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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Style: Contemporary
Style: Post-Impressionist
Bulb of Awakening
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Bulb of Awakening" is a captivating artwork that centers around a woman adorned with an exclusive and mesmerizing hairstyle. Created by the talented artist Ekele Francis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Kings of the Renaissance Mohammad Ariyaei Contemporary Iranian art oriental art
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas
Hand-signed
Unique work
THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS OF MOHAMMAD ARIYAEI
" Gentleness and oriental wisdom follow the supercharged bubbling to which we were ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Figurative/Portrait_Abstract Figure_Oil/Acrylic/Canvas_Cuba, Rebecca Jack_2024
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
Rebecca Jack
"Cuba"
Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
24 x 24 in.
25.25 x 25.25 in. Framed
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Rebecca Jack, an intuitive painter, creates vibrant, figurative works ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
Afrocentric Radiance
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
In a vibrant celebration of African heritage and beauty, our protagonist, a stunning black African woman, graces the scene with her majestic presence. Crowned with a voluminous afro ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Canvas, Oil, Mixed Media
Lady on a walk by Sean Durkin, woman, contemporary art, walking
By Sean Durkin
Located in Deddington, GB
original paiting of Lady on a walk by Sean Drukin. Sean uses very toned colours but draws attention to her red scarf and red skirt.
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Acrylic paint on Canvas
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Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Living in the Moment of Peace
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, Oil, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Bright Vibrant Emerald Green Figurative Portrait by Cuban Artist Hector Frank
By Hector Frank
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Figurative Vibrant Emerald Green Female Portrait - Large Format Contemporary Cuban Art.
This piece is unique and comes with a signed certificate of Authenticity by the artist.
Desp...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Pigment
Cuban Street- 21st Century Contemporary Painting, of a group of people playing
By Mitzy Renooy
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Mitzy Renooy
Cuban Street
70 x 65 cm
Frame included in price, size with frame: 75 x 70 cm
Dutch artist Mitzy Renooy, a former camera woman for national television, did follow art ac...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"A Man Ought to Do What's Right" Contemporary John Wayne Portrait Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful contemporary portrait of famous movie star John Wayne by Texas-based artist Robert Sandman. The work features a realistic portrayal of the actor dress in his iconic cowboy a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Adedoyin (Royalty has become Sweet)
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
"Bimba in poltrona" olio su cartone cm. 35 x 25 1980 ca
Located in Torino, IT
Childhood, Little Girl, Green, Summer
KLARA VLASOVA (Moscow, 1926)
MUSEUMS
St. Petersburg, State Russian Museum
Moscow, Pushkin Museum
Moscow, Museum of History and Reconstructi...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Portrait III (Fauvist, Modigliani Inspired Abstract Portrait in Antique Frame)
Located in Hudson, NY
Fauvist-style, Modigliani inspired, abstract portrait of a man in a dark brown antique wood frame with linen inlay
"Portrait III" by Hudson Valley based artist, David Dew Bruner
20 ...
Category
2010s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
The Cat's Meow - Animal Painting By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
The Cats Meow - Animal Painting - oil on canvas by Marc Zimmerman
This masterpiece is exhibited in the Zimmerman Gallery, Carmel CA.
Marc Zimmerman creates playful paintings, whet...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Frame I - Contemporary Figurative Portrait Painting, Abstract, Woman Face, Blue
Located in Salzburg, AT
Beata Cedrzyńska graduated with a diploma from the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts Department of Painting and Graphics in 1999. The advisor of her diploma was professor Teresa Miszkin. S...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Secret Moon Garden (The Shepherdess), Girl, Bird, Portrait
Located in Deddington, GB
Original painting by Angela Smith showing girl enchanted by humming bird.
A portrayal of young girl with brown hair tied back by white flowers looking up...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Adriana Pincherle (1905- 1996). A lady with a turban and green shadows.
Located in Firenze, IT
Adriana Pincherle, (1905, Rome - 1996, Florence).
A lady with a turban and green shadows in a landscape.
Italian female painter, active in Rome and from 1943 in Florence.
Painting signed and dated lower right: Adriana Pincherle. 1973.
Oil painting on canvas.
The simple composition, which represents a woman from behind, bears the influence of Matisse's avant-garde style, with bold and refined color combinations. The shape is created with color, creating an almost surreal and highly expressive effect.
The painter once said: "My painting has always been figurative, not realistic. In this sense I felt very similar to the Informal movement, which, fundamentally, pushed my passion for color to the extreme."
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Artist Biography:
Pincherle Adriana
Rome 25 December 1905 - Florence 8 January 1996
Adriana was born in Rome on 25 December 1905, into a family in which two cultures were intertwined: the Jewish one of her father, the engineer Carlo Pincherle, of Venetian origins and in love with painting, and the Catholic one of her mother, Isa di she. De Marsanich, a noble but decayed Hungarian.
Adriana is the eldest child and two years older than her brother Alberto, known to the literary world under the pseudonym Alberto Moravia
As Pincherle herself says about her, as a child she spent hours admiring her father who painted watercolours, and it was perhaps then that her interest in drawing and above all her particular sensitivity towards color was born. Thus, having completed her classical studies, she began to attend the "ladies" atelier of the engraver Alfredo Petrucci and the free nude courses at the Academy, where she met Mimmo Spadini and Scipione, and came into contact with Roman art. In 1931 she made her debut at the collective "First Roman exhibition of female art" at the "Galleria di Roma", while the following year, at the same gallery, she exhibited a solo show together with Corrado Cagli, already attracting the attention of critics, famous comment by Longhi, cited several times by Pincherle herself, who prefers the "sissy" between the two artists. As evidence of the results achieved by Adriana since her first works, we remember that among her works presented in 1932 there was also the famous "Standing Self-Portrait", now in the Uffizi
Pincherle's growth passes through places and periods common to both the Roman School and the school of painters of the via Cavour group (Mafai, Raphaël, Scipione), with tangents and deviations, but his pictorial research arrives at original solutions independent of any label .
Fundamental to the maturation of her art was her stay in Paris in 1933, in which Pincherle admired and studied closely the Fauves, Renoir and in particular Matisse. In the same year she exhibited for the first time in Florence at the Sala d'arte delle Nazioni with Milena Barilli...
Category
1970s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Native (male version) - Portrait Painting - Conceptual Art By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Portrait of a Polynesian poses with with a tropical headdress of exotic leaves. This painting has a female mate if you choose. they look fabulous together.
Native (male version) - P...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Lucy" Candid Childhood Scene
Located in Austin, TX
By Ken Tolmie
This sentimental painting depicts the daughter of the Artist walking along the road. The perspective of the piece takes the point of view of the parent. This piece meas...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Marriage of two poets Mohammad Ariyaei Contemporary Iranian art oriental paint
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas
Hand-signed by the artist
Unique work
THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS OF MOHAMMAD ARIYAEI
" Gentleness and oriental wisdom follow the supercharged bubbling to w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled Mohammad Ariyaei Contemporary Iranian art painting oriental art drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic painting on paper
Hand-signed by the artist lower left
Unique work
THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS OF MOHAMMAD ARIYAEI
" Gentleness and oriental wisdom follow the supercharged ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Mystical women Mohammad Ariyaei Contemporary Iranian art painting oriental art
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas
Hand-signed by the artist
Unique work
THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS OF MOHAMMAD ARIYAEI
" Gentleness and oriental wisdom follow the supercharged bubbling to w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"The Star", Figurative tarot painting by Olha Vlasova
Located in Sempach, LU
The edges are painted
The painting was part of an exhibition 'Ancestral call' in Switzerland
This canvas is infused with the energy and symbolism of tarot cards, especially the Star...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Court of Qajar Kings Mohammad Ariyaei Contemporary Iranian art painting
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on paper
Unique work
THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS OF MOHAMMAD ARIYAEI
" Gentleness and oriental wisdom follow the supercharged bubbling to which we were accustomed fro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Intellect - Abstract Expressionist Contemporary Figurative Portrait Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Erin Hammond is a contemporary abstract expressionist artist whose free-form paintings capture the essence of her inner, subjective realities. With a vibrant palette and dynamic mark...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Dauphin
By Kris Knight
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Kris Knight (b. 1980) is a celebrated contemporary Canadian painter, best known for his transformative portraits that portray queerness and masculinity from a nuanced and tender pers...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Tropicana 3 - Vibrant Fun Abstract Figurative Portrait
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Inspired by her background in fashion, artist Lindsey McCord creates vibrant portraits that encapsulate the confidence that comes with the fun of being stylish and chic. Her figures ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
The Whale
Located in Toronto, CA
Daisuke Takeya’s “No Man’s Land” is his 5th solo exhibition with the gallery, presenting a new series distinct from, and yet analogous to, the parts of his practice that have been ex...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Great Uncovering of the Face of God, Oil on canvas painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
The Great Uncovering Of God. A major work from Berlin and companion to his Certainty Of Eternity.
Metaphysics and alchemy come together in this piece depicting emerging Bodhisattvas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Figurative/Portrait_Abstract Figure_Oil/Acrylic/Canvas_Nina, Rebecca Jack_2024
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
Rebecca Jack
"Nina"
Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
24 x 18 in.
25.25 x 19.25 in. Framed
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Rebecca Jack, an intuitive painter, creates vibrant, figurative works ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Untitled Mohammad Ariyaei Contemporary Iranian art painting oriental art drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on paper
Hand-signed by the artist
Unique work
THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS OF MOHAMMAD ARIYAEI
" Gentleness and oriental wisdom follow the supercharged bubbling to wh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
The love of two women Mohammad Ariyaei Contemporary Iranian art oriental art
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on paper
Hand-signed by the artist
Unique work
THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS OF MOHAMMAD ARIYAEI
" Gentleness and oriental wisdom follow the supercharged bubbling to wh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
4-5-17, 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
“I paint the human figure and explore further till I reach the Beauty of Being, the Soul.. the part of Human Being where everything is in total Serenity, Goodness and Harmony, where ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Canvas, Oil
A sincere dream Mohammad Ariyaei Contemporary Iranian art painting oriental art
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on paper
Hand-signed by the artist
Unique work
THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS OF MOHAMMAD ARIYAEI
" Gentleness and oriental wisdom follow the supercharged bubbling to wh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
31-1-21, 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
“I paint the human figure and explore further till I reach the Beauty of Being, the Soul.. the part of Human Being where everything is in total Serenity, Goodness and Harmony, where ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel, Mixed Media
Winter Tale
Located in Toronto, CA
Daisuke Takeya’s “No Man’s Land” is his 5th solo exhibition with the gallery, presenting a new series distinct from, and yet analogous to, the parts of his practice that have been ex...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blue
By Kris Knight
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Kris Knight (b. 1980) is a celebrated contemporary Canadian artist, best known for his dreamy portraits of young men.
Knight's work is acclaimed for his distinct portrayal of conte...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Bullet Hole Justin Bieber - graphic, pop-art, acrylic, spray paint, on canvas
By Viktor Mitic
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This painting has an incredible provenance, once stolen from his exhibition at Toronto's International Film Festival in 2017, it was returned unharmed and is now available at Oeno Ga...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Canvas, Acrylic
Contemporary Vignette of a Brittany Spaniel Pointing at Pheasants in Flight
Located in Charleston, US
Renowned sporting artist, Sandra Oppegard's charming vignette a Brittany Spaniel pointing at pheasants in flight captures the essence of bird hunting. In this captivating hunting v...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
At The Bridge
Located in Toronto, CA
Daisuke Takeya’s “No Man’s Land” is his 5th solo exhibition with the gallery, presenting a new series distinct from, and yet analogous to, the parts of his practice that have been ex...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
4-1-16, 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
“I paint the human figure and explore further till I reach the Beauty of Being, the Soul.. the part of Human Being where everything is in total Serenity, Goodness and Harmony, where ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Canvas, Oil
Snow Country
Located in Toronto, CA
Daisuke Takeya’s “No Man’s Land” is his 5th solo exhibition with the gallery, presenting a new series distinct from, and yet analogous to, the parts of his practice that have been ex...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a birdman
Located in Bogotá, Bogotá
Portrait of a bird man in oil born from the mystery of painting. 36" x 64" inches, made with professional Winsor & Newton colors protected with gloss varnish and UV protection. Shipp...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cotton Canvas
A Cumulonimbus
Located in Toronto, CA
Daisuke Takeya’s “No Man’s Land” is his 5th solo exhibition with the gallery, presenting a new series distinct from, and yet analogous to, the parts of his practice that have been ex...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Tempestas" - Contemporary Nude Figurative Painting
Located in New Orleans, LA
Louis Braquet is a top-selling artist in New Orleans, and as his paintings sell out quickly at the Royal Street gallery that represents him we are thrilled to have been chosen to sho...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Sarah Loves You
Located in Toronto, CA
Daisuke Takeya’s “No Man’s Land” is his 5th solo exhibition with the gallery, presenting a new series distinct from, and yet analogous to, the parts of his practice that have been ex...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Eva By Bruno Paoli - Figurative Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Certificate of authenticity and artist catalogue are included.
Bruno Paoli (1915-2005)
Teaching the masters helped create this contemporary master.
Bruno was a professor of art in F...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
No Man's Land
Located in Toronto, CA
Daisuke Takeya’s “No Man’s Land” is his 5th solo exhibition with the gallery, presenting a new series distinct from, and yet analogous to, the parts of his practice that have been ex...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cuban Games- 21st Century Contemporary Painting, of a group of people playing
By Mitzy Renooy
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Mitzy Renooy
Cuban Games
100 x 100 cm
Frame included in price, size with frame: 105 x 105 cm
Dutch artist Mitzy Renooy, a former camera woman for national television, did follow art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
A Young Girl Reading a Book, Pointillist Artist
Located in Stockholm, SE
"A Young Girl Reading a Book" is a captivating portrait by Swedish artist Gustaf Arnolds.
Arnolds was a prolific painter whose roots began in Vingåker and later in Ronneby from his teenage years.
His educational journey in art took him through prestigious institutions such as Althins målarskola and the Tallbergska grafikskolan in Stockholm,
followed by a significant period at the Konstakademien, Stockholm, between 1904 and 1909. His talent and dedication were recognized early on, earning him a scholarship to Paris, a city that would deeply influence his artistic direction.
This particular work, likely painted shortly after his return to Sweden, reveals a profound influence from his time in Paris. It portrays a young girl absorbed in reading a book, a simple yet profound subject that Arnolds imbues with a sense of tranquility and introspection. The background hints at a serene landscape, dotted with quaint houses, a nod to the everyday beauty surrounding us. What sets this piece apart is Arnolds’ technique, reminiscent of pointillism but distinguished by longer, more expressive brush strokes that add a vibrant texture and depth to the canvas. This method showcases Arnolds' unique adaptation of the techniques he encountered during his Parisian studies, particularly during his interactions with Nils Dardel...
Category
1930s Pointillist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Factory Girl" Marilyn Monroe & Campbells Soup Pop Art Acrylic Painting Canvas
By John Stango
Located in New York, NY
A pop piece depicting Marilyn Monroe juxtaposed with Andy Warhols iconic Campbells Soup. With impasto painting, and quick brushwork we are drawn to the movement, as the artist is abl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Dimitri Likissas - Porsche 964, Painting 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Porsche 964
Series: Pop
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
43.3" x 88.2"
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image show...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Black and Bold 1
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Black and Bold" by Loje Oluwaseun celebrates the essence of blackness as a symbol of beauty, grace, and confidence. In this striking artwork, Oluwaseun...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Smile of Joy
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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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 Authent...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Lady in the Harem - Oil on Canvas - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Lady in the Harem is a modern artwork realized by Unknown Orientalist Painter in the 1st half 19th Century.
Oil on Canvas.
Includes Frame: 61 x 53.
Minor restorations and minor ...
Category
19th Century Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Salud Johnny - Inspirational Portrait of a Lone Soldier Staring Out at Viewer
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
Salud Johnny, 2023
oil on linen
76h x 36w in
193.04h x 91.44w cm
WIL049
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
Boy
Located in Spetses, GR
Presenting an enchanting oil painting on canvas by the acclaimed Greek artist George Alekou, capturing the timeless beauty of youth. This figurative masterpiece portrays a young boy ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chronos and the blade of destiny Timothy Archer Contemporary art painting myth
Located in Paris, FR
Oil painting and oil pastel on canvas
Unique work
Hand-signed by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Oil
Your Reflection, Oil Painting
By Malia Pettit
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Sitting on a silver stool, a woman immerses herself in mysterious and romantic thoughts. Against the dripping blue background, her warm skin tone radiates. Her eyes, intentionally obscured, add an element of intrigue to the painting. The artwork comes with a matte black wood frame measuring 2 inches deep and 0.75 of an inch thick.
About the Artist
Malia Pettit sees her artistic process as an act of “liberating the paint†and “allowing for the unexpected to occur.†Her portraits of women stem from a fascination with glossy magazines and their portrayal of models, actors and celebrities. Her work has been especially influenced by Chantal Joffe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
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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.
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