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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Style: Modern
Style: Post-War
French Modernist Signed Painting Portrait of Blue Eyed Young Girl in Red Jacket
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Huguette Ginet-Lasnier (French 1927-2020), signed lower front and inscribed verso
Ginet-Lasnier, the wife of the painter Jean Lasnier, was born in the Seine-Maritime...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Portrait of Stanley Bate, 20th Century Musician
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 24 x 29 inches (61 x 73.5 cm)
Contemporary style gilt frame
Provenance
From the estate of the artist, Clara Klinghoffer
This portrait is by an artist who propelled rapidly into the limelight after her first solo exhibition in 1920, at the age of 19, with the Daily Graphic naming her as the 'Girl Who Draws Like Raphael'. Yet today Clara Klinghoffer's name is little know.
Klinghoffer's early success resulted in numerous portrait commissions, including this one of the English composer Stanley Bate. The bold use of colour and naive execution of this portrait clearly reveals the modernist influence of fellow Jewish artists such as Bernard Meninsky, Jacob Kramer and Mark Gertler...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Self Portrait - Oil Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Self portrait is a modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s.
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas.
Not signed.
Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 – Gargnano, 1942)
He...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Selbstporträt / Selfportrait
Located in Wien, 9
Julius Zimpel
* 30.8.1896 Vienna, † 11.8.1925 Vienna
"First artistic inspiration by his uncle Gustav Klimt. 1911-16 attended the School of Arts and Crafts under F. Cizek, A. v. Ken...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Radha, Mixed Media on Canvas Board by Modern Indian Artist “In Stock”
By Suhas Roy
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Suhas Roy - Radha - 16 x 12 inches (unframed size)
Mixed Media on Canvas Board , 2013
Inclusive of shipment in roll form.
Suhas Roy's mystic woman which he calls 'Radha', either Pa...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Canvas, Mixed Media
Portrait of Marian Virginia Schuster - Surrealist Artist
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Marian Schuster was 19 years old in 1954 and attended City College San Francisco where she studied Art.
In the old school, Victorian, San Francisco, moneyed household that she was r...
Category
1950s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Woman - Painting by Eliseu Visconti - 1930
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an original modern artwork realized by Eliseu Visconti (1866-1944) in 1930.
Mixed colored oil painting.
Hand signed and dated on the lower margin.
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paint
Portrait of Giuseppe Garibaldi - Oil Paint - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Giuseppe Garibaldi is an original modern artwork realized in the late 19th Century
It represents the "Hero of the Two Worlds", Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Mixed colored oil pai...
Category
19th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Father, Daughter and Horse by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
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Father, Daughter and Horse by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on canvas
60 x 73 cm (23 ⅝ x 28 ¾ inches)
Signed a...
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Girl Shepherd & Shepherd II
Located in Istanbul, 34
The two works are for sale together. Together they are more meaningful. The two figures are side by side, looking at each other. Each work is 92X73 cm. If it is desired to be exhibited together, the frame of one is slightly larger than the other. However, the canvas dimensions are exactly the same size. If desired, the frame can be changed. The work is oil on canvas. The artist does not use white paint on white areas. That is the nature of the artist. More information is right below.
Ömer Kaleşi...
Category
1990s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Woman with Parrot - Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli- 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman with parrot is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s.
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas.
Includes frame
Not ...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paint
Portrait of Giuseppe Garibaldi - Oil Paint - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Garibaldi is an original modern artwork realized by an unknown Artist in the late 19th Century.
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas.
Good conditions.
Category
19th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Cyclists Rest Stop in Honfleur
Located in London, GB
'The Cyclists Rest Stop in Honfleur' by Jean-Marie Luc Blanpain, oil on canvas (circa 1970s). The artist's depiction of the terrace of the well known Honfleur restaurant, 'Au Relais ...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman in Red - Oil Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman in red is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist Antonio Feltrinelli in the 1930s.
Original oil on plywood.
Beautiful and representative artwork of a female figu...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting Portrait of a Woman
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...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Anita Garibaldi - Oil Paint - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on glass. Rare portrait of Anita Garibaldi, wife of Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Realized in the late 19th century, it represents the beloved wife of the italian hero Giuseppe Garibaldi....
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Woman with Irises
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of Woman with Irises', oil on cardstock paper (1976), by Raymond Debiève. Here the artist paints a young woman holding a bunch of enchanting iris flowers in his post-cubist...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Huge Spanish/ French Oil Painting Elegant Couple Courting in Grand Interior
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Courtship
by Maria Tort Xirau (Catalan, 1924-2018)
signed lower corner
dated 1991
oil painting on canvas, framed
canvas: 42 x 29.5 inches
framed: 48 x 36 inches
Very good condition.
Provenance: from the artists estate, France
Maria Tort Xirau ( Figueres , 26 May 1924 – 6 June 2018) was a painter and photographic and cinematographic editor from Emporda. She developed a long professional career in leading photographic studios, in films for The Walt Disney Company and also in advertising claims for companies such as Educa Borràs . The second half of her life was dedicated to painting, exercising a luminous, varied and nostalgic chromatic style in the techniques of oil and watercolor and with exhibitions of her work in Barcelona and Figueres. The Biographical Dictionary of Art Empordà defined Tort Xirau's work as "a painting that is characterized by the strength of the strokes, the vividness and brightness of the chromatic range and exudes mastery of the photographic technique. A mixture of nostalgia and tenderness is evident.".
Tort Xirau's paintings were exhibited in the two towns where she spent her life: in 1992 she exhibited his work at the Caixa de Figueres Exhibition Hall. Two years later, she did it at Sala Conex in Barcelona and in 2007 and 2013 the Consortium of Sant Ferran Castle and the Figueres Town Council organized tribute exhibitions. In 2013, she ceded to the council of the city of Figueres her work Mercat de la plaça de l'Ajuntament , watercolored on paper around 1991, which is exhibited in the rest room of the building.
On June 6, 2018, she died in Figueres at the age of 94, receiving the apostolic blessing . Two years after her death, part of her paintings were included in the exhibition Paint, create, live. Women artists in the Alt...
Category
1990s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Two Orientalist Subjects -Oil on Panel by A. Momo Simonetti - Early 20th Century
By Amedeo Momo Simonetti
Located in Roma, IT
Two Orientalist Subjects is an original modern artwork realized in the early 20th Century by Amedeo Momo Simonetti.
Oil on Board.
Includes a be...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Woman - Oil Painting on Canvas by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1920s.
Mixed colored oil painting on board.
Not signed.
Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 – Gargnano, 1942)
H...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Portrait - Oil Painting on Cardboard - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original oil painting on cardboard, realized by an anonymous artists of the early 20th Century.
Sheet size: 13 x 7.5
Good conditions with a trace of time.
the artw...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
Woman - Oil Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1932
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an original modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1932.
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas.
Hand signed and dated.
Good condition.
Antonio Feltrinelli (Mil...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Angel Bride
Located in Wien, 9
August Dressler is one of the painters of the New Objectivity. He is one of the lesser-known artists of the Weimar era, but he too, like his famous contemporaries Georg Grosz, John H...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Glass, Paint
Portrait - Oil Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s.
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas.
Not signed.
On the back a portrait of a man.
Don't miss thi...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Giuseppe Garibaldi - Oil Paint - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait Giuseppe Garibaldi is an original modern artwork realized by Artist of the late 19th Century.
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas.
Includes frame.
Category
19th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Bishop Gaspard Mermillod - Oil Painting - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Bishop Gaspard Mermillod is an original artwork realized by an artist belonging to the Roman School of 19th Century.
Mixed colored oil on canvas.
The bishop depicted in the painting examined here, as suggested by the coat of arms represented at the top left, is the Swiss Gaspard Mermillod, born in Carouge on 22 September 1824.
Mermillod is known to have been one of the most active representatives of social Catholicism and one of the eminent personalities who formed in Rome that "select committee" set up in 1882 by Pope Leo XIII...
Category
19th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Kostacis with his hummingbirds Figurative popular scene in a Renaissance setting
By Igor Fomin
Located in Segovia, ES
Kostacis with his hummingbirds. Figurative popular scene in Renaissance atmosphere.
Acrylic on canvas.
Dimensions in centimeters 81 x 100 x 2 cm. Framed 105 x 124 x 5 cm.
Dimensions In inches: 31.89 x 39.37 x 0.79 " . Framed 41.34 x 48.82 x 1.97 "
Kostacis with his hummingbirds. Figurative Popular scene in Renaissance atmosphere.
Acrylic on canvas.
Outside scene where a group of people seem to experience extraordinary sensations surrounded by hummingbirds.
In an urban environment with a Renaissance flair, the characters, dressed in original clothes of plural inspiration, seem to react ecstatically by the effects of the hummingbirds, which Kostacis seems to have under control with his wealthy and wise aura.
The studied composition, the chromatic harmony, and the subtlety of the design of all the elements that make up the scene, give this painting a classic beauty. The author adds to all this his own brushstrokes of fine humor that wrap the whole theme in a casual irony, the same which surrounds all the stories that Igor Fomin...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting, Portrait with Auburn Hair
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...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Marc, Portrait in Landscape, Contemporary Oil on Linen Board
Located in Cotignac, FR
A contemporary oil on linen board portrait of Marc, part of a series of portraits: 'Portrait in Landscape' by the Dutch artist Bernadette 'Berna' Van Baarsen. The painting is signed ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen, Board
Little girl with red curls
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Golden wooden frame
39 x 34 x 3 cm
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled, Ink on Paper, Red, Black & White Color Indian Master "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Dhiraj Chowdhury - Untitled - 14 x 10 inches (unframed size)
ink on Paper
( Unframed & Door Delivered )
Style of the Artist : He steadfastly believes that art has to be closely associated with life – with humanity, with humanism. And he comes through with this concept in his works – which are sometimes heart – reading, sometimes violent, brutal even chaotic, but always cogent, modern, and somehow loaded with both wisdom and hope.
About the Artist and his work :
Born : 1936, West Benagal, India...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper
Mary Magdalene - Oil on Canvas by Italian School 19th cent.
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on canvas. cm 60.5 x 2 x 50
Nice Oil painting (Italian School of XIX century) with a rapid sign and intense colors backgrpound. Some color cracking on left margin and top edge, ...
Category
18th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Evoluzione antropologica di una testa" (anthropological evolution of a head)
Located in Milano, MI
This painting by Salvador Aulestia (Barcelona 1915 - Milano 1994) embraces the "figurative post-cubism" style.
In fact Salvador Aulestia was artistically grown during the maximum su...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
French Boy in Bloomers
Located in London, GB
'French Boy in Bloomers', gouache on art paper (circa 1960s-70s), by Raymond Debiève. A young boy emerges from a beach cabana wearing a bloomer bathing costume that was still in use ...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
A Game of Cards by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
A Game of Cards by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on canvas
59 x 72 cm (23 ¹/₄ x 28 ³/₈ inches)
Signed and titled upper right Orovida 1949
Artist biography
Orovida Camille Pissarr...
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
I adore your boogies-woogies. Figurative painting with popular dancers and music
By Igor Fomin
Located in Segovia, ES
I love your “Boogies-woogies”, (Adoro tus "Bugisvugis"). Figurative painting with popular dancers and musicians.
Acrylic on canvas.
Measurements in centimeters: 97 x 130 x 3 cm. Fram...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Winter in Provence
Located in London, GB
'Winter in Provence', gouache on art paper, by Raymond Debiève (circa 1970s). There is both beauty and melancholy in this delightfully charming artwork. The artist's naive style is at odds with the refinement, poise and sophistication of the painting. Perhaps the artist was making a statement as well with the broken wall...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Large 1960's Italian Modernist Signed Oil Mother & Infant Child Tender Embrace
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Italian School, 20th century, indistinctly signed
Title: Mother & Child
Medium: oil on canvas, unframed
Canvas : 32 x 25.5 inches
Provenance: private collection...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Exercise by John Torcapel - Ink on paper 13x17 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink
Lady with Fur - Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Lady with fur is an original modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s.
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas.
Includes frame 110x3x79 cm
Not signed.
Antonio Feltrin...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paint, Oil
Lady - Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli- 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Lady is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in the 1930s.
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas.
Not signed.
Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 – Gargnano, 1942...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paint, Oil
Noel Coward's Eye, #2257. Horst P. Horst Homage, Mixed media Collage on Paper.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Noel Coward's Eye, #2257 by Natasha Zupan
Collage on Paper
Measures: 11.41 in. H x 8.26 in. W
One of a kind
Signed lower right on recto by the artist
Numbered on verso
2018
Natasha ...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, ABS
Florentine Woman
Located in Wien, 9
August Dressler is one of the painters of the New Objectivity. He is one of the lesser-known artists of the Weimar era, but he too, like his famous contemporaries Georg Grosz, John H...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Ice Cream Picnic by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
Ice Cream Picnic by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on board
101 x 76 cm (39 ¾ x 29 ⅞ inches)
Signed and dated lower left Orovida 1953
Provenance
Richard Pissarro, gifted by the ar...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Carnival by Stéphanie Guerzoni - Oil on cardboard
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas board
Brown wooden frame with glass pane
66,5 x 56,5 x 3 cm
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rabbi Reading, Oil Painting by Abraham Straski
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Abraham Straski, Polish (1903 - 1987)
Title: Untitled - Polish Rabbi F
Year: 1952
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Image Size: 10 x 7.5 inches
Frame Size: 17.5 x 15 inches
Category
1950s Post-War Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
La femme aux fleurs (Portrait de Mathilde See)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Paul César Helleu is regarded among the most sought-after society portraitists of his era, and his Belle Époque works rival those of his contemporaries John Singer Sargent and Giovanni Boldini. He is best remembered for capturing the era's most beautiful socialites, including Consuelo Vanderbilt, the Duchess of Marlborough, the Comtesse de Loriol Chandieu and the Comtesse Mathieu de Noailles, among others. This work, however, stands out in that it captures the charming likeness of one of his art world cohorts, Mathilde See, a Parisian-born decorator and painter of floral still lifes. She is the essence of the modern woman, captured in her fashionable dress as she strolls along the flower-lined streets of Paris.
Commanding in size, Portrait de Mathilde See fully displays Helleu's mastery over the medium of pastel. The muted palette of greys and blues is typical of the artist, bringing a harmony and cohesiveness to the composition. Furthermore, Helleu cleverly alludes to See's own artistic output with a backdrop of vibrant floral blooms, enlivening the canvas and complementing the greens and blues of the peacock feather adorning her hat.
The portrait is all the more significant thanks to its provenance. It was previously in the collection of A. Alfred Taubman, one of America's most successful entrepreneurs and one-time owner of Sotheby's. Considering Taubman encountered some of the most noteworthy and beautiful works of art ever made through his auction house, the fact that he chose this portrait by Helleu to grace his collection is a testament to its import.
Born in Brittany in 1859, Helleu moved to Paris in 1876 in order to study at the École des Beaux-Arts. Like so many other artists of his generation, he was trained there under the Academic master Jean-Léon Gérôme. That same year, he also attended the Second Impressionist Exhibition...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Pastel
Portrait of artist's wife, Rachel
By Abraham A. Manievich
Located in Bayonne, NJ
This painting depicts artist’s wife Rachel on the beach. The three little figures in the background are Vladimir Mayakovsky (who visited Manievich in New York), David Burliuk and Abraham Manievich...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Monk - Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli- 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The monkis an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s.
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas.
Not signed.
Good condition.
Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 ...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paint, Oil
Woman - l Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli- 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s.
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas.
Not signed.
Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 – Gargnano, 1942)
...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paint, Oil
Colloquio senza successo (talks without success) - Salvador Aulestia (1915-1994)
Located in Milano, MI
This is a masterwork by Salvador Aulestia (Barcelona 1915 - Milano 1994).
There are very few paintings such this one as for rarity than for quality.
Two women on the beach who, as...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Portrait of Woman - Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli- 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of woman is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s.
Mixed colored oil painting.
Not signed.
Good conditions
Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paint, Oil
"Faccia d'uomo" (Man's Face) by Salvador Aulestia (Barcelona 1915-Milano1994)
Located in Milano, MI
This is a rare painting by Salvador Aulestia (Barcelona 1915 - Milano 1994) from his series dedicated to the "linearism" with a strong color presence.
Colors range from Yellow, Azure...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Caricature Portrait of a Man
Located in Soquel, CA
Contemporary caricature-style portrait of a man by Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957). Signed "Michael Pauker" and dated 1976 on verso. Acquired with a collection of his work. Image ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Man Playing Tuba
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour on artist paper, unframed
size: 11.75 x 8 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed.
prov...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Over and Under" Soft Blue Toned Portrait of a Lady Wearing a Victorian Dress
Located in Houston, TX
Sky blue-toned abstract portrait of a Victorian woman attributed to American Modernist artist, John O'Neil. This painting depicts a pale white woman with rosy cheeks wearing a sky blue Victorian garment, sitting against an abstract light blue background. The canvas used for this piece was originally painted with an abstracted landscape and was painted over for this work. This piece has not been authenticated. Signed, dated, and titled at the back. Currently unframed, but options are available.
Artist Biography: John O'Neil (1915-2004) was a painter, educator, and writer best known for his Abstract Imagery and Early Modern (before 1950) styles.
O'Neil was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1915. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Oklahoma in 1936 and his Master of Fine Arts in painting from the University of Oklahoma in 1939. He studied at the Colorado Springs Arts Center, with Boardman Robinson, Paul Burlin, and Henry Varnum Poor; Taos School...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Young boy by Max Band - Portrait painting
By Max Band
Located in London, GB
Young boy by Max Band (1901-1974)
Oil on canvas
81.2 x 54.4 cm (32 x 21³/₈ inches)
Signed lower left Max Band
Provenance
Private collection, London
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Boy in a Chair
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of Boy in a Chair', gouache on art paper, by Raymond Debiève (circa 1960s). Here the artist paints a young boy, very probably his son, Vincent, sitting in a chair posing fo...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
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Paper, Gouache
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