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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Style: Folk Art
Style: Post-War
The Eyes of the Lord Moves Round (Howard Finister in Ghana ? )
Located in Miami, FL
"The Eyes of the Lord Moves Round in All Places Beholding the Good and the Evil" Is Kwame Akoto ( All-Mighty God) the Ghanian Howard Finister? His works...
Category

Early 2000s Folk Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Plywood, Mixed Media, Oil

Man in quest of himself Mohammad Ariyaei 21st Century Iranian outsider art paint
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Signed lower left by the artist
Category

2010s Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

The Lovers Mohammad Ariyaei 21st Century art Iranian painting outsider art
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Hand-signed low in the center « Here the barbaric or savage ceremonies of New Guinea take on the air of Rio carnival. Here the vita...
Category

2010s Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

The Initiate by Frank Chabry - Oil on canvas 65.5x50.5 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Frank Chabry (1916-1979) was a 20th-century artist whose career spanned several transformative decades in the art world. His work likely reflects the arti...
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Mid-20th Century Post-War Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Editor and Typist - Mid Century Women's Magazine Illustration Naive art
Located in Miami, FL
Lorraine Fox was a pioneering female Illustrator/artist who championed a unique style immediately identified as hers. This work, in two parts, was most likely for a newsstand woman's...
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1950s Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Illustration Board

Rabbi Reading by Candlelight, Oil Painting by Abraham Straski, 1959
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rabbi Reading by Candlelight (6-F) Abraham Straski, Polish (1903–1987) Date: 1959 Oil on Canvas, signed and dated Size: 23 x 19 in. (58.42 x 48.26 cm) Fr...
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1950s Post-War Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Oil

Perfect Moment
Located in Brecon, Powys
Acrylic on canvas. Signed. Ready to hang
Category

2010s Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

One-of-a-kind Textured painting on board, "Andrew Jackson" by Serg Graff, COA
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This striking acrylic mixed-media painting on board by Serg Graff presents a wild, expressionist portrait of Andrew Jackson (American lawyer, planter, general, and statesman who ser...
Category

2010s Folk Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Celluloid Manga Characters 2
Located in Genève, GE
Original ink and gouache cello with sketch White wooden frame with plastic protection 42.5 x 32.5 x 3.5 cm
Category

Late 20th Century Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Ink, Gouache

painting in folk style by Shiporina " Cabbage that sheltered the golden lion"
Located in Zofingen, AG
The cabbage that sheltered the golden lion is a picture drawn in folk style. A beautiful lion and a magical angel will help in life situations.
Category

2010s Folk Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Tempera

"Spring 1945", Galina Pshenitsina, Post-War, Figurative, 38x31, Impressionist
Located in Dallas, TX
Galina Vasilevna Pshenitsina was born in 1940 in the town of Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod). She began her studies at the Art School named after Johanson in St. Petersburg. In 1959, she...
Category

1980s Post-War Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

LILAC SONG OF SPRING
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
OIL ON CANVAS Ready to hang. Shipping from Belarus, Minsk. Natalia Ivanova is a well-known Belarusian painter working in the style of symbolic figurat...
Category

2010s Folk Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Estee, Oil on Panel, Folk Art, Estee Lauder, Portraits, The Outsiders, 20 x 15
Located in Houston, TX
Quote from Estee Lauder "Be Strong. Be Confident " Be the Star of your own life". "Keep and eye on the competition but this doesn't mean copying them." Below are other paintings available by Tommy...
Category

2010s Folk Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Wood Panel, Acrylic

Girl on Beach, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A young woman stands on the beach, a red flower adding a touch of whimsy to her pink bikini. Bold lines outline her figure as stylized waves crash behind her....

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21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

The Pause, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
This painting captures a moment of quiet deliberation. A stunning woman with thick, lustrous hair gazes thoughtfully toward an unseen companion, her expressio...

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21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Mississippi John Hurt, Portrait Painting by George Hunt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: George Hunt, American Title: Mississippi John Hurt Year: 1993 Medium: Acrylic on Paper, signed Size: 40 x 29 inches Frame: 44.25 x 33.25 ...
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1990s Folk Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Artist Self-Portrait, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
This self-portrait captures a quiet moment with a neutral expression. The piece magnifies the artist's desire to live true and minimally, reflecting a sincere...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Boy Reading, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
An eight-year-old boy, thoughtfully engaged in reading one early autumn morning. This painting depicts the artist Jessica JH Roller's son, Fox, calmly immerse...

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21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Judy, Oil on Panel, Folk Art, Last Photo of Judy Garland, Outsiders, Portraits
Located in Houston, TX
Judy is painted after the last photograph of Judy Garland. Judy is painted on a wood panel in oil. There is no need for a frame. Also shown are the other paintings available by Tommy Cheng...
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2010s Folk Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Wood Panel, Acrylic

Saint Minecraft II (Block Building, Pixel Art, Gaming Creativity)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Golfam Jozdani Saint Minecraft II 2024 Mixed Media on Cardboard; Acrylic, Pencil, Colored Pencil Size: 9.44 x 14.17 inches (24 x 36 cm) Signed and dated...
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2010s Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Cardboard, Pencil, Color Pencil

L 'Amour de l'éternité 1998
Located in Nice, FR
Unique representative piece from the jewish school . Born painter 1936 in Paris dead in 2022 . Son of a Russian emigre of semitic and slavic culture , he bathed from his earliest c...
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1990s Post-War Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Whimsical Judaica Shtetl Shadchan Matchmaker Oil Painting WPA Jewish Folk Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern Subject: Fiddler on the roof, Shtetl matchmaker Medium: Oil Surface: Board, size includes artist decorated frame Country: United States The imagery of Maurice Kish (18...
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Adolescence: Water Balloons
Located in East Hampton, NY
An Adolescence young girl wearing a buuny head COMES ON STRETCHED CANVAS, UNFRAMED. About the Artist: Georgia Griffin is a self-taught artist working primarily in acrylic and oil. S...
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2010s Folk Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Portrait in Wildflowers, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Jessica JH Roller paints a woman sitting on the ground with her legs crossed. Vibrant wildflowers in pink and red thrive all around her. "Summer is in ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Say Chocolate: Contemporary Mixed Media Figurative Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
" Say Chocolate" 'part of a series of 'Calendar Ladies'. A departure from the works we generally associate with Therese. Great " Wall Candy" from this very talented Welsh artist. Pe...
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21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic Polymer

Celluloid Manga Characters 1
Located in Genève, GE
Original ink and gouache cello with sketch White wooden frame with plastic protection 32.5 x 42.5 x 3.5 cm
Category

Late 20th Century Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Ink, Gouache

Celluloid Manga Characters 3
Located in Genève, GE
Original ink and gouache cello with sketch White wooden frame with plastic protection 42.5 x 32.5 x 3.5 cm
Category

Late 20th Century Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Ink, Gouache

Framed Polish Rabbi, Realist Oil Painting by Abraham Straski
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Abraham Straski, Polish (1903 - 1987) Title: Untitled - Polish Rabbi Year: 1952 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Image Size: 16 x 12 inches Frame Size: 26 x 20 inches
Category

1950s Post-War Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Brand New Harold, colorful abstract figure and text
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Portrait, figure, narrative, interior. Oil on canvas.
Category

2010s Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Outsider Folk Art Expressionist Rabbi Israeli Painting Signed Hebrew Jewish Star
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a signed portrait painting done in an outsider, folk art, expressionist style. it is signed in Hebrew, also marked with a Jewish star. this is from a collection of works by the same hand. they are all signed. Some have markings to the back of the paper. they have some age to them. They bear similarities to artists as dissimilar as Moshe Tamir, Mane Katz and an Israeli version of Purvis Young. In this piece the artist choice of colors is muted yet powerful. Israel has had a Vibrant Folk Art, Naive art scene for a long time now, artists like Yisrael Paldi, Nahum Guttman, Reuven Rubin and even Yefim Ladyzhensky had naive periods. The most well know of the strict naive artists are Shalom of Safed, Irene Awret, Gabriel Cohen, Natan Heber, Michael Falk and Kopel Gurwin. Naïve art is any form of visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes (in anatomy, art history, technique, perspective, ways of seeing). Unlike folk art, naïve art does not necessarily evince a distinct cultural context or tradition. Naïve art is recognized, and often imitated, for its childlike simplicity and frankness. Paintings of this kind typically have a flat rendering style with a rudimentary expression of perspective. One particularly influential painter of "naïve art" was Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), a French Post-Impressionist who was discovered by Pablo Picasso. Naïve art is often seen as outsider art that is by someone without formal (or little) training or degree. While this was true before the twentieth century, there are now academies for naïve art. Naïve art is now a fully recognized art genre, represented in art galleries worldwide. Museums devoted to naïve art now exist in Kecskemét, Hungary; Riga, Latvia; Jaen, Spain; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Vicq France and Paris. "Primitive art" is another term often applied to art by those without formal training, but is historically more often applied to work from certain cultures that have been judged socially or technologically "primitive" by Western academia, such as Native American, sub saharan African or Pacific Island art (see Tribal art). This is distinguished from the self-conscious, "primitive" inspired movement primitivism. Another term related to (but not completely synonymous with) naïve art is folk art. There also exist the terms "naïvism" and "primitivism" which are usually applied to professional painters working in the style of naïve art (like Paul Gauguin, Mikhail Larionov, Paul Klee). At all events, naive art can be regarded as having occupied an "official" position in the annals of twentieth-century art since - at the very latest - the publication of the Der Blaue Reiter, an almanac in 1912. Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, who brought out the almanac, presented 6 reproductions of paintings by le Douanier' Rousseau (Henri Rousseau), comparing them with other pictorial examples. However, most experts agree that the year that naive art was "discovered" was 1885, when the painter Paul Signac became aware of the talents of Henri Rousseau and set about organizing exhibitions of his work in a number of prestigious galleries. The Earth Group (Grupa Zemlja) were Croatian artists, architects and intellectuals active in Zagreb from 1929 to 1935. The group included the painters Krsto Hegedušić, Edo Kovačević, Omer Mujadžić, Kamilo Ružička, Ivan Tabaković, and Oton Postružnik, the sculptors Antun Augustinčić, Frano Kršinić, and the architect Drago Ibler. Art brut, primitive art, primitive, art naïf, naïve art. Outsider art. A term applied to Yugoslav (Croatian) naive painters working in or around the village of Hlebine, near the Hungarian border, from about 1930. Some of the best known naive artists are Dragan Gaži, Ivan Generalić, Josip Generalić, Krsto Hegedušić, Mijo Kovačić, Ivan Lacković-Croata, Franjo Mraz, Ivan Večenaj and Mirko Virius. Camille Bombois (1883–1970) Ferdinand Cheval, known as 'le facteur Cheval' (1836–1924) Henry Darger (1892–1973) L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) Grandma Moses, Anna Mary Robertson (1860–1961) Nikifor (1895–1968) Poland, Horace Pippin (1888–1946) Jon Serl (1894-1993) United States Alfred Wallis (1855–1942) Scottie Wilson (1890–1972) Gesner Abelard (b. 1922) Jan Balet (1913–2009) Michel Delacroix (b. 1933) France Howard Finster (1916–2001) Ivan Rabuzin (1921–2008) Spontaneous Art Museum in Brussels Art en Marge Museum in Brussels MADmusée in Liege International Museum of Naive Art of Brazil in Cosme Velho, Rio de Janeiro Gallery Jacques Ardies in São Paulo Musée international d'art naïf de Magog in Magog Croatian Museum of Naïve Art in Zagreb Gallery of Croatian Naïve Art...
Category

20th Century Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Rabbi and Torah, Oil Painting by Abraham Straski
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Abraham Straski, Polish (1903 - 1987) Title: Rabbi and Torah Year: circa 1957 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Image Size: 16 x 12 inches Frame Size: 26 x 20 inches
Category

1950s Post-War Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Outsider Folk Art Expressionist Rabbi Israeli Painting Signed Hebrew Jewish Star
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a signed portrait painting done in an outsider, folk art, expressionist style. it is signed in Hebrew, also marked with a Jewish star. this is from a collection of works by the same hand. they are all signed. Some have markings to the back of the paper. they have some age to them. They bear similarities to artists as dissimilar as Moshe Tamir, Mane Katz and an Israeli version of Purvis Young. In this piece the artist choice of colors is muted yet powerful. Israel has had a Vibrant Folk Art, Naive art scene for a long time now, artists like Yisrael Paldi, Nahum Guttman, Reuven Rubin and even Yefim Ladyzhensky had naive periods. The most well know of the strict naive artists are Shalom of Safed, Irene Awret, Gabriel Cohen, Natan Heber, Michael Falk and Kopel Gurwin. Naïve art is any form of visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes (in anatomy, art history, technique, perspective, ways of seeing). Unlike folk art, naïve art does not necessarily evince a distinct cultural context or tradition. Naïve art is recognized, and often imitated, for its childlike simplicity and frankness. Paintings of this kind typically have a flat rendering style with a rudimentary expression of perspective. One particularly influential painter of "naïve art" was Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), a French Post-Impressionist who was discovered by Pablo Picasso. Naïve art is often seen as outsider art that is by someone without formal (or little) training or degree. While this was true before the twentieth century, there are now academies for naïve art. Naïve art is now a fully recognized art genre, represented in art galleries worldwide. Museums devoted to naïve art now exist in Kecskemét, Hungary; Riga, Latvia; Jaen, Spain; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Vicq France and Paris. "Primitive art" is another term often applied to art by those without formal training, but is historically more often applied to work from certain cultures that have been judged socially or technologically "primitive" by Western academia, such as Native American, sub saharan African or Pacific Island art (see Tribal art). This is distinguished from the self-conscious, "primitive" inspired movement primitivism. Another term related to (but not completely synonymous with) naïve art is folk art. There also exist the terms "naïvism" and "primitivism" which are usually applied to professional painters working in the style of naïve art (like Paul Gauguin, Mikhail Larionov, Paul Klee). At all events, naive art can be regarded as having occupied an "official" position in the annals of twentieth-century art since - at the very latest - the publication of the Der Blaue Reiter, an almanac in 1912. Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, who brought out the almanac, presented 6 reproductions of paintings by le Douanier' Rousseau (Henri Rousseau), comparing them with other pictorial examples. However, most experts agree that the year that naive art was "discovered" was 1885, when the painter Paul Signac became aware of the talents of Henri Rousseau and set about organizing exhibitions of his work in a number of prestigious galleries. The Earth Group (Grupa Zemlja) were Croatian artists, architects and intellectuals active in Zagreb from 1929 to 1935. The group included the painters Krsto Hegedušić, Edo Kovačević, Omer Mujadžić, Kamilo Ružička, Ivan Tabaković, and Oton Postružnik, the sculptors Antun Augustinčić, Frano Kršinić, and the architect Drago Ibler. Art brut, primitive art, primitive, art naïf, naïve art. Outsider art. A term applied to Yugoslav (Croatian) naive painters working in or around the village of Hlebine, near the Hungarian border, from about 1930. Some of the best known naive artists are Dragan Gaži, Ivan Generalić, Josip Generalić, Krsto Hegedušić, Mijo Kovačić, Ivan Lacković-Croata, Franjo Mraz, Ivan Večenaj and Mirko Virius. Camille Bombois (1883–1970) Ferdinand Cheval, known as 'le facteur Cheval' (1836–1924) Henry Darger (1892–1973) L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) Grandma Moses, Anna Mary Robertson (1860–1961) Nikifor (1895–1968) Poland, Horace Pippin (1888–1946) Jon Serl (1894-1993) United States Alfred Wallis (1855–1942) Scottie Wilson (1890–1972) Gesner Abelard (b. 1922) Jan Balet (1913–2009) Michel Delacroix (b. 1933) France Howard Finster (1916–2001) Ivan Rabuzin (1921–2008) Spontaneous Art Museum in Brussels Art en Marge Museum in Brussels MADmusée in Liege International Museum of Naive Art of Brazil in Cosme Velho, Rio de Janeiro Gallery Jacques Ardies in São Paulo Musée international d'art naïf de Magog in Magog Croatian Museum of Naïve Art in Zagreb Gallery of Croatian Naïve Art...
Category

20th Century Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Whisky Drinkers of Ireland, Scotland, Canada, the United States Relief Sculpture
Located in Miami, FL
Famed American Illustrator Paul Davis of 1968 Che Guevara poster fame illustrates an article about Whisky from Ireland, Scotland, Canada, and the United States. He executes the wor...
Category

1960s Folk Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Wood, Oil

Mary Dwyer, Elizabeth Cady Stanton_Seneca Falls 1870s_2014_acrylic on board,
Located in Darien, CT
These new paintings illuminate individuals of the American Suffrage Movement. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ida B Wells and Alice Paul, each one intelligent, brave and incredibly relentless in the struggle to attain voting rights for American women. This series of paintings portrays the ardent women involved in the American Suffrage Movement which led up to the 19th Amendment...
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2010s Folk Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Board

Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Moses Bible Painting Self Taught Outsider Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
MALCAH ZELDIS (American-Israeli, b. 1931) Moses and the burning bush, 1982, gouache on paper, Hand signed and dated lower middle. Paper 9''h, 11-3/4''w...
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1980s Folk Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Wonder Woman
Located in East Hampton, NY
Faceless Wonder Woman Female POWER Oil Painting There are more super hero painting Comes ROLLED in a tube Needs framing NY Artist Y.M. Lo oil painting. ...
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2010s Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Bob Ross, The Joy of Painting, PBS, Acrylic on Panel, The Outsiders, Folk Art
Located in Houston, TX
Quote from Bob Ross "Only a few "Happy Accidents on this One" LOOK FOR FREE 1STDIBS SHIPPING WHEN YOU CHECK OUT Robert Norman Ross was an American painter,...
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2010s Folk Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Wood Panel, Acrylic

Badami People, Oil on Canvas, White Purple Green Color "In Stock"
By JMS Mani
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
JMS Mani - Badami People Oil on Canvas - 16 x 12 inches each (unframed size) 20 x 18 inches ( Framed ) Inclusive of packing . The simple, rustic folk of the Deccan Plateau in Sout...
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2010s Folk Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Rabbi with Torah, Oil Painting by Abraham Straski 1950
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rabbi with Torah Abraham Straski, Polish (1903–1987) Date: 1950 Oil on Canvas on Wood, signed and dated Size: 16 x 12 in. (40.64 x 30.48 cm) Frame Size: 19.5 x 15.5 inches
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1950s Post-War Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Wood

Girl with Cat
Located in Washington, DC
Painting by Noche Crist (1909 - 2004). Work is untitled and signed. Measures 22" x 12". Painting is casein paint and plaster on board. Catalogue of an exhibition in 2008 at the...
Category

1960s Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Violinist, Oil Painting by Abraham Straski
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Abraham Straski, Polish (1903 - 1987) Title: Violinist Year: 1958 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Image Size: 12 x 15 inches Frame Size: 20 x 22.5 inches
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1950s Post-War Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Elegant, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
"She emanates an aura of quiet strength while maintaining a delicate presence at the same time," says artist Sharon Sieben. She captures a woman mid-stride, w...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Carpathian Ancestor
Located in Washington, DC
One of a kind painting by Noche Crist (1909- 2004). Noche Crist was an American artist born in Romania. Painting is on casein paint on plaster on board. Catalogue of a postumous retr...
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1960s Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Plaster, Wood, Casein

Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting King David Self Taught Outsider Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
MALCAH ZELDIS (American-Israeli, b. 1931), ''David and Saul'', 1982, Gouache on paper Hand signed and dated lower right, titled in pencil on paper verso...
Category

1980s Folk Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

"Messenger" Symbolic Ocre and blue Acrylic paint Figure Folk Art painting.
Located in Segovia, ES
"Messenger" (Mensajero). Symbolic Ocre and blue Acrylic paint Figure Folk Art painting. Acrylic/wood panel. Dimension art: (H) 41 x (W) 30 x (D) 5...
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2010s Folk Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Wood Panel, Acrylic

purple hat, social observation, portrait of woman with red hat,
Located in Brooklyn, NY
*ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagina...
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2010s Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Crown Jewels, colorful, figurative, outsider, narrative, three women, hats
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil n canvas Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagination, wr...
Category

2010s Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Hollywood, colorful, playful, narrative, outsider,
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on canvas Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagination, w...
Category

2010s Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1950s Abstract Oil Painting, Fertility Goddesses, Nude Figures, Pink Blue Green
Located in Denver, CO
This stunning mid-20th century abstract figurative painting titled "Fertility Goddesses" by renowned Denver modernist Edward Marecak (1919-1993) features three stylized nude female f...
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1950s Folk Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Back". Raquel Fariñas symbolic and colorful Folk Art style painting
Located in Segovia, ES
"Back" (De vuelta). Acrylic on canvas. Dimension: 30 cm x 20 cm x 2 cm / Inches: 11.81 x 7.87 x 1.58 " The pictures of Raquel Fariñas are presented ...
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2010s Folk Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Portrait of Boy" Portrait Drawing 14" x 10" inch (1970) by Youssef Sida
Located in Culver City, CA
"Portrait of Boy" Portrait Drawing 14" x 10" inch (1970) by Youssef Sida Signed and dated 1970 Youssef Sida 1922-1994 Born in 1922 in Damietta, and in 1945 he got his degree from t...
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20th Century Post-War Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink

The Eye - African Abstract Painting Blue Yellow Brown Green White Beige Orange
Located in Sofia, BG
"The Eye" is an African abstract portrait painting by the talented Togolese artist Daté kodjo AMOUZOU. Through his art, he has a very sharp and unique styl...
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2010s Folk Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

"Villageoise II" Pastel on Paper 12" x 20" inch (1987) by Inji Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"Villageoise II" Pastel on Paper 12" x 20" inch (1987) by Inji Efflatoun Signed and dated Inji Eflatoun pursued free studies in art. Since 1942, she has participated in the exhibi...
Category

20th Century Post-War Portrait Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Love Mohammad Ariyaei 21st Century Iranian art Contemporary paint outsider art
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on paper Signed in the center
Category

2010s Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Paper

Mysticism Mohammad Ariyaei 21st Century painting outsider Iranian art colourful
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Hand-signed lower right « Here the barbaric or savage ceremonies of New Guinea take on the air of Rio carnival. Here the vitality bursts and the colors dance the jig while thundering. A charivari of African masks, children's drawings and neon colors invades the meticulously meshed backdrops with volcanic overflows. It seems that within a kindergarten class, merry feathered wizards have joined together to cover the canvas or the paper with totemic figures strewn with the most inventively unexpected graffiti, in a creative frenzy so bubbling that the anarchy that threat recovers as in spite of itself a semblance of balance. The graphic design performs an enveloping and virtuoso dance that passes from the most wisely academic exercise to the most exuberant and Dionysian lyrical expressionism. It's flamboyant, paroxysmal and wonderfully joyful. Should we detect here any influence of the spirit of "outsider art", today widespread worldwide? Perhaps, but then it is undeniable that the personal temperament of Mohammad ARIYAEI...
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2010s Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Untitled Mohammad Ariyaei 21st Century Iranian art outsider art painting
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Signed by the artist
Category

2010s Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Untitled Mohammad Ariyaei 21st Century Iranian art outsider art painting
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Signed by the artist
Category

2010s Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

I am a Rich Man
Located in Miami, FL
Enter Kwame's world. In this work, Kwame looks to the divine for the attachment to worldly things. Almighty God (Kwame Akoto) is a non-academic artist ...
Category

Early 2000s Folk Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Portrait Paintings for Sale on 1stDibs

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.

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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