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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Period: 20th Century
Period: 1960s
20th Century Portrait of Young Man Signed Oil on Canvas Polish Artist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Man
signed by Jacob Markiel (Polish 1911-2008) *See notes
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 22 x 15 inches
provenance: the artists estate, south of France
condition: ver...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
American Modernist Black Woman Artist New Orleans Family Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist southern school painting. A family portrait on a New Orleans porch. Beautiful detail in the wrought iron. Brilliant color palette here. Signed verso. ...
Category
1950s Abstract Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Study head of nostalgia, portrait of a melancholy-looking boy in a white shirt
Located in Gent, VOV
Study head of nostalgia, portrait of a melancholy-looking boy in a white shirt. Oil/canvas, signed lower left Kunz Meyer
Meyer-Waldeck Kunz, an artist of Latvian origin, was born o...
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20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Realist Portrait, Mid-Century Oil On Card, The Babushka.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-Century realist oil on card of a peasant woman, dated 1963 to the reverse. Artist unknown. Presented in gilt and painted wood frame under glass.
A charming, grounded painting of...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
Portrait of a woman with a toothache, circa 1900, oil on canvas
Located in PARIS, FR
Julien-Auguste HERVÉ (1854-1932)
Toothache, circa 1900
Oil on canvas
Signed "JULIEN HERVE" and dated lower right
61.5 x 50 cm
Born in 1854 in Basse-Indre, Loire-Atlantique, Julien-A...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Knitting woman by Anne Marie Mulder - Oil on canvas 30x40 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on canvas sold with frame
Total size with frame 48x58 cm
Anne Marie Mulder was born in 1921. After secondary school she trained at the national Academy of Visual Art in Amsterd...
Category
Mid-20th Century Dutch School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Victor Creten, Brussels 1878-1966, Belgian, 'A Lady in Black with a Rose'
By Victor Creten
Located in Bruges, BE
Victor Creten
Brussels 1878 – 1966
Belgian Painter
'A Lady in Black with a Rose'
Signature: Signed lower right
Medium: Oil on board
Dimensions: Image size 146 x 116 cm, frame size 1...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art Deco Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
1930's French Oil Painting Portrait of Lady with Playing Cards Beautiful Work
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Playing Cards
by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below
oil painting on canvas unframed
measures: 30.5 inches high by 22.5 inches wide
condition: overall very good and ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Judaica "The Rebbe's Visit" European Hasidic Rabbi Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Realistic portrait of an older rabbi visiting and blessing a child in a European marketplace. Here the artist conveys a sense of quiet grandeur th...
Category
20th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Mother and Child. Bold Very Accomplished 20th Century Stand Out Modern Artwork.
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Unknown School.
Second half of the mid-20th Century.
Charcoal, Oil Paint & Spray Paint on Plywood Panel. Signed Indistinctly.
Image size 26.8 inches x 21.7 inches ( 68cm x 55cm ).
...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Plywood, Charcoal, Oil, Spray Paint
A Naked Beauty Lying with her Fan
Located in St. Albans, GB
Léon Laurent Galand
1872 – 1960
Signed and dated 1928 bottom left
Artwork Size: 25.75 x 36" (66 x 92cm)
Artwork Size with Frame: 32.75 x 43" (83 x 109cm)
Oil on Canvas
Discounted ...
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1920s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Self Portrait
Located in East Grinstead, GB
Robert Buhler R.A. 1916-1989, was a English born Swiss painter where he spent most of his working life. Buhler also lived and painted in London, scenes of various landscapes, he als...
Category
1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
20th Century British portrait of a society lady thought to be Dame Anna Neagle
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A large and very elegant portrait of a British lady thought to be Dame Anna Neagle, the British actress and singer.
English School, 20th Century
Portrait of a society lady thought t...
Category
20th Century Academic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Man with tie
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Golden wooden frame
75 x 64 x 4.5 cm
Category
1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large 1940s French Oil Painting Self Portrait of Female Parisian Artist at Easel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Self Portrait of the Artist at her Easel
by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below
provenance stamp to the back
oil painting on canvas , unframed
measures: 35 high by 28.5...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Girl in Nature - Mid 20th Century Oil by Michael D'Aguilar
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Baron Michael D`Aguilar was born on May 15, 1922 in London to Spanish parents. He was brother of the artist Paul D`Aguilar. He spent much of his early life in Spain. He studied at...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Unframed Figurative Oil Painting - Affection
Located in Bristol, GB
AFFECTION
Size: 41 x 33 cm
Oil on board
A tender and captivating mid-century figurative painting, executed in oil onto board and dated 1944.
A female figure in a flowing red dress ...
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of a notable
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
Early 1900s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
French School Mid 20th Century Oil - Vanity
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine french portrait of an elegant young lady in a pale pink ball gown with flowers. The lady is posed in a lavish interior, matching that of her dress, lifting back a large curtai...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large Gouache Original Painting Mother & Daughter Sandu Liberman Israeli Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
framed 36 X 28 board 30 X 21.75
Sandu Liberman (Romanian-Israeli) was born in Yasi, Romania in 1923. between 1946 and 1953 he took part in the state art shows in Bucharest. in 1952 ...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
High Drama Adventure Scene - Italian Illustrator Mid-Century Jules Verne
Located in Miami, FL
Original illustration was done by Renna for the novel "Journey to the Center of the Earth" by Jules Verne, published in 1963. What makes this work special is how brilliantly the subj...
Category
1960s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Tempera
1930's French Portrait of Young Man in Suit & Tie Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Jean La Forgue (French 1901-1975)
signed oil on unstretched canvas, unframed
painting: 24 x 17 inches
provenance: the artists estate, France
condition: the painting is on unstretched...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
20th Century French Portrait of Auburn Hair Young Lady Large Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Auburn Haired lady
by Jacob Markiel (Polish 1911-2008) *See notes signed below oil on board, unframed
board: 20 x 12 inches
provenance: the artists e...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Paul Schouten (1860-1922) Portrait painting of elderly gentleman with beard
By Paul Schouten
Located in San Francisco, CA
Paul Schouten (1860-1922) Portrait painting of elderly gentleman with beard
Oil on board
9 x 12 unframed
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Samuel Seeberger Portrait of Louise Marie de France after Jean-Marc Nattier
Located in San Francisco, CA
Samuel Seeberger Portrait of Louise Marie de France after Jean-Marc Nattier
Oil on wood panel
No visible signature
11.5 x 15.5 unframed, 15.5 x 19.5 framed
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Pathfinder - Abstract Map - Mid 20th Century Mixed Media by George De Goya
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Professor George De Goya. PhD. MA. FRSA. Born In Budapest, 1915-1992, related to the Spanish artist Goya on his mother’s side. Educated in Budapest and France where he received a de...
Category
1960s Abstract Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
Man portrait oil on canvas painting
By Jordi Curos
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Man portrait
Oil on canvas.
Canvas measurements 46x38 cm.
Frameless.
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish painter.
He tr...
Category
1970s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Table Setting With Bunch of Flowers
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
COSSON, Jean Louis Marcel (1878 – 1956)
The Bunch and The Maid circa 1930
Oil on canvas signed up left
Framed by GAULT (Paris)
Dimensions canvas : 56 X 46 cm
Dimensions frame : 74 X...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Heals Fitted Fine
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on canvas, signed and dated (lower right), 91cm x 62cm (112cm x 82cm framed).
(Provenance: in the collection of the artist Michael Leonard (British 1933-2023) until his dea...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Acrylic
Portrait of a man with a mustache
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Green wooden frame and gold borders
51 x 43 x 2.5 cm
Category
1920s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Young girl portrait oil on canvas painting
By Josep Maria Morato Aragones
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Josep María Morató Aragonés (1923-2006) - Portrait of a young woman - Oil on canvas
Oil measurements 61x46 cm.
Frameless.
Morató Aragonés, Josep María. Reus (Tarragona), 21.V.1923 –...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
1960's French/ Spanish Portrait of Characterful Man with Hat Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Man
French/ Spanish School, circa 1960's
indistinctly signed
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 25.5 x 20 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: very good and s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil painting 'The Girl in The Red Dress' by William Frank Calderon (1865-1943)
Located in Uppingham, GB
Oil on Canvas "The girl in the Red Dress" by W Frank Calderon, RA (no58) Exhibit 1911. Calderon was influenced by the "Art Nouveau"period, this painting shows his beautiful detailed...
Category
1910s Art Nouveau Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Abstract Expressionist -- An Artist and His Tools
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful abstract expressionist figurative of a painter at work, deeply focused on his subject is captured by California artist Molly E. Brubaker (American, 1922-2000). Unframed. Im...
Category
1970s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait of a Young Woman - British Edwardian art female portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
An original oil on canvas on panel by Sir James Jebusa Shannon. The portrait dates to the Edwardian period and depicts a bold British Impressionist painting of a beautiful young woma...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Original Abstract Expressionist 1955 New York Female Artist Irene Zevon Portrait
By Irene Zevon
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original abstract expressionist oil painting by American female artist Irene Zevon created and dated in 1955. Signed. Really amazing cubist portrait.
Irene Zevon, born in Bro...
Category
1950s Cubist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
1930's French Impressionist Oil Sketch Portrait of Semi Nude Figure
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait
by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below
provenance stamp to the back
oil painting on canvas, unframed
measures: 16 high by 13 inches wide
condition: overall ver...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Innocence" Painting 22" x 14" inch (circa 1970) by KAMAL KHALIFA
Located in Culver City, CA
"Innocence" Painting 22" x 14" inch (circa 1970) by KAMAL KHALIFA
Kamal Khalifa is regarded as one of Egypt’s most prolific modern artists. He left the art world with several catego...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Arturo Petrocelli (1856-1926) - Early 20th Century Oil, Man with a Pipe
By Arturo Petrocelli
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming Italian school portrait depicting a smiling elderly gentleman with a pipe in his mouth. Signed to the lower right. Presented in a gilt frame. On canvas.
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Lady
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
TREVOR OWEN MAKINSON (1926-1992)
Glasgow-based painter of portraits and landscapes. Trained at Hereford School of Art and the Slade School in London. Lectured at Glasgow School of Art and the University of Glasgow. Exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of
Portrait Painters, the Royal Scottish Academy and elsewhere.
Described by Dame Laura Knight as an "unrepentant adherent of the traditional representational
school British painters" His work is held by several public collections, including the Glasgow
Museums Resource Centre, Hereford Museum and Art Gallery, Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum, and the University of Strathclyde.
Category
20th Century Other Art Style Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
1950s French Post Impressionist Oil Moulin Rouge Can Can Female Dancer
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Early 20th century portrait of a lady in a red dress
Located in Woodbury, CT
Thomas Brown Yates was an English landscape and portrait painter active during the 1910-1935 period.
He studied firstly in London and then travelled to the Andre Lhote school in Par...
Category
1910s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Jaguar Laying on Branch Huge French Signed Oil Painting Wooden Frame
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Jaguar
French School, mid 20th century
indistinctly signed lower right corner
oil on wood panel, framed in deep wooden frame
framed: 30 x 43.5 inches
panel: 21.5 x 31.5 inches
pr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid 20th Century French Oil Pre-Raphaelite Portrait of a Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Working Sketch
by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below
provenance stamp to the back
oil painting on artist paper stuck on board, unframed
measures: 10.5 high by 12 inche...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman with fan mixed media painting
By Jordi Curos
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman
Mixed technique on canvas board.
Work measurements 46x38 cm.
Frame size 51x43 cm.
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Span...
Category
1970s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Woman with Lobsters / "Femme et Homards"
By Andre Minaux
Located in Berlin, MD
Andre Minaux (French 1923 - 1986) "Femme et Homards" / Woman with Lobsters. Oil on canvas. Features a young woman holding one lobster while two others sit on a counter before her. ...
Category
Mid-20th Century French School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
The Farewell, 19th Century English Provincial School
Located in Blackwater, GB
The Farewell, 19th Century
English Provincial School
Large 19th Century English Provincial School country scene of a gentleman departing his lover, oil on canvas. Charming circa 1...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Woman posing mixed media painting
By Jordi Curos
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman
Mixed technique on canvas board.
Work measurements 46x38 cm.
Frame size 63x55 cm.
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Span...
Category
1970s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
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Mixed Media
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic Canvas Painting Profile Compartmentalized 415.031
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Compartmentalized 415.031 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting
Profile Compartmentalized 415.031 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings...
Category
1970s Feminist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Woman with pamela mixed media on canvas on board
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jose Luis Fuentetaja - Woman at rest - mixed media (print and oil on canvas laid board).
Canvas size 38x50 cm.
Frameless.
Is born in Madrid on the 21st july 1951.
After attending pr...
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1990s Realist Portrait Paintings
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Mixed Media, Canvas, Board
1950s French Post Impressionist Signed Nude Man Artists Posed Model
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Portrait d'un Modele" Painting 10" x 8" inch (1955) by Salah Abdel Kerim
Located in Culver City, CA
"Portrait d'un Modele" Painting 10" x 8" inch (1955) by Salah Abdel Kerim
Ink on paper
1955
Signed and numbered by the artist.
Born in Fayoum to a big family of 5 brothers and s...
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20th Century Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
1950s French Post Impressionist Nude Lady Artists Studio In Red Gown
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
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Oil
BEATRICE HUNTINGTON (1889-1988) Scottish impressionist Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, GB
ARTIST: Beatrice Huntington (1889-1988) Scottish
TITLE: "Portrait Of A Red Haired Lady"
SIGNED: lower left and with provenance from The Scottish Gallery Edinburgh and James Bourlet exhibition label also
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
SIZE: 68cm x 60cm inc frame
CONDITION: very good
DETAIL: The Scottish artist Beatrice M. L. Huntington (1889–1988) enjoyed a long and varied career as a painter and is best known for her insightful portraits, characterised by a strong sense of design and an intuitive use of colour.
Her approach to painting was ever-evolving: throughout her long and fascinating life, which spanned a century and bore witness to the advent of the modern era, she remained indefatigably committed to her development as an artist and to 'containing and realising the big-ness of it all', as she herself described it in a letter to a friend in 1977, when at the age of 88 she was still refining her approach to form and colour.
The daughter of an eminent St Andrews doctor, Beatrice grew up in affluent surroundings – an imposing townhouse on St Andrews South Street both her father's surgery and the family home. A precocious talent for both music and art led her, perhaps unusually for a girl at that time, to pursue her studies abroad. In 1906, the year she turned 17, she went to Paris to study drawing and painting and in 1911, after an evidently successful formative period in Paris, she continued her studies in Munich, attending a private art school where she apparently flourished.
By the 1920s, Beatrice's own identity and path as an artist were clearly defined. Her marriage to the painter William Macdonald in 1925 created a unique artistic partnership and cemented her place within the Scottish art scene of the 1920s and 1930s, particularly in Edinburgh where Macdonald was already well established and a close friend of Scottish Colourists F. C. B. Cadell and Samuel Peploe. This is illustrated by surviving correspondence and in particular by a characterful portrait of a debonair William Macdonald by Cadell, dating from the mid-1920s.
Macdonald's particular affinity for the arid landscapes of southern Spain had earned him the nickname William 'Spanish' Macdonald. Beatrice shared his love of travel and together they explored the Continent, returning frequently to the French Riviera and to southern Spain, taking as their base, for a time at least, the picturesque Mediterranean fishing village of Cassis in the South of France, a favoured haunt of the Colourists.
The couple moved in artistic milieux both at home and abroad, also spending time in Kirkcudbright in Galloway. Their time painting together in Spain culminated with a joint exhibition in 1928 at Messrs Watt and Sons, Dundee, entitled 'Pictures of Spain...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large 20th Century French Portrait of Lady Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Lady
by Jacob Markiel (Polish 1911-2008) *See notes
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 26 x 20 inches
provenance: the artists estate, south o...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Handsome Tropical Exotic Male Dancer Square Jaw - Gay Interest
Located in Miami, FL
A dark and exotic looking male dancer with chiseled features wears a blue hat made of flowers and feathers is depicted in vibrant colors that evokes festiv...
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1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Edward Wesson (1910-1983) - Framed Oil, Portrait of Alexandra Marie McGowan
Located in Corsham, GB
An accomplished oil portrait of Alexandra Marie McGowan by the listed British Painter Edward Wesson. Here Wesson captures young Alexandra in gestural brush strokes, giving the compos...
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Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Roy Turner Durant British Listed Artist Portrait Head 20th Century Minimalist
By Roy Turner Durrant
Located in Norfolk, GB
This portrait has a naïve and gentle charm to it. To my eye it looks like a woman but it could equally be any gender or age. Perhaps this is the beauty of Turner Durrant's abstraction. The materiality is more distinct when you see the piece in the flesh. There is something endearing about being able to see the edges of the paper, torn almost in haste as if the artist just had to get the image down. Maybe it was painted on the spot or an image from the artist's imagination. Whichever, the use of minimal line and a reduced palette adds to the simplicity and thus free nature of the painting.
Roy Turner Durrant Untitled (Head)
Medium: Watercolour on paper
Signed bottom right 1977
Image size: 31 x 26 cm - Frame size: 50.5 x 44 cm
Roy Turner Durrant (1925 - 1998)
A Modern British artist, Roy Turner Durrant was born in Suffolk, England in 1925. His career was long and distinguished, culminating with work in major public galleries in the UK and internationally.
After the war he secured a place at Camberwell College of Arts where he was taught by amongst others by Edward Ardizzone Michael Rothenstein Keith Vaughan and John Buckland Wright and was a contemporary of Theodore Mendez. Whilst at Camberwell he was already exhibiting his paintings in London galleries. His work moved from early landscape and architectural interest to abstraction but with a great variety of style and technique.
A member of the New English Art Club, from the late 1940s he exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy and in numerous commercial galleries in London. From the 1950s, his early figurative style began to change, becoming more abstract.
He said of his own work in 1951 that his abstract imagery were 'by-products of an inquisition primarily concerned not with what the eye sees but with what the intellect and emotion experience’.
In 1963 he moved to Cambridge to take up the post of Art Gallery Manager at Heffers at the time a well known local artists' materials and book sellers...
Category
1970s Abstract Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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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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