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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Period: 20th Century
Period: 1970s
Henri-Georges Bréard, Self-Portrait, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This early to mid-20th-century self-portrait by Henri-Georges Bréard (1873-c.1939) depicts the artist deep in thought. He’s holding a pipe.
Henri-Georges Bréard was an accomplished ...
Category
1930s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Golden Age of Illustration Romance Story, Man Woman Relationship - Green Yellow
Located in Miami, FL
This impeccably rendered mid-century double portrait of a quarreling man and woman exhibits a supreme academic training knowledge lost in almost all contemporary art. It features an ...
Category
1960s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache, Pencil, Graphite
Portrait of Wife
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Beautiful impressionistic portrait of Soviet master, Aleksei Belykh's, wife. Belykh was a Russian artist from Sverdlovsk. This painting is signed and dated and in great condition. ...
Category
1950s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
English mid century oil painting Portrait of cute Corgi dog
Located in Woodbury, CT
English mid century oil painting Portrait of a cute Corgi.
Paintings of this breed are very rare and very collected.
Kate Gray was a British animal portrait painter during the last...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Nude On The Rocks early 20th Century circle of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Nude On The Rocks, early 20th Century
by A K Maxwell - circle of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Large circa 1920's British School portrait of a red haired nude...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of Jesus Christ with thorn crown on zinc or lead panel
Located in Oostende, BE
Portrait of Jesus Christ with thorn crown, painted on a lead or zinc panel. Signed on the back by Gabriel Planella Major De Edat 81.As.
Period unknown.
Category
20th Century Other Art Style Portrait Paintings
Materials
Coating
Portrait of a Man - Painting Russian Ukrainian
Located in London, GB
The painting is hand signed by the artist at the lower left part "I. Ryback".
It was probably painted between 1925 to 1935 in France.
Provenance: Josef Steiglitz Gallery, Tel Aviv.
...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Haitian Couple in Bed Simultaneously Adjusting their Radios, Surrealism
Located in Miami, FL
Wilson Bigaud is an idea artist in who showcases visual ideas in many of his paintings. In this work, a married Haitian couple tunes their radios in sync as they lie in bed. Bigaud was greatly interested in radios, which appeared in many of his works. This work rises to the level of Surrealism in that Bigaud is doing more than just depicting a normal bedroom moment. There is something very strange and bizarre in the couple's synchronized actions. Also of note, it looks like the woman is swallowing the edge of the radio. Signed lower right in a handmade and hand-painted frame.
Wear to the edges of board, including delamination in the corners, some dents and losses. Frame rubbing with associated wear. Areas of white discoloration to the bed and headboard...
Category
1960s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Il Gallo Vicosoprano", dated 1957 by Alfred J GRIFFFIN (British Painter).
Located in Blackwater, GB
"Il Gallo Vicosoprano", dated 1957
by Alfred J GRIFFFIN (British Painter). - one of a pair we are selling
Large 1957 Mountaineering scene of a climber at the summit of Il Gallo in ...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Russin
By Vilma Eckl
Located in Wien, 9
The extensive work of Vilma Eckl covers a period of more than seventy years. Her incomparable artistic talent and her essential contribution to the history of art can be seen in her ...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Detente
By Edmund Ward
Located in New York, NY
Purchased from Ward Estate after his passing in 1990. Part of a private collection since mid 1990's till now and custom framed in handmade unique frames. Ward had a unique vision on ...
Category
Early 20th Century Tonalist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
MODIGLIANI NUDE WITH NECKLACE, circa 1940 by WILLIAM CROSBIE (1915-1999)
Located in Blackwater, GB
NUDE WITH NECKLACE, circa 1940
by WILLIAM CROSBIE (1915-1999)
Large circa 1940 portrait of a nude wearing a necklace, oil on canvas by William Crosbi...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Little Sister, Big Sister, c.1970
Located in Franklin, MI
A wonderful painting in the style clearly identified
with the artist.
Category
1970s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Matthew At The Piano, dated 1969 by EDWARD HALL (1922-1991)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Matthew At The Piano, dated 1969
by EDWARD HALL (1922-1991)
Large 20th century portrait of Matthew at the piano, oil on canvas by Edward Hall...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Portrait Of Theodore Roosevelt By Joseph A. Imhof
Located in New Orleans, LA
Joseph Adam Imhof
1871-1955 American
Portrait of Theodore Roosevelt
Signed "J.A.Imhof 17" (lower right)
Oil on canvas
President Theodore Roosevelt is r...
Category
20th Century Academic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gum Kids
Located in New Orleans, LA
Two young children play an ill-advised game of gum stretching on the family couch in this charming composition by famed American illustrator, Leslie Thrasher. Painted towards the start of the Great Depression, Thrasher provided light-hearted images of the lives of everyday people to distract Americans from their troubles. These images appeared on the covers of Liberty Magazine, for whom he produced one cover illustration a week for six consecutive years.
Born in 1889 in Piedmont, West Virginia, Thrasher studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts as a teenager and received a scholarship to study art abroad in Paris. Upon his return, he began studying under Howard Pyle, known as the “father of American illustration.” Thrasher sold his first cover illustration to the Saturday Evening Post in 1912, four years before Norman Rockwell’s first Post cover, and he would go on to produce over 360 magazine covers throughout his career. He painted humorous, relatable scenes of life in America with colorful characters set against white backgrounds. He was also a successful commercial artist, painting advertisements for Cream of Wheat, Chesterfield Cigarettes...
Category
20th Century Other Art Style Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Russian oil portrait of Andrei Arsenevich Tarkovsky by A. Ivasenko
By Anatolii Ivasenko
Located in London, GB
Russian oil portrait of Andrei Arsenevich Tarkovsky by A. Ivasenko
Russian, 1987
Frame: height 106cm, width 111cm
Canvas: height 95cm, width 100cm
This excellent portrait was executed by the artist A. Ivasenko, and depicts Andrei Arsenevich Tarkovsky, the famed Soviet filmmaker, and son of the noted poet Arseniy Tarkovsky. Tarkovsky wasthe most important Soviet filmmaker after Sergei Eisenstein, and his approach to cinematic time and space, as well as his commitment to cinema as a form of poetry, means his oeuvre is regarded as one of the most defining collections of modern film. He first achieved international acclaim with 'Ivan's Childhood' in 1962, which won top prize at the Venice Film Festival, and other career highlights include 'Andrei Rublev...
Category
1980s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young Girl Red Dress lost in Thought, Mid Century Woman's Magazine Illustration
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
Lorraine Fox (1922–1976) was an American illustrator and commercial artist who illustrated magazines, book covers, and advertisements. Among the magazines, she illustrated for was Wo...
Category
1960s Feminist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Door Gevaert (b. 1911/17, Kortrijk/Belgium), Portrait of a Woman
Located in Greding, DE
Depiction of a woman's head with necklace in impasto color application in blue and pink tones. Bottom left signed Door Gevaert. Image size: 78 x 58 cm. Oil on canvas; profiled wooden...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Self Portrait, Mid-20th Century Oil
Located in London, GB
Sheila Holland
1932-2002
Self Portrait
Oil on canvas, signed lower right
Image size: 30 x 22 inches
This is a wonderfully dynamic self portrait by the female artist Shelia Holland. ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Devotion
By Erich Waske
Located in Wien, 9
Deling with the work of Erich Waske today, one encounters first of all a number of reasons why this outstanding artist has fallen into such undeserved oblivion. In addition to the de...
Category
1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Portrait of a young Swedish woman, bathed in warm firelight, Oil on Panel
By Sam Uhrdin
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
Sam Uhrdin (Swedish School, 1886-1964)
Sam Uhrdin was born in 1886 in the Swedish town of Siljasnas to the north-west of St...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sketch Of Nude Bathers, 1938 William Russell FLINT (1880-1969)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Sketch Of Nude Bathers, 1938
William Russell FLINT (1880-1969)
Large circa 1930 study of nude bathers, oil on panel attributed to William Russell F...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
End of the Road, Golden Light Ladies Home Journal, Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
This sunbathed painting will light up your room with warmth. Sundblom's painting technique has the freedom and quick energy in his paint application. His subjects are bathed in the ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Graceful Portrait of the Countess Carrobio Pastel on Canvas 1910 circa
By Carl Froschl
Located in Rome, IT
Graceful Portrait of the Countess Carrobio with elegant white dress. Pastel on Canvas with finely carved gilt wood frame.
Signed CFroschl .
Carl Forsche 1848- 1934 . Austrian Painte...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Portrait of a Redhead in Profile
By Leon Kroll
Located in Miami, FL
Beautifully rendered in Krolls signature academic style. Unframed - Signed lower right, unframed
Category
1930s Academic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
Marilyn Monroe - Sweet Dreams
By Ron Lesser
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Panel
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Dimensions: 36.00" x 30.00"
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
A Lion Mangled Me - A Man Eating Lion
Located in Miami, FL
Using brilliant compositional devices and late afternoon light, Frank McCarthy captures a man at the precise moment before death.
The scene is staged wi...
Category
1960s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Casein, Board
Signed M. Maccari Post Impressionist Figurative Painting dated 1956 oil canvas
By Mino Maccari
Located in Florence, IT
The painting (oil on canvas, 44.5 x 35 cm; with wood frame 64 x 54,5 cm) represents a moment on deception.
It's signed Maccari on the bottom left, and it's dated 1956 and titled "ins...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In The Bride's Shop, Lord & Taylor
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right
Printer's and designer's marks in margins
"Tool pearls in bodice, train & headband & ribbon under bosom."
Ex-collection photographer Frank Paulin...
Category
1950s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman with Leaves
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1918
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 24.00" x 18.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
American Art Works Calendar Illustration
Category
1910s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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
Eminent Women, Illustration for McCall's Magazine, May 1959
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Unsigned
Illustration celebrating important women throughout history, published in McCall's magazine, May 1959.
Accompanied by a tear sheet of the p...
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Woman in Horror and Terror at Gunpoint
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right.
Inscribed on the reverse 'My first color illustration, Nov. 1954.'
Work is unframed, Film Noir in paint
Category
1950s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
1900 Young Girl
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Woman lost in Thought
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated 1924 upper right
Simplified forms, geometricized volumes and restricted color palette characterizes this work.
Zabriskie Gallery Label on verso
Original period frame
Kenneth Hayes Miller taught at the Art Students League from 1911 until 1951. Some of his students were: Reginald Marsh, George Bellows, George Tooker, Rockwell Kent, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Patrick Henry Bruce
Category
1920s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Girl at the Sink
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Practicing the Speech, Liberty Magazine Cover
By John Howitt
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1939
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 33.00" x 27.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover of Liberty Magazine, January 14, 1939
Category
1930s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Judgment
Located in Miami, FL
Thin edged metal frame
Philip Castle is an Irish Painter and husband to artist Barry Castle
He is rarely exhibited and Prince Rainier of Monaco once pu...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Boy and Dog
By Charles Ryan
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil Painting
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
1930s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tribesmen with Headdresses
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel
"Robert Riggs was awarded the Gold Medal for Excellence by the New York Art Directors Club for ten consecutive years and received many additional awards." He was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts and the U.S. Library of Congress. Riggs's compositons are "monumental" Walt Reed Riggs was a Gay Artist...
Category
1940s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Tempera
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
Portrait of a Charming Seated Woman Against Maroon Drapes
Located in Miami, FL
Charming portait with Modernest colors.
Provenance: Christie's
Mercedes Matter, daughter of the artist, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York. Private Collection. Sale: Skinner, Inc...
Category
1910s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
St. Michael
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Marilyn Monroe - Sizzle
By Ron Lesser
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Panel
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Dimensions: 29.5" x 22.75"
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic
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
"Milton Avery #6"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benjamin sustained an active career for over seven decades. D...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Young girl Redhead Holding her father's hand Illustration
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
There is a reason why there are few contemporary painters who can paint a portrait this good. It's hard to do. It's easy to throw some paint or spray a mess of graffiti on canvas. ...
Category
1940s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Geisha Girl, Pan American World Airways Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1956
Medium: Oil and Pencil on Paperboard
Dimensions: 18.00" x 15.00"
Signature: Signed with the Artist's Initials 'N/R' Lower Right
Pan American World Airways advertising campaign
Exhibitions
West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Norman Rockwell Museum...
Category
1950s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Pencil
Movie Poster Illustration for "American Pop"
Located in Miami, FL
McLean's consummate skill as a portrait artist, graphic designer and master of composition is on full display in the complex narrative work. This work contains 41 portraits including those of Bette Midler, Jimi Hendrix, and Benny Goodman...
Category
1980s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Portrait of Girl in Red Chair
By Hans Amis
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 30.00" x 40.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Image of young girl seated in chair reading a book.
Category
Late 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ice Follies Souvenir Program Cover
By Fritz Willis
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1963
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Original cover art of two women skaters in costume for the Twenty-Seventh Annual Shipstads and Johnson Ice Follies...
Category
1960s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of a Lady, Early 20th Century Oil
Located in London, GB
Follower of Ambrose McEvoy
Circa 1910
Portrait of a Lady
Oil on canvas
Image size: 20 x 16 inches (51 x 40.5 cm)
Original ebonised Frame
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1990s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude Smoking
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 9.25" x 10.25"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Football coach Paul Bear Bryant
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor on Paper Under Glass
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Dimensions: Approximately 12.00" x 16.00"
Portrait of Football Coach Paul Bear Bryant
Category
1980s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Charles Laughton, Time magazine cover Illustration, March 31, 1952
Located in Miami, FL
Archivally Matted to 17.75 x 16.75 inches
Signed lower left
Category
1950s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache
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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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