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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Style: Contemporary
Style: Post-Impressionist
Un Jardín en mi Hogar
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Olga Cairols is a Spanish artist with more than 35 years of career. Olga studied Art History and Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. She has a bachelors degree in Design, Art ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

They didn't teach me how to be loved
Located in Porto, 13
"They Didn't Teach Me How to Be Loved" by Ritchelly Oliveira is a poignant depiction that explores themes of love, vulnerability, and the absence of guidance. Against a backdrop of p...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic

Insomnia
Located in Porto, 13
"Insomnia" by Ritchelly Oliveira is a thought-provoking painting that draws viewers into the depths of the human psyche. Against a white background, the central focus of the artwork ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic

Untitled - Woman, nude portrait, figurative oil painting, blue & black
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Using pure oil paint, which gives the artwork its unique texture, the artist manages to use two particularly difficult colors to work with: black and blue. In his composition, he cre...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil

The pig and the bird of prey Timothy Archer Contemporary art painting red oil
Located in Paris, FR
Oil painting on canvas Hand-signed lower right by the artist Unique work News from Eéa “At the time of the last cosmogony I heard from Eéa In the middle of the water, an island sur...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled Face III (To be named by owner)
Located in Seoul, KR
About Faces Series Hayoung Kim's paintings incorporate her own experiences in real life. Now she has given birth and encountered a whole new phase of life. While experiencing motherh...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Watercolor, Pencil

Old Man
Located in New York, NY
2020, Oil on canvas
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Splinters of a Secret Sky - Splinters
Located in New York, NY
Signed (on verso): AF/2021
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic Polymer, Oil, Acrylic

The Silence
Located in New York, NY
Oil Portrait. The Silence is from the ingmar Bergman movie of the same title and the painting features Ingrid Thulin and Gunnel Lindblom. About the Artist: John Francis Gallagher is a Boston-based contemporary artist. Born in Drogheda, Ireland in the Boyne Valley, he emigrated to the United States at 19. John worked in graphic design, advertising and architectural rendering before turning his hand, full-time, to painting. A self-taught figurative artist, his work has a vintage style that is influenced by the so-called pulp artists of the 20th century. In his large-scale canvases, tone is given precedent to create realism. Working within a limited palette of tones, The paint is woven under, over, and into itself in layers to create a portrait that is seemingly simple but satisfyingly complex. The work has a strong quiet energy that creates space for itself in a frenetic, busy world by being the exact opposite. Often drawn from 1960s European Cinema...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Palimpsest" Painting, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Crystals on Canvas, Earth Tones
Located in New York, NY
I am inspired by ornament, an ancient visual language used in various cultures for centuries." Sarupa Sidaarth (Indian, b.1976) studied at Sir J.J. School of Art and received her MFA at Academy of Art in San Francisco. Her studio practice flows predominantly from an intuitive and emotional approach. Inspired by ornament, her latest body of work explores social issues through the examination of creative and artistic practices. She engages in a thought-provoking dialogue and emphasizes on the idea of peaceful coexistence. Her work has been exhibited extensively in India, Europe and United States, including at the Bombay Sapphire...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic

The mole hour Nicolas Kennett Contemporary painting insect animal art nature
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on wood panel Unique work Hand-signed on the back by the artist
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

NYC Man. Contemporary Hyper-realist Portrait
Located in London, GB
Jeremy Andrews Contemporary NYC Man Oil on canvas, signed Image size: 85 x 92 ¼ inches Framed
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Brazilian Girls
Located in Miami, FL
Camila Rosa is a Brazilian Artist and Illustrator based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She started her life as an artist in 2010 with a female street art collective and since then she has wor...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Crying Clown
Located in New York, NY
Portrait
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Baiser passionné (Passionate kiss)
Located in PARIS, FR
Circular oil and acrylic painting by artist Wenyu Zhu. This work shows a passionate kiss of two people interwoven together by many red threads. The symbol of red thread can be traced...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Linen, Oil, Acrylic, Canvas

Like Water Flows Around Rocks -21st Cent, Contemporary Painting, Modern Portrait
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"The paintings are built up in layer upon layer of paint which give the pieces great depth of field. They are created with an arsenal of tools that doesn't settle with convention. As...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Paint, Mixed Media

Butterfly - Contemporary art, Portrait, Figurative
Located in Coquitlam, BC
Artist: Liang Li Born in 1985 Henan China, and currently living in Beijing In 2003, he joined the Basic Department of CAFA Modeling In 2004, he joined the Second Studio of Oil Painti...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"CARRIE LANE CHAPMAN CATT" Painting, India Ink on Paper, Portrait, Feminist
Located in New York, NY
Dimensions 11 x 11 in, framed 16 x 16 in Unique Signed on recto by artist, includes a certificate of authenticity Indira Cesarine is a multidisci...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Paper, India Ink

Dude
By Paul Fuentes
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas. Man on beach. About the artist: “There's a dry ironic twist to Paul’s paintings that give the work — while realistic — a postmodern f...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Rebirth
Located in Miami, FL
“Rebirth” 2023 30x40 in Acrylic on canvas $3000 ------ Camila Rosa is a Brazilian Artist and Illustrator based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She started her life as an artist in 2010 with a...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"SOJOURNER TRUTH" Painting, India Ink on Paper, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Dimensions 11 x 11 in, framed 16 x 16 in This painting is unique, signed on recto by artist, and includes a certificate of authenticity "SOJOURNER TRUTH", 2019, is a part of Indir...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Paper, India Ink

Stars Splinter, Pointed and Wild
Located in New York, NY
Unsigned
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Meditation #2
Located in Singapore, SG
Humans need a balance between the physical world and the inner consciousness. One way to get there is through meditation. Meditation has a positive and constructive impact on the psy...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Glamour #2
Located in Singapore, SG
As a creature that becomes the flower of the world, women are identified with a beautiful, gentle and attractive nature. But behind that gentleness there is power, energy that exceed...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

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 ...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Untitled
Located in Miami, FL
Original Painting Lucia Riccelli, painter and performance artist. Born in Rome, living in Vienna, Zakynthos and Rome. Degreed at Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma in painting and scenography. Studied and performed classical ballet...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Linen, Raw Linen, Oil, Acrylic

Catching My Daydreams - 21st Century, Contemporary Painting, Modern Portrait
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"The paintings are built up in layer upon layer of paint which give the pieces great depth of field. They are created with an arsenal of tools that doesn't settle with convention. As...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Paint, Mixed Media

"Jasmine and Clove" oil painting woman female portrait black dress
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Rachel Bess Jasmine and Clove, 2017 oil on Dibond 10” x 8” unframed 13.5" x 11.75" framed Rachel Bess is known for her precise and theatrical oil painti...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil

The rebirth of nudity Mohammad Ariyaei 21st Century art Outsider Iranian paint
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Hand-signed lower right « Here the barbaric or savage ceremonies of New Guinea take on the air of Rio carnival. Here the vitality bursts and the colors dance...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Gemini" oil painting on panel figurative two women female red hair
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Rachel Bess Gemini, 2020 oil on panel 17.5" x 12" unframed 21” x 15.5” framed Rachel Bess is known for her precise and theatrical oil paintings that ble...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Beyond Nicolas Kennett 21st Century British painting character skyscape black
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on wood panel Signed on the back
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Signed M. Maccari Post Impressionist Figurative Painting dated 1956 oil canvas
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...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The inseparable I -Timothy Archer, 21st Century, Contemporary painting
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint and pastel on paper Hand-signed and dated lower right by the artist
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil

The bird behind the curtain -Timothy Archer, 21st Century, Contemporary painting
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint and pastel on paper Signed and dated by the artist
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil

Superstar
Located in New York, NY
Innocence of childhood. Portrait. About the Artist: My art is a visual recording of the powerful imagines that occur regularly in life, distilling them down and preserving the ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Queen moth -Timothy Archer, 21st Century, Contemporary painting
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint and pastel on paper Signed and dated by the artist
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil

Audrey
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic on Wood Panel. Portrait or Audrey Hepburn is 24x24. Vibrant colors. About the Artist: "Tomlin is young, upcoming artist based out of NY. His interests in portraits, i...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic, Wood Panel

Magic - Simone Picciotto, 21st Century, Contemporary figurative painting
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Signed lower right
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Prayer - Simone Picciotto, 21st Century, Contemporary figurative painting
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Signed lower right
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

The mysterious flamboyant -Timothy Archer, 21st Century, Contemporary painting
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint and pastel on paper Signed and dated by the artist
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil

The dramatic entrance -Timothy Archer, 21st Century painting, Figurative art
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint, pastel and charcoal on paper Signed and dated by the artist lower left
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal, Oil Pastel, Oil

Candy Girl
Located in New York, NY
Innocence of childhood. Portrait. About the Artist: My art is a visual recording of the powerful imagines that occur regularly in life, distilling them down and preserving the ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Sea Witch and the Jellyfish" oil portrait on Dibond panel
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Rachel Bess Sea Witch and the Jellyfish, 2017 oil on Dibond 30.5” x 22" unframed 36" x 27.25" framed Rachel Bess is known for her precise and theatrical oil...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Panel

In the beginning was the bird Timothy Archer, 21st Century, Contemporary painter
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint and pastel on canvas Hand-signed and dated lower right by the artist
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Paper, Oil Pastel, 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
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1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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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...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Gouache, Mixed Media

Pro Skater
Located in New York, NY
Figurative acrylic on canvas. Portrait of female skateboarder. Has abstract quality. Almost dreamlike. Vibrant colors. About the Artist: "Growing up in England during the 80s, the influence and love of American sub cultures through TV, and being surrounded by large non-spaces of US air bases around East Anglia, gave me a slightly odd and romantic view of America. I finished the Masters Degree bronze-casting course at the Royal College of Art in 1999 and have pursued my passion for Art ever since. I have built up a body of work that follows the theme of a journey into abstraction, inspired by Robert Smithson, Donald Judd, Fiona Banner, Cornelia Parker...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic

Untitled 513 - 21st Cent, Contemporary, Figurative, Oil Painting, Portrait, Pop
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Françoise Nielly has explored the different facets of image all her life, through painting, photography, roughs, illustrations and virtual computer generated animated graphics. It is...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled 567 - 21st Cent, Contemporary, Figurative, Oil Painting, Portrait, Pop
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Diptych Françoise Nielly has explored the different facets of image all her life, through painting, photography, roughs, illustrations and virtual computer generated animated graphi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

La lecture au jardin (Lesson in the Garden)
Located in New Orleans, LA
French Post-Impressionist painter Georges d’Espagnat captures a charming moment between a mother and her child in this vibrant oil on canvas. Rendered with a studied use of complementary colors and bold brushstrokes, the painting showcases the artist's unique Post-Impressionist style. Remembered as one of the most individualistic artists of the 20th century, his distinctive canvases bring together the loose brushwork of the Impressionists and the bold color palette favored by the Fauves. Together, they achieve a vibrant spontaneity that lends itself well to the carefree subjects of the present work. Masterfully composed, La lecture au jardin moves beyond the Impressionist instinct to capture a fleeting moment on canvas. Rather, d'Espagnat succeeds in creating a deep feeling of harmony in the work. Warm colors are perfectly balanced with cool tones, while vertical and horizontal lines are softened by the curves of the foliage and his subjects' figures. Through his simplification of forms and intentional use of color and line, he creates a scene that is carefully designed and thoroughly modern. A similar view of a mother and her child by d'Espagnat is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York). The Post-Impressionist painter was an individualist since his youth, choosing to forgo traditional schooling in order to independently study the Old Masters in the Louvre. He soon became involved with the most prominent Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters of the age, including Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Signac, who themselves existed outside the traditional norms of French Academic training. In 1891, he exhibited at the Salon des Refusés, and again the following year at the Salon des Indépendants. By 1895, he held his first one-man show in Paris, and just three years later his success earned him a solo show at the prestigious Durand-Ruel Gallery. Between 1905 and 1910 he made several trips to visit Renoir on the Côte d’Azur. Their close friendship resulted in a group exhibition at Marcel Bernheim...
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Late 19th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

3-9-22 (Duptych) - 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 ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Dimitri Likissas - Eye Two
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Pop Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that in my...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Narcissus Awoken Visage, Dark Tones Face Painting on Papyrus Paper, Pink, Yellow
Located in Barcelona, ES
The paintings of Aleix Font (Sabadell, Spain, 1984) function as a narrative between the collective and the individual world, exploring space and its interactions with concepts such a...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Spray Paint, Acrylic, Handmade Paper

Goya Disorders, Pastel Tones Diptych, Black Gestures, Urban Forms, PinkGeometric
Located in Barcelona, ES
The paintings of Aleix Font (Sabadell, Spain, 1984) function as a narrative between the collective and the individual world, exploring space and its interactions with concepts such a...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Spray Paint, Acrylic, Handmade Paper

Oil on Canvas "L' Espagnole" by Dietz Edzard, 1935
Located in Berlin, DE
Dietz Edzard ( German/French 1893-1963 ). Oil on canvas, 1935. With the artist's signature stamp at lower left. Framed. Property of the Estate of Dr. Max Stern sold for the benefit o...
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1930s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Pantheon
Located in Milano, MI
Urbex is the English acronym for urban exploration and is an activity that consists of searching for and locating abandoned infrastructure with the goal of visiting, photographing and conveying its contents, with particular involvement of methodologies from geography, anthropology, sociology to cultural studies. Her works have been in the past approached to the works of Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) and Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1770), but in Gullotta's paintings the absence of color makes the spaces particularly ethereal, allowing them to be ideally lifted to new places and to new life. An artist of international caliber who has decided to entrust her return to her homeland to Almach Art Gallery in Milan, while maintaining connections with important galleries, such as Marlborough Fine Art in London and Galerie Koch in Hanover. The artwork represents the famous Velasca Tower in Milan. This artwork was exhibited during the Daniela Gullotta...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Sandstone

Virgin Mary tempera painting religious altarpiece
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Vila i Rufas (1924-2011) - Virgin Mary 1948 - Egg tempera Painted on gold metallic surface. Painting measurements 40x32 cm. Frame measurements 53x45 cm. Inactive xylophagous ga...
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1940s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Egg Tempera

The Boy Kuba - Modern, Contemporary Portrait Painting, Pop Art, Joyful
Located in Salzburg, AT
Anna Ładecka is a Paris-based polish illustrator and painter. Graduated from Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Master of Art - Diploma in painting and lithography and obtained a scholar...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Shop Antique and Vintage Portrait Paintings

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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