Modern Portrait Paintings
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
Lady with the Lamp, Dry Pastel on Paper by Prokash Karmakar “In Stock”
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Prakash Karmakar - Untitled - 29 x 20 inches ( unframed size )
Dry Pastel on Paper , 1999
Prakash Karmakar was the most senior artist of Bengal . He was instrumental in the Bengal...
Category
1990s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Canvas
Indian Rural Scene, Travelers, Luggage, Ink on Paper by Modern Artist "In Stock"
By Indra Dugar
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Indra Dugar - Untitled - 10.5 x 8 inches (unframed size) & 16 x 18.5 inches ( framed size )
Ink on paper
Inclusive of shipment in framed form.
About the Artist & his work :
Born : ...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, India Ink, Ballpoint Pen
20th CENTURY FRENCH MODERNIST PAINTING - red eye man
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Man
by Jean Marc (French 1949-2019)
signed with initials
gouache paint/ Watercolor
painting: 15.75 x 16 inches
provenance: private collection, South of France
Superb ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
JEAN MARC (1949-2019) 20th CENTURY FRENCH MODERNIST PAINTING Tropical Girl
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Girl in Tropical Landscape
by Jean Marc (French 1949-2019)
watercolour on artist paper
painting: 15.75 x 11.75 inches
condition: sound condition
provenance: private collection, So...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Negro Boy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Negro Boy, 1932, oil on canvas board, 16 x 13 inches, exhibited: 1) Third Local Artists Exhibition, Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio TX, September, 1932 (label verso), and 2) Six C...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
The Whispers Had Changed - Figurative Watercolor Graphite Figurative Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Amanda Immurs, an artist hailing from Hamilton, Canada, creates enchanting watercolor artworks that bring whimsical scenes of children, animals, and flora to life. Immurs' art is gro...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
British Modernist Portrait of Chaim Weizmann President of Israel Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Alfred Aaron Wolmark (1877 – 1961) was a painter and decorative artist. He was a Post Impressionist and a pioneer of the New Movement in Art.
He was born Aaron Wolmark into a Jewish family in Warsaw, Poland who were amongst the many subsequently fleeing the pogroms of Eastern Europe. The family moved to Devon when he was six before moving to Spitalfields, East London, there along with many other Jewish immigrant émigré families. He became a British citizen in 1894.
He studied at the Royal Academy Schools and exhibited there from 1901-1936. (1895-8 (1st Silver Medallist for Drawing). There he took the name Alfred Wolmark, by which he is known.
Returning briefly to Poland in 1903, he painted works based his Jewish identity and faith, refraining from depicting the persecution and anti-Semitism his family witnessed on the continent and idealising the peaceful and contemplative elements of his religion. His first one-man exhibition was held at the Bruton Galleries in 1905.
In July 1911, after an artistic epiphany on honeymoon in Concarneau, Brittany, he became influenced by modern French painting, his colour palette and style became post impressionist, and Wolmark jettisoned his early methods in favour of the pioneering 'colourist' path that he followed for the next two decades of his working life. He was a British fauvist and pitched his tonal divisions to a higher key than any of his contemporaries. Wolmark kept to traditional genre, and transformed his subjects through the use of flattened forms, built up with a heavy impasto. His daring use of bright colour on some paintings such as "An Arrangement: Group of Nudes" demonstrate a skillset akin to Andy Warhol and earned him the title of ‘The Colour King’. the early colourist, Alfred Wolmark, the so-called father of the ‘Whitechapel Boys’. This group includes painters David Bomberg, Mark Gertler and Jacob Kramer, as well as (by association) the sculptor Jacob Epstein, First World War poet-painter, Isaac Rosenberg, and the only ‘Whitechapel Girl’ Clare Winsten...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Liberty Dreams", Dove Flying Out of a Human's Mind Figurative Acrylic Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
A graduate from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Métiers d'Arts in Paris, Françoise Collandre entered the fine art workshops in the city of Paris in painting and engraving and has ...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
French Signed Modernist Painting Rosy Cheeked Portrait Figure in Red
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Huguette Ginet-Lasnier (French 1927-2020), signed lower front and inscribed verso
Ginet-Lasnier, the wife of the painter Jean Lasnier, was born in the Seine-Maritime...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Krishna, Oil, Acrylic, Charcoal, Blue, Yellow by Indian Modernist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Shuvaprasanna Bhattacharya - The Golden Flute - 12 x 12 inches (unframed size)
Oil, Acrylic and Charcoal on canvas
Inclusive of shipment in a roll form.
One of the most popular seri...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Oil, Acrylic
Portrait. cardboard, oil, 50x35, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait. 1970s, cardboard, oil, 50x35,5 cm
Woman portrait in light colors
Laimdots Murnieks (1922-2011) studied at Cesis and Jelgava teachers’ institutes (1938 – 44). He graduated ...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Fisherman and His Rod
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour on artist paper, unframed
size: 12.5 x 9.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed.
pro...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Dance of the In laws Wedding Scene Judaica Shtetl Oil Painting WPA Jewish Artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern
Subject: Jewish Wedding Mechutanim
Medium: Oil
Surface: Board, size includes artist decorated frame
Country: United States
The imagery of Maurice Kish (1895-1987), whe...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Emerging' - Minimal Abstract Female Portrait - Geometric Acrylic Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Robert Glick (American, born 1950)
"Emerging" 2024
Acrylic Paint, Canvas, Stretcher Bars
The artist signed the bottom right of the painting.
"Emerging" by Robert Glick is a captivat...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars
Carnival by Stéphanie Guerzoni - Oil on cardboard
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas board
Brown wooden frame with glass pane
66,5 x 56,5 x 3 cm
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Clown, Modernist Oil Painting on Board WPA Artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
This portrait of a clown by Maurice Kish is part from a series of carnival figures, circus clowns and carousel horses and riders that he did in the 30s and 40s. The artist uses a vib...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
‘Woman With Black Hair' Figurative Art Nude Oil On Canvas By Hal Frater
By Hal Frater
Located in Carmel, CA
Portrait Of a Woman Painting - - oil on canvas -- Woman with a Black Hair'
Hal Frater passed away on February 3, 2008, just a month from celebrating his 99th birthday.
Hal Frater had a long and prolific career. He became a sought after commercial artist for over fifty years . All the while he would return to his studio and paint for himself rather than his clients. Yet he always retained his illustration roots in wanting to tell a story on canvas with his keen eye of observation on the human condition.
Often he would join fellow artists in informal sessions and paint from a model - no formal art school training but a mutually beneficial learning experience. His contemporaries that influenced him were Jack Levine, Raphael Soyer, John Sloan, Thomas Hart Benton, Reginald Marsh and Phillip Reisman...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Young Girl on a Couch, Oil Painting by Marshall Goodman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Marshall Goodman, American (1916 - 2003)
Title: Young Girl on Couch
Year: circa 1960
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 24 x 30 in. (60.96 x 76.2 cm)
Frame Size: 26.5 x 32 inches
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Over and Under" Soft Blue Toned Portrait of a Lady Wearing a Victorian Dress
Located in Houston, TX
Sky blue-toned abstract portrait of a Victorian woman attributed to American Modernist artist, John O'Neil. This painting depicts a pale white woman with rosy cheeks wearing a sky blue Victorian garment, sitting against an abstract light blue background. The canvas used for this piece was originally painted with an abstracted landscape and was painted over for this work. This piece has not been authenticated. Signed, dated, and titled at the back. Currently unframed, but options are available.
Artist Biography: John O'Neil (1915-2004) was a painter, educator, and writer best known for his Abstract Imagery and Early Modern (before 1950) styles.
O'Neil was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1915. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Oklahoma in 1936 and his Master of Fine Arts in painting from the University of Oklahoma in 1939. He studied at the Colorado Springs Arts Center, with Boardman Robinson, Paul Burlin, and Henry Varnum Poor; Taos School...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Joanne, Modern Oil Painting on Canvas Portrait by Thomas Strickland
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Thomas Strickland, American (1923 - 1999)
Title: Joanne with White Scarf
Year: 1967
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed u.r.
Size: 36 x 24 in. (91.44 x 60.96 cm)
Frame Size: 43.5...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bella. Oil on canvas, 50x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Bella. Oil on canvas, 50x50 cm
Woman portrait in warm colors
Laimdots Murnieks (1922-2011) studied at Cesis and Jelgava teachers’ institutes (1938 – 44). He graduated from the Paint...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Popol Vuh (1/3)
Located in San Francisco, CA
Rocca Luis César
Popol Vuh, 2023, (1/3)
Acrylic on canvas
24.40 x 24.40 in
This original painting comes framed as shown in one of the images.
Rocca Luis César (b. 1986, Guadalajara...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Portrait of Working Class Man
Located in Surfside, FL
American artist Samuel Brecher (active NY, 1897-1982) Oil on Canvas, Signed lower right ‘S. Brecher’
Brecher was a very accomplished painter who won over forty prestigious prizes and awards during his career, and had numerous one-man exhibitions. Brecher’s works are included in many important private collections as well as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Walker Art Museum, the Smithsonian and the Newark Museum of Art. He is listed in Who’s Who in American Art and is a member of the Salmugundi Club* and the National Academy of Art
Samuel Brecher was born in Boryslaw, Austria, a town near the Carpathian Mountains, now a part of Poland. His family came to New York in 1910, where Samuel graduated from Cooper Union* in 1921. He studied Art at the National Academy of Design* from 1921-1924, and continued studies under Charles W. Hawthorne in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Brecher was represented by several well known New York City galleries in the 1940’s and 1950’s including the Kraushaar Gallery, the ACA Gallery, the Hudson Walker Gallery and the Merrill Gallery. During his career he won over forty prestigious prizes and awards and had numerous one-man shows.
Some of Brechers’s contemporary artist friends were Walt Kuhn, Reginald Marsh, Richard Haley...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil on canvas painting - Study for a self-portrait
Located in Oostende, BE
Oil on canvas painting of a self portrait of the artist
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Beatificado" Modern Tabloid Inspired Religious Social Commentary Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Modern, large scale social commentary painting by California artist John Valdez. Comes with the original sketch as well as a book about the artist. Inspired by the cover of a Mexican tabloid, Valadez invites the viewer to examine the duality of a society that mourns the death of an iconic religious leader and neglects those close to them who are perhaps deemed not worthy of consideration.
The bold red headline reads “El cardenal Gabiri será beatificado” (Cardinal Gabiri will be beatified) above a large accompanying image of the cardinal in his casket and two smaller images, one of sobbing mourners and another of the cardinal sitting at the altar. Dividing the image is a subhead that reads, “El pueblo católico está de luto” (the Catholic people are mourning) placed above a depiction of four young boys who seem to be sniffing glue. The adjacent text reads “The indifference of the adults is the cause behind the issues these forgotten children have to live.”
This work was exhibited at the Pacific Standard Time, Long Beach Museum of Art in 2011, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in 2012, as well as the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, IL in 2013. Signed by artist in front lower right corner as well as titled and dated in front lower left corner. Currently unframed, but options are available.
Artist Biography: John Valadez...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Felt Pen
'Tolly No. 6' - Colorful Figurative Nude Woman - Post Impressionism Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Bernard Krigstein (March 22, 1919 – January 8, 1990) was an American illustrator and Ashscan school painter who received acclaim for his innovative a...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reflections on the ballet. 1986, canvas, cardboard, oil, 60x80 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Reflections on the ballet. 1970, canvas, cardboard, oil, 60x80 cm
Laimdots Murnieks (1922-2011) studied at Cesis and Jelgava teachers’ institutes (1938 – 44). He graduated from the ...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
The girl in the city. oil on cardboard, 76.5x41.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
The girl in the city. 1964, oil on cardboard, 76.5x41.5 cm
Laimdots Murnieks (1922-2011) studied at Cesis and Jelgava teachers’ institutes (1938 – 44). He graduated from the Paintin...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Modernist American Judaica Painting Gaon and his Disciples
Located in Surfside, FL
In this painting, Nussbaum portrays a Rabbi, or Rebbe outside the synagogue The vibrant colors used in this painting seem to overlay each other without being previous mixed.
Ervin B...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Kostacis with his hummingbirds Figurative popular scene in a Renaissance setting
By Igor Fomin
Located in Segovia, ES
Kostacis with his hummingbirds. Figurative popular scene in Renaissance atmosphere.
Acrylic on canvas.
Dimensions in centimeters 81 x 100 x 2 cm. Framed 105 x 124 x 5 cm.
Dimensions In inches: 31.89 x 39.37 x 0.79 " . Framed 41.34 x 48.82 x 1.97 "
Kostacis with his hummingbirds. Figurative Popular scene in Renaissance atmosphere.
Acrylic on canvas.
Outside scene where a group of people seem to experience extraordinary sensations surrounded by hummingbirds.
In an urban environment with a Renaissance flair, the characters, dressed in original clothes of plural inspiration, seem to react ecstatically by the effects of the hummingbirds, which Kostacis seems to have under control with his wealthy and wise aura.
The studied composition, the chromatic harmony, and the subtlety of the design of all the elements that make up the scene, give this painting a classic beauty. The author adds to all this his own brushstrokes of fine humor that wrap the whole theme in a casual irony, the same which surrounds all the stories that Igor Fomin...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Portrait of a Child
By Will Barnet
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original modern abstract portrait of a child by American artist Will Barnet. The work has a letter of provenance from the artist's wife. The i...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
"Kal-El Leaves Krypton" Colorful Abstract Modern Pop Art Superman Portrait
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful abstract modern pop art painting by Texas artist Robert Sandman. The title refers to when Jor-El and Lara watch as their son Kal-El, better kno...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"The Couple" Colorful Abstract Modern Portrait Painting of a Couple
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful abstract modern portrait painting of a couple by Texas artist Robert Sandman. Alternatively title "Unconscious Uncoupling" by the artist. While...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Glamorous Redhead Iconic Mid-Century Illustration
By Al Parker
Located in Miami, FL
Glamorous Redhead is a poster-like iconic image that sums up an era in American visual history - The 1950s. Al Parker is a giant in the history of American Illustration. He possess...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"The Vision" Modern Blue, Red, and Yellow Abstract Geometric Portrait Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Blue, red, and yellow abstract modern portrait painting by Texas artist Robert Sandman. The work features a well dressed man with part of his face obscu...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Miniature South American or Native American Portraits Paintings Signed Erwin
Located in Houston, TX
Three well painted miniature portraits of South American or Native American men. The piece is framed in a wooden frame with a white matte. Each portrait is signed by Erwin.
Dimensio...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Modern Abstract Portrait of a Woman with Child and Fish
By Lynwood Kreneck
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract style painting of a woman fishing. The work is signed by the artist Lynwood Kreneck, who is known for printmaking. The painting is framed in a wooden frame with a silver trim.
Dimensions Without Frame: H 40 in x W 30 in.
Artist Biography: Lynwood Kreneck (born 1936) received his BFA and MFA from The University of Texas at Austin. Kreneck is Professor Emeritus of Art at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, where he taught printmaking for nearly forty years. He is founding curator of the exhibition series Colorprint USA and was instrumental in the development of water-based screen print inks and methods. Kreneck is represented in numerous collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago (IL), Philadelphia Museum of Art (PA), High Museum (Atlanta, GA), Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art (Shawnee, OK), Museum of Contemporary (Knoxville, TN), Silvermine Guild Arts...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Deity of Human Origin #6
Located in San Francisco, CA
Sergio Nates
Deity of Human Origin #6, 2022
Acrylic on canvas
33 x 20 inches
This one-of-a-kind acrylic painting on canvas is stretched across wooden stretcher bars.
Sergio Nates (...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
20th century portrait oil painting closeup female subject side profile signed
By Walter Moskow
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Portrait of a Woman in Profile" is an original oil painting on board by Walter Moskow. The artist signed the piece lower right. This artwork features a female with a blue headscarf in a unique profile pose. Priced under $3000,for the Design Lovers Sale...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Paint
Selbstporträt / Selfportrait
Located in Wien, 9
Julius Zimpel
* 30.8.1896 Vienna, † 11.8.1925 Vienna
"First artistic inspiration by his uncle Gustav Klimt. 1911-16 attended the School of Arts and Crafts under F. Cizek, A. v. Ken...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"All'indomani dell'incontro" by Salvador Aulestia (Barcelona 1915-Milano 1994)
Located in Milano, MI
Exhibited in Almach Art Gallery Milano during 2023
Hand-signed by artist,
Certificate of authenticity
Included (issued by authorized authenticating body.
Acrylic on canvas
Image r...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Sitting girl with open book
Located in Wien, 9
As a pupil of William Straube, Dora Hitz, Max Pechstein and Willy Jaeckel, Edith Meyer von Kamptz achieved her own individual aesthetic designs with colourfu...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Framed Watercolor Portrait of Two Women – Figurative Exterior Scene Art
By Lloyd Moylan
Located in Denver, CO
This vibrant modernist watercolor on paper by Lloyd Moylan features a captivating portrait of two women seated in an outdoor landscape. Richly painted in a harmonious palette of pink...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mr. and Mrs. Charles and Allison Coolidge (Belmont)
Located in Boston, MA
Dated and titled on stretcher: "'37/ Mr + Mrs Chas. Coolidge/ Allison/ -Belmont".
In 1929 Molly Luce and her husband, Alan Burroughs, moved from Garden St...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Woman On Chair’ Original Drawing, Figurative Nude Art By Hal Frater
By Hal Frater
Located in Carmel, CA
11x14 (with frame 19x23)
Hal Frater passed away on February 3, 2008, just a month from celebrating his 99th birthday.
Hal Frater had a long and prolific career. He became a sought after commercial artist for over fifty years . All the while he would return to his studio and paint for himself rather than his clients. Yet he always retained his illustration roots in wanting to tell a story on canvas with his keen eye of observation on the human condition.
Often he would join fellow artists in informal sessions and paint from a model - no formal art school training but a mutually beneficial learning experience. His contemporaries that influenced him were Jack Levine, Raphael Soyer, John Sloan, Thomas Hart Benton, Reginald Marsh and Phillip Reisman...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Guardián (1/3)
Located in San Francisco, CA
Rocca Luis César
Guardián, 2023, (1/3)
Acrylic on canvas
24.40 x 24.40 in
This original painting comes framed as shown in one of the images.
Rocca Luis César (b. 1986, Guadalajara,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The New Hat, 20th Century British Oil Portrait Interior
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas on board
Image size: 15 3/4 x 21 3/4 inches (40 x 55 cm)
Contemporary style frame
This sensitive portrait captures the use of contemporary dress of this lady beautifu...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Reflects Of Happiness - African Abstract Painting Blue Yellow Brown Green White
Located in Sofia, BG
"Reflect Of Happiness" is an African abstract portrait painting by the talented Togolese artist Daté kodjo AMOUZOU.
Through his art, he has a very sharp an...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Portrait of Irene
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
Eugene Speicher is considered one of the foremost realists of his generation who closely upheld the mantle of his mentor, Robert Henri. His reputation currently...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nylons and Bric-a-Brac by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
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Nylons and Bric-a-Brac by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on canvas
73 x 60 cm (28 ³/₄ x 23 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed and dated upper right Orovida 1951
Provenance
Estate of the artist
With John Bensusan-Butt, cousin of the artist
G Hassell, 25th November 1988
With John Noott, 10th June 1992
Literature
K L Erickson, Orovida Pissarro: Painter and Print-Maker with A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, (doctoral thesis), Oxford, 1992, Appendices, no. 141 (illustrated)
Exhibition
London, Redfern Gallery, Recent Paintings: Orovida, 3rd-26th January 1952, no. 51
Artist biography
Orovida Camille Pissarro, Lucien and Esther Pissarro’s only child, was the first woman in the Pissarro family as well as the first of her generation to become an artist. Born in Epping, England in 1893, she lived and worked predominantly in London where she became a prominent member of several British arts clubs and societies.
She first learned to paint in the Impressionist style of her father, but after a brief period of formal study with Walter Sickert in 1913 she renounced formal art schooling. Throughout her career, Orovida always remained outside of any mainstream British art movements. Much to Lucien's disappointment she soon turned away from naturalistic painting and developed her own unusual style combining elements of Japanese, Chinese, Persian and Indian art. Her rejection of Impressionism, which for the Pissarro family had become a way of life, together with the simultaneous decision to drop her famous last name and simply use Orovida as a ‘nom de peintre’, reflected a deep desire for independence and distance from the weight of the family legacy.
Orovida's most distinctive and notable works were produced from the period of 1919 to 1939 using her own homemade egg tempera applied in thin, delicate washes to silk, linen or paper and sometimes embellished with brocade borders. These elegant and richly decorative works generally depict Eastern, Asian and African subjects...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Svejk And The Beer II - Figurative Painting Yellow Brown Green Blue Pink White
Located in Sofia, BG
"Svejk And The Beer II" is a figurative, romantic painting by Maestro Yovana Dimitrova,
She is an emerging artist.
About the artwork:
TECHNIQUE: Tempera painting
STYLE: Contemporary
Edition : Unique, signed
Weight: Approximately 3 kg.
“The impressions of Yovana's paintings on the viewer is perfection.
Her paintings bring emotion happiness, positive energy and make you think about the nowadays problems. This painting represent the vast creative power of her talent.”
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Numerous artworks of the artist have been sold to galleries and individuals around the world
A certificate of authenticity of the artwork is delivered by Snow Pearl art gallery.
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Panel
Reflects - African abstract Painting Blue Yellow Brown Green White Beige Black
Located in Sofia, BG
"Reflet" is an African abstract portrait painting by the talented Togolese artist Daté kodjo AMOUZOU.
Through his art, he has a very sharp and unique style...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
The Rattle
By Will Barnet
Located in New York, NY
Oil and charcoal on canvas, 1984. 1220x790 mm; 48x31 inches. Signed and dated in charcoal, upper right recto.
Provenance: Babcock Galleries, New York, with the label; estate of the ...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Oil
Self Portrait in a Mirror with Artist's Tools, Oil on canvas, Signed, Polish
By Joseph Biel
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, signed bottom left
Image size: 24 x 20 inches (61 x 51 cm)
Contemporary style hand made frame
Joseph Biel
Joseph Biel was a painter and photographer who was born in ...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Have A Beer - Figurative Painting Yellow Brown Green Blue Pink White
Located in Sofia, BG
"Have A The Beer" is a figurative, romantic painting by Maestro Yovana Dimitrova,
She is an emerging artist.
About the artwork:
TECHNIQUE: Tempera painting
STYLE: Contemporary
Edition : Unique, signed
Weight: Approximately 3 kg.
“The impressions of Yovana's paintings on the viewer is perfection.
Her paintings bring emotion happiness, positive energy and make you think about the nowadays problems. This painting represent the vast creative power of her talent.”
Dear art lovers,
if you like the art of maestro Dimitrova, please click the link to follow this artist and art gallery Snow Pearl to discover all our artists and beautiful artworks.
Thank you so much! we appreciate your interest to our work.
Numerous artworks of the artist have been sold to galleries and individuals around the world
A certificate of authenticity of the artwork is delivered by Snow Pearl art gallery.
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Panel
Frida - Figurative Painting Colors Yellow Brown Blue Pink White Red Grey Black
Located in Sofia, BG
"Frida" is a figurative, romantic painting by Maestro Yovana Dimitrova,
She is an emerging artist.
About the artwork:
TECHNIQUE: Tempera painting
STYLE: Contemporary
Edition : Unique, signed
Weight: Approximately 3 kg.
“The impressions of Yovana's paintings on the viewer is perfection.
Her paintings bring emotion happiness, positive energy and make you think about the nowadays problems. This painting represent the vast creative power of her talent.”
Dear art lovers,
if you like the art of maestro Dimitrova, please click the link to follow this artist and art gallery Snow Pearl to discover all our artists and beautiful artworks.
Thank you so much! we appreciate your interest to our work.
Numerous artworks of the artist have been sold to galleries and individuals around the world
A certificate of authenticity of the artwork is delivered by Snow Pearl art gallery.
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Cards", Set of 4 Portraits King-Queen-Jack-Joker Figurative Acrylic Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
A set of portraits of four cards characters - "the king, the queen, the jack and the joker". Each of these four acrylic figurative cubist paintings measures 65 cm x 54 cm.
A graduate from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Métiers d'Arts in Paris, Françoise Collandre...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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