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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Period: 1920s
Period: Early 1900s
Tête de Femme Blonde by Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Portrait painting
Located in London, GB
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Tête de Femme Blonde by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Oil on canvas
26.1 x 19 cm (10 ¹/₄ x 7 ¹/₂ inches)
Signed upp...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Interwoven Socks Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1920-1925
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Size: 29.50" x 23.00"
Interwoven Socks Advertisement
Literatu...
Category
1920s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Film Noir Curse of the Golden Cross Magazine - Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Herbert Morton Stoops
American (1888 - 1948)
Curse of the Golden Cross
Magazine illustration, 1925
Oil on canvas
40 x 30 in.
Not signed
Work is framed
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Child in Prayer Cover of Good Housekeeping Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
Famed female illustrator Jessie Willcox Smith paints the " Ideal Child" in a spiritual moment for the Christmas cover of Good Housekeeping. The accompl...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Mixed Media
Study of the Violinist for Holy Motherhood, pre-raphaelite, newlyn school, Oil
Located in London, GB
Thomas Cooper Gotch
1854 – 1931
Study of Violinist for Holy Motherhood
Oil on canvas, on board
Image size: 28 ¾ x 21 inches
18th century frame
Illustrated in "The Golden Dream, A bi...
Category
Early 1900s Aesthetic Movement Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Art Deco ca. 1920. Portrait Of Lady With Bob Cut, Purple Dress And Fur Collar
Located in Firenze, IT
Portrait Of A Young Lady From The 1920s With Bob Cut And Fur Collar
Oil on canvas.
Early 20th frame in wood.
This portrait reveals very stylish image of a young woman from the 1920s...
Category
1920s Art Deco Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Dog Painting: "Hunting Dogs at the Kennel, 1901" Jules-Bertrand Gélibert
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Dog Painting:
"Hunting Dogs at the Kennel, 1901"
Jules-Bertrand Gélibert (France, 1834-1916
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left
24 x 19 inches, frame
Jules-Bertrand Gélibert w...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
North African Man Smoking a Pipe - Antique British Orientalist Portrait Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
This late 19th or early 20th century oil on board depicts a North African man smoking a large pipe. A very well executed small scale work which is presented in it's original gilt woo...
Category
Early 1900s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of Franklin Atwood Park, VP of Singer Mfg. Co.
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of Franklin Atwood Park, VP of Singer Mfg. Co.
Stately portrait of Franklin Atwood Park by Arthur Trevethin Nowell (British, 1862-1940). Park is sitting for a classical por...
Category
1920s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Portrait of a woman at the bistro with an Absinthe glass and cigarette
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
André DEVAMBEZ
(Paris, 1867 - Paris, 1944)
Portrait of a woman in a bistro
Oil on mahogany panel
H. 22 cm; L. 16 cm
Signed lower right
Around 1905/1910
Provenance : Galerie de la Sc...
Category
Early 1900s French School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Honoré Louis Umbricht, Portrait Of Marguerite Grosjean, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This early 20th-century oil painting by French artist Honoré Louis Umbricht (1860-1943) depicts Marguerite Grosjean (b. 1895), the daughter of law of Alexandre Grosjean, the mayor of...
Category
1920s French School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sir Francis Dicksee Portrait, c. 1900
Located in Larchmont, NY
Sir Francis Dicksee (English, 1853-1928)
Untitled (Portrait of a Woman), c. 1900
Oil on canvas; period frame
Sight: 13 1/4 in.
Framed: 21 1/8 x 21 1/8 x 3 3/8 in.
Frank Dicksee was...
Category
Early 1900s English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School WPA Modernist Black Figure Ashcan Dock View Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
1920s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Cat Painting "Cat with Butterfly in a Meadow" Arthur Heyer 1872-1931
By Arthur Heyer
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Cat Painting "Cat with Butterfly in a Meadow"
Arthur Heyer 1872-1931
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right "Heyer A."
25 1/2 x 21 (29 1/4 x 3...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
King Charles 1st Antique Oil Painting Portrait of Famous British Monarch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
King Charles I
British artist, early 20th century
signed with initials
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 36 x 29 inches
canvas: 32 x 26 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
conditio...
Category
Early 1900s Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Figurative oil painting titled Femme Mettant Son Bas by Georges Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Femme Mettant Son Bas by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871 - 1961)
Oil on canvas
100 x 56 cm (39 ⅜ x 22 inches)
Signed and dated lower left, G. Manzana 1905
This work is accompanied by...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Girl With a Pearl Earring
Located in Stockholm, SE
This exquisite portrait by Gunnar Hallström, titled "Portrait of a Girl with a Pearl Earring" invites viewers into a moment of quiet introspection. Painted in the 1920s, the subject ...
Category
1920s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
oil on canvas sketch study circle of Konstantin Makovsky
Located in Gavere, BE
Konstantin Yegorovich Makovsky (Russian 1839 – 1915) was an influential Russian painter
At the World's Fair of 1889 in Paris, he received the Large Gold Medal for his paintings Deat...
Category
Early 1900s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola (1871-1950) Portrait of Lady, oil sketch signed
Located in Paris, FR
Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola ( 1871 – 1950)
Portrait of a lady, a sketch
signed lower right
Oil on canvas transfered on cardboard
25 x 18 cm oval
Framed : 31 x 24.5 cm
This port...
Category
1920s Art Deco Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
French nudes painter - 20th century figure painting - Oil on canvas Paris
Located in Varmo, IT
French painter (early 20th century) - Female nude.
100 x 70 cm without frame, 109 x 79 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a gilded wooden frame (some cracks).
Condi...
Category
1920s Art Nouveau Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Grandpa by Hannes Fritz-München - Oil on canvas 77x91 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on canvas sold with frame
Total size with frame 89x102 cm
Hannes FRITZ-MÜNCHEN is an artist born in 1886 and died in 1981
Category
1920s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Young boy by Hannes Fritz-München - Oil on canvas 64x73 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on canvas sold with frame
Total size with frame 78x87 cm
Hannes FRITZ-MÜNCHEN is an artist born in 1886 and died in 1981
Category
1920s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Elegante au Parc - French Impressionist School, Figure in Landscape
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
A simply beautiful French Impressionist School oil on canvas of an elegant woman wearing a white blouse and black skirt and hat seated in a chair reading. Her parasol rests against t...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
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...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
By Leon Kelly
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
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.
...
Category
1920s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Marion Jones Farquhar" Frederick William Macmonnies, Tennis Olympian Portrait
Located in New York, NY
Frederick William Macmonnies
Marion Jones Farquhar, 1905-11
Oil on canvas
24 x 20 inches
Provenance:
William Clerk
Private Collection, New York
Literature:
Mary Smart, A Flight with Fame: The Life and Art of Frederick MacMonnies, with a Catalogue Raisonne of Sculpture and a Checklist of Paintings by E. Adina Gordon, Madison, Connecticut, 1996, no. 90.
The work depicts Marion Jones Farquhar who, was an American tennis player who competed during the late 19th century and early 20th century. She won the singles titles at the 1899 and 1902 U.S championships and was the first American woman to medal at the Olympics placing Bronze in singles. Additionally, she was the artist's sister-in-law who often played and competed with MacMonnies in golf and tennis. MacMonnies would often study the movements of her form referenced in his sculpture. When MacMonnies won a doubles golf tournament he said "Marion dragged my dead weight thro' and won us the tournament, showing what great Generalship can do."
A sculptor of classical figures, American-born Frederick MacMonnies had fame in the United States and Europe in the later half of the 19th century and early 20th century. He occasionally returned to America but lived most of his life as in expatriate in France. He was especially known for his lithe bronze figures, especially ones titled Diana. The classical names of these figures allowed him the appearance of propriety but gave him the opportunity to model svelte nudes.
Frederick MacMonnies was one of the first American sculptors to recognize the potential market of the middle class. He copyrighted his works and then contracted with foundries to mass produce some of his figures such as Diana in smaller sizes.
MacMonnies was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was a child prodigy at carving stone. At age 18, he worked in the studio of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and then persuaded him to become his assistant, keeping models damp and covered, running errands, and cleaning the studio. Evenings he studied at the Art Students League, Cooper Union, and the National Academy of Design.
In Saint-Gaudens' studio, he met many of the wealthy people who shared Saint-Gaudens Beaux-Arts based ideas that art and architecture should be unified in order to create public art in America equal to that of classical antiquity or Renaissance Europe. Among the men that MacMonnies met through Saint-Gaudens who later furthered his career were architects Stanford White and Charles McKim...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Fisherman - European Post Impressionist Antique Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful 1920's French or possibly German post-impressionist oil on canvas portrait of a fisherman. Excellent quality work painted with quick, sketchy brush strokes against a mott...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Pere Creixams Spanish Woman, Oil on Canvas
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Pere Creixams Pico (1893-1965), School of Paris, ca.1920. Beautiful Spanish woman. Provenance: Charpentier Gallery, 76 rue du Faubourg Saint Honore, Paris (Sotheby's...
Category
1920s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
English Antique Bedroom screen set with 6 Polo Ponies in stables
By George Paice
Located in Woodbury, CT
Amazing late Victorian English mahogany bedroom screen set with six horse/polo pony portraits.
George Paice was an English painter of horse,...
Category
Early 1900s Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil, Panel
Antique Neapolitan Female Portrait Oil Painting 1920
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3933 Antique oil on canvas in an ornate period frame
Image size 16.5x11"
Category
1920s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Study of a Man', Paris, Flâneur, Boulevardier, Danish Post-Impressionist Oil
By Axel Bentzen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed upper right 'A.B.' for Axel Bentzen (Danish, 1893-1952) painted circa 1925.
Axel Bentzen studied art as a child and, by the age of 14, was copying Old Master paintings at ...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Italian, Oil on Canvas, 1924
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Charles PICART LE DOUX (1881-1959), France, 1924. The Italian. Very beautiful work where post-impressionism embellished with a few cubist touches form a harmonious w...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Wien
By René Guinand
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
Golden wooden frame
54 x 47 x 4 cm
Category
1920s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Huile sur toile signée Giuseppe P. Anzino et datée 1907. Portrait de Miss Margar
Located in ROYÈRE-DE-VASSIVIÈRE, FR
Huile sur toile signée Giuseppe P. Anzino et datée 1907. Portrait de Miss Margaret Elizabeth WAYNE
Très belle facture, en bon état, signé en haut à gauche.
Bel encadrement en bois et...
Category
Early 1900s English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Naked Beauty Lying with her Fan
Located in St. Albans, GB
Léon Laurent Galand
1872 – 1960
Signed and dated 1928 bottom left
Artwork Size: 25.75 x 36" (66 x 92cm)
Artwork Size with Frame: 32.75 x 43" (83 x 109cm)
Oil on Canvas
Discounted ...
Category
1920s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a notable
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
Early 1900s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
After the Theatre
Located in Roma, RM
oil canvas, 72 x 73 cm
Signed top right: "R. Focardi 1929".
Ruggero Focardi (Florence, 1864 - Quercianella Sonnino, 1934) received his early training at the side of his father and ...
Category
1920s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a man with a mustache
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Green wooden frame and gold borders
51 x 43 x 2.5 cm
Category
1920s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Kees Van Dongen Circus Performers 1900s Vintage Vibrant Figure Fauvist Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Les Artistes du Cirque" is an original painting in ink, watercolor, and gouache on paper by leading Fauvist artist Kees Van Dongen, signed in the lower right. In the piece, two circus performers stand against against a wall. On the left, a pale woman in a blue leotard with red flowers on the shoulder stands with her arms crossed, looking out at the viewer. The painter fills in her tights with delicate white brushstrokes, lending them an almost iridescent appearance. Her strawberry blond hair is piled on top of her hair according to the fashion of the period. On the right, an African man stands in a vivid orange toga, looking somewhere off to the left. His feet are clad in bright white shoes...
Category
Early 1900s Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
1900's French Oil Painting Impressionist Portrait Sketch Portrait Young Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of Young Lady
French School, early 1900's period
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 26 x 21 inches
provenance: private collection, Paris
condition: very good and sound condition
Category
Early 1900s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Young Woman - British Edwardian art female portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
An original oil on canvas on panel by Sir James Jebusa Shannon. The portrait dates to the Edwardian period and depicts a bold British Impressionist painting of a beautiful young woma...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tender Family Portrait - Mother and Child, Student of Robert Henri
Located in Miami, FL
Rendered with an alla prima paint application and quick gestural brushstrokes, "Tender Family Portrait - Mother and Child" reflects Margery Ryerson's deep knowledge of academic training. Reyerson studied with Robert Henri at The Art Students League. This painting is aesthetically pleasing and communicates a sense of maternal tenderness from a female artist. Margery Ryerson did a book on her former teacher. Henri's philosophical and practical musings were collected by former pupil Margery Ryerson and published as The Art Spirit (1923), a book that remained in print for several decades. Signed. Lower Left
Margery Austen Ryerson (September 15, 1886 - 1989) was an American artist, painter, etcher, lithographer and watercolorist.Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Biography
Ryerson earned her Bachelor's of Fine Arts in English from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, after attending private schools in Morristown. She went on to study under Charles Hawthorne at the Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and with Robert Henri at the Art Students League in New York.
During the years 1920 through 1940 Ryerson taught in New York settlement houses. There she got the privilege to paint and draw the children in their care. The subjects of these paintings were often the children of the underclass and immigrants. Her artistic technique and subjects gained universal recognition and appealed to many people. Miss Ryerson is most known for her portraits...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait Head and Shoulders of a Man - Jewish 20s art male portrait oil painting
By Jacob Kramer
Located in London, GB
Jacob Kramer is a Jewish artist who migrated with his family to Leeds to escape the Russian pogroms when Kramer was only eight. This portrait oil painting was painted when Kramer was...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Christmas Shopping
By Max Cowper
Located in East Grinstead, GB
Max Cowper 1869-1911, was a Scottish artist who specialised in works of general subject matter and time, Edwardian and Victorian scenes with numerous persons in activity, dancing, sh...
Category
Early 1900s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Mother and Child in Tender Moment - Female Illustrator Golden Age
Located in Miami, FL
Female Illustrator of the Golden Age, Ruth Mary Hallock, paints a sensitive, heartwarming portrait of Mother and Child in a post-impressionist style. Richly saturated hues and gestur...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Art Deco Portrait of a Lady - British 1920's art female portrait oil painting
By Leon Sprinck
Located in London, GB
This lovely Art Deco portrait oil painting is by noted British prolific society portrait artist Leon Sprinck. Painted in 1924 it is a half length portrait of a beautiful blonde woman, stood smiling at the artist/viewer, her head tilted to one side. We don't know the sitter's name or her relationship to the artist but her pose suggests a degree of familiarity and warmth between them. She is wearing a sleeveless black dress with beautiful Art Deco motifs, a long string of pearls...
Category
1920s Art Deco Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rare Early Antique American School Fauvist Woman Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist portrait oil painting. Oil on canvas, lain to board. Framed. Very finely painted and a rare fauvist palette. No signature found.
Category
1920s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Portrait of the Artist, Victor Isbrand', Paris, Copenhagen, Morocco
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed upper right, 'Oda Lauritsen' for Oda Lauritsen Isbrand (Danish, 1904-1987) and dated, upper left, '1928'.
A powerful oil portrait of the artist's husband-to-be, the notable D...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Canvas, Oil
Post Impressionist Portrait of a Girl -Jewish 1920's art oil painting apples
Located in London, GB
This superb Post Impressionist portrait oil painting is by noted Jewish artist Alfred Lomnitz. Lomnitz was born in Germany and Jewish by denomination. He emigrated to England in 1933...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Clara - British Art Deco 20's female portrait landscape Newlyn oil painting
Located in London, GB
A superb portrait oil painting by noted British Newlyn school artist Harold Harvey. Painted in 1922 the sitter is Clara Matthews. A full length portrait, Clara is set in a landscape and holding a rose. In several of Harvey's portraits his female sitters...
Category
1920s Art Deco Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Young Woman with Book - British Art Deco 20s portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This lovely Art Deco portrait oil painting is by noted British artist James P Barraclough. Painted circa 1923 it is a seated portrait of a young woman holding a book on her lap. She is wearing a blue satin dress with lace cuffs and collar and is gazing warmly at the artist and viewer. The illumination on her features is superb. A lovely Art Deco period oil portrait...
Category
1920s Art Deco Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Odalisque - Woman in a Harem - French 1900 Orientalist art portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This charming ex Christie's Victorian Orientalist oil painting is by noted French exhibited artist Lucien Laurent Gsell. The painting dates to around 1900 and portrays a beautiful yo...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Boy in White Shirt - Scottish 1920's Art Deco male oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb Art Deco portrait oil painting is by noted Scottish artist Cowan Dobson. Painted in 1923 it is a really light and bright portrait of a young boy. The light catching his w...
Category
1920s Art Deco Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil on Cardboard by " Portrait of a tea drinking Clown " by Armand Henrion
Located in Gavere, BE
The painter Armand François Joseph Henrion was born in Liege, Belgium on May 30, 1875.
He died in Paris in 1958.
Although Henrion was born in Liege, he is considered one of the mos...
Category
1920s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
Portrait of a Young Girl in Peach Dress - Edwardian art oil painting
By Georges Van Den Bos
Located in London, GB
This captivating portrait oil painting is by noted artist Georges Van Den Bos. Painted circa 1905, it is a half length portrait of a young girl wearing a peach dress with lace bodice...
Category
Early 1900s Realist 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.
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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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