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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Style: Contemporary
Style: Post-Impressionist
Inner Peace 2
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Inner Peace" by Meshach Charity is a captivating artwork that invites viewers to contemplate the complexities of inner tranquility. In this piece, a young man is depicted turning hi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Golden Angel
Located in Bayonne, NJ
This is an oil on linen painting depicting a nude female figure with wings. Executed in a contemporary, allegorical manner, the painting reminds us of Renaissance portraits. It is in...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Enthusiasm
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Signed on the front side and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Figurative/Portrait_Earth Tones_Woman on Lawn Blanket_America Martin
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Woman on Lawn Blanket"
Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
45 x 80 in. 46.75 x 81.75 in Framed
Exploring the identity of both her namesake and country, LA-based America Martin ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Strech the Noise
Located in THOMERY, FR
"Strech the Noise" is an evocative acrylic painting measuring 60 x 73 cm that encapsulates the essence of serenity and harmony between humans and nature. At the forefront of the canv...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Figurative/Portrait_Oil/Acrylic/Canvas_The Striped Orange Cat, America Martin
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"The Striped Orange Cat"
Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
62.5 x 33.5 in. 64 x 35 in. Framed
Exploring the identity of both her namesake and country, LA-based America Martin ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Contemporary portrait "It's Cold"
Located in Sempach, LU
Today marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of our wedding. Thirty-five years together. I dedicated a painting to this date. The subdued tones and soft light highlight a timeless bond, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Lacquer, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Woman posing mixed media painting
By Jordi Curos
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman
Mixed technique on canvas cardboard.
Work measurements 35x27 cm.
Frame 40x32 cm.
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spani...
Category
1970s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Olajumoke (Child of Wealth that Everyone Cherishes)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
About Artist
Olu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Figurative/Portrait/Abstract_Ink on Paper_America Martin, Woman Rests on Clover
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Woman Rests on Clover"
Acrylic on Paper
11.25 x 30 in. 17 x 36 in. Framed
AMERICA MARTIN is an internationally represented Colombian-American fine artist based in L...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper, Ink
Ramparts - Inspiration Portrait of a Lone Soldier Staring Out at Viewer, Oil
Located in Chicago, IL
William Blake’s oil painting asks us to perceive the powerful layers of history that shape both art and memory. In Blake’s painting is a man, but what Blake painted is an idea. 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.
Artist, William Blake 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
Ramparts
oil on linen
24h x 30w in
60.96h x 76.20w cm
WIL048
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Figurative/Portrait/Abstract_Acrylic on Paper_America Martin, Under The Trees
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Under The Trees"
Acrylic on Paper
46 x 43 in. Framed
AMERICA MARTIN is an internationally represented Colombian-American fine artist based in Los Angeles. America is...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Handmade Paper
Woman posing mixed media painting
By Jordi Curos
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman
Mixed technique on canvas cardboard.
Work measurements 35x27 cm.
Frame 40x32 cm.
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spani...
Category
1970s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Blue Figures in the Jungle By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Blue figures at home and embedded in their native environment; the jungle
This masterpiece is exhibited in the Zimmerman Gallery, Carmel CA.
Marc Zimmerman creates playful painting...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
mulled wine time
Located in Sempach, LU
In this painting, I poured my soul into capturing the warmth and introspective comfort of a quiet winter's eve. I chose acrylics and delicate gilding to breathe life into the minimal...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Longing, Contemporary Mixed Media Painting With Silver & Gold Leaf
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
From Sax Berlin's Silver Series this is a piece that portrays heart rending pathos. In this piece Sax has created beauty, emotion & tranquillity. A deeply moving, touching work.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Presence - portrait of a moment - oil painting on blue background
Located in Bogotá, Bogotá
Oil painting of a presence that emerges on the canvas from another existential plane, accompanied by other beings. With dimensions of 27" x 27" inches, and a royal blue background. T...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cotton Canvas
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Living in the Moment of Peace 2
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Living in the moment of peace is depicting the moment of finding peace, serenity, and contentment within yourself and all sentient beings around you.
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
French Contemporary Art by Karine Bartoli - Marseille
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Karine Bartoli was born in 1971 in Ajaccio. She enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Marseille where she graduated in 1997. Since then she has ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Guitarist." Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
A piece of classical beauty painted in Sax Berlin's New York Studio in 1999. She's a study in muted tones, delicately rendered. Gentle, soft and mystical, The Guitarist is an enigmat...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Riding a horse
Located in Sempach, LU
Oil painting on canvas. One-of-a-kind artwork with Virtual Projection. You can see it using your smartphone. Short instruction and Certificate of Authenticity included. Stretched, s...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Boy and the Bird in the chest
Located in Porto, 13
"The Boy and the Bird in the Chest" by Ritchelly Oliveira is a captivating piece that explores themes of introspection and vulnerability against a backdrop of pure white. At the cent...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Canvas, Acrylic
Being Kind
Located in Porto, 13
"Being Kind" by Ritchelly Oliveira is a poignant portrayal of compassion and empathy, set against a backdrop of pristine white. At the center of the canvas stands a man.
In front of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
Tomato Juggler - Figurative Painting - Contemporary By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
No one could successfully juggle tomatoes except for Gary, one of the founders of heirloom tomatoes. His joy is unbounded here as he miraculously plays with his food. (The artist adm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
My Help Has Come
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"My Help Has Come" is a captivating fabric collage painting created by the talented artist Agwunwa Theophilus. The artwork depicts a lady looking upward with a sense of gratitude, he...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Canvas
Portrait in green with beings of light
Located in Bogotá, Bogotá
Oil painting on canvas, measuring approximately 14.5 inches by 14.5 inches. It features a human silhouette with green textures and two fantastical animals, against a background of gr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Young girl, Spring serie
Located in Sempach, LU
You will receive this painting stretched, with painted edges and completely ready for hanging. Framing is not obligatory and depends only on your preference.
The "Spring" series c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Linen
La Cage, Nous Sommes Uns (Diptych)
Located in Dallas, TX
Sandra produces work ranging over vastly fluctuating emotional enigmas and concepts that have set the standard of our modern communication, exposing the limitations of our world; our...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
1950s French Post Impressionist Oil Painting Portrait of Dapper Man Smoking Pipe
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Man Smoking Pipe
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
oil painting on board, unframed
board: 24 x 19.5 inches
stamped verso
very good condition
provenance: from the artists estate, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Indian's Prayer - Fantastic Realism
Located in Bogotá, Bogotá
The prayer of the Indian. - Animal figurative magic. A moment to remember when we were connected to the magical and invisible, when animals were gods. Painting 23" x 20" inch by Ion ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cotton Canvas
The boys in the crowd
Located in Porto, 13
At the center of the canvas stand five men, each occupying a distinct pose and embodying a unique presence within the crowd.
The white background serves to accentuate the figures, d...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic, Canvas
The space between two seconds
Located in Porto, 13
In the center of the canvas, two men are depicted in a tender embrace, evoking a sense of intimacy and connection.
The title, "The Space Between Two Seconds," hints at the transient...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic, Canvas
Texture of Identity (Beauty Within Us)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The Beauty Within Us" is a compelling narrative series of paintings that celebrates the unique and diverse beauty of Black hair, serving as a powerful symbol of identity, heritage, a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Feel the Blue II
Located in Porto, 13
"Feel the Blue II" by Ritchelly Oliveira presents a captivating scene set against a vibrant orange background. At the forefront of the canvas stands a woman, depicted in varying tone...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
Tuesday's Girl (Sakura), Original Painting, Girl, Portrait, Floral, Woman, Pink
Located in Deddington, GB
Original painting by Angela Smith showing back of girl's head.
A portrayal of young girl with brown hair tied back by pink flowers. Surrounded by a vibr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
This may come as surprise but I miss you
Located in Porto, 13
"This may come as a surprise but I miss you" by Ritchelly Oliveira is a captivating artwork that evokes a sense of longing and introspection against a backdrop of pure white. In the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
Daydreamer
Located in Porto, 13
"Daydreamer" by Ritchelly Oliveira presents a striking portrayal of introspection and vulnerability against a backdrop of pure white. At the heart of the canvas stands a black man, e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
The blue in your love
Located in Porto, 13
"The Blue in Your Love" by Ritchelly Oliveira is a captivating piece that explores the nuances of emotion and introspection against a backdrop of pure white. At the center of the can...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
The girl in the feather canyons
Located in Porto, 13
In Ritchelly Oliveira's compelling painting, "The Girl in Feather Canyons," the viewer is drawn into a scene of poignant introspection and vulnerability. At the heart of the composit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Canvas, Acrylic
Memory
Located in Porto, 13
Against a stark white background, the focal point of the painting is two figures centrally positioned. The first figure is a man, depicted with his eyes covered by the gentle touch o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
Strangelove
Located in New Orleans, LA
Discover the warmth and depth of "Strangelove," an oil painting on linen by Alessandro Tomassetti. This artwork shows a person not facing the artist, wrapped up in ribbons, against a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
In between waves
Located in Porto, 13
"In Between Waves" by Ritchelly Oliveira is a striking piece of artwork that explores themes of identity, fragility, and the constant flux of life. Set against a pristine white backg...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
Ada - Original Sally K Figurative Artwork
By Sally K
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Lebanese American artist Sally K.'s captivating floral portraits are both mesmerizing and empowering. Her pop-realistic paintings are inspired by strong, feminine women, celebrating...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Wounded Birds
Located in Porto, 13
"Wounded Birds" by Ritchelly Oliveira is a captivating artwork that delves into the theme of vulnerability and fragility within human relationships. Against a backdrop of pristine wh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
Sisters Bond
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gal...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Blind in the freedom of not having you II
Located in Porto, 13
"Blind in the freedom of not having you I" by Ritchelly Oliveira is a captivating portrayal of depth and symbolism, resonating with themes of love, fragility, and identity. Set again...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
We Await
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"We Await" is a captivating artwork by the talented artist Samson Toba. The piece portrays a powerful scene where a woman stands facing a young woman who carries the globe of the wor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Woman posing acrylic painting
By Jordi Curos
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman
Acrylic on canvas on cardboard.
Work measurements 55x46 cm.
Frameless.
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish painter...
Category
1970s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Blind in the freedom of not having you I
Located in Porto, 13
"Blind in the freedom of not having you I" by Ritchelly Oliveira is a captivating portrayal of depth and symbolism, resonating with themes of love, fragility, and identity. Set again...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic, Canvas
There must have been an angel by my side
Located in Porto, 13
In"There Must Have Been an Angel by My Side," the central figure is a black man, depicted with striking clarity against white backdrop.
To the left side of the man's face, a striki...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
Hold on
Located in Porto, 13
In Ritchelly Oliveira's evocative painting, the stark contrast of black and white sets the stage for a profound exploration of human vulnerability and connection. At the forefront of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Canvas, Acrylic
Blue Lace - Original Sally K Figurative Artwork
By Sally K
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Lebanese American artist Sally K.'s captivating floral portraits are both mesmerizing and empowering. Her pop-realistic paintings are inspired by strong, feminine women, celebrating...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
The Girl with the Green Ribbon - Contemplative Female Figure, Oil on Panel
Located in Chicago, IL
Tina Figarelli is a classically trained artist whose favorite subject matter in her artwork is ideas with a strong narrative. Tina leaves the viewer hints about the story in the piec...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Kek Okker - Contemporary figurative painting
Located in East Quogue, NY
Figurative 'pin-up' portrait painting with abstract mosaic style background by Hungarian artist Dénes Wächter. Offered unframed.
Dénes Wächter creates unique post-pop art paintings ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figurative/Portrait_Abstract Figure_Oil/Acrylic/Canvas_Adalgisa, Rebecca Jack
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
Rebecca Jack
"Adalgisa"
Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
24 x 20 in.
25.25 x 21.25 in. Framed
__________________________
Rebecca Jack, an intuitive painter, creates vibrant, figurative wo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
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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.
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