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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Style: Contemporary
Style: Post-Impressionist
Yellow Roses
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Olga Cairols is a Spanish artist with more than 35 years of career. Olga studied Art History and Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. She has a bachelors degree in Design, Art ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Silent dialogue
Located in Oslo, NO
Silent dialogue
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Color Pencil, Acrylic

"It Was Summer" colorful contemporary female nude resting in artist's studio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"It Was Summer" is a colorful contemporary oil painting of a female nude resting in artist's studio Nick Weber (b.1971), living and painting in Springs, NY (about a block away from ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Feminine force
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
Embracing my roots and my cultural background through having a special spiritual connection to the women I depict on my canvases. The theme of women, womanhood and femininity is at ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor

The sisters young women original oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frame size 98x117 cm. Ramon Aguilar i Moré (Barcelona, ​​1924-Barcelona, ​​September 23, 2015) was a Spanish painter. His work was influenced by the expressionist movement, although...
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1970s Fauvist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

In The Cafeteria - Contemporary Expressive Symbolic Black-White Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Joanna Mrozowska Born in 1976 in Warsaw. Studied in the Department of Painting in the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw; she graduated with a Master’s degree in painting, with the cycle...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

1000 Years, blue and earth tonehuman face, bark from birch tree, natural element
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Made with the bark of the Paper Birch tree on a repurposed trophy plaque. The title was inspired by the song, "Scott Pilgrim," by the Canadian band, Plumtree.
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Mixed Media, Archival Ink, Birch

C.Z Guest Time cover. From the Fashion series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
C.Z Guest Time cover, 2024 by Manuel Santelices From the Fashion series Ink and markers on paper Image size: 15 in. H x 11 in. W Unframed The artist have covered the New York Colle...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Permanent Marker

Orange Sun - contemporary oil on canvas portrait of artist Vincent Van Gogh
Located in Hamburg, DE
"Orange Sun" is a unique oil on canvas work by Milan Markovich from 2017. It portrays the face of Vinvent Van Gogh in the artist's special technique an...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Oil

Waiting Room 2 - Contemporary Expressive, Symbolic Black-White Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Joanna Mrozowska Born in 1976 in Warsaw. Studied in the Department of Painting in the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw; she graduated with a Master’s degree in painting, with the cycle...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

La Portadora de árboles
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Olga Cairols is a Spanish artist with more than 35 years of career. Olga studied Art History and Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. She has a bachelors degree in Design, Art ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Freedom of choice
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
Embracing my roots and my cultural background through having a special spiritual connection to the women I depict on my canvases. The theme of women, womanhood and femininity is at ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic, Paper, Watercolor

Primavera en jardín (Spring in garden). Post-impressionist female figure sitting
Located in Segovia, ES
Primavera en jardín ( Spring in garden). Oil on canvas by Spanish artist Joan Raset. Dimension with frame 104 cm H x 121 cm W x 4,5 cm D Dimension without frame 73 cm H x 92 cm W x 2...
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Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Our magnetic fields
Located in Oslo, NO
Our magnetic fields
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Color Pencil, Acrylic

Sisters
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Olga Cairols is a Spanish artist with more than 35 years of career. Olga studied Art History and Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. She has a bachelors degree in Design, Art ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Girl Eating an Apple, Modernist Style, Agnes Mills WPA Artist
Located in Larchmont, NY
Agnes Mills (American, -2008) Untitled (Girl Eating an Apple), c. Late 20th - Early 21st Century Watercolor (?) and pastel on canvas 30 1/8 x 23 3/4 in. Framed: 37 3/4 x 31 5/8 x 1 ...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Pastel, Watercolor

Urianium Oil Painting on Panel Pareidolia Surrealism Still Life In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Urianium Oil Painting on Panel Pareidolia Surrealism Still Life In Stock Daniel Douglas (Dedemsvaart, the Netherlands, 1984) Growing up on the countryside of the Netherlands, Dani...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Goya Disorders, Pastel Tones Diptych, Black Gestures, Urban Forms, PinkGeometric
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...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Spray Paint, Acrylic, Handmade Paper

Recovery - Original Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bay Area artist Michelle Fillmore found her love of oil painting at the University of Las Vegas, where she graduated with a BA in Painting and Drawing in 2015. Fillmore’s tightly con...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A Windy Day - Contemporary Painting by Giampaolo Talani
Located in Carmel, CA
Giampaolo Talani (1955-2018) The "mad scientist" of the art world, Talani created art out of virtually everything he touched. After completing his training at the Florence Academy of...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Board

The knitter Moreno Pincas Contemporary art painting portrait people figurative
Located in Paris, FR
OIl painting on canvas Unique work Hand-signed by the artist
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Man With The Beretta - Seascape Painting by Giampaolo Talani
Located in Carmel, CA
Giampaolo Talani (1955-2018) The "mad scientist" of the art world, Talani created art out of virtually everything he touched. After completing his training at the Florence Academy of...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Board

The turbaned Moreno Pincas Contemporary art painting portrait people figurative
Located in Paris, FR
Oil painting on canvas Unique work Hand-signed by the artist
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The red hat Moreno Pincas Contemporary art painting portrait people figurative
Located in Paris, FR
Oil painting on canvas Unique work Hand-signed by the artist
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The dancer Moreno Pincas Contemporary art painting portrait people figurative
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on canvas Unique work Hand-signed by the artist
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Figurative/Female/Portrait/Florals/Pattern_Stay Forever Free_Anna Kincaide_2024
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
ANNA KINCAIDE "Stay Forever Free" Oil & Mixed Media on Canvas 40 x 30 inches Communicating emotion and narrative with limited assistance from her figure’s facial expressions, Anna K...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Paper, Oil

Comfort Zone
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bay Area artist Michelle Fillmore found her love of oil painting at the University of Las Vegas, where she graduated with a BA in Painting and Drawing in 2015. Fillmore’s tightly con...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Forward Motion - Original Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bay Area artist Michelle Fillmore found her love of oil painting at the University of Las Vegas, where she graduated with a BA in Painting and Drawing in 2015. Fillmore’s tightly con...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Board

memories of summer
Located in Sempach, LU
In this vibrant acrylic painting, I've channeled the essence of summer memories into a whimsical medley of colors and forms. I've drawn from comics, pop art, and symbolism to capture...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, 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...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Oil on Canvas "L' Espagnole" by Dietz Edzard, 1935
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...
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1930s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Narcissus Awoken Visage, Dark Tones Face Painting on Papyrus Paper, Pink, Yellow
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...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Spray Paint, Acrylic, Handmade Paper

Woman by the sea oil on canvas painting mediterranean
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frame size 69x60 cm.
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21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Twirling, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
An elegant figure dances among decorative floating shapes, her glowing gown swirling with motion as she twirls with delight. Painted with a palette knife, she s...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Bakeneko 2.
Located in Oslo, NO
In Japanese culture, magical creatures Bakeneko are supernatural cat yokai known for their shapeshifting abilities, being able to transform into normal cats or even humans.
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Color Pencil

Embrace (Nature)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
I observed that her beauty comes from embracing herself. Her flexibility to switch from night to day and her open alms of embracing the two seasons. Therefore, embrace yourself like ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

"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
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1980s Fauvist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Elisabeht
Located in Oslo, NO
In my artwork, I've poured my soul into capturing the complex tapestry of human emotion. With each stroke of oil paint, I've interwoven a sense of resilience amidst adversity, the su...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic, Board

Portrait dragons
Located in Oslo, NO
Portrait in kitsch style with a Chinese pipe and two dragons. If you look closely, there are three dragons in the picture.
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Color Pencil, Acrylic

Figurative/Female/Portrait/Florals/Pattern_In The Garden_Anna Kincaide_2024
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
ANNA KINCAIDE "In The Garden" Oil & Mixed Media on Canvas 30 x 40 inches Communicating emotion and narrative with limited assistance from her figure’s facial expressions, Anna Kinca...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Paper, Oil

Girl With Harpoon - Florence, Italy, 2020
Located in Hudson, NY
ABOUT Born in 1967, Piussi was raised in Florence where he studied at the Istituto d’arte, majoring in sculpture and painting and completing his artistic education at Milano’s Brera Art Academy. He lives in Florence, pursuing painting, bas-reliefs in terracotta and in bronze, and bronze sculpture. Piussi presents an ideal, almost childlike world which can be found below everyday events, a step outside the flow of time, yet still a part of contemporary life, with a nod to Alex Katz and David Hockney. The drama, or lack thereof, is played out in simplified, almost abstract spaces. Pure in intent, Piussi’s oeuvre are inspired by the Early Renaissance. Snapshot images of a world reduced to its essence, the apparently comic-book style has echoes of Giotto, Paolo Uccello, of medieval illuminations. Rather than mimicking the appearance of nature, Piussi reaches for its essence, without distracting details. Women stand on the shore of quintessentially peaceful seas, self-contained, at ease, unwitting replicas of classical goddesses - a proud diver echoes Neptune holding a trident. “Queen Kong...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil

R. Poch. Figures Faces Blue acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
54. Ramon POch. figures. faces. blue painting Born in Badalona (Barcelona). Photographer and advertising film director. Founding partner of the advertising production company La C...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic

Ole Lukoje, Sandman
Located in Oslo, NO
Controversial hero in Scandinavia-Ole close your eyes. The image of the Sandman can have both a positive connotation , he is a kind creature who calms naughty children and brings goo...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Color Pencil, Acrylic, Canvas

Portrait of Norwegian girl
Located in Oslo, NO
In this oil painting, I endeavored to capture a poignant moment, the gaze that conveys the silent strength within. I used an impressionist touch to evoke emotions and depth, harmoniz...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Figurative/Portrait_Oil/Acrylic/Canvas_Clam Shovel, America Martin
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin "Clam Shovel" Oil & Acrylic on Canvas 71 x 48 in Framed Exploring the identity of both her namesake and country, LA-based America Martin draws inspiration from her Co...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic, Canvas

Pantheon
Located in Milano, MI
Urbex is the English acronym for urban exploration and is an activity that consists of searching for and locating abandoned infrastructure with the goal of visiting, photographing and conveying its contents, with particular involvement of methodologies from geography, anthropology, sociology to cultural studies. Her works have been in the past approached to the works of Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) and Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1770), but in Gullotta's paintings the absence of color makes the spaces particularly ethereal, allowing them to be ideally lifted to new places and to new life. An artist of international caliber who has decided to entrust her return to her homeland to Almach Art Gallery in Milan, while maintaining connections with important galleries, such as Marlborough Fine Art in London and Galerie Koch in Hanover. The artwork represents the famous Velasca Tower in Milan. This artwork was exhibited during the Daniela Gullotta...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Sandstone

"Joint II" - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
Located in East Quogue, NY
"Joint II" - Contemporary figurative oil painting of a couple lying together on a bed by Chelsea Gibson Medium: Oil on linen Size 32 x 48 inches. Offered unframed. "Joint II" i...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Anna Wajcowicz liaison Zośka - Modern Expressive, Symbolic Oil Potrait Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Joanna Mrozowska Born in 1976 in Warsaw. Studied in the Department of Painting in the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw; she graduated with a Master’s degree in painting, with the cycle...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Oil

The Calm Before The Storm #3, Original painting, Seascape, landscape, Beach
Located in Deddington, GB
The Calm Before The Storm #3 - An seascape painting by Lucy Moore. When winter roles in it slowly strips the earth of her colour and vibrancy, the grey storm clouds creep along the s...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Janina Trojanowska-Zborowska - Modern Expressive, Symbolic Oil Potrait Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Joanna Mrozowska Born in 1976 in Warsaw. Studied in the Department of Painting in the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw; she graduated with a Master’s degree in painting, with the cycle...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Oil

The Boy Kuba - Modern, Contemporary Portrait Painting, Pop Art, Joyful
Located in Salzburg, AT
Anna Ładecka is a Paris-based polish illustrator and painter. Graduated from Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Master of Art - Diploma in painting and lithography and obtained a scholar...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Imagine Not
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Imagine not the impossibilities, imagine not the when and How, imagine not yourself. Just do that which you can do and must do. Even when you fall, you will rise again, when you try ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Ewa Matuszewska, Medical Orderly - Expressive, Symbolic Oil Potrait Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Joanna Mrozowska Born in 1976 in Warsaw. Studied in the Department of Painting in the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw; she graduated with a Master’s degree in painting, with the cycle...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Oil

Sleeping girl
Located in Oslo, NO
Childhood is a very important part of a person 's life and a lot is laid there . For me, childhood is carelessness, purity , sincerity, lightness, the drawl of time, a lot of impress...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, 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, ...
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Early 20th Century Fauvist Portrait Paintings

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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...
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1940s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Egg Tempera

Figurative/Female/Portrait/Florals/Pattern_Something New_Anna Kincaide_2024
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
ANNA KINCAIDE "Something New" Oil & Mixed Media on Canvas 48 x 48 inches Communicating emotion and narrative with limited assistance from her figure’s facial expressions, Anna Kinca...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Paper, Oil

II (two) Imperfect Imperfections
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gal...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

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.

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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