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Portrait Paintings For Sale
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White Line - Original Abstract Gestural Figurative Portrait Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
As your gaze lingers on one of Sally K’s paintings, you notice how Sally’s brush strokes add playfulness and life to the canvas, incorporating unexpected images and shapes of flowers...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Pastel, Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Incandescence
Located in Denver, CO
Incandescence, 2016
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Andrea
Located in Miami, FL
A. Laurenti has been exhibiting since 1984 universal, visionary and contemporary paintings. His images bring back to us through his colors, landscapes and personalities that have exi...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Pigment

"The Day Rises", Nude Laying Woman in Transparent Cloth Figurative Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This is a painting with mixed media collage by French artist Françoise Collandre. A graduate from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Métiers d'Ar...
Category

2010s Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Canvas, Acrylic

Forest Lover by Anne Siems, Portrait painting with tattoo drawing, on paper
Located in Dallas, TX
Anne Siems has created this stunning watercolor on Strathmore Cold press paper. All archival materials. Paper size: 24x18 inches Suggested Frame size: 30x24x1.5 inch ANNE SIEMS (...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Archival Paper, Watercolor

Self Portrait En Plein Air
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Oil painting of the artist, Tina Orsolic Dalessio. She is a beautiful, modern day woman with a keen resemblance to Audrey Hepburn. She wears a straw hat, to keep the sun out of her f...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Woman Bicycling on a Summer Day, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
My work is about the rediscovery of the poetry and beauty in the everyday, and this painting was inspired by my view from a pier of the pedestrians and bicycl...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mid 20th Century French Fauvist Painting - Amazing Colors - pupil of Andre Lhote
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Lungomare Le sain' Suzanne Vattier, French 1901-1996 signed and dated on back 1973 inscribed verso gouache painting on artist paper, framed size: 19.5 x 25.5 inches Fabulous 1970s...
Category

Mid-20th Century Fauvist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Chief
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Chief," 2019. Enamel on panel, sign painting
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Enamel

"Forest 1" by Anne Siems, Portrait painting with tattoo drawing, on paper
Located in Dallas, TX
Anne Siems has created this stunning watercolor on Strathmore Cold press paper. All archival materials. Paper size: 24x18 inches Suggested Frame size: 30x24x1.5 inch ANNE SIEMS (...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Girl On Rock, Florence, Italy, 2020 ( Oil on Canvas)
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 ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Small Christ 2 - 21st Century, Figurative Art, Blue, Contemporary, Painting
Located in Berlin, DE
Small Christ 2, 2010 Acrylic on canvas (Signed on reverse) 7 9/10 H × 7 9/10 W in. 20 H × 20 W cm In the series of works "Small Christ", Alexandru Rădvan questions the human dimensi...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Carrier Pigeon - oil painting by American Realist, moody blue tones
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil on linen painting of a bird on a branch, seen through Contemporary Realist painter Stephen Bauman's signature cerulean lens. The pigeon appears blue, with a pink belly, and a ...
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2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Man On A Rock, 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 ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

God save the Queen, Painting, Pop Art, Street Art
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5 print with Diamond Dust - Price on request Queen Elisabteh with gas mask. JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar fi...
Category

2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment

"Sam" Mixed Media Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Kaitlin Ziesmer's (US based) "Sam" is an original, handmade AcrylaGouache painting that depicts a pink and green woodpecker wearing a black frilly coll...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Acrylic, Wood Panel

BANGS
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This black and white figurative painting titled "BANGS" is an original acrylic on canvas painting measuring 60"h x 48"w by Jasjyot...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Opus Magnus, Street Art, Pop Art, Scrooge McDuck
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5 Portrait of Scrooge McDuck JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar figures and symbols...
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2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment

JAZZU - L'envol d'un Homme - 2019
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
JAZZU - One Man's Flight - 2019 195 x 130 cms Mixed media on cotton canvas not on stretcher Unique work signed by the artist With artist's certificate Sold without chassis JAZZU - L...
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2010s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

PALOMA - Figurative oil painting on floral fabric, December 2020 Vogue Cover
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
PALOMA by Omari Booker was inspired by the December 2020 Vogue cover featuring Paloma Elsesser. The model was styled by Booker's cousin for the shoot, ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Fabric

Small Christ 3 - Contemporary Art, Figurative, Painting, Blue
Located in Berlin, DE
Small Christ 3, 2010 Acrylic on canvas (Signed on reverse) 7 9/10 H × 7 9/10 W in. 20 H × 20 W cm In the series of works "Small Christ", Alexandru Rădvan questions the human dimensi...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

SUPERB 20th CENTURY FRENCH MODERNIST PAINTING - NUDE MODEL IN INTERIOR ROOM
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"The Model" by Jean Marc (French 1949-2019) gouache paint painting: 18.25 x 15 inches provenance: private collection, South of France Superb original painting by the widely exhibit...
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache

SCHEMING
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This figurative black and white painting titled "SCHEMING" is an original acrylic on canvas painting by Jasjyot Singh Hans measuring 60"h x 48"w. Jasjyot Singh Hans is an illustrato...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Mary Dwyer, Rachel Carson, 2017, watercolor on paper, Suffragists and Journalists
Located in Darien, CT
The inspiration for Mary Dwyer's work revolves around storytelling, historic events, a love of political cartoons and early portraiture paintings. An integral part of this work is research. Spurred by an innate curiosity, she creates political, historical and personal paintings. In the last few years Dwyer has been researching and painting the American Suffrage movement. In this research she discovered that the people working as both Suffragists and Abolitionists also started their own newspapers and published their own pamphlets. They became journalists, as no one was covering their story. Dwyer's paintings are a celebration of both the voter’s rights activist and the visual pageantry of the Suffrage movement. The use of color in her Suffrage paintings speak to the vibrant pageantry and the visual marketing used during the movement. Sashes, button, banners, flags and ribbons were made by women and marketed for women. The significance of free press is paramount in a free and fair society. The importance of journalist has become a theme that has continued in her present work. Recently she has been working on a Memorial Paintings...
Category

2010s Feminist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Archival Paper, Acrylic

Mysterious to Ourselves
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This figurative painting titled "Mysterious to Ourselves" is an original artwork by Katherine Fraser made of oil paint on canvas. This piece measures 46.75"h x 42"w framed and is shipped in the pictured framed. Katherine Fraser has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States. She is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and of the University of Pennsylvania. As a student she received the Thomas Eakins Painting prize, the Cecelia Beaux Portrait prize, and the William Emlen Cresson Memorial Travel Award, among others. Since graduating in 2002, she has received awards including the Lucy Glick...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Twins On A Beach, Florence, Italy, 2021
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 ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

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...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

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 ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Waiting" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Christopher Clark's (US based) "Waiting" is an oil painting that depicts a female figure juxtaposed with a busy city avenue. Christopher has been an artist since early childhood, w...
Category

2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

POP MARILYN COLLAGE - WHITE HAIR
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed by the artist on verso. Hand Painted Unique Silkscreen on Canvas. Canvas is stretched. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All rea...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art 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
Category

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

Materials

Gouache

"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...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Wood Panel, Oil

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...
Category

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

"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...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Evening in a Bar
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
This is another work where my focus is on an ordinary subject matter depicted with strong color and sparkling light effects.

About the Artist
Romanian-born painter Diana Chelaru’s paintings are colorful and contemporary interpretations of human emotion. For Diana, art is a means of communication. “It is how I express my thoughts, hopes, regrets and joys,” she says. Though she gets great pleasure from applying paint to canvas, it is the expression of emotions that she finds to be most important. Diana’s style is influenced by Byzantine mosaics as well as Gustav Klimt’s subject matter and use of decorative patterns within his compositions. Each artwork is created intuitively, resulting in paintings that speak to the soul.

Evening in a Bar...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

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...
Category

2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

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...
Category

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

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...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Linen, Organic Material, Oil

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

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Modern Abstract Portrait of a Woman with Child and Fish
By Lynwood Kreneck
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract style painting of a woman fishing. The work is signed by the artist Lynwood Kreneck, who is known for printmaking. The painting is framed in a wooden frame with a silver trim. Dimensions Without Frame: H 40 in x W 30 in. Artist Biography: Lynwood Kreneck (born 1936) received his BFA and MFA from The University of Texas at Austin. Kreneck is Professor Emeritus of Art at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, where he taught printmaking for nearly forty years. He is founding curator of the exhibition series Colorprint USA and was instrumental in the development of water-based screen print inks and methods. Kreneck is represented in numerous collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago (IL), Philadelphia Museum of Art (PA), High Museum (Atlanta, GA), Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art (Shawnee, OK), Museum of Contemporary (Knoxville, TN), Silvermine Guild Arts...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

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

Materials

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...
Category

2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Panel, 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

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Canvas, Oil

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

Materials

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

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Blanket
Located in Denver, CO
Figure wrapped in red and blue blanket
Category

2010s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

The bi-polar nature of every instance
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

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

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Mock Practice, Men practicing shooting, Brown, Sepia color, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Prasanta Sahu , Title : Mock Practice : Size : 11 x 15 inches (unframed size) Mixed Media on paper Inclusive of shipment in a roll / flat form. About the Artist & his work : Bor...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper

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
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

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
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Vinyl

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...
Category

2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

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.

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