Portrait Paintings

"OBLIVION" Abstract Painting 40" x 30" inch by Carlos Delgado ABOUT: Carlos Delgado is a Colombian artist with international recognition living betwe...

Matviy Vaisberg painted this series of portraits while visiting his mother, who was in a nursing home in Germany in early 2000s. This portrait of Frau Muller is an anthropological po...

A half-naked model posing for a portrait. A classic depiction by Volodymyr Makarenko on a large oil on canvas. The artist feels the space, he works...

Mykola Zhuravel came to New York in 2005 and worked in a studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn for 6 months. This painting was created during this time. The artist had an idea to depict Jes...

Fabio Fabbi, born in Italy in 1861, stands as an acclaimed Orientalist painter renowned for his devotion to capturing the exotic allure of the Orie...

This is a signed portrait painting done in an outsider, folk art, expressionist style. it is signed in Hebrew, also marked with a Jewish star. this is from a collection of works by the same hand. they are all signed. Some have markings to the back of the paper. they have some age to them. They bear similarities to artists as dissimilar as Moshe tamir, Mane Katz and an Israeli version of Purvis Young. In this piece the artist choice of colors is muted yet powerful. Israel has had a Vibrant Folk Art, Naive art scene for a long time now, artists like Yisrael Paldi, Nahum Guttman, Reuven Rubin and even Yefim Ladyzhensky had naive periods. The most well know of the strict naive artists are Shalom of Safed, Irene Awret, Gabriel Cohen, Natan Heber, Michael Falk and Kopel Gurwin. Naïve art is any form of visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes (in anatomy, art history, technique, perspective, ways of seeing). Unlike folk art, naïve art does not necessarily evince a distinct cultural context or tradition. Naïve art is recognized, and often imitated, for its childlike simplicity and frankness. Paintings of this kind typically have a flat rendering style with a rudimentary expression of perspective. One particularly influential painter of "naïve art" was Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), a French Post-Impressionist who was discovered by Pablo Picasso. Naïve art is often seen as outsider art that is by someone without formal (or little) training or degree. While this was true before the twentieth century, there are now academies for naïve art. Naïve art is now a fully recognized art genre, represented in art galleries worldwide. Museums devoted to naïve art now exist in Kecskemét, Hungary; Riga, Latvia; Jaen, Spain; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Vicq France and Paris. "Primitive art" is another term often applied to art by those without formal training, but is historically more often applied to work from certain cultures that have been judged socially or technologically "primitive" by Western academia, such as Native American, sub saharan African or Pacific Island art (see Tribal art). This is distinguished from the self-conscious, "primitive" inspired movement primitivism. Another term related to (but not completely synonymous with) naïve art is folk art. There also exist the terms "naïvism" and "primitivism" which are usually applied to professional painters working in the style of naïve art (like Paul Gauguin, Mikhail Larionov, Paul Klee). At all events, naive art can be regarded as having occupied an "official" position in the annals of twentieth-century art since - at the very latest - the publication of the Der Blaue Reiter, an almanac in 1912. Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, who brought out the almanac, presented 6 reproductions of paintings by le Douanier' Rousseau (Henri Rousseau), comparing them with other pictorial examples. However, most experts agree that the year that naive art was "discovered" was 1885, when the painter Paul Signac became aware of the talents of Henri Rousseau and set about organizing exhibitions of his work in a number of prestigious galleries. The Earth Group (Grupa Zemlja) were Croatian artists, architects and intellectuals active in Zagreb from 1929 to 1935. The group included the painters Krsto Hegedušić, Edo Kovačević, Omer Mujadžić, Kamilo Ružička, Ivan Tabaković, and Oton Postružnik, the sculptors Antun Augustinčić, Frano Kršinić, and the architect Drago Ibler. Art brut, primitive art, primitive, art naïf, naïve art. Outsider art. A term applied to Yugoslav (Croatian) naive painters working in or around the village of Hlebine, near the Hungarian border, from about 1930. Some of the best known naive artists are Dragan Gaži, Ivan Generalić, Josip Generalić, Krsto Hegedušić, Mijo Kovačić, Ivan Lacković-Croata, Franjo Mraz, Ivan Večenaj and Mirko Virius. Camille Bombois (1883–1970) Ferdinand Cheval, known as 'le facteur Cheval' (1836–1924) Henry Darger (1892–1973) L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) Grandma Moses, Anna Mary Robertson (1860–1961) Nikifor (1895–1968) Poland, Horace Pippin (1888–1946) Jon Serl (1894-1993) United States Alfred Wallis (1855–1942) Scottie Wilson (1890–1972) Gesner Abelard (b. 1922) Jan Balet (1913–2009) Michel Delacroix (b. 1933) France Howard Finster (1916–2001) Ivan Rabuzin (1921–2008) Spontaneous Art Museum in Brussels Art en Marge Museum in Brussels MADmusée in Liege International Museum of Naive Art of Brazil in Cosme Velho, Rio de Janeiro Gallery Jacques Ardies in São Paulo Musée international d'art naïf de Magog in Magog Croatian Museum of Naïve Art in Zagreb Gallery of Croatian Naïve Art...

A fantastic modern portrait of a young boy. This work is signed what appears to be Paul Sellers and dated 1937, but we have not found information on the artist. The work dated 1936...

Antique American modernist abstract painting. Oil on board, circa 1940. Signed. Image size 22L x 30H. Housed in a period modern frame.

Cathleen S. Mann (American, 1896 - 1959) Signed: Cathleen Mann 1941 (Lower, Right) " Portrait of Maureen O'Sullivan ", 1941 Oil on Canvas 30" x 25" Housed in a 3 1/2" Period Fra...

"Fights Well Known" by Kevin Red Star, Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas, 40" x 30" unframed, 42" x 32" framed in a modern thin floater. This is a Crow Indian Man with a Blackbird Medicine Shield. Not signed, but Kevin did handwrite the title and caption on the back. Kevin Red Star’s art is honored throughout Native America for its authenticity. It presents a shining vision of centuries-old Crow...

Sophie is an expressive and highly individualistic Post Impressionist work reminiscent of Chaim Soutine. Cottavoz isn known and celebrated for using incredibly thick paint that is a...

A dark and exotic looking male dancer with chiseled features wears a blue hat made of flowers and feathers is depicted in vibrant colors that evokes festiv...

Andres Conde at play with his favorite subject, women. Here the artist creates a beautiful and coy femme fatale in pop realism. Sul Americana is Portugues...

Original painting. Oil, acrylic and paper on high quality canvas stretcher. Finished off with a soft glossy varnish. 80 x 100 cm 31.5 x 39.4". The sides are painted and it’s ready...

Affen Segun was born in 1993 in Lagos, Nigeria. A native of Bayelsa State, he discovered his love for art at a young age, and later got enrolled in a roadside art shop to start to ho...

Original painting. Oil, acrylic and paper on high quality canvas stretcher. Finished off with a soft glossy varnish. 80 x 100 cm 31.5 x 39.4". The sides are painted and it’s ready...

Eric Friedmann Death of Marat, 2018 Acrylic polymer and pigment on canvas 200 x 150 cm

Signed (on verso): AF/2021

Bailey expresses his love for film and popular culture in this representation of a film poster of the cult classic film The Royal Tennenbaums by Wes Anderson. This painting is an abs...

Bailey works with the iconic figure of a seated, contemplative Lincoln. Working in broad strokes, Clifford Bailey manages to capture the stoic nature o...

Series: Abstract 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 ...

Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Lincoln Series: Abe Lincoln Date: 2023 Medium: Oil on Wood Unframed Dimensions: 20" x 16" Framed Dimensions: 25" x 21" Signature: Signed Edition: ...

Burlesque Show 20th century Ink and watercolor on paper 16.5 x 22 inches

Genre: Modern Subject: Jewish Wedding Mechutanim Medium: Oil Surface: Board, size includes artist decorated frame Country: United States The imagery of Maurice Kish (1895-1987), whe...

This is an Art Deco original illustration drawing, hand-painted with ink and gouache on paper, designed by French artist Edouard Halouze. The artwork features two stylish female mode...

Moshe Katz (Romanian Israeli), 1937- an Israeli citizen, studied art at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem, as well as at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. Although not an exponent of one dominating technique of painting, Moshe has been fascinated in recent months with the textures and expressions he is able to obtain with the pallette knife. Picasso, Cezanne and Gaugin are his idols, and the power of Mexican art has a deep fascination for him. With elements of Folk Art combined with a sophisticated technique. He enjoys working in clay but finds painting in oil his greatest outlet for the stories he has to tell through his pictures. In addition to an outstanding collection of books featuring the works of the great masters, his shelves are lined with texts about hypnosis. Studying about the art of hypnotizing provides him with a mental exercise far removed from his highly developed art of expressing himself on canvas. He has exhibited with the Painters and Sculptors Association in Israel, Haifa and the North along with artists: Yaacov Agam, Sela (Blaustein), Emanuel Pinhassi, Pasternak, Anna, Chaltiel, Joseph Schwartz, Nira Shemer, Aviva, Fadel, Mohamed Bishara, Sana, Menashe Kadishman, Menashe Shalhevet, Yitzchak Frumin, Moshe Rosen, Maureen Moshe was born March 2, 1937 in Bucherest, Romania with his parents, he fled from the Nazis and after stops in many countries, reached Israel. His paintings have been displayed by Arts International...

Portrait of an African American Woman by Tony Sisti (1901-1983). Sisti was a master draftsman. With just a few lines he captures the moment. Sisti was a professional boxer and an acc...

REWA says of her work… Viewers largely label me under “Contemporary African Art”. I label my work as Igbo Vernacular Art. The reason for this is that I believe that I have created a...

Crying Clown Portrait in Oil on Canvas Portrait of a sad clown by San Francisco artist John Peers (American, 1922-2009). This portrait is closely fra...

"Popeye" Painting 20" x 20" inch by Antonio Pelayo Medium: Acrylic Ink & Paint on Animation Acetate Image size: 13" x 13" inch Size framed: 20" x 20" inch Artist Antonio Pelayo, born in Glendale, California, and yet raised for most of his childhood in the Mexican countryside, has never had his own country. Moving from an American suburb to a tiny village has kept his world unstable, yet that very instability has made him an artist. Antonio was born in 1973 in a comfortable, quintessentially American suburb: close neighbors, picket fences, movie theatres, malls, and English all around. At nine, his family sent him back to his father’s village in Mexico, where the environment radically changed: old broken down adobe churches replaced galleries and the trappings of suburbia. Some adjustments were difficult, like dealing with outdoor plumbing and the transition to a Spanish-speaking environment. Teased and ostracized by other kids, and unable to communicate with the adults, Antonio looked elsewhere for, if not companionship, at least solace. He found it with a pencil and in the pews. He snuck into the village church and stared up at the murals of martyrdom. He hid in the dark corners and sketched the artwork that covered the walls and altars. Antonio sought out the work of other Mexican artists, making them his mentors; his friends. Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and Orozco, all revealed to Antonio the depth of Mexican art and its movement from the shadows of the Catholic Church into the modern world. He learned Spanish. He strove to master it, hoping to communicate with the folks of the village. Still, there was a gap; the language barrier between poor farmers and the middle class kept him from meeting people on an intimate level. Nevertheless, he now had three languages: English, Spanish, and his drawings. Years later his family brought him back to Glendale, which he now saw through the lens of Mexico. It looked unreal; it did not look like home. Nothing looked like home anymore; not Mexico, not Southern California. The one home he had was his art. Though his mastery of pencil and paper began in the nave of an old country church in Mexico...

Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Matisse Face Icon III" Series: Icon *Signed by Graves lower right. It is also signed, titled, and dated...

ANJA VAN HERLE "Choker + Chain" Acrylic & Swarovski Crystal on Panel 12 x 12 inches. Born in Belgium in 1969, Anja Van Herle combines a European sense of high fashion in her artwork...

"Diaphanous 1" by Aiden Kringen (United States) is a handmade acrylic and oil painting that depicts a female model with an abstracted background. It is unframed, but ready to hang.

"Synthesis 4" by Aiden Kringen (United States) is a handmade abstract acrylic and oil painting. It is unframed, but ready to hang.

Blurring the line between mass consumerism and fine art, New York City based artist Jojo Anavim has established his body of work stemming from a background in graphic design and bran...

Joseph Lorusso was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1966 and received his formal training at the American Academy of Art. He went on to receive his B.F.A. degree from the Kansas City Ar...

Queen Camilla, by Manuel Santelices Ink, watercolor, and gouache on paper Image size: 12 in. H x 9 in. W Unframed 2023 The worlds of fashion, society, and pop culture are explored ...

Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Taylor Swift Icon" Series: Icon *Signed by Graves lower left. It is also signed, dated, and titled on verso Year: 2023 Medium: Origi...

Angels Grau is a Catalan artist who spends her time between Barcelona, New York, and a small village located in the breathtaking Priorat, one of the most n...

18th century style, “Young aristocrat with pet dog”

Signed lower left, 'Goetz' for Jack Goetz (American, born 1919); additionally signed, verso, dated 1998, titled 'Toreador', with artist information. A dramatic figural study of a proud, young toreador shown seated, wearing an embroidered vest and gazing directly towards the viewer. Goetz has painted and exhibited with success for many years and continues to paint at the age of 104. Speaking of himself, the artist says: "I studied arts and languages at Santa Monica College, taking classes in oil and watercolor painting, sculpture, ceramics, art history and music. At the same time, I studied with master painter Sergei Bongart. Because he taught many people in the movie business, I had fun meeting and painting with people...

Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Grace Kelly Icon Platinum" Series: Icon Platinum *Signed by Graves lower right. It is also signed, titled, and dated on verso Year:...

Signed lower right, 'Richmond' for George Richmond, RA (British, 1809 – 1896) and painted circa 1845. Displayed in a period, carved and giltwood frame. (Framed dimensions: 22.75 x 21.5 x 1.0) This English painter and portraitist was a founding member of The Ancients, a group of followers of William Blake. Later in life, he established himself as a successful society portrait painter of the British gentry, nobility and royalty. George Richmond was the son of Thomas Richmond the miniature-painter and, also, the father of the painter William Blake Richmond. For a short time, he attended a day school in Soho, before became a student at London's Royal Academy. Here he was much impressed by Henry Fuseli, his professor of painting, and formed a lifelong friendship with Samuel Palmer, and had as fellow-students and companions Edward Calvert...

Lord and Lady Eliot, by Manuel Santelices Acrylic on gesso panel Image size: 12 in. H x 9 in. W Unframed 2023 The worlds of fashion, society, and pop culture are explored through t...

Clean, surreal depiction of a Boy Scout by Robert Peluce (American, 1937-2004). Dressed in full uniform, a Boy Scout holds a pipe to his lips. Above the ...

Antique impressionist painting. Watercolor and gouache on paper, circa 1950. Housed in a vintage frame. Image size, 11L x 9H.

Fred Hughes and Diana Vreeland in New York, by Manuel Santelices Ink and watercolor on paper Image size: 12 in. H x 9 in. W Unframed 2023 The worlds of fashion, society, and pop cu...

A exquisite Mid-Century Modern portrait oil on canvas of a young woman carrying a child. The outfits of the woman and child have vivid colors in pink and blue while the rest of the p...

Verano Description: Oil on canvas, figurative, red, pink, gestural, modern, abstract This painting is a double portrait that is more than the sum of its parts. Expressively painted,...

Nicholas Ashley Cooper, earl of Shaftesbury, by Manuel Santelices Pencil, watercolor, and gouache on paper Image size: 15 in. H x 11 in. W Unframed 2023 The worlds of fashion, soci...

Ken Cunningham's "For This From That Will Be Filled" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts two women picking apples of green and red with the silhouette of a tree behind...

Pug dog dressed like a general Hand Painted #3 of edition of 20 NY Street Artist Y.M. Lo oil painting. contemporary Street in NYC, Hong Kong Comes ROLLED in ...

REWA says of her work… Viewers largely label me under “Contemporary African Art”. I label my work as Igbo Vernacular Art. The reason for this is that I believe that I have created a truly original body of work that exists outside formal academic or Western dialogue. My art is drawn from life itself and deeply anchored in a place and culture from which it was derived. This is the Igbo culture pertaining to the Igbos of Nigeria. I think that this description is more accurate as it implies a unique iteration of customs and tradition, bound to a particular location and a particular people.  Igbo Vernacular Art is not to be mistaken with Folk Art, but rather, concerns itself with an expressive aesthetic that would be more commonly associated with Contemporary of Modern Art; form, composition and narrative. Vernacular dialects are anchored to a particular land, and in much the same way, my art contains a vocabulary that is built on a strong sense of place and is situated in a location and a history.  It is my hope that one day, my work will be included in art historical dialogue about Africa and specifically Nigeria, beyond the confines of the wide-reaching Contemporary African Art designation. ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ REWA was born and raised between Nigeria and England and received a BSc. in Physiology and Pharmacology from University College London (UCL). She previously worked as the Head of Corporate Development and Investor Relations...

Ken Cunningham's "A Mirror to Presence" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a woman holding a red apple.

The Memorial of Vivienne Westwood series, by Manuel Santelices Set of 6 drawings of guests at the Vivienne Westwood Memorial in London, February 2023...

[ New Orleans, LA :: b.1959, Augsburg, Germany ] In 1959, Ruth Owens was born to a young German woman and a Black serviceman from Georgia. The nomadi...

Framed Dimensions: 13h x 9.50w in RUTH OWENS graduated in 2018 with an MFA from the University of New Orleans after leaving her medical practice of 25 years. She is represented by t...

Framed Dimensions: 13h x 10.25w in RUTH OWENS graduated in 2018 with an MFA from the University of New Orleans after leaving her medical practice of 25 years. She is represented by ...