20th Century Portrait Paintings

Artist/ School: French School, circa 1960's, indistinctly signed with monogram Title: Portrait of a Young blonde haired lady dressed in white. Presented in beautiful ornate frame. ...

A Salvation Army Santa looks on with a mixture of fatigue and disinterest as a group of children tell him their Christmas gift wish lists in this lighthearted composition by leading American illustrator Leslie Thrasher. This painting was created for the December 20, 1930 issue of Liberty Magazine, for which the artist illustrated covers on a weekly basis for six consecutive years. Thrasher is known for his scenes of everyday American life imbued with a sense of humor, qualities represented to great effect in this charming painting. 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 everyday 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...

Female artist Louise Lue Osborne paints a classic composition with an interaction of two women and a child soaked in golden late light. The figural gro...

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This is most likely a self-portrait. We see the artist in a reflection holding a small 1950s camera while his wife in the foreground holds a large bran...

Portrait Of The Artists Mother, early 20th Century by VIOLET EVELYN ARNOTT (1901-1953) - exhibited work Large early 20h century portrait of the artists mother, oil on canvas by Vi...

"Femme Rousse Sur Fond Vert" is an original oil on canvas impressionistic portrait of a woman by Albert Bertalan. A red-headed lady in a purple and white striped collared coat sits in front of a green background daydreaming about something personal. The painting is framed with an ornate gold frame. From the late 19th century until World War Two, Paris was the center of the art world. Artists and intellectuals from around the globe descended on Paris, drawn by the atmosphere of creative freedom established by the French Impressionists. Because of the Impressionists’ innovations the direction of art had changed forever, the times were ripe for another Renaissance. The School of Paris, as this broad-based group of artists are referred to embodied the spirit of modernism. Albert Bertalan was born on September 21, 1899 in Jaszbereny, Hungary. He is known for painting compositions of figures in unique environments, including women by the sea, among other similar subject matters. He studied at the Nagybanyai Art School under some of the most important Hungarian artists, including Ivànyi Grünwald...

4069 Italian nobleman oil painting unframed

Elegant Portrait of a Lady signed oil on canvas, unframed dated 1962 canvas : 26 x 20 inches Provenance: private collection Condition: very good condition Description: This stunning...

Meticulously rendered account of three prospectors trying to rustle up some water before they can dig up some gold. Magazine Illustration of the Old West, American West, Cowboys Casein on board, Western / Frontier Art...

Oil on paper by Edouard Goerg (1893-1969), France, 1937-1938. Two young Spanish girls. Measurements : with frame: 61.3x51.8 cm - 24.1x20.4 inches, view: 39x28.6 cm - 15.4x11.25 inche...

A beautiful large 1920's French post-impressionist oil on canvas portrait of a young lady by Charles Picart le Doux. The artist is very interesting and was friends with Picasso, Piss...

Self-portrait of the painter with beret and brush in hand, 1930s Period: Circa 1930s Italian school. Technique: Oil on wooden panel Frame: Painted wooden frame, coeval Dimensions: ...

This painting by Salvador Aulestia (Barcelona 1915 - Milano 1994) embraces the "figurative post-cubism" style. In fact Salvador Aulestia was artistically grown during the maximum su...

Expressive Male Portrait French, mid 20th century from the studio collection of Simone Forge (1930's-1950's female French artist) oil on canvas, unframed Canvas: 24 x 19.75 inches Pr...

"Femme Rousse Sur Fond Bleu" is an original oil on canvas impressionistic portrait of a woman by Albert Bertalan. A red-headed lady sits with her hand pressed upon her cheek thoughtfully thinking in front of a blue background. The painting is framed with an ornate gold frame. From the late 19th century until World War Two, Paris was the center of the art world. Artists and intellectuals from around the globe descended on Paris, drawn by the atmosphere of creative freedom established by the French Impressionists. Because of the Impressionists’ innovations the direction of art had changed forever, the times were ripe for another Renaissance. The School of Paris, as this broad-based group of artists are referred to embodied the spirit of modernism. Albert Bertalan was born on September 21, 1899 in Jaszbereny, Hungary. He is known for painting compositions of figures in unique environments, including women by the sea, among other similar subject matters. He studied at the Nagybanyai Art School under some of the most important Hungarian artists, including Ivànyi Grünwald...

Portrait of a Young Lady by Anna de Banguy (French mid 20th century) signed oil on board, framed framed: 29 x 23 inches painting: 23 x 17 inches provenance: private collection, Franc...

Jules Marie Auguste Leroux French, 1871-1954 Danseuse Oil on canvas 19 ¾ by 24 ⅛ in, w/ frame 27 ¾ by 32 ⅛ in Signed lower left Leroux rec...

His first name sounds like a concerto. Vivacious, its name is reminiscent of an aperitif or a cyclist. The addition of the two evokes the Italianate. Indomitable and unavoidable. Mor...

Frame size 86x114 cm. Josep Maria Mallol i Suazo (Barcelona, ​​​​1910 - Barcelona, ​​​​1986) is a well-known painter whom critics pointed out as one of the main names in non-avant-g...

Sierk Schröder (1903-2002) is considered to be the most important and most requested Dutch portrait painter of the twentieth century. Many well-known fi...

Vintage Latin American School Original Minimalist Painting of Artist’s Self Portrait in Acrylic on Paper Oustandingminimalist self portrait by California-based Latin American artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). The artist has represented himself is a stylized manner, yet is quite recognizable due to his beard and dark curly hair. He is wearing red clothing that contrasts nicely against the dark background. Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of the artist's work. No frame. Paper size: 19"H x 16"W From a collection of Ricardo de Silva's work and memorabilia. DeSilva was born in Brazil and grew up in Los Angeles. He was a gallery owner, first in Santa Barbara in the 1960's and 70's, then in San Jose in the 1980's. He was dedicated to promoting the work of talented upcoming artists, including Kogyo and Hasui Kiyochika, Robert Frame, Jim Stuckenberg...

Artist/ School: Italian School, 20th century, indistinctly signed Title: Mother & Child Medium: oil on canvas, unframed Canvas : 32 x 25.5 inches Provenance: private collection...

This is a rare painting by Salvador Aulestia (Barcelona 1915 - Milano 1994) from his series dedicated to the "linearism" with a strong color presence. Colors range from Yellow, Azure...

Portrait of a Japanese Woman wearing Traditional Kimono Oil on wood panel signed upper right with a japanese ideogram Signature unread Other portrai...

Technical Sheet - Title: *The Secret in Her Eyes* - Artist: Rosendo González Carbonell - Technique: Oil on canvas - Dimensions: 24 x 20 inches - Framing: Unframed - Style: Romantic realism...

Portrait of Young Girl is an artwork realized by Pietro Alimonti, 1969. Oil on Canvas. 49 x 39 cm ; 88 x 68 cm. Handsigned in the lower left margin. Good conditions!

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Untitled (Abstract Female Nude) Year: 1963 Medium: Acrylic on illustration board Size: 29.5 x 21 inches Condition: Good Provenance: Estate of Ia...

Frameless. Is born in Madrid on the 21st july 1951. After attending primary school, he starts to grow an enormous tendency for drawing. At the age of 14 he begins to work in advertising and attends to the Vallecas school of arts. At the age of 14 he travels to Switzerland and in Geneve he gets intensly into painting and decides to dedicate himself only to it. When he returns to Spain he enrolls Arts Studies, and at the begining of summer '66, he visits Sitges, where he'll come back year after year and where ultimately he'll set his home. At this time he starts selling his painting in the flea market in Madrid and later in Sitges, setting himself on the street, thus completing his studies and making it economically. While he's in Madrid he recives lessons by Pedro Mozas at Bellas Artes and starts to learn profoundly about painting. In 1969 he starts painting portraits in the streets. In Sitges he creates, with other friends, a great artistic atmosphere in the Paseo de la Ribera, by the sea, that today still exists. He starts travelling through Europe, visiting and painting in Paris, London and Amsterdam. In the middle of this bohemian epoque, he moves to the Cannary Islands during the winters for 5 years in a row, he moves in the Parque de Santa Catalina "Las Palmas de Gran Canaria" where he works and meet all sorts of people in the streets, which later would mark his pictoric line. He becomes friend with Sidney Nagley in 1969, who organizes his first exhibition in Toronto, Canada. Afterwards he'll leave his studies and start painting exclusively in his studio. He gathers his first exhibition in the Ateneu of Barcelona in 1970. He befriends with the art critic of La Vanguardia, Fernando Gutierrez and the Count of Caralt orders him a set of illustration for a new edition of Garcia Lorcas Romancero Gitano. His first exhibition in a commercial gallery is done in the Majestic Gallery in Barcelona with a gorgeous collection of nudity drawings. He achieves huge success and for some years he affords his painting thanks to those drawings. During a period in Madrid, Mr Ponce de León, a consul in the Ministry of Exterior Affairs grants him with bachelor degree to study in the prestigious Academia de España in Rome. However, he can't accept it due to militar service obligations. Some days later, before joining the ranks he opens in the Cuatre Gats (Palma de Mallorca) with hiperrealist pieces that already then he presented as the first painter in that city, that later would become a fashion in 1973. After this period he meets José Maria Gudiol who advises positively. Since then, the intense work and the fight for daily improvement that has become the trademark of his life. The seek of styles and situations, the journeys through Europe always aware of all the tendencies that have in the art line that we can see nowadays. At his more than fifty years given to paint, his individual exhibitions beat the 100, his artwork is highly appreciated and valued in the complex market of art. In October 1982 hi makes his first exhibition in Tarragona. In the catalogue, writing of the unforgettable Fernando Gutierrez, he says "Fuentetaja is an artist of character and exceptional upbringing with a masterly knowledge of technique and resourses, and personality completely uncommon to the dimension of his sensitivity, as the richness of his deep and bloomed liricism. A judgement as accurate as foreseeing for the future outstanding of the artist, in where his paint soared through different phases mantaining an unquestionable quality. Lines, cubist, expressionist and hiperrealist till his current realism, in the middle of his creative maturity. Jose Luis Fuentetaja...

Ignacio Gil Sala (1913-2003) - Characters from Ibiza - Oil on canvas Oil measures 60x73 cm. Frameless. Ignacio Gil Sala, was a painter, bohemian character...

Born October 12, 1951 Jefferson County, Alabama Charlie Lucas exhibited overflowing creative and mechanical ability since he was a young child. When he ...

ALEXANDER KREISEL "MAN WITH YELLOW TIE" OIL ON CANVAS BOARD, SIGNED RUSSIAN-AMERICAN, C.1935 26 X 19.5 INCHES FRAMED 29.5 X 23.5 INCHES Alexander Krei...

Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is includ...

"Bow Tie" by Jean Marc (French 1949-2019) gouache paint painting: 16 x 11.75 inches provenance: private collection, South of France Superb original painting by the widely exhibited...

In a 1971 interview with Ebony Magazine, Alvin Hollinsworth commented on his African Jesus Christ painting, "I have always felt that Christ was a Blac...

This stunning British 1920's tempera oil on board painting is by noted artist John Young Hunter. It was painted circa 1927 and the composition is a f...

I am interested in portraits that reveal all the complexity and versatility of a person's spiritual appearance, when the inner content is revealed through the external. Painting a p...

Artist: Daniel Brennan Title: Girl in White Materials : Oil on Canvas Date : 1960's Dimensions : 46 1/2 x 32 in. COA provided In the late 1960's, Danie...

'Portrait of Boy in a Chair', gouache on art paper, by Raymond Debiève (circa 1960s). Here the artist paints a young boy, very probably his son, Vincent, sitting in a chair posing fo...

Frame size 52x44 Is born in Madrid on the 21st july 1951. After attending primary school, he starts to grow an enormous tendency for drawing. At the age of 14 he begins to work in advertising and attends to the Vallecas school of arts. At the age of 14 he travels to Switzerland and in Geneve he gets intensly into painting and decides to dedicate himself only to it. When he returns to Spain he enrolls Arts Studies, and at the begining of summer '66, he visits Sitges, where he'll come back year after year and where ultimately he'll set his home. At this time he starts selling his painting in the flea market in Madrid and later in Sitges, setting himself on the street, thus completing his studies and making it economically. While he's in Madrid he recives lessons by Pedro Mozas at Bellas Artes and starts to learn profoundly about painting. In 1969 he starts painting portraits in the streets. In Sitges he creates, with other friends, a great artistic atmosphere in the Paseo de la Ribera, by the sea, that today still exists. He starts travelling through Europe, visiting and painting in Paris, London and Amsterdam. In the middle of this bohemian epoque, he moves to the Cannary Islands during the winters for 5 years in a row, he moves in the Parque de Santa Catalina "Las Palmas de Gran Canaria" where he works and meet all sorts of people in the streets, which later would mark his pictoric line. He becomes friend with Sidney Nagley in 1969, who organizes his first exhibition in Toronto, Canada. Afterwards he'll leave his studies and start painting exclusively in his studio. He gathers his first exhibition in the Ateneu of Barcelona in 1970. He befriends with the art critic of La Vanguardia, Fernando Gutierrez and the Count of Caralt orders him a set of illustration for a new edition of Garcia Lorcas Romancero Gitano. His first exhibition in a commercial gallery is done in the Majestic Gallery in Barcelona with a gorgeous collection of nudity drawings. He achieves huge success and for some years he affords his painting thanks to those drawings. During a period in Madrid, Mr Ponce de León, a consul in the Ministry of Exterior Affairs grants him with bachelor degree to study in the prestigious Academia de España in Rome. However, he can't accept it due to militar service obligations. Some days later, before joining the ranks he opens in the Cuatre Gats (Palma de Mallorca) with hiperrealist pieces that already then he presented as the first painter in that city, that later would become a fashion in 1973. After this period he meets José Maria Gudiol who advises positively. Since then, the intense work and the fight for daily improvement that has become the trademark of his life. The seek of styles and situations, the journeys through Europe always aware of all the tendencies that have in the art line that we can see nowadays. At his more than fifty years given to paint, his individual exhibitions beat the 100, his artwork is highly appreciated and valued in the complex market of art. In October 1982 hi makes his first exhibition in Tarragona. In the catalogue, writing of the unforgettable Fernando Gutierrez, he says "Fuentetaja is an artist of character and exceptional upbringing with a masterly knowledge of technique and resourses, and personality completely uncommon to the dimension of his sensitivity, as the richness of his deep and bloomed liricism. A judgement as accurate as foreseeing for the future outstanding of the artist, in where his paint soared through different phases mantaining an unquestionable quality. Lines, cubist, expressionist and hiperrealist till his current realism, in the middle of his creative maturity. Jose Luis Fuentetaja...

This impressive British Edwardian portrait oil painting is by noted artist Frank Thomas Copnall. It was painted circa 1910 and hung in the Williamson Art Gallery and Museum in Birken...

Lorraine Fox was a pioneering female Illustrator/artist who championed a unique style immediately identified as hers. This work, in two parts, was most likely for a newsstand woman's...

This lithograph is part of my private collection of 20th Century artists. It is original, signed and numbered by the artist. Philippe Noyer was a French postwar and contemporary arti...

Leaning on a Pedestal Paul-César Helleu (1859-1927) JEUNE FEMME EN BUSTE, DE PROFIL À DROITE Black drypoint, circa 1900, on wove paper, signed and annotated 29 in pencil, with full ...

Cecile Hertz-Eyrolles (1875-1974), Portrait of a woman sitting on a wooden stool holding a large brass samovar. Oil on canvas. Unsigned. Artist's studio stamp verso. On stretchers.

Artist/ School: Josyne Gallet Title: ' La Match' Medium: signed oil painting on canvas, framed framed: 29.5 x 24.25 inches canvas: 28.75 x 23.75 inches Provenance: private coll...

His first name sounds like a concerto. Vivacious, its name is reminiscent of an aperitif or a cyclist. The addition of the two evokes the Italianate. Indomitable and unavoidable. Mor...

Original Oil Painting by Alan Feltus. Alan Feltus (b. 1943, Washington, DC) studied at the Cooper Union where he received his BFA in 1966, and at Yale University where he received ...

Portrait of an Aristocrat European artist, 20th century oil on canvas, unframed canvas : 30 x 24 inches provenance: private collection, Wiltshire condition: very good and sound condi...

A thoroughly charming oil showing a young girl teaching a little boy to knit using red wool. The artist has beautifully captured the tutorial tilt of the girl's head and the inquisit...

Artist/ School: French School, mid 20th century Title: Expressionist portrait of a man Medium: oil painting on board, framed framed: 27.25 x 27.5 inches canvas: 21.75 x 18 inc...

Fernand Blondin (1887-1967) was a Swiss painter and teacher, celebrated for his depictions of idyllic rural life, interiors, female nudes, portraits, still-lifes, religious subjects ...

Mathias Alten (German/American, 1871-1938) Signed: M. Alten (Upper, Left) " Old Woman of Sagunto ", 1922 Oil on Canvas 42" x 32" Housed in a 3" Newcomb Macklin Frame Overall S...

Oil on canvas applied on cardboard realized by Francesco Settimj in 1933. Hand signed and dated lower right. Good condition except for some very inor losses on edges.

Stuart Bolton, British b. 1943 signed oil on board, framed framed: 34 x 23 inches board : 30 x 20 inches Provenance: private collection, UK Condition: very good condition For more a...

Prolific Saturday Evening Post Cover Illustrator Pearl L. Hill Worthington paints a stunning portrait of a Ballerina in a tutu with underlighting. She sits on a decorative Chinese ...

The Artist captures a "caught moment" of cloths blowing in the wind. It's being witnessed by an inquisitive bird, while be ducklings and a cute kitty cat accompany her. Signed lower...

Medium: Watercolor on Board Dimensions: 18.00" x 14.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right