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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Style: Modern
Style: Expressionist
Woman at Basin, Picasso Style Portrait of a Female Nude, American Modernist
By Leon Kelly
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Woman by Basin" by Philadelphia born modernist and surrealist painter Leon Kelly, is a framed and matted portrait of a female nude.
The 22.5" x 17.75" mixed media on artist board i...
Category
1920s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Bold Gaze 1
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Bold Gaze" by Rotimi Godwin is a striking piece of art that commands attention and captivates with its powerful portrayal of a young woman. The title it...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Ajoke
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Ajoke is an original painting by Theophilus Madaki. Theophilus created Ajoke Oil on a 28W by 33H inches primed canvas.
"Ajoke" is a stunning artwork...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Antique American Bahamian Young Woman Portrait Signed Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Really rare and well painted portrait by Christine Walters Martin (1895-1982). Oil on canvas. Framed in a nice modernist molding. Signed.
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Category
1920s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Black Melanin
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Being black is our heritage, what we have inherited from the past to value and enjoy in the present, and to preserve and pass on to future generations.
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Daughter's portrait. Cardboard, oil, 98x77 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Daughter's portrait. Cardboard, oil, 98x77 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 a...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
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
She Save Us
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"She Save Us" by Samson Toba is a captivating artwork that encapsulates the strength, resilience, and nurturing essence of womanhood. Through the depiction of a woman as the central ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting Blue Figure Outlines
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist: Elisabeth Hahn (German 1924-2021),
Elisabeth Hahn was born in Dortmund, Germany, where she began her artistic studies. In 1953, she moved to Paris. She continued her studie...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bold Gaze 2
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Bold Gaze" by Rotimi Godwin is a striking piece of art that commands attention and captivates with its powerful portrayal of a young woman. The title it...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
At the autumn garden. Oil on cardboard, 80 x 57 cm
Located in Riga, LV
At the autumn garden. Oil on cardboard, 80x57 cm
Janis Rikmanis (1901.5.IV – 1968.25.III)
graduated Figurative painting studio of Latvia Art academy (1931).
He took part in exhibiti...
Category
1950s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Modernist Palettes, Orange and Turquoise Mid-Century Floating Shapes, Abstract
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Modernist Palettes" is a hand-painted acrylic painting on high-quality 300g paper by artist Ryan Rivadeneyra. These painting, influenced by modernist artists of the 50's, 60's, and...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Ink, Sumi Ink, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Pere Creixams Spanish Woman, Oil on Canvas
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Pere Creixams Pico (1893-1965), School of Paris, ca.1920. Beautiful Spanish woman. Provenance: Charpentier Gallery, 76 rue du Faubourg Saint Honore, Paris (Sotheby's...
Category
1920s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French school circa 1930, Portrait of a young man with blue eyes, oil
Located in Paris, FR
French school circa 1930
Portrait of a young man with blue eyes
Oil on cardboard panel
27 x 21.5 cm
Bears a signature (illegible) upper right
Framed : 34.5 x 29.5 cm
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sculpted Heritage (Beauty Within Us)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The Beauty Within Us" is a compelling narrative series of paintings that celebrates the unique and diverse beauty of Black hair, serving as a powerful symbol of identity, heritage, a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Vintage American Female Modernist Contemporary Woman Portrait Painting La Danse
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on panel. Extremely well painted. Rare American woman modernsit. Signed. Framed.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
African Boy III
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
African Boy is a series of paintings by talented artist Faith Gbadero. This series of Artworks captures the response and attitudes of African young adult...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Independent
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
At first glance, "Independent" captures the viewer's attention with its striking imagery of a woman wearing a vibrant yellow coat. The choice of yellow as the dominant color is symbo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Cowboy
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
This painting is depicting the enthusiasm, strength, and passion in getting things done with the readiness to achieve the dream of their talent and charisma
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Untitled!" is a striking piece of artwork created by Okeowo Oluwaferanmi, a talented Nigerian artist. The artwork depicts a woman laughing, with her head thrown back and her mouth w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950s French Modernist Colorist Signed Oil Painting Portrait of Fashionable Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Fashionable Lady
by Maurice Delavier (French 1902-1986)
signed oil on canvas, unframed
dated 53'
canvas: 16.5 x 13 inches
provenance: private collection, France
conditi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Ewa (Beauty)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Ewa (Beauty)" portrays a lady who exudes a captivating aura, drawing viewers into her world of enigmatic charm. The artist skillfully crafts the lady's features, conveying a sense o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Medusa
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The artwork titled "Medusa" features a woman with a sophisticated hairstyle and body parts made of fabrics. This piece of art is a powerful representation of female strength and resilience, with the artist unapologetically portraying the woman's body as a work of art.
The name "Medusa" is a nod to the Greek mythological creature, Medusa, who was known for her beautiful but dangerous appearance. In this artwork, the artist has taken the concept of Medusa and turned it on its head, creating a powerful and captivating image of a woman who is unafraid to show her strength and beauty.
The sophisticated hairstyle of the woman in the artwork is a testament to Fatunmbi Anjolaoluwa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Canvas, Acrylic
20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting Portrait of African Woman
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist: Elisabeth Hahn (German 1924-2021),
Elisabeth Hahn was born in Dortmund, Germany, where she began her artistic studies. In 1953, she moved to Paris. She continued her studie...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
1950's French Post Impressionist Signed Oil Portrait of Young Lady with Flowers
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Young Lady
by Anna de Banguy (French mid 20th century)
signed oil on board, framed
framed: 29 x 23 inches
painting: 23 x 17 inches
provenance: private collection, Franc...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Ludmilla Barta
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Golden wooden frame
59.5 x 51.5 x 5.5 cm
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
huge 1950's French Modernist Signed Oil Painting Portrait Two Acrobats
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Acrobats
by Myriam Goldenberg (French b. 1911) *See notes below
dated 1953, signed
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 47 x 33 inches
canvas: 45 x 31 inches
provenance: private collect...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Franclisa
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The artwork titled "Franclisa" by Gbemileke Blessing Adegboro is a stunning piece that features a lady standing gracefully with two white birds, one on each side of her head. The pai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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
Sitzende Frau
By Fritz Schmidt
Located in Wien, 9
signed on the lower left
The painting can be categorised in the tradition of New Objectivity. The picture shows a real scene, the woman depicted stares into space with a serious and...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bibi, Tempera on Board, Red, Blue, Yellow Colors by Lalu Prasad Shaw "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Lalu Prasad Shaw - Bibi -
21 x 15 Inches
2021
Tempera on Board
( Framed & Delivered )
Style : Known widely for his highly stylized portraits of Bengali women and couples, Lalu Pras...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Mixed Media, Board
Culture 5
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
People believe money is power in my society - because the leaders steal money to oppress and suffer the poor.
But I realize the opposite of this is the purpose of living.
We are all ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Dada 1
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The artwork "Dada" features a striking image of a man with dreadlocks. The piece captures the unique and distinctive style of the subject, and it conveys a sense of individuality and...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Enchantress
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Enchantress" is a captivating artwork created by Fatunmbi Anjolaoluwa Grace that showcases the beauty and power of femininity. The piece is a mix...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Canvas, Acrylic
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Figurative Portrait Framed Oil Painting - Lone
Located in Bristol, GB
LONE
Oil on Board
Size: 52 x 44.5 cm (including frame)
A very well done mid-century modernist portrait composition, executed in oil onto board.
A single seated figure sits alone, l...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Fairy Tale
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Fairy Tale is a Mixed Media painting by Damilola Olusegun. Damilola created "Fairy Tale on a prime canvas of 60W by 72H inches.
Damilola Olusegun de...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting Figure Sat On Door Steps
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist: Elisabeth Hahn (German 1924-2021),
Elisabeth Hahn was born in Dortmund, Germany, where she began her artistic studies. In 1953, she moved to Paris. She continued her studie...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Arise!!!
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Nigerians arise, brothers and sisters that believe in the union called Nigeria, ARISE!!!
The green-white-green t-shirt has turned to rag on us, let us let go of any excuses to keep ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Unbeatable Me
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
This painting is a self-proclamation painting by Ayomabidele John. The proclamation goes thus:
I choose to be full of love and compassion. I refuse for any part of my heart to be ove...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Listen, I am Here
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
'Listen, I am here' is an art Gbenga Eniafe created from the realities of his people. The everyday creative is overlooked even as he presses on. The purple represents his distinctive...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Portrait of a Lady - Oil Painting - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a Lady, 19th Century Painting.
Miniature on ivory.
Wooden frame with leather back.
12 X 12 cm.
Good conditions!
Category
19th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Omodaratan Oni Afro
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
In the realm of art, creativity knows no bounds, and artists continue to amaze us with their ability to capture the essence of beauty in various forms. One such captivating artwork t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
African Boy I
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
African Boy is a series of paintings by talented artist Faith Gbadero. This series of Artworks captures the response and attitudes of African young adult...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
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
20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting Purple Nude Model Figure
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist: Elisabeth Hahn (German 1924-2021),
Elisabeth Hahn was born in Dortmund, Germany, where she began her artistic studies. In 1953, she moved to Paris. She continued her studie...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
My Sister and Friend 1
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
My Sister and Friend 1 is an Original painting by Esther Obiwuru. Esther created My Sister and Friend with Acrylic on a 36W by 48H primed canvas.
My Sister and Friend depict the ins...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
1980s Erotic nude male portrait of artist's lover, Iconic piece from gay history
Located in Harkstead, GB
This incredibly striking portrait, painted in a fiery palette captures an intimate moment between the artist and sitter who were lovers.
Philip Core (1951-1989)
Portrait of Adrian Ffooks, 4th/7th regiment
Signed and dated 1987 to the reverse
Oil on board
30 x 17¾ inches without the frame
35 x 23 inches with the frame
Provenance: Gifted as a wedding present to Kit Hesketh-Harvey by his future wife. The artist was a friend of the couple and they had introduced Core to FFooks. Kit Hesketh Harvey co-wrote the screenplay (with James Ivory) for E.M.Forster’s Maurice and he had called upon Ffooks, who was renowned for his horsemanship, to be a stunt double for the equestrian scenes in this iconic film.
Philp Core grew up in New Orleans, the son of a well-to-do family. At just seven he won the Vieux Carré Open Artists Competition. He was sent to a military academy, and from 1963 to the Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard University, where he won a number of art and literature prizes. As a schoolboy he self-published a booklet of drawings Palm Fronde Alphabet. An interest in Aubrey Beardsley and fin de siècle artists and writers, led to him spending time in Paris working with Philippe Jullian on his book The Symbolists, before returning to Harvard to complete an honours thesis on Belgian symbolist Fernand Khnopff. He graduated in 1973.
Under the pseudonym Féllippé Fecit, he produced a series of erotic drawings for the poet John Glassco for his book Squire Hardman, and in 1968 in the Japanese style for The Temple of Pederasty, a free adaption by Glassco of a work by Japanese expatriate writer Ken Sato.
Of this time, George Melly...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
No More
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
You are the only person holding yourself back, stop the excuses, wishes, and procrastinating and you can't.
The pain you feel today is the strength of tomorrow in achieving your drea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Summer Joy
Located in THOMERY, FR
This gouache on paper takes up the themes dear to Linda CLerget: femininity, nature and joy. Here, the colors shift from orange to violet, and the young girl's hair blends with the o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Glimpse to Fate
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
What comes to your mind when you see old people,
with shrinking and wrinkled cheeks,
giving slower gestures as if time were in their favor,
What really comes to your mind when you t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Polymer
Journey So Far
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
This painting is a tribute to all Mothers and womanhood as a whole.
She is tough, resilient, emotional, fragile, and vulnerable, but still, they remain strong through the different s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
Been Waiting
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Been Waiting is an original painting by Gbemileke Blessing Adegboro. Blessing created Been Waiting with Acrylic on a 30.3W by 42.5H inches primed canvas.
The artwork "Been Waiting" ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Exercise by John Torcapel - Ink on paper 13x17 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink
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
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
Woman with Hat - Oil Paint by Edmondo Maneglia - 1950
Located in Roma, IT
Woman with hat is an oil painting realized by Edmondo Maneglia (1925 - 2003).
Woman sitting at the table with glass.
Oil painting on canvas.
Handsigned in the lower left and on th...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Seated Female Figure - Oil Paint by Domenico Morelli - 19th century
By Domenico Morelli
Located in Roma, IT
Seated female figure is original oil painting on panel realized by the artist Domenico Morelli (1823-1901).
Hand signed overleaf.
Stamp "Galleri...
Category
19th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
20th Century French Portrait of Auburn Hair Young Lady Large Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Auburn Haired lady
by Jacob Markiel (Polish 1911-2008) *See notes signed below oil on board, unframed
board: 20 x 12 inches
provenance: the artists e...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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An elegant and sophisticated decorative touch in any living space, portrait paintings have remained popular throughout the years and are widely loved pieces of art for display in many homes today.
Portrait paintings are at least as old as ancient Egypt, where realistic, lifelike depictions of the recently deceased — commonly known as “mummy portraits” — were painted on wooden panels and affixed to mummies as part of the burial tradition.
For centuries, painters have used portraiture as a means of expressing a subject’s nobility, societal status and authority. Portraits were given as gifts in Renaissance Europe, and a portrait artist might have been commissioned to help mark a significant occasion such as a wedding or a promotion to high office. Prior to the advent of photography, which eventually replaced painted portraits as a quicker and more efficient way of capturing a person’s essence, the subject of a portrait had to sit for hours until the painter had finished. And during the 18th century in particular, if an artist commissioned for a portrait struggled with how to adequately memorialize and capture a subject’s likeness, sometimes a portrait painting wasn’t completed for up to a year.
Whether it’s part of the gallery-style approach to your living-room or dining-room walls or merely inspiration as you devise an eye-grabbing color scheme in your home, a portrait painting is a timeless decorative object for any interior. A landscape painting or sculpture might give you the kind of insight into a specific region of the world or a different culture that you can ascertain only through art. Similarly, when you take the time to learn about the subject of a portrait painting that you bring into your home — the sitter’s history, the relationship between the sitter and the artist should one exist, the story of how the portrait came to be — that work can become intensely personal in addition to its place as an object for an art-hungry corner of your apartment or house.
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