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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Period: 1970s
Period: Early 1900s
Reclining Nude Lady Model 1970's French Modernist Painting Provence Collection
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Artists Model
Nude Lady Model
French School, circa 1970's
signed oil painting on card, unframed
size: 16 x 24.5 inches
condition: overall very good, a very few light markings t...
Category
1970s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait. Cardboard, oil, 47x45 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait. Cardboard, oil, 47x45 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 comes...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Reclining Nude Lady Model 1970's French Modernist Painting Provence Collection
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Artists Model
Nude Lady Model
French School, circa 1970's
signed oil painting on card, unframed
size: 19.25 x 25.75 inches
condition: overall very good, a very few light marking...
Category
1970s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Reclining Nude Lady Model 1970's French Modernist Painting Provence Collection
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Artists Model
Nude Lady Model
French School, circa 1970's
signed oil painting on card, unframed
size: 17.5 x 24.5 inches
condition: overall very good, a very few light markings...
Category
1970s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Reclining Nude Lady Model 1970's French Modernist Painting Provence Collection
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Artists Model
Nude Lady Model
French School, circa 1970's
signed oil painting on card, unframed
size: 17.5 x 24.5 inches
condition: overall very good, a very few light markings ...
Category
1970s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lady In Red Open Jacket Model 1970's French Modernist Painting Provence
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Artists Model
Nude Lady Model
French School, circa 1970's
signed oil painting on card, unframed
size: 24.5 x 17 inches
condition: overall very good, a very few light markings to...
Category
1970s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lying Nude Lady Model 1970's French Modernist Painting Provence Collection
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Artists Model
Nude Lady Model
French School, circa 1970's
signed oil painting on card, unframed
size: 18.5 x 25.5 inches
condition: overall very good, a very few light markings t...
Category
1970s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Reclining Nude Lady Model 1970's French Modernist Painting Provence Collection
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Artists Model
Nude Lady Model
French School, circa 1970's
oil painting on card, unframed
size: 16.5 x 25.5 inches
condition: overall very good, a very few light markings to the...
Category
1970s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Reclining Nude Lady Model 1970's French Modernist Painting Provence Collection
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Artists Model
Nude Lady Model
French School, circa 1970's
oil painting on card, unframed
size: 18 x 25.5 inches
condition: overall very good, a very few light markings to the s...
Category
1970s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Reclining Nude Lady Model 1970's French Modernist Painting Provence Collection
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Artists Model
Nude Lady Model
French School, circa 1970's
oil painting on card, unframed
size: 19 x 25.5 inches
condition: overall very good, a very few light markings to the s...
Category
1970s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Murdered doll acrylic on board painting surrealism Ubeda
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Gustavo Úbeda (1930-1994) - Murdered doll - Acrylic panel
Acrylic measurements 61x91 cm.
Frameless.
The painting by Gustavo Úbeda Romero (Herencia, 1930 – Sao Paulo, 1994) comes fro...
Category
1970s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
1970's Posed Chic Model In Black Hat French Modernist Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Artists Model
Nude Lady Model
French School, circa 1970's
signed oil painting on card, unframed
size: 24.5 x 18.5 inches
condition: overall very good, a very few light markings...
Category
1970s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Reclining Nude Lady Model 1970's French Modernist Painting Provence Collection
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Artists Model
Nude Lady Model
French School, circa 1970's
signed oil painting on card, unframed
size: 19.5 x 24 inches
condition: overall very good, a very few light markings t...
Category
1970s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Reclining Nude Lady Model 1970's French Modernist Painting Provence Collection
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Artists Model
Nude Lady Model
French School, circa 1970's
oil painting on card, unframed
size: 18 x 23 inches
condition: overall very good, a very few light markings to the surf...
Category
1970s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Posed Lady Model On Chair 1970's French Modernist Painting Provence Collection
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Artists Model
Nude Lady Model
French School, circa 1970's
oil painting on card, unframed
size: 25.5 x 18 inches
condition: overall very good, a very few light markings to the s...
Category
1970s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nude Lady Model 1970's French Modernist Painting Provence Collection
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Artists Model
Nude Lady Model
French School, circa 1970's
signed oil painting on card, unframed
size: 17 x 24.5 inches
condition: overall very good, a very few light markings t...
Category
1970s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Picassian cubist figure oil on board painting cubism Picasso Ubeda
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Gustavo Úbeda (1930-1994) - Picassian surrealist figure - Oil on tablex.
Oil measures 50x40 cm.
Frame size 65x55 cm.
The painting by Gustavo Úbeda Romero (Herencia, 1930 – Sao Paulo...
Category
1970s Cubist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vintage French Surreal Young Woman Portrait Framed Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas by Jean Pierre Serrier (1934 - 1989). Framed. Signed. Lots of nice detail.
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mein Vater
By Heinz Otto Laub
Located in Wien, 9
Heinz-Otto Laub was born 1944 in Cologne (Germany), studied at the KA Munich under Mac Zimmermann and is actually working in Bonn. He is known in the first place for his surrealistic...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Locked in Love Huge French Modernist Original Oil Painting, Signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Locked in Love, Abstract Portrait, Original Oil Painting, Signed
By French artist Elisabeth Dujarric, b.1930-2005
Oil painting on canvas, unframed
Canvas size: 46 x 35 inches
Elisabeth Dujarric de la Rivière...
Category
1970s Abstract Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting - Profile Landscape 438.048
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Landscape 438.048 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting
Profile Landscape 438.048 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and p...
Category
1970s Feminist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Board Painting - Profile Landscape 438.019
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Landscape 438.019 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Board Painting
Profile Landscape 438.019 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and pai...
Category
1970s Feminist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Acrylic
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting - Profile Landscape 438.053
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Landscape 438.053 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting
Profile Landscape 438.053 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and pa...
Category
1970s Feminist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting - Profile Landscape 438.051
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Landscape 438.051 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting
Profile Landscape 438.051 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and pa...
Category
1970s Feminist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting - Profile Landscape 438.058
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Landscape 438.058 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting
Profile Landscape 438.058 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and pa...
Category
1970s Feminist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Acrylic, Board
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting - Profile Landscape 438.049
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Landscape 438.049 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting
Profile Landscape 438.049 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and p...
Category
1970s Feminist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting - Profile Landscape 438.054
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Landscape 438.054 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting
Profile Landscape 438.054 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 Paintings - Profile Landscape 438.052
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Landscape 438.052 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Paintings Diptych
Profile Landscape 438.052 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collag...
Category
1970s Feminist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting - Profile Landscape 438.056
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Landscape 438.056 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting
Profile Landscape 438.056 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and pa...
Category
1970s Feminist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Linen, Board
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting - Profile Landscape 438.057
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Landscape 438.057 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting
Profile Landscape 438.057 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and pa...
Category
1970s Feminist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board, Linen, Canvas
Self portrait oil on cardboard painting
By Jordi Curos
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curos - Self-portrait - Oil on cardboard
Oil measurements 55x46 cm.
Frameless.
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish painter.
He trained at the Olot ...
Category
1970s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
Woman posing mixed media painting
By Jordi Curos
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman
Mixed technique on canvas cardboard.
Work measurements 55x46 cm.
Frameless.
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish pa...
Category
1970s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Woman posing mixed media painting
By Jordi Curos
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman
Mixed technique on canvas cardboard.
Work measurements 55x46 cm.
Frameless.
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish pa...
Category
1970s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Huile sur toile signée Giuseppe P. Anzino et datée 1907. Portrait de Miss Margar
Located in ROYÈRE-DE-VASSIVIÈRE, FR
Huile sur toile signée Giuseppe P. Anzino et datée 1907. Portrait de Miss Margaret Elizabeth WAYNE
Très belle facture, en bon état, signé en haut à gauche.
Bel encadrement en bois et...
Category
Early 1900s English School 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
Canvas, Oil
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
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a notable
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
Early 1900s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Pop Art Portrait of Peter Max Original Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist portrait of iconic artist Peter Max. Signed. Framed. Original oil on canvas.
Category
1970s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Oil, Canvas
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
Characterful Portrait French Man with Hat & Pipe Signed & Dated 1903 Oil Paint
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Man with a Hat holding a Pipe
French School, signed and dated 1903
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 21.75 x 18 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: s...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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 427.019
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
Woman and vase mixed media painting
By Jordi Curos
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman and vase
Mixed technique on canvas board.
Work measurements 55x46 cm.
Frame size 60x51 cm.
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) ...
Category
1970s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
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 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
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 51x43 cm.
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Span...
Category
1970s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Christmas Shopping
By Max Cowper
Located in East Grinstead, GB
Max Cowper 1869-1911, was a Scottish artist who specialised in works of general subject matter and time, Edwardian and Victorian scenes with numerous persons in activity, dancing, sh...
Category
Early 1900s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Young woman watercolor
By Jordi Curos
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curos - Young woman - Watercolor
Watercolor measurements 40x32 cm.
Frame measurements 54x46 cm.
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish painter.
He tra...
Category
1970s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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 35x27 cm.
Frame size 40x32 cm.
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Span...
Category
1970s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
self portrait mixed media painting
By Jordi Curos
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - self portrait
Mixed technique on canvas board.
Work measurements 46x38 cm.
Frame size 63x55 cm.
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) i...
Category
1970s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
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