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Period: 20th Century
1950’s Fashion Illustration Original Painting Of A Lady In A Stunning Pink Dress
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pink Dress
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
ink/watercolour/pencil drawing on card, unframed
paper: 10 x 6.5 inches
double sided
very good condition
provenance: from the artists...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Dreaming Woman - Original hansigned oil on paper
By René Genis
Located in Paris, IDF
Rene GENIS (1922-2004)
Dreaming Woman
Original watercolor and oil painting on paper
Signed bottom middle
32 x 25 cm (c. 13 x 10 inch)
Excellent condition
Category
Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
1950’s Fashion Illustration Original Portrait Of A Lady With Black Curly Hair
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
ink/watercolour/pencil drawing on thick paper, unframed
paper: 8 x 6 inches
signed
double sided
very good condition
provenance: from the artists estate, France
Josine Vignon (1922-2022) was a French artist living on the Rue Beautreillis in the Marais district of Paris. She painted with a beautiful style, largely influenced by the Impressionist and Post...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Color Pencil
"Two Friends Against Blue" Abstract Monotone Figurative Portrait Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract figurative portrait painting by Houston, TX artist David Adickes. The work features two men figures side by side against a blue background....
Category
Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Jewish Man Playing Viol, Framed Oil Painting by Abraham Straski, 1952
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jewish Man Playing Viol (3-F)
Abraham Straski, Polish (1903–1987)
Date: 1952
Oil on Canvas, signed and dated
Size: 16 x 11.5 in. (40.64 x 29.21 cm)
Frame Si...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
Beautiful Italian Art Nouveau Portrait of two women
By Adriano Goby
Located in New York, NY
Beautiful Italian Art Nouveau style portrait of two women by Adriano Goby.
Category
Art Nouveau 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gota Lejon, signed oil painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Göta Lejon, 1746.
by Louis Letouche (French 1924-2015)
oil painting on linen canvas, stretched over board
framed
Framed size: 15 x 21.75 inches
Superb oil painting by the well lis...
Category
Realist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Marion Jones Farquhar" Frederick William Macmonnies, Tennis Olympian Portrait
Located in New York, NY
Frederick William Macmonnies
Marion Jones Farquhar, 1905-11
Oil on canvas
24 x 20 inches
Provenance:
William Clerk
Private Collection, New York
Literature:
Mary Smart, A Flight with Fame: The Life and Art of Frederick MacMonnies, with a Catalogue Raisonne of Sculpture and a Checklist of Paintings by E. Adina Gordon, Madison, Connecticut, 1996, no. 90.
The work depicts Marion Jones Farquhar who, was an American tennis player who competed during the late 19th century and early 20th century. She won the singles titles at the 1899 and 1902 U.S championships and was the first American woman to medal at the Olympics placing Bronze in singles. Additionally, she was the artist's sister-in-law who often played and competed with MacMonnies in golf and tennis. MacMonnies would often study the movements of her form referenced in his sculpture. When MacMonnies won a doubles golf tournament he said "Marion dragged my dead weight thro' and won us the tournament, showing what great Generalship can do."
A sculptor of classical figures, American-born Frederick MacMonnies had fame in the United States and Europe in the later half of the 19th century and early 20th century. He occasionally returned to America but lived most of his life as in expatriate in France. He was especially known for his lithe bronze figures, especially ones titled Diana. The classical names of these figures allowed him the appearance of propriety but gave him the opportunity to model svelte nudes.
Frederick MacMonnies was one of the first American sculptors to recognize the potential market of the middle class. He copyrighted his works and then contracted with foundries to mass produce some of his figures such as Diana in smaller sizes.
MacMonnies was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was a child prodigy at carving stone. At age 18, he worked in the studio of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and then persuaded him to become his assistant, keeping models damp and covered, running errands, and cleaning the studio. Evenings he studied at the Art Students League, Cooper Union, and the National Academy of Design.
In Saint-Gaudens' studio, he met many of the wealthy people who shared Saint-Gaudens Beaux-Arts based ideas that art and architecture should be unified in order to create public art in America equal to that of classical antiquity or Renaissance Europe. Among the men that MacMonnies met through Saint-Gaudens who later furthered his career were architects Stanford White and Charles McKim...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Portrait of an Artist"
By Eugene Ivanoff
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an exceptional early painting by Russian/American artist Eugene Ivanoff (1897-1954.)
"Portrait of an Artist", is a unique, original oil on canvas, signed, painted c.1935,...
Category
Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid 20th Century French Fauvist Painting - Amazing Colors - pupil of Andre Lhote
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Lungomare Le sain'
Suzanne Vattier, French 1901-1996
signed and dated on back 1973
inscribed verso
gouache painting on artist paper, framed
size: 19.5 x 25.5 inches
Fabulous 1970s...
Category
Fauvist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Girl with a Green Parrot
Located in Sheffield, MA
Louis Kronberg
American, 1872-1965
Girl with a Green Parrot
Oil on Canvas
19 ¾ by 23 ¾ in, w/ frame 24 ½ by 28 ½ in
Signed Louis Kronberg 1907 upper right
Louis Kronberg, a popular...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Virgen de la Almudena" Cusco Style Image of the Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus
By Martha Ochoa
Located in Austin, TX
By Martha Ochoa
Oil on Canvas
Canvas Size: 24" x 16"
Framed Size: 27" x 19.25"
This lovely painting by Martha Ochoa is from the Cusco tradition. The Cusco School was an artistic tra...
Category
Baroque 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Cubist Oil and Acrylic on Board, Le Nez.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Cubist acrylic and oil on board in the modern form of a stylised portrait by French artist Créqule. Signed bottom right. The painting is presented in a patinated wood frame under gla...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Board
Gypsy girl, 1947. Oil on canvas, 34x37 cm
Located in Riga, LV
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 Academy of Latvia. During her studies at the Academy, she studied with K. Ubāns, V. Tone and J. Liepiņš, and defended her diploma thesis under the guidance of L. Liberts. Later on, she devoted her entire life to art, working at the Liepāja School of Fine Arts and as a portraitist at the "Māksla" combine.
She had four favourite themes: landscapes, portraits, flowers and sacred painting. Her works have lyricism and inner harmony. In the portraits, we see not only the outer form of a person, but the artist allows us to look into the very essence of a person - it is likely that the models themselves often saw something new and bright in themselves through the artist's vision.
The works are executed in various techniques - tempera, oil, pastel and watercolour.
CV:
1938 - Graduated from the Liepaja Secondary School of Applied Arts, Department of Decorative Painting.
1943 - Latvian Academy of Art, L. Liberts Figurative Painting Workshop with her diploma work "At the Artist's"
1946-1948 - teacher of painting and drawing at Liepāja Fine Arts High School.
1948-1966 - portraitist at the "Māksla" combine
Participated in exhibitions since 1948.
Member of the Artists' Union since 1966.
Solo exhibitions in Riga, Jelgava, Sigulda (1972); Riga (1975; 1978; two in 1981; 1986; 1994), Jurmala (1979).
Works exhibited in Latvia as well as abroad (Poland, Switzerland, Italy, Japan, Finland, Venezuela, Germany, Hungary).
The works are located in:
"Portrait of Cardinal Julian Vaivoda", 1983, in the Vatican Museum in Rome
"Portrait of Pope John Paul II, 1982, in the Roman Catholic Metropolitan Curia of Riga
The altarpieces "The Heart of Jesus" and "Our Lady of Fatima", the paintings "John the Baptist" and "The Holy Family" , all from the late 1960s, in the Church of St Mary Magdalene...
Category
Realist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
AKOS BIRO (HUNGARIAN 1911-2002) EXPRESSIONIST SIGNED OIL - MALE PORTRAIT
By Akos Biro
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Portrait of a Man"
by Akos Biro (Hungarian 1911-2002)
signed verso, oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 18 x 15 inches
provenance: the artists estate...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
One More Glass by Chantal KAKAL COLSON - Oil on Wood - 58x71 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, Wood Panel
Boy with Anemones
Located in London, GB
'Boy with Anemones', oil on cardstock paper, by Raymond Debiève (1965). Here the artist paints a young boy having his breakfast with a beautiful bouquet of an...
Category
Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Jenness Cortez, "Secretariat as a Stallion, Claiborne Farm", Equine Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This rare original equine painting by renown artist, Jenness Cortez, features a stately portrait of legendary racehorse Secretariat standing in the lush verdant grass at Claiborne Farm. Bathing in the warmth of an afternoon sun, Secretariat's copper-colored beauty is captured perfectly.
Titled, “Secretariat as a Stallion Claiborne Farm”, this beautiful oil painting measures 18.5 x 24.5 and is framed in an ornate gold frame, finished with a commemorative plaque.
Secretariat is widely considered to be the greatest racehorse of all time and the most recognizable name in thoroughbred racing.
Big Red, as he is most often affectionately referred, became America’s Horse after his historic Triple Crown win in 1973, winning the Belmont Stakes by an unimaginable 31 lengths (in world record time) in what stands today as the single greatest horseracing performance ever.
About Jenness Cortez:
Jenness Cortez is a distinguished figure in the contemporary revival of classical realist painting.
She was born in Indiana and exhibited a very early talent for art. As a teenager, she took private lessons with Antonius Raemaekers...
Category
Realist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Young Man - Large Modern British Figurative Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A superb large scale Modern British oil on canvas portrait of a smartly dressed young man wearing a striped shirt, suit jacket and tie.
Excellent quality and unsusual work, which i...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman posing with guitar mixed media painting
By Jordi Curos
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman
Mixed technique on canvas cardboard.
Work measurements 46x38 cm.
Frameless.
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish pa...
Category
Fauvist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Vintage Large Signed American Modernist Interior Scene Portrait Oil Painting
By Sidney Gross
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed portrait oil painting by Sidney Gross (1921 - 1969). Oil on canvas. Signed.
Category
Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Nude Female Portrait Interior Post Impressionist Signed Impasto Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Portrait
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
signed on front and back
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 18 x 13 inches
Colors: Beige colors, beige, brown, blue , green ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Horse Painting: "Horse at Stable with Hay" -Julius Paul Junghanns (1876-1958)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Horse Painting
"Horse at Stable with Hay"
Julius Paul Junghanns (German, 1876-1958)
Oil on canvas on board (marouflé )
20 1/4 x 14 (25 ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Antique French Impressionist Portrait Painting Gathering Flowers Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage impressionist oil painting by Pierre Eugène Duteurtre (1911 - 1989). Oil on canvas, circa 1970. Signed. Displayed in a period frame. ...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large 20th Century French Portrait of Lady Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Lady
by Jacob Markiel (Polish 1911-2008) *See notes
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 26 x 20 inches
provenance: the artists estate, south o...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Daisy Crown - French Belle Epoque Oil Painting Portrait of Paris Flower Girl
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘La Couronne de Marguerite’ by Édouard-Louis-Lucien Cabane (1857-1942).
The painting – which depicts a young French beauty wearing a crown of daisies – is signed by the artist and ...
Category
French School 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Contemporary French Impressionist Cafe Scene Nicely Framed Genre Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted contemporary cafe interior scene. Oil on board. Framed. Signed.
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reading Rabbi, Oil Painting by Abraham Straski
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Abraham Straski, Polish (1903 - 1987)
Title: Untitled - Polish Rabbi 12F
Year: circa 1957
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Image Size: 10.5 x 7 inches
Frame Size: 20 x 15 i...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Emilienne Le Roy by Giovanni Boldini
Located in New Orleans, LA
Giovanni Boldini
1842-1931 Italian
Portrait of Emilienne Le Roy
Oil on canvas
A dazzling display of Giovanni Boldini’s signature style, Portrait of Emilienne Le Roy captures the ...
Category
Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Croele Woman
Located in PARIS, FR
Edouard Dumoulin (1898 - 1973)
Creole woman
1938
Oil on canvas
89 x 74 cm
(97 x 85 cm with frame)
35.04 x 29.13 in
(38.19 x 33.46 in with frame)
Signed and dated top right
Online ca...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Cornish Fisherman Antique English Signed Oil Painting Portrait of Sea Man
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
One of the Crew
by David W. Haddon (British early 20th century)
signed oil on board , framed
framed: 18 x 14 inches
board: 15 x 12 inches
provenance: private collection, England
cond...
Category
English School 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Flamenco Dancer in Fiery Red Twirls 20th Century French Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Flamenco Dancer
by Annie Faure (French 1940-2021)
signed lower corner
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas size: 18 x 15 inches
condition: overall very good, minor surface scuffs ...
Category
French School 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman posing oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
- Title: *The Model Posing*
- Artist: Rosendo González Carbonell
- Technique: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 38.2 x 45.7 in (unframed)
- Signed: Yes, in the lower left corner ...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Kees Van Dongen Circus Performers 1900s Vintage Vibrant Figure Fauvist Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Les Artistes du Cirque" is an original painting in ink, watercolor, and gouache on paper by leading Fauvist artist Kees Van Dongen, signed in the lower right. In the piece, two circus performers stand against against a wall. On the left, a pale woman in a blue leotard with red flowers on the shoulder stands with her arms crossed, looking out at the viewer. The painter fills in her tights with delicate white brushstrokes, lending them an almost iridescent appearance. Her strawberry blond hair is piled on top of her hair according to the fashion of the period. On the right, an African man stands in a vivid orange toga, looking somewhere off to the left. His feet are clad in bright white shoes...
Category
Fauvist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Portrait of a Fisherman - European Post Impressionist Antique Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful 1920's French or possibly German post-impressionist oil on canvas portrait of a fisherman. Excellent quality work painted with quick, sketchy brush strokes against a mott...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Harlequin oil on canvas painting
By Francesc Tornero
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frame size 53x40 cm.
FRANCERSC TORNERÓ (1934)
He studied at the Barcelona School of Arts and Crafts and later at the Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts. In 1956 he won the “El Paular” ...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait of Madame Susanne, the Artist’s Wife
By Louis Valtat
Located in Sheffield, MA
Louis Valtat
French, 1869-1952
Portrait of Madame Susanne, the Artist’s Wife
Oil on canvas
19 ⅝ by 25 ⅝ in, w/ frame 28 ½ by 34 ⅜ in
Initialed lower left
Louis Valtat was a French ...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage English Dog Oil Painting Head Portraits of Two Terriers Jack Russels
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Two Terrier Dogs
by Henry Percy (British, first half 20th century)
signed oil on board, framed
Framed: 10.75 x 12.75 inches
Board: 8 x 10 inches
Provenance: private collection, Engla...
Category
English School 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Les Pierrots by André Braunecker - Oil on paper 50x65 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil paint on paper with glass and frame.
Signed and certified by the artist.
Category
Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rare Modernist Judaica Scholar Rabbi in Synagogue Oil Painting Signed Mora
Located in Surfside, FL
a mid century Judaica painting of a Rabbi wearing a Tallit prayer shawl. In the Modernist manner of Maurice Kish, Tully filmus or William Gropper. ...
Category
Folk Art 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a woman, circa 1950, oil on canvas
Located in PARIS, FR
Jacques BERLAND (1918-1999)
Portrait of a woman, circa 1950
Oil on canvas
34 × 25 cm
A figurative painter of the Paris School, Jacques Berland's work was brought back into the limel...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Surrealist Pipe Smoker - Original Oil on Canvas, SIGNED
Located in Paris, IDF
Antonio GUANSE (1926-2008)
Pipe Smoker, 1977
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated
Countersigned and dated on the back
On canvas 61 x 50 cm
Presented with the wooden frame 62.5 x 51 cm
Ve...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lady in Red, Framed Oil Painting by Donald Roy Purdy
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Donald Roy Purdy, American (1924 - )
Title: Lady in Red
Year: circa 1962
Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed l.r.
Size: 24 x 36 in. (60.96 x 91.44 cm)
Frame Size: 33 x 44 inches
Category
Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Regattas day (a tribute to Seurat). Large format Riverside scene with figures.
By Fabio Hurtado
Located in Segovia, ES
Reggatas day (tribute to Seurat), by Fabio Hurtado, is an oil painting on canvas which was created in 1995 and which obtained the Honorary Medal at the C...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
woman with hat in profile oil on canvas painting portrait
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Alexandre Siches (1921-2009) - Woman in profile - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 73x54 cm.
Frameless.
Alexandre Siches Piera (1921-2009)
Catalan painter with an innate capacity for dra...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Attrib. Robert De Quin - Mid 20th Century Oil, Man in a Suit
Located in Corsham, GB
An expressive, unfinished oil study depicting a smartly dressed gentleman. The artist uses gestural brushstrokes and a muted palette to loosely capture the man's sharp features. Unsi...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Art Deco Portrait of a Redhead Woman
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Laura Greenwood (1897-1951)
Portrait of a Young Woman, ca. 1925
Oil on canvas, measuring 16 x 20 inches
Signed lower right.
Condition: the piece will require some minor conserva...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Side Show Barker - Original Modernist American Fair Scene Oil Painting
Located in Marco Island, FL
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...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1940 Large Portrait of a Woman, Kae Dorn Cass, by Cleveland School Artist
By Rolf Stoll
Located in Beachwood, OH
Rolf Stoll (American, 1892-1978)
Kae Dorn Cass, 1940
Oil on canvas
Signed upper right
32 x 25 inches
38 x 31 inches, framed
Exhibited:
The 27th Annual May Show, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1940
This work won first prize for oil painting- Portrait category
Provenance:
Collection of Kae Dorn Cass's niece
Kae Dorn Cass
Rolf Stoll
Rolf Stoll, a painter of figure subjects, landscapes and floral still lifes, was an important member of the Cleveland art scene during the second quarter of the century. He was also an influential teacher, as well as one of Ohio’s foremost portrait painters.
Rolf Stoll was born in Heidelberg, Germany, in 1892. As a boy, he attended a military academy, during which time he developed an interest in art. He received his early formal training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. He emigrated to the United States in 1912, settling in New York City. A decade later, after studying at the school of the National Academy of Design and supporting himself by working as a commercial artist, Stoll decided to leave New York. Upon the recommendation of Warren Pryor, one of his teachers, he decided to move to Cleveland, Ohio. After arriving in Cleveland, Rolf Stoll continued to work as a commercial artist. However, in 1926, he joined the faculty of the Cleveland School of Art, where he taught drawing. Two years later Stoll was appointed head of the school’s portrait painting department. A talented portraitist, Stoll’s sitters included industrialists, community leaders and many prominent members of Cleveland and Ohio society, as well as over twenty faculty members from Case Western Reserve University. Stoll also gave portrait classes at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute from 1926 to 1953. In his male portraits especially, he was admired for his ability to convey the dignity of his sitter’s professional position without sacrificing individuality. As noted by one contemporary reviewer, Stoll was a “master of rich color, a searching student of human types, a forceful portrayer of all that the face reveals of the mind and the soul.” In addition to his activity as a portraitist, Rolf Stoll painted figure subjects and floral still lifes. He was also known for his views of the Ohio countryside...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Studio Model Posing Whilst Reading, Nude Oil Painting
By J.B. Holmes
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Life Model Posing Whilst Reading,
By J.B.Holmes, British artist, 20th Century
Oil painting on board, unframed
Board size: 12x10 inches
Lovely elegant portrayal of model who is posi...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cubist Abstract V, Contemporary Oil Painting by Female Artist Miriam Bromberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Cubist Abstract V
Miriam Bromberg
Oil on Canvas
Size: 18 x 46 in. (45.72 x 116.84 cm)
Category
Cubist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Jardim Botanico 2
By Otto Aguiar
Located in Long Island City, NY
This lovely painting by Otto Aguiar depicts five elegantly presented, life-size figures seated on a Botanical Garden bench, that leads to an alluring tropical dimension beyond the ar...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Antique American School Post Impressionist Modern Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school modernist portrait painting. Housed in a period frame. Measuring 29 by 33 inches overall and 20 by 24 painting alone.
Category
Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Clown and Ballerina by Vivaldo Martini - Oil on canvas 50x61 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
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...
Category
Baroque 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of an African Man - Early 20th Century French Impressionist Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A superb early 20th century French impressionist oil on canvas head and shoulders portrait of an African man wearing a yellow jacket.
Excellent quality and condition work, with a pu...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid 20th Century Portrait of a Young Woman oil
Located in Frome, Somerset
A fine shoulder length portrait of a young woman circa 1940's-1950's Continental School. A fine shoulder length portrait of a young woman circa 1940's-1950's Continental School.
oil ...
Category
Romantic 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
1940's French Portrait of Young Man Original Signed Oil on Canvas Period Frame
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Man
by Roger Allain (French 1920-1992)
signed and dated 1941 (a very rare period due to WW2)
oil on canvas
canvas: 22 x 18 inches
provenance...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Male Portrait, Signed Gennaro Befanio (Naples, 1866 - Paris, 1937), Dated 1936
Located in Firenze, IT
Male Portrait, Signed Gennaro Befanio (Naples, 1866 - Paris, 1937), Dated 1936
Male portrait in oil on canvas, signed in the upper left corner "G. Befanio" and dated 1936.
Likely on...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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Cecilia Vicuña Merges Politics, Science and Spirituality in Her Poetic Art
The Chilean creator, who has been living in exile in New York for decades, is having a major moment, receiving the biggest exhibitions, commissions and awards an artist could dream of.
In Christopher Spitzmiller’s New York Homes, His Love of Dogs Is on Full Display
The ceramist, designer and gentleman farmer tells us about the collection of antique dog art he has spread across a New York City apartment and a Greek Revival farmhouse in the Hudson Valley.
This Wiener Werkstätte Master Made Everything into Art
Koloman Moser smashed the conservative conventions of art and design in fin-de-siècle Vienna. On the 100th anniversary of his death, the Austrian designer is being celebrated for his radically modern creations.
A Rare Q&A with American Legend Alex Katz
On the eve of a new exhibition just north of New York City, the nonagenarian contemporary-art icon talked with ‘Introspective’ about his long and ongoing career, the development of his signature style and his rather malleable definition of realism.