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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Style: Art Deco
Style: Surrealist
The Sea by Fiona Morley - Wire and oil on canvas with custom frame - sculptural
Located in Dallas, TX
Born in Hereford, England, Fiona Morley’s artwork is a combination of illustration and sculptural relief that is achieved with wire, as the line can be taken off the page and into sp...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Wire

Last Leaves (young girl yellow shirt fall leave portrait figurative oil painting
Located in Quebec, Quebec
The idea for this painting is based on the idea of the transience and rebirth of things. The already fallen tree leaves symbolize the decomposition of matter and at the same time the...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Arabian Night, Stylised, Bright Colours, Oil Painting, Signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Arabian Night, Stylised, Bright Colours, Oil Painting, Signed By British artist, Kate Orr, 20th Century Signed by the artist verso Oil painting on board, framed Framed size: 23 x 31 ...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Cynthia I
Located in Long Island City, NY
A mystical portrait of a woman holding a mask in a surreal, dream-like setting by Ramon Santiago. Artist: Ramon Santiago, American (1943 - 2001) Title...
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1970s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Frans Smeers (1873-1960) Portrait of an artist, oil on canvas signed
Located in Paris, FR
Frans Smeers (1873-1960) Portrait of an artist, signed lower right (partially hidden by the frame) 42.5 x 36 cm Framed : 50 x 43.5 cm This work is typi...
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1930s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Jazz in the park
Located in Sempach, LU
When she has some spare time, Ta is an avid reader. She recently read the Thai edition of Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova. It's sheer brilliance led her to curate her 'Goddess' col...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Passed life
Located in New York, NY
With his works included in the permanent collection at the Norton and the New Britain Museum, Drew Tal’s successful career has been nothing but a soaring ascension into the global ar...
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Early 2000s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Photogram

Awakening
Located in New York, NY
With his works included in the permanent collection at the Norton and the New Britain Museum, Drew Tal’s successful career has been nothing but a soaring ascension into the global ar...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Photogram

Self Isolation
Located in New York, NY
A uniquely hand painted print from the original panting by the artist. The print feature a unique combination of lines, symbols, drawing and words painted by the artist on the surfac...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Archival Ink, Paper, Archival Paper, Ink, Canvas

The Promenad
Located in Sempach, LU
I am an artist from Ukraine. I ask you to buy any of my art works. Now there is a war in my country, Russia invaded our territory. Russian rockets and bombs are hitting civilian home...
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2010s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Italian Surrealist Oil Painting Jean Calogero Big Eyed Girl Doll
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed lower right 'canvas measures 15 X 10.75 framed it measures 19 X 15.75 Calogero was born August 20, 1922 in Catania, Sicily. Self-taught Surreal Artist First exhibitions in 1945 in Sicily and Rome were very successful. He arrived in Paris in 1947 and studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He is best known for his Surrealism and genre works. His paintings are dreamlike and visionary. They travel to an infinite space created by the artist through his memories, the sky and the sea so dear to him. In his paintings there are a few common themes: the masks with their dual dimensions that hide or shows only what you want, the profiles of the women, and the horsemen, drawn as the Sicilian tradition requires. He exhibited at the Gallery Hervé in 1951 and the following year he went to New York to present his show, then in 1953 he was invited to Los Angeles, where he returned two years later, and from where he regularly exhibited his works, and San Francisco. In 1954, Maximilien Gauthier devoted a book to him published by "The Gemini." The first exhibition in Japan was in 1965. He was awarded the Grand Silver Medal by the City of Paris in 1957. Calogero had countless exhibitions in Paris, in the fifties, plus the American exhibitions in New York (Associated American Artists, 1952), Los Angeles (James Vigevano Galleries, 1953) and then later in Japan and in major galleries in Italy. He lived and worked for many years in Paris and Italy. He died in 2001. Galerie Hervè, Parigi 1950. Associated American Artists - New York 1952. James Vigevano Galleries, Los Angeles 1953. Galerie Madsen, Parigi 1954/1960. Antologica, Tokyo 1965. Galleria La Robinia, Palermo 1969. Florida Gallery, Chicago 1970. Galleria Il Cavalletto, Catania 1971. Galleria De Rosa, Milano 1972. Galleria Pinacoteca, Roma; L'Incontro, Taranto 1973. Galleria Idea-Bellini, Firenze; David Galleries, Bari; Palazzo Melloni, L'incontro, Bologna; Galleria Schettini, Milano; Galleria Pinacoteca, Roma; Galleria La Meridiana, Verona; Pier della Francesca, Arezzo 1974. Galleria L'isolotto, Napoli; Pinacoteca, Roma; Galleria del Corso, Latina 1975. Galleria Michelangelo, Firenze; Pinacoteca, Roma 1977. Galleria Robert Philip...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

“Rear View Portrait” Contemporary Abstract Figurative Magazine Collage of a Man
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract surrealist collage of a man by contemporary Houston artist Scott Woodard. The work features a portrait of a man from behind assembled out of magazine cuttings. Currently hun...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Magazine Paper

AWAKENING
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Oil, mirror and 24k gold leaf on canvas
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

REVELATION
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Oil, mirror and 24k gold leaf on canvas.
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Les Fleurs
Located in West Hollywood, CA
We are proud to present a series of early original mixed media works on paper, just released from the private collection one of the contemporary masters of Belgian avant-garde painti...
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2010s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

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Oil

La Casati
Located in West Hollywood, CA
We are proud to present a series of early original mixed media works on paper, just released from the private collection one of the contemporary masters of Belgian avant-garde painti...
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2010s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

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Oil

The Broken Mirror
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an exceptional ealry oil painting by American artist Ron Blumberg (1908-2002). The Broken Mirror, is an original oil on canvas, signed, dated...
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1930s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

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Oil

White Mantilla
Located in Los Angeles, CA
RICHARD KIRK "WHITE MANTILLA" OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED, TITLED AMERICAN, C.1960 36 X 23 INCHES Original Frame Richard Kirk Born 1932 Kirk was born in West Virginia in 1932. He ...
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1960s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Stan Spohn
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a rare, early original oil painting, "Stan Spohn", by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010) McIntosh was extremely prolific and exhibited throughout his lifetime, ...
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1930s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

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Oil

The Princess
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an original oil on canvas by American artist Alexander Rosenfeld. Rosenfeld was classically trained in Poland before settling in Los An...
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1940s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Old Gentleman
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jirayr Hamparzoom Zorthian was born April 14, 1911 in Kutahya, Turkey, of Armenian parents. At the age of three, he showed considerable talent in drawing and painting. Zorthian went through two Turkish massacres before age eight. He left Turkey at age nine with his family and spent a year in Padua, Italy, waiting for his visa to open to the United States. This period was very important in his life because his father took him to many cities in Europe and exposed him to great works of art. Zorthian arrived in the United States at the age of eleven and settled with his family in New Haven, Connecticut. He obtained his formal education there, after graduating from Yale, the Winchester Fellowship granted him a year and a half at the American Academy in Rome with travel and study throughout Europe. His art career branched into various directions on his return to the United States. As a mural painter his reputation was established. He has forty two (42) murals throughout the United States. Zorthian worked and taught painting at some of the finest art academies on the west coast including both the Chouinard Art Institute and the Otis Art Institute. The Old Gentleman...
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1930s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mademoiselle Jannel
Located in West Hollywood, CA
An original mixed media gouache by French artist Jean Jannel, known for his figurative, genre portraits. Mademoiselle Jannel, is an original mixed media gouache, c.1930. We acquir...
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1920s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

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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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