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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Period: 20th Century
Period: 18th Century
Blonde Lady In Red & White Vest Portrait 1930's French Impressionist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Portrait by Y. Blanchon, French 1950's Impressionist oil on board, unframed painting: 18 x 15 inches provenance: from a large private collection of this artists work in North...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

“God Save the Children” Early Figurative Portrait of an Anguished Black Man
Located in Houston, TX
Early figurative portrait painting by Houston-based artist Buford Evans. The work features a black man looking to the sky with an anguished expression on his face as a young child cl...
Category

1970s Naturalistic Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Panel

Flowers In Grand Vase Watercolour 1930's French Impressionist Still Life
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Interior by Y. Blanchon, French 1950's Impressionist watercolour on artist paper, unframed painting: 15 x 22 inches provenance: from a large private collection of this artist...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

British Modernist Oil Painting Portrait Amy Whitehouse Styled Figure Posed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Posed Figure by Helen Greenfield (British 20th century) signed initials oil painting on board, framed framed: 19.5 x 28.5 inches board: 15 x 24 inches condition: overall very good pr...
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20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Lovers At Rue De Anges Villeneuve-Loubet, circa 1920
Located in Blackwater, GB
Lovers At Rue De Anges Villeneuve-Loubet, circa 1920 Large circa 1920 portrait of two French Lovers at Rue De Anges, Villeneuve-Loubet, oil on canvas. S...
Category

Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Dreamy Young Blond Women Pondering "Deckchair and Cat" Summer Pastel Color
Located in Miami, FL
A dreamy young blond woman holding a Bengal cat is depicted relaxing in a deckchair. She gazes upward and outward, pondering—the distinctive marbling of the cat echos the floral back...
Category

1980s Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache

Portrait of Elegant Young Society Lady In Purple Stripey Top Exquisite Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of an Elegant Lady original watercolour painting on paper by Marjorie Schiele (1913-2008) *see notes below piece of paper is 14 x 10 inches In good condition, though with mi...
Category

Early 20th Century American Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Pencil, Crayon

Portrait of Elegant Young Society Lady In Green Round Neck Exquisite Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of an Elegant Lady original pencil drawing on paper by Marjorie Schiele (1913-2008) *see notes below signed piece of paper is 9 x 6 inches In...
Category

Early 20th Century American Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Pencil, Crayon

Neapolitan Sea Captain Portrait Seascape Oil Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3703 Oil on artist board Set in a vintage wood frame Image size 13x9.5"
Category

1940s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Outsider Folk Art Expressionist Rabbi Israeli Painting Signed Hebrew Jewish Star
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a signed portrait painting done in an outsider, folk art, expressionist style. it is signed in Hebrew, also marked with a Jewish star. this is from a collection of works by the same hand. they are all signed. Some have markings to the back of the paper. they have some age to them. They bear similarities to artists as dissimilar as Moshe Tamir, Mane Katz and an Israeli version of Purvis Young. In this piece the artist choice of colors is muted yet powerful. Israel has had a Vibrant Folk Art, Naive art scene for a long time now, artists like Yisrael Paldi, Nahum Guttman, Reuven Rubin and even Yefim Ladyzhensky had naive periods. The most well know of the strict naive artists are Shalom of Safed, Irene Awret, Gabriel Cohen, Natan Heber, Michael Falk and Kopel Gurwin. Naïve art is any form of visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes (in anatomy, art history, technique, perspective, ways of seeing). Unlike folk art, naïve art does not necessarily evince a distinct cultural context or tradition. Naïve art is recognized, and often imitated, for its childlike simplicity and frankness. Paintings of this kind typically have a flat rendering style with a rudimentary expression of perspective. One particularly influential painter of "naïve art" was Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), a French Post-Impressionist who was discovered by Pablo Picasso. Naïve art is often seen as outsider art that is by someone without formal (or little) training or degree. While this was true before the twentieth century, there are now academies for naïve art. Naïve art is now a fully recognized art genre, represented in art galleries worldwide. Museums devoted to naïve art now exist in Kecskemét, Hungary; Riga, Latvia; Jaen, Spain; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Vicq France and Paris. "Primitive art" is another term often applied to art by those without formal training, but is historically more often applied to work from certain cultures that have been judged socially or technologically "primitive" by Western academia, such as Native American, sub saharan African or Pacific Island art (see Tribal art). This is distinguished from the self-conscious, "primitive" inspired movement primitivism. Another term related to (but not completely synonymous with) naïve art is folk art. There also exist the terms "naïvism" and "primitivism" which are usually applied to professional painters working in the style of naïve art (like Paul Gauguin, Mikhail Larionov, Paul Klee). At all events, naive art can be regarded as having occupied an "official" position in the annals of twentieth-century art since - at the very latest - the publication of the Der Blaue Reiter, an almanac in 1912. Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, who brought out the almanac, presented 6 reproductions of paintings by le Douanier' Rousseau (Henri Rousseau), comparing them with other pictorial examples. However, most experts agree that the year that naive art was "discovered" was 1885, when the painter Paul Signac became aware of the talents of Henri Rousseau and set about organizing exhibitions of his work in a number of prestigious galleries. The Earth Group (Grupa Zemlja) were Croatian artists, architects and intellectuals active in Zagreb from 1929 to 1935. The group included the painters Krsto Hegedušić, Edo Kovačević, Omer Mujadžić, Kamilo Ružička, Ivan Tabaković, and Oton Postružnik, the sculptors Antun Augustinčić, Frano Kršinić, and the architect Drago Ibler. Art brut, primitive art, primitive, art naïf, naïve art. Outsider art. A term applied to Yugoslav (Croatian) naive painters working in or around the village of Hlebine, near the Hungarian border, from about 1930. Some of the best known naive artists are Dragan Gaži, Ivan Generalić, Josip Generalić, Krsto Hegedušić, Mijo Kovačić, Ivan Lacković-Croata, Franjo Mraz, Ivan Večenaj and Mirko Virius. Camille Bombois (1883–1970) Ferdinand Cheval, known as 'le facteur Cheval' (1836–1924) Henry Darger (1892–1973) L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) Grandma Moses, Anna Mary Robertson (1860–1961) Nikifor (1895–1968) Poland, Horace Pippin (1888–1946) Jon Serl (1894-1993) United States Alfred Wallis (1855–1942) Scottie Wilson (1890–1972) Gesner Abelard (b. 1922) Jan Balet (1913–2009) Michel Delacroix (b. 1933) France Howard Finster (1916–2001) Ivan Rabuzin (1921–2008) Spontaneous Art Museum in Brussels Art en Marge Museum in Brussels MADmusée in Liege International Museum of Naive Art of Brazil in Cosme Velho, Rio de Janeiro Gallery Jacques Ardies in São Paulo Musée international d'art naïf de Magog in Magog Croatian Museum of Naïve Art in Zagreb Gallery of Croatian Naïve Art...
Category

20th Century Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Old Man: Contemporary Figurative Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Sympathetic portrayal of old age, really very pretty work by this British artist. oil and gold leaf on arches paper, cracked varnish finish. Matted and very good condition
Category

1990s Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Naturalistic Cowboy Portrait of Jim Derrick Roidosa Downs Carlsbad, New Mexico
Located in Houston, TX
Naturalistic portrait of Jim Derrick by the artist Lou Benesch. The portrait features a central figure clad in a cowboy hat, nice work shirt, and a gold bracelet leaning against a po...
Category

20th Century Naturalistic Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Outsider Folk Art Expressionist Rabbi Israeli Painting Signed Hebrew Jewish Star
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a signed portrait painting done in an outsider, folk art, expressionist style. it is signed in Hebrew, also marked with a Jewish star. this is from a collection of works by the same hand. they are all signed. Some have markings to the back of the paper. they have some age to them. They bear similarities to artists as dissimilar as Moshe tamir, Mane Katz and an Israeli version of Purvis Young. In this piece the artist choice of colors is muted yet powerful. Israel has had a Vibrant Folk Art, Naive art scene for a long time now, artists like Yisrael Paldi, Nahum Guttman, Reuven Rubin and even Yefim Ladyzhensky had naive periods. The most well know of the strict naive artists are Shalom of Safed, Irene Awret, Gabriel Cohen, Natan Heber, Michael Falk and Kopel Gurwin. Naïve art is any form of visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes (in anatomy, art history, technique, perspective, ways of seeing). Unlike folk art, naïve art does not necessarily evince a distinct cultural context or tradition. Naïve art is recognized, and often imitated, for its childlike simplicity and frankness. Paintings of this kind typically have a flat rendering style with a rudimentary expression of perspective. One particularly influential painter of "naïve art" was Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), a French Post-Impressionist who was discovered by Pablo Picasso. Naïve art is often seen as outsider art that is by someone without formal (or little) training or degree. While this was true before the twentieth century, there are now academies for naïve art. Naïve art is now a fully recognized art genre, represented in art galleries worldwide. Museums devoted to naïve art now exist in Kecskemét, Hungary; Riga, Latvia; Jaen, Spain; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Vicq France and Paris. "Primitive art" is another term often applied to art by those without formal training, but is historically more often applied to work from certain cultures that have been judged socially or technologically "primitive" by Western academia, such as Native American, sub saharan African or Pacific Island art (see Tribal art). This is distinguished from the self-conscious, "primitive" inspired movement primitivism. Another term related to (but not completely synonymous with) naïve art is folk art. There also exist the terms "naïvism" and "primitivism" which are usually applied to professional painters working in the style of naïve art (like Paul Gauguin, Mikhail Larionov, Paul Klee). At all events, naive art can be regarded as having occupied an "official" position in the annals of twentieth-century art since - at the very latest - the publication of the Der Blaue Reiter, an almanac in 1912. Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, who brought out the almanac, presented 6 reproductions of paintings by le Douanier' Rousseau (Henri Rousseau), comparing them with other pictorial examples. However, most experts agree that the year that naive art was "discovered" was 1885, when the painter Paul Signac became aware of the talents of Henri Rousseau and set about organizing exhibitions of his work in a number of prestigious galleries. The Earth Group (Grupa Zemlja) were Croatian artists, architects and intellectuals active in Zagreb from 1929 to 1935. The group included the painters Krsto Hegedušić, Edo Kovačević, Omer Mujadžić, Kamilo Ružička, Ivan Tabaković, and Oton Postružnik, the sculptors Antun Augustinčić, Frano Kršinić, and the architect Drago Ibler. Art brut, primitive art, primitive, art naïf, naïve art. Outsider art. A term applied to Yugoslav (Croatian) naive painters working in or around the village of Hlebine, near the Hungarian border, from about 1930. Some of the best known naive artists are Dragan Gaži, Ivan Generalić, Josip Generalić, Krsto Hegedušić, Mijo Kovačić, Ivan Lacković-Croata, Franjo Mraz, Ivan Večenaj and Mirko Virius. Camille Bombois (1883–1970) Ferdinand Cheval, known as 'le facteur Cheval' (1836–1924) Henry Darger (1892–1973) L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) Grandma Moses, Anna Mary Robertson (1860–1961) Nikifor (1895–1968) Poland, Horace Pippin (1888–1946) Jon Serl (1894-1993) United States Alfred Wallis (1855–1942) Scottie Wilson (1890–1972) Gesner Abelard (b. 1922) Jan Balet (1913–2009) Michel Delacroix (b. 1933) France Howard Finster (1916–2001) Ivan Rabuzin (1921–2008) Spontaneous Art Museum in Brussels Art en Marge Museum in Brussels MADmusée in Liege International Museum of Naive Art of Brazil in Cosme Velho, Rio de Janeiro Gallery Jacques Ardies in São Paulo Musée international d'art naïf de Magog in Magog Croatian Museum of Naïve Art in Zagreb Gallery of Croatian Naïve Art...
Category

20th Century Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache

1950's French Modernist Portrait Of A Posed Elder Lady Side Profile Framed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Posed Lady Portrait by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting on board, framed framed: 15 high by 12 wide measures: 12 high by 1...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

“Girl with Cat”
Located in Southampton, NY
Evocative original oil on canvas painting by the Welsh artist, John Bowen. Signed lower left. Condition is very good. Circa 1970. The artist uses the light to capture the beauty of the young girl looking directly at us with her cat resting in her lap. The painting is housed in a dark wood frame with narrow liner of the same time period of the artwork. Overall framed measurement is 41 by 29 inches. Provenance: A Sarasota, Florida estate. John Bowen (1914–2006) Carmarthenshire Museums Service Collection Painter, born in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire. After attending Llanelli and Swansea Schools of Art he taught at Llanelli School of Art, 1939–60, also at the Boys’ Grammar School there apart from wartime service in the Royal Air Force. He was an artist member of SWG and also showed WAC and at the Royal National Eisteddfod. In 1968 he had a retrospective at Parc Howard Mansion, Llanelli. Painter of landscapes in Britain and abroad and still life, in oil and watercolour whose work is in many public collections, including WAC and Newport Art Gallery and Museum. Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company) His work was influenced by some of the twentieth century's greatest artists such as Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall. His paintings are in the permanent collections of Parc Howard Museum...
Category

1970s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Painter and a model. Figurative Oil Painting, Warm tones, European art
Located in Warsaw, PL
Figurative oil on canvas painting by Iwan Kulik. Painting is in warm tones, main colors are brown, yellow nad green. Iwan Kulik has created his own characteristical style that is rec...
Category

20th Century Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Painting Portrait of Emperor Vitellius 18th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. Aulus Vitellius Germanicus Augustus is one of the Eleven Roman Emperors who were portrayed in half-length form in a series made by Titian in 1536-40 for Frederick II,...
Category

18th Century Other Art Style Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Outsider Folk Art Expressionist Rabbi Israeli Painting Signed Hebrew Jewish Star
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a signed portrait painting done in an outsider, folk art, expressionist style. it is signed in Hebrew, also marked with a Jewish star. this is from a collection of works by the same hand. they are all signed. Some have markings to the back of the paper. they have some age to them. They bear similarities to artists as dissimilar as Moshe Tamir, Mane Katz and an Israeli version of Purvis Young. In this piece the artist choice of colors is muted yet powerful. Israel has had a Vibrant Folk Art, Naive art scene for a long time now, artists like Yisrael Paldi, Nahum Guttman, Reuven Rubin and even Yefim Ladyzhensky had naive periods. The most well know of the strict naive artists are Shalom of Safed, Irene Awret, Gabriel Cohen, Natan Heber, Michael Falk and Kopel Gurwin. Naïve art is any form of visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes (in anatomy, art history, technique, perspective, ways of seeing). Unlike folk art, naïve art does not necessarily evince a distinct cultural context or tradition. Naïve art is recognized, and often imitated, for its childlike simplicity and frankness. Paintings of this kind typically have a flat rendering style with a rudimentary expression of perspective. One particularly influential painter of "naïve art" was Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), a French Post-Impressionist who was discovered by Pablo Picasso. Naïve art is often seen as outsider art that is by someone without formal (or little) training or degree. While this was true before the twentieth century, there are now academies for naïve art. Naïve art is now a fully recognized art genre, represented in art galleries worldwide. Museums devoted to naïve art now exist in Kecskemét, Hungary; Riga, Latvia; Jaen, Spain; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Vicq France and Paris. "Primitive art" is another term often applied to art by those without formal training, but is historically more often applied to work from certain cultures that have been judged socially or technologically "primitive" by Western academia, such as Native American, sub saharan African or Pacific Island art (see Tribal art). This is distinguished from the self-conscious, "primitive" inspired movement primitivism. Another term related to (but not completely synonymous with) naïve art is folk art. There also exist the terms "naïvism" and "primitivism" which are usually applied to professional painters working in the style of naïve art (like Paul Gauguin, Mikhail Larionov, Paul Klee). At all events, naive art can be regarded as having occupied an "official" position in the annals of twentieth-century art since - at the very latest - the publication of the Der Blaue Reiter, an almanac in 1912. Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, who brought out the almanac, presented 6 reproductions of paintings by le Douanier' Rousseau (Henri Rousseau), comparing them with other pictorial examples. However, most experts agree that the year that naive art was "discovered" was 1885, when the painter Paul Signac became aware of the talents of Henri Rousseau and set about organizing exhibitions of his work in a number of prestigious galleries. The Earth Group (Grupa Zemlja) were Croatian artists, architects and intellectuals active in Zagreb from 1929 to 1935. The group included the painters Krsto Hegedušić, Edo Kovačević, Omer Mujadžić, Kamilo Ružička, Ivan Tabaković, and Oton Postružnik, the sculptors Antun Augustinčić, Frano Kršinić, and the architect Drago Ibler. Art brut, primitive art, primitive, art naïf, naïve art. Outsider art. A term applied to Yugoslav (Croatian) naive painters working in or around the village of Hlebine, near the Hungarian border, from about 1930. Some of the best known naive artists are Dragan Gaži, Ivan Generalić, Josip Generalić, Krsto Hegedušić, Mijo Kovačić, Ivan Lacković-Croata, Franjo Mraz, Ivan Večenaj and Mirko Virius. Camille Bombois (1883–1970) Ferdinand Cheval, known as 'le facteur Cheval' (1836–1924) Henry Darger (1892–1973) L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) Grandma Moses, Anna Mary Robertson (1860–1961) Nikifor (1895–1968) Poland, Horace Pippin (1888–1946) Jon Serl (1894-1993) United States Alfred Wallis (1855–1942) Scottie Wilson (1890–1972) Gesner Abelard (b. 1922) Jan Balet (1913–2009) Michel Delacroix (b. 1933) France Howard Finster (1916–2001) Ivan Rabuzin (1921–2008) Spontaneous Art Museum in Brussels Art en Marge Museum in Brussels MADmusée in Liege International Museum of Naive Art of Brazil in Cosme Velho, Rio de Janeiro Gallery Jacques Ardies in São Paulo Musée international d'art naïf de Magog in Magog Croatian Museum of Naïve Art in Zagreb Gallery of Croatian Naïve Art...
Category

20th Century Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Original beautiful 1930's OIL PAINTING portrait of a lady SIGNED - Austrian
Located in Cirencester, GB
ARTIST: Hugo Von Ritter Bouvard (1879-1959) Austrian TITLE: “Portrait Of A Lady In A Silk Dress” SIGNED: upper left and dated 1936 MEDIUM: oil on canvas SIZE: 70cm x 60cm unframe...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Goyesque man oil on canvas painting portrait
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
José Puyet Padilla (1922-2004) - Goyesque man - Oil on canvas Oil measures 100x80 cm. Frameless. Puyet was born in Malaga, Spain. He was the grandson of Professor José Padilla, a Sp...
Category

1980s Romantic Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Portrait of a lady
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Burgundy wooden frame 75.5 x 65 x 4 cm
Category

1920s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Woman at Basin, Picasso Style Portrait of a Female Nude, American Modernist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Woman by Basin" by Philadelphia born modernist and surrealist painter Leon Kelly, is a framed and matted portrait of a female nude. The 22.5" x 17.75" mixed media on artist board i...
Category

1920s American Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Outsider Folk Art Expressionist Rabbi Israeli Painting Signed Hebrew Jewish Star
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a signed portrait painting done in an outsider, folk art, expressionist style. it is signed in Hebrew, also marked with a Jewish star. this is from a collection of works by the same hand. they are all signed. Some have markings to the back of the paper. they have some age to them. They bear similarities to artists as dissimilar as Moshe Tamir, Mane Katz and an Israeli version of Purvis Young. In this piece the artist choice of colors is muted yet powerful. Israel has had a Vibrant Folk Art, Naive art scene for a long time now, artists like Yisrael Paldi, Nahum Guttman, Reuven Rubin and even Yefim Ladyzhensky had naive periods. The most well know of the strict naive artists are Shalom of Safed, Irene Awret, Gabriel Cohen, Natan Heber, Michael Falk and Kopel Gurwin. Naïve art is any form of visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes (in anatomy, art history, technique, perspective, ways of seeing). Unlike folk art, naïve art does not necessarily evince a distinct cultural context or tradition. Naïve art is recognized, and often imitated, for its childlike simplicity and frankness. Paintings of this kind typically have a flat rendering style with a rudimentary expression of perspective. One particularly influential painter of "naïve art" was Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), a French Post-Impressionist who was discovered by Pablo Picasso. Naïve art is often seen as outsider art that is by someone without formal (or little) training or degree. While this was true before the twentieth century, there are now academies for naïve art. Naïve art is now a fully recognized art genre, represented in art galleries worldwide. Museums devoted to naïve art now exist in Kecskemét, Hungary; Riga, Latvia; Jaen, Spain; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Vicq France and Paris. "Primitive art" is another term often applied to art by those without formal training, but is historically more often applied to work from certain cultures that have been judged socially or technologically "primitive" by Western academia, such as Native American, sub saharan African or Pacific Island art (see Tribal art). This is distinguished from the self-conscious, "primitive" inspired movement primitivism. Another term related to (but not completely synonymous with) naïve art is folk art. There also exist the terms "naïvism" and "primitivism" which are usually applied to professional painters working in the style of naïve art (like Paul Gauguin, Mikhail Larionov, Paul Klee). At all events, naive art can be regarded as having occupied an "official" position in the annals of twentieth-century art since - at the very latest - the publication of the Der Blaue Reiter, an almanac in 1912. Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, who brought out the almanac, presented 6 reproductions of paintings by le Douanier' Rousseau (Henri Rousseau), comparing them with other pictorial examples. However, most experts agree that the year that naive art was "discovered" was 1885, when the painter Paul Signac became aware of the talents of Henri Rousseau and set about organizing exhibitions of his work in a number of prestigious galleries. The Earth Group (Grupa Zemlja) were Croatian artists, architects and intellectuals active in Zagreb from 1929 to 1935. The group included the painters Krsto Hegedušić, Edo Kovačević, Omer Mujadžić, Kamilo Ružička, Ivan Tabaković, and Oton Postružnik, the sculptors Antun Augustinčić, Frano Kršinić, and the architect Drago Ibler. Art brut, primitive art, primitive, art naïf, naïve art. Outsider art. A term applied to Yugoslav (Croatian) naive painters working in or around the village of Hlebine, near the Hungarian border, from about 1930. Some of the best known naive artists are Dragan Gaži, Ivan Generalić, Josip Generalić, Krsto Hegedušić, Mijo Kovačić, Ivan Lacković-Croata, Franjo Mraz, Ivan Večenaj and Mirko Virius. Camille Bombois (1883–1970) Ferdinand Cheval, known as 'le facteur Cheval' (1836–1924) Henry Darger (1892–1973) L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) Grandma Moses, Anna Mary Robertson (1860–1961) Nikifor (1895–1968) Poland, Horace Pippin (1888–1946) Jon Serl (1894-1993) United States Alfred Wallis (1855–1942) Scottie Wilson (1890–1972) Gesner Abelard (b. 1922) Jan Balet (1913–2009) Michel Delacroix (b. 1933) France Howard Finster (1916–2001) Ivan Rabuzin (1921–2008) Spontaneous Art Museum in Brussels Art en Marge Museum in Brussels MADmusée in Liege International Museum of Naive Art of Brazil in Cosme Velho, Rio de Janeiro Gallery Jacques Ardies in São Paulo Musée international d'art naïf de Magog in Magog Croatian Museum of Naïve Art in Zagreb Gallery of Croatian Naïve Art...
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20th Century Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Outsider Folk Art Expressionist Rabbi Israeli Painting Signed Hebrew Jewish Star
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a signed portrait painting done in an outsider, folk art, expressionist style. it is signed in Hebrew, also marked with a Jewish star. this is from a collection of works by the same hand. they are all signed. Some have markings to the back of the paper. they have some age to them. They bear similarities to artists as dissimilar as Moshe Tamir, Mane Katz and an Israeli version of Purvis Young. In this piece the artist choice of colors is muted yet powerful. Israel has had a Vibrant Folk Art, Naive art scene for a long time now, artists like Yisrael Paldi, Nahum Guttman, Reuven Rubin and even Yefim...
Category

20th Century Outsider Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Chinese Reverse Glass Painting of Taoist Immortals, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Popularized during the Qing dynasty, reverse glass painting requires an artist to essentially work backwards, starting with details and shading before adding color and form. Lending ...
Category

Early 20th Century Qing Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paint, Wood, Glass

Follower of Salvatore Maresca - Early 20th Century Oil, Portrait of an Old Man
Located in Corsham, GB
A charismatic portrait of an elderly gentleman clutching a bottle of red wine and a full fiasco. Signed' S. Maresca' to the lower right. Copied from the artist's original work. On ca...
Category

20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

20th Century British Modernist Portrait of Lady Sat In Blue Interior
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait Of A Lady by Helen Greenfield (British 20th century) signed initials oil painting on board, unframed board: 28.5 x 15 inches condition: overall very good provenance: all th...
Category

20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mid Century French Impressionist Signed Oil Portrait of Man with Moustache
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Suzanne Dinkés (French, 1895 - 1984) signed Title: portrait of a man with a moustache Medium: oil on board, unframed Size : 10 x 7 inches Provenance: private coll...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Portrait of Elegant Young Society Lady In Which Head Scarf Exquisite Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of an Elegant Lady original pencil drawing on paper by Marjorie Schiele (1913-2008) *see notes below piece of paper is 9 x 6 inches In good c...
Category

Early 20th Century American Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Pencil, Crayon

1930's Portrait Of A Man Wearing a Fez Hat
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Portrait by Y. Blanchon, French 1950's Impressionist gouache on artist paper, unframed painting: 14.5 x 12 inches provenance: from a large private collection of this artists ...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache

French school late 18th Century, Portrait of a young man, oil on metal
Located in Paris, FR
French school late 18th Century Portrait of a young man oil on metal 10.2 x 7.7 cm Framed under glass : 24.4 x 21.8 cm This small portrait painting, quite original in its technique...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Large Antique American Bahamian Young Woman Portrait Signed Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Really rare and well painted portrait by Christine Walters Martin (1895-1982). Oil on canvas. Framed in a nice modernist molding. Signed. ...
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1920s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Thoughtful. Figurative Oil Painting, Cold tones, Monochromatic, European art
Located in Warsaw, PL
Figurative oil on canvas painting by Iwan Kulik. Painting is in cold tones, main colors are green, grey and blue. Iwan Kulik has created his own characteristical style that is recogn...
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20th Century Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Portrait of Fanny Icart- Original grand oil on canvas
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Louis Icart Portrait de Fanny Icart Excellent Condition Original oil painting on canvas Hand-signed in paint in the lower right by Icart 1935 31 1/2 X 39 inches Framed in an antique ...
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1930s Portrait Paintings

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Canvas

Audrey Turner - Framed Mid 20th Century Oil, The Artist at Work
Located in Corsham, GB
A wonderful mid-century study depicting an artist busy in his studio. He sits in a relaxed manner at his easel, working quickly with the light glinting from glass bottles in the wind...
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20th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

1950s French Post Impressionist Oil Painting Portrait of Pensive Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Daughter's portrait. Cardboard, oil, 98x77 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Daughter's portrait. Cardboard, oil, 98x77 cm Laimdots Murnieks has said: "I am a sunny artist. The sun and a woman are the center of the world. It is not for nothing that the sun a...
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1970s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

Mein Vater
By Heinz Otto Laub
Located in Wien, 9
Heinz-Otto Laub was born 1944 in Cologne (Germany), studied at the KA Munich under Mac Zimmermann and is actually working in Bonn. He is known in the first place for his surrealistic...
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1970s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Yves Bady AL-Dahdah (Lebanese 1941) Lady of the Moon, 1981, Surrealist Painting
Located in Meinisberg, CH
Yves Bady AL-Dahdah (Lebanese, 1942) Lady of the Moon • Oil or Acrylic on heavy fiber board ca. 46 x 38 cm x 0.5 cm • Signed and dated lower left (19)81 • ...
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1980s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Paint, Fiberboard

Portrait of a Modern Woman (Oil on Canvas, 1933)
By Edgar Scauflaire
Located in New Orleans, LA
This splendid early Modernist painting by Edgar Scauflaire ended up in an auction WAY undervalued and I jumped on it. (I have included a pictu...
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1930s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Woman portrait oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Antoni Vives Fierro (1940) - Portrait of a woman - Oil on canvas Oil measurements 46x38 cm. Frame measurements 67x59 cm. He was born in Barcelona in 1940. He is a versatile painter ...
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1970s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Lounging Near Lake Michigan, Portrait of a Woman
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Katheryn Leone Wood (American, 1885-1936) Signed: Wood (Along Canvas Edge) " Lounging Near Lake Michigan ", circa 1920-1930 Oil on Canvas 20" x 22" Housed in a 3" Frame Overall...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique Exotic Female Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3728 Oil on artist board Set in a custom frame Image size 12.5x9.5"
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1970s Portrait Paintings

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Oil

"The Hat", 20th Century by Tom QUINN (1918-2015)
Located in Blackwater, GB
"The Hat", 20th Century by Tom QUINN (1918-2015) sales to $6,500 20th century Irish portrait of a nude lady wearing a wide brim summer hat, oil on canvas by Tom Quinn. Excellent q...
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Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Board

Perroneau Portrait Lady Woman Paint Oil on canvas 18th Century Old master French
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Jean-Baptiste Perroneau (Paris, 1715 – Amsterdam, 1783) Portrait of a lady Oil on oval canvas 60 x 50 cm. - In frame 77 x 66 cm. Work accompanied by expertise: Raffaelle Colace (Cremona), Ferdinando Arisi Reference bibliography: d’Arnoult, Dominique (2014) Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, c 1715-1783, un portraitiste dans l’Europe des Lumières Excerpt from the expertise of Dr. Colace: This refined portrait of a lady is a perfect example of the style of Jean-Baptiste Perroneau, a very talented French painter, whose most beautiful works are located, just like this one, between the fifth and sixth decades of the eighteenth century. "Perroneaeu is more naturally colored than La Tour, the est, in the peinture de poussière colorée, tout plein de tons clairs, frais, presque humides": this is how his brothers wrote about him in La Maison d...
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18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Antique Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Handsome Gaucho or Cowboy, American ca 1920
Located in Baltimore, MD
This is a very striking portrait of a young man with a sombrero and southwest attire that could be either be of a cowboy or gaucho from Mexico or further south. Purchased as a damag...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting Blue Figure Outlines
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist: Elisabeth Hahn (German 1924-2021), Elisabeth Hahn was born in Dortmund, Germany, where she began her artistic studies. In 1953, she moved to Paris. She continued her studie...
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20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Large 1950's Portrait of Dashing Gentleman Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Gentleman European artist, mid 20th century oil on canvas, framed framed: 35.5 x 30.5 inches canvas: 30 x 25 inches provenance: private collection, England condition: o...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of Elegant Young Society Lady In A Pink Blouse Exquisite Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of an Elegant Lady original watercolour painting on paper by Marjorie Schiele (1913-2008) *see notes below piece of paper is 14 x 10 inches I...
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Pencil, Crayon

The Red Kiss (Rouge Baiser)
Located in Paris, FR
René GRUAU (1909-2004) "The Red Kiss" or "Rouge Baiser" Oil on canvas Signed with the monogram lower left Painted in 1989 DIMENSIONS : – 31 7/8 x 39 3/8 in. ...
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1980s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Characterful Portrait French Man with Hat & Pipe Signed & Dated 1903 Oil Paint
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Man with a Hat holding a Pipe French School, signed and dated 1903 oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 21.75 x 18 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: s...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A Kitten Amongst the Blooms by Swedish Artist Thure Wallner
Located in Stockholm, SE
We are delighted to present for sale a charming oil painting by the Swedish artist Thure Wallner (1888-1965), showcasing a whimsical scene of a kitten nestled in the grass amidst blo...
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1950s Naturalistic Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Masonite

Portrait of a Gentleman - British 18th Century Old Master art oil painting
By Lemuel Francis Abbott
Located in London, GB
This superb British Old Master portrait is by noted artist Lemuel Francis Abbott. Painted circa 1790, the composition is a half-length standing portrait of a gentleman gazing to his ...
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1790s Old Masters Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Josef Bodis - Framed 20th Century Oil, Rural Women Holding a Basket
By Josef Bodis
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine female portrait by Hungarian artist Josef Bodis. The women is seen wearing a bright blue blouse with a red headscarf and green pleated skirt, carrying a basket of orchard appl...
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20th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Clifford Hanley (1948-2021) - 1994 Oil, Out of the Blue
Located in Corsham, GB
A striking portrait depicting a man in the driver's seat of a car. he clutches the steering wheel in one hand and looks towards the passenger side. Captured in vivid colours in an ex...
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20th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

French School Mid 20th Century Oil - The Smell of Spring
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine impressionist style portrait study of a young woman in a garden filled with flowers. She pulls a branch of blossom towards her to smell, her eyes drifting to the distance in t...
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20th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Audrey Turner - Framed Mid 20th Century Oil, The Artist & His Studio
Located in Corsham, GB
A wonderful mid-century study depicting an artist busy in his studio. He sits in a relaxed manner at his easel, working with the natural light from a large sash window. Bright colour...
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20th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Sexy French Cabaret Dancers - Folies Bergere Pulp Paperback Book Cover
Located in Miami, FL
Campy and sexy illustration of two French chorus girls for the mid-century Avon paperback Les Girls. Story of the Folies Bergere Unsigned and unframed. George Ziel was a prolific il...
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1950s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Mixed Media, Oil, Board

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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.

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