20th Century Portrait Paintings

Romantic Portraits Richir Herman Brussels 1866 – 1942 Belgian Painter Signature: Attributed to Richir Herman Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: Image size 67,50 x 62,50 cm, frame size 69,50 x 64,50 cm Biography: Richir Herman Jean Joseph was born in Ixelles (Brussels), on November 4, 1866. He was a Belgian painter of portraits, still lifes, genre paintings, nudes and landscapes. He made decorative paintings to fit into private homes. Richir mainly painted portraits. His clients usually belonged to the higher circles. He portrayed amongst others King Albert and Queen Elisabeth, Cardinal Mercier and Countess d’Oultremont. Less known are the landscape paintings he made Limburg and Kempen, where he regularly stayed with befriended artist Emile Van Doren (1865 – 1949). Herman Richir first studied at the Sint-Joost-ten-Node Academy with Gustave Biot and Charles Hermans, continued his education at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels (1884-1889) with the master teacher and artist Jean-Francois Portaels (1818 – 1895). In 1886, during his studies, he won second Prize of Rome for Painting. Richir lived in Schaarbeek. In 1900 he became a teacher of drawing and in 1905 first teacher of painting after nature at the Brussels Academy. He was director there several times 1906-1907, 1910, 1911, 1915-1919, 1925-1927. He was retired in 1927. His pupils included Albert Alleman (1892 – 1933), Éliane de Meuse (1899 – 1993), Paul Hagemans (1884 – 1959), Maurice Mareels (1893 – 1976), Guy Onkelinx (1879 – 1935), Georges Rogy (1897 – 1981), José Storie (1899 – 1961), Charles Swyncop (1895 – 1970), Maurice Schelck...

Artist: Jan De Ruth, Czech (1922 - 1991) Title: Afternoon Year: circa 1965 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed Size: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.64 cm) Frame Size: 26 x 22 inches

Portrait of a little girl with a ball of thread. Oil on cardboard, 46x40 cm

FIGURE IN THE DARK Size: 49 x 40 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas An emotive and expressive semi-abstract figurative portrait, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1975. The co...

Incredibly realistic and charming early 20th century oval portrait of a young child. Oil on board signed and dated top left. Cannot make out signature. Date looks to be 1915. Wonderful frame looks to be original to the painting. It measures 25 3/4 inches high by 21 3/4 wide. One of the finest child portraits...

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...

A charming relic of a bygone era, this rare oil is the work of the inimitable American illustrator, Norman Rockwell. The iconic artist’s ability to render the details and nuances of ...

Signed & Dated LR Vaclav Vytlacil (Vas-lav Vit-la-chil) was born in New York City in 1892 to Czech parents, but was raised in Chicago. He was an artist since boyhood, becoming the y...

American life is captured in this Clyde Singer painting, Red Coat, where he depicts a woman walking down the street towards her destination in 1956. An accomplished American Scene pa...

Original painting on canvas. Hand signed on front by the artist. Studio stamp on verso. Custom framed with hand painted fillet. Canvas size 40 x 30 inches. Framed size approx 49 ...

Jean-Gabriel Domergue 1889-1962 French Josianna, jeune femme au ruban (Josianna, Young Woman With Ribbon) Signed "Jean Gabriel Domergue" (lower left) Oil on panel A young French beauty known as Josianna is the subject of this work by Jean-Gabriel Domergue, and the oil on panel is a perfect example of the portraits for which the artist is renowned. His model embodies the concept of the la belle Parisienne: slender, swan-like women bearing an unmistakable grace and style. Domergue includes a delicate pink ribbon around her neck, suggesting a fashionable garment, set against a soft pastel-colored backdrop. The artist's oeuvre encompasses women from all facets of society, from aristocratic figures such as Liane de Pougy and Nadine, Baroness de Rothschild...

One of the hallmarks of great art is recognizing the artist's style instantly. This is the case with Richard Erdoes. His highly stylized comic figures are expressive and communicate the story delightfully and joyfully. Even though this work is rendered in flat, minimalistic two colors, the inventive shape relationships and positive and negative areas convey a very high level of artistic skill. The present work was done on assignment for the prestigious Standard Oil ( Exxon's predecessor ) corporation's company magazine, The Lamp. Although not a newstand magazine, The Lamp had the highest editional and artistic content. Work is unsigned and unframed. Richard Erdoes (Hungarian Erdős, German Erdös; July 7, 1912 – July 16, 2008) was an American artist, photographer, illustrator and author. Early life Erdoes was born in Frankfurt,to Maria Josefa Schrom on July 7, 1912. His father, Richárd Erdős Sr., was a Jewish Hungarian...

Signed with monogram HLv: Excellent condition.

French Character Portrait French school, Mid 20th Century Gouache paint on unframed paper signed lower corner Image : 12 x 9.25 inches Superbly decorative 1960's French portrait p...

Agnes Louise Agnete Jensen Weie (Danish, 1878-1964) and painted circa 1911. Unsigned. Provenance: ABR auction 170, 1964, catalog #83, 1964 (see photo). Inscribed, verso, '83/170' fro...

American school abstract painting. Watercolor on paper, circa 1970. Signed. Image size, 5.5"L x 8.5"H.

Paul Trebilcock (American, 1902 - 1981) Signed: Paul Trebilcock (Lower, Right) " BB " , circa 1950s Oil on Canvas 30" x 25" Housed in a 2 3/4" Carved Period Frame Overall Size:...

Artwork sold with frame (101.5 x 82.5 cm) Jean Verdier (1901–1969) was a Swiss painter, actor and bank employee; born and deceased in Geneva. His artistic oeuvre is characterized by...

Evocative, contemporary portrait of a woman wearing a hat by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Washes of thin, gold-colored paint, which we bel...

Jadviga Žilvinska (1918-2010) was born in Tallinn. She grew up in Liepāja, where her great interest in art began and strengthened, which led the young artist to study at the Art Aca...

From the Michael Hall Collection, this is a great American scene showing the excitement of the fair. It depicts a time when men wore coats and ties and women had hats at the fair be...

Arturs Nikitins (born 1936) - painter, graphic artist. 1962 – graduated from the Latvian Art Academy, Graphic Department with the diploma work “The workers of Novorosijsk” under th...

Clyde Singer was a master of capturing the small and significant moments of everyday life. This painting, titled Girl Reading Card, 1948, is one of those perfect scenes that he docu...

Anna Milo Upjohn was an overlooked female illustrator in the school of Jessie Willcox Smith. Her work displays a deep academic knowledge evident in her stylized illustrations of children and engaging their world. Signed lower right- 'A.M.UPJOHN" unframed. She was an assignment artist for renowned women's publications such as The Woman's Home Companion and children's books, as well as commercial assignments.s for the Red Cross. Unframed Anna Milo Upjohn (1868–1951) was an American artist, illustrator, author, and relief worker who, late in her long career, became known for paintings, drawings, and illustrations she made for the American Red Cross. After graduating from high school, she studied art briefly in New York but obtained most of her training in Paris from Claudio Castelucho and Lucien Simon.[1] In the early years of the twentieth century, she became known both for her portraits and paintings of children and for her book and magazine illustrations. Finding herself in France at the outset of the First World War, she devoted herself to relief work first among the refugees in Paris and later among the devastated villages in France and Belgium. Having spent the first half of her adult life as an independent professional, she served as a staff artist for the American Red Cross between 1921 and 1931. She traveled extensively during her adult life and lived mostly in New York City; Ithaca, New York; and Washington, D.C. Early life and training During the 1870s, Upjohn's family lived with her grandfather, a well-known architect named Richard Upjohn who had retired to a scenic home in Garrison, New York. Richard Upjohn's biographer says when she was about five she would accompany him as he sketched and painted. She questioned him about his color choices and learned that artists often chose colors different from the ones present in the subjects they painted. He also showed her engravings of famous paintings, explaining what made them great and where they fell short in his view.[2] Her family was living in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin when she graduated from high school in 1887.[3] A few years later, the family moved to New York, where, in the early 1890s, she took classes at the Cooper Union Woman's Art School.[4] She began her foreign travels in 1893 and during the next few years studied art in Munich, Florence, and Paris.[5] In 1902, she took an illustration class at the National Academy of Design and the following year won the Academy's Suydam silver medal for her work.[6] Between 1909 and 1912, she studied and traveled in Europe's other major cities.[7] In 1922, Upjohn told a reporter that she had studied art "in many places, usually for a few months at a time and disconnectedly, but what counted most was the work she did in Paris under Castelucho and Lucien Simon.”[1] Born in Barcelona, Castelucho's birth name was Claudi Catelucho Diana, but he went by his surname alone. In Paris during the early years of the twentieth century, he and Simon both trained private students and both taught at two mondernist alternatives to the École des Beaux Arts: the Académie Colarossi and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière.[8] Upjohn did not say whether she took private lessons, classes, or both. Career in art Image No. 1, Anna Milo Upjohn, Young Boy Going Fishing, 1910, oil on canvas, 25 x 30 inches In 1890, at the age of twenty-one, Upjohn completed a painting of angels for St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Her uncle Richard M. Upjohn had designed the building and her father was currently its rector (having succeeded John Henry Hobart Brown...

Blue, red, and yellow abstract modern portrait painting by Texas artist Robert Sandman. The work features a well dressed man with part of his face obscu...

A charming study of Anselm Feuerbach's Orpheus and Eurydice. Bears signature to the lower left. Presented in a substantial gilt frame. On board.

Soldier. 1950. Cardboard, author technique, 39,5x20 cm Artwork depicts a soldier in motion. Author has used a mixed media technique on cardboard. Both the soldier himself and the fe...

'The Fishermen', oil on canvas, by Anna Costa (circa 1970s). Cassis is a small, Provencal fishing village in southern France, located about 45 minutes east of Marseille and 45 minute...

Signed lower right: 'A.Brook '59'. Painted in Sag Harbor, Long Island in 1959. Adeline (Adaline) Glasheen was a writer. She was a friend of the artist and worked in literary circle...

Henri Émilien Rousseau French 1875 – 1933 Portrait of the Arabian Horse Moscow Oil on board, signed lower left Image size: 15 x 18 inches This splendid rendition of the horse b...

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 expo...

This evocative portrait captures the essence of ageing through its detailed depiction of an elderly figure, rendered in warm earthy tones against a muted background. Signed. Presente...

Small dark grey abstract expressionist painting of a figure's face by Dick Wray. The painting is currently unframed. Artist Biography: Dick Wray, a native Houstonian, born in Heigh...

Popularized during the Qing dynasty, reverse glass painting requires an artist to essentially work backwards, starting with details and shading before adding color and form. Lending the finished work a subtle three-dimensional effect, this exacting technique doesn't allow for any corrections, and is only revealed to its full effect when the glass pane is turned around. This example dates to the late 19th century and depicts the Taoist immortals He Xiangu...

Great Italian painting from the first half of the 20th century. Artwork oil on canvas, on the first canvas, depicting a religious subject Saint Roch with dog and stick of good pictor...

Portrait of a Lady in Traditional Attire Bali? South East Asia? circa 1960's period oil on canvas, framed in original frame framed: 44 x 34 inches canvas: 36 x 26 inches Provenance: ...

"Riggs openly identified as gay to his friends in the Philadelphia art community, but did not disclose his orientation to his employers." - Woodmere Art Museum 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...

Original acrylic on canvas. Hand signed, titled and dated on verso by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable offers will ...

This captivating 1960s vintage oil painting, Demeter and Persephone, is an original, signed work by celebrated mid-20th-century Denver artist Edward Marecek (1919–2004). Inspired by ...

Jean ABADIE (Tarbes 1921 – Ballan-Miré 2010) Market in Périgord Oil on canvas H. 73 cm; L. 92 cm Signed lower right Provenance: - Galerie France-Art, Paris, circa 1980 - Private col...

BEHIND THE MASK Size: 43 x 35 cm (including frame) Oil on board A bold and enigmatic mid-century figurative portrait, executed in oil onto board and dated 1957. The composition dep...

Signed lower right, 'Goetz' for Jack Goetz (American, born 1919). Jack Goetz has painted and exhibited with success for many years and continues to paint at the age of 104. Speaki...

Icono of Saint Nicolas in the style of Russian icons of the 18th century. Egg tempera and gesso on wood, covered by a metal oklad made by the artist himself. The oklad, in principle, were made to cover damaged parts of highly revered ancient icons...

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...

Scandinavian School, early twentieth century. Unsigned and inscribed, verso, on stretcher bar, 'Anna Ancher' with additional indistinct inscription and painted circa 1910. A psychol...

Dorothea Stefula was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1914 and studied at the art academy in Hamburg. Stefula illustrated numerous children's books, designed postage stamps, painted fresc...

A gentle, quiet, lovely portrait of motherhood painted by British artist Arthur Bradbury in 1927, a distinguished painter who over the years exhibited 14 works at the Royal Academy. ...

Original oil on canvas. Hand signed on front and signed, titled and dated on verso by the artist. Framed. Canvas size 40 x 32 in. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of ...

Artist: Peter Max, German/American (1937 - ) Title: Portrait of Dr. Burger, the Diet Doctor, v. 2 Year: 1991 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed upper right and signed, dated, and numb...

There is no one alive that can paint and draw like Dean Cornwell. How can that be? They do not train artist the way they did. He was Normal Rockwell's ...

ARTIST: Leonard John Fuller ROI (1891-1973) English TITLE: "The Ballet Rehearsal" MEDIUM: oil on board SIZE: 57cm x 42cm incl frame CONDITION: very good NOTES: Portrait, figure, still life and landscape painter in oil. Fuller studied art at Clapham School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools, then began his notable career as a teacher of painting and drawing at St John’s Wood Art Schools 1922–32. From 1927–37 was assistant art master at Dulwich College, where he had been educated. In 1938 Fuller moved to St Ives, Cornwall, where he founded the St Ives School of Painting, which he ran until he died. Although Fuller was a painter of a traditional kind, he was open to new ideas, advocating a more tolerant approach to modern art in 1953 in St Ives, four years after the founding of the Penwith Society of Arts, of which he was elected chairman. Advanced artists such as Terry Frost and Bob Law...

Frolic, 19th Century by Erna Hoppe-Kinross 1875-1964 - close friend of Claude Monet Large 19th Century French Impressionist scene of the children of summer, oil on canvas by Erna H...

Acrylic paint on paper Signed Unique work

"Self Portrait" by Philadelphia born modernist painter Leon Kelly, is a moody and atmospheric self portrait of the artist in younger years at age 24. The 18" x 16" oil on board, fram...

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This superb British 1940's portrait oil painting is by noted artist Frank Owen Salisbury also known as Frank O'Salisbury. Painted in 1944 it is a three quarter length portrait of a l...

Christ, the Great High Priest. Greek-Italian style Icon with silver filigreed oklad. Egg tempera, over gesso on wood with a silver cover, "oklad", with pol...

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...

"Texas Artist Richard E. Fluhr was born in New York City in 1955 and for the past forty years has been living the artists dream. He has refined his own visual and conceptual vocabul...

Signed center right, 'Ketcham' for Hank Ketcham (American, 1920-2001) and dated 1990. Hank Ketcham, the creator of Dennis the Menace, was born in Seattle...