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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Period: 20th Century
Period: 1940s
Imerethie II, signed oil painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Imerethie II, 1924
by Louis Letouche (French 1924-2015)
oil painting on linen canvas, stretched over board
framed
Framed size: 13.5 x 22.5 inches
Superb oil painting by the well l...
Category
1990s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid-Century Portrait of a Young Girl with Red Hair
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming portrait of a young girl with red hair wearing a typical mid-century frilly dress and high-cut bangs, by an unknown artist (American,...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Large portrait painting of Edward VII after Fildes
By Charles Willis
Located in London, GB
This exceptional oil painting has been attributed to Charles Willis, who was an accomplished early 20th Century British artist. Willis based this work on a famous State portrait of King Edward VII, completed in 1902 by Sir Samuel Luke Fildes...
Category
20th Century Naturalistic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
African Tribal Celebration: Alex Haley Roots for Readers Digest
By Noel Sickles
Located in Miami, FL
Complex and detailed epic scale history painting of an African tribal celebration with an on-looking king. The work has an abundant amount o...
Category
1970s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Tennis Champion, Don Budge
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvasboard
Signature: Unsigned
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of Tennis Champion Don Budge, Number One ranked player in the world, 1937-42, injury from ...
Category
1930s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Board
Mid Century Figurative Portrait of a Boy with Toy Car
Located in Soquel, CA
Realistic mid century portrait of a boy playing with an antique toy car by Ralph Joosten (American, 1928-2009). Signed "R. Joosten" in the lower left ...
Category
1960s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Harlequin and his dog", 20th Century oil on cardbard by Ismael de la Serna
Located in Madrid, ES
ISMAEL GONZÁLEZ DE LA SERNA
Spanish, 1898 - 1968
HARLEQUIN AND HIS DOG
Signed and dated I. de la Serna, 1955
Oil on cardboard
42 X 27-1/2 i...
Category
1950s Symbolist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
Portrait of a Rancher "Pete"
By Patience Hilda Street
Located in Soquel, CA
Oil portrait of a rancher with cowboy hat, by Patience Street (née Lloyd) (English, 1905-2010). Signed by the artist in the lower left corner. There are multiple notes on the frame o...
Category
1970s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Huge French Modernist Oil Nude Lovers in Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Lovers
by Michele Salmon (French b.1946)
signed lower front and verso
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas size: 39 x 32 inches
provenance: private collection, France
Beautiful ...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Nuturing
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jean Dominique Van Caulert, (1897-1979), although most often associated with his celebrity portraits and works for the theater, he was also a true symbolist in the tradition of the Belgian symbolist's.
"The Nurturing", oil on canvas, dated 1947, is Van Caulert's depiction of the nurturing of post war Europe, as the shrouded woman offers an apple to an androgynous figure.
Category
1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
African Tribal Celebration: Alex Haley Roots for Readers Digest
By Noel Sickles
Located in Miami, FL
Complex and detailed epic scale history painting of an African tribal celebration with an on looking king. The work has an abundant amount o...
Category
1970s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
At the Cafe
Located in Houston, TX
Francois Gall 1912-1987 French artist.
BENEZIT LISTED. GALL WAS THE RECIPIENT OF THE MEDAILLE d'ORE At the Paris Salon of 1947.
10 ½ x 18 oil on canvas, signed lower right. This ca...
Category
1950s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
John Begg Jr., Expressionist Portrait by Joseph Solman
Located in Long Island City, NY
In the mid-1960s Joseph Solman (American, 1909 - 2008) was commissioned to create portraits of the Begg family. This is a portrait of John Begg Jr., the son of the mid-century nuclear family...
Category
1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Portrait of a young Swedish woman, bathed in warm firelight, Oil on Panel
By Sam Uhrdin
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
Sam Uhrdin (Swedish School, 1886-1964)
Sam Uhrdin was born in 1886 in the Swedish town of Siljasnas to the north-west of St...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"I See a Robin" - Portrait of a Boy in Winter
By Veon Zentner
Located in Soquel, CA
"I See a Robin," a figurative oil painting of a boy in a window by Veon Zentner (American, 20th Century). Presented in a rustic wooden frame. Signed "Zentner" lower left. Titled "I S...
Category
1990s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painter with a Pipe, Oil on Canvas by Gaetano Esposito
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Unknown after Gaetano Esposito
Title: Painter with a Pipe
Year: circa 1900
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed illegibly verso
Size: 16.5 x 13 in....
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
AKOS BIRO (HUNGARIAN 1911-2002) EXPRESSIONIST OIL PORTRAIT OF A LADY BROWN HAIR
By Akos Biro
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Portrait of a Lady"
by Akos Biro (Hungarian 1911-2002)
oil painting on card, unframed
painting: 14 x 11 inches
provenance: the artists estate, France
Original oil painting by the...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Movie Poster Illustration for "American Pop"
Located in Miami, FL
McLean's consummate skill as a portrait artist, graphic designer and master of composition is on full display in the complex narrative work. This work contains 41 portraits including those of Bette Midler, Jimi Hendrix, and Benny Goodman...
Category
1980s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Young Girl
Located in Greenville, DE
Titled on the back, "Head of Small Girl". Painted in a impressionist style. Labeled on the back Eloise Waggoner 24 Wilmont Mews, West Chester, PA, 19380. ...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
The Money Maze
By Sue Coe
Located in Miami, FL
This is an early work from Sue Coe's oeuvre. Prior to being a fine art artist Coe was an illustrator .
Signed lower right. Inscribed on lower margin, "The Money Maze To Dawn Love ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor, Pencil
'Portrait of a Young Woman', Academie Chaumière, Paris, Chouinard, Art Center
By Leon Franks
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Leon Franks'; additionally signed and titled, 'Portrait of a Girl', on old label verso.
A bravura brushwork study of a young woman wearing a floral patterned shirt gazing calmly towards the viewer.
A noted portrait and still life painter, Leon Franks studied at the Academie Julian and Grande Chaumiere in Paris and, subsequently, in Los Angeles at the Chouinard Art Institute and the Los Angeles Art Center. Franks additionally studied privately with Nicolai Fechin, Will Foster and F. Tolles Chamberlain.
Before settling in Los Angeles in 1936, where Franks continued his education and began designing for the movie industry, he did portraits and decorations for Vancouver theaters. The author of several 'How to Paint' books, including titles 'How to Do Still Life' (1952) and 'Leon Franks on Techniques' (1964), Franks was a teacher. He privately taught several artists, including Vernon...
Category
1960s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of the grand daughter of the artist. Oil on panel. Signed.
Located in Paris, FR
Portrait study of the grand daughter of the artist. Oil on panel. Signed. Unframed.
This work will be recorded in the catalogue raisonné of the...
Category
1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
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...
Category
1940s Art Deco Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Protest Revolt and Uprising illustration
By Daniel Maffia
Located in Miami, FL
This work is a quintessential protest statement piece depicting an angry mob brandishing powerful fits in the air in gestures of revolt
Signed lower right.
Daniel Maffia has done a ...
Category
1980s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache
Sir Thomas J. Lipton
Located in Bristol, CT
Hand-colour lithograph c1931 of Sir Thomas J Lipton, Bart by Gordon Ross (1873-1946) aboard his yacht 'Erin'
Print Sz: 22 3/4"H x 15 1/4"W
Frame Sz: 31"H x 23"W
w/ coral mat & antique bamboo frame...
Category
1930s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Whimsical Judaica Shtetl Shadchan Matchmaker Oil Painting WPA Jewish Folk Artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern
Subject: Fiddler on the roof, Shtetl matchmaker
Medium: Oil
Surface: Board, size includes artist decorated frame
Country: United States
The imagery of Maurice Kish (1895-1987), whether factories or carousels, reliably subverts expectations. His vision hovers just around the unraveling edge of things, where what is solid and clear becomes ambiguous. He is fascinated, often delighted, by the falling apart. This unexpected, fresh perspective results in oddly affecting pictures of a now long-gone New York.
Born Moishe in a town called Dvinsk, Russia (what is now Daugavpils, Latvia), Kish came with his family to New York when he was in his teens. The family settled in Brownsville, and for the rest of Kish’s life Brooklyn remained his home, though he moved from one neighborhood to another. He was close to his parents, who recognized his talent and supported his desire to become an artist.
Kish attended the National Academy of Design as well as Cooper Union. His fellow students included many other immigrants and children of immigrants who were particularly receptive to the Modernism coming from Europe. As his career progressed, Kish himself applied different strains of Modernism to different purposes. For him, the story was held above all else.
For years, Kish used the skills he acquired in art school to earn his living at a Manhattan glass...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Novelist Graham Green. Time magazine Cover Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Work is nicely archival matted to 17.75 x 16.75 inches but not framed. Signed lower left
Published : Oct. 29, 1951 Cover, Time Magazine
Category
1950s Photorealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
Rosella, Romantic Portrait circa 1900 by Francesco Paolo Michetti
By Francesco Paolo Michetti
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Francesco Paolo Michetti, Italian (1851 - 1929)
Title: Rosella
Year: circa 1900
Medium: Oil on Canvas, Signed
Size: 30 x 20 inches [76.2 x 50.8 cm]
Framed: 40 x 30 inches [10...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Self Portrait
Located in London, GB
HUGO SCHEIBER 1873-1950
1873 - Budapest - 1950 (Hungarian)
Title: Self Portrait
Technique: Original Signed Pastel Drawing on Paper
Size: 37.7 x 30 cm. / 14.8 x 11.8 in.
Additiona...
Category
1940s Futurist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel
How Sure Can You Be? McCall's Magazine Illustration of Loving Couple
By Alex Ross
Located in Miami, FL
Alexander Sharpe Ross - or Alex Ross. This work is a perfect artistic statement with every formal element in perfect harmony. It's a masterf...
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
20th Century Signed French Oil - Portrait of a Lady from Mougins, South France
By Akos Biro
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"La Colette"
by Akos Biro (Hungarian 1911-2002)
signed, oil painting on canvas, unframed
painting: 16 x 13 inches
provenance: the artists estate, France
Original oil painting by t...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ballet D'enfants
Located in Sheffield, MA
Suzanne Eisendieck
French, 1908-1998
Ballet D'enfants
Oil on canvas
36 by 29 ½ in. W/frame 44 by 37 ½ in.
Signed lower right
She was born in Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland) in 1908 ...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Marian Begg, Expressionist Portrait by Joseph Solman
Located in Long Island City, NY
In the mid-1960s Joseph Solman (American, 1909 - 2008) was commissioned to create portraits of the Begg family. This is a portrait of Marian Begg, the mother in the mid-century nuclear family...
Category
1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Portrait of Marelen Dietrich
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jean Dominique Van Caulert, (1897-1979), although most often associated with his celebrity portraits and works for the theater, he was also a true symbolist in the tradition of the B...
Category
1930s Art Deco Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mysterious Identity Abstract Portrait, Muted Colours, Original Oil Painting
By Beryl Darton
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mysterious Identity, Abstract Portrait, MutedColours, Original Oil Painting
By British artist, Beryl Darton, Mid 20th Century
Oil painting on board, unfra...
Category
1970s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Le Roi de Rome, d'apres Laurance", Impressionist Portrait, Signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Le Roi de Rome, d'apres Laurance", Impressionist Portrait, Signed
By French artist Claude Benard, (1926 - 2016)
Signed and dated '1942' by the artist on the lower right hand corner
Titled verso
Oil painting on board, unframed
Board size: 8.5 x 6.5 inches
Wonderful portrait of a little boy, who we believe was called 'Laurance'. Also, 'Le Roi de Rome' translates to 'The King of Rome' which is a mystery.
The painting itself is quite exceptional. He has strawberry blond coloured hair, piercing big blue eyes and a beautiful mouth, a very handsome little boy. This would make a lovely addition to an interior looking to add some vintage oil painting portraits...
Category
1940s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
SPECTACLES
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed on front by the artist. Original mixed media with collage on paper. Visible image size approx 25 x 18.75 inches. Frame size 41 x 35 inches. Artwork is in excellent condit...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Paper
Child in Chicken Yard Fauvist Abstract Expressionist Portrait
Located in Soquel, CA
Dynamic fauvist portrait painting titled "Chicken Yard" by California abstract expressionist artist Kristin Cohen (Ameican, b. 1963). Kristin Cohen studied at Humbolt State Universit...
Category
1990s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mid Century Pink Clown (Portrait #3)
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming mid century impressionist portrait of a clown in pink by Marjorie Blake (American, 1920-1994). Signed "M. Blake" in the lower left corner. Unfr...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard
Huge French Modernist Portrait of Cubist Figure Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"L'usure du Temps"
French School, late 20th century
signed indistinctly lower right, titled verso
oil painting on canvas
55 x 40 inches
Magnificent French oil painting on canvas from the close of the 20th century, depicting this haunting figure dressed in what looks to be some sort of coat of armour...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Saturday Evening Post Cover, October 11, 1913
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Saturday Evening Post Cover, October 11, 1913
Category
1910s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Figures II" Giclee on Canvas, Signed by Artist (part of set)
By Glenn Payne
Located in Clinton Township, MI
"Figures II" Giclee on Canvas by Glenn Payne (can be purchased individually or as part of set for $1,200). Signed by the artist. The piece measures approximately 51.50 x 22 x 2 inche...
Category
Late 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Giclée, Canvas
Trumpet Player, 1960's Oil Painting by Marshall Goodman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Trumpet Player
Marshall Goodman, American (1916–2003)
Date: circa 1960
Oil on Canvas
Size: 30 in. x 24 in. (76.2 cm x 60.96 cm)
Frame Size: 32 x 26 inches
Category
1960s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
CARLOS CARNERO (1922-1980) ORIGINAL DRAWING BY FERNAND LEGER STUDIO WORKER
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Portrait"
by Carlos Carnero (Uruguay/ French 1922-1980)
Pencil on thin paper, unframed
paper: 10.5 x 8.25 inches
provenance: the artists estate, Pari...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Rabbi Reading, Oil Painting by Abraham Straski
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Abraham Straski, Polish (1903 - 1987)
Title: Untitled - Polish Rabbi F
Year: 1952
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Image Size: 10 x 7.5 inches
Frame Size: 17.5 x 15 inches
Category
1950s Post-War Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Italian Modernist Surrealist Lady With a Hat Oil Painting, Signora dal Cappello
Located in Surfside, FL
Lazzaro Donati (Italian, 1926-1977), "Signora dal Cappello," oil on panel, signed lower left, signed, titled and dated verso, overall (with frame): 22.5"h x 24.5"w
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 i faucist recalling the works of the french Raoul Dufy, Dunoyer de Segonzac, Francois Gall and jean Jansem.
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 a painting...
Category
1960s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Mid 20th Century French Impressionist Portrait of a Young Girl
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid 20th Century French Impressionist Portrait of a Young Girl
French School, Mid 20th century
Oil painting on canvas, unframed
...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
A fine Edmund Adler Painting of Children Gathered in a Parlor
By Edmund Adler
Located in New York, NY
EDMUND ADLER
Austrian, 1876-1965
Children Gathered in a Parlor
Signed Edmund Adler l.l.; also numbered 21767 on verso
Oil on canvas
21 1/4 x 26 1/2 inches
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
AD LUNAM
By Tomasz Rut
Located in Aventura, FL
Giclee on canvas. Hand signed and numbered on front by the artist. Edition of 195. Canvas size 24 x 13.75 inches. Canvas is stretched. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certifi...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Giclée, Canvas
Rabbi and Student, Oil Painting by Abraham Straski 1957
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Abraham Straski, Polish (1903 - 1987)
Title: Rabbi and Student
Year: 1957
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 16 x 11 inches
Frame Size: 25 x 20 inches
Category
1950s Post-War Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"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...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Clint Eastwood in 'The Outlaw Josey Wales'
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Girl at the Sink
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Spring Reflection", An He, Impressionistic Figurative Original Oil, 40x30 in.
By An He
Located in Dallas, TX
"Spring Reflection" by An He is an original oil on canvas portrait painting measuring 40x30 in. in a brown simple frame. A timid victorian lady in a white gown looks over her shoulder standing beneath a blooming cherry blossom tree with a basket full of red and pink flowers freshly picked in the spring.
Chinese-American artist An He, also known as Hans Amis, is known for his magnificent portrait paintings of women...
Category
1990s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Seated Jester
By Dan Wuthrich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Wuthrich', and accompanied by the original certificate of authenticity.
Oil portrait of a jester dressed in black, white and emerald harlequin with bells on his collar and fool's hat, seated on a stone wall with the full moon hanging low in the coral and wine-red sky behind him.
Raised in a family that supported Wuthrich's interest in the arts, Dan Wuthrich has been painting since he was eight and at eleven had artwork featured in a Wisconsin newspaper article. After high school, Wuthrich continued his fine art studies at the Layton School of Art from 1954-1959 and at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1961 taking courses in printmaking, English, speech and psychology. While maintaining his painting career, Wuthrich established a professional career as an engineer from 1965 to 1991, working for American Motors...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of a Man, Yaddo
By Rosemarie Beck
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Rosemarie Beck (1923-2003). Yaddo Portrait of a Man (possibly Larry Osgood). Oil on canvas, 18 x 22 inches. Without frame. Minor rippling of canvas with...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
CARLOS CARNERO (1922-1980) ORIGINAL DRAWING BY FERNAND LEGER STUDIO WORKER
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Landscape"
by Carlos Carnero (Uruguay/ French 1922-1980)
Pen on paper, unframed
paper: 2.25 x 3 inches
provenance: the artists estate, Paris
Fine original French drawing by the i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pen
AKOS BIRO (HUNGARIAN 1911-2002) EXPRESSIONIST OIL - PORTRAIT IN DEEP THOUGHT
By Akos Biro
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"In Deep Thought"
by Akos Biro (Hungarian 1911-2002)
oil painting on board, unframed
painting: 13.75 x 9.5 inches
provenance: the artists estate, France
O...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-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.
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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