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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Period: 1970s
Period: 1910s
Female portrait melancholia oil on canvas painting
By Pascual Bueno Ferrer
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Pascual Bueno Ferrer (1930) Pascual Bueno Ferrer is a Catalan painter who has cultivated painting and drawing as a child. In 1956 he enrolled at the Sant Jordi Higher School of Fi...
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1970s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

American Indian Chief Portrait
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jorge Braun Tarallo, Uruguayan (1951 - ) Title: American Indian Chief Portrait Year: circa 1979 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed Size: 30 x ...
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1970s American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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
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1910s Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Blonde in Red Swim Suit
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charles Levier, French (1920 - 2003) Title: Blonde I Year: circa 1960 Medium: Watercolor on paper, signed l.l. Size: 16 x 11 inches Paper Size: 25 x 19.5 in. (63.5 x 49.53 cm)
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1970s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

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Watercolor

Mid Century Modern Female City Girl Portrait 1970
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3529 oil on artist board Set in a wood frame Image size 13.5x10.5"
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1970s Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Seated Girl on Chair
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1918 Medium: Oil on Canvas Board Dimensions: 27.00" x 20.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right American Art Works Calendar Image
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1910s Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Turn of the Century Portrait of an Upper Class Couple in Red Tones
Located in Houston, TX
Red toned turn of the century portrait painting of an upper class couple. The painting is framed in a wooden frame with a thin white matte. It is signed by the artist in the lower ri...
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1970s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Mary Tyler Moore, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil Painting Signature: Unsigned Contact for exact dimensions. Cover of The Saturday Evening Post Magazine, October 1974
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1970s Portrait Paintings

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Oil

UNTITLED
Located in Aventura, FL
Contained metal mercury in immersion liquid kinetic sculpture. Rotates freely on a central pivot mounted to the wall, this work can be turned, allowing the mercury to shift and flow ...
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1970s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Steel

Portrait of Woman
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Image of a woman wearing a robe and talking on the telephone. Signed lower left. Howard Chandler Christy had a long, colorful and varied career. He made his early rep...
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1910s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Gouache

Portrait of Woman in Black Hat, Watercolor Painting by Charles Levier
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charles Levier, French (1920 - 2003) Title: Portrait of Woman in Black Hat Year: circa 1970 Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed l.l. Image S...
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1970s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Watercolor

1970s Modern Figurative -- Madre del Mundo
By Rodrigo Ramirez Pimentel
Located in Soquel, CA
Evocative modern figurative painting of a mother and family in a calming but somber palette by Rodrigo Ramirez Pimentel (Mexican, b. 1945), 1973. Imprimatura and impasto reveals artist's first take had mother looking out at world (can be seen when viewed at side angle) with artist ultimately deciding to have mother looking down at what she's carrying with family behind her and one figure looking like angel of death. Signed and dated "R. P. -73" lower right corner. Unframed. Image size: 36"H x 24"W. Born in Zináparo, Michoacán in 1945, Rodrigo Pimentel is one of the most talented Michoacan artists whose career is well known to many specialists in Mexican art. His work is part of the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City and other important collections in Mexico and the world. Rodrigo Pimentel studied at the ENAP, and became a pupil of several teachers who were still struggling for classical academic education: Santos Balmori, Francisco Moreno Capdevila...
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1970s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

'Self-Portrait', Paris Salon, Royal Danish Academy, Impressionist oil, Benezit
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower left, 'J.P' for Julius Paulsen (Danish, 1860-1940) and painted circa 1910. A dramatic, early twentieth-century work by this notable Post-Impressionist painter and th...
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1910s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Girls at the Gate, Oil Painting by Wellington Virgolino de Sousa
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Wellington Virgolino de Sousa, Brazilian (1929 - 1988) Title: Meninas No Portao (Girls at the Gate) Year: 1974 Medium: Oil on board, signed lower Size...
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1970s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Blonde, Watercolor Painting by Charles Levier
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charles Levier, French (1920 - 2003) Title: Blonde Year: circa 1970 Medium: Watercolor on paper, signed l.l. Size: 16 x 11 inches Paper Size: 25 x 19.5 in. (63.5 x 49.53 cm)
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1970s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

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Watercolor

PORTRAIT OF ANHALT PORTRAIOT
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"PORTRAIT OF ANHALT PORTRAIOT" FILM MAKER OIL ON PAPER C.1970 17.5 X 22.5 INCHES Morton Dimondstein 1920-2000 At the age of seventeen Morton Dimondstein enrolled in ...
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1970s Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Rag Paper

Vintage Abstract Expressionist -- An Artist and His Tools
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful abstract expressionist figurative of a painter at work, deeply focused on his subject is captured by California artist Molly E. Brubaker (American, 1922-2000). Unframed. Im...
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1970s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Study of John Singleton Copley's painting of John Hancock
By John B. Monaco
Located in Soquel, CA
John B. Monaco 1916 painting and study of the John Singleton Copley portrait of John Hancock. San Francisco artist and San Francisco city documen...
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1910s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait of a Girl, Oil Painting by Sandu Liberman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Sandu Liberman, Romanian/Israeli (1923 - 1977) Title: Portrait of a Girl Year: Circa 1970 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 13 x 10 in. (33.02 x 25.4 cm) Frame Size:...
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1970s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

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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...
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1970s American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Kuppenheimer Man
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Used for signage and marketing purposes. Thanhardt-Burger carved gilt frame. Painting is fully conserved. Client / Usage: K...
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1910s Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Woman - 1970s - François Chapuis - Pastel - Contemporary
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an original artwork realized by François Chapuis in the first years of the 1970s. Colored pastels on paper. Signed in pencil by the artist on...
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1970s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Pastel

Mysterious Identity Abstract Portrait, Muted Colours, Original Oil Painting
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...
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1970s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Handsome Men at Race Track , Horse Racing
Located in Miami, FL
Done most likely for Look Magazine, Sports Illustrated and Playboy or perhaps an advertising agency. Work is framed in a simple metal frame
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1970s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic

'Young Bretonne', Paris, Salon d’Automne, Section d'Or, Post-Impressionist Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A vibrant, early 20th century oil study of a young Breton girl shown regarding the viewer with a stern and penetrating gaze. Signed lower right 'Jais' for Jais Nielsen (Danish, 1885...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Modernist Portrait of St. Francis
Located in Soquel, CA
Modernist Portrait of St. Francis Compelling modernist oil on canvas portrait of St. Francis by Dr. Tarmo Pasto (American, 1906-1986). Presented in a taupe painted wood frame. Signed "Tarmo Pasto" bottom right, and titled "St. Francis" bottom center. Image size, 25.5"H x19.5"L. Dr. Pasto was a long-time contributor to the California art scene, as well as an art teacher and psychologist to many successful artists. He also authored a book on art, "The Space-Frame Experience in Art", published in 1964. He, however, was mainly known to the world for introducing the works of one of his patients, Martin Ramirez...
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1970s American Modern Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mother, Oil Painting by Chaim Goldberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chaim Goldberg, Israeli (1917-2004) Title: Mother Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed in English lower left and Hebrew lower right Size: 24 x 20 inche...
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1970s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1971 Aluminium Engraved Painting Abstract Figure by Alberto Viani
By Alberto Viani
Located in Brescia, IT
This aluminium painting engraved by Alberto Viani, is a soft female portrait. The woman's figure is in an ethereal way, as a poetry. This artwork is a multiple of a limited edition o...
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1970s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Metal

'Sheila Antoine with Afro', Sir John Cass, Otis Art Institute, California
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left with monogram, 'P.T.' for Pearl Took (American, 1928-2012); additionally signed verso, dated 1977 and titled 'Sheila Antoine'. Born in England, Pearl Took first st...
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1970s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

'Study of a Young Woman', Karlsruhe, Berlin, Danish Post-Impressionist, Benezit
By Alfred Hermann Helberger
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower right 'A.H.'; signed verso, "Alfred Helberger", inscribed "Gertrúd" and dated 1914. Bearing the original 1962 exhibition label from the Senator fur Folksbildung, Ber...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

Timothy Phillips, "Racetrack Hopeful (Jockey Portrait), " Oil on Board, 1975
By Timothy Phillips
Located in Long Island City, NY
This oil painting on board was created by Canadian artist Timothy Phillips (b. 1929). Phillips worked closely with masters Salvador Dali and Marcel Duchamp, sharing with Duchamp a lo...
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1970s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Board

Boy in Army Coat
Located in New York, NY
Gouache on paper Signed and dated, l.r. This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City Born in California, John Button (1929-1982) was educated at University of Cali...
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1970s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Gouache, Paper

Self-Portrait in Paris
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert-Louis Nicoidski, Swiss (1931 - 2001) Title: Self-Portrait in Paris Year: circa 1978 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.. Size: 57 x 44.5 in. (144.78 x 113.03 cm) Frame...
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1970s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Elegant Portrait, Mother and Child, Original Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Elegant Portrait, Mother and Child, Abstract Original Oil Painting By French artist, 20th Century Oil painting on canvas, framed Framed size: 12 x 15 ...
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1970s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Turkey. Brains. Suburbia Family. Shopping Center and Sigmund Freud Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Brains in a basket? Unwrapped turkeys piled up in a shopping cart are symbolic of a family exposed brains. This symbolic Pop Art Illustration brilliantly depicts Sigmund Freud holding a baby with a family in the parking lot of a shopping center...
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1970s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Sisters, Oil Painting by Sandu Liberman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Sandu Liberman, Romanian/American (1923 - 1977) Title: Sisters Year: circa 1970 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 36 in. x 24 in. (91.44 cm x 60.96 cm) Frame Size: 44....
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1970s American Modern Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Huge 1970s Parisian Nude Portrait Modernist Original Oil Painting Signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
1970s Parisian Nude Portrait, Abstract, Original Oil Painting, Signed By French artist Elisabeth Dujarric, b.1930-2005 Oil painting on canvas, unframed Signed, dated 1979 and titled by the artist verso Canvas size: 36 x 36 inches Elisabeth Dujarric de la Rivière...
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1970s Abstract Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of Robyn Smith (Astair) - 1970's Female Jockey
By Robert Zirillo
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful and painterly American impressionist portrait of female jockey Robyn Smith Astaire by Robert Zirillo (American, b. 1950), 1972. Signed lower right corner "Zirillo". Presente...
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1970s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

'The Valley of the Moon' Cosmopolitan Magazine Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Illustration of a couple. "The farmer crossed the plowed strip to Saxon, and joined her on the rail." Ink, watercolor, and gouache on board. 991x749 mm; 39x29 1/2 inches. Signed in full, lower left. Illustration for the first appearance of Jack London's novel "The Valley of the Moon," Cosmopolitan Magazine...
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1910s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings

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Board, Gouache, Watercolor

Imaginary Portrait of Matt Stams- Maricopa
Located in Houston, TX
This beautiful work is a re-imagined portrait of the Maricopa Indian Mat Stams. The image of Mat Stams was circulated in the early 1900's in the portfolio "The North American Indian, volume 2, The Pima. The Papago. The Qahatika. The Mohave. The Yuma. The Maricopa. The Walapai. The Havasupai. The Apache-Mohave, or Yavapai" as an example of his people. The original photogravure was produced by the photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis. This painting pays tribute to Stams' Native American heritage through a small portrait, a large abstract eagle...
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1970s Abstract Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic

Judith, Acrylic Painting on Canvas by Ramon Santiago
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ramon Santiago, American (1943 - 2001) Title: Judith Year: 1975 Medium: Acrylic on Paper, signed and dated Size: 16 x 12 inches
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1970s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic

Hoot Mon, LIFE Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor and Gouache on Paper Signature: Signed Lower Left Sight Size 31.00" x 12.00", Framed 36.00" x 18.00" Hoot Mon, Life Magazine Cover...
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1910s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings

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Gouache, Paper, Watercolor

Good Housekeeping cover. Christmas: Child Praying
Located in Miami, FL
Famed female illustrator, Jessie Willcox Smith paints the " Ideal Child" in a spiritual moment for the Christmas cover of Good Housekeeping. The acc...
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1910s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Mixed Media

Red Shoes, Oil Painting on Canvas by Jan De Ruth
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jan De Ruth, Czech (1922 - 1991) Title: The Red Shoes Year: circa 1970 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l. Size: 33 x 23 in. (83.82 x 58.42 cm) Frame ...
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1970s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Huge French Modernist Figurative Portrait, Original Oil Painting Signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Lost, Abstract Portrait, Original Oil Painting, Signed By French artist Elisabeth Dujarric, b.1930-2005 Signed by the artist on the lower left hand corner Oil painting on canvas, framed Canvas size: 60 x 38 inches Elisabeth Dujarric de la Rivière...
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1970s Abstract Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Woman's Home Companion Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1912 Medium: Oil on Canvas Sight Size 18.50" x 12.50", Framed 27.50" x 21.50" Signature: Signed Lower Left July 1912 Woman's Home Companion Magazine Cover
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1910s Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

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. Size: 40 in. x 30 in. (101.6 cm x 76.2 cm)
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1970s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Good Housekeeping Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Cover of Good Housekeeping magazine, January 1915. Image of woman in rocking chair with yarn. One of the first master illustrators. Created the de...
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1910s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings

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Watercolor

ANGEL
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed on front by the artist. Studio stamp on verso. Custom framed with hand painted fillet. Canvas size 40 x 30 inches. Framed size approx 49 ...
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1970s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Locked in Love Huge French Modernist Original Oil Painting, Signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Locked in Love, Abstract Portrait, Original Oil Painting, Signed By French artist Elisabeth Dujarric, b.1930-2005 Oil painting on canvas, unframed Canvas size: 46 x 35 inches Elisabeth Dujarric de la Rivière...
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1970s Abstract Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Mujer de Juchitan
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Raul Anguiano, Mexican (1915 - 2006) Title Mujer de Juchitan Year: 1974 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l., signed, dated and titled verso Size: 25.5 x 37.25 in. (64.77 x 94...
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1970s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Large-Scale Modern Multi-Color Portrait of Noir Author Cornell Woolrich
By Chris Pelletiere
Located in Soquel, CA
A striking, large-scale multi-color modernist portrait of Noir fiction writer Cornell Woolrich by Chris Pelletiere (American, B. 1942). Cornell Woolrich wrote the novel "The Rear Window." He studied at the Arts Students League and NY School of Painting and Drawing. Signed on verso with artist's information, and title "Portrait: Cornell Woolrich". Wood slat, basic frame. Image size; 50"H x 50"W. A painter, illustrator, and cartoonist Pelletiere cites his early influences as the pre-code crime and horror comics. " Life in the metropolitan area plays a significant role in my artwork. For many years he made sketches of people in the transit system. Chris Pelletiere is a painter, collage artist, illustrator, and cartoonist. His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, The New York Public Library and private collections of Stephen King...
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1970s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait of Woman - 1970s - François Chapuis - Pastel - Contemporary
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Woman is an original artwork realized by François Chapuis in 1971. Colored pastel on paper. Hand-signed in pencil by the artist on the low...
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1970s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Pastel

James Garner, TV Guide Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1979 Medium: Acrylic and Pencil on Canvas Laid on Board Dimensions: 20.75" x 13.25" Signature: Initialed Lower Center TV Guide Cover Illustration, June...
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1970s Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Board, Pencil

'Study of a Young Woman', Framed Modernist Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower center, "Mancini"; additionally signed verso and painted circa 1975. Figurative oil in crimson, vermilion, jade, and deep blue, showing a young woman wearing a hat with...
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1970s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Board

“Artist Self Portrait”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on canvas painting by the Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed top right and dated 1970. Portrait of the artist. Condition: Good. Provenance: Estate of the ar...
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1970s Post-Modern Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait of the Musician Mazzi
Located in London, GB
ALFRED RETH 1884-1966 Budapest 1884-1966 Paris (Hungarian/French) Title: Portrait of the Musician Mazzi, 1912 Technique: Original Signed Oil pain...
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1910s Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait of a Girl in Blue Dress
By Jan Hanson Travis
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful portrait of a young girl in blue dress by Jan Hanson Travis (American, 20th century). Circa 1970. Signed "Jan Hanson Travis" lower left an...
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1970s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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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.

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