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Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

POSTIMPRESSIONIST STYLE

In the revolutionary wake of Impressionism, artists like Vincent van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin advanced the style further while firmly rejecting its limitations. Although the artists now associated with Postimpressionist art did not work as part of a group, they collectively employed an approach to expressing moments in time that was even more abstract than that of the Impressionists, and they shared an interest in moving away from naturalistic depictions to more subjective uses of vivid colors and light in their paintings.

The eighth and final Impressionist exhibition was held in Paris in 1886, and Postimpressionism — also spelled Post-Impressionism — is usually dated between then and 1905. The term “Postimpressionism” was coined by British curator and art critic Roger Fry in 1910 at the “Manet and the Postimpressionists” exhibition in London that connected their practices to the pioneering modernist art of Édouard Manet. Many Postimpressionist artists — most of whom lived in France — utilized thickly applied, vibrant pigments that emphasized the brushstrokes on the canvas.

The Postimpressionist movement’s iconic works of art include van Gogh’s The Starry Night (1889) and Seurat’s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884). Seurat’s approach reflected the experimental spirit of Postimpressionism, as he used Pointillist dots of color that were mixed by the eye of the viewer rather than the hand of the artist. Van Gogh, meanwhile, often based his paintings on observation, yet instilled them with an emotional and personal perspective in which colors and forms did not mirror reality. Alongside Mary Cassatt, Cézanne, Henri Matisse and Gauguin, the Dutch painter was a pupil of Camille Pissarro, the groundbreaking Impressionist artist who boldly organized the first independent painting exhibitions in late-19th-century Paris.

The boundary-expanding work of the Postimpressionist painters, which focused on real-life subject matter and featured a prioritization of geometric forms, would inspire the Nabis, German Expressionism, Cubism and other modern art movements to continue to explore abstraction and challenge expectations for art.

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Style: Post-Impressionist
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Figurative oil painting titled Femme Mettant Son Bas by Georges Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Femme Mettant Son Bas by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871 - 1961) Oil on canvas 100 x 56 cm (39 ⅜ x 22 inches) Signed and dated lower left, G. Manzana 1905 This work is accompanied by...
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Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Tête de Femme Blonde by Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Portrait painting
Located in London, GB
*PLEASE NOTE UK BUYERS WILL ONLY PAY 5% VAT ON THIS PURCHASE. Tête de Femme Blonde by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) Oil on canvas 26.1 x 19 cm (10 ¹/₄ x 7 ¹/₂ inches) Signed upp...
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Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Portrait de Sylvie Lacombe
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Portrait de Sylvie Lacombe" is a Post-Impressionist painting by Théo van Rysselberghe. The portrait is signed with monogram and dedication, upper right, "pour ma petite amie Sylvie ...
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Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Maria Van Rysselberghe au coin du feu
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Maria Van Rysselberghe au coin du feu" is a portrait painting by Post-Impressionist Théo van Rysselberghe. The portrait is signed lower right, "Atelier Van Rysselberghe". The framed...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Le Collier de Perles by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Portrait painting
Located in London, GB
Le Collier de Perles by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952) Oil on canvas 61 x 50 cm (24 x 19 ⅝ inches) Signed and dated lower right, Ludovic Rodo 1927...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait of a Woman by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Portrait painting
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE Portrait of a Woman by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952) Oil on canvas 55 x 46 cm (21 ⁵/₈ x 18 ¹/₈ inches) Signed...
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Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Femme à la cravatte by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Portrait painting
Located in London, GB
Femme à la cravatte by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952) Oil on canvas 65 x 54 cm (25 ⁵/₈ x 21 ¹/₄ inches) Signed lower right, Ludovic Rodo Executed circa 1910 This work is accompan...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Rebecca Couchée by JULES PASCIN - School of Paris, Nude Painting, Figurative Art
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 5% IMPORT DUTY ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE Rebecca Couchée by JULES PASCIN (1885-1930) Oil over pencil on canvas 73.1 x 91.8 cm (28 ¾ x 36 ⅛ inches) Signed lower right, Pascin Executed in 1927, Boulevard de Clichy, Paris Provenance Collection Marcel Bernheim, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, acquired from the artist, 1928 Pierre Blum, Paris, acquired from the above, 1952 Perls Galleries, New York, no. 13565 Private collection, Osaka Sotheby’s, New York, 14th May 1998 Peter Findlay Gallery Inc., New York Private collection, USA, acquired from the above, June 2011 Literature Luis Seoane...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas, Pencil

Bretonne à la Vache by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Oil on panel
Located in London, GB
Bretonne à la Vache by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961) Oil on panel 54 x 65 (21 ¹/₄ x 25 ⁵/₈ inches) Signed and dated lower left, Manzana 1929 Pissarro Inscribed lower left, Pon...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Panel, Oil

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