Expressionist Portrait Paintings
EXPRESSIONIST STYLE
While “expressionist” is used to describe any art that avoids naturalism and instead employs a bold use of flattened forms and intense brushwork, Expressionist art formally describes early-20th-century work from Europe that drew on Symbolism and confronted issues such as urbanization and capitalism. Expressionist artists experimented in paintings and prints with skewed perspectives, abstraction and unconventional, bright colors to portray how isolating and anxious the world felt rather than how it appeared.
Between 1905 and 1920, Austrian and German artists, in particular, were inspired by Postimpressionists such as Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh in their efforts to strive for a new authenticity in their work. In its geometric patterns and decorative details, Expressionist art was also marked by eclectic sources like German and Russian folk art as well as tribal art from Africa and Oceania, which the movement’s practitioners witnessed at museums and world’s fairs.
Groups of artists came together to share and promote the themes now associated with Expressionism, such as Die Brücke (The Bridge) in Dresden, which included Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and investigated alienation and the dissolution of society in vivid color. In Munich, Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a group led by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, instilled Expressionism with a search for spiritual truths. In his iconic painting The Scream, prolific Norwegian painter Edvard Munch conveyed emotional turmoil through his depiction of environmental elements, such as the threatening sky.
Expressionism shifted around the outbreak of World War I, with artists using more elements of the grotesque in reaction to the escalation of unrest and violence. Printmaking was especially popular, as it allowed artists to widely disseminate works that grappled with social and political issues amid this time of upheaval. Although the art movement ended with the rise of Nazi Germany, where Expressionist creators were labeled “degenerate,” the radical ideas of these artists would influence Neo-Expressionism that emerged in the late 1970s with painters like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente.
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Style: Expressionist
Lady with red rose
Located in Spetses, GR
A stylish lady with a red rose pinned on her black dress is sitting in a retro armchair.
A new series (2023) from SOTOS_Z Zachariades. Portraits of live...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
‘The Lovers’ Figurative Nude Female Models oil on board by Shana Wilson
By Shana Wilson
Located in Carmel, CA
Shana’s portraits adorned two covers of Time Magazine.
Shana’s work is about the face and eyes. Young face, old face, black or white. Her subjects are confused, lonely, ragged and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Disappearing" Oil Painting 27.5" x 39" inch by Sergey Dolmatov
Located in Culver City, CA
"Disappearing" Oil Painting 27.5" x 39" inch by Sergey Dolmatov
Year: 2010
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Large Israeli Expressionist Orientalist Oil Painting Draped Child Kibbutz Art
Located in Surfside, FL
William (Sunny) Weintraub, Israeli (Born 1926)
Oil on masonite
William Weintraub (He was also known as Shlomo Weintraub and nicknamed Sonny Weintraub)
Genre: Impressionist
Subject: Portrait
Medium: Oil
Surface: Canvas
Dimensions: framed 24 X 32.5 canvas 19 X 27
In an ever-changing art world that embraces one movement after the next, the timeless art of portraiture can become lost. Portraiture is often associated with the royal paintings of centuries-old French kings, European nobility, and other wealthy individuals from art history's past. However, styles like Social Realism and Dutch genre painting spotlighted...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
What Next?
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Don't feel anxious and frightened, if you worry too much, it turns into a burden that becomes hard to bear and can lead to difficulties in the state of mind. You should not retreat but prevail by standing tall. As you get older, life becomes more challenging. Life is always full of expectations. Never dwell in the past, but Embrace the present and look into the future...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Destiny of a Young Man
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Destiny of a Young Man is an original painting by John Ayobamidele. John created Destiny of a Young Man Acrylic on a 29.5W by 41.3H inches primed canv...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Seated Young Man Figurative Art, Nude Man Model Oil On Board Painting By Shana
By Shana Wilson
Located in Carmel, CA
Shana’s portraits adorned two covers of Time Magazine.
Shana’s work is about the face and eyes. Young face, old face, black or white. Her subjects are confused, lonely, ragged and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
Beauty In African 1
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
A woman's polite devotion is her greatest beauty.
Painting
Charcoal, Acrylic on canvas
Size: 18W x 24H Inches
Unmounted artwork
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Canvas, Acrylic
Bed of Roses
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Bed of Roses is a Mixed Media painting by Damilola Olusegun. Damilola created "Bed of Roses on a 36W by 48H inches primed canvas.
In Bed of Roses, Damilo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
"Portrait of Truman Capote" by John MacWhinnie
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John MacWhinnie, American (1946 - )
Title: Portrait of Truman Capote
Year: 1968
Medium: Mixed Media on Board (Oil and Pencil), signed and dated l.r.
Size: 23.5 x 18 inches
Fr...
Category
1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Board, Pencil
Woman with Earrings, Portrait of a Woman by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Woman with Earrings" is an oil on board portrait painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon of an elegantly dressed woman sitting on a chair. This work features a second environmental portrait on verso. The painting is 40" x 34" in size and is signed "Harmon" on verso. Figurative expressionism in the style of Alice Neel.
Provenance: Estate of the Artist; Gratz Gallery & Conservation Studio, Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
Bernard Harmon was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1935. Harmon was primarily a portrait painter and a well loved teacher in the Philadelphia area. A graduate of the Philadelphia Museum School and Temples Tyler School of Art, Harmon traveled extensively in Europe and South America. Beloved by many, Harmon taught in the Philadelphia School District for 32 of his 54 years of life. Beginning his career as an art teacher at West Philadelphia High School, in the early 1960s he became one of the district's artists in residence, traveling from school to school to demonstrate for students how an artist works. Returning to the classroom, Harmon joined the art department at Central High School where he taught for 14 years and became an innovator in art curriculum, developing a program offering advanced placement art classes to gifted students. In his final years Harmon became a supervisor, mentoring teachers and overseeing programs in the Philadelphia school systems District #1. During his short life Harmon taught collage preparatory art classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, summer classes at the University of the Arts, and a Saturday program for gifted children at Drexel University. Among Harmon's portraits were commissioned by Philadelphia Jazz organist Jimmy Smith and Mayor Richardson Dilworth. Bernard Harmon was active in promoting African American Artist throughout his life time. He organized many early shows such as the "Afro American Artists 1800 - 1969" at the Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center in 1969. He was considered a Renaissance man by friends and colleagues for his interests not only in art but music and theater as well. He was familiar and friends with many other African American artists such as Doc Thrash, Selma Burke...
Category
1970s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Bather
Located in London, GB
'The Bather', oil on board, by Charles Kvapil (1934). The world of art has for centuries depicted bathers in one form or another. Kvapil's wonderfully allur...
Category
1930s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"THE BELLE OF CHEYENNE" COWGIRL WESTERN BRILLIANT COLORS TEXAS ARTIST
Located in San Antonio, TX
Debra Benditz
Texas Artist
Image Size: 48 x 24
Medium: Oil
"The Belle of Cheyenne" Cowgirl" Cowgirl. We will only ship in the Continental United State for posted shipping price.
Debra Benditz Texas Artist Statement
My oil paintings are a vibrant expression of the feminine and the can-do spirit of the Wild American West as embodied by my paternal grandmother and great-grandmother, both award-winning horsewomen. I use saturated colors, often found in nature, to interpret burgeoning growth, beauty and the human form especially of Jennie Pawson and Aeola Huston Mitchell, my cowgirl ancestors. I know these feisty women from stories I heard my father tell and from old photographs showing the time Jennie met Theodore Roosevelt, and another from 1901, when she was named a champion of the Cheyenne, Wyoming Frontier Days. As a child I spent hours on the floor of my grandfather’s music room as Enrico Caruso serenaded me from the Victrola. I gazed in awe at the tall bookcases, art-covered walls and my grandfather’s art nouveau postcard...
Category
2010s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Born King
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Charcoal
"Evening Wash" oil on board by Shana Wilson - Female Nudes
By Shana Wilson
Located in Carmel, CA
Shana’s portraits adorned two covers of Time Magazine.
Shana’s work is about the face and eyes. Young face, old face, black or white. Her subjects are confused, lonely, ragged and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Muted Echoes
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Women today should be unstoppable in pursuing or achieving their dreams in media, sport, technology, medicine, engineering, and Art
A woman can create a balance between her personal ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Hopeful
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
You must create your own destiny when life doesn't always go the way you have planned it. You must never give up on your dreams or allow depression to set into your life because suic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Contemporary Art, Expressionist, Portrait - A Wounded Ukrainian
Located in Coquitlam, BC
Artist: Gao, Renjie
The member of the Hudson Artists Society, New York
Agent of BRUNO MASSA Gallery, France
Six Worldwide well-known art sales website agent
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Category
2010s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Boy Waiting, Portrait of a Young Man by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Boy Waiting" is an oil on board portrait painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon of a young man with somber expression, sitting on a chair. This work features a second environmental portrait on verso. The painting is 41.75" x 35.75" in size and is signed "Harmon" on verso. Figurative expressionism in the style of Alice Neel.
Provenance: Estate of the Artist; Gratz Gallery & Conservation Studio, Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
Bernard Harmon was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1935. Harmon was primarily a portrait painter and a well loved teacher in the Philadelphia area. A graduate of the Philadelphia Museum School and Temples Tyler School of Art, Harmon traveled extensively in Europe and South America. Beloved by many, Harmon taught in the Philadelphia School District for 32 of his 54 years of life. Beginning his career as an art teacher at West Philadelphia High School, in the early 1960s he became one of the district's artists in residence, traveling from school to school to demonstrate for students how an artist works. Returning to the classroom, Harmon joined the art department at Central High School where he taught for 14 years and became an innovator in art curriculum, developing a program offering advanced placement art classes to gifted students. In his final years Harmon became a supervisor, mentoring teachers and overseeing programs in the Philadelphia school systems District #1. During his short life Harmon taught collage preparatory art classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, summer classes at the University of the Arts, and a Saturday program for gifted children at Drexel University. Among Harmon's portraits were commissioned by Philadelphia Jazz organist Jimmy Smith and Mayor Richardson Dilworth. Bernard Harmon was active in promoting African American Artist throughout his life time. He organized many early shows such as the "Afro American Artists 1800 - 1969" at the Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center in 1969. He was considered a Renaissance man by friends and colleagues for his interests not only in art but music and theater as well. He was familiar and friends with many other African American artists such as Doc Thrash, Selma Burke...
Category
1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Rabbi Portrait, Acryclic on Canvas
By Moshe Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
Highly textured portrait of an elderly rabbinic sage.
Moshe Katz was born March 2, 1937 in Bucharest, Romania. With his parents, he fled the Nazis and with much difficulty successfully made it safely to Israel.
His paintings have been displayed by Arts International in galleries across the globe since the fall of 1965.
He received second prize in the Israeli Group Artist Show in Halfa in 1959. Exhibits featuring his paintings of the young artist in the United States have taken place in Philadelphia, Los Angles...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Latin Lady, Original Signed Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Painting
Located in Boston, MA
Latin Lady, Original Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Painting, 2021
30" x 15" x 1.5" (HxWxD) Mixed Media and Acrylic on Paper bonded to a Wood Panel
Hand-signed by the artist.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Mixed Media, Wood Panel
Girl Thinking, Expressionist Portrait of Young Woman by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Girl Thinking" is a painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon. The 40" x 30" oil on board portrait of a young woman is painted in a vibrant color palette. The painting is framed in a new, black wood frame and signed "B Harmon" on verso. Figurative expressionism in the style of Alice Neel.
Bernard Harmon was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1935. Harmon was primarily a portrait painter and a well loved teacher in the Philadelphia area. A graduate of the Philadelphia Museum School and Temples Tyler School of Art, Harmon traveled extensively in Europe and South America. Beloved by many, Harmon taught in the Philadelphia School District for 32 of his 54 years of life. Beginning his career as an art teacher at West Philadelphia High School, in the early 1960s he became one of the district's artists in residence, traveling from school to school to demonstrate for students how an artist works. Returning to the classroom, Harmon joined the art department at Central High School where he taught for 14 years and became an innovator in art curriculum, developing a program offering advanced placement art classes to gifted students. In his final years Harmon became a supervisor, mentoring teachers and overseeing programs in the Philadelphia school systems District #1. During his short life Harmon taught collage preparatory art classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, summer classes at the University of the Arts, and a Saturday program for gifted children at Drexel University. Among Harmon's portraits were commissioned by Philadelphia Jazz organist Jimmy Smith and Mayor Richardson Dilworth. Bernard Harmon was active in promoting African American Artist throughout his life time. He organized many early shows such as the "Afro American Artists 1800 - 1969" at the Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center in 1969. He was considered a Renaissance man by friends and colleagues for his interests not only in art but music and theater as well. He was familiar and friends with many other African American artists such as Doc Thrash, Selma Burke...
Category
1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Electrified Jazz
Located in Nashville, TN
"Electrified Jazz" is an acrylic-on-canvas painting by Nashville artist James Threalkill. People being his primary subject matter, Threalkill depicts his subjects with vivacity. He ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Chassidic Rabbi, Judaica Expressionist Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
In this painting, Nussbaum depicts a Rabbi as his subject; a recurrent figure in his body of work. The artist uses gestural marks and vibrant blue colors in this composition.
Nussba...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Insouciance, Mid 20th Century Portrait of Max Vigon friend of Jean Cocteau.
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Mid 20th Century oil portrait of the actor Max Vigon. The sitter was a friend and collector of the works of Jean Cocteau. By repute this portrait is by Cocteau however it is n...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Knee Socks Girl, Portrait by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Knee Sock Girl" is an oil on board portrait painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon of a woman, seemingly lost in contemplation....
Category
1970s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'White Face Red Lips' Opera Singer Portrait in China Original Contemporary O/c
By Duan Zhaonan
Located in Carmel, CA
Artist Duan Z. Born in 1955 in Yunnan, renowned Chinese Opera Figure Painter, Educator, Playwright and Producer.
Mr. Duan serves as Director of Chinese...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman with Hoop Earrings
Located in London, GB
'Woman with Hoop Earings', oil on canvas, by Louis Latapie (circa 1930s). Filled with colour, this extraordinarily seductive work by French artist, Latapie, is compelling in its warm...
Category
1930s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Upright Bass, Expressionist Portrait of Musician by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Upright Bass" is a painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon. The 40" x 34" oil on board group portrait of a musician is painted...
Category
1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Man with Yellow Tie
Located in Los Angeles, CA
ALEXANDER KREISEL
"MAN WITH YELLOW TIE"
OIL ON CANVAS BOARD, SIGNED
RUSSIAN-AMERICAN, C.1935
26 X 19.5 INCHES
FRAMED 29.5 X 23.5 INCHES
Alexander Krei...
Category
1930s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"HIGH PLAINS BLOSSOM" COWGIRL WESTERN BRILLIANT COLORS TEXAS ARTIST
Located in San Antonio, TX
Debra Benditz
Texas Artist
Image Size: 48 x 24
Medium: Oil
"High Plains Blossom" Cowgirl We will only ship in the Continental United State for posted shipping price.
Debra Benditz Texas Artist Statement
My oil paintings are a vibrant expression of the feminine and the can-do spirit of the Wild American West as embodied by my paternal grandmother and great-grandmother, both award-winning horsewomen. I use saturated colors, often found in nature, to interpret burgeoning growth, beauty and the human form especially of Jennie Pawson and Aeola Huston Mitchell, my cowgirl ancestors. I know these feisty women from stories I heard my father tell and from old photographs showing the time Jennie met Theodore Roosevelt, and another from 1901, when she was named a champion of the Cheyenne, Wyoming Frontier Days. As a child I spent hours on the floor of my grandfather’s music room as Enrico Caruso serenaded me from the Victrola. I gazed in awe at the tall bookcases, art-covered walls and my grandfather’s art nouveau postcard...
Category
2010s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sade
Located in Nashville, TN
"Sade" is an acrylic-on-canvas painting of the Nigerian-born British singer/songwriter Sade Adu by Nashville artist James Threalkill. People being his prima...
Category
2010s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
'Man With White Dog' Original Contemporary Figurative Art O/c by Duan
By Duan Zhaonan
Located in Carmel, CA
Artist Duan Z. Born in 1955 in Yunnan, renowned Chinese Opera Figure Painter, Educator, Playwright and Producer.
Mr. Duan serves as Director of Chinese...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Portrait Of A Young Man' Contemporary Oil Painting Male Black White Red
By Duan Zhaonan
Located in Carmel, CA
Artist Duan Z. Born in 1955 in Yunnan, renowned Chinese Opera Figure Painter, Educator, Playwright and Producer.
Mr. Duan serves as Director of Chinese...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Faceless" Original Contemporary Abstract Portrait by Masri
Located in Carmel, CA
Masri is a passionate Italian, US-based artist whose work has been exhibited in USA, the UK, Germany, Lebanon, Italy and Norway. His work is varied and known especially in Europe, an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
'The Party' Original Chinese Art Painting Figurative Oil On Paper by Duan
By Duan Zhaonan
Located in Carmel, CA
Artist Duan Z. Born in 1955 in Yunnan, renowned Chinese Opera Figure Painter, Educator, Playwright and Producer.
Mr. Duan serves as Director of Chinese...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pigment
Expressionist Judaica Rabbis Oil Painting Jewish American WPA Modernist Ben Zion
Located in Surfside, FL
Rabbinical Discussion
Hand signed lower left.
Provenance: bears label verso for Summit Gallery
Dimensions: H 14.25" x W 8"
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.” An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name.
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet doors (panels) in his work. Other members of group included Ilya Bolotowsky, Lee Gatch, Adolph Gottlieb, Louis Harris, Yankel Kufeld, Marcus Rothkowitz (later known as Mark Rothko), Louis Schanker, and Joseph Solman. The Art of “The Ten” was generally described as expressionist, as this style offered the best link between modernism and social art. Their exhibition at the Mercury Gallery in New York held at the same time as the Whitney Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, included a manifesto concentrating on aesthetic questions and criticisms of the conservative definition of modern art imposed by the Whitney. Ben-Zion’s work was quickly noticed. The New York Sun said he painted “furiously” and called him “the farthest along of the lot.” And the triptych, “The Glory of War,” was described by Art News as “resounding.”
By 1939, The Ten disbanded because most of the members found individual galleries to represent their work. Ben-Zion had his first one-man show at the Artist’s Gallery in Greenwich Village and J.B. Neumann, the highly esteemed European art dealer who introduced Paul Klee, (among others) to America, purchased several of Ben-Zion’s drawings. Curt Valentin, another well-known dealer, exhibited groups of his drawings and undertook the printing of four portfolios of etchings, each composed of Ben-Zion’s biblical themes. He worked as a WPA artist.
Ben-Zion’s work is represented in many museums throughout the country including the Metropolitan, the Whitney, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Phillips Collection, Washington. The Jewish Museum in New York opened in 1948 with a Ben-Zion exhibition.
Ben-Zion consistently threaded certain subject matter—nature, still life, the human figure, the Rabbi, the Hebrew Bible, and the Jewish people—into his work throughout his life. "In all his work a profound human feeling remains. Sea and sky, even sheaves of wheat acquire a monolithic beauty and simplicity which delineates the transient as a reflection of the eternal. This sensitive inter- mingling of the physical and metaphysical is one of the most enduring features of Ben-Zion's works." (Excerpt from Stephen Kayser, “Biblical Paintings,” The Jewish Museum Catalogue, 1952). Mystical Imprints: Marc Chagall, Ben-Zion, and Ben Shahn presents the print work of three prominent 20th century Jewish artists born in the Russian Empire. Among these seventy pieces are etchings and lithographs from Chagall’s Bible series...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Expressionist African American Woman Portrait German Brazilian Harry Elsas
Located in Surfside, FL
Framed 20.5 x 18 image 14.5 x 12
Heinz Hugo Erich Elsas, (German-Brazilian 1925-1994) later known as Harry Elsas. Muralist, writer, designer best known as...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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
1950s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Gouache
Contemporary Art, Expressionist, Portrait - The Three Musketeers
Located in Coquitlam, BC
Artist: Gao, Renjie
The member of the Hudson Artists Society, New York
Agent of BRUNO MASSA Gallery, France
Six Worldwide well-known art sales website agent
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Category
2010s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
MId Century Animal Portrait: "Rooster" Pierre Bosco (1909-1993)
By Pierre Bosco
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Rooster"
Pierre Bosco, (1909-1993)
Gouache on paper
10 x 9 (18 x 14 frame) inches
Pierre Bosco showed an interest in art at an early age. His commitment and dedication to painting...
Category
1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Contemporary Art, Expressionist, Portrait - WE I
Located in Coquitlam, BC
Artist: Gao, Renjie
The member of the Hudson Artists Society, New York
Agent of BRUNO MASSA Gallery, France
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Category
2010s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Rabbi, Framed Judaica Oil Painting
Located in Long Island City, NY
A touching portrait of an aging Rabbi by an unknown artist, probably of Hungarian origin. The oil painting on canvas is mounted to board and probably dates to the early 20th Century....
Category
Early 20th Century Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Contemporary Art, Expressionist, Portrait - WE III
Located in Coquitlam, BC
Artist: Gao, Renjie
The member of the Hudson Artists Society, New York
Agent of BRUNO MASSA Gallery, France
Six Worldwide well-known art sales website agent
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Category
2010s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary Art, Expressionist, Portrait - WE II
Located in Coquitlam, BC
Artist: Gao, Renjie
The member of the Hudson Artists Society, New York
Agent of BRUNO MASSA Gallery, France
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Category
2010s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Boxing Ring. Boxed Knocked to Floor with 10 Count, Red and Black, Esquire Mag
By Bob Peak
Located in Miami, FL
Illustration legend Bob Peak depicts a boxer that has fallen to the matt and is being given the 10-count by the referee. Peak captures that peak moment of drama and then exaggerates...
Category
1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
‘Young Woman With Red Hair’ Figurative Nude Female Model Oil on Board by Shana
By Shana Wilson
Located in Carmel, CA
Shana’s portraits adorned two covers of Time Magazine.
Shana’s work is about the face and eyes. Young face, old face, black or white. Her subjects are confused, lonely, ragged and desolate. Once we finish scrutinizing the powerful images, we notice that most of them are naked. And their nudity connects to the expression portrayed in their eyes.
There is a wholeness in Shana’s paintings, an immediacy and rawness of a world not very kind. Life had trodden on these human beings and their only solace is Shana’s loving brush.
The painting comes with a certificate of authenticity and a letter of appraisal.
'Female Nude With Red Hair...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Figurative Young Female nude Model Original Contemporary by Shana Wilson
By Shana Wilson
Located in Carmel, CA
Shana’s portraits adorned two covers of Time Magazine.
Shana’s work is about the face and eyes. Young face, old face, black or white. Her subjects are confused, lonely, ragged and d...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Harlequin
Located in Bayonne, NJ
Portrait of harlequin by Vassyl Khmeluk was executed in circa 1946-1947. This impressive stylistic artwork by Khemluk falls well into a series of portraits masterfully created by the...
Category
1940s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
‘Standing Young Woman’ Figurative Nude Female Model Contemporary Original Art
By Shana Wilson
Located in Carmel, CA
Shana’s portraits adorned two covers of Time Magazine.
Shana’s work is about the face and eyes. Young face, old face, black or white. Her subjects are confused, lonely, ragged and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled Original Figurative Young Women With Black Robe Chinese Art Painting
By Duan Zhaonan
Located in Carmel, CA
Artist Duan Z. Born in 1955 in Yunnan, renowned Chinese Opera Figure Painter, Educator, Playwright and Producer.
Mr. Duan serves as Director of Chinese...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pigment
I’m Different 3
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
“In Africa, Yoruba land to be precise where I grew up the nourishing attitude of Omoluwabi, our facial looks is been used to define us as a person, a guy with ear piercing and dreadlocks on his head being looked at as a thug, frauds tars, and so on,
Meanwhile, these guys are a cool and calm-hearted person
Though there are guys like these that are truly counted in the act not all of them are like that
Good and God fearing youth still exist”
(Written by the Artist)
Painting
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Signed on the front side and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
- About the Artist
Joy Eyitayo Alagbe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic, Canvas
Les palmiers original oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Unframed
Manuel Capdevila i Massana (Barcelona, December 28, 1910 - April 18, 2006) was a Catalan painter and goldsmith, son of the goldsmith Joaquín Capdevila y Meya and father o...
Category
1970s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
My Self
Located in West Hollywood, CA
We are proud to have discovered and now present a rare original self portrait by Austrian Expressionist artist, Franz Bergmann (1998-1977)
"My Self", is an original oil on canvas, signed, c.1938, with an image dimension of 29 x 24 inches. The painting is in good original condition, the frame has been restored.
A biography on the artist appears below, please contact the gallery with any question.
Franz Bergmann
1898 - 1977
Franz Walter Bergmann was born on August 6, 1898, in Dimling, Austria, a town northwest of Vienna. His parents were both involved in the arts: his mother was a pianist, and his father was an amateur artist and a violinist. After serving in World War I for three years, he enrolled in the National Academy of Art in Vienna and embarked on a seven-year course of study, focusing on figure painting and portraiture. Although schooled in the academic tradition, Bergmann also adopted elements derived from the more avant-garde German Expressionist style. By 1924 he was exhibiting in Vienna and Stockholm. The following year, he graduated with honors.
He left Vienna to tour Europe, and in early 1926 he traveled to the United States. After a brief stay in New York, he moved to Chicago, where he obtained a commission to paint murals for theaters owned by Balaban & Katz. That year his mural sketches were exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago. He then moved to New York, where he joined the staff of the noted Austrian architect and designer Josef Urban...
Category
1930s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dense
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The painting is about a woman stuck still in time, statuesque and hard looking. The are many layers of strokes to build on the hardness of the figure...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Figurative Expressionist Oil Painting Rediscovered New York City Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Jonah Kinigstein (b. 1923) is an American Postwar & Contemporary painter. He works in a figurative expressionist style. His works are featured in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Academy of Design, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He lives in New York City. Jonah Kinigstein was trained at Cooper Union Art School, The Grande Chaumiere in Paris; and Belle Arte in Rome. He has been a Fulbright Fellow. He has holdings at MOMA, the Ain Herod Museum in Tel Aviv; Smithsonian; the Albright-Knox Gallery and the Nelson Gallery of Art. He lived and worked in Brooklyn New York. Kinigstein was inducted as an Academician into the National Academy of Design in 1997.
Exhibits include: Young Americans at the Whitney Museum of American Art; the National Academy of Arts and Letters; ACA Gallery; Rittenhouse Gallery; the Washington Irving Gallery; and the Pindar Gallery.
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture (CAPS) '59, University of Illinois, Arthur Okamura, Fred Farr, Jonah Kinigstein, Lawrence Calcagno, Reuben Tam...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid Century French Expressionist Portrait of a Man, framed oil painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, mid 20th century
Title: Expressionist portrait of a man
Medium: oil painting on board, framed
framed: 27.25 x 27.5 inches
canvas: 21.75 x 18 inc...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
La Montera
Located in London, GB
'La Montera', gouache, watercolour and ink on art paper, by Pierre Ambrogiani (circa 1960s). The artist created many artworks with bullfighting as theme. In this case, a single torer...
Category
1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
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