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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Period: 1940s
Period: 1920s
"Jeune femme aux fleurs" 20th Century oil on canvas by Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Located in Madrid, ES
JEAN GABRIEL DOMERGUE French, 1889 – 1962 "JEUNE FEMME AUX FLEURS" Signed & dated "Jean-Gabriel Domergue ´28 " (lower right) With the Atelier stamp on the stretcher and canvas on the reverse Oil on canvas 32 X 25-3/4 inches (81 x 65 cm.) framed: 39-1/2 X 33-1/4 inches (100 X 84 cm.) PROVENANCE Private Collection, Madrid Note: We are grateful to Mr. Noé Willer for confirming the authenticity of this work which is recorded in the archives of the Artist. Painter born in Bordeaux, in 1889 and died in Paris in 1962. He began painting his mother's portraits very soon. He studied at the National Superior School of Fine Arts. The artist considered his teacher and inspiring Degas. Between 1904 and 1907 he joined Fauvism. In 1905 he participated in the "Autumn Hall" and in the "Hall of Independents". In 1907 he presented his 1st individual exhibition at the Vollard Gallery. He specialized in female portraits of Parisian ladies, creating a unique, sophisticated and elegant female portrait prototype that characterized him forever. He played an essential role in the evolution of women's fashion of his time. He designed numerous dresses, hats and accessories for famous designers such as Paul Poiret and Henry Marque It goes down in history as the architect of a new type of woman, thin, with an elegant air, always with style, with unusual elongated necks, with impressive slanted eyes, that seem to look at the world in amazement, perhaps because they express a feeling of freedom towards Society and its norms. With these paintings of women, he showed the world the true French, elegant, beautiful and with a gooseneck. In 1914 he won the Rome Prize. Many celebrities of the time posed for the artist, Josephine Baker, Brigitte Bardot, etc. But although he painted numerous nude actresses...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Bauernkinder
Located in Wien, 9
The extensive work of Vilma Eckl covers a period of more than seventy years. Her incomparable artistic talent and her essential contribution to the history of art can be seen in her ...
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1920s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Painting - Poster project for French mode
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Francisque POULBOT (Saint-Denis, 1879 - Paris, 1946) Poster project for the Bal de la Mode - February 25, 1922 Charcoal and oil on canvas H. 99 cm; W. 91 cm Signed lower right In th...
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1920s French School Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait of Dorothy Thompson (The Wild Rose) - Female Artist
Located in Miami, FL
A charming portrait of a beautiful blue-eyed girl in a pink dress holding flowers in her hand. It's based on Renaissance portraits where the subject is pushed to the foreground and i...
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1920s Academic Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Tender Family Portrait - Mother and Child, Student of Robert Henri
Located in Miami, FL
Rendered with an alla prima paint application and quick gestural brushstrokes, "Tender Family Portrait - Mother and Child" reflects Margery Ryerson's deep knowledge of academic training. Reyerson studied with Robert Henri at The Art Students League. This painting is aesthetically pleasing and communicates a sense of maternal tenderness from a female artist. Margery Ryerson did a book on her former teacher. Henri's philosophical and practical musings were collected by former pupil Margery Ryerson and published as The Art Spirit (1923), a book that remained in print for several decades. Signed. Lower Left Margery Austen Ryerson (September 15, 1886 - 1989) was an American artist, painter, etcher, lithographer and watercolorist.Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum Biography Ryerson earned her Bachelor's of Fine Arts in English from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, after attending private schools in Morristown. She went on to study under Charles Hawthorne at the Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and with Robert Henri at the Art Students League in New York. During the years 1920 through 1940 Ryerson taught in New York settlement houses. There she got the privilege to paint and draw the children in their care. The subjects of these paintings were often the children of the underclass and immigrants. Her artistic technique and subjects gained universal recognition and appealed to many people. Miss Ryerson is most known for her portraits...
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1920s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

An Irish Rogue
Located in London, GB
Oil on board, signed and dated '44 lower right Image size: 15 x 19 inches (38 x 48.25 cm) Contemporary style hand made frame This portrait of an unknown man certainly captures the personality of the chosen sitter. With hat tilted to the side, eyebrow lifted and a half smile of the man's face, one gets the impression that he is finding the whole process of having his portrait painted rather amusing. Still in Ireland at this time, the sitter is likely to have been a friend of the artist, from Belfast. In 1944 there was a group exhibition in Belfast held at the textile business of William Ewart & Sons on Bedford Street. Here Smith showed his works alongside the artists Colin Middleton...
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1940s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Board

Portrait Of Violin Player By Neville Stephen Lytton, Of Claude Tryon
Located in York, GB
A Portrait of Claude Tryon (d.1949),holding a violin .This is a painting of the artists son in law Oil on canvas in gilt frame . Early 20th century size of painting...
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1920s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Community Plate for Oneida Silversmiths Ltd., Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate date: 1924 Medium: Gouache on Board Signature: Signed Center Left Sight Size 20.75" x 29.88", Framed 49.00" x 39.00"
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1920s Portrait Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Saturday Evening Post Cover, November 5, 1927
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1927 Medium: Pastel on Paper Dimensions: 24.00" x 19.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Saturday Evening Post Cover, November 5, 1927
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1920s Portrait Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

Child in Prayer Cover of Good Housekeeping Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
Famed female illustrator Jessie Willcox Smith paints the " Ideal Child" in a spiritual moment for the Christmas cover of Good Housekeeping. The accompl...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Mixed Media, Gouache

Hispanic Artist - Spanish Culture - Spanish Souvenir mantilla, peineta, gilet
Located in Miami, FL
F. Luis Mora was the first Hispanic member of the National Academy of Design. Spanish Souvenir- mantilla, peineta, by Francis Luis Mora is a painting of beautiful Spanish women in...
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1920s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

General Douglas MacArthur
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right In the Timken War Bond campaign, JC Leyendecker completed more than a dozen paintings that were rep...
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1940s Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Oil On Canvas, portrait of a musketeer French school 20th century
Located in Gavere, BE
Oil On Canvas, portrait of a musketeer French school 20th century Horace Colmaire studied with Albert Roze in Amiens before joining the workshops of Léon Bonnat, Jules Adler and Ray...
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1920s French School Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Portrait of a Black Woman, Maxine - Mid-Century WPA
Located in Miami, FL
A charming portrait of a Black woman with stylized hairstyle of the period - Midtown Galleries label on verso, Unframed Signed and date...
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1940s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Ortez Modernist Family Portrait – 1940s Abstracted Interior Scene with 5 Figures
Located in Denver, CO
Ortez (Modernist Family Portrait) is an abstract gouache on paper painting by Lewis Lee Tilley (1921-2005), created in 1947. The piece depicts a family of five sitting together on a ...
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1940s American Modern Portrait Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

"Femme Rousse Sur Fond Vert", Albert Bertalan, Original Oil, Green, Figurative
Located in Dallas, TX
"Femme Rousse Sur Fond Vert" is an original oil on canvas impressionistic portrait of a woman by Albert Bertalan. A red-headed lady in a purple and white striped collared coat sits in front of a green background daydreaming about something personal. The painting is framed with an ornate gold frame. From the late 19th century until World War Two, Paris was the center of the art world. Artists and intellectuals from around the globe descended on Paris, drawn by the atmosphere of creative freedom established by the French Impressionists. Because of the Impressionists’ innovations the direction of art had changed forever, the times were ripe for another Renaissance. The School of Paris, as this broad-based group of artists are referred to embodied the spirit of modernism. Albert Bertalan was born on September 21, 1899 in Jaszbereny, Hungary. He is known for painting compositions of figures in unique environments, including women by the sea, among other similar subject matters. He studied at the Nagybanyai Art School under some of the most important Hungarian artists, including Ivànyi Grünwald...
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1940s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Board, Paper

Landscape with Two Bathers
Located in London, GB
'Landscape with Two Bathers', oil on panel, by Guillaume Dulac (circa 1920s). Dulac's oils and drawings manifest an elegant classicism with an immediately identifiable style. It is these qualities which are so attractive both aesthetically and in the context as an investment in fine art. Our gallery holds virtually the entire remaining collection of Guillaume Dulac's sketches and memorabilia with impeccable provenance. In this acquisition of a Dulac oil painting, one finds a depiction of two women, one of them in the nude, seated on the edge of a bathing pool. The other is peacefully seated on a comfortable boulder stone...
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1920s Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

20th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Signed Dated Painting Portrait of Child, 1921
Located in Vicoforte, IT
Italian painting dated 1921. Framework oil on canvas, on the first canvas, depicting a portrait of a child on an armchair of good pictorial quality. Chiseled and gilded wooden frame ...
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1920s Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Léa LAFUGIE (1890-1972), portrait of a young Cambodian woman
Located in Paris, FR
Léa Lafugie was a French painter born in Paris, known for her portraits and landscapes inspired by her travels. She studied at the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris and lat...
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1920s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Board

Profile of a Woman in White Blouse oil on board painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Profile of a Woman in White Blouse Artist: Josep Puigdengolas Barella (Barcelona, 1906 – 1987) Technique: Oil on panel Dimensions: 13 x 10.6 in Framed dimensions: 16.5 x 1...
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1920s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Board

Nude Posing on the Sofa
Located in London, GB
'Nude Posing on the Sofa', oil on canvas, by Louis Latapie (circa 1940s). From a long line of renowned paintings whose subject is reclining nudes, this ext...
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1940s Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Rebecca Couchée by JULES PASCIN - School of Paris, Nude Painting, Figurative Art
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 5% IMPORT DUTY ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE Rebecca Couchée by JULES PASCIN (1885-1930) Oil over pencil on canvas 73.1 x 91.8 cm (28 ¾ x 36 ⅛ inches) Signed lower right, Pascin Executed in 1927, Boulevard de Clichy, Paris Provenance Collection Marcel Bernheim, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, acquired from the artist, 1928 Pierre Blum, Paris, acquired from the above, 1952 Perls Galleries, New York, no. 13565 Private collection, Osaka Sotheby’s, New York, 14th May 1998 Peter Findlay Gallery Inc., New York Private collection, USA, acquired from the above, June 2011 Literature Luis Seoane...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Pencil

"Sandy"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim's of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Robert Henri (1865 - 1929). Robert Henri was born Robert Henry Cozad in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1865. At the ...
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1920s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Pre-Raphaelite Style Painting of Mothers and Babies in WWII
Located in Miami, FL
Babies are falling from the sky and not bombs. British female artist and illustrator Noel Laura Nisbet makes a passionate twist to the reality of En...
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1940s Pre-Raphaelite Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Mixed Media, Tempera

Art Deco Painting Romantic Couple on Rocks
Located in Miami, FL
Fact: There is no one alive today who can paint and draw as good as Dean Cornwell. Why? It takes a lifetime of training, work and commitment to be a great academic artist. Unfortunat...
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1920s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of Thomas Glass, seated half-length, in a brown three-piece suit
Located in Miami, FL
Signed 'ORPEN' (upper left) Sitter is bathed in warm window light that creates subtle patter of light and shadow in the background. Artists depicts Mr. Glass in a beige and brown ...
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1920s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Portrait PS 249 French School Hail Storm Chut Les Barbizons
Located in Zofingen, AG
Large portrait of an independent woman with blue hair, sharp eyed, killer look Technique: oil, acrylic, glue, ink on canvas streched on a wooden frame 100x81cm ■■ 39,4 x31,9 inch ...
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1920s Tonalist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Glue, Mixed Media, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Tribesmen with Headdresses - Gay Artist
Located in Miami, FL
"Riggs openly identified as gay to his friends in the Philadelphia art community, but did not disclose his orientation to his employers." - Woodmere Art Museum Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel "Robert Riggs was awarded the Gold Medal for Excellence by the New York Art Directors Club for ten consecutive years and received many additional awards." He was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts and the U.S. Library of Congress. Riggs's compositons are "monumental" Walt Reed Riggs was a Gay Artist...
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1940s American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Tempera

"Portrait of a Lady (Study for Harriet Blake)" Lilian Westcott Hale, Painting
By Lilian Westcott Hale
Located in New York, NY
Lilian Westcott Hale Portrait of a Lady (Study for Harriet Blake) Oil on canvas 40 ¼ x 30 ¼ inches A leading American Impressionist working at t...
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1920s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Kindred of the Dust, Frontier Town Cosmopolitan Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
A somewhat similar Cornwell featuring a strong woman at the center of a the composition just sold at Christie's for $164,000. In this work we also see a strong woman at the center of the composition. Here she surrounded by men. More than 20 beautifully rendered post-impressionist portraits in character, define Dean Cornwell as one of America's great artists. In his time, he was a famous as Norman Rockwell and was Norman Rockwell's favorite illustrator. "One thing puzzled Dirty Dan extremely. That was the perfectly frank, friendly manner in which his employer and this outcast woman greeted each other, the earnestness with which they conversed, and the effect of the woman's low-spoken words upon the color of Hector McKaye's face." Morris Weiss collection...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Credit is Dead oil on canvas painting Figurative Expressionism School of Paris
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Le Bouilt (The Boil) Author: Pedro Creixams (1893-1965) Date: 1928 Technique: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 31.9 x 25.6 in (unframed) Signature: Signed on the front and back ...
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1920s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

'Study of a Man', Paris, Flâneur, Boulevardier, Danish Post-Impressionist Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed upper right 'A.B.' for Axel Bentzen (Danish, 1893-1952) painted circa 1925. Axel Bentzen studied art as a child and, by the age of 14, was copying Old Master paintings at Copenhagen's National Museum of Art. He traveled to Italy in 1919 and, from 1923-1939, spent every second year there or in Paris, painting and furthering his understanding of the principles of Modernism. Bentzen was the recipient of numerous scholarships including the prestigious Hielmstierne-Rosencrone scholarship which he was awarded twice (1925, 1927) and the Copenhagen Akademie scholarship which he received three times (1927, 1929, 1931). He exhibited internationally with success including, from 1922, at the Charlottenborg as well as at prominent salons in Paris, Berlin, Venice, Budapest, Riga and Belgrade. The artist is listed in all relevant art reference works including both Benezit's Dictionary of Artists and Thieme-Becker's Kunstlexikon (Vollmer Supplement). We are pleased to offer this dramatic and psychologically penetrating oil study of a young man dating to circa 1925. Reference: E. Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs, Jacques Busse, 1999 Nouvelle Édition, Gründ 1911, Vol. 2, p. 122; Vollmer Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler des 20. Jarhhunderts, Hans Vollmer, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 1992, Vol. 1, p. 173; et al. Scholarships: Hielmstierne-Rosencrone 1925, 1927; Raben-Levetzau 1926; Bielke 1926; Carlson's Pr. 1926; Akkadian. 1927, 1929, 1931; Oluf Hartmann 1928, 1930; Eckersberg Med. 1930; Kaufmann 1930; March 1931; Zach. Jacobsen 1932, 1936. Exhibitions: KE 1922-26; Charles. Spring 1925; The free Exhibition 1927-38 (inc. from 1930); Association of painters, Helsinki, 1928; Funen Spring Exhibition. 1930, 1938; Tour exhibition 1930-36; Newer Painting, Germany 1932; in Venice 1934, 1954; as exhibited in Budapest, Riga, Bucharest and Belgrade 1936-37; Nerd Mässhallen, Gothenburg 1939; Grønningen 1939-47, 1952 (commemorative issue), 1953, (commemorative issue), 1955, 1965; Icelandic, Swedish art, Mässhallen, Gothenburg 1941; Ny Carlsbergfondet Jubilee Charlottenborg and others 1952; That then buying convention, Fr. 1952 (commemorative issue); The Freeman's Memorial Exhibition, Kunstforen, Kbh 1966; Easter 1974, Skive Museum 1974; Modern art owned by Vejle, Vejle Kunstmuseum 1977; Inside, outside, Mouse at Koldinghus 1981. Solo exhibitions: Anton Hansen, Copenhagen 1917; The free Exhibition building, 1921; Kunstforen, Copenhagen 1937; Jugelsalan, Aarhus 1946-47, 1950; Storstrøm's Kunstmuseum 1953 (commemorative issue); Open Mouse, 1972. Artworks: Egyptian Woman on Balcony (1920); Self-Portrait (1925, Stat. Museum for Art); The Hospital Garden (1925); The Dreamer (1925, Storstrøm Art Museum); The Blind (1925, Carlsons Pr for 3 last names); Marsk Stig's daughters (1926, Nordjyll Kunstmuseum); Young Italian woman on a chair...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait of Renée
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of Renée', oil on board, by Louis Latapie (1941). When combined with the artist's passionate brush strokes, the wood panel upon which this piece is painted, creates both a ...
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1940s Fauvist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Board

Portrait of Water Bearers, Africa - British 1920's Orientalist art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb vibrant Orientalist Post Impressionist oil painting is by noted British artist Gerald Spencer Pryse. It was painted about 1925 when Pryse was visiting Morocco and Norther...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

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...
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1920s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Up at Bat, The Saturday Evening Post Cover, August 10, 1940
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Price on Request. The Saturday Evening Post cover, August 10, 1940
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1940s American Modern Portrait Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Colette II - Jewish Art, Post War, Oil Painting
Located in London, GB
JOSEPH FLOCH 1894-1977 Vienna 1894 – 1977 New York (Austrian) Title: Collette II, 1944 Technique: Signed Oil Painting on Canvas Size: 120 x 89 cm. / 47.2 x 35 in. Additional Inf...
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1940s Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Young girl Redhead Holding her father's hand Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
There is a reason why there are few contemporary painters who can paint a portrait this good. It's hard to do. It's easy to throw some paint or spray a mess of graffiti on canvas. ...
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1940s American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Tribesmen with Headdresses - Photo Realism
Located in Miami, FL
Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel "Robert Riggs was awarded the Gold Medal for Excellence by the New York Art Directors Club for ten consecutive years and received many additional awards." He was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts and the U.S. Library of Congress. Riggs's compositons are "monumental" Walt Reed Riggs was a Gay Artist...
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1940s American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Tempera

Portrait of a Lady Arranging Flowers - British 1940's art oil painting
By Sir Gerald Festus Kelly
Located in London, GB
This superb British portrait oil painting is attributed to circle of Festus Kelly. Painted circa 1940 it is a half length portrait of an elegant lady in a light blue dress, pearls an...
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1940s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Moments of Reflection Depicting a Woman Sitting by the Fire, Original Oil Paint
Located in Stockholm, SE
We are pleased to present a captivating painting by the artist Sam Uhrdin (1886-1964). This beautiful artwork depicts a woman from Dalarna, sitting in front of a warm, glowing fire. The entire painting is bathed in a soft, radiant light, particularly illuminating her face and traditional white/red attire. The woman appears contemplative, lost in thought, perhaps thinking of someone dear to her heart. She is depicted in a kitchen, taking a moment to relax after a day's chores in her home. Sam Uhrdin's artistic journey began in the early 1900s, he traveled to Stockholm in 1903 to further continue his studies in painting. He worked as a painter during the day and attended various evening schools in the evenings. In 1906, he journeyed to America to work as a sign painter, but he mainly ended up working as an upholsterer. Returning to Leksand in 1909 via London and Paris, his artistic talent gained recognition, and with the help of some patrons, he began studying at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1911, occasionally attending Althin's painting school in Stockholm. Financial circumstances cut his study time short, and his skill as a portrait painter earned him numerous portrait commissions, which further occupied his time. In 1921, Uhrdin received a scholarship from the Royal Academy, enabling him to embark on a study trip in 1922 to the Netherlands, Belgium, and France, which he had to cut short due to his wife's illness. He later visited places like Spain and Portugal. Uhrdin's breakthrough came with his portrait of the former Prime Minister Nils Edén, which he executed in 1919. In 1921, he portrayed the participants of the Swedish Academy. Among other representatives of official Sweden captured by Uhrdin were Gustav V, Manne Siegbahn, Ludvig Stavenow, and bishops Gottfrid and Einar Billing. In 1932, he held a solo exhibition at Konstnärshuset in Stockholm, and he participated in various exhibitions, including the Swedish Artists' Association in Stockholm in 1917, Swedish Art at Valand-Chalmers in Gothenburg in 1923, Dalarna Artists displayed at Liljevalchs Konsthall in 1936, and the National Museum's traveling exhibition "Barnet i konsten" (Children in Art...
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1940s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Blond and Blue Eyed Ballerina in Tutu against Chinese Screen
Located in Miami, FL
Prolific Saturday Evening Post Cover Illustrator Pearl L. Hill Worthington paints a stunning portrait of a Ballerina in a tutu with underlighting. She sits on a decorative Chinese ...
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1920s American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Muchacha
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
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1940s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Rushelle in the Garden"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon ...
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1940s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Stoic and Soulfully Strong Women - All Women Composition Euphorbia -
Located in Miami, FL
One of Cornwell's hallmarks is that he paints stoically soulful faces that express the subject's trials and hardships. In this only-woman composition, he depicts a scene of two women who are strong, unafraid, and self-confident and can weather the storm despite the challenges. In this regard, it is similar to "A Strange Sound Drifted Down to Kit from the Top of the Range—A Man’s Voice, Singing" by Cornwell, which sold at Christie's USD $163,800 on 18 Apr 2024. Caption: "Are you making little things?" questioned Lucy. 'No ,' said Marge. 'If this one happens to live, there will be many long years ahead of us for that." Morris Weiss collection...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Top of the World, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 38.25" x 29.25", Framed 45" x 35" Cover of The Saturday Evening Post Magazine, June 13, 1925 Edmund Davenport was a New Yorker and a successful illustrator in the 1920’s. He painted covers for Women’s Home Companion and The Saturday Evening Post, and at the same time, he worked in the art department of Paramount Studios. At the time of this publication, a young woman’s graduation from college was a rare accomplishment, and the opportunities for employment that required a college diploma, were even rarer. Nevertheless, it was a good reason for this pretty, young woman to be sitting on top of the world in the vicinity of “cloud nine.” “Top of the World” appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post on June 13, 1925. Exhibited: Christie's New York, Illustrating America: Norman Rockwell and His Contemporaries, November 30, 2013- January, 2014 A luminous and rare Golden Age of Illustration cover...
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1920s American Modern Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Alden, Arrow Collar Advertisement, 1922
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Laid Down on Board Signature: Inscribed with Title (Lower Center) Joseph Christian Leyendecker created the Arrow Collar Man in 1905 for Cluette, Peabody & Comp...
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1920s Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

Elegant Woman holding White Roses Flowers , Portrait Champetre French Symbolist
Located in Miami, FL
Masterfully painted portrait with rich paint surface by the famous French Symbolist Signed and dated lower left Provenance: Waterhouse & Dodd, London ...
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1920s Symbolist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Hearts Unreasoning, by Sarah Bernhardt The First of Six Romances of the French S
Located in Miami, FL
Hearts Unreasoning, by Sarah Bernhardt The First of Six Romances of the French Stage - McCall’s Magazine December 1920 interior illustration. The work is related to Shinn's fam...
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1920s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Board

Formal Portrait of a Chinese Man in Traditional Dress
Located in Miami, FL
Dressed in traditional clothing, a handsome Chinese man is depicted as he sits resolutely with one hand on his leg and the other holding a baton. Female Artist Joyce Ballantyne...
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1940s Academic Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1946 Antique German American Abstract Expressionist Jesus Christ oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
Joachim Probst (1913-1980) signed and dated verso 1946 oil on canvas original frame Joachim Probst was an American German Abstract painter Here we have a an image of Christ done i...
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1940s Abstract Expressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

1928 Antique VERMONT American French Post Impressionist Portrait Painting
Located in New York, NY
William Malherbe (1884-1953) Signed lower right Dated 1928 Oil on Canvas 27x22 inches unframed 34x29 inches Framed Carved American period Frame Good Condition William Malherbe was ...
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1920s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Seated Figure (Portrait in Landscape – Paris Model Against Landscape)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness. Oil on canvas, 29 x 24 inches, Signed lower left Price Upon Request
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1920s American Modern Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Woman in Equestrian Clothing
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Walter Beach Humphrey specialized in painting magazine covers and he eventually did work for almost all of them, beginning with small-circulation publica...
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1920s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait of A Woman with Red Bow, 1940
Located in Stockholm, SE
Eric Johansson's "Woman with Red Bow" (1940) We are delighted to present for sale the evocative portrait “Woman with Red Bow” by the distinguished artist Eric Johansson, painted in ...
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1940s Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Mosaïc style by Charles Auguste Humbert - Oil on canvas 80x100 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on canvas sold with original frame Total size with frame 110x90 cm Charles Auguste Humbert, born in 1891 in Geneva and died in 1958, was a Swiss artist, mainly known for his w...
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1940s Pointillist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

"Paula"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benj...
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1940s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Board

Clara - British Art Deco 20's female portrait landscape Newlyn oil painting
Located in London, GB
A superb portrait oil painting by noted British Newlyn school artist Harold Harvey. Painted in 1922 the sitter is Clara Matthews. A full length portrait, Clara is set in a landscape and holding a rose. In several of Harvey's portraits his female sitters...
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1920s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

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Oil

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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