20th Century Portrait Paintings
Period: 20th Century
Color: Brown
Little Sister, Big Sister, c.1970
Located in Franklin, MI
A wonderful painting in the style clearly identified
with the artist.
Category
American Modern 20th Century 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
Tonalist 20th Century 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
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Blue Collar Gritty Truck Driver with Tiger - Color field meets Social Realism
Located in Miami, FL
Gritty working class truck driver with tiger painting on truck door, is rendered in a flat and quick style with rapid brushstrokes defining the trucker. The tiger is painted in a t...
Category
Color-Field 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
Impressionist 20th Century 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
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, 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
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
Academic 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
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
Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
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
Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
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
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
1900 Young Girl
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Mixed Media
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
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
American Realist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
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
American Realist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Mixed Media
Still Life with Plants
Located in Germantown, NY
Stuart Bigley is an artist based in New York’s beautiful Hudson Valley. He has been making and showing his artwork for over 40 years. During this time he also co-founded and ran th...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
The Old Jewish Scholar
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fabulous little gem oil painting. Looks to be a Rabbi or Jewish scholar. It is signed, could be March? not sure. The professional frame measures 14 inches high by 12 1/4 wide and has silk matting...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Locked in Love Huge French Modernist Original Oil Painting, Signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Locked in Love, Abstract Portrait, Original Oil Painting, Signed
By French artist Elisabeth Dujarric, b.1930-2005
Oil painting on canvas, unframed
Canvas size: 46 x 35 inches
Elisabeth Dujarric de la Rivière...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
20th CENTURY FRENCH MODERNIST PAINTING - HALF LENGTH PORTRAIT MALE NUDE
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Male Portrait"
by Jean Marc (French 1949-2019)
gouache paint
painting: 16 x 12.5 inches
provenance: private collection, South of France
Superb original painting by the widely exhi...
Category
Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Indian African Face Woman
Located in New York, NY
Timothee (Tymo) Pierre, "Indian African Face Woman", Signed Abstract/ Figurative Portrait Painting, Acrylic Paint on Cardboard, 13.50 x 10.50, Late 20th ...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Cardboard
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
French School 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Oval Portrait of Mother and Daughter early 20 century Scandinavian Oil Painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
Sketch (or Non-Finito work) done by an unknown Scandinavian professional artist in a semi-modernist manner. A tender scene of family harmony, a daughter sits in her mother’s arms, co...
Category
Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Boy and puppy
Located in Belgrade, MT
Madeline Luka (French 1894-1989) was a self taught painter known for her landscapes, portraits, nudes and still lifes. She typically portrayed her family and close friends set within...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Family Portrait Mother with Children Playing Coins Framed Antique Oil Painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
Family genre scene late 19th early 20th century. The boy, tired of posing for a portrait painter, decided to play by spinning a coin on the table, this game greatly impressed his you...
Category
Realist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil, Cardboard
woman smoking mixed media painting
By Jordi Curos
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman smoking - Mixed media
Mixed technique on canvas board.
Work measures 55x46 cm.
Frame measures 59x50.
Jordi Curós V...
Category
Fauvist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"My Name is Freddie" - Portrait of Black Woman with Headscarf
By Lucille H. Olpin
Located in Soquel, CA
A beautiful, painterly portrait of a young black woman with colorful headscarf and sarong by Lucille H. Olpin (Ethel Lucille Harman Olpin), (American, 1909-1990). Signed "Olpin" lowe...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Young Dutch Girl
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Signed and dated lower right; signed, titled and inscribed Milano. Observed in frame, the painting is in good condition. A minor loss to the left center edge. Inspection under UV lig...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
1940's Fashion Illustration - Lady In White Dress With Draped Orange Head Scarf
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas.
The painting, executed in gouache and pencil.
The sketch is original, vintage and me...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
A Touch of Humor Study
By John Watkins
Located in Fort Washington, PA
A joker holding a clown puppet.
Signed lower right
Watkins, John:. British painter, watercolorist, and engraver, active 1876-1908
Category
Other Art Style 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board
Blue-Eyed Young Woman Portrait Framed Oval by Swedish Master early 20th century
Located in Stockholm, SE
Signed lower left “С Wilhemson” possibly leading to Carl Wilhelm Wilhelmson (1866 - 1928), was a Swedish painter, draftsman, graphic artist, art educator and professor at the Royal A...
Category
Realist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Girl, Oil Portrait Painting by Jan de Ruth
By Jan De Ruth
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jan De Ruth, Czech (1922 - 1991)
Title: Portrait of a Girl
Year: circa 1964
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l.
Size: 14 in. x 10 in. (35.56 cm x 25.4 cm)
Frame Size: 21 x 17...
Category
Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Don't Cry Long" Abstracted and Distorted Self-Portrait, One Crying Eye
Located in Detroit, MI
"Don't Cry Long" is a self-portrait of the artist and an unusual one at that in which the artist portrays herself shedding tears. Perhaps it is an expression of some grief experienced by Ms. Woodlock, but it also admonishes her to not "Cry Long" while at the same time poking fun because of her elongated face and the one lone "long" tear tracing a pattern down her face. In addition to self-portraits, Ethelyn painted commissioned portraits. In this painting her head is cocked and her famous bangs hang down her forehead. Compare two self-portraits, “Up From Under”, and “M’Eyes" to "Don't Cry Long." The major differences are the close facial view and the brilliant blood red paint that fills the entire canvas.
This painting is included in the book, "Dreams Have Wings: An Artist's Journey into Magic and Mystery" printed in the United States, 1985. She describes "Don't Cry Long" as showing how funny looking we are, if we cry too long.
Ethelyn Woodlock...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Portrait. 1975, oil on plywood, 32x27, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait. 1975, oil on plywood, 32x27,5 cm
Abstract portrait
Robert Elibekyan (1941) (Armenian: Ռոբերտ Էլիբեկյան; born 21 April 1941) is an Armenian pa...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Plywood
Early Modern American Portrait, Pennsylvania/Massachusetts, Frank Anderson Trapp
Located in Baltimore, MD
This is a very stylized and powerful portrait by the noted artist Frank Anderson Trapp. It is dated 1940, and is very much in the modern style of French painters Ferdinand Leger and...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Porcelain Portrait of Woman in Giltwood Frame
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Exceptional porcelain plaque of a beautiful lady mounted in an ornate Italian giltwood baroque style frame, dating back to the early 1900’s. Frame measurements are 8.5" high by 5" wi...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Porcelain, Wood, Paint
Art Nouveau Portrait of Redhaired Lady Watercolor by French Master Brisgard
Located in Stockholm, SE
Signed lower left "G. Brisgard" (Gustave Joseph Marie Brisgand, 1867 - 1944). This stunning portrait of a supposedly young movie star captures the essence of old school glamor in the film industry (perhaps old Hollywood...). Dressed in a beautiful stage gown, she holds an intricately patterned box close to her heart. What treasures could be inside? Perhaps precious jewelry or heartfelt letters from a special someone. Who knows... One thing is certain, this box holds great value to her. In 1993, this painting was entitled “Le Secret”, it was masterly executed in early 20th century in the manner of Pre-Raphaelites with strong flavor of Art Nouveau though.
Size app.: 71 x 52.5 cm (roughly 28 x 20.7 in), frame is 94.5 x 75.5 cm (roughly 37.2 x 29.7 in). Appears to be in very good pristine condition with minimal wear to painting (slight discoloration by spots), ready to hang. Please study good resolution images for cosmetic condition. In person actual painting may appear darker or brighter than in our pictures, strictly depending on sufficient light in your environment. Weight of app. 3.6 kg is going to measure 7 kg packed for shipment.
Brisgand's, french painter and pastellist. An academic painter, he specialized in portraits of women (pinups) and female nudes. He was the student of Auguste Allongé...
Category
Art Nouveau 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper, Watercolor
Sir Winston Churchill Large Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Sir Winston Churchill
British School, circa 1970's
Signed by the artist on the upper right hand corner
Oil painting on board
painting size: 20 x...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
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
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled (Portrait of a Belly Dancer)
Located in Cliffside Park, NJ
A very large portrait of a young indian woman posing for the artist. While not much is known about the artist or the subject, it appears to have been owned by a resident of London at...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
1950's French Signed Oil Portrait of a Nude Lady Soft Lighting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, mid 20th century, indistinctly signed lower corner
Title: Portrait of a Nude Lady
Medium: signed oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 18 x 21.75...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Young Baseball Player, John J. Haak, Jr. Impressionist Portraiture
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Mathias Alten (German/American, 1871-1938)
Signed: M. Alten 1909 (Lower, Right)
" Portrait of John J. Haak, Jr. ", 1909
" Portrait of a Young Baseball ...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Abstract Expressionist -- An Artist and His Tools
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful abstract expressionist figurative of a painter at work, deeply focused on his subject is captured by California artist Molly E. Brubaker (American, 1922-2000). Unframed. Im...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Study head of nostalgia, portrait of a melancholy-looking boy in a white shirt
Located in Gent, VOV
Study head of nostalgia, portrait of a melancholy-looking boy in a white shirt. Oil/canvas, signed lower left Kunz Meyer
Meyer-Waldeck Kunz, an artist of Latvian origin, was born o...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil painting 'The Girl in The Red Dress' by William Frank Calderon (1865-1943)
Located in Uppingham, GB
Oil on Canvas "The girl in the Red Dress" by W Frank Calderon, RA (no58) Exhibit 1911. Calderon was influenced by the "Art Nouveau"period, this painting shows his beautiful detailed...
Category
Art Nouveau 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Impressionist Painting "Ballerina" by Andre Gisson
By André Gisson
Located in Rochester, NY
"Ballerinas" impressionist painting by Andre Gisson (1921-2003). Soft colors and bright light are hallmarks of Gissons work. This is rare subject manor for the artist. Although Ame...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Canvas, Oil
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic Canvas Painting Profile Compartmentalized 415.074
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Compartmentalized 415.074 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic and Paper on Canvas Painting
Profile Compartmentalized 415.074 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series...
Category
Feminist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Acrylic
Basking in the Sun - Mid Century Modern Multicolor Female Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Multi-colored figurative oil painting of a woman in bikini bathing in the California sun by listed California artist Jon Blanchette (American, 1908-1987). The colorful background is...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Woman with Hat - Oil Paint by Edmondo Maneglia - 1950
Located in Roma, IT
Woman with hat is an oil painting realized by Edmondo Maneglia (1925 - 2003).
Woman sitting at the table with glass.
Oil painting on canvas.
Handsigned in the lower left and on th...
Category
Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Impressionist Painting "Ballerina" by Andre Gisson
By André Gisson
Located in Rochester, NY
"Ballerinas" impressionist painting by Andre Gisson (1921-2003). Soft colors and bright light are hallmarks of Gisson's work. This is rare subject manor for the artist. Although Am...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Canvas, Wood, Oil
woman with guitar mixed media painting
By Jordi Curos
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman smoking
Mixed technique on canvas board.
Work measurements 55x46 cm.
Frameless.
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanis...
Category
Fauvist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Rare Hungarian Jewish Rabbi Judaica Oil Painting Portrait
By Lajos Polczer
Located in Surfside, FL
Rare Pre World War II (Pre Holocaust) Judaica Art. European Judaic art from this period is exceedingly rare.
Polczer was an Hungarian artist, his foundations of painting were taught by a painter Bertalan Karlovszky. His works were exhibited in the National Salon and the Art Hall from 1928. His works are held by the Hungarian National Gallery. In his later years he worked in the United States, he was working in New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 1960s. Known for his Jewish genre scenes, Chess scenes and other early 20th Century salon style nude paintings. In the tradition of Moritz Oppenheim...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ballet D'enfants
Located in Sheffield, MA
Suzanne Eisendieck
French, 1908-1998
Ballet D'enfants
Oil on canvas
36 by 29 ½ in. W/frame 44 by 37 ½ in.
Signed lower right
She was born in Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland) in 1908 ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Original Ronald Shap oil painting portrait, signed
Located in Columbus, OH
Original oil painting by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. A thoughtful portrait of an older man in orange and gray from the artist's early imp...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Young Woman', Mid-Century Chinoiserie Portrait, Laughing Buddha, Tea Ceremony
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Sanchez Palacio' (Latin-American, 20th Century) and dated 1950.
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Surreal Female Portrait Symbolic Rural Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist surreal oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found.
Category
Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil Painting by Henri Benard "Portrait of Aliette de Pigeard"
Located in Mere, GB
Oil Painting by Henri Benard "Portrait of Aliette de Pigeard" 1860- 1927 Aliette de Pigeard (1897 - 1969) married Pedro de Prat, Marquis de Nantouillet, a Spanish ambassador. Their d...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
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