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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Period: 20th Century
Period: 1970s
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
Self Portrait of the Artist Man in Hat Exhibited Paris Salon 1985, large oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Self Portrait of the Artist
by Jacob Markiel (Polish 1911-2008) *See notes below
dated 1985
signed oil on board, unframed
board: 18 x 15 inches
provenanc...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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
Manner of Joseph Levin (1894-1979) - Russian School Oil, Portrait of a Women
Located in Corsham, GB
Vibrant colour and confident brushstrokes help depict this expressive portrait of a women. Painted in the manner of Russian artist Joseph Mikhailo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
20th Century Portrait of Young Lady Reading a Book large oil painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Lady Reading
by Jacob Markiel (Polish 1911-2008) *See notes below
oil on board, unframed
board: 29 x 24 inches
provenance: the artists estate, south of France
condition: very good an...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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
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
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
"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
Male Portrait Painting of US Army Officer
Located in San Francisco, CA
Male Portrait Painting of US Army Officer
No visible signature
Oil on canvas
10.5 x 13.75 unframed, 14x17.5 framed
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
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
Elegante au Parc - French Impressionist School, Figure in Landscape
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
A simply beautiful French Impressionist School oil on canvas of an elegant woman wearing a white blouse and black skirt and hat seated in a chair reading. Her parasol rests against t...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
"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...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
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...
Category
1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper
1940's French Impressionist Portrait of Young Lady Self Portrait Signed Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Young Woman
by Marguerite Lacroux (French/ Swiss 1898-1972)
dated 1948
signed oil on board, unframed
painting: 21.75 x 18.5 inches
provenance: private collection, Fran...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
1950s French Post Impressionist Nude Lady Artists Studio In Red Gown
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
Self Portrait (American Post-War, Impressionist, Suite - FREE U.S. Shipping)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Alex Tschernjawski
Self Portrait
Oil on Canvas
1960s
Size: 38x26x0.5in
Signed by hand
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-1827
*Condition: Good vintage condi...
Category
1960s Post-War Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait Head and Shoulders of a Man - Jewish 20s art male portrait oil painting
By Jacob Kramer
Located in London, GB
Jacob Kramer is a Jewish artist who migrated with his family to Leeds to escape the Russian pogroms when Kramer was only eight. This portrait oil painting was painted when Kramer was...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
Materials
Mixed Media
Tender Family Portrait - Mother and Child, Student of Robert Henri
Located in Miami, FL
Rendered with an alla prima paint application and quick gestural brushstrokes, "Tender Family Portrait - Mother and Child" reflects Margery Ryerson's deep knowledge of academic training. Reyerson studied with Robert Henri at The Art Students League. This painting is aesthetically pleasing and communicates a sense of maternal tenderness from a female artist. Margery Ryerson did a book on her former teacher. Henri's philosophical and practical musings were collected by former pupil Margery Ryerson and published as The Art Spirit (1923), a book that remained in print for several decades. Signed. Lower Left
Margery Austen Ryerson (September 15, 1886 - 1989) was an American artist, painter, etcher, lithographer and watercolorist.Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Biography
Ryerson earned her Bachelor's of Fine Arts in English from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, after attending private schools in Morristown. She went on to study under Charles Hawthorne at the Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and with Robert Henri at the Art Students League in New York.
During the years 1920 through 1940 Ryerson taught in New York settlement houses. There she got the privilege to paint and draw the children in their care. The subjects of these paintings were often the children of the underclass and immigrants. Her artistic technique and subjects gained universal recognition and appealed to many people. Miss Ryerson is most known for her portraits...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting - Profile Landscape 438.046
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Landscape 438.046 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting
Profile Landscape 438.046 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and p...
Category
1970s Feminist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mother and Child in Tender Moment - Female Illustrator Golden Age
Located in Miami, FL
Female Illustrator of the Golden Age, Ruth Mary Hallock, paints a sensitive, heartwarming portrait of Mother and Child in a post-impressionist style. Richly saturated hues and gestur...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
Impressionist Painting "Ballerina" by Andre Gisson
By André Gisson
Located in Rochester, NY
"Ballerinas" impressionist painting by Andre Gisson (1921-2003). Soft colors and bright light are hallmarks of Gissons work. This is rare subject manor for the artist. Although Ame...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Canvas, Oil
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting - Profile Landscape 438.044
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Landscape 438.044 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting
Profile Landscape 438.044 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and p...
Category
1970s Feminist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting - Profile Landscape 438.045
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Landscape 438.045 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting
Profile Landscape 438.045 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and p...
Category
1970s Feminist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic Canvas Painting Profile Compartmentalized 415.074
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Compartmentalized 415.074 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic and Paper on Canvas Painting
Profile Compartmentalized 415.074 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series...
Category
1970s Feminist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Acrylic
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...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
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...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
1900's French Oil Painting Impressionist Portrait Sketch Portrait Young Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of Young Lady
French School, early 1900's period
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 26 x 21 inches
provenance: private collection, Paris
condition: very good and sound condition
Category
Early 1900s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Art Deco Portrait of a Lady - British 1920's art female portrait oil painting
By Leon Sprinck
Located in London, GB
This lovely Art Deco portrait oil painting is by noted British prolific society portrait artist Leon Sprinck. Painted in 1924 it is a half length portrait of a beautiful blonde woman, stood smiling at the artist/viewer, her head tilted to one side. We don't know the sitter's name or her relationship to the artist but her pose suggests a degree of familiarity and warmth between them. She is wearing a sleeveless black dress with beautiful Art Deco motifs, a long string of pearls...
Category
1920s Art Deco Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting - Profile Preliminary 427.009
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Preliminary 427.009 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting
Profile Preliminary 427.009 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages a...
Category
1970s Feminist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting - Profile Preliminary 427.010
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Preliminary 427.010 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting
Profile Preliminary 427.010 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages a...
Category
1970s Feminist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting - Profile Preliminary 427.019
Located in New York, NY
Profile Preliminary 427.019 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting
Profile Preliminary 427.019 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and paintings ...
Category
1970s Feminist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic Canvas Painting Profile Compartmentalized 415.032
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Compartmentalized 415.032 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting
Profile Compartmentalized 415.032 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings...
Category
1970s Feminist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mid 20th Century Expressionist Portrait Lady in Gondola Venice Signed Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Lady in Gondola, Venice
French/ Italian School, mid 20th century,
indistinctly signed
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 39.5 x 28.75 inches
provenance: private collection, Provence
c...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
Style of Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) - Mid 20th Century Oil, Gazing Woman
Located in Corsham, GB
A stylish portrait completed in the style of Tamara de Lempicka. The subject of the portrait is a striking young woman with long black hair and piercing blue eyes. Unsigned. On canva...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
A woman. 1962. Oil on canvas, 80x60 cm
Located in Riga, LV
A woman. 1962. Oil on canvas, 80x60 cm
Laimdots Murnieks has said: "I am a sunny artist. The sun and a woman are the center of the world. It is not for nothing that the sun always ...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Girl with Toy Dog
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
WILLIAM CROSSBIE RSA (1915-1999)
Described by the Royal Scottish Academy as “one of the finest and most singular Scottish painters of the twentieth century”, am Crosby trained at Gla...
Category
20th Century Other Art Style Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
1947 Expressionist Oil Painting Flute Player Musician Boris Deutsch WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Boris Deutsch (American Lithuanian Russian, 1892-1978)
"The Flute Player," 1947
Oil paint on canvas,
Hand signed and dated upper left,
Provenance: gallery label (Pasadena Art Museu...
Category
1920s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Yoga Pose Surreal Woman Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist oil painting of a woman stretching. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
IRINA
Located in Sempach, LU
I am interested in portraits that reveal all the complexity and versatility of a person's spiritual appearance, when the inner content is revealed through the external.
Painting a p...
Category
1980s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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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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Cecilia Vicuña Merges Politics, Science and Spirituality in Her Poetic Art
The Chilean creator, who has been living in exile in New York for decades, is having a major moment, receiving the biggest exhibitions, commissions and awards an artist could dream of.
In Christopher Spitzmiller’s New York Homes, His Love of Dogs Is on Full Display
The ceramist, designer and gentleman farmer tells us about the collection of antique dog art he has spread across a New York City apartment and a Greek Revival farmhouse in the Hudson Valley.
This Wiener Werkstätte Master Made Everything into Art
Koloman Moser smashed the conservative conventions of art and design in fin-de-siècle Vienna. On the 100th anniversary of his death, the Austrian designer is being celebrated for his radically modern creations.
A Rare Q&A with American Legend Alex Katz
On the eve of a new exhibition just north of New York City, the nonagenarian contemporary-art icon talked with ‘Introspective’ about his long and ongoing career, the development of his signature style and his rather malleable definition of realism.
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Jean Baptiste Greuze
Circle Of Sir Godfrey Kneller
Donal Judd
Young Lady With Cat
Edward Francis Wells
Queen Elizabeth 2 Portrait
Tiffany Background Images
Abe Lincoln
Gentleman In Armor
Hollis Dunlap
Rubens Circle
Charles Edward Stuart
Shannon Wood Paintings
Pilgrim Portraits
Dali Travel Poster
Crime And Punishment
18th C French Lady Paintings