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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Period: 20th Century
Period: Early 1900s
Cubist Woman Study Black Pencil Drawing by Wouyart
Located in Atlanta, GA
This interesting seated woman pencil study is by French artist Wouyart (20th Century). This unique representation captures the model's expression through trace lines and shadows that...
Category
1930s Cubist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Carbon Pencil
The Orchestra Jazz Band Superb 20th Century French Modernist Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Band
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
watercolour on artist paper, unframed
painting : 18.5 x 13 inches
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very good and sound condition
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Vintage English Woman with Duffel Coat & Mary Jane Shoes 1960's 1970's England
Located in Preston, GB
Vintage English Woman with Duffel Coat & Mary Jane Shoes 1960's 1970's England entitled 'The Fall of Desire' by Retro Nostalgic Artist, Paul F Harding. ...
Category
Late 20th Century English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
The Cardinal Fine Antique Portrait Oil Painting in Ornate Gilt Frame
By Otto Eichinger
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Cardinal's Letter
Otto Eichinger (1922 - 2004)
signed oil painting on board, framed
framed: 15 x 12 inches
board: 12.5 x 10 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: v...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil on Canvas "L' Espagnole" by Dietz Edzard, 1935
By Dietz Edzard
Located in Berlin, DE
Dietz Edzard ( German/French 1893-1963 ). Oil on canvas, 1935. With the artist's signature stamp at lower left. Framed.
Property of the Estate of Dr. Max Stern sold for the benefit o...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Egg Tapping On Easter Sunday By Hubert Ritzenhofen
Located in New Orleans, LA
Hubert Ritzenhofen
1879-1961 German
Egg Tapping on Easter Sunday
Signed and dated "H. Ritzenhofen 05" (lower right)
Oil on canvas
This grand domestic tableau was painted by estee...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antony Litri - 20th Century Oil, Portrait of a Clown
Located in Corsham, GB
A striking full length study of a circus clown. Boldly signed to the lower right. On hessian on stretchers.
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage English Woman at a Seaside Beach Resort in Summer 1960's 1970's England
Located in Preston, GB
Vintage English Woman at a Seaside Beach Resort in Summer 1960's 1970's England entitled 'Summer Collection 1' by Retro Nostalgic Artist, Paul F Harding...
Category
Late 20th Century English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Judaica Oil Painting Chassidic Jewish Rabbi Holding A Sefer Torah Scroll
Located in Surfside, FL
Judaic oil painting by Krakow, Poland born artist Mark Siegband.
Signed and framed, An elderly Hasidic rabbi holding a Torah.
He is one of many great Jewish Polish artists that inclu...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Early 20th Century Oil - Woman in a Red Tunic
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. On upstretched canvas.
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
John Steward - 1991 Oil, The Breakfast Table
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed and dated to the lower right. On paper.
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
After Jean Baptiste Perronneau - Framed 20th Century Oil, A Girl with a Kitten
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful head and shoulders copy of Jean Baptiste Perronneau's portrait 'A Girl with a Kitten'. Well presented in a decorative gilt-effect frame with delicate floral mouldings an...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sir Francis Dicksee Portrait, c. 1900
Located in Larchmont, NY
Sir Francis Dicksee (English, 1853-1928)
Untitled (Portrait of a Woman), c. 1900
Oil on canvas; period frame
Sight: 13 1/4 in.
Framed: 21 1/8 x 21 1/8 x 3 3/8 in.
Frank Dicksee was...
Category
Early 1900s English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman posing with guitar mixed media painting
By Jordi Curos
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman
Mixed technique on canvas cardboard.
Work measurements 46x38 cm.
Frameless.
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish pa...
Category
1970s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Woman posing mixed media painting
By Jordi Curos
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman
Mixed technique on canvas cardboard.
Work measurements 35x27 cm.
Frame 40x32 cm.
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spani...
Category
1970s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Woman posing oil on burlap painting portrait
By Jose Puyet
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
José Puyet Padilla (1922-2004) - La rondeña - Oil on burlap
Oil measurements 81x65 cm.
Some areas with cracked oil paint.
Frameless.
Puyet was born in Malaga, Spain. He was the gran...
Category
1980s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Burlap, Oil
19th Century Miniature Painting of Five Sisters by Vincenzo Castelli. Signed. I
Located in San Francisco, CA
19th Century Miniature Painting of Five Sisters by Vincenzo Castelli. Signed.
Italian - 1789-1845
2.75 x 2.25 x 5.25
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Virgin Mary tempera painting religious altarpiece
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Vila i Rufas (1924-2011) - Virgin Mary 1948 - Egg tempera
Painted on gold metallic surface.
Painting measurements 40x32 cm.
Frame measurements 53x45 cm.
Inactive xylophagous ga...
Category
1940s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera
"Portrait of Barbara"
Located in Austin, TX
By Gustav Likan
The only known portrait of Gustav Likan's wife Barbara.
16" x 9.25" Oil on Canvas
Framed Size: 22" x 15"
1982
Category
1980s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Self Portrait in a Mirror with Artist's Tools, Oil on canvas, Signed, Polish
By Joseph Biel
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, signed bottom left
Image size: 24 x 20 inches (61 x 51 cm)
Contemporary style hand made frame
Joseph Biel
Joseph Biel was a painter and photographer who was born in ...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vicente Cristellys, Oil on canvas "Gina Lollobrigida", Late 1950s
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Vicente CRISTELLYS (1898-1970), School of Paris, late 1950s. "Lolo", portrait of Gina Lollobrigida in Notre-Dame de Paris (film).
Arriving in Paris during the 1920s, Vicente Cristellys settled in Montparnasse like many of his colleagues from the Ecole de Paris. He paints characters and scenes largely inspired by his native Spain. It was after a bohemian period that he began to illustrate cinema posters and he managed to settle in the Parisian cinematographic milieu. For example, he will sign posters for The Big Sleep, The Man in The iron mask...
Category
1950s Neo-Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Devil Emerges from Surrealist Voodoo Drum - Sans titre (Diable)
Located in Miami, FL
An image of a horned devil with pointy claws and bat-like wings emerges from a Voodoo drum. He has with arms stretched out like a Christ figure. The drum grows out of a yellow plant-...
Category
1970s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Portrait Of an Algerian old woman By Albert Marquet
Located in Pasadena, CA
Albert Marquet was a French painter. He initially became one of the Fauve painters and a lifelong friend of Henri Matisse. Marquet subsequently painted in a more naturalistic style, ...
Category
Early 20th Century Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Fine Portrait Painting Entitled ‘Isabella’ by Emile Eisman-Semenowsky
Located in New York, NY
Title: Isabella
Artist: Emile Eisman-Semenowsky (1857-1911)
Origin: Polish/French
Date: Early 20th century
Medium: Oil on canvas
Signature: signed and inscribed 'EISMAN-SEMENOWSKY/PA...
Category
Early 20th Century Other Art Style Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French 20th Century Modernist Red Pastel Female Portrait
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pastel Portrait
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
pastel on artist paper, unframed
painting : 20 x 15.5 inches
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very good and sound condi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Woman posing mixed media painting
By Jordi Curos
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman
Mixed technique on canvas cardboard.
Work measurements 35x27 cm.
Frame size 40x32 cm.
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a ...
Category
1970s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Portrait of a Lady, Oil Paint on Cardboard 1971 by Fritz Edler
Located in Berlin, DE
Oil paint on cardboard 1971 by Fritz Edler, Germany ( 1894-1994 ). Signed and dated lower left: Edler 71
Verso portrait of a young woman. Estate stamps on top- and lower right. Frame...
Category
1970s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Post Office WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Modern 20th Century
By Carlos Lopez
Located in New York, NY
Post Office WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Modern 20th Century
Carlos Lopez (1910-1953)
"Bounty" WPA Mural Study for Michigan Post Office
19 ½ x 22 ½ inches
Oil on B...
Category
1940s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
1950's French Signed Oil Painting Woman Seated in Cafe Interior in Pensive Mood
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Woman in Cafe Interior
French school, mid 20th century
indistinctly signed oil on board, unframed
board: 20 x 16 inches
provenance: private collection, Paris
condition: very good and...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Signed Exhibited American Female Modernist Woman Sewing Framed Portrait
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century modernist interior portrait oil painting by Sadie Skoletsky Rosenblum 1899-1987. Great color and composition. Framed.
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Lady - Modern British Impressionist Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A superb 1930's Modern British oil on canvas portrait of a seated lady wearing a red shirt. The work is very beautiful and whilst unsigned is quite clearly by an artist of very high ...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman posing mixed media painting
By Jordi Curos
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman
Mixed technique on canvas cardboard.
Work measurements 46x38 cm.
Frameless.
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish pa...
Category
1970s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Original Vintage Oil Painting in canvas, Portrait of a Boy. Signed Dated, Framed
Located in Framingham, MA
Up for sale is an original vintage oil painting on canvas. This old painting shows a boy sitting down. He's dressed in a big jacket and pants with patches on them, and they look a b...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage English Woman at a Seaside Beach Resort in Summer 1960's 1970's England
Located in Preston, GB
Vintage English Woman at a Seaside Beach Resort in Summer 1960's 1970's England entitled 'Seaside Delight’ by Retro Nostalgic Artist, Paul F Harding. Si...
Category
Late 20th Century English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Woman posing with guitar mixed media painting
By Jordi Curos
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman
Mixed technique on canvas cardboard.
Work measurements 46x38 cm.
Frameless.
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish pa...
Category
1970s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Vintage English Woman in Dress on Park Bench in Suburbia 1960's 1970's England
Located in Preston, GB
Vintage English Woman in Dress on Park Bench in Suburbia 1960's 1970's England, entitled 'Summertime Blues' by Retro Nostalgic Artist, Paul F Harding. S...
Category
Late 20th Century English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Country Bath (self portrait)
Located in Toronto, CA
As a young person, Gordon Rayner learned to paint from his father, a commercial artist and weekend painter, and from his father`s close friend, Jack Bush. He spent 17 years working i...
Category
1990s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Antique American School WPA Modernist Black Figure Ashcan Dock View Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
1920s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Huge Portrait of a Lady after Modigliani, Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Woman
after Modigliani (see details verso)
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 36 x 24 inches
provenance: private collection, England
condition: a few minor scuffs but over...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Man with a beard
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
Black and gold wooden frame
77.5 x 56.5 x 3.5 cm
Illegible signature
"Valley landscape at the foot of the mountains"
On the back of the work
Category
1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Oil on canvas painting, Portrait of a Fisherman, Framed, Unsigned
Located in Framingham, MA
Up for sale is an interesting original vintage oil painting on canvas depicting a portrait of a fisherman unraveling nets.
The painting is in good/vintage condition.
Presented in ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman posing mixed media painting
By Jordi Curos
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman
Mixed technique on canvas cardboard.
Work measurements 46x38 cm.
Frameless.
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish pa...
Category
1970s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Reclining Woman, Oil Painting by Di Li Feng
By Di Li Feng
Located in Long Island City, NY
Reclining Woman
Di Li Feng, Chinese (1958)
Date: circa 1990
Oil on Canvas, signed lower right
Size: 39 x 31 in. (99.06 x 78.74 cm)
Frame Size: 46 x 38 inches
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spanish Beauty (Portrait of the Artist's Wife)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Spanish Beauty (Portrait of the Artist's Wife)
Oil on canvas, c. 1940's
Signed upper right "A.G. Warshawsky" (see photo)
According to the daughter-in-law of the artist, this painting...
Category
1940s Abstract Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman posing mixed media painting
By Jordi Curos
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman
Mixed technique on canvas cardboard.
Work measurements 46x38 cm.
Frameless.
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish pa...
Category
1970s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Large European Aristocratic Portrait of a Wigged Gentleman Oil Painting canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Nobleman
European School, 20th century (painted after an earlier style)
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 35 x 29 inches
canvas: 30 x 24 inches
provenance: private collecti...
Category
20th Century English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique Cat Painting "Cat with Butterfly in a Meadow" Arthur Heyer 1872-1931
By Arthur Heyer
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Cat Painting "Cat with Butterfly in a Meadow"
Arthur Heyer 1872-1931
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right "Heyer A."
25 1/2 x 21 (29 1/4 x 3...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Whispering Winds, Oil Painting by Di Li Feng
By Di Li Feng
Located in Long Island City, NY
Whispering Winds
Di Li Feng, Chinese (1958)
Date: 1985
Oil on Canvas, signed verso
Size: 47 x 69 in. (119.38 x 175.26 cm)
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Katherine Merry Nee Horstmann Director Horstmann Gear Company 1946 City of Bath
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Howard Barron.
English/Australian ( b.1900 - d.1991 ).
Portrait of Katherine Joan Merry nee Horstmann b.1914 - d.1973. Director of Horstmann Gear Company of Bath, 1946.
Oil on Canva...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fine Oil Painting Portrait of an Aristocratic Wigged Gentleman
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of an Aristocrat
European artist, 20th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 30 x 24 inches
provenance: private collection, Wiltshire
condition: very good and sound condi...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Profile, Pop Art Portrait by Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Peter Max, German/American (1937 - )
Title: Profile
Year: 1986
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed u.r.
Size: 40 in. x 30 in. (101.6 cm x 76.2 cm)
Frame Size: 49.5 x 39.5 inches
Category
1980s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Antique American School Modernist Ballon Portrait Framed Vintage Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century modernist portrait. Framed. Oil on canvas.
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
English mid century oil painting Portrait of cute Corgi dog
Located in Woodbury, CT
English mid century oil painting Portrait of a cute Corgi.
Paintings of this breed are very rare and very collected.
Kate Gray was a British animal portrait painter during the last...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Crossed Arms (Portrait of a Blond), Nude Portrait by Jan De Ruth
By Jan De Ruth
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jan De Ruth, Czech (1922 - 1991)
Title: Crossed Arms (Portrait of a Blonde)
Year: circa 1964
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 35 in. x 25 in. (88.9 cm x 63.5 cm)
Frame Size: 44 x ...
Category
1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
" Mother " Child, Mother, Mother's Day oil cm 67 x 100
By Gleb Savinov
Located in Torino, IT
Child,Baby,Maternity,child,Mother,Green,Window,spring,russian art
GLEB SAVINOV (Charkev, 1915 – St. Petersburg, 2000)
Works by Gleb Savinov can be found in various private collect...
Category
1970s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
1930's French Oil Portrait Of A Long Grey Haired Man With Black Beard
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Male Portrait
by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below
provenance stamp to the back
oil painting on canvas stuck on board, unframed
measures: 18 high by 15 inches wide
co...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Art Deco Woman Singing Gouache Painting
Located in Atlanta, GA
A lovely gouache on cardboard painting featuring an Art Deco singer with a typical stylish outfit. The composition is very vibrant, using the contrast of black and white elements ag...
Category
1930s Art Deco Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board, Cardboard
Antique French Impressionist Oil Signed & Dated 1919 Portrait of Young Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Young Lady
French Impressionist artist
signed oil on board, unframed
dated 1919
board: 9.5 x 6.5 inches
double sided work
provenance: private collection
condition: seve...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Shop Antique and Vintage Portrait Paintings
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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