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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Style: Contemporary
Style: Post-Impressionist
Untitled 2 - Series Final Fantasy, Minutiae Contemporary Figurative Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Magdalena Peszkowska born in 1980 in Gdańsk, Poland. Studied in Department of Painting at Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk (1999-2004). Diploma with special recognition in painting in ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Cardboard

"Qi Baishi", Figurative Charcoal Drawing on Canvas, Portrait, Abstract Drawing
Located in St. Louis, MO
“My path through life has been adventurous, exciting, and dream-like. My experience of settling into America in search of better opportunities has been both challenging and inspiring...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Charcoal

Contemporary portraits "As We Wait for the Taxi"
Located in Sempach, LU
I want to go somewhere. I wish to visit a place with a peaceful atmosphere, where I can enjoy nature and take a break from daily routine. For texture on the primed canvas before pain...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Lacquer, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Fr. M-R
Located in Bayonne, NJ
Matviy Vaisberg painted this series of portraits while visiting his mother, who was in a nursing home in Germany in early 2000s. This portrait of Frau Muller is an anthropological po...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Contemporary Pop Surrealist Portrait With Flowers and Plants "The Birthday Gift"
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This painting is one of the works from the "Fetishes" series that Natasha Lelenco created throughout the year 2022 to be featured in the international exhibition Nordart 2022 in Büde...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Lee Miller Icon II (Man Ray) /// Huge Contemporary Street Pop Art Painting Model
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Lee Miller Icon II (Man Ray)" Series: Icon *Signed by Graves lower left. It is also signed, titled, and dated on verso Year: 2024 ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paint, Acrylic

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks, Figurative art
Located in Deddington, GB
Poetic painting showing a blurred portrait of a female. Pastel blues, greys, pinks and white fill the composition with an ethereal blend of colour. The woman's eyes and lips pop with...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Board

Vibrant Colourfull Contemporary Pop Surrealist Portrait With Insects And Flowers
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This painting is one of the works from the "Fetishes" series that Natasha Lelenco created throughout the year 2022 to be featured in the international exhibition Nordart 2022 in Büde...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Contemporary Pop Surrealist Portrait "I Just Called To Say "I Love You"
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This painting is one of the works from the "Fetishes" series that Natasha Lelenco created throughout the year 2022 to be featured in the international exhibition Nordart 2022 in Büde...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic

A new hat
Located in Bayonne, NJ
This is an oil on Belgian linen painting by Volodymyr Radko with allegorical take on a Renaissance portrait. It comes framed and in excellent condition.
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Breakfast", Woman Figure, Interior Food, Morning Scene, Oil on Canvas
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Breakfast" is a piece by Akira Gordon made from acrylic and oil on canvas. This piece measures 40"h x 30"w unframed. Akira hopes to give black people images that they can relate t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

When We Were Young
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
When we were young, the world was a dream, Where our hearts were pure, untouched by the stream. Innocence danced on the wings of the breeze, As we chased rainbows and climbed old tre...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Oil

Untitled 3 - Series Final Fantasy, Minutiae Contemporary Figurative Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Magdalena Peszkowska born in 1980 in Gdańsk, Poland. Studied in Department of Painting at Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk (1999-2004). Diploma with special recognition in painting in ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Cardboard

Bleasure 7 (The Invented Destiny)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Whatever we consider to be inevitable becomes our destiny, built by our own certainty. When this success and this disease come calling, this accident and this great windfall, we act ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Contemporary Pop Surrealist Botanical Anthropomorphic Figure "Scatsomg"
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This painting is one of the works from the "Fetishes" series that Natasha Lelenco created throughout the year 2022 to be featured in the international exhibition Nordart 2022 in Büde...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Spray Paint, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

"Come Out and Play", Child Portrait, Chicago transport, Acrylic on found wood
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Come Out and Play" is an original piece by Qiaira Riley made from acrylic paint on found wood. This piece measures measures 24"h x 14"w unframed. "Inspired by the changing visual landscape of my hometown of Chicago, I created these works to explore how the gentrification of the south-side disrupts intimate, private memories associated with public spaces in the name of urban "renewal," even creating commodifiable opportunities to make community memories public and profitable, yet not sacred. I was attending a suburban private liberal arts college; many classmates often seemed obsessed with fantastical, cheap narratives about my community and the folks in it that deeply contrasted the memories of love and care I had grown up with. These works remember and reclaim these spaces while showing off my favorite public treasures, sights, and delicacies. There are also odes to the sweet parts of my adolescence that I hope urban development will not shift: running around the city with my father, who has worked for the Chicago Park District for over 25 years, my mom getting me a 6 piece from Harold's Chicken whenever I got a good report card, or stopping by Zberry, the city's first black-woman owned froyo shop to get a treat after school. I moved to Philadelphia that same year with just two suitcases, my art supplies storage...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Wood, Paper, Acrylic

Wake
Located in Denver, CO
Nerhbass’ paintings focus on style as a sublime element of tension within beauty. Thematically they evoke modern dilemmas of what it means to see and be seen in a manner that is simu...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

Vibrant Pop Surrealist Portrait. Flowers "Daba Dee Madonna". Fluorescent Colours
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This painting is one of the works from the "Fetishes" series that Natasha Lelenco created throughout the year 2022 to be featured in the international exhibition Nordart 2022 in Büde...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Rush
Located in Denver, CO
Nerhbass’ paintings focus on style as a sublime element of tension within beauty. Thematically they evoke modern dilemmas of what it means to see and be seen in a manner that is simu...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

Blue Cigarette, Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Blue Cigarette - something of a departure in style for Berlin. This elegant, sophisticated lady is an interpretation on canvas of how he would create her in stained glass. 30" x 24"
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vibrant Pop Surrealist Portrait. Woman. Fluorescent Colors, Insects And Plants
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This painting is one of the works from the "Fetishes" series that Natasha Lelenco created throughout the year 2022 to be featured in the international exhibition Nordart 2022 in Büde...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Figurative oil painting titled Femme Mettant Son Bas by Georges Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Femme Mettant Son Bas by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871 - 1961) Oil on canvas 100 x 56 cm (39 ⅜ x 22 inches) Signed and dated lower left, G. Manzana 1905 This work is accompanied by...
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Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Original Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This is an original acrylic painting on canvas by Victoria Montesinos, hand signed by the artist. Includes Letter of Authenticity. Measures approx. 30" x 40" (image).
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"An Invasion", Chicago, Woman figure, social change, Acrylic on Wood
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"An Invasion" is a piece by Qiaira Riley made from acrylic paint and beads on found wood. This piece measures measures 24"h x 24"w unframed. "Inspired by the changing visual landscape of my hometown of Chicago, I created these works to explore how the gentrification of the south-side disrupts intimate, private memories associated with public spaces in the name of urban "renewal," even creating commodifiable opportunities to make community memories public and profitable, yet not sacred. I was attending a suburban private liberal arts college; many classmates often seemed obsessed with fantastical, cheap narratives about my community and the folks in it that deeply contrasted the memories of love and care I had grown up with. These works remember and reclaim these spaces while showing off my favorite public treasures, sights, and delicacies. There are also odes to the sweet parts of my adolescence that I hope urban development will not shift: running around the city with my father, who has worked for the Chicago Park District for over 25 years, my mom getting me a 6 piece from Harold's Chicken whenever I got a good report card, or stopping by Zberry, the city's first black-woman owned froyo shop to get a treat after school. I moved to Philadelphia that same year with just two suitcases, my art supplies storage...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Wood, Acrylic, Found Objects

Faces Painting by Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Faces Painting by Marc Zimmerman. The Faces painting embodies the profound connections and cherished relationships that enrich our lives. This masterpiece is exhibited in the Zimm...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Hyde Park", Woman Figure, Portrait, Chicago business, Acrylic on Wood
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Hyde Park" is an original artwork by Qiaira Riley made from acrylic and paper on found wood. This piece measures measures 17"h x 24"w unframed. "Inspired by the changing visual landscape of my hometown of Chicago, I created these works to explore how the gentrification of the south-side disrupts intimate, private memories associated with public spaces in the name of urban "renewal," even creating commodifiable opportunities to make community memories public and profitable, yet not sacred. I was attending a suburban private liberal arts college; many classmates often seemed obsessed with fantastical, cheap narratives about my community and the folks in it that deeply contrasted the memories of love and care I had grown up with. These works remember and reclaim these spaces while showing off my favorite public treasures, sights, and delicacies. There are also odes to the sweet parts of my adolescence that I hope urban development will not shift: running around the city with my father, who has worked for the Chicago Park District for over 25 years, my mom getting me a 6 piece from Harold's Chicken whenever I got a good report card, or stopping by Zberry, the city's first black-woman owned froyo shop to get a treat after school. I moved to Philadelphia that same year with just two suitcases, my art supplies storage...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Wood, Paper, Acrylic

As We Dance By The Moonlight
Located in London, GB
In this large painting, pop art meets contemporary realism. With a lively, bright palette of pink and orange, the artist interweaves vibrant acrylics and inks to capture an evocative...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gesso, Ink, Acrylic

Oil/Canvas_ Figurative/Pop Western/Female Portrait_Billy Schenck_Last Chance
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
BILLY SCHENCK "Last Chance" Oil on Canvas 30 x 36 in. 36 x 42 in. Framed Billy Schenck utilizes specific frames of reference in his oil on canvas depictions of the American West, e...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Nude oil painting, large post-impressionist sitting nude by Pio Santini
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Large vintage nude portrait oil painting of a woman sitting. This is a gorgeous, colourful and exceptional nude oil painting by Pio Santini, signed in the lower right. A young woman...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

"Eyes Wide", Female figure, Bedroom, Diptych, Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Eyed Wide" is an original artwork by Akira Gordon made from acrylic and oil on wood panel. This piece is a diptych and measures measures 48"h x 46"w complete. Akira hopes to give...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Wood Panel, Oil

Harness
Located in Denver, CO
Nerhbass’ paintings focus on style as a sublime element of tension within beauty. Thematically they evoke modern dilemmas of what it means to see and be seen in a manner that is simu...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

I Get My Light Right From The Source
Located in London, GB
In this large painting, pop art meets contemporary realism. With a lively, bright palette of red and sky blue, the artist interweaves vibrant acrylics and inks to capture an evocativ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gesso, Ink, Acrylic

"Surrounded By Fuzzy Friends", Human Figure, Bedroom, Stuffed animals, games
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Surrounded By Fuzzy Friends" is a piece by Akira Gordon made from acrylic and oil on canvas. This piece measures 48"h x 60"w unframed. Akira hopes to give black people images that...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Melanin Meditation
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Melanin Meditation" is a captivating artwork created by Ekele Francis that delves into the depths of cultural identity and self-reflection. Francis, kno...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

1950's French Signed Oil Painting Woman Seated in Cafe Interior in Pensive Mood
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Woman in Cafe Interior French school, mid 20th century indistinctly signed oil on board, unframed board: 20 x 16 inches provenance: private collection, Paris condition: very good and...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Crowd in Vivid Colour 6, Original painting, Figurative, People, Audience, Fun
Located in Deddington, GB
This is a painting from Karen Lynn’s ‘Crowd’ series of works. In this particular painting she gave the audience a 60’s retro look and chose very bright colours like reds pinks and o...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Fall of Autumn
Located in Denver, CO
Nerhbass’ paintings focus on style as a sublime element of tension within beauty. Thematically they evoke modern dilemmas of what it means to see and be seen in a manner that is simu...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

Measure
Located in Denver, CO
Nerhbass’ paintings focus on style as a sublime element of tension within beauty. Thematically they evoke modern dilemmas of what it means to see and be seen in a manner that is simu...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

Bleasure 6 (The Converse Man)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Honestly, I have been doing everything I can to become a human being again. I blink my eyes like people do, walk casually, sit with my legs crossed as if I were enjoying myself, and ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

We Live Everyday Like
Located in London, GB
In this large painting, pop art meets contemporary realism. With nods to urbanism, graffiti, and youth subculture the artwork adds a powerful emotional layer to any space it inhabits...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gesso, Ink, Acrylic

Virgin Mary and child Jesus oil on board painting Christ
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Josep Lloveras Feliu (1922-2014) - Virgin Mary and child Jesus - Oil on panel Oil measurements 60x49 cm. Frame measurements 68x57 cm. Josep Lloveras y Feliu, was a painter and sculp...
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1950s Fauvist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Board

Ian and Oliver Hartt, Portraits
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Ian and Oliver Hartt, Diptych, 2016 by Ramonn Vieitez Watercolor and Gouache on canvas Overall size: 15.7 H x 23.6 W in. Individual Size: 15.7 H x 11.8 W in. Signed on the back by th...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Watercolor, Gouache

No Pasaran - Lone Soldier Symbolizing the Human Desire for Equality and Freedom
Located in Chicago, IL
Hugh Goffinet stares out from the canvas in the dress of a soldier, without being one. He is a reenactor of an African American volunteer in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. His inspiration is the Lincolns—the battalion’s volunteers—but they are pictured only symbolically, in his dress. Their inspiration was Lincoln, who many decades earlier helped give meaning to the American Civil War, but who is invisible in the painting except by implication—the pose of Hugh Goffinet—which carefully emulates Lincoln’s pose in the celebrated presidential portrait by George Healy. Entirely hidden, at the deepest layer of history, is the true source of inspiration: the human desire for equality and freedom. To understand, honor, and preserve it requires remembrance, in this case with history animating reenactors who animate art that animates memory. "No Pasaran" - an expression of determination to defend a position against an enemy - channels the spirit of Winslow Homer's war imagery, bringing it into the contemporary world, asking us to reflect upon the decisions forced to be made in wartime, some of which will never leave us. As for the paintings, William uses materials and methods of the Civil War era. The linen on which he paints was in use at that time as well as the tubed oil paints. He is one of the few artists who tacks his canvas to the stretchers using similar tacks that would have been used by Winslow Homer. While he leaves the works unframed for this reason, the artwork could certainly be framed. This piece is unframed. Please contact the gallery for framing options. William Blake No Pasaran oil on linen 48h x 30w in 121.92h x 76.20w cm WIL047 Known for his highly charged depictions of Civil War reenactments, William Blake’s powerful paintings show the recursive bodies of reenactors as they gesture across time. Participating in over 40 reenactment events, Blake currently interprets as the artist-correspondent Winslow Homer at these battle reenactments. He immerses himself in the materiality of his own obsession by constructing period clothes, camping on battlefields, and documenting the reenactment similar to Homer’s documentation of the authentic war. The figures in the paintings reverberate the past with respect and with a desire to educate, humble, and play. With each annual iteration of American Civil War reenactments, the reanimation of the past encourages a review of history and aids in its continuous revision. For his second exhibition with Gallery Victor Armendariz, William Blake presents A Great Battlefield, a collection of new paintings depicting US Marines at the Gettysburg National Military Park. A Great Battlefield, takes its title from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address which poetically looks to the battlefield as a site of rebirth. Following the tradition of nineteenth-century American history painting...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Jeremy Abbott and Oliver Hartt, Portraits
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jeremy Abbott and Oliver Hartt, Diptych, 2016 by Ramonn Vieitez Watercolor and Gouache on canvas Overall size: 15.7 H x 23.6 W in. Individual Size: 15.7 H x 11.8 W in. Signed on the ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Watercolor, Gouache

Dandy in the garden of black roses &Terrifying night of the first transformation
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Dandy in the garden of black roses & Terrifying night of the first transformation, 2016 by Ramonn Vieitez Watercolor and Gouache on canvas Overall size: 19.7 H x 31.4 W in. Individu...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Watercolor, Gouache

young woman with basket of flowers oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frame size 83x72 cm.
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21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Contemporary self-portrait "Anniversary"
Located in Sempach, LU
In this evocative piece, I blend acrylic and oil to capture an intimate moment, rich with layered emotions. The figure, poised yet wistful, stands enveloped by the depth of the dark ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Lacquer, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Rare Antique Boston School Violin Player Portrait Oil Painting, ca 1890’s
Located in Baltimore, MD
Although unsigned, this is a very well executed portrait of a violin player seated in a hushed setting. It is surely Boston School in style and dating to the very end of the 19th cen...
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1890s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Single Hummingbird, Original Painting, Bird, Animal, Nature
Located in Deddington, GB
Single hummingbird, oil on panel by Angela Smith Hummingbird on a green background, perfectly painted with lots of detail.  ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Singl...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Adriana Pincherle (1905- 1996). A lady with a turban and green shadows.
Located in Firenze, IT
Adriana Pincherle, (1905, Rome - 1996, Florence). A lady with a turban and green shadows in a landscape. Italian female painter, active in Rome and from 1943 in Florence. Painting signed and dated lower right: Adriana Pincherle. 1973. Oil painting on canvas. The simple composition, which represents a woman from behind, bears the influence of Matisse's avant-garde style, with bold and refined color combinations. The shape is created with color, creating an almost surreal and highly expressive effect. The painter once said: "My painting has always been figurative, not realistic. In this sense I felt very similar to the Informal movement, which, fundamentally, pushed my passion for color to the extreme." FREE SHIPPING in Italy and Europe Artist Biography: Pincherle Adriana Rome 25 December 1905 - Florence 8 January 1996 Adriana was born in Rome on 25 December 1905, into a family in which two cultures were intertwined: the Jewish one of her father, the engineer Carlo Pincherle, of Venetian origins and in love with painting, and the Catholic one of her mother, Isa di she. De Marsanich, a noble but decayed Hungarian. Adriana is the eldest child and two years older than her brother Alberto, known to the literary world under the pseudonym Alberto Moravia As Pincherle herself says about her, as a child she spent hours admiring her father who painted watercolours, and it was perhaps then that her interest in drawing and above all her particular sensitivity towards color was born. Thus, having completed her classical studies, she began to attend the "ladies" atelier of the engraver Alfredo Petrucci and the free nude courses at the Academy, where she met Mimmo Spadini and Scipione, and came into contact with Roman art. In 1931 she made her debut at the collective "First Roman exhibition of female art" at the "Galleria di Roma", while the following year, at the same gallery, she exhibited a solo show together with Corrado Cagli, already attracting the attention of critics, famous comment by Longhi, cited several times by Pincherle herself, who prefers the "sissy" between the two artists. As evidence of the results achieved by Adriana since her first works, we remember that among her works presented in 1932 there was also the famous "Standing Self-Portrait", now in the Uffizi Pincherle's growth passes through places and periods common to both the Roman School and the school of painters of the via Cavour group (Mafai, Raphaël, Scipione), with tangents and deviations, but his pictorial research arrives at original solutions independent of any label . Fundamental to the maturation of her art was her stay in Paris in 1933, in which Pincherle admired and studied closely the Fauves, Renoir and in particular Matisse. In the same year she exhibited for the first time in Florence at the Sala d'arte delle Nazioni with Milena Barilli...
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1970s Fauvist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1940's French Post Impressionist Portrait of a Lady Signed & Dated
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Lady by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) dated 47' signed oil painting on board, unframed board: 18 x 14.5 inches stamped verso very good condition provenance: from t...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Ian, Jeremy Abbott and Adam, Triptych. Portraits
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Ian, Jeremy Abbott and Adam, Triptych, 2016 by Ramonn Vieitez Watercolor and Gouache on canvas Overall size: 15.7 H x 35.4 W in. Individual Size: 15.7 H x 11.8 W in. Signed on the ba...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Watercolor, Gouache

Clothed In Light, Abraham and Sarah
Located in Brecon, Powys
This majestic double portrait "Abraham and Sarah" is part of a series of paintings by breaking British artist, Sax Berlin. Inspired by the Bible and also by a commission to paint “Is...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Set Ian, Jeremy Abbott, Adam and Oliver Hartt. Portraits
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Set Ian, Jeremy Abbott, Adam and Oliver Hartt, 2016 by Ramonn Vieitez Watercolor and Gouache on canvas Overall size: 15.7 H x 47.2 W in. Individual Size: 15.7 H x 11.8 W in. Signed o...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Watercolor, Gouache

Original Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This is an original oil painting on canvas by Victoria Montesinos, hand signed by the artist. This piece comes with Letter of Authenticity. Measures approx. 40" x 30" (image).
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Contemporary portrait "The Path"
Located in Sempach, LU
All life is one continuous night. And just as hints of dawn appear, the night becomes even darker. So we walk through that night together. Where to? Why?... For texture on the primed...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

"Adajio" Hand Signed Original Painting on Canvas
Located in Chatsworth, CA
"Adajio""&" is an original acrylic mixed media painting on canvas by Ara Berberyan. The piece is hand signed and comes with a letter of authenticity. Measures approximately 36" x 36".
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic

"Della" (FRAMED) Painting 19" x 22" inch by Antonio Pelayo
Located in Culver City, CA
"Della" (FRAMED) Painting 19" x 22" inch by Antonio Pelayo Medium: Acrylic Ink & Paint on Animation Acetate Size: 13" x 15" inch Size framed: 19" x 22" inch Artist Antonio Pelayo,...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Pencil

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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