixed Media Painting
By XVALA
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
In this mixed media 24"x24" painting by XVALA, 'Meme Money 000: Goochi Sponge,' the artist colorfully plays with the 'Gucci' brand in tandem with the childhood cartoon series, SpongeBob. SpongeBob as a Goochi sponge takes center stage with orange glasses glasses in a palette of purple, green, and red on a fuschia pink background.
XVALA's art illuminates the hidden fallout spawned from our high tech Internet age. His Fear Google campaign exposed the decay of privacy and No Delete used hacked nude celebrity photos to highlight loss of control over personal information. The artist has worked with trash from the homes of Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and others, as well as dirt from the graves of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. The dirt appears in the New World Order collection as part of a pyramidal, 3D printed, living ant farm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Screen
Steve McQueen - Portrait Painting Beige Yellow Green Orange White Black Pink
Located in Sofia, BG
"Steve McQueen" is a painting by Maestro Vlado Vesselinov.
About the painting:
Style and Technic: POP ART, Contemporary, Acrylic paint, oil on canvas
The painting is unframed.
The...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Good Old Days
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Childhood is a golden part of our life that we can never go back to. Days are filled with good and exciting moment, that helps us to shape our future.
The days spent with our family...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Angel of Ephemeral Immortality
Located in New York, NY
Ieri Pnoi
Angel of Ephemeral Immortality, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 60 cm
The artwork is currently on view as part of Prosperity Prophecy at the Mykonos Municipal Gallery in Gree...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled (Pinks XV) - Figurative Portrait Woman Pop Art Painting
By Hilary Bond
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In bold, acrylic line paintings, US artist Hilary Bond depicts the heads and torsos of women, often repeating the image in overlapping compositions. Her contemporary groups of pop c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Looking Beyond 3
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
No matter what life throws at you to discourage or change your good personality, or change the reflections people see on your Face or identity, one should try to look beyond and ahea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Allergies No.22, Contemporary Art, Abstract Expressionist, Portrait
Located in Coquitlam, BC
Artist: Zhixiang Wang
2017 M.F.A- University of Academia Albertina Belle Arti di Torino in Italy.
'Allergies' is a series of artworks that the artist...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Soulmate
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Can two walk together, except they are agreed?
"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life... to strengthen each other, to be at one w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Couple With Cargo Ships, Florence, Italy, 2020
Located in Hudson, NY
ABOUT
Born in 1967, Piussi was raised in Florence where he studied at the Istituto d’arte, majoring in sculpture and painting and completing his artistic education at Milano’s Brera Art Academy. He lives in Florence, pursuing painting, bas-reliefs in terracotta and in bronze, and bronze sculpture.
Piussi presents an ideal, almost childlike world which can be found below everyday events, a step outside the flow of time, yet still a part of contemporary life, with a nod to Alex Katz and David Hockney. The drama, or lack thereof, is played out in simplified, almost abstract spaces. Pure in intent, Piussi’s oeuvre are inspired by the Early Renaissance.
Snapshot images of a world reduced to its essence, the apparently comic-book style has echoes of Giotto, Paolo Uccello, of medieval illuminations. Rather than mimicking the appearance of nature, Piussi reaches for its essence, without distracting details. Women stand on the shore of quintessentially peaceful seas, self-contained, at ease, unwitting replicas of classical goddesses - a proud diver echoes Neptune holding a trident.
“Queen Kong...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Awokose (The Role Model)
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.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
French Contemporary Art by Karine Bartoli - Massilia
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Karine Bartoli was born in 1971 in Ajaccio. She enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Marseille where she graduated in 1997. Since then she has ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Terry Shelbourne (1930-2020) - Contemporary Oil, Portrait in Blue
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. On board.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pop Art Style Portrait of Madonna
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original oil on panel portrait of Madonna by Southern California artist, Gina Palmerin. Its dimensions are 24x24. It is unframed. A certificate of authenticit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Disobey, Painting, Pop Art, Street Art
By Jay-C
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5
Dagobert Duck is selling magazines
JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar figures and ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Boy With Golden Hair
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The underlying body of work is an exploration of texturizing distortion as a language of expression. The works explore an awaking of an Afrocentric consciousness connected to gender,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Neoclassical Mythological Portrait of Pluto, "Revelation"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original oil and acrylic on wood panel neoclassical painting depicting Pluto, Greek mythological ruler of the underworld, by Southern California artist, Gina Palmerin. Its dimensions are 30x30. It is unframed. A certificate of authenticity will follow its delivery.
The collection of paintings in Palmerin’s “Legends” is inspired by classical art paintings...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Panel
Cute with the e
Located in New York, NY
Cute with the e
2022
oil pastel, pen, acrylic, and watercolor on paper
6.5 x 4.5 inches
Christina Nicola’s paintings are a direct reflection of herself — a liberated, queer, Black femme. With the erotic and intimacy front and center on her canvases, whether they’re miniature or large, Christina’s work offers a lens into this moment in her life — a moment intentionally focused on reclamation & personal exploration.
In addition to honing in on her practice, she has also carved out spaces for Black and brown femme and non-binary artists to showcase their work with a series of exhibitions, the most recent being Sapphic Summer at Brian Leo Projects. Looking forward, the self-proclaimed “AfroRomantic Lyrical Abstractionist ” plans to publish a memoir in conversation with her paintings, debut her first solo museum exhibition, and continue to co-create curative spaces for artists of color...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Watercolor, Acrylic, Oil
Jimi Hendrix original painting Fillmore East 1968 concept acrylic on acetate
By David Byrd
Located in Southampton, NY
For Rock and Roll art collectors this is one incredible rare work of art. It is an original painting created by David Byrd based on David's original 1968 first drawing for Hendrix's first 1968 appearance at The Fillmore East. It is featured numerous times in the new coffee table book on David Byrd's art titled "Poster Child"
This original painting on acetate of Jimi was painted in 2006. It was based on David's 1968 original drawing of the very 1st version for Jimi's first Fillmore East appearance. When Bill Graham asked David if he can "add the other two guys" to the image, David created the now famous orange poster with all 3 members of the Experience and this first version of the poster was never created until 2006 when we asked David if he could create an original painting based on the very first drawing that he did for the concert. This original painting was exhibited at the Bethel Woods Museum which is on the site of the original 1969 Woodstock Music Festival.
This original art was painted in the same exact way that David painted his other painting for the famous Hendrix poster...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
1940's French Fashion Illustration - Elegant Three Women Face Portraits
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, double sided
The sketch is original, v...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
In Love
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord."
Love? Love? Love is not safe, my lady silk, love is dangerous. It is dec...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Greta Thunberg “Greta” Blue, Yellow, and Black Abstract Contemporary Portrait
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract contemporary painting of Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg by Austin, Texas artist Ed Booth. Large blue, yellow, and black vectorized por...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
Expressionist Portrait Oil Painting on Paper "An Uncertain Future"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
Unique oil painting on hand made paper, framed and ready to hang. Size of 100 x 70 cm is that of the artwork itself, excluding the frame size.
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
The Other Side 6
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
I don't know why I keep believing
That one day they'll bring us together
When they've shown, in more ways than one
That all they care about is the money
You belong to the one politic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
California Sun - Original Sally K Figurative Artwork
By Sally K
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gazing at Lebanese American artist Sally K's floral portrait is consuming and empowering. Inspired by strong, feminine women, she creates pop-realistic paintings that speak to the en...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board, Mixed Media, Canvas
"Over and Under" Soft Blue Toned Portrait of a Lady Wearing a Victorian Dress
Located in Houston, TX
Sky blue-toned abstract portrait of a Victorian woman attributed to American Modernist artist, John O'Neil. This painting depicts a pale white woman with rosy cheeks wearing a sky blue Victorian garment, sitting against an abstract light blue background. The canvas used for this piece was originally painted with an abstracted landscape and was painted over for this work. This piece has not been authenticated. Signed, dated, and titled at the back. Currently unframed, but options are available.
Artist Biography: John O'Neil (1915-2004) was a painter, educator, and writer best known for his Abstract Imagery and Early Modern (before 1950) styles.
O'Neil was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1915. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Oklahoma in 1936 and his Master of Fine Arts in painting from the University of Oklahoma in 1939. He studied at the Colorado Springs Arts Center, with Boardman Robinson, Paul Burlin, and Henry Varnum Poor; Taos School...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Abraham
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Abraham
Series: Abraham Lincoln
Date: 2022
Medium: Oil on wood
Unframed Dimensions: 20" x 16"
Dramed Dimensions: 25" x 21"
Signature: Signed
Editi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
I’m Different 3
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
“In Africa, Yoruba land to be precise where I grew up the nourishing attitude of Omoluwabi, our facial looks is been used to define us as a person, a guy with ear piercing and dreadlocks on his head being looked at as a thug, frauds tars, and so on,
Meanwhile, these guys are a cool and calm-hearted person
Though there are guys like these that are truly counted in the act not all of them are like that
Good and God fearing youth still exist”
(Written by the Artist)
Painting
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Signed on the front side and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
- About the Artist
Joy Eyitayo Alagbe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic, Canvas
"Cool and Calm", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Pegah Samaie's (CA based) "Cool and Calm" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a woman holding a pink ice-cream cone with a pink background....
Category
2010s Photorealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Ripple
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bay Area artist Michelle Fillmore found her love of oil painting at the University of Las Vegas, where she graduated with a BA in Painting and Drawin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Oloju Ede (One With Beautiful Eyes)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Signed on the front side and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
Mood Stain - Oil on Canvas by Anastasia Kurakina - 2018
Located in Roma, IT
Mood Stain is a colorful original oil on canvas realized in 2018 by Anastasia Kurakina .
Signed and dated on the lower left margin.
Original Title: Macchia dell'umore .
In excelle...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Head No. 11, 2018
By John Goodman
Located in Burlingame, CA
Head No. 11, 2018' by John Goodman. The artwork is 12 x 12 inches. Artist signed, dated in ink verso. Condition is excellent, as new.
Goodman’s signature restrained palette and im...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
You can have my rose
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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 Authenticity.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Newsprint
Chinese Contemporary Art by Jia Yuan-Hua - Mosaic, Mask
By Jia Yuan-Hua
Located in Paris, IDF
What are people's criteria for judging beauty? A beautiful face? A different existence? A feeling of pleasure? Or just follow what others say and make yourself feel the same way? A woman with a slender body but an ugly face, do you think she is beautiful? A girl with a beautiful appearance but a heart like a scorpion, do you think she is beautiful? An ugly but kind-hearted girl, do you think she is beautiful? What is it that blurs the eyes of human beings and makes people's judgments of beauty vary widely?
The painting use knife...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"White Swimsuit White Sunglasses" 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 24 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...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Wood Panel, Polyurethane
Louis Armstrong - Acrylic by Ivana Burello - 2020
Located in Roma, IT
The painting belongs to the MUSIC series, dedicated to the classic jazz of the 1950/60s.
It is made on a rigid panel, it is a unique piece and is authenticated by the artist.
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
GÈLÈ 1 (Head Tie)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Gele is essentially a type of head tie worn by women in the Western African country of Nigeria. In contrast to the head ties worn in some other African countries, like Ghana, Gele is...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Fauve Portrait of Three Women in Blue Holding Red Abanicos
By Bernie Fuchs
Located in Miami, FL
Bernie Fuchs's painting "Fauve Portrait of Two Women in Blue with Red Abanicos" captures a festive scene of three Spanish women in traditional dress at...
Category
1960s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Silk and Sweat
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This painting is heavy in mood but playful, it shows some "imperfections' ' deliberately left behind. The painting considers femininity and power, and the pressure of being put toget...
Category
2010s Feminist 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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