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Portrait Paintings For Sale
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The Cyclists Rest Stop in Honfleur
Located in London, GB
'The Cyclists Rest Stop in Honfleur' by Jean-Marie Luc Blanpain, oil on canvas (circa 1970s). The artist's depiction of the terrace of the well known Honfleur restaurant, 'Au Relais ...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Send the Jackal (2020) by street artist Ekundayo, surrealist watercolor painting
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Send the Jackal" (2020) by Ekundayo (aka Sorrow Becomes Joy)
Surrealist portrait, expressive, figurative, watercolor painting, illustrative, street art, muralist, Hawaiian street ar...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Anne in blue
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas
Brown wood frame
63 x 54 x 3 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - 1993 Oil, The Art Collector
Located in Corsham, GB
Well presented in a painted frame with molding detail. Signed and dated. On board.
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
E. Robinson - 1870 Oil, Young Victorian Beauty
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine oil portrait of a rosy cheeked, young Victorian woman wearing a white lace collared dress with a blue ribbon. The artist has signed and dated ...
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Practicing the Speech, Liberty Magazine Cover
By John Howitt
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1939
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 33.00" x 27.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover of Liberty Magazine, January 14, 1939
Category
1930s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Camille Meriot French Signed Impressionist Ink Painting - Figure In Vence
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Figure In Vence"
by Camille Meriot (French 1887-1975)
signed
ink painting on paper
paper : 6 x 4 inches
Fine original French Impressionist painting by the well listed and popul...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink
Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - Contemporary Oil, Blue Gaze
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine and characterful portrait showing a dark haired woman with a soft gaze. The artist has used blue undertones to add an air of mystery to the po...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Martin Vernon - Signed 1993 Oil, The Looming Procession
Located in Corsham, GB
With heavy nods to De Chirico, Vernon has created an unnervingly surreal painting, depicting a sinister parade of figures on a sparse street. The artwork seems to hold heavy politica...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Meditator - 21st Century Contemporary Painting of a meditating boy
By Mitzy Renooy
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
The Meditator
80 x 80 cm
Acrylic on canvas
Frame is included
Framed the painting measures 90 x 90 cm
The artist Mitzy Renooy in this painting shows what she likes to paint most. A child living in his own world, dancing on his own way.
Mitzy Renooy, artist and mother of four daughters, has exhibited twice before at Galerie Bonnard...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Jesus and the Q-tip Odalisque
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Oil Painting / Pop and Contemporary Pop / Mixed-Media / Bright and Vivid Colors / Illustration
Oil Painting / Text / Pastel Colors / Figurative Art / Outsider Art / Pop Art / Surrealism
From Macauley...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Thread, Oil Pastel, Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Walking Along the Beach, Bauer, German School, 19th Century, Signed P. Bauer
Located in Bruges, BE
Walking Along the Beach
German School
19th Century
Signature: Signed bottom right P. Bauer
Dimensions: Image size 31 x 24 cm, frame size 42 x 32 cm
Medium: Aquarelle
Category
19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Oil Painting /Portrait/ Figurative Art / Human Figure /Museum
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is includ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Mid 20th Century Oil - Portrait of Nude Female Figure in Bedroom
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. On canvas board.
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in Spetses, GR
inspired by the paintings of Jenny Saville, George Alekou created this artwork in 2019, probably one of his best so far.
Portrait painting on stretched c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mindset
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Remember ye, not former things, neither consider the things of old."
Your complaints, your drama, your victim mentality, your whining, your blaming, and all of your excuses have ne...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - Contemporary Oil, Disgruntled Man
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine, characterful portrait of a disgruntled old man in a jacket and tie. The painting is unsigned on board. On board.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - Contemporary Oil, Woman In Green
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine oil portrait of a woman with cropped hair. The modernist style and stylized palette lend much character and charm to this painting. The painting is unsigned on board.
On board.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - 1996 Oil, Back to Dickensian Days
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed and dated to the lower left-hand corner. There is a 'Mall Galleries' label on the reverse inscribed with additional details. Presented in an off-white frame with a gilt outer ...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - Contemporary Oil, Otto Conducts
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine portrait of the Polish conductor , Otto Klemperer, showing him deeply involved in the music and the action of conducting an orchestra. There is a label at the reverse with the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - 20th Century Oil, Taking Notes
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful oil painting by the artist Barbara Doyle, depicting an interior scene with a lady taking notes. Unsigned. Presented in a distressed off-white contemporary frame. On board.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
While I Hope
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, Oil, Acrylic
DRIP REMOVER
By Kunstrasen
Located in Aventura, FL
Three color screen printed figure & varnish on 300 somerset paper. Hand signed and numbered by Kunstrasen. Form the edition of 125. Frame size approx 26 x 26 inches.
Artwork is...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Paper, Screen
"Portrait of Yet 2" Yellow, Pink, & Blue Contemporary Portrait Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful abstract contemporary painting by Houston, TX artist Saralene Tapley. This painting features a portrait of a model with colorful face paint ma...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
'Skagen', Paris, Académie des Beaux-Arts, Salon des Artistes Français, Munich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Clement' for Gad Frederick Clement (Danish, 1867-1933) and painted circa 1920. Titled, verso, on old exhibition label, 'Fra Haven' (From the Garden). Additionally signed, verso, on stretcher bar and titled, 'Vesterby, Skagen'
Exhibited:
Skagen Museum, circa 1920, from label, verso.
'Helsinki Art Gallery, 1928', from label, verso.
'Danish Art Convention Forum, 1929', from label, verso.
Gad Clement created this luminous painting in the garden of the Vesterby beach house where he and his wife, the artist Martha 'Tupsy' Clement, summered from 1908-1920. A substantial and well-exhibited work, it shows Tupsy at her easel beside their daughters, Bitten (b.1912) and Lillemor (b.1909). Fusing the ideal with the intensely personal, the artist has lyrically captured both the bonds of maternity and the dreamland of childhood.
Gad Frederick Clement first studied at Copenhagen's Technical School (1883–1885) before attending the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1885-1888). Returning to Denmark, he continued his studies under Laurits Tuxen...
Category
1910s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Edward Lewis (1936-2018) - Contemporary Oil, Pastel Nude
By Edward Lewis
Located in Corsham, GB
Full of Frauvristic qualities, pastel oils have been applied in a rich painterly manner to depict an expressive study of a nude woman. The artwork has chips to the corners, revealing...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Les Rois de Legendes #24 Musicien" The Kings Of Legend #24 Musician
Located in Berlin, MD
Erte (Romain de Tirtoff) Russian/French 1892-1990. "Les Rois de Legendes #24 Musicien" The Kings Of Legend #24 Musician. A beautiful, original gouache and ink piece (this is not a ...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Focus
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 (Issued by the Gallery)
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Female Portrait - Oil Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1931
Located in Roma, IT
Female Portrait is an original artwork realized in 1931 by Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 - Gargnano, 1942).
Original Painting on canvas.
Hand-signed on the lower right corner. ...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Impressionist Oil Painting, "Spread Your Wings Into The Unknown"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind realistic oil portrait by San Diego artist, Charlene Mosley. Its dimensions are 8" x 24" x 1.5". It comes in a wood frame. A ce...
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tibetan Thangka of Sakyamuni, c. 1880
Located in Chicago, IL
Historically in Buddhist Tibet, patrons and monks commissioned thangka art, or sacred painting, to focus their meditations and prayers. This 19th-century Tibetan Thangka, painted in rich red, green, and blue pigments, still maintains incredible vibrancy. The central figure is the Sakyamuni Buddha, seated in the diamond position with alms bowl...
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Silk, Pigment
Marilyn "A Wise Girl" Large Original Marilyn Monroe Textural Oil Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Christina Major is a portrait painter interested in the ways the identity of both artist and subject can coexist in a painting. Major's current creative research focuses on the traditional form of the portrait as a powerful form of representing an individual and how meaning can be expanded through scale, brushstroke, color, texture, composition, and the many variables that portraiture deals with.
This one-of-a-kind oil painting is 77.5 inches tall and 64.5 inches wide. It is signed by Major on the back. The artwork is wired and ready to hang. It does not require framing. Free local Los Angeles area delivery. Affordable Continental U.S. and International shipping are also available. A certificate of authenticity issued by the art gallery is included.
Major expands the traditional portrait painting...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Indonesian Contemporary Art by Kusbudiyanto - Life Spirit
By Kusbudiyanto
Located in Paris, IDF
Kusbudiyanto is an Indonesian artist born in 1969 who lives & works in Jogjakarta, Indonesia.
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
A. Costa - 1912 Oil, Portrait of a Spanish Lady
By A. Costa
Located in Corsham, GB
A very fine portrait of a smiling Spanish lady dressed in fine lace, with fresh red flowers in her hair. She wears large green jewels around her neck and ...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Control Top
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Control Top' contemporary portrait oil on canvas painting by Tamera Avery, whose paintings are created with wit and wisdom. Avery's work deals with serio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Madison, buff titanium, light pine
Located in Las Vegas, NV
Dichromatic Portraiture
" The laborious process of applying and removing, the resulting fragility and possibility of failure are all essential elements if the works are to be succ...
Category
2010s Minimalist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Pension Fund
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
The picture "Pension Fund" is included in the series of artworks "Pathos of the Bureaucracy".
100x100cm / oil on canvas/ 2019
The picture is ready t...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
William Austin (b.1940) - 1998 Acrylic, Schoolgirls
Located in Corsham, GB
A wonderful contemporary study by the artist William Austin, depicting three schoolgirls.Completed in his delightfully unique style. Well presented in a...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - 1977 Oil, Barbara's Jubilee Hat
Located in Corsham, GB
A jolly self portrait of Barbara Doyle in her jubilee hat and matching jumper. The artist smiles a soft smile with a direct gaze. The painting has been signed and dated in the lower ...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Lady with a Rose 2
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
This attractive young woman gazes solemnly at the rose, with an almost trancelike expression, perhaps brought on by the pleasurable perfume of the rose she holds in her hand, her gaz...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950's French Modernist Signed Oil Ladies dressed in Yellow Gazing Upwards
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Claude Benard, signed and dated 1952
Title: Ladies in Yellow
Medium: oil painting on board, unframed
Size:
board : 16 x 13 inches
Provenance: private collection...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Meme Money 007: Green Goochi, ' by XVALA, Mixed Media Painting
By XVALA
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
In this mixed media 24"x24" painting, 'Meme Money 007: Green Goochi,' by XVALA, the artist colorfully plays with the 'Gucci' brand in tandem with the childhood cartoon series, SpongeBob. SpongeBob, as a green 'Goochi Sponge,' takes center stage with a green letter pattern on the canvas background. The work is a screen print with additional painting and iridescent oil stick by the artist with predominant colors of green and gold.
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
My Self
Located in West Hollywood, CA
We are proud to have discovered and now present a rare original self portrait by Austrian Expressionist artist, Franz Bergmann (1998-1977)
"My Self", is an original oil on canvas, signed, c.1938, with an image dimension of 29 x 24 inches. The painting is in good original condition, the frame has been restored.
A biography on the artist appears below, please contact the gallery with any question.
Franz Bergmann
1898 - 1977
Franz Walter Bergmann was born on August 6, 1898, in Dimling, Austria, a town northwest of Vienna. His parents were both involved in the arts: his mother was a pianist, and his father was an amateur artist and a violinist. After serving in World War I for three years, he enrolled in the National Academy of Art in Vienna and embarked on a seven-year course of study, focusing on figure painting and portraiture. Although schooled in the academic tradition, Bergmann also adopted elements derived from the more avant-garde German Expressionist style. By 1924 he was exhibiting in Vienna and Stockholm. The following year, he graduated with honors.
He left Vienna to tour Europe, and in early 1926 he traveled to the United States. After a brief stay in New York, he moved to Chicago, where he obtained a commission to paint murals for theaters owned by Balaban & Katz. That year his mural sketches were exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago. He then moved to New York, where he joined the staff of the noted Austrian architect and designer Josef Urban...
Category
1930s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Girl Child and Her Companion 2
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
Wreath in Hair_America Martin_Ink on Paper_Portrait/Figurative/Floral
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Wreath in Hair"
Ink on Paper
22" x 22" Framed
Exploring the identity of both her namesake and country, LA-based America Martin draws inspiration from her Colombian h...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
El Iris Love Letter: Lauren Bacall
By Kadir Lopez
Located in Greenwich, CT
Mixed media on vintage enamel sign.
KADIR LÓPEZ (b. 1972, Las Tunas, Cuba) came to artistic maturity at a time when the image and illusion of the Cuban Revolution were greatly dimin...
Category
2010s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Juvenile Gaze
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, Acrylic
1940's Fashion Illustration - Four Brides Holding Candles
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas.
The painting, executed in gouache and pencil.
The sketch is original, vintage and me...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Contemporary Portrait Painting, Modern Art: To Write Graffiti on her Back
Located in Delaware , OH
Contemporary Portrait Painting, Modern Art-To Write Graffiti on her Back
A B O U T T H I S P I E C E :
"To Write Graffiti on Her Back " is a custom mixed ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Canvas, Acrylic
Aurora in white toga smelling a flower. Goddess of Dawn Mythology scene
By Jean Louis Hamon
Located in Miami, FL
Jean Louis Hamon artfully presents the mythological subject: Aurora the Goddess of Dawn. She is dressed in a flowing toga, standing on a large leaf and smelling the sweetness of a flower in bloom. Surrounded by lush plants in an idyllic setting of pinks and blues, one would not think that this peaceful and beautiful work was painted in 1864 at the time of the American Civil War. Hamon meticulously renders the scene with the academic precision of Bouguereau. The closer you get, the more detail you discover. Two butterflies sit atop Aurora's head. Droplets of water gracefully roll down her hair.
There was a hand colored steel plate...
Category
1860s Academic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Denise Jones Adler, Asylum Seekers, 2022, Mixed media, Mystical
Located in Darien, CT
Denise Jones Adler's work is both personal and archetypical and seeks to memorialize a moment in time, the fragile nature of life, and the emotional impact of the past on the present...
Category
2010s Symbolist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Woman with Chicken
Located in Wien, 9
Ramona Schnekenburger is able to direct our gaze to the beauty of the present both personally and through her pictures. Small details, everyday situations and supposedly nothingness ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Handmade Paper, Pencil
El Iris Love Letter: Ann Miller
By Kadir Lopez
Located in Greenwich, CT
Mixed media on vintage enamel sign.
KADIR LÓPEZ (b. 1972, Las Tunas, Cuba) came to artistic maturity at a time when the image and illusion of the Cuban Revolution were greatly dimin...
Category
2010s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Enamel
El Iris Love Letter: Joan Blondel
By Kadir Lopez
Located in Greenwich, CT
Mixed media on vintage enamel sign.
KADIR LÓPEZ (b. 1972, Las Tunas, Cuba) came to artistic maturity at a time when the image and illusion of the Cuban Revolution were greatly dimin...
Category
2010s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Early Mid Century Modern Self Portrait by renowned Abstract Expressionist Signed
By Ron Gorchov
Located in New York, NY
Ron Gorchov
Historic Self Portrait, 1955-1959
Oil painting on board
Hand signed in paint on the upper recto and dated 1955-9
Frame included: held in original vintage artist's frame
This work was exhibited at the Sager Reeves Gallery in Columbia, Missouri in their Masters Exhibit in December, 2022, and is reproduced as a full page in their exhibition catalogue. A copy of this catalogue accompanies the artwork.
In 2019, the year before Ron Gorchov passed away, Stephen Truax, director of Cheim & Read, his then gallery, passed along details of this extraordinary painting to Gorchov's studio to be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonne. When shown the work, Gorchov remembered it well, but was amazed that the painting was still in existence after so many years. This historic early self-portrait, done over a period of four years, from 1955-1959, starting when he was only 25 years old reveals Gorchov's distinctive and sophisticated sense of color and form. This is one of the artist's earliest works, and very few works by Gorchov from this era ever appear on the market or are known to remain in existence. It should be in any museum or career retrospective. This work was gifted by the artist to Elthea Rembrandt Peale...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Land of Fools
Located in New York, NY
Signed on verso
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surrealist Oil Painting on Photograph, "Queen of Rain"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a surrealist figurative painting on an original photographic print by local San Diego artist, Evgeniya Golik. Its dimensions are 15.5"x19x2". It comes framed. A certificate o...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
The Courageous Woman (Feminine Epidemic Series)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
This is a universal problem that needs to be addressed, firstly in law 70% of woman has no right, and moreover, in the past and in some culture, your parent choose who you ought to m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
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