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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Style: Modern
Style: Abstract
"Blade sharpening" by Marie Désiré Bourgoin - Watercolor
Located in Geneva, CH
French water painter
Work on paper
Gilded wooden frame
42,5 x 34 x 1,5 cm
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The smokers. Figurative painting. Colorful landscape with figures smoking.
By Igor Fomin
Located in Segovia, ES
The smokers. Figurative painting. Colorful Landscape with figures.
Acrylic on canvas.
Measurements in centimeters: 89 x 146 x 3 cm. / Framed: 114 x 171 x 5 cm.
In inches: 35.04 x 57.48 x 1.18 ". / Framed: 44.88 x 67.32 x 1.9 "
In the background, a beautiful city with classical buildings and a a forest; in the foreground, a small park where smokers gather next to the fountain crowned by a cupid holding a cigarette between his fingers. It is a group of six men and three women. They all smoke. They enjoy the smoke as they blow it out of their mouths, making shapes with it and interacting with each other in various poses.
Hands emerge from the trees of the nearby forest holding lighted matches between their fingers as a lure to attract smokers to the darkness of the forest. A very dreamlike image to represent the temptation of the forbidden.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Fomin is a storytelling artist. He is a storyteller in his everyday, anecdotally narrating the funny side of life, and he is a storyteller in his professional life, bringing to the canvas realistic popular scenes set in fairy-tale settings where the subject matter is always treated with irony and humor.
The titles of his paintings tell us about eccentric characters of an era, a culture, a society (which one?) - it doesn't matter, it is a distorted reality with a romantic and sentimental touch, which takes us to references such as Brueghel the Elder, El Bosco and Chagall, within an aesthetic and chromatism typical of Renaissance painting where Fomin develops his original scenes playing with the design of spaces, landscapes, buildings, characters and costumes. A stage director who makes us smile, but also reflect on his original interpretation of the human being, because this is the main protagonist of his paintings.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Igor Fomin...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Nature and Human Relationships – Embrace 3 – 50F" Portrait of Princess Diana
By Suki Maguire
Located in New York, NY
Unorthodox; yet effective, Suki treats us to a series of works that tantalizes the imagination with bold strokes of dark and light, hinting at shapes both human and ethereal and pull...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Mixed Media
Young Girl With Green Eyes - Oil on Canvas Hand Signed
Located in Paris, FR
Jean-Baptiste Valadié
Young girl with green eyes, 1960
original oil on canvas
Signed and dated bottom right
On canvas size 65 x 46 cm (c. 21 x 13 in)
Very good condition
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Françoise by Jean-Pierre Cassigneul - Portrait painting
Located in London, GB
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Françoise by Jean-Pierre Cassigneul (b. 1935)
Oil on canvas
55 x 46 cm (21 ⁵/₈ x 18 ¹/₈ inches)
Signed lower left, CASS...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
1950's Mid Century modern English oil portrait of a woman seated in an interior
Located in Woodbury, CT
1950's Mid Century modern English oil portrait of a woman seated in an interior
The artist was a portrait and figure painter active during the 1950s-1960s
Great use of color and abstract brush strokes...
Category
1950s Abstract Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
SET 3 FACES
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
3 paintings included, 29.7x42cm each painting
Painting made 100% by hand, with many details and corners to explore, like a true garden full of wealth and different essences.
Orig...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
SET 2 FACES
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
2 paintings included, 30x30cm each painting
Painting made 100% by hand, with many details and corners to explore, like a true garden full of wealth and different essences.
Original...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Space, Geometric Floral Patterns Diptych, Urban Style Deconstructed Architecture
Located in Barcelona, ES
The paintings of Aleix Font (Sabadell, Spain, 1984) function as a narrative between the collective and the individual world, exploring space and its interactions with concepts such a...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Portrait Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic, Handmade Paper
SET 3 FACES
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
3 paintings included, 29.7x42cm each painting
Painting made 100% by hand, with many details and corners to explore, like a true garden full of wealth and different essences.
Origin...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Clown Boy from Paris, Oil Painting by Felix Felmart 1964
By Felix Felmart
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Felix Felmart, Spanish XXth
Title: Clown Boy from Paris
Year: 1964
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l.
Size: 28 x 20 in. (71.12 x 50.8 cm)
Frame Size: 36 x 28 inches
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
XingGuang Zheng Abstract Nude Ladies Party 2
Located in New York, NY
Title: Abstract Figurative 2
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 15.25"" x 11.5""
Frame: Framing options available!
Age: 2000s
Condition: Painting appears to be in excellent condition....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Grandmother
Located in Kansas City, MO
Lee Heinemann
Grandmother
Acrylic on Canvas
Year: 2007
Size: 16in diameter, 0.5in deep
Signed and dated by hand on verso
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-1704
Tags: Portrait, Vibrant, Drip...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
'Rona Wars: Cyberpunk Edition, ' by XVALA, Mixed Media Painting
By XVALA
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 61" x 44" mixed media painting by the artist XVALA is from his series 'Pandemic Collection: 6.' The painting was created with iridescent oil stick and spray paint on a screen print of a Star Wars poster. The abstracted "Basquiat-inspired" work depicts a silver robot with red eyes and large white teeth on a purple and blue background with the text 'cyber punk' in red at the bottom of the painting.
2020 twisted human reality in a number of ways no one could ever have predicted. XVALA pays tribute to this by melding the original Star Wars movie poster with the unexpected weirdness of the 21st Century. By combining a classic sci-fi villain with a modern symbol of literal Cyberpunk, XVALA shows the COVID-19 virus aimed straight toward the earth with a mission to destroy it.
Exhibited during the Pandemic Paintings exhibition at the Meme Ranch August 7th, 2020.
XVALA's art illuminates the hidden fallout spawned from our high tech Internet age. His' Fear Google' campaign exposed the decay of privacy and 'No Delete' used hacked nude celebrity photos to highlight loss of control over personal information. The artist has worked with trash from the homes of Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and others, as well as dirt from the graves of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. The dirt appears in the 'New World Order' collection as part of a pyramidal, 3D printed, living ant farm...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Screen, Spray Paint, Oil Crayon
Sophie
Located in Greenwich, CT
Sophie is an expressive and highly individualistic Post Impressionist work reminiscent of Chaim Soutine. Cottavoz isn known and celebrated for using incredibly thick paint that is a...
Category
1960s Abstract Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Queen- original-royal cubism figurative-portrait painting-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
Step into regal elegance with Borja Guijarro's striking portrait, "The Queen." This original cubist masterpiece breathes new life into the iconic image of Queen Elizabeth, portraying...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Heads Together II
Located in Toronto, ON
Pita Ohiwerei has displayed a mastery of mediums, painting primarily in oils and in watercolours. In his genre paintings, Pita represents the spirit of people by capturing spaces of...
Category
2010s Abstract Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sister Break II
Located in Toronto, ON
Pita Ohiwerei has displayed a mastery of mediums, painting primarily in oils and in watercolours. In his genre paintings, Pita represents the spirit of people by capturing spaces of...
Category
2010s Abstract Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sister Break I
Located in Toronto, ON
Pita Ohiwerei has displayed a mastery of mediums, painting primarily in oils and in watercolours. In his genre paintings, Pita represents the spirit of people by capturing spaces of...
Category
2010s Abstract Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blue Dress, Framed Oil Painting by Donald Roy Purdy
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Donald Roy Purdy, American (1924 - )
Title: Blue Dress
Year: circa 1962
Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed l.l.
Size: 30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 60.96 cm)
Frame Size: 38 x 32 inches
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Figurative Portrait Oil Painting - Mellowing
Located in Bristol, GB
MELLOWING
Oil on Board
Size: 40.5 x 49 cm (including frame)
A wonderfully expressive and brilliantly executed figurative portrait composition, painted in oil onto board.
Against a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Glass
Outstanding in His Field
Located in London, GB
'Outstanding in His Field', oil on cardstock paper, by Raymond Debiève, 1976. The artist depicts a salt-of-the-earth farmer seated on a fence post, arms crossed with a look of wholeh...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Mini Swedish Figurative Portrait Painting - Whispers
Located in Bristol, GB
WHISPERS
Mixed Media on Board
Size: 30 x 37 cm (including frame)
A wonderfully expressive and brilliantly executed figurative composition in mixed media (oil, watercolour gouache),...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Watercolor, Gouache
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
The revolt of the innocents by Gilbert Pauli - Oil on canvas 130x97 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on canvas without frame
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Sensitivity"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This artwork makes part of my new period in my artistic expression.
This painting dedicated to "Women" series is a special one since it is all about my strong deep personal transfor...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Peter Robert Keil Acrylic on Canvas Colorful & Dynamic Portrait
By Peter Keil
Located in Hudson, NY
Peter Robert Keil painting on stretched thick canvas. Lovely colorful portrait.
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Abstract Figurative Red Pink Gestural Oil Portrait Modern Contemporary
Located in ALCOY/ALCOI, ES
Verano
Description: Oil on canvas, figurative, red, pink, gestural, modern, abstract
This painting is a double portrait that is more than the sum of its parts. Expressively painted,...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Guinovart. 21 Thoughtful Man Black and White. drawing on cardboard
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Guinovart. Thoughtful man. black and white. drawing on cardboard
Josep Guinovart i Bertran (Barcelona 1927-2007) was a painter, draftsman and engraver from Catalonia, Spain.
After ...
Category
1950s Abstract Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"Obras" Painting 39" x 28" inch by Vladislav Chenchik
Located in Culver City, CA
"Obras" Painting 39" x 28" inch by Vladislav Chenchik
ATT: ships rolled in a tube
Vladislav Chenchik is a contemporary artist from Ukraine. His artwork combines abstract and reali...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Sisters, Oil Painting by Sandu Liberman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Sandu Liberman, Romanian/American (1923 - 1977)
Title: Sisters
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 36 in. x 24 in. (91.44 cm x 60.96 cm)
Frame Size: 44....
Category
1970s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Caregiver 2
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Oil on canvas.
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original painting on canvas, Self-Portrait. or John Kennedy Signed S. Graff, COA
Located in Framingham, MA
This is a rare unique original acrylic/oil painting on canvas in a naive primitivism style depicting Self-Portrait. The painting has some notes on the verso: My Autoportrait (some people say I look like John Kennedy. JFK - The 35th President of the United States...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Queen Elizabeth 2 Oil on Birch Panel Unique Style Women in the Arts 30”x40”
Located in Houston, TX
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Queen Elizabeth 2 30”x40” x 1.5" oil on birch panel . Ready to hang with wire on the back
They are blurred....
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel, Birch
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Nude Portrait Framed Oil Painting - Female Form
Located in Bristol, GB
FEMALE FORM
Size: 75 x 56 cm 29.5 x 22.04 inches (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
A brilliantly executed mid-century modernist nude study, painted in oil onto canvas.
In this compo...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"TOUTE UNE VIE" Portrait, acrylic, 50x70cm.
Located in Roscoff, FR
In this artwork, the artist captures a poignant moment inspired by an unexpected encounter with a dear friend of her mother.
The subject is depicted from behind, hands delicately re...
Category
2010s Abstract Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
«Self portrait» Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas, 2017 Expressionism
Located in Oslo, NO
For Julia Kiryanova, painting is a dialogue – a dialogue which she beautifully facilitates, layering her work with various techniques.
At the heart of much of her work an inherent fascination for people lies, intimately displaying abandoned figures seemingly floating in an abstract dream world, where time has stopped everything, but them.
Julia Kiryanova has exhibited work at Amsterdam museum, Museum Op Solder and The Holocaust Museum...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Woman in profile oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joaquin Angulo Garcia (1905-1985) - Woman in profile - Oil on canvas
Oil measurements 55x46 cm.
Frameless.
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Woman
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Neo-Expressionist painting depicts a young woman in luminous light. Encaustic on canvas, 13 x 15 inches. Unsigned.
Minor paint loss along right edge.
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Encaustic
Portrait of a Woman
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Neo-Expressionist painting depicts a young woman in luminous light. Encaustic on canvas, 13 x 16 inches. Unsigned.
Minor paint loss along left edge.
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Encaustic
"Ora ti vedo" by Enzio Wenk, 2016 - Abstract Portrait, Framed, NeoExpressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Now I see you"
Acrylic on masonite.
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Oil Painting by Jan de Ruth
By Jan De Ruth
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jan De Ruth, Czech (1922 - 1991)
Title: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Year: circa 1964
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l.
Size: 20 in. x 18 in. (50.8 cm x 45.72 cm)
F...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Woman
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Neo-Expressionist painting depicts a young woman in luminous light. Encaustic on canvas, 14 x 17 inches. Unsigned.
Minor paint loss along edge.
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Encaustic
'Feminine Forms: Harmony in Curves', German School (circa 1980s)
Located in London, GB
'Feminine Forms: Harmony in Curves', oil on board, German School (circa 1980s). Two nude figures portrayed in the abstract posture differently. Both are curvaceous and Rubenesque. Re...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
"Mia" Painting 35" x 28" inch by Vladislav Chenchik
Located in Culver City, CA
"Mia" Painting 35" x 28" inch by Vladislav Chenchik
Vladislav Chenchik is a contemporary artist from Ukraine. His artwork combines abstract and realistic styles, with a focus on por...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Persephone
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic painting of a young girl turning over her shoulder. She wears a vegetal crown on her head and is in an abstracted, natural background. The line between the subject and backgr...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Contemporary Abstract British Unfinished Painting Of A Cubist Face
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Abstract Portrait'
by Bolly Frost
Acrylic painting on canvas
signed on verso
painting: 20 x 16 inches
Superb original modern abstract portrait painting by the rising contemporar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Rejuvenation
Located in Kansas City, MO
Stella Jae
Rejuvenation
2023
Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuehle Baryta Rag 315gsm
Size: 24.01 x 24.01 inches (61 x 61cm)
Edition: 15
Signed, titled and dated on label
COA provided...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Rag Paper, Archival Pigment
Antique American Modernist Interior Scene Young Woman Portrait Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive mid 20th century modernist interior scene. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed with a monogram. Really impressive quality and a great subject.
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Soyva" Painting 20" x 16" inch by Vladislav Chenchik
Located in Culver City, CA
"Soyva" Painting 20" x 16" inch by Vladislav Chenchik
Vladislav Chenchik is a contemporary artist from Ukraine. His artwork combines abstract and realistic styles, with a focus on p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
"Sasha"
Located in Southampton, NY
Portrait of the artist's daughter Sasha at 8 years old by the Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Oil on masonite on a wooden stretcher backing. Signed lower right and dated 1938. Sasha later was to become the second wife of the the writer, Saul Bellow. Condition is good with some wear to top left of painting. In original, unrestored condition. Unframed.
Nahum Tschacbasov lived in New York City for most of his adult life, arriving in the United States as a young boy in 1907. His numerous one man shows included ACA gallery, Perls Gallery and John Heller...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Lilith
Located in Milano, MI
This painting by Salvador Aulestia (Barcelona 1915 - Milano 1994) embraces the "figurative post-cubism" style.
In fact Salvador Aulestia was artistically grown during the maximum su...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Vulcanologist - 21st Century Abstract Contemporary Painting
Located in Wien, Wien
Vulcanologist - 21st Century Abstract Contemporary Painting
Astrid Rausch was born 1975 in Innsbruck/Austria. She studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Prof. Walter O...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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Located in Aventura, FL
Original acrylic on canvas. Hand signed, titled and dated on verso by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable offers will ...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Contemporary Mixed Media Side Profile Portrait. Red And Green. "Currency #205"
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This piece belongs to the "Exchange Currency Series" created by Natasha Lelenco in 2024, starting from the concept of the "face" on coins.In this case, the piece, crafted in contrast...
Category
2010s Abstract Portrait Paintings
Materials
Metal
"Locked Out" - A Face and a Figure in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Locked Out" - A Face and a Figure in Acrylic on Paper
A bold figurative painting by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (Brazilian, 20th Century). A face and a figure have be...
Category
1980s Abstract Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton, Acrylic, Rag Paper
Oval Portrait of Mother and Daughter early 20 century Scandinavian Oil Painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
Sketch (or Non-Finito work) done by an unknown Scandinavian professional artist in a semi-modernist manner. A tender scene of family harmony, a daughter sits in her mother’s arms, co...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Original Abstract Painting on Canvas by Serg Graff, "Apocalypse" COA, framed
Located in Framingham, MA
This is an exclusive unique original acrylic painting on canvas in a fantasy abstract style by Serg Graff Titled "Apocalypse: Lost Soul Catcher". Amazing bright colors and very detailed.
Some details on the painting are decorated with Crystals Swarovski.
It comes signed, dated, and with a COA (Certificate of Authenticity).
Presented in an ornate gold frame.
Excellent condition.
Framed measures 25.5 "x 21.5", painting measures 20 "x 16". Signed and dated on the backside by Artist Serg Graff.
Please see the photos.
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Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
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