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
Lesendes Mädchen
By Vilma Eckl
Located in Wien, 9
The extensive work of Vilma Eckl covers a period of more than seventy years. Her incomparable artistic talent and her essential contribution to the history of art can be seen in her ...
Category
1920s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Women portraits. 2.pcs., paper, mixed media, 10, 2x5, 3 cm, 13, 9x10, 2 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Women portraits. 2.pcs., paper, mixed media, 10,2x5,3 cm, 13,9x10,2 cm
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relatives giv...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
$457 Sale Price
20% Off
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
$3,450 Sale Price
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Modernist Oil Painting 1940s, Judaica Hasidic Rabbi in Jerusalem
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Portrait
Subject: Landscape
Medium: Oil
Surface: Board
Country: United States
EMANUEL ROMANO
Rome, Italy, b. 1897, d. 1984
Emanuel Glicenstein Romano was born in Rome, September 23, 1897.
His father Henryk Glicenstein was a sculptor and was living in Rome with his wife Helena (born Hirszenberg) when Emanuel was born. His father obtained Italian citizenship and adopted the name Enrico. Emanuel was brought up in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, England and Poland.
In 1926 Emanuel and his father sailed for New York. They briefly visited Chicago. Romano's sister, Beatrice, and mother only joined them in New York years later.
Romano changed his name on his arrival to America and some have erroneously speculated that this was to avoid antisemitic discrimination. In truth, as the son of a highly-regarded artist, Romano changed his name to ensure that any success or recognition he would later attain, would be the result of nothing other than his own merit as an artist, and not on account of his father's fame.
In 1936 Romano was worked for the Federal Art Project creating murals. During and immediately after World War II, Romano created a series of allegorical works depicting graphic holocaust images that were held closely by the family until after his passing. One of these works is now on permanent display in the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg Florida.
Emanuel's father died in 1942 in a car accident before they could realize their shared dream of visiting Israel.
In 1944 Romano, having completed his degree at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago, began teaching at the City College of New York.
Romano moved to Safed, Israel in 1953 and established an art museum in his father's memory, the Glicentein Museum.
COLLECTIONS
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Boston Fine Arts Museum
Fogg Museum
Musée Nacional de France
Recently his work has been added to the Florida Holocaust Museum collection. His notable works include his holocaust themed allegorical paintings as well as portraits of Marianne Moore, his father and William Carlos Williams...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait Oil on cardboard, 100x92 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait
Oil on cardboard, 100x92 cm
The central focus of the artwork is a woman seated gracefully, elegantly adorned in a beautiful blue dress. Her presence dominates the composit...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$9,055 Sale Price
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Belgian Modernist Judaica Portrait of a Rabbi
Located in Surfside, FL
Judaica oil painting Rabbi portrait.
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait in Tie, Modern Oil on Board Painting by John F. Leonard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Portrait in Tie (48)
John F. Leonard
American (1921–1987)
Date: circa 1965
Oil on Board
Size: 18 in. x 14 in. (45.72 cm x 35.56 cm)
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait, Modern Oil on Board Painting by American Artist John F. Leonard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Portrait (52)
John F. Leonard
American (1921–1987)
Date: circa 1965
Oil on Board
Size: 20 in. x 15 in. (50.8 cm x 38.1 cm)
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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
$3,288 Sale Price
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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
Sisters, Modern Oil Painting by Sandu Liberman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Sandu Liberman, Romanian/American (1923 - 1977)
Title: Sisters
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 36 in. x 24 in. (91.44 cm x 60.96 cm)
Frame Size: 44....
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Rabbi
Located in Surfside, FL
Judaica Oil Painting, Portrait of a Rabbi.
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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
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
John and Caroline Kennedy, Oil Painting on Canvas by Carlos Irizarry
Located in Long Island City, NY
A touching portrait by Puerto Rico born American artist, Carlos Irizarry depicting Caroline Kennedy, five years old, resting on the shoulder of her fa...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blue Dress, Framed Modern Oil Painting by Donald Roy Purdy
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Donald Roy Purdy, American (1924 - )
Title: Blue Dress
Year: circa 1962
Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed l.l.
Size: 30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 60.96 cm)
Frame Size: 38 x 32 inches
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Rabbi in Study
By Avraham Goldberg
Located in Surfside, FL
Avraham Goldberg, Painter. b. 1906, Poland. Immigrated to Eretz Israel 1919.
Died in Tel Aviv, 1980.
Studies:
Art Academy, New York.
Lived in Paris and Tel Aviv.
Goldberg had thre...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of Woman in Black Hat, Watercolor Painting by Charles Levier
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charles Levier, French (1920 - 2003)
Title: Portrait of Woman in Black Hat
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed l.l.
Image S...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Organ Grinder with Parrot Modern Judaica Oil Painting WPA Jewish artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern
Subject: Organ grinder with parrot
Medium: Oil
Surface: Board, size includes artist decorated frame
Country: United States
The imagery of Maurice Kish (1895-1987), wh...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Red Figure, Modern Oil Painting by John F. Leonard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Red Figure (11)
John F. Leonard
American (1921–1987)
Date: circa 1965
Oil on Canvas
Size: 30 in. x 12 in. (76.2 cm x 30.48 cm)
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Yesterday's, Surrealist Horse Rider, Architectural Ruins Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
American artist Samuel Brecher (active NY, 1897-1982) Oil on Canvas, Signed lower right ‘S. Brecher’ titled "and all our yesterdays" it depicts a Horseback rider (carousel horse?) amidst architecure ruins.
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
"A Young Women in the Landscape - Fall River, Mass.", 1964 by Sergio Fergola
By Sergio Fergola
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Sergio Fergola, Italian (1936 - 1994)
Title: A Young Women in the Landscape - Fall River, Mass.
Year: 1964
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 36 x 26 in. (91.44 x 66.04...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman in Horror and Terror at Gunpoint
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right.
Inscribed on the reverse 'My first color illustration, Nov. 1954.'
Work is unframed, Film Noir in paint
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Portrait, Two Women, Oil on Canvas
Located in Surfside, FL
From the late 1920s to the eve of World War II, Anton Vorauer was an art professor at the Vienna Fine Art Academy. While painting at the Parthenon during the Nazi invasion of Greece,...
Category
20th Century 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
In Prayer, Early 20th Century, Rabbi Portrait Judaica Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Samuel Seeberger (Sieberger) was a known artist and post-card designer who lived in Paris and was active around 1900-1940. He was arrested for being a Jew when the Germans occupied Paris in the 1940s. He was brought into a concentration camp...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
At night. 1961. Paper, mixed media, 14x10 cm
Located in Riga, LV
At night. 1961. Paper, mixed media, 14x10 cm
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relatives give his artistic heritage to...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
$457 Sale Price
20% Off
Young woman Charleston hairstyle and blue dress
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Golden wooden frame with glass pane
91 x 77 x 4 cm
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel
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
Girl in Yellow Dress
Located in Surfside, FL
Louis Wolchonok was a social realist painter and member of the Woodstock Art Association. His work was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Academy of Design...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Watercolor
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Mini Swedish Figurative Portrait Painting - Whispers
Located in Bristol, GB
WHISPERS
Mixed Media on Board
Size: 30 x 37 cm (including frame)
A wonderfully expressive and brilliantly executed figurative composition in mixed media (oil, watercolour gouache), painted onto board.
Two women in black headscarves are the focus of the scene, with very captivating expressions. The woman on the right appears to look almost shocked, with her mouth ajar and her eyes widened. The woman on the left stares directly at us, her emotion less identifiable. The scene is intriguing, making us question what these women have heard or what has happened. Their faces have been painted with brilliant detail, capturing the shadows on their faces as well as the aged skin of the woman on the right. These two women are set against a blue-ish green backdrop, making their faces stand out even more from within their black head scarves...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Watercolor, Gouache
Self Portrait, 20th Century Jewish Artist Oil Painting
By Carl Felkel
Located in London, GB
Oil on board, signed bottom right
Image size: 13 1/2 x 17 inches (34.25 x 43 cm)
Contemporary frame
The Artist
Painter Carl Friedrich Felkel was born in 1896, in Stockerau, near Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria) and was probably of Jewish descent. He initially studied under Walter Thor...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Old Man: Contemporary Figurative Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Sympathetic portrayal of old age, really very pretty work by this British artist.
oil and gold leaf on arches paper, cracked varnish finish. Matted and very good condition
Category
1990s 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
$2,669 Sale Price
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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
$7,816 Sale Price
20% Off
Heights & fast sketch. 1961. Paper, mixed media, 9, 5x6 cm; 9x6cm
Located in Riga, LV
Heights & fast sketch. 1961. Paper, mixed media, 9,5x6 cm; 9x6cm
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Ink
$457 Sale Price
20% Off
"Pink Hair" by Innocent Chikezie - Vibrant Portrait of a Woman - Modern Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Innocent Chikezie (Nigerian, born 1982)
"Pink Hair" 2022
Acrylic Paint, Canvas, Stretcher Bars
The artist signed the bottom right of the painting.
T...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars
"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
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
$4,718 Sale Price
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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
'Painters with a model' Original Drawing By Hal Frater
By Hal Frater
Located in Carmel, CA
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
Russin
By Vilma Eckl
Located in Wien, 9
The extensive work of Vilma Eckl covers a period of more than seventy years. Her incomparable artistic talent and her essential contribution to the history of art can be seen in her ...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$14,763
Hollywood portrait of girl with red wig
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on canvas
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagination, w...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Woman by MELA MUTER - Impressionist, Modern, Portrait, Oil
By Mela Muter
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE
Portrait of a Woman by MELA MUTER (1876-1967)
Oil on board
70.5 x 54 cm (27 ³/₄ x 21 ¹/₄ inches)
Signed lower le...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
‘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
Canvas, Oil
$4,720 Sale Price
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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
‘Mattise Model' Expressionism Portrait of Woman By Frater
By Hal Frater
Located in Carmel, CA
Portrait Of a Women Painting - - oil on canvas
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
$3,850 Sale Price
30% Off
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
Father, Daughter and Horse by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE
Father, Daughter and Horse by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on canvas
60 x 73 cm (23 ⅝ x 28 ¾ inches)
Signed a...
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Figurative Framed Oil Painting - The Priests
Located in Bristol, GB
THE PRIESTS
Size: 60 x 48 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A brilliantly painted mid century figurative portrait of 2 priests, exec...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Girl With Green Eyes Mixed Media on paper
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Girl with green eyes.
Portrait mixed media, watercolor, collage, pencil on paper, signed ZaZa New York about 1980s
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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
$12,391 Sale Price
20% Off
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
Ice Cream Picnic by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
Ice Cream Picnic by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on board
101 x 76 cm (39 ¾ x 29 ⅞ inches)
Signed and dated lower left Orovida 1953
Provenance
Richard Pissarro, gifted by the ar...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Woman in Pink - Oil Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman in pink is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist Antonio Feltrinelli in the 1930s.
Original oil on plywood.
Beautiful and representative work of a female figure...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Charles Wilton, Busker in Paris, decorative painting. violin player.
Located in Berlin, DE
Charles Wilton, Buskers in Paris, decorative painting. violin player.
Dimensions WITHOUT frame in cm 40 x 50
Dimensions WITH frame in cm 53 x 63
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,429 Sale Price
20% Off
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
Guatemala (1/3)
Located in San Francisco, CA
Rocca Luis César
Guatemala, 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
Acrylic, Canvas
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