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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Period: 20th Century
Period: 1920s
George Weissbort (1928-2013) - Mid 20th Century Oil, Study of Benjamin Britten
Located in Corsham, GB
A wonderfully atmospheric portrait of a young Benjamin Britten. Britten was a renowned British pianist and composer of the 20th century. Weissbort was introduced to Britten by his gr...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
George Weissbort (1928-2013) - 20th Century Oil, Portrait of a Young Man
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. Provenance: Studio Sale. On board.
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
George Weissbort (1928-2013) - 20th Century Oil, The Thinker
Located in Corsham, GB
Self portrait. Unsigned. Provenance: Studio Sale. On board.
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
George Weissbort (1928-2013) - Mid 20th Century Oil, Man in Glasses
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. Provenance: Studio Sale, George Weissbort, 2 June 2024. On board.
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Elvic Steele (1920-1997) - 20th Century Oil, Embroiderer
By Elvic Steele
Located in Corsham, GB
A vibrant scene depicting two women concentrating on embroidery pieces. Captured in a modernist style with exaggerated features and a two-dimensional tone to the piece. Signed verso....
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
George Weissbort (1928-2013) - 20th Century Oil, Man In Blue
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. Provenance: Studio Sale. On board.
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
George Weissbort (1928-2013) - 20th Century Oil, A Worried Expression
Located in Corsham, GB
Male Portrait, oil on board. Unsigned. (Provenance: Studio Sale, George Weissbort).
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
George Weissbort (1928-2013) - 20th Century Oil, Self Portrait In A Top Hat
Located in Corsham, GB
On board.
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
George Weissbort (1928-2013) - 20th Century Oil, The Kitchen Towel
Located in Corsham, GB
Artist Self-Portrait. Unsigned. (Provenance: Studio Sale, George Weissbort)
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
George Weissbort (1928-2013) - 20th Century Oil, Elderly Lady
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. Provenance: Studio Sale. On board.
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
George Weissbort (1928-2013) - 20th Century Oil, Woman In Profile
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. Provenance: Studio Sale. On board.
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
George Weissbort (1928-2013) - Mid 20th Century Oil, Blonde
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. Provenance: Studio Sale, George Weissbort, 2 June 2024. On board.
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
George Weissbort (1928-2013) - Mid 20th Century Oil, Pensive Look
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. Provenance: Studio Sale, George Weissbort, 2 June 2024. On board.
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
John Cluysenaar (1899-1986) - Mid 20th Century Oil, Young Girl with Doll
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine oil by John Cluysenaar (1899-1986) depicting a young girl holding her doll. Presented in a wooden strip frame. Signed to the lower left. On canvas on stretchers.
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
J. Hanning-Lee - Framed Mid 20th Century Oil, Portrait of Iris Sanmugam
Located in Corsham, GB
This atmospheric portrait depicts a serene female figure, dressed in a blue robe at the edge of a dark forest. The soft, dreamlike quality of the artist's brushwork creates an air of...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Gerald Trice Martin (1893-1961) - Early 20th Century Oil, Lady in Blue
Located in Corsham, GB
An early 20th century female portrait by the British artist Gerald Trice Martin (1893-1961). Signed to the lower right. Dated 1919...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bernadette Kelly (b.1933) - 20th Century Oil, Head of a Man
Located in Corsham, GB
Male portrait, oil on canvas. Unsigned. (Provenance: Studio Sale of Bernadette Kelly, Hôtel Drouot, Paris).
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bernadette Kelly (b.1933) - 20th Century Oil, A Serious Look
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. On board.
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Felix Tabasco (1947-2007) - Framed 20th Century Oil, A Spanish Flower Seller
Located in Corsham, GB
Felix Tabasco (1947-2007), Spanish School, oil on canvas. Portrait of an elderly lady selling dahlia flowers in the street. Presented in a large silver effect frame with white intern...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ella W. Luetz - 20th Century Oil, Rhythmic Dancer
Located in Corsham, GB
An expressive depiction of a female dancer surrounded by flying doves. Indistinctly signed. On canvas on stretchers.
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Young Boy, Oil on Canvas Signed Felix Bryk, circa 1910
Located in Paris, FR
Lovely portrait of a young Boy standing on an armchair.
Oil on canvas signed Felix BRYK.
Swedish School, circa 1900-1910
Portraitist and ethnologist of the early twentieth century.
...
Category
1910s Academic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Le Gilet Bleu” The Blue Jacket
By René Genis
Located in Berlin, MD
Rene Genis (French 1922-2004) "Le Gilet Bleu” The Blue Jacket. Portrait of a young man in a blue jacket/sweater with an insignia on the breast and a blue ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Laid Paper
Fabrizio Ravanelli - Celebrating the Football Goal in the UEFA Final 1995-96
Located in Firenze, IT
Fabrizio Ravanelli - Celebrating the Opening Goal in the UEFA Champions League Final 1995-1996
Technique: Charcoal on paper, Signed and dated ’96
Author: Marco Silombria (Savona, 19...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pencil, Carbon Pencil
1950's Mid Century modern oil portrait of a nude woman laying on a bed
Located in Woodbury, CT
1950's Mid Century modern oil portrait of a nude woman laying on a bed
The artist was a portrait and figure painter active during the 1950s-1960s
...
Category
1950s Abstract Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Italian Modernist Surrealist Woman Color Oil Painting Lazzaro Donati La Regina
Located in Surfside, FL
Lazzaro Donati (Italian, 1926-1977)
Oil on board. Colorful woman. La Regina (the Queen)
Hand signed upper right. signed, titled on back of panel.
Dimensions: (Frame) H 37" x W 29", (Panel) H 27.5" x W 20"
Lazzaro Donati was born in Florence and attended the Academy of Fine Arts. He began to paint in 1953, and in 1955 held his first exhibition at the Indiano Gallery in Florence. Within three years eleven exhibitions followed in Italy, and as his reputation grew he was invited to give major exhibitions in London, Paris, New York, Chicago, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo. He is considered one of the foremost contemporary Italian painters and his paintings hang in museums and private collections throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. His work is recalling the works of the french Raoul Dufy, Dunoyer de Segonzac, Francois Gall and Jean Jansem. This particular work is reminiscent of the work of Manolo Valdes. Donati lived and worked at 24 Piazza Donatello in Florence, the square where generations of artists have created works worthy of the great Florentine tradition. As you entered the narrow hallway to his studio, a gilded life-size Venetian angel beckoned you to his door. Once inside, the present faded away and you found yourself in an atelier where early masters might have worked during the Renaissance. Within, luxurious Persian rugs set off the innumerable objects d’art and antique furnishings. Light poured in through the sloping glass wall on the north side. A dramatic stairway led to an overhanging balcony which served as a private gallery where the artist hung some of his favorite early works. To the left of the entrance was a smaller studio where Donati sculpted, with a window overlooking the famous old English cemetery where tourists laid flowers on the grave of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
In the main studio itself, where Donati received his clients in an atmosphere as polished as an office of a top executive, one hardly realized that it was here that the artist actually painted. His easel was covered with Persian blue velvet, the painting on the easel was already framed, his chair was upholstered in red velvet and on his palette the colors were arranged with the precision of a Byzantine mosaic. In a corner stand were his latest works, framed and ready to be sent off to his next exhibition in Europe or America. He spoke fluent French and English as well as some Spanish and German. “After all”, he said, “you've got to know how to sell...
Category
1960s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Chinese " 100 Beauties " Porcelain Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Chinese Painting on Porcelain " The Image of 100 Beauties " Hand Carved wood frame.
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Porcelain
Portrait of actress Eleonora Duse
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Beige wooden frame with glass pane
67 x 58 x 5 cm
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Young woman Charleston hairstyle and blue dress
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Golden wooden frame with glass pane
91 x 77 x 4 cm
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Untitled Diptych
By Marcus Cain
Located in Kansas City, MO
Marcus Cain
Untitled Diptych
Acrylic on paper
Year: 1999
Size: 16.75x13.5 (each)
Framed: 20.25x17x1.75in (each)
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-1069
Marcus Cain is a resident of Kansas Cit...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Portrait of George Hopkinson - British 20's male oil painting Russian Jewish art
By Jacob Kramer
Located in London, GB
This superb portrait oil painting is by noted Russian Jewish artist Jacob Kramer. The sitter is a friend of the artist, George Hopkinson, proud Yorkshireman and textile businessman w...
Category
1920s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
1950's Mid Century modern English oil portrait, two women in a artists studio
Located in Woodbury, CT
1950's Mid Century modern English oil portrait, two women in an artists studio
The artist was a portrait and figure painter active during the 1950s-1960s
Great use of color and abstract brush strokes...
Category
1950s Abstract Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
ORIENTAL GIRL- Orientalism- French School Italy figurative Oil on canvas paint
By I. Di Matteo
Located in Napoli, IT
Oriental girl - I. Di Matteo Italia 1997 - Oil on canvas cm. 60x50.
The painting by I. Di Matteo depicts a typically oriental young woman in her hair an...
Category
1990s French School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Franz Berger - 20th Century Oil, Mandolin Player
Located in Corsham, GB
This oil painting features a portrait of an elderly gentleman in a black hat and green jacket, holding a musical instrument that appears to be a mandolin or similar stringed instrume...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Popart, 1960s painting of Eric Von Stroheim by Welsh artist Jeffrey Morgan
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Jeffrey Morgan (British, b.1942)
Eric Von Stroheim
Poster paint and pencil
24 x 16.3/8 in. (61 x 41.6 cm.)
A 1960s pop art design for a tin print for JR...
Category
20th Century Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paint, Pencil
Military Man Portrait Figurative Abstract Oil Painting American Modernist Artist
By Dean Richardson
Located in Surfside, FL
Oil on board, 1978. It depicts an abstracted portrait of a military man in an army uniform with medals. It is signed by the artist verso.
Dimensions: sight size-22 inches tall X 19...
Category
1970s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Two Ballerinas - Oil and Ink on Cardstock
Located in Soquel, CA
Two Ballerinas - Acrylic and Ink on Cardstock
Colorful portrait of two ballerinas by Jassen Marek (20th Century). Two ballerinas are shown in white, green, and blue. They are bendin...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board, Pen
Gypsy woman. 1959., oil on cardboard, 48x37 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Gypsy woman. 1959., oil on cardboard, 48x37 cm
Alfejs Bromults (1913.3.IV - 1991.11.I)
His first professional education was at National University at studies to R.Suta, J. Bine and...
Category
1950s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
The Sculptor
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
An early, 1940, oil on canvas by American artist Ron Blumberg.
Blumberg was classically trained at La Grande Academie Chaumiere in Paris, 1932, before moving to New York where he bec...
Category
1930s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Portrait of a Young Woman', Philadelphia Modernist, PAFA, Baum School of Art
By Martin Zipin
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Zipin' for Martin Zipin (American, 1920-1991) and painted circa 1960.
Displayed in the original, hand-carved giltwood frame.
Framed ...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, 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
Roy Ray (1936-1921) - 1971 Oil, The Penzance Organ Grinder
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming oil portrait featuring a richly detailed figure set against a warm, rustic background. The artist's expressive brushwork and earthy palette bring depth and character to th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Carl Siegfried Stoitzner (1866-1943) - Early 20th Century Oil, The Monk
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming depiction of a monk drinking in a tavern. Signed in the upper right. Presented in a gilt frame. On panel.
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Continental School Mid 20th Century Oil - Woman Holding Her Rosary
Located in Corsham, GB
Portrait in oil. Indistinctly signed to the lower right. Presented in a cream and gilt-effect frame. On canvas on stretchers.
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Signed American Illustration "Romeo and Juliette" Framed Rare Portrait Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American illustration painting. Signed. Framed. Measuring 20 by 24 inches overall and 16 by 20 painting alone.
Category
1960s Abstract Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mr. and Mrs. Charles and Allison Coolidge (Belmont)
Located in Boston, MA
Dated and titled on stretcher: "'37/ Mr + Mrs Chas. Coolidge/ Allison/ -Belmont".
In 1929 Molly Luce and her husband, Alan Burroughs, moved from Garden St...
Category
1930s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dancer 1969. Oil on canvas, 92.5x92.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Dancer
1969. Oil on canvas, 92,5x92,5 cm
The artist's portrayal of the dancer captures the grace and elegance associated with ballet. The ballerina's pose and body language convey ...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman on Sofa - Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman on Sofa is a modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in the 1930s.
Another painting of human figure on rear.
Includes frame.
Mixed colore...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Girl with a Flower Basket, Impressionist Oil Painting by Philippe Alfieri
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Philippe Alfieri, Italian/American (1921 - 2009)
Title: Woman with Flower Basket
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l.
S...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Celluloid Manga Characters 1
Located in Genève, GE
Original ink and gouache cello with sketch
White wooden frame with plastic protection
32.5 x 42.5 x 3.5 cm
Category
Late 20th Century Outsider Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Celluloid Manga Characters 3
Located in Genève, GE
Original ink and gouache cello with sketch
White wooden frame with plastic protection
42.5 x 32.5 x 3.5 cm
Category
Late 20th Century Outsider Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Women- Painting on Canvas by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Women is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist Antonio Feltrinelli in the 1930s
Original oil on plywood.
Beautiful and representative work of a female figure and on ...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paint, Plywood
Diminutive Mid Century Expressionist Clown Portrait #1
Located in Soquel, CA
Small portrait of a clown with colorful, expressionist brushstrokes by Marjorie Blake (American, 1920-1994). Signed "M. Blake" in the lower right corner...
Category
1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
South African Girl by Alfred Richard Martin (1871 – 1939) British-South African
Located in Knokke, BE
Alfred Richard Martin
Liverpool 1871 – 1939 Johannesburg
British-South African Painter
'Portrait of a Zulu Girl, KwaZulu-Natal, South-Africa'
Medium:...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Pedro Gasto Vilanova - Modernist painting of a family, dated '44
Located in New York, NY
Pedtro Gasto Vilanova (Spanish, 1908-1997)
Untitled (Family), 1944
Oil on canavas
21 7/8 x 18 3/8 in.
Framed: 24 3/4 x 21 1/3 in.
Signed and dated on left side.
Inscribed verso: PAG...
Category
1940s Abstract Geometric Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Buste de guerrier Masai - Huile sur panneau, 102x68cm, encadré
Located in Nice, FR
Portrait of a Masai, oil on panel. With frame: 124cm x 91cm.
Patrice Landauer est un artiste peintre français né en 1965.
Patrice Landauer a approfo...
Category
Late 20th Century Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Self Portrait
Located in Douglas, Isle of Man
Sir John Kiffin Williams O.B.E. R.A. 1918-2006, was a Welsh landscape painter. Kiffin Williams as he was known lived on Anglesey and was widely regarded as one of the greatest We...
Category
1960s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Woman portrait. 1955, oil on canvas, 50.8 x 40.6 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Woman portrait. 1955, oil on canvas, 50.8 x 40.6 cm
Provenance Bonhams
Category
1950s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figurative Expressionist Bold Pop Art Oil Painting Self Portrait Carlo Pittore
By Carlo Pittore
Located in Surfside, FL
Carlo Pittore
Oil on canvas, 1984,
Self Portrait, initialed and dated lower left,
slat framed, 21"sqr (frame) 20 X 20 canvas.
Provenance: The Private Collection of Wolf Kahn & Emily Mason
Carlo Pittore (1943 – 2005) born Charles J. Stanley was an American painter, educator, art activist, and publisher, whose primary study, teaching and body of work was figurative art and portrait painting. He was a pioneer in the Mail Art movement, he corresponded with such mail art luminaries as Buster Cleveland and Ray Johnson. Pittore is noted for opening the first independent art gallery in the East Village, Manhattan. In 1987, Pittore founded "The Academy of Carlo Pittore" in Bowdoinham, Maine.
Pittore (née Charles Stanley) was born to Stanford and Estelle Stanley in Queens, New York. He grew up on Long Island, in Port Washington, New York with his sister Marion and brother Elliott. Pittore graduated from Port Washington High School (1961), where he was active in the political and debating scenes. He then went on to graduate from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts (1966), and post graduate from the Brooklyn Museum Art School (1978).
Pittore changed his name in the 1970s while studying abroad in Rome, Italy. The children nicknamed him "Carlo Pittore", (”Charles the Painter"). From there he went on to study at the Chelsea College of Arts in London.
In 1978, Pittore received the Max Beckmann Scholarship in Advanced Painting. It allowed him to begin studying with American feminist painter Joan Semmel at the Brooklyn Museum Art School. He also studied with visual portrait artist Alice Neel. After which, he taught art at the New York Cultural Foundation.
In the 1970s, Pittore and his close friend Bern Porter...
Category
1980s Neo-Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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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