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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Style: Modern
Style: Contemporary
Panta One
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Panda One' by contemporary artist Tamera Avery was painted in 2022, in oil on canvas. Often depicting curious situations with ambiguity, wit and wisdom, and often dealing with serio...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

Mood Stain - Oil on Canvas by Anastasia Kurakina - 2018
Located in Roma, IT
Mood Stain is a colorful original oil on canvas realized in 2018 by Anastasia Kurakina . Signed and dated on the lower left margin. Original Title: Macchia dell'umore . In excelle...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

portrait of a man
By Elie Shamir
Located in Surfside, FL
The painter Elie Shamir was born in 1953 in the village Kfar Yehoshua, studied at Bezalel, and participated in many exhibitions in Israel and abroad. This exhibition centers on Shami...
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1980s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Two Fine Lady Caricatures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Portrait by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original gouache on artist paper, unframed size: 11.75 x 8.25 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed. proven...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings

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Gouache

Untited (2018), figurative portrait, female face, street art, geometric pattern
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Untited" (2018), by Brittany Williams, based in the Finger Lakes region of NY state Figurative portrait, female face, profile portraiture, geometri...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Wood Panel, Acrylic

French Contemporary Art by Karine Bartoli - 7 Personnages Arone
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Karine Bartoli was born in 1971 in Ajaccio. She enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Marseille where she graduated in 1997. Since then she has ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Solace (2022), figurative portrait, floral, flowers, pink, street art, muralist
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Solace" (2022), by Brittany Williams, based in the Finger Lakes region of NY state Figurative portrait, face, profile portraiture, hair, braids, fl...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Wood Panel, Acrylic

Reclining Girl in Traditional Dress, Oil Painting by Di Li Feng
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Di Li Feng, Chinese (1958 - ) Title: Reclining Girl in Traditional Dress Year: circa 2000 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 38 x 51 in...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Girl with Fan by the River, Oil Painting by Di Li Feng
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Di Li Feng, Chinese (1958 - ) Title: Girl with Fan by the River Year: circa 2000 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 51 x 38 in. (129.54 x 9...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Apollo & Daphne - Greek Mythology: Gilding, Ink and Acrylic on Canvas
Located in London, GB
With a background in engineering and architecture, Marco Araldi is demonstrably comfortable with both mathematical design and geometry. Naturally drawn t...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Childhood - Contemporary Nature Oil Painting, Landscape, Child Portrait
Located in Salzburg, AT
Aleksandra Batura (b. 1982 in Augustów) a Warsaw based artist. She earned a Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. She studied at the Faculty of Painting...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

The Agreement - Contemplative Female Figure with Fruit, Oil on Panel, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
Tina Figarelli is a classically trained artist whose favorite subject matter in her artwork is ideas with a strong narrative. Tina leaves the viewer hin...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Panel, Oil

Young Swimmer (Modern, Academic Style Portrait Painting in Antique Gold Frame)
Located in Hudson, NY
Figurative oil on canvas painting of a young athletic male 24 x 20 inches, 29.5 x 23.5 inches vintage gold painted wood frame signed B. Sargeant in red in upper right hand corner T...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Girl On A Rock - 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 ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Nostalgia Mohammad Ariyaei 21st Century art Contemporary Iranian outsider paint
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Hand-signed lower right « Here the barbaric or savage ceremonies of New Guinea take on the air of Rio carnival. Here the vitality bursts and the colors dance the jig while thundering. A charivari of African masks, children's drawings and neon colors invades the meticulously meshed backdrops with volcanic overflows. It seems that within a kindergarten class, merry feathered wizards have joined together to cover the canvas or the paper with totemic figures strewn with the most inventively unexpected graffiti, in a creative frenzy so bubbling that the anarchy that threat recovers as in spite of itself a semblance of balance. The graphic design performs an enveloping and virtuoso dance that passes from the most wisely academic exercise to the most exuberant and Dionysian lyrical expressionism. It's flamboyant, paroxysmal and wonderfully joyful. Should we detect here any influence of the spirit of "outsider art", today widespread worldwide? Perhaps, but then it is undeniable that the personal temperament of Mohammad ARIYAEI...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Wait - Large Format - Contemporary Colorful Figurative Expressionism Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
We offer 2 shipping options : 1) Canvas is unstretched. The painting would be shipped in a rolled state without stretcher, This is then the cheaper option. 2) The more expensive sh...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Beatificado" Modern Tabloid Inspired Religious Social Commentary Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Modern, large scale social commentary painting by California artist John Valdez. Comes with the original sketch as well as a book about the artist. Inspired by the cover of a Mexican tabloid, Valadez invites the viewer to examine the duality of a society that mourns the death of an iconic religious leader and neglects those close to them who are perhaps deemed not worthy of consideration. The bold red headline reads “El cardenal Gabiri será beatificado” (Cardinal Gabiri will be beatified) above a large accompanying image of the cardinal in his casket and two smaller images, one of sobbing mourners and another of the cardinal sitting at the altar. Dividing the image is a subhead that reads, “El pueblo católico está de luto” (the Catholic people are mourning) placed above a depiction of four young boys who seem to be sniffing glue. The adjacent text reads “The indifference of the adults is the cause behind the issues these forgotten children have to live.” This work was exhibited at the Pacific Standard Time, Long Beach Museum of Art in 2011, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in 2012, as well as the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, IL in 2013. Signed by artist in front lower right corner as well as titled and dated in front lower left corner. Currently unframed, but options are available. Artist Biography: John Valadez...
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1970s Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Felt Pen

Graffiti Dreams - Colorful Abstract Figurative Portrait Original Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Inspired by her background in fashion, Atlanta, Georgia-based artist Lindsey McCord creates artworks that encapsulate the fun of being stylish and the a...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Archival Paper, Spray Paint, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Graphite

Soldier. 1950. Cardboard, author technique, 39, 5x20 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Soldier. 1950. Cardboard, author technique, 39,5x20 cm Artwork depicts a soldier in motion. Author has used a mixed media technique on cardboard. Both the soldier himself and the fe...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Paint, Mixed Media, Cardboard, Stencil, Other Medium

Sephardic Jewish Men Vibrant Judaica Vintage Oil Painting Israeli Artist Goldman
Located in Surfside, FL
This depicts Middle Eastern jewish men of Sefardic descent. At least one appears to be a Rabbi. ALBERT GOLDMAN Born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1922, Albert Goldman started drawing and painting at the age of 8. He began his art education 1936 Art with Italian and Greek artists at the "Atelier", in Alexandria, Egypt; continuing 1956 with Avraham Yaskiel and Zvi Mairovich, Haifa and with Moshe Propes, in Tel Aviv. In 1940 he obtained a diploma of commerce and opted for a career in the hospitality industry, following in the footsteps of his parents who operated the Majestic Palace Hotel in Alexandria. He moved to Cairo in 1942 to study Swiss Hotel Management at Egyptian Hotels Limited, the largest hotel company in the Middle East at the time. In 1946 he decorated an evening gown for an American singer, Catherine Essex, who sang before King Farouk. By 1947 he was the manager of the Luxor Hotel. In 1948, during an air raid over Alexandria, he was attacked by an Arab mob accusing him of signaling Israeli planes. He miraculously survived 12 stab wounds to the back. In March 1950 he married Lucette Blumenthal. He was put on the blacklist by the Ministry of Interior in Egypt, and in 1951 he managed to leave Egypt and came to Israel in September 1951 aboard the ship Artza. In 1956 he attended a drawing and painting course with Meirovich and Avraham Yaskiel in Haifa. He organized the Jerusalem Art Cellar in 1958 and settled in Jerusalem. He paints mostly Israeli landscapes, particularly of Jerusalem. This is done in a style reminiscent of Tully Filmus and Itzhak Holtz. Albert Goldman was born in 1922 in Egypt Awards And Prizes 1983 Bnai Brith Prize, Dan region 1990 Certificate of Registration in the Golden Book of Keren Kayemet LeIsrael Exhibition of Paintings The Municipal Museum - Bet-Emanuel, Ramat Gan Artists: Pinchas Abramovich, Lea Avisedek, Albert Goldman, Shaul Ohaly, Robert Baser, Claire Szilard, Itamar Siani...
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20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Headdress Profile
Located in Chicago, IL
Kent Williams’ work melds the rigor of technical prowess with the iconoclast’s impulse to disrupt. Juxtaposing beautifully rendered classical forms with elements of abstraction and s...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Art of Class" Colorful Pop Art Resin Collage Portrait of Audrey Hepburn
Located in Houston, TX
Portrait collage of cultural icon and actress Audrey Hepburn encased in resin. The background features a collection of pop cultural magazine prints as well as the iconic Vogue Magazi...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Resin, Mixed Media

Ecstasy of Saint Teresa Icon III (Bernini) /// Renaissance Italian Classics Rome
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Ecstasy of Saint Teresa Icon III (Bernini)" Series: Icon *Signed by Graves lower left. It is also signed...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas, Paint

Vivid Satin (2022), pop figurative portrait, street art, pattern, green, orange
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Vivid Satin" (2022), by Brittany Williams, based in the Finger Lakes region of NY state Figurative portrait painting, pop portraiture, street art, ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Wood Panel, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Lauren Bacall Icon V /// Contemporary Street Pop Art Actress Model Painting
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Lauren Bacall Icon V" Series: Icon *Signed by Graves lower right. It is also signed, titled, and dated...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas, Paint

Monkey with a Cigarette I - Contemporary Figurative Animals Oil Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artist Tomasz Bielak loves animals, but especially monkeys. He often portrays her. Old photos serve as templates. Tomasz Bielak born in Lublin in 1967. He graduated of The Acade...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait of Two Women, Exterior Figurative Painting, Framed Watercolor Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Modernist watercolor on paper painting by Lloyd Mylan of two women sitting amongst an exterior landscape. Painted in colors of pink, orange, blue, and green. Presented in a custom gold frame, outer dimensions measure 24 ¾ x 30 ⅜ x 1 ¾ inches. Image sight size is 13 ⅝ x 19 ½ inches. Painting is clean and in very good condition - please contact us for a detailed condition report. Expedited and international shipping is available - please contact us for a quote. About the Artist: Lloyd Moylan studied at the Minneapolis Art Institute, the Art Students League in New York, and the Broadmore Academy in Colorado Springs. Moylan later became the Curator of the Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. During his lifetime, Moylan made numerous trips to Arizona and New Mexico where he sketched and painted the Hispanic and Indian population. He specialized in Southwest Indian...
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20th Century American Modern Portrait Paintings

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Watercolor

Control Top
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Control Top' contemporary portrait oil on canvas painting by Tamera Avery, whose paintings are created with wit and wisdom. Avery's work deals with serio...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cotton Canvas

Basement Gathering
Located in Deddington, GB
Barbara Jackson. Basement Gathering- this is an etching / aquatint with a print run of 40 plus 10 artist proofs. Each print is individually inked and passed through the press by the...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Etching, Aquatint, Paper

Barack Obama and a comic who has ice cream on his head. Portrait Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Barack Obama and a comic who has ice cream on his head, by Jose Ricardo Contreras González From the series Movies Oil and acrylic on ca...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Celine - Colorful Abstract Figurative Portrait Original Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Inspired by her background in fashion, Atlanta, Georgia-based artist Lindsey McCord creates artworks that encapsulate the fun of being stylish and the a...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil Pastel, Paper, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Silenciado Sergio Moscona 21st Century painting Contemporary drawing portrait
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint and ink on paper Hand signed and dated lower right
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Ink, Paper, Acrylic

'Seated Woman With White Dress' contemporary Painting By Blago
Located in Carmel, CA
Blago (Blagojce Stojanovski) is a leading contemporary artist of the USA and the world, one of few elite artists of past and present whose ability and talent are of a level at which ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Board, Oil

Unconditional Love
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
This piece talks about real and genuine love. Love without expectations or benefits, when this kind of love exists between relatives, friends, siblings, couples, the world will sure...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

AT THE BEACH - Modern Women Portrait, Contemporary Figurative Painting
By Marzena Ślusarczyk
Located in Salzburg, AT
The patient waiting for Bresson's “decisive moment” characterizes the pictures of the young Polish painter Marzena Slusarczyk. The compositions of her works have the magic of a successful photography. Often with a powerful neckline, they use expressive foreshortened perspectives and unusual versions and they take us into an intimate dimension of the women portrayed. However, Slusarczyk's pictures are mainly emotions captured on canvas, and this is what makes her works so special. The women she paints perform normal, banal activities in everyday life. But they are the key to reading the feelings of the female figures lost in thought. The lack of clarity in the artist's pictures allows the viewer to make their own interpretations. As the painter herself emphasizes, the aim of playing with the audience is to awaken the viewer's imagination and imagination so that they notice the seemingly invisible. This mystery and the unspoken are reminiscent of the paintings by Michelangelo Caravaggio...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Young Hunter (Man with Gun)
Located in New York, NY
Listed price includes $225 cost of framing. Signed in red, u.l. This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Icon IV /// Contemporary Pop Art Fashion Model
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Icon IV" Series: Icon *Signed by Graves lower right. It is also signed, da...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Paint, Acrylic

Nude - Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Not signed. Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 – Gargnano, 1942) ...
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1930s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Paint

Chinese Contemporary Art by Jia Yuan-Hua - Meditation No.2
Located in Paris, IDF
A person's life is full of excitement, anger, sadness, joy, separation, and convergence. Some people win, some lose, some are famous, some are unknown, some gain fame and fortune, some are full of pride, some are depressed and unhappy. Only by letting go of obsessions can we live happily and easily. If you want, close your eyes and sit quietly for a few hours, you will find another true self, understand what you really need, why you live, and how to live more meaningfully. Jia Yuan-Yua is a Chinese artist born in 1980 who lives and works in Beijing, China. Jia works mainly with oil and acrylic in his painting. His contemporary artworks focus on social issues such as the protection of historical buildings, the inheritance of traditional culture, the conflict between tradition and contemporary times, education reform and the sustainable development of the natural ecological environment. There are two main forms of expression in his works. One is a common realistic technique known for paintings. The other is to use an oil painting knife...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Weight
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on canvas, measures 40" x 29" unframed. Painting comes framed in dark oak wood finish. Heavily textured painting using only oil paint. This...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Portrait no. 17, 2008
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Portrait no. 17, 2008' by artist John Goodman. 42 x 32 inch panel. The painting is signed and dated, and in excellent / new condition. From Andra Norris Gallery in California. Good...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Two Portraits - Oil Painting by Dimitri Godycki Cwirko - 1958
Located in Roma, IT
Two Portraits is a contemporary artwork realized by Dimitri Godycki Cwirko (1901-1987). Mixed colored oil on canvas. Hand signed and dated on the lower...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Man from Below
Located in New York, NY
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Man from Below n.d. Signed in red, u.l. Oil on canvas 10 x 8 inches $2800.00 + $125.00 framing Listed price includes cost of framing. This work is ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Sunny
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Sunny' contemporary portrait oil on canvas painting by Tamera Avery, whose paintings are created with wit and wisdom. Avery's work deals with serious themes including global warming...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Cotton Canvas

I Came Here for the Food
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Painting is an oil on canvas, measuring 37" x 28". There is a lot of texture on this painting built up entirely of scarped and dried oil paint. This image depicts a person at a festi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Bob Dylan Icon III /// Contemporary Street Pop Art Musician Painting Portrait
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Bob Dylan Icon III" Series: Icon *Signed by Graves lower right. It is also signed, titled, and dated on verso Year: 2022 Medium: Or...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Paint, Canvas, Acrylic

Elizabeth Taylor Icon VIII /// Contemporary Street Pop Art Actress Fashion Model
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Elizabeth Taylor Icon VIII" Series: Icon *Signed by Graves lower right. It is also signed, titled, and dated on verso Year: 2022 Me...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas, Paint

Untitled Mohammad Ariyaei 21st Century Contemporary Iranian outsider painting
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on paper Hand-signed « Here the barbaric or savage ceremonies of New Guinea take on the air of Rio carnival. Here the vitality bursts and the colors dance the jig while thundering. A charivari of African masks, children's drawings and neon colors invades the meticulously meshed backdrops with volcanic overflows. It seems that within a kindergarten class, merry feathered wizards have joined together to cover the canvas or the paper with totemic figures strewn with the most inventively unexpected graffiti, in a creative frenzy so bubbling that the anarchy that threat recovers as in spite of itself a semblance of balance. The graphic design performs an enveloping and virtuoso dance that passes from the most wisely academic exercise to the most exuberant and Dionysian lyrical expressionism. It's flamboyant, paroxysmal and wonderfully joyful. Should we detect here any influence of the spirit of "outsider art", today widespread worldwide? Perhaps, but then it is undeniable that the personal temperament of Mohammad ARIYAEI...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Broken Coach
Located in Denver, CO
This is a framed original painting. Biography Creating paintings inspired by western movies and by Remington and Russell, he is a native of the West, having been born and raised in rural Colorado. He studied art at Baylor University in Waco, Texas; at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, and at the University of Colorado, Boulder where he earned a Master's Degree in 1979. For two decades he worked as curator at the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings, Montana, before leaving in 1999 to begin work as a full-time painter and independent curator. His work is in the collections of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming; the Art Museum of Missoula; and the Yellowstone Art Museum; the Federal Reserve Bank in Helena, Montana; and the Deaconness Medical Center in Billings, Montana. Artist Statement For a long time, the images in my paintings have been identifiably, even iconically, western-stagecoaches and false-front main streets, poker games and gun battles, cowboys, Indians, cavalry troopers and horses, all suspended in a choreographed matrix of dancing paint. Distinct from the traditional western genre-which inventories the minutia of cowboy gear or tells sentimental stories of rangeland romance-my paintings embody something more elemental and timeless, animated and abstract. The images tend to be stark, graphic, and charged with painterly energy. Though they are derived from fugitive television images, the paintings, as paintings, are still, silent and non-ephemeral. They register the technological transfer of primal shadows onto the electroluminescent screens of our collective consciousness, a shimmering blur of perception and memory transposed in an interchange of gesture and description, painted marks simultaneously arresting and embodying movement. I've always liked what a painter friend, Marc Vischer, wrote in 1988 about an early group of my western paintings. Now, I'm fourteen years closer to actualizing my vision for this work, and his astute remarks seem more pertinent today than they did then. He wrote in part, "For McConnell, a searing light emanates from a new desert: that of television. And from that most desolate backdrop, he salvages fragments from a movie world that spoke of honor in a land that was lawless. In a romantic sense, McConnell's works are a visual seance. Figures, like specters distorted through intense heat waves, are captured from their eternity of 24 frames a second. Their shapes and shadows are brought back into a radically different world and given substance and texture. It is an impossible attempt to freeze them, to arrest the present's ceaseless molestation of the past, to close off the continuum. Sometimes this is done darkly and thickly as an emphatic gesture of permanence. In other works a few light strokes quickly applied suggest the ephemeral nature of film and perhaps the fleeting nature of our own lives." I have been examining new imagery in my paintings, drawing subjects from Mexican graphic novelas, modern women and men of romance and mystery from the mid-20th century, motorcycles and airplanes. The end titles of movies, stated in several languages, have inspired me to begin a new series of cross-media translations in both acrylic and watercolor. My paintings have long begun where the movies have left off. The elements of water and light co-mingle in some pieces from this series and in others which take the viewpoint of a swimmer, watching other swimmers from the wet side of this aqueous membrane, looking up toward the light. My arrival in Montana in 1982 brought me into intimate contact with some of the most storied places of the historic West and also gave me the opportunity to study the paintings of two of the most influential codifiers of western imagery, Frederic Remington and Charlie Russell...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic, Panel, Canvas

Blue Vinyl
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Blue Vinyl' contemporary portrait oil on canvas painting by Tamera Avery, whose paintings are created with wit and wisdom. Avery's work deals with seriou...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cotton Canvas

Squeeze
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Squeeze' 2019, a contemporary oil on canvas painting by Tamera Avery, whose paintings are created with wit and wisdom. Avery's work deals with serious th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

Amusement Park (diptych)
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Amusement Park' 2021, This is a diptych (two oil on canvas panels that are each 84”x48” and 84”x 36”) The overall dimension is 84 x 84 inches. A contem...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Oil

David Bowie (AM414)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Inspired by cinema, photography, music and literature, Monet has a natural connection and sense for the current society and his contemporaries. His signature conceptual assemblage of...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Mixed Media, Panel

Iranian Cinderellas Mohammad Ariyaei 21st Century art Contemporary outsider art
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on paper Hand-signed lower right « Here the barbaric or savage ceremonies of New Guinea take on the air of Rio carnival. Here the vitality bursts and the colors dance the jig while thundering. A charivari of African masks, children's drawings and neon colors invades the meticulously meshed backdrops with volcanic overflows. It seems that within a kindergarten class, merry feathered wizards have joined together to cover the canvas or the paper with totemic figures strewn with the most inventively unexpected graffiti, in a creative frenzy so bubbling that the anarchy that threat recovers as in spite of itself a semblance of balance. The graphic design performs an enveloping and virtuoso dance that passes from the most wisely academic exercise to the most exuberant and Dionysian lyrical expressionism. It's flamboyant, paroxysmal and wonderfully joyful. Should we detect here any influence of the spirit of "outsider art", today widespread worldwide? Perhaps, but then it is undeniable that the personal temperament of Mohammad ARIYAEI...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Paper

Huge French Modernist Oil Painting Figurative Group Amazing Bold Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French Modernist School, late 20th century Title: Abstract figurative group, painted with amazing colors. Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed. canvas: 39.75...
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Late 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Naomi, Figurative Western Portrait of Strong Female, Neon Pink, Fur with Red Gun
Located in Kent, CT
This figurative painting on archival paper portrays a strong female character in typical American Western pose and dress. The woman, dressed in a cream-c...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Archival Ink, Gouache, Archival Paper, Pencil

The rebirth of nudity Mohammad Ariyaei 21st Century art Outsider Iranian paint
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Hand-signed lower right « Here the barbaric or savage ceremonies of New Guinea take on the air of Rio carnival. Here the vitality bursts and the colors dance...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Portrait no. 15, 2008
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Portrait no. 15, 2008' by artist John Goodman. 30 x 22 inch panel. The painting is signed and dated, and in excellent / new condition. From Andra Norris Gallery in California. Good...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Wood Panel, Oil

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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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