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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Style: Surrealist
Style: American Realist
Gala
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A beautifully executed, super-sized, trompe l'oeil oil painting of a gala apple with several levels of irony. A plump, bright, fresh apple, painted hyper realistically. The vibrant ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Pink Moon, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Sara Scribner's (US based) "Pink Moon" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a realistic portrait of a feminine form cradling a small moon i...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
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...
Category
1970s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Traveler, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Tigran Hovumyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2019
Style: Portrait Art,
Subject: Tra...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Katie, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Sara Scribner's (US based) "Katie" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a realistic portrait of a blonde feminine figure in profile clutchi...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Celestial Clouds", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Christopher Clark's (US based) "Celestial Clouds" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a gymnast in blue with pink and yellow clouds in the background.
Bio/artist statement:
Christopher has been an artist since early childhood, when he would watch Bob Ross on PBS and mimic the famed oil painter’s art with crayons. He considers himself a self-educated artist, with his studies ranging from personal training with contemporary masters, to classical academic art technique, with much inspiration from 19th Century art and the Impressionist Movement. Christopher lived in Italy for a time, immersing himself in Italian culture and art, which continues to influence his painting. His fan base has grown considerably since his return to the US, gaining the attention of Lucasfilm and Marvel Fine Art, which both signed him as an officially licensed artist in 2016. Other clients include George Lucas, Major League Baseball, Louisville Slugger, and Fender Guitars.
Christopher’s painting skills are not his only talent in the arts. He has won several national swing dance championship competitions, and also studies tango and blues dancing. He has played guitar since the age of 12, and during his time as lead guitarist for a rock band, he opened for Blue Oyster Cult and Eddie Money, as well as headlined “the Whisky A Go Go” and “The Roxy” in Hollywood. Christopher has played trombone since high school, and for the last 20 years has played with all-trombone Christmas band in Orange County, California called the Balboa Bachelors, with whom he has played for the Newport Beach Christmas Boat Parade...
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Moon Glow, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Sara Scribner's (US based) "Moon Glow" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a realistic portrait of a feminine form holding a full moon in ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Antler" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Joshua Lawyer's (US based) "Antler" is an oil painting that depicts a figure with a white branch appearing as an antler on her head.
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
"Shadow Self", Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Tiffany Dae's (US based) "Shadow Self" is a original, handmade oil painting that depicts a feminine face with blue lipstick fading into the darkness of spa...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Migrants
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Migrants' by Willard Dixon. These paintings are generally taken from small black and white newspaper photos from Willard Dixon’s daily reading of the news. He changes the images somewhat by cropping them, taking things out, adding color, etc. But the image is definitely something seen originally by someone else. “I must say”, says Dixon, “I have rather strong feelings about these images myself. I see them at least in part as an homage to the intrepid photographers on the front lines who are telling truth to the world about what’s actually going on out there.”
Willard Dixon
Born: Kansas City MO, 1942
Education: Art Students League, New York, NY
Cornell University
Brooklyn Museum School
San Francisco Art Institute, M.F.A. 1969
Awards and Commissions
N.E.A. Fellowship Grant- 1989
California Supreme Court Mural Commission- 1998
Las Vegas Federal Courthouse Commission, G.S.A.-1998
Teaching
1989-90: San Francisco State University
1975: San Francisco Art Institute Realism Seminar
1974-76: Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA
1973-74, 1976: California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1971-72: California State University, Hayward, CA
One Man Exhibitions
2020: Evening Light, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA
2015: Willard Dixon Portraits College of Marin Fine Art Gallery, Kentfield
2014: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2008: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2005: Fischbach Gallery, NYC,NY
2005: Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004: Fischbach Gallery, NYC, NY.
2002: Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002: Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
2001: Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000: Fischbach Gallery, NYC , NY
2000: Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
1998: Hackett Freedman Gallery, SF, CA
1997: Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996, 1995: Contemporary Realist Gallery (now Hackett Freedman Gallery)
1994: Fischbach Gallery
1993: Contemporary Realist Gallery
1992: Fischbach Gallery
1991: Earl McGrath Gallery, 454 North, Los Angeles, CA
1990: Fischbach Gallery
1989: William Sawyer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"THE DARK SIDE", surrealist oil painting, duality, myth, battle, war, beast, sun
By Tslil Tsemet
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"THE DARK SIDE", 2017, is a surrealist oil painting on canvas by artist Tslil Tsemet, and measures 36x59". Duality and the conflict it creates rush to col...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Outrunning Karma" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Linda Adair's (Germany based) "Outrunning Karma" is an oil painting that depicts a lone female figure shrouded by darkness on all sides.
Linda Adair is a...
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Blue Moon, American Realist painter, Representational Figurative art, Portrait
Located in Houston, TX
Blue Moon is painted in the style of American Realism. The painting is Representational Figurative art which is a time consuming process especially portraits.
Gary J. Hernandez is a...
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
I'd Love to See You Before I Go
By Kate Sammons
Located in Denver, CO
Blonde figure holding small butterfly in interior
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"CHILDHOOD MEMORIES I", oil painting, memory, cat lactation, fantasy, innocence
By Tslil Tsemet
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"CHILDHOOD MEMORIES I", 2014, is an oil painting on canvas by artist Tslil Tsemet, and measures 47x62". Characteristic of the artist's best work, it featu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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 ...
Category
1970s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Luminous, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Sara Scribner's (US based) "Luminous" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a realistic portrait of a feminine form in a white dress with delicate white butterflies draw...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Night Bloom, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Sara Scribner's (US based) "Night Bloom" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a realistic portrait of a feminine form in profile with a full moon behind her and white M...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Their Song Welcomed the Night, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Sara Scribner's (US based) "Their Song Welcomed the Night" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a realistic portrait of a feminine form in ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Nature Girl, colorful surrealist bird woman painting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
colorful surrealist image of bird woman
*ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoki...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Claire - Original Large Scale Silver Sally K Artwork
By Sally K
Located in Los Angeles, CA
As your gaze lingers on one of Sally K’s paintings, you notice how Sally’s brush strokes add playfulness and life to the canvas, incorporating unexpected images and shapes of flowers, or abstract color combinations to convey the vibrant beauty of a woman’s hair.
Sally K was born in Ohio following her family’s emigration from Lebanon. Shortly after her birth, her family moved to Saudi Arabia, where she stayed until she was 14. Sally then attended high school and college in Beirut, where she graduated with a BA in Fine Arts with distinction from the Lebanese American University of Beirut. In 2013, Sally and her family moved back to the United States and she now works out of her studio in California.
This unique 40 inch high by 66 inch wide painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Silver
"Nightfall, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Sara Scribner's (US based) "Nightfall" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a realistic portrait of a feminine form in blue cradling a smal...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Antique American Impressionist Painting Red Riding Hood Framed 19th Century
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original antique American painting by Samuel Knight Wright, depicting the fairytale character of "Little Red Riding Hood" on her way to gr...
Category
Late 19th Century American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Unicorn's Garden, " Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Rhonda Libbey's "The Unicorn's Garden" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a grey unicorn in a lush garden of cat faced flowers and rollin...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Sea and Stars", Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Tiffany Dae's (US based) "Sea and Stars" is a original, handmade oil painting that depicts an African American face and a Caucasian face transposed over th...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
MEJOR SOLAS
By Sofia Ruiz
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"MEJOR SOLAS"
OIL AND ACRILIC ON CANVAS
SIGNED AND DATED 2010
EXHIBITED MUSEO DEL BANCO CENTRAL
DE COSTA RICA
47.5 X 59 INCHES
Sofía Ruiz was born in ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Cowboy Hanging, Killer's Trail Illustration
By Victor Kalin
Located in Miami, FL
The old west depicted in a graphic and dramatic manner. Paperback Novel Cover Painting Original Art (Avon, 1963). Work has a matted image area of 12.5" ...
Category
1960s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Aleppo
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Aleppo' by Willard Dixon, These paintings are generally taken from small black and white newspaper photos from Willard Dixon’s daily reading of the news. He changes the images somewhat by cropping them, taking things out, adding color, etc. But the image is definitely something seen originally by someone else. “I must say”, says Dixon, “I have rather strong feelings about these images myself. I see them at least in part as an homage to the intrepid photographers on the front lines who are telling truth to the world about what’s actually going on out there.”
Willard Dixon
Born: Kansas City MO, 1942
Education: Art Students League, New York, NY
Cornell University
Brooklyn Museum School
San Francisco Art Institute, M.F.A. 1969
Awards and Commissions
N.E.A. Fellowship Grant- 1989
California Supreme Court Mural Commission- 1998
Las Vegas Federal Courthouse Commission, G.S.A.-1998
Teaching
1989-90: San Francisco State University
1975: San Francisco Art Institute Realism Seminar
1974-76: Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA
1973-74, 1976: California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1971-72: California State University, Hayward, CA
One Man Exhibitions
2020: Evening Light, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA
2015: Willard Dixon Portraits College of Marin Fine Art Gallery, Kentfield
2014: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2008: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2005: Fischbach Gallery, NYC,NY
2005: Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004: Fischbach Gallery, NYC, NY.
2002: Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002: Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
2001: Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000: Fischbach Gallery, NYC , NY
2000: Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
1998: Hackett Freedman Gallery, SF, CA
1997: Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996, 1995: Contemporary Realist Gallery (now Hackett Freedman Gallery)
1994: Fischbach Gallery
1993: Contemporary Realist Gallery
1992: Fischbach Gallery
1991: Earl McGrath Gallery, 454 North, Los Angeles, CA
1990: Fischbach Gallery
1989: William Sawyer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Don't Say it Outloud", Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Tiffany Dae's (US based) "Don't Say it Outloud" is a original, handmade oil painting that depicts a feminine face surrounded by darkness, gently holding an...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Blanket II" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Zack Zdrale's (US based) "Blanket II" is an oil painting that depicts a female figure with dark brown hair drawing a traditional Serape blanket closer arou...
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Pocket Full of Dreams", Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Tiffany Dae's (US based) "Pocket Full of Dreams" is a original, handmade oil painting that depicts a feminine figure surrounded by darkness, gently holding...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Reclining Figure" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Christopher Clark's (US based) "Reclining Figure" is an oil painting that depicts a woman in white reclining in a deep blue interior
Bio/artist statem...
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
UNTITLED
By Sofia Ruiz
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"UNTITLED"
OIL AND ACRILIC ON CANVAS
SIGNED
35.5 X 27.5 INCHES
Sofía Ruiz was born in 1982.
What she expresses through her paintings has to do with whe...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Portrait of a Blonde Beauty
By Bernard Locca
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Bernard Locca, French (1926 - 1997)
Title: Portrait of a Blonde Beauty
Year: 1963
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 36 in. x 29 in. (91.44 cm x 73.66 cm)
Frame Size: 4...
Category
1960s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Love Story, Illustration for the Saturday Evening Post
Located in Miami, FL
An illustrator for Time, Life, Look, True, True West, Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, Readers Digest, and others, he also painted for adverti...
Category
1950s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"The Silence of Light" Mixed media Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Christopher Clark's (US based) "The Silence of Light" is an mixed media painting that depicts a woman with full curly black hair with vivid fall leaves of orange, yellow and blue cas...
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Panel
"Conjuring" Mixed media Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Christopher Clark's (US based) "Conjuring" is an oil painting that depicts a woman in profile with her red tinted hair blowing in the wind with golden light highlighting her hair and form.
Biography & Artist Statement:
Christopher has been an artist since early childhood, when he would watch Bob Ross on PBS and mimic the famed oil painter’s art with crayons. He considers himself a self-educated artist, with his studies ranging from personal training with contemporary masters, to classical academic art technique, with much inspiration from 19th Century art and the Impressionist Movement. Christopher lived in Italy for a time, immersing himself in Italian culture and art, which continues to influence his painting. His fan base has grown considerably since his return to the US, gaining the attention of Lucasfilm and Marvel Fine Art, which both signed him as an officially licensed artist in 2016. Other clients include George Lucas, Major League Baseball, Louisville Slugger, and Fender Guitars.
Christopher’s painting skills are not his only talent in the arts. He has won several national swing dance championship competitions, and also studies tango and blues dancing. He has played guitar since the age of 12, and during his time as lead guitarist for a rock band, he opened for Blue Oyster Cult...
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Panel, Mixed Media
"Can I Borrow Your Wings" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Linda Adair's (Germany based) "Can I Borrow Your Wings" is an oil painting that depicts a figure in an urban city space
Linda Adair is a contemporary figu...
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"That obvious true, there is many of you..." Oil Painting
By Anna Wypych
Located in Denver, CO
Anna Wypych (Poland based) "That obvius true, there is many of you..." is an oil painting that depicts the shadowy forms of two red-headed female figures holding a lamp of light in the lonesome wilderness.
Artist Statement:
“I take Inspiration from what I see around me, but my personal thoughts are only the starting point and inspiration for the research on the man and his condition.”
Anna Wypych, based in Poland, paints realistic portraits in the traditional oil technique. Her art contains elements of hyperrealism, surrealism and pure imaginative. Characteristic of her are philosophical texts, which always complements her works. Artist concentrates on the human condition and her powerful women portraits show a variety of inner strength which can be found in people seen from the positive point of view.
Anna Wypych – winner of Purchase Award „14th International ARC Salon” Art Renewal Center. Her paintings are in permanent collections of: of the European Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona in Spain, and the National Museum in Gdansk, Poland. She presented her works at many juried exhibitions including: „BP Portrait Award 2014”, National Portrait Gallery, London; „Modportrait 2014, 2016 and 2018 Foundation Bantierra and IAACC Pablo Serano Zaragoza; and MEAM, Barcelona; 11th International 2014-2015 ARC Salon” the Salmagundi Club, New York, NYC, USA. Her works were published in such magazines like American Art Collector, PoetsArtists, Revista Ophelia, Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, The Guide Artists, Klassik Magazine, Hyperrealism Magazine, Artysta i Sztuka. The Paintings of Anna Wypych are inncluded in prestigious collections such as The Bennett Collection, The Basil Alkazzi & Halima Nalecz...
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait of a Man with Blue Eyes
Located in Soquel, CA
Realistic portrait oil painting on canvas of a man in a suite and tie by Ralph Edward Joosten (American, 1928-2009). Unsigned and unframed without glass. Image size: 24"H x 18"W.
M...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Gills" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Joshua Lawyer's (US based) "Gills" is an oil painting that depicts a figure with her face in profile with an air bubble escaping the gills on her neck
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
"Light and Mystery" Mixed media Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Christopher Clark's (US based) "Light and Mystery" is an mixed media painting that depicts a woman reclining into the dark background with green, blue and orange patterning.
Biogra...
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Panel
Pansies and Spilled Dirt - Oil painting, by Contemporary American Realist
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Pansies and Spilled Dirt" is an oil painting of purple and white pansies in a rustic brown pot. Dirt spilled onto the clean white surface below.
Painting dimensions: 16 x 12 inches
Framed dimensions: 18.5 x 14.5 inches
Matthew Weigle...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
"Ember" Acrylic painting
By Julio Labra
Located in Denver, CO
Julio Labra's "Ember" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a feminine figure in red with her many arms and hands of orange reaching into the nighttime sky like a flame ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
"Untold" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Linda Adair's (Germany based) "Untold" is an oil painting that depicts an angel like figure in an interior space
Linda Adair is a contemporary figurative ...
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Beak" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Joshua Lawyer's (US based) "Beak" is an oil painting that depicts a figure with her face in profile with a yellow triangle that resembles a beak.
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Feeling the Light
Located in Denver, CO
Lone figure by window
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Surya
Located in Burlingame, CA
The paintings from Willard Dixon's "NEWS series" are generally taken from small black and white newspaper photos from the artist's daily reading of the news. He changes the images somewhat by cropping them, taking things out, adding color, etc. But the image is definitely something seen originally by someone else. “I must say”, says Dixon, “I have rather strong feelings about these images myself. I see them at least in part as an homage to the intrepid photographers on the front lines who are telling truth to the world about what’s actually going on out there.” This is 'Surya', which is hindu for sun; A 48 x 60 inch oil on canvas painting depicting a kaleidoscope of colorful women...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Uncle Sam
By Syd Cockell
Located in Missouri, MO
This is an original oil on velvet painting created c. 1942. Syd Cockell was an accomplished American illustrator during World War II.
Category
1940s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Boy with Molotov Cocktail, Russia Invades Germany
Located in Miami, FL
This work sells itself. Just look at it and an elaborate explanation is not required. There is virtually no one alive who can paint a picture like Crockwell. Hand-signed by artist, sticker label, Signed lower left
Provenance: National Museum of American Illustration , Newport, Rhode Island
Crockwell gives us a complex and inventive composition by showing two wonderful portaits in the foreground and beyond a broken wall...
Category
1940s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Breathe" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Bernard Lee's (US based) "Breathe" is an oil painting that depicts a figure clutching their chest as soft white feathers fall all around the blue backgroun...
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Head of a Gentleman sketch, mid modern
Located in Greenwich, CT
A superbly executed work, this work would have been done for reproduction in a book or magazine. Simkhovitch received quite a number of illustration jobs and could adapt his style t...
Category
Early 20th Century American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
SUENO PROFUNDO
By Sofia Ruiz
Located in Los Angeles, CA
SUENO PROFUNDO
OIL AND ACRILIC ON CANVAS
SIGNED, 2013
EXHIBITED MUSEO DEL BANCO CENTRAL
DE COSTA RICA
43.25 X 35.5 INCHES
Sofía Ruiz was born in 1982....
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Oil
"Rachel" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevin's (US based) "Rachel" is an oil painting that depicts a monochromatic feminine face in profile with a blank white background.
Artist Bio...
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Captain's Lady. style of Andrew Wyeth
Located in Miami, FL
This meticulously rendered work depicts a three-quarter view of a young woman lost in deep introspection.
Inscribed on verso: " The Captain's Lady"
Leslie of ____________ St. ...
Category
1980s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Darkness (portrait of a young woman)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Fletcher Martin (1904-1979). Darkness, 1940. Oil on canvas, 18 x 22 inches; 28.5 x 32.5 inches framed. Signed and dated lower left. Presented in a carved chestnut Heydenryk custom frame of the period. Excellent condition with no damage or conservation.
Biography:
Birth place: Palisade, CO
Death place: Guanajuato, Mexico
Addresses: NYC; Woodstock, NY, 1947 and after; Guanajuato, Mexico in 1976
Profession: Painter, lithographer, block printer, muralist, illustrator, teacher
Studied: Stickney Mem. Sch. Art
Exhibited: Hatfield Gal., Los Angeles, 1932 (solo); LACMA, 1935 ( Van Rensselaer Wilbur Prize), 1939 (prize), 1944; FAP, 1937 (prize); PAFA Ann., 1939-54 frequently (prize 1947); 48 States Comp., 1939 (prize); WMAA, 1940-57; AIC, 1940-45; VMFA, 1941; CI, 1942-44; MoMA, 1942; NAD, 1943, 1949 (Altman Prize); Corcoran Gal. biennials, 1943-53 (6 times); Roberson Mem. Center, Binghamton, NY, 1968 (retrospective); Eve Loring Gal., Cedarhurst, NY & Rudolph Gals., Woodstock, NY, 1970s
Member: A.N.A., 1969; Woodstock AA (chmn., 1953-55); Calif. WC Soc.; Am. Artists Cong.; Fnd. of Western Art; AEA (nat. committee,1949-55).
Work: MMA; WMAA; MoMA; LOC; Cranbrook Acad. Art; William Rockhill Nelson Gal., Kansas City, KS; LACMA; Denver Art Mus.; Mus. FA, Houston; SFMA; PAFA. Commissions: true fresco, WPA, Hollywood H.S., 1935; oil on canvas, U.S. Secretary Fine Art, Fed. Bldg., San Pedro, CA, 1937; oil on canvas, U.S. Secretary Fine Art, Post Office Bldg., Lamesa, TX, 1938; bas relief sculpture, U.S. Secretary Fine Art, County Court House, Bonner's Ferry, ID, 1939; oil on canvas, U.S. Secretary Fine Art, Post Office Bldg., Kellogg, ID, 1940.
Comments: Preferred media: oils, watercolors, print media. Specialty: Western subjects. Illustrator: Tales of the Gold Rush, 1944; Mutiny on the Bounty, 1947; The Sea Wolf, 1961; The Jungle, 1965; Of Mice and Men...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"6 and Two" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Zack Zdrale's (US based) "6 and Two" is an oil painting that depicts two male figures with an obscured faces arching their backs and extending their arms a...
Category
2010s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Critics in a red cloud
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right . gilt frame some minor surface grime other than that is present very well with strong saturated colors
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Tempera
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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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