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Period: 20th Century
Mid 20th Century 1950 French Post-Impressionist Oil Colorful Interior Still Life
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Interior Still Life
signed by Guy Nicod
dated 1957
(French 1923 - 2021)
oil on board, unframed
painting : 19.5 x 24 inches
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very good and...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's French Modernist Signed Painting Two Fashionable Ladies in Interior Room
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Fashionable Ladies
French School, circa 1960's
signed 'Charles Simon'
signed oil/ gouache painting on board, framed
framed: 15 x 13 inches
board: 11 x 9 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: very good and sound condition
The frame is in a Montparnasse style frame. Montparnasse picture frames...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Lady With Hat
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
WATELET, Charles Joseph (1867 - 1954)
Portrait of a Lady with Hat
Oil on oval canvas signed up right and dated 1909
Old frame gilded with leaves
Dim canv...
Category
Academic 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Odalisque - Woman in a Harem - French 1900 Orientalist art portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This charming ex Christie's Victorian Orientalist oil painting is by noted French exhibited artist Lucien Laurent Gsell. The painting dates to around 1900 and portrays a beautiful yo...
Category
Realist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tir à l'Arc
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Jean Sanglar was born in France in 1926. He draws with taste and talent from an early age, however, his family will only consider this a mere hobby. After studying law, he later took...
Category
Neo-Expressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Vintage English Woman at a Seaside Beach Resort in Summer 1960's 1970's England
Located in Preston, GB
Vintage English Woman at a Seaside Beach Resort in Summer 1960's 1970's England entitled 'Summer Collection 1' by Retro Nostalgic Artist, Paul F Harding...
Category
English School 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Marcel Canet (1875-1959) - Early 20th Century Oil, Portrait Study of a Man
Located in Corsham, GB
An arresting portrait of a man in profile. Signed. Presented in a wooden frame with patterned carvings. On board.
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Lady - Large South Eastern European Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful mid 20th century Southeastern European oil on canvas portrait of a lady wearing a white headdress.
This intriguing work is expertly painted with thick impasto paintwork which has been built up across the surface.
Indistinctly signed lower right and presented in a reverse profile frame.
We think that this work was painted by an artist working in Southeastern Europe, most likely Greece or Macedonia.
Artist: Southeastern European School...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American Indian Chief Portrait, Oil Painting on Canvas by Jorge Braun Tarallo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jorge Braun Tarallo, Uruguayan (1951 - )
Title: American Indian Chief Portrait
Year: circa 1979
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed
Size: 30 x ...
Category
American Realist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Man in Blue
By Lee T. Dalton
Located in Soquel, CA
An alluring portrait of a man (the artists son David) in a blue button up shirt by Lee T. Dalton (American, b.1925). Signed "Lee Dalton '72" upper left....
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Superb 1950s French Post Impressionist Oil Painting Portrait Stylish Blonde Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Lady
by Jean Dulac (1902-1968) *see below
signed
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 21.75 x 18 inches
provenance: private collection, Lyon, France (the artists ho...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Surrealist Oil Portrait by John F. Leonard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Portrait (38)
John F. Leonard
American (1921–1987)
Date: circa 1965
Oil on Board
Size: 17 in. x 14 in. (43.18 cm x 35.56 cm)
Category
American Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Collier's Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil Painting
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Collier's Magazine Cover, February 7 1914
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
MARILYN MONROE PORTRAIT - POP ART STYLE PAINTING
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Pop art style, late 20th century/ early 21st.
Title: Portrait of Marilyn Monroe
Medium: painting on canvas, unframed
Size: painting: ...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
lying woman oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
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...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Homage to Picasso
Located in Sheffield, MA
Morris Solotaroff
Russian, 1891-1970
Homage to Picasso
Oil on canvas
34 ¾ by 28 ½ in. W/frame 41¾ by 35 ½ in.
Born in Russia on Oct. 1, 1891. Sol...
Category
Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Japanese Woman wearing Traditional Kimono
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Portrait of a Japanese Woman wearing Traditional Kimono
Oil on wood panel signed upper right with a japanese ideogram
Signature unread
Other portrai...
Category
Academic 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blue Portrait Kurt Cobain - French School Impressionist - Pop Nirvana 2023
Located in Zofingen, AG
Kurt 2023
Icon portrait of the grunge artist Kurt Cobain from Nirvana band.
UPDATE 🔴🙌🙌 : I'm very happy to inform that this artwork was shared on social network of official Nirv...
Category
Tonalist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Stretcher Bars, Mixed Media, Oil
Large Original Oil Painting on canvas contemporary Art young woman with a guitar
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This is an amazing, very impressive original large modern painting on canvas, depicting a young woman with a guitar sitting on the pavement.
The painting is in excellent condition...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Haitian Couple in Bed Simultaneously Adjusting their Radios, Surrealism
Located in Miami, FL
Wilson Bigaud is an idea artist in who showcases visual ideas in many of his paintings. In this work, a married Haitian couple tunes their radios in sync as they lie in bed. Bigaud was greatly interested in radios, which appeared in many of his works. This work rises to the level of Surrealism in that Bigaud is doing more than just depicting a normal bedroom moment. There is something very strange and bizarre in the couple's synchronized actions. Also of note, it looks like the woman is swallowing the edge of the radio. Signed lower right in a handmade and hand-painted frame.
Wear to the edges of board, including delamination in the corners, some dents and losses. Frame rubbing with associated wear. Areas of white discoloration to the bed and headboard...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
190's French Post-Impressionist Signed Oil Portrait of Male French Priest
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The French Priest
by Denise Dardel (French circa 1950)
signed lower front, dated 1950 verso
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 30 x 19.5 inches
provenance: private collection
condition:...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Series of Four Portraits from a New York City Gay Underground Club
By Damien Smith
Located in London, GB
A series of four paintings - acrylic on stretched canvas - unframed, by Canadian artist Damien Smith (born 1969). This unique series depicts four characters in a New York City erotic gay bar...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Reclining Nude Lady Model 1970's French Modernist Painting Provence Collection
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Artists Model
Nude Lady Model
French School, circa 1970's
oil painting on card, unframed
size: 18 x 26 inches
condition: overall very good, a very few light markings to the surfa...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
MARILYN - GLAMOUR
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed by the artist on verso. Hand Painted Unique Silkscreen on Canvas. Artwork is in excellent condition. Canvas is not stretched. Certificate of authenticity included. All...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Wind, Art Deco Acrylic Painting by Erik Freyman
By Erik Freyman
Located in Long Island City, NY
"The Wind" is an original painting on canvas measuring 30 x 40 inches by Erik Freyman. The artist is best known for his 80's style which draws heavily on Art ...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Kids
Located in London, GB
'The Kids', pastel on paper (1967), by Raymond Dèbieve. Picasso's influence is undeniable in this artwork yet Dèbieve's own naive artistic style is on display ...
Category
Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Portrait PS 249 French School Hail Storm Chut Les Barbizons
Located in Zofingen, AG
Large portrait of an independent woman with blue hair, sharp eyed, killer look
Technique: oil, acrylic, glue, ink on canvas streched on a wooden frame 100x81cm ■■ 39,4 x31,9 inch
...
Category
Tonalist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Glue, Mixed Media, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Portrait of a Man by Swedish Artist Martin Eder, 1954, Gouache on Masonite
By Martin Eder
Located in Stockholm, SE
Martin Eder was a Swedish drawing teacher, artist and ceramicist. Martin was born on the island of Gotland and spent a lot of time there, he also lived in Sala. Martin was a curious ...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Gouache
1950's Mid Century modern oil portrait of a Black nude woman seated on a chair
Located in Woodbury, CT
Well painted 1950's mid-century modern English portrait of a black nude woman seated on a chair.
The artist was a portrait and figure painter active during the 1950s-1960s
Oils on ...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Modernist Israeli Judaica Mixed Media Painting Rabbis Walking In Jerusalem
By Moshe Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
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...
Category
Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Portrait of a Lady Arranging Flowers - British 1940's art oil painting
By Sir Gerald Festus Kelly
Located in London, GB
This superb British portrait oil painting is attributed to circle of Festus Kelly. Painted circa 1940 it is a half length portrait of an elegant lady in a light blue dress, pearls an...
Category
Realist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century French Expressionist Oil, La Couseuse
Located in Cotignac, FR
A mid-century French Expressionist oil on paper, laid on board, painting of a lady sewing by Raphael Arnal. The painting is signed bottom left and dated, located and attributed to th...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait Mondrian Stockings French School Impressionist Pop 203 READY TO HANG
Located in Zofingen, AG
PS203 Mondrian Stockings
During the WW2, women used to paint on the legs - mark of stockings. Extrapolation made by painting Mondrian pattern.
Technique: oil, acrylic, and ink on ol...
Category
Tonalist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil
French school 20th Century, Portrait of a young man in green, oil
Located in Paris, FR
French school of the 20th Century,
Portrait of a young man in green,
oil on cardboard panel, cradled on the back
53 x 40 cm
This intense portrait is particularly moving and intere...
Category
Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
George Weissbort (1928-2013) - 20th Century Oil, Pouting Lips
Located in Corsham, GB
Artist Self-Portrait. Unsigned. (Provenance: Studio Sale, George Weissbort). On board.
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Balinese Pottery Market
Located in London, GB
'Balinese Pottery Market', oil on canvas, by Régine van den Broek d'Obrenan (1931). The artist visited Bali in 1931 (among other islands) with her new husband, Charles. The naive pai...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young boy by Hannes Fritz-München - Oil on canvas 64x73 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on canvas sold with frame
Total size with frame 78x87 cm
Hannes FRITZ-MÜNCHEN is an artist born in 1886 and died in 1981
Category
Realist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mosaïc style by Charles Auguste Humbert - Oil on canvas 80x100 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on canvas sold with original frame
Total size with frame 110x90 cm
Charles Auguste Humbert, born in 1891 in Geneva and died in 1958, was a Swiss artist, mainly known for his w...
Category
Pointillist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman in Equestrian Clothing
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Walter Beach Humphrey specialized in painting magazine covers and he eventually did work for almost all of them, beginning with small-circulation publica...
Category
Other Art Style 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Boy in Bloomers
Located in London, GB
'French Boy in Bloomers', gouache on art paper (circa 1960s-70s), by Raymond Debiève. A young boy emerges from a beach cabana wearing a bloomer bathing costume that was still in use ...
Category
Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Modern Figurative Study of Three Women in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Figurative study of women by American painter, Patricia Gren Hayes (b. 1932). Blonde long hair women wearing overalls, side view of same woman and another side view study of a brunette, circa 1970.
"Gren Hayes" on verso stretcher.
Provenance: Purchased as part of larger collection of artist's work from Larry Miller Fine Art.
Unframed.
Canvas size: 29"H x 29"W
Patricia Gren Hayes (American, b. 1932) is a Bay Area Figurative & Feminist Art Movement artist who studied at Winnipeg Public Art School in 1950. She received early recognition in Museum and Gallery competitions and exhibitions and was awarded a Special Education in Art recognition by the Winnipeg Museum of Fine Art, and was awarded a scholarship to the Banff College of Fine Art. Further studies were at The University of Manitoba.
She was a Member of Winnipeg Free Press Sketch Club and was a Cartoonist and paste-up for a French-English bi-weekly, in Eastern Canada;
She studied outdoor impressionism in New York in 1960; in 1962, attended The California College of Arts and Crafts, and in 1976 B.A., U.C. Berkeley where she studied under Elmer Bischoff, David Simpson, Joan Brown, Felix Ruvolo, Yolanda Lopez and Vincent Perez.
She started a freelance commercial art business in 1963; copyrighted a National Cartoon, 1976, and served as Exhibition Director for San Francisco Woman Artists Gallery and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1976-1978. She was a workshop instructor at the San Francisco Woman Artists Gallery, 1977-1985; and was Manager/Owner Stanton Art Gallery, Alameda, CA, 1976-1982.
Solo Exhibitions:
Berkeley Marina, 1974;
Oakland Center for The Visual Arts, "Images of Women", 1979
Group Exhibitions:
Oakland's Dept of Education, 1963, Studio One;
Alameda County Fair, 1975, 1976, 1978;
San Francisco Art Festival, 1969, 1970, 1976, 1977, 1978;
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1976, 1977, 1978;
San Francisco Women Artists Gallery Exhibition, award winner - 1970, 1977, 1978;
Hayward Bay Fair Art Festival, award winner - 1971;
Capricorn Assunder Gallery, 1973;
Oakland Art Festival, 1973, 1974;
Alameda Art Association, 1978;
El Cerrito...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antonella at Carnival - Oil on Board by Sirio Pellegrini - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on board realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1969.
Good condition except for some minor scratches and losses of colors on edges.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Celebration on the Seine by Chantal KAKAL COLSON - Oil on Canvas - 81x100 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Chantal Kakal Colson was a 20th-century artist renowned for her contributions to the art world. According to Artprice, at least five of her works have been recorded at public auction...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait of Maureen O'Sullivan, Golden Age of Hollywood PHOTOGRAPHED W/ PAINTING
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
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...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Renée
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of Renée', oil on board, by Louis Latapie (1941). When combined with the artist's passionate brush strokes, the wood panel upon which this piece is painted, creates both a ...
Category
Fauvist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
1950's French Modernist Oil Painting Portrait Sketch of Nude Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Nude Model
by Maurice Delavier (French 1902-1986)
stamped verso
oil painting on canvas, 16 x 13 inches
condition: overall good and original
provenance: from a collection of this ...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Huge French Surrealist Oil Painting Wrestling Nude Men Floating in Sky, 1970's
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, signed lower front, dated 1970's
Title: La Moto Verte, a surrealist composition of nude/ semi nude male figures in a wrestling pose floating in the sk...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Lenin and Krupskaya in a Winter Landscape' Petr Malyshev (1909 - Moskow - 1976)
Located in Knokke, BE
Malyshev Petr Nikolaevich - Пётр Николаевич Малышев
1909 – Moskow – 1976
Russia – Honoured Artist of the RSFSR
'Lenin and Krupskaya in a Winter Landscape'
- Vladimir Ilyich Ulyano...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Couple of man and woman oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Ramón Llovet (1917-1987) - Couple - Oil on canvas
Canvas measures 50x61 cm.
Frameless.
Ramon Llovet Miserol (Barcelona, August 7, 1917 - Barcelona, August 2, 1987) was a painter...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Paula"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benj...
Category
Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Graceful Portrait of a Woman Delicate Charcoal Sketch with Subtle Expression
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Graceful Portrait of a Woman
by Regine David (female French artist, 1910-2018)
charcoal painting on artist paper
painting: 14 x 11 inches
condition: This painting is in excellent con...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
"Artist at Work" - Portrait of the Artist in Oil on Canvas
By Christine Chatwell
Located in Soquel, CA
"Artist at Work" - Portrait of the Artist in Oil on Canvas
Figurative painting of an artist at work by Christine Chatwell (American, 20th Century). Presented in a blue wooden frame....
Category
American Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hot Spring Resort, 20th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Hot Spring Resort, 20th Century
by VICTOR ANDREEVCH ONISCHENKO (RUSSIAN 1925-1991)
Large 20th Century Russian Impressionist holiday river landscape, oil ...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Protest Revolt and Uprising illustration
Located in Miami, FL
This work is a quintessential protest statement piece depicting an angry mob brandishing powerful fits in the air in gestures of revolt
Signed lower right.
Daniel Maffia has done a ...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache
Study of the Violinist for Holy Motherhood, pre-raphaelite, newlyn school, Oil
Located in London, GB
Thomas Cooper Gotch
1854 – 1931
Study of Violinist for Holy Motherhood
Oil on canvas, on board
Image size: 28 ¾ x 21 inches
18th century frame
Illustrated in "The Golden Dream, A bi...
Category
Aesthetic Movement 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Portrait of Elegant" Oil on wood Expressionist Hague School Signed
Located in Pistoia, IT
Martin Borgord (1869-1935)
Active in California, New York, Paris, Holland
"Portrait of an Elegant Woman," oil painting on wood signed lower right and dedicated to Madame Merlet.
Attended: San Francisco Art Association School of Design, Académie des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Académie Julian de Paris, New York School of Art
"In the past I worked on light and shadow effects. Now I paint exclusively for unusual effects and color harmonies." It is with these words that Martin Borgord, a Norwegian-born but naturalized American painter, interviewed by a journalist from the Hartford Courant, explains our painting.Straddling the line between Impressionism and Expressionism, the elegant lady loses the sharpness of detail, blending with light and color in quick, dense brushstrokes.
Excellent state of preservation.Presented in antique carved and silvered wooden frame. It has a regular Fine Arts export certificate.
Measurements
Panel 41 x 33 cm
Frame 51x43 cm
BIOGRAPHY
Martin Borgord was born February 8, 1869, in Guasdal, Norway, and died March 25, 1935, in Riverside, California.
At the age of 16, Borgord resided in San Francisco and enrolled to study with Virgil Macey Williams (1830-1886) at the San Francisco Art Association School of Design. Interested in both painting and sculpture, Borgord will go to Paris. He was accepted to study at the Académie Julian with Jean-Paul Laurens and at the Académie des Beaux-Arts with sculptor Charles Raoul Verlet. In 1896, Martin Borgord returned to New York and enrolled in the new Chase School of Art (later renamed the New York School of Art) with William Merritt. In 1899, influential art dealer William Macbeth, dedicated to the cause of promoting American art, represented Borgord in New York.With his friend and fellow artist William Henry Singer...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Champagne for the Honeymoon
Located in Miami, FL
Pruett Carter captures the quintessential look of the 1950's in this loosely rendered but charming work for Redbook. Bright, punchy colors define each object and are arranged in a simplified but complex composition of intersecting and overlapping planes of color.
The double portrait of the girl expresses a peak moment of introspection. She ponders her situation while preparing to get dressed for her special occasion. The whole scene is imbued with suspense about her future. Carter is a great academic painter. With just a few light touches of the brush, he quickly defines the form of the subject and achieves the X factor of the work. The profile and frontal view of the girl clearly are the same person. He nails her look. This is hard to do. Do not underestimate it. Sadly, there is a reason why there are very few contemporary artists can actually paint and draw without tracing photographs or resort to naive painting. It's hard to do. It's hard to be a painter. You can not fake...
Category
American Realist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Huge French Modernist Pointillist Signed Painting Girl with Necklace White Dress
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French School, late 20th century
indistinctly signed lower centre
Portrait of a girl in white dress, holding a necklace and flowers. Painted in a modernist/ pointillist style with be...
Category
Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
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