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NUDE on ARMCHAIR by Paula Craioveanu Female Gaze NATURAL WOOD FRAME
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Nude on Armchair". Female nude seen by a female artist - " female gaze " series. Original painting. Framed in minimalist black frame, real wood. Signed. Unframed size 20x20in / 51x...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Kate Moss Icon VIII /// Contemporary Street Pop Art Portrait Fashion Model UK
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Kate Moss Icon VIII" Series: Icon *Signed by Graves lower left. It is also signed, titled, and dated on verso Year: 2023 Medium: Original Acrylic Painting on Canvas Canvas size: 36" x 36" Condition: The stretched canvas was custom built by the artist himself. In mint condition Notes: Katherine Ann Moss (1974-) is an English model and businesswoman. Born in Croydon, Greater London, she was recruited as a model in 1988 at age 14 by Sarah Doukas, founder of Storm Model Management. Arriving at the end of the "supermodel era", Moss rose...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paint, Acrylic

The smokers. Figurative painting. Colorful landscape with figures smoking.
Located in Segovia, ES
The smokers. Figurative painting. Colorful Landscape with figures. Acrylic on canvas. Measurements in centimeters: 89 x 146 x 3 cm. / Framed: 114 x 171 x 5 cm. In inches: 35.04 x 57.48 x 1.18 ". / Framed: 44.88 x 67.32 x 1.9 " In the background, a beautiful city with classical buildings and a a forest; in the foreground, a small park where smokers gather next to the fountain crowned by a cupid holding a cigarette between his fingers. It is a group of six men and three women. They all smoke. They enjoy the smoke as they blow it out of their mouths, making shapes with it and interacting with each other in various poses. Hands emerge from the trees of the nearby forest holding lighted matches between their fingers as a lure to attract smokers to the darkness of the forest. A very dreamlike image to represent the temptation of the forbidden. ABOUT THE ARTIST Fomin is a storytelling artist. He is a storyteller in his everyday, anecdotally narrating the funny side of life, and he is a storyteller in his professional life, bringing to the canvas realistic popular scenes set in fairy-tale settings where the subject matter is always treated with irony and humor. The titles of his paintings tell us about eccentric characters of an era, a culture, a society (which one?) - it doesn't matter, it is a distorted reality with a romantic and sentimental touch, which takes us to references such as Brueghel the Elder, El Bosco and Chagall, within an aesthetic and chromatism typical of Renaissance painting where Fomin develops his original scenes playing with the design of spaces, landscapes, buildings, characters and costumes. A stage director who makes us smile, but also reflect on his original interpretation of the human being, because this is the main protagonist of his paintings. ABOUT THE ARTIST Igor Fomin...
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Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"LONGOSTA" Painting (FRAMED) 40" x 30" inch by Isaac Pelayo
Located in Culver City, CA
"LONGOSTA" Painting (FRAMED) 40" x 30" inch by Isaac Pelayo Medium: Oil stick & aerosol on paper Size framed: 43.5" x 33.5" inch ABOUT THE ARTIST: Isaac Pelayo is a head on crash...
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Baroque 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil Crayon, Spray Paint

"Looking Away" (2023) by Mark Bradley Schwartz, Original Oil Painting, Portrait
Located in Denver, CO
"Looking Away" by Mark Bradley Schwartz is an original oil on canvas depicting a female model in a monochromatic palette. A native of Illinois, He began his professional life as a graphic designer and art director in St. Louis, Missouri and later moved to Southern California to further his design career. Although Schwartz’s career was successful, he wanted to pursue work of a more personally fulfilling nature. To reach these new goals Schwartz first attended life drawing classes at Associates in Art, in Sherman Oaks, California. He later studied at the California Art Institute in Westlake Village, California, where he received extensive training in drawing and painting the human figure from life. While studying with famed illustrator Glen Orbik...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

'Camille VI', Fauve Figural of Young Woman, California Post Impressionist Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed verso, 'Ant McNaught', (American, born 1952), titled 'Camille VI', and dated 2018-2020. This California Post-Impressionist and Abstract Expressionist artist has studied at the Esalen Institute with Erin Gafill...
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Expressionist 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Fragmented Presence
Located in Zofingen, AG
This visually arresting piece explores identity through a minimalist lens, blending stark realism with geometric abstraction. A figure in black—poised, introspective, and shielded be...
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Realist 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Freddie Mercury - Acrylic Painting by Ivana Burello - 2022
Located in Roma, IT
The painting is oart of the MUSIC series and is dedicated to Freddie Mercury in the anniversary of his death. It is made on a rigid panel and is a unique piece authenticated by the ...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Silent Mood
Located in Tulsa, OK
János Huszti Silent Mood Huszti elaborates his constantly changing topics with momentum and precision. He depicts historical times, special characters and places from the past, using...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Golden Flute, Acrylic Oil , Charcoal on Canvas by Master Indian Artist “In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Shuvaprasanna Bhattacharya - Golden Flute - 25 x 25 inches (unframed size) Acrylic & Charcoal on Canvas Should you wish to receive it framed and ready to hang it would measure approximately 31 x 31 inches and cost 500 usd to ship . One of the most popular series of the Master Artist, The Golden Flute is the artists more romantic rendition of Art. The iconic figures of Krishna, Radha, and Ganesha that found lyrical expression in the Icons series are modern representations and sophisticated idealizations of the same images in the popular media. Krishna is a cosmic musician, and the tune he creates by playing his transcendental flute is embodied with cosmic energy. When Krishna is depicted as being between the age of 5 and 8, it is always with his flute. Therefore, during this period, he is aptly called Murlidhara (murali means “flute,” and dhara means “hold”), signifying the one who holds the flute. He is never without it, whether he is with his mother, on the grazing grounds with his herd of cows, among his cowherd companions or roaming around on the Jamuna banks. Gopis lose their selves in this tune. For them, music becomes the voice of love, which is too passionate and secretive. Style : The city of Kolkata has always figured prominently in his work. His themes come from his personal interactions with its urban milieu - its sickness and sordidness, its violence and vulnerability and all that compounds its existential agony. Shuvaprasanna has depicted varying moods of the city and its people, its places, and all its facets that make the city distinctive. He doesn't merely portray reality as 'matter of fact' and his presentation of reality often has dream-like elements in it. In terms of technique, Shuvaprasanna boasts a precise, finely executed style that yields an unmistakable visual intensity. He works comfortably in an assortment of media, including oil on canvas, charcoal, and mixed media. About the Artist and his work : Born : In Calcutta, 1947. Education : Graduated from Indian College of Art (R.B. University, Calcutta) in 1969. Exhibitions : Shuvaprasanna has had several gallery and museum exhibitions, including at the Tao Art Gallery and at the Chawla Art Gallery, Square One Mall. Several works by the artist have been sold at auction, including 'ABODE' sold at Waddington's 'Fine Prints & Photography Auction...
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Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Oil

Etienne - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Oil Painting, Portrait, Pop
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Françoise Nielly has explored the different facets of image all her life, through painting, photography, roughs, illustrations and virtual computer ge...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mood Stain - Oil on Canvas by Anastasia Kurakina - 2018
Located in Roma, IT
Mood Stain is a colorful original oil on canvas realized in 2018 by Anastasia Kurakina . Signed and dated on the lower left margin. Original Title: Macchia dell'umore . In excelle...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Portrait/Animal_Good Luck Is A Lion Who Roars + Batts At The Moon_America Martin
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin "Good Luck Is A Lion Who Roars And Batts At The Moon" Oil & Acrylic on Canvas 72 x 36 in. Exploring the identity of both her namesake and country, LA-based America M...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Anyways Life is Great - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Floral, Modern
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gal...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Wall In Florence By Bruno Paoli - Figurative Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Certificate of authenticity and artist catalogue are included. Bruno Paoli (1915-2005) Teaching the masters helped create this contemporary master. Bruno was a professor of art in F...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Michael Moonbeam
Located in New York, NY
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Michael Moonbeam n.d. Signed in red, u.l. Oil on canvas 12 x 9 inches $3000.00 + framing This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Oju Loge (Beauty in Face)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authent...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Black Panther l
Located in East Hampton, NY
Black Panther Oil Painting There are more super hero painting Comes ROLLED in a tube Needs framing NY Artist Y.M. Lo oil painting. contemporary art in ...
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Outsider Art 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Bathers II, Figurative, Texas artist, Women in the Arts, 9x12" oil on birch
Located in Houston, TX
LOOK FOR FREE SHIPPING AT CHECKOUT. IF NOT AVAILABLE GALLERY OFFERS FREE SHIPPING. ARTIST EXPLANATION OF THE PAINTINGS: Bathers: 9"x12" oil on cradled birch panel. Ready to hang with wire on the back They are blurred. So I paint them with a regular brush, let the paint get partially dry, and then I use a brush to go over it many times to blur the paint. Sometime if it gets too blurred I go back in and do some more painting to define an area, and then use a big special brush to blur the image again. Also seen in this listing are Bathers 1 which can be found in a separate listing. Joan Breckwoldt is an American contemporary artist living in Houston, Texas. Her training has a foundation of traditional methods and she enjoys the challenge of using traditional painting methods to create contemporary works. Joan has studied at the University of Texas at Austin, The Art League of Houston, and the Konigs Schule in the Hague, the Netherlands. She is represented by the Jack Meier Gallery...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Birch, Oil

Jesus - Mixed Media by Maurizio Savini - 2014
Located in Roma, IT
Jesus is an original Contemporary Arwork realized by the Italian artist Maurizio Savini (b. Rome, 1962) in 2014. Original Encaustic of chewing gum on board. Hand-signed by the artist on the back of the canvas. The Certificate of Authenticity is provided by the artist. Total dimensions: 43.5 x 40 cm. Mint conditions. Maurizio Savini is an Italian sculptor known for making art out of chewing gum. He studied architecture at the University of Rome. In 1989, he attended Gianni Dessì's atelier and in 1992 he held his first personal exhibition in Dusseldorf. Subsequently he participated in numerous group exhibitions, exhibiting abroad - in London, Paris, Taipei, Havana, Lyon and Edinburgh - and in Italy. He has been commissioned as stage designer by Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Salzburg Easter Festival, and held several dozen exhibitions. He was awarded a Cité internationale des arts scholarship by the city of Paris in 2005. The following year he planed two solo exhibitions in Rome: "Low fidelity" for Volume! Foundation and “Tabula Casa”, for the Museum of Contemporary Art. Among the most recent solo exhibitions are: "The Song of the Earth" with Pietro Ruffo...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Mixed Media

Testament of Solidarity - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Women
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (issued by The Gal...
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Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Fabric, Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Pencil

Behind The Smile
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About...
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Conceptual 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

EMOTIONS
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Oil pastel on paper by artist Daria Kusto Shipped well protected, unframed Curated by Art Reserve & Angel Rivas We can do commissioned work of any technique, style and size, cont...
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Neo-Expressionist 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Permanent Marker

Oil on Canvas Gestural Abstracted Expressive Portrait
Located in Cape Town, ZA
This is a unique, gesturally abstracted oil painting on stretched canvas by South African artist Johan van Vuuren. His portraits are expressive and ev...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Elvis", Denied Andy Warhol Silver & Black Pop Art Painting by Charles Lutz
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Elvis, Metallic Silver and Black Full Length Silkscreen Painting by Charles Lutz Silkscreen and silver enamel painted on vintage 1960's era linen with Artist's Denied stamp of the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board. 82" x 40" inches 2010 Lutz's 2007 ''Warhol Denied'' series gained international attention by calling into question the importance of originality or lack thereof in the work of Andy Warhol. The authentication/denial process of the [[Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board]] was used to create value by submitting recreations of Warhol works for judgment with the full intention for the works to be formally marked "DENIED". The final product of the conceptual project being "officially denied" "Warhol" paintings authored by Lutz. Based on the full-length Elvis Presley paintings by Pop Artist Andy Warhol in 1964, this is likely one of his most iconic images, next to Campbell's Soup Cans and portraits of Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor, and Marlon Brando. This is the rarest of the Elvis works from the series, as Lutz sourced a vintage roll of 1960's primed artist linen which was used for this one Elvis. The silkscreen, like Warhol's embraced imperfections, like the slight double image printing of the Elvis image. Lutz received his BFA in Painting and Art History from Pratt Institute and studied Human Dissection and Anatomy at Columbia University, New York. Lutz's work deals with perceptions and value structures, specifically the idea of the transference of values. Lutz's most recently presented an installation of new sculptures dealing with consumerism at Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater House in 2022. Lutz's 2007 Warhol Denied series received international attention calling into question the importance of originality in a work of art. The valuation process (authentication or denial) of the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board was used by the artist to create value by submitting recreations of Warhol works for judgment, with the full intention for the works to be formally marked "DENIED" of their authenticity. The final product of this conceptual project is "Officially DENIED" "Warhol" paintings authored by Lutz. Later in 2013, Lutz went on to do one of his largest public installations to date. At the 100th Anniversary of Marcel Duchamp's groundbreaking and controversial Armory Show, Lutz was asked by the curator of Armory Focus: USA and former Director of The Andy Warhol Museum, Eric Shiner to create a site-specific installation representing the US. The installation "Babel" (based on Pieter Bruegel's famous painting) consisted of 1500 cardboard replicas of Warhol's Brillo Box (Stockholm Type) stacked 20 ft tall. All 1500 boxes were then given to the public freely, debasing the Brillo Box as an art commodity by removing its value, in addition to debasing its willing consumers. Elvis was "the greatest cultural force in the Twentieth Century. He introduced the beat to everything, and he changed everything - music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution." Leonard Bernstein in: Exh. Cat., Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art and traveling, Elvis + Marilyn 2 x Immortal, 1994-97, p. 9. Andy Warhol "quite simply changed how we all see the world around us." Kynaston McShine in: Exh. Cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art (and traveling), Andy Warhol: Retrospective, 1996, p. 13. In the summer of 1963 Elvis Presley was just twenty-eight years old but already a legend of his time. During the preceding seven years - since Heartbreak Hotel became the biggest-selling record of 1956 - he had recorded seventeen number-one singles and seven number-one albums; starred in eleven films, countless national TV appearances, tours, and live performances; earned tens of millions of dollars; and was instantly recognized across the globe. The undisputed King of Rock and Roll, Elvis was the biggest star alive: a cultural phenomenon of mythic proportions apparently no longer confined to the man alone. As the eminent composer Leonard Bernstein put it, Elvis was "the greatest cultural force in the Twentieth Century. He introduced the beat to everything, and he changed everything - music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution." (Exh. Cat., Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art (and traveling), Elvis + Marilyn 2 x Immortal, 1994, p. 9). In the summer of 1963 Andy Warhol was thirty-four years old and transforming the parameters of visual culture in America. The focus of his signature silkscreen was leveled at subjects he brilliantly perceived as the most important concerns of day to day contemporary life. By appropriating the visual vernacular of consumer culture and multiplying readymade images gleaned from newspapers, magazines and advertising, he turned a mirror onto the contradictions behind quotidian existence. Above all else he was obsessed with themes of celebrity and death, executing intensely multifaceted and complex works in series that continue to resound with universal relevance. His unprecedented practice re-presented how society viewed itself, simultaneously reinforcing and radically undermining the collective psychology of popular culture. He epitomized the tide of change that swept through the 1960s and, as Kynaston McShine has concisely stated, "He quite simply changed how we all see the world around us." (Exh. Cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art (and traveling), Andy Warhol: Retrospective, 1996, p. 13). Thus in the summer of 1963 there could not have been a more perfect alignment of artist and subject than Warhol and Elvis. Perhaps the most famous depiction of the biggest superstar by the original superstar artist, Double Elvis is a historic paradigm of Pop Art from a breath-taking moment in Art History. With devastating immediacy and efficiency, Warhol's canvas seduces our view with a stunning aesthetic and confronts our experience with a sophisticated array of thematic content. Not only is there all of Elvis, man and legend, but we are also presented with the specter of death, staring at us down the barrel of a gun; and the lone cowboy, confronting the great frontier and the American dream. The spray painted silver screen denotes the glamour and glory of cinema, the artificiality of fantasy, and the idea of a mirror that reveals our own reality back to us. At the same time, Warhol's replication of Elvis' image as a double stands as metaphor for the means and effects of mass-media and its inherent potential to manipulate and condition. These thematic strata function in simultaneous concert to deliver a work of phenomenal conceptual brilliance. The portrait of a man, the portrait of a country, and the portrait of a time, Double Elvis is an indisputable icon for our age. The source image was a publicity still for the movie Flaming Star, starring Presley as the character Pacer Burton and directed by Don Siegel in 1960. The film was originally intended as a vehicle for Marlon Brando and produced by David Weisbart, who had made James Dean's Rebel Without a Cause in 1955. It was the first of two Twentieth Century Fox productions Presley was contracted to by his manager Colonel Tom Parker, determined to make the singer a movie star. For the compulsive movie-fan Warhol, the sheer power of Elvis wielding a revolver as the reluctant gunslinger presented the zenith of subject matter: ultimate celebrity invested with the ultimate power to issue death. Warhol's Elvis is physically larger than life and wears the expression that catapulted him into a million hearts: inexplicably and all at once fearful and resolute; vulnerable and predatory; innocent and explicit. It is the look of David Halberstam's observation that "Elvis Presley was an American original, the rebel as mother's boy, alternately sweet and sullen, ready on demand to be either respectable or rebellious." (Exh. Cat., Boston, Op. Cit.). Indeed, amidst Warhol's art there is only one other subject whose character so ethereally defies categorization and who so acutely conflated total fame with the inevitability of mortality. In Warhol's work, only Elvis and Marilyn harness a pictorial magnetism of mythic proportions. With Marilyn Monroe, whom Warhol depicted immediately after her premature death in August 1962, he discovered a memento mori to unite the obsessions driving his career: glamour, beauty, fame, and death. As a star of the silver screen and the definitive international sex symbol, Marilyn epitomized the unattainable essence of superstardom that Warhol craved. Just as there was no question in 1963, there remains still none today that the male equivalent to Marilyn is Elvis. However, despite his famous 1968 adage, "If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings" Warhol's fascination held purpose far beyond mere idolization. As Rainer Crone explained in 1970, Warhol was interested in movie stars above all else because they were "people who could justifiably be seen as the nearest thing to representatives of mass culture." (Rainer Crone, Andy Warhol, New York, 1970, p. 22). Warhol was singularly drawn to the idols of Elvis and Marilyn, as he was to Marlon Brando and Liz Taylor, because he implicitly understood the concurrence between the projection of their image and the projection of their brand. Some years after the present work he wrote, "In the early days of film, fans used to idolize a whole star - they would take one star and love everything about that star...So you should always have a product that's not just 'you.' An actress should count up her plays and movies and a model should count up her photographs and a writer should count up his words and an artist should count up his pictures so you always know exactly what you're worth, and you don't get stuck thinking your product is you and your fame, and your aura." (Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again), San Diego, New York and London, 1977, p. 86). The film stars of the late 1950s and early 1960s that most obsessed Warhol embodied tectonic shifts in wider cultural and societal values. In 1971 John Coplans argued that Warhol was transfixed by the subject of Elvis, and to a lesser degree by Marlon Brando and James Dean, because they were "authentically creative, and not merely products of Hollywood's fantasy or commercialism. All three had originative lives, and therefore are strong personalities; all three raised - at one level or another - important questions as to the quality of life in America and the nature of its freedoms. Implicit in their attitude is a condemnation of society and its ways; they project an image of the necessity for the individual to search for his own future, not passively, but aggressively, with commitment and passion." (John Coplans, "Andy Warhol and Elvis Presley," Studio International, vol. 181, no. 930, February 1971, pp. 51-52). However, while Warhol unquestionably adored these idols as transformative heralds, the suggestion that his paintings of Elvis are uncritical of a generated public image issued for mass consumption fails to appreciate the acuity of his specific re-presentation of the King. As with Marilyn, Liz and Marlon, Warhol instinctively understood the Elvis brand as an industrialized construct, designed for mass consumption like a Coca-Cola bottle or Campbell's Soup Can, and radically revealed it as a precisely composed non-reality. Of course Elvis offered Warhol the biggest brand of all, and he accentuates this by choosing a manifestly contrived version of Elvis-the-film-star, rather than the raw genius of Elvis as performing Rock n' Roll pioneer. A few months prior to the present work he had silkscreened Elvis' brooding visage in a small cycle of works based on a simple headshot, including Red Elvis, but the absence of context in these works minimizes the critical potency that is so present in Double Elvis. With Double Elvis we are confronted by a figure so familiar to us, yet playing a role relating to violence and death that is entirely at odds with the associations entrenched with the singer's renowned love songs. Although we may think this version of Elvis makes sense, it is the overwhelming power of the totemic cipher of the Elvis legend that means we might not even question why he is pointing a gun rather than a guitar. Thus Warhol interrogates the limits of the popular visual vernacular, posing vital questions of collective perception and cognition in contemporary society. The notion that this self-determinedly iconic painting shows an artificial paradigm is compounded by Warhol's enlistment of a reflective metallic surface, a treatment he reserved for his most important portraits of Elvis, Marilyn, Marlon and Liz. Here the synthetic chemical silver paint becomes allegory for the manufacture of the Elvis product, and directly anticipates the artist's 1968 statement: "Everything is sort of artificial. I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts. The artificial fascinates me, the bright and shiny..." (Artist quoted in Exh. Cat., Stockholm, Moderna Museet and traveling, Andy Warhol, 1968, n.p.). At the same time, the shiny silver paint of Double Elvis unquestionably denotes the glamour of the silver screen and the attractive fantasies of cinema. At exactly this time in the summer of 1963 Warhol bought his first movie camera and produced his first films such as Sleep, Kiss and Tarzan and Jane Regained. Although the absence of plot or narrative convention in these movies was a purposely anti-Hollywood gesture, the unattainability of classic movie stardom still held profound allure and resonance for Warhol. He remained a celebrity and film fanatic, and it was exactly this addiction that so qualifies his sensational critique of the industry machinations behind the stars he adored. Double Elvis was executed less than eighteen months after he had created 32 Campbell's Soup Cans for his immortal show at the Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles in July and August 1962, and which is famously housed in the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In the intervening period he had produced the series Dollar Bills, Coca-Cola Bottles, Suicides, Disasters, and Silver Electric Chairs, all in addition to the portrait cycles of Marilyn and Liz. This explosive outpouring of astonishing artistic invention stands as definitive testament to Warhol's aptitude to seize the most potent images of his time. He recognized that not only the product itself, but also the means of consumption - in this case society's abandoned deification of Elvis - was symptomatic of a new mode of existence. As Heiner Bastian has precisely summated: "the aura of utterly affirmative idolization already stands as a stereotype of a 'consumer-goods style' expression of an American way of life and of the mass-media culture of a nation." (Exh. Cat., Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie (and traveling), Andy Warhol: Retrospective, 2001, p. 28). For Warhol, the act of image replication and multiplication anaesthetized the effect of the subject, and while he had undermined the potency of wealth in 200 One Dollar Bills, and cheated the terror of death by electric chair in Silver Disaster # 6, the proliferation of Elvis here emasculates a prefabricated version of character authenticity. Here the cinematic quality of variety within unity is apparent in the degrees to which Presley's arm and gun become less visible to the left of the canvas. The sense of movement is further enhanced by a sense of receding depth as the viewer is presented with the ghost like repetition of the figure in the left of the canvas, a 'jump effect' in the screening process that would be replicated in the multiple Elvis paintings. The seriality of the image heightens the sense of a moving image, displayed for us like the unwinding of a reel of film. Elvis was central to Warhol's legendary solo exhibition organized by Irving Blum at the Ferus Gallery in the Fall of 1963 - the show having been conceived around the Elvis paintings since at least May of that year. A well-known installation photograph shows the present work prominently presented among the constant reel of canvases, designed to fill the space as a filmic diorama. While the Elvis canvases...
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Pop Art 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Enamel

Gordon Hunt, Just Swim V, Original Impressionist Painting, Affordable Artwork
Located in Deddington, GB
Gordon Hunt Just Swim V Original Seaside Painting Oil Paint on Canvas Canvas Size: 30 cm x 30 cm x 4 cm Sold Unframed Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how ...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Elegant Minimal ink on paper of a Gorgeous Weimaraner
Located in Charleston, US
Weimaraner, This stunning black and white ink painting of a Weimaraner dog, is a contemporary minimal portrait in black ink on Fabriano 300gsm paper. Ian Mason's portraits of dogs ar...
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Minimalist 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink

Open Up - Contemporary Spray Paint Graffiti by Studio Giftig
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Studio Giftig (Dutch artists) Open Up 80 x 80 cm ( framing options available) (Shiped in a wooden box) Acryl and spray paint on canvas Studio Giftig consisting of the Netherlands-ba...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Spray Paint, Acrylic

Arike
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Arike," an artwork crafted by Alabi Azeez, is a mesmerizing portrayal of femininity, strength, and resilience. The title itself, which translates to "someone to cherish" in the Yoru...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Ups and Downs - Contemporary Spray Paint Graffiti by Studio Giftig
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Studio Giftig (Dutch artists) Ups and Downs 80 x 80 cm ( framing options available) (Shiped in a wooden box) Acryl and spray paint on canvas Studio Giftig consisting of the Netherla...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Spray Paint, Acrylic

No Pasaran - Lone Soldier Symbolizing the Human Desire for Equality and Freedom
Located in Chicago, IL
Hugh Goffinet stares out from the canvas in the dress of a soldier, without being one. He is a reenactor of an African American volunteer in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. His inspiration is the Lincolns—the battalion’s volunteers—but they are pictured only symbolically, in his dress. Their inspiration was Lincoln, who many decades earlier helped give meaning to the American Civil War, but who is invisible in the painting except by implication—the pose of Hugh Goffinet—which carefully emulates Lincoln’s pose in the celebrated presidential portrait by George Healy. Entirely hidden, at the deepest layer of history, is the true source of inspiration: the human desire for equality and freedom. To understand, honor, and preserve it requires remembrance, in this case with history animating reenactors who animate art that animates memory. "No Pasaran" - an expression of determination to defend a position against an enemy - channels the spirit of Winslow Homer's war imagery, bringing it into the contemporary world, asking us to reflect upon the decisions forced to be made in wartime, some of which will never leave us. As for the paintings, William uses materials and methods of the Civil War era. The linen on which he paints was in use at that time as well as the tubed oil paints. He is one of the few artists who tacks his canvas to the stretchers using similar tacks that would have been used by Winslow Homer. While he leaves the works unframed for this reason, the artwork could certainly be framed. This piece is unframed. Please contact the gallery for framing options. William Blake No Pasaran oil on linen 48h x 30w in 121.92h x 76.20w cm WIL047 Known for his highly charged depictions of Civil War reenactments, William Blake’s powerful paintings show the recursive bodies of reenactors as they gesture across time. Participating in over 40 reenactment events, Blake currently interprets as the artist-correspondent Winslow Homer at these battle reenactments. He immerses himself in the materiality of his own obsession by constructing period clothes, camping on battlefields, and documenting the reenactment similar to Homer’s documentation of the authentic war. The figures in the paintings reverberate the past with respect and with a desire to educate, humble, and play. With each annual iteration of American Civil War reenactments, the reanimation of the past encourages a review of history and aids in its continuous revision. For his second exhibition with Gallery Victor Armendariz, William Blake presents A Great Battlefield, a collection of new paintings depicting US Marines at the Gettysburg National Military Park. A Great Battlefield, takes its title from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address which poetically looks to the battlefield as a site of rebirth. Following the tradition of nineteenth-century American history painting...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

The Light of Hope - Contemporary Spray Paint Graffiti by Studio Giftig
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Studio Giftig (Dutch artists) The Light of Hope 80 x 80 cm ( framing options available) (Shiped in a wooden box) Acryl and spray paint on canvas Studio Giftig consisting of the Neth...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Spray Paint, Acrylic

Louis Armstrong - Acrylic by Ivana Burello - 2020
Located in Roma, IT
The painting belongs to the MUSIC series, dedicated to the classic jazz of the 1950/60s. It is made on a rigid panel, it is a unique piece and is authenticated by the artist.
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Panel, Acrylic

Tropical Thoughts -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Modern Women
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
As I connect with life's rhythm, I see my small but important role in the big picture of life. Time keeps moving, reminding me to enjoy each moment and think carefully. Like plants t...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Female Portrait - Oil Painting by Roberto De Francisci - 2010s
Located in Roma, IT
Female Portrait is an original Contemporary artwork realized in the 2010s by the Italian artist Roberto De Francisci (b. 1976, Medellin, Colombia)...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Glass

MEJOR SOLAS
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"MEJOR SOLAS" OIL AND ACRILIC ON CANVAS SIGNED AND DATED 2010 EXHIBITED MUSEO DEL BANCO CENTRAL DE COSTA RICA 47.5 X 59 INCHES Sofía Ruiz was born in ...
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Surrealist 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Bloodhound, minimalist black and white dog painting of a by Ian Mason, British
Located in Charleston, US
Bloodhound, this stunning large minimalist black and white painting of a Bloodhound dog, is a contemporary portrait in acrylic on canvas. Ian Mason's portr...
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Minimalist 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Blue , American Realist painter, Representational Figurative art, Portrait
Located in Houston, TX
Blue is painted in the style of American Realism. The painting is Representational Figurative art which is a time consuming process especially with portraits and figurative art. T...
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American Realist 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Woman with Flowers & Tattoo, Mythology Orange , Pink, Acrylic Canvas "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sukanta Das - Untitled - 30 x 30 inches (unframed size) Acrylic on canvas Inclusive of shipment in roll form. Style : Juxtaposing the mundane with the exotic, Das’ work is usually ...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Sweet Melodies - Original Sally K Figurative Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Lebanese American artist Sally K.'s captivating floral portraits are both mesmerizing and empowering. Her pop-realistic paintings are inspired by strong, feminine women, celebrating...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Kenyan's portrait - Afro American, Figurative oil painting, Female portrait
Located in Warsaw, PL
ARTIST: MARLENA NIZIO (1959-2021) Studied painting under prof. Jerzy Nowosielski at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. She received her diploma in 1...
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Other Art Style 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Impressionist Oil Painting, "Spread Your Wings Into The Unknown"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind realistic oil portrait by San Diego artist, Charlene Mosley. Its dimensions are 8" x 24" x 1.5". It comes in a wood frame. A ce...
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Impressionist 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Odd Woman In" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Ron Hick's (US based) "Odd Woman In" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an impasto rendering of a female model with dark hair and an abstracted background. Ron Hick'...
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Impressionist 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Quiet Contemplation, Beach Scene
Located in London, GB
Image dimensions: 92cm x 61cm / 36 inches x 24 inches Framed dimensions: 94.8cm x 64.4cm / 37.2 inches x 25.4 inches This original acrylic painting by David Schock beautifully captu...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Woodstock For 3 Days - Colorful Pop Art Music Inspired Painting by Gary John
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...
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Pop Art 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Mixed Media, Acrylic, Newsprint

Pointer, contemporary minimal dog portrait black and white acrylic on canvas
Located in Charleston, US
German Shorthair Pointer, contemporary minimal dog portrait black and white acrylic on canvas. England's Ian Mason's portraits of dogs are v...
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Minimalist 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Ink, Acrylic

Ease – Realistic Nude Painting of Reclining Figure
Located in London, GB
Paul S. Brown was born in 1967 and raised in North Carolina. Paul’s immeasurable talent for drawing was evident from a young age. At the age of ten he received drawing lessons in the...
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Realist 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mafia Pizza Break By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Mafia Pizza Break By Marc Zimmerman The caper is over,the boss got his dough and this fine group of folks are taking a well deserved break, Pizza Time for the mafia, This masterwo...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

2306G, original art, line drawing, nude, still-life, affordable art
Located in Deddington, GB
2306G [2020] original Ink on paper Image size: H:36.5 cm x W:28 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:36.5 cm x W:28 cm x D:0.1cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Ink

"See No Evil" oil painting, self portrait of artist covering her eyes with hands
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"See No Evil" is an oil painting. It depicts a woman, the artist, Maryann Lucas covering her eyes with her hands. The two tone composition represents the artist's astrological sign, ...
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American Realist 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"I’ve Known Him for a Long Time", portrait, collage, beige, acrylic painting
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “I’ve Known Him for a Long Time” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 16 x 12 inches in beige, ochre and dark grey. The two halves represent not so much a perso...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

JOURNEY BEYOND THE SELF
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed and dated on front. Hand signed, titled and dated on verso. Painting is stretched and framed as pictured. Please note there is a loose thr...
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Pop Art 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Figurative Portrait on Horseback in Oil on Wood, Western n°13_Swan Scalabre
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
Swan Scalabre "Western n°13" Oil on Wood 11.25 x 13.25 in. Born in the Alpes de Haute Provence region of France in 1977, Swan Scalabre investigates the silent gaze placed on women,...
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Romantic 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Wood, Oil

Stupendous Beauty 2 Oil/ Canvas Nigerian Artist 2023 Portrait Art Realism
Located in Houston, TX
Description: This painting "Stupendous Beauty 2 " conveys the confidence and the very impressive beauty of a black woman that is painted in bold colors in the style of Realism. It is oil on canvas. Stupendous Beauty 2 is a unique work of art, not a print or other type of copy. Joshua Salami...
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Realist 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Radha, Cascading hair & wistful looks, Oil Painting, Red, Brown colors"In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Suhas Roy - Radha - 10 X 8 inches ( unframed size) Oil on Canvas , 2006 Suhas Roy 's mystic woman which he calls 'Radha', either Oil on canvas or soft coloured pastel on Paper or ...
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Modern 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Smile of Joy
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authent...
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Contemporary 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Surrealist Acrylic Portraiture Painting, "Clark" by Christopher Polentz
Located in San Diego, CA
A 8.5” x 11.5” x 2” Surrealist Acrylic Portrait Painting by artist Christopher Polentz. A certificate of authenticity will accompany the piece upon its purchase or delivery. “Gopher...
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Surrealist 21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Philippa Hall - Framed Contemporary Oil, Artist At Her Easel
Located in Corsham, GB
A colourful study of a female artist, busy working in her studio. Depicted in an impressionistic style with pointillist quality's throughout. Initialled to the lower right. Well pres...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

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