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Little bird - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Bright Colors
Located in Warsaw, PL
MONIKA ROSSA studied painting at the University of Arizona, in the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and at the Escuela de Diseno in Barcelona. She practices drawing and easel painting....
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Sisters
Located in New York, NY
Innocence of childhood. Portrait. About the Artist: My art is a visual recording of the powerful imagines that occur regularly in life, distilling them down and preserving the ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

SUENO PROFUNDO
Located in Los Angeles, CA
SUENO PROFUNDO OIL AND ACRILIC ON CANVAS SIGNED, 2013 EXHIBITED MUSEO DEL BANCO CENTRAL DE COSTA RICA 43.25 X 35.5 INCHES Sofía Ruiz was born in 1982....
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas, Acrylic

Neapolitan Children
Located in Pasadena, CA
Oil on canvas attributed to Ernest Hébert, painter born in Grenoble painter of scenes of the genre in 1840. He arrives in Italy which will become his ado...
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Mid-19th Century Barbizon School Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Portraits of Androids, Erica with Pearls
Located in New York, NY
Erica with Pearls, 2018 Hand embellished monoprint on canvas 47 1/5 × 39 2/5 in 120 × 100 cm Sophia’s Safehouse in an Uncanny Valley examines the recent celebrity culture of humanoid AI as a way to better understand humanity, authenticity, identity, and memory in the early 21st century. The installation, inspired in part by the dystopian literary works of George Orwell, Mary Shelley, Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Carbon Pencil, Monoprint, Acrylic

Boy Dancer, Acrylic on Canvas by Contemporary Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Birendra Pani - Boy Dancer - 66 x 42 inches (unframed size) Acrylic on Canvas In this series of works - “Boy - Dancer”, Gallery Kolkata revisits the artists very popular and well lauded ‘Boy Dancer’ suite of paintings on the plight of traditional Gopitua dancers from his native land, Odisha. The boy dancers who perform a devotional dance ritual are quickly declining in today’s cosmopolitan world. Pani entwines his empathy for the dying art with an opinion on our post-Modern era. In that respect, Pani does not try to create nostalgia for the decline in the taste for the dancers, instead he problematizes the issue by bringing in a dispassionate view of the issue. The ten canvases on display in this exhibition, features the Gopitua dancers in different situations. The canvases are a hyper-real portrait, far & close shots of a Gopitua dancers with liquid innocent eyes and a small smile playing upon his lips as he confronts the viewer. The blade is a recurring motif in Pani’s work and it has multiple functions and meanings. In this instance its meaning is rather clear — one where modernity eclipses tradition. Style : His fresh, perspective and contemporary canvases have loud and vivid images and use colors like green and shocking pink unashamedly. Pani says his works are preoccupied with exploring contemporary materials, culture and current lives of people, the negligence of local places, their culture, history, memory and their identity in present times. Further he feels the consumerist attitude has penetrated deep into the human psyche. Human beings are being consumed by the commodity rather than them consuming it. In his works, Pani explore the struggles, contradictions, dichotomies and critical reflections of the embodied selves with changes in value, knowledge and culture in our present society. “I have extensively used body parts like brain, heart and other organs, and everyday objects like capsule, syringe, blade etc to create a new visual language. Deriving from life experiences, my idea is to create a new vision by the juxtaposition of the above experience with the rich legacy, diverse visual culture and sensibility of the vast tradition of Odisha’s miniatures and Pata paintings, stone carvings, monumental visuals of temples and dance forms like Gopitua dance and Chhau-dance in Odisha.” Pani, thus attempts to create a new phenomenology and the reinvention of ‘self’ in a globalized and yet very localized world. About the Artist and his work : BORN : 1969, Bhadrak, Odisha, India. FINE ARTS EDUCATION : 1997-1999 MFA – (First class with Distinction) Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda. 1991-1997 BFA - Kala Bhavan, Viswa Bharati University, Shantiniketan, West Bengal. 1987-1990 2nd world “Studio for Fine Arts”, Bhadrak, Odisha. SOLO EXHIBITION IN INDIA AND ABROAD : 2017 Towards a new Viewership / Audience & Reproduction Aesthetics, Curated by Dr. Rajashree Biswal, organized by New Bridge India and North Odisha University, Baripada, Odisha. 2016 “Mahanadi”- A Journey through History, Memory and Culture curated by Maurice O Riordan of Australia at Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi. 2015 Re-Vision / Relationship- a visual literary engagement of Birendra Pani and poet Jayanta Mahapatra, curated by Dr. Rajashree Biswal, and organized by New Bridge India, Forum on Contemporary Theory, Vadodara, Sarat Chandra Library, Baripada and Revenshaw University, Cuttack, Odisha at Revenshaw University, Cuttack. 2012 “Soft- Subversion” at Red Earth Art Gallery, Baroda. 2011 “Re – Vision” at Aakriti Art Gallery, Kolkata. 2010 “Re – Vision” at Gallery Sumukha, Bengalore. 2009 “Re – Vision” at Gallery Espace New Delhi and R.L.Fine arts, New York. 2007 “Boy Dancer’’-The convergence and continuum, at Gallery Espace, New Delhi. 2007 “Boy Dancer’’-The convergence and continuum, at Faculty Gallery, M.S.U., Vadodara. 2006 “Risk’’-The Double Edge of Society, at Gallery Espace, New Delhi. 2005 “Echo” at Kaleidoscope Art...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Such a Situation ... - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Existentialism
Located in Salzburg, AT
Kotlicki is a constantly searching artist. Treading his own path, aiming at defining himself, giving his work a clear identity, he came across the avant-garde. He would back off the ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Concert - XXI century Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Bright Colors, Music
Located in Warsaw, PL
MONIKA ROSSA studied painting at the University of Arizona, in the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and at the Escuela de Diseno in Barcelona. She practices drawing and easel painting....
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Girl with pompoms - XXI Century, Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
Located in Warsaw, PL
MALGORZATA ROZMARYNOWSKA (born in 1955) She studied in the Public High School of Plastic Arts at the Department of Painting and Graphic and graduated in 1981 in Professor Wladyslaw J...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Candy Girl
Located in New York, NY
Innocence of childhood. Portrait. About the Artist: My art is a visual recording of the powerful imagines that occur regularly in life, distilling them down and preserving the ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Sisters, 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....
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1970s American Modern Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Cellist - XXI century Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Bright Colors, Music
Located in Warsaw, PL
MONIKA ROSSA studied painting at the University of Arizona, in the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and at the Escuela de Diseno in Barcelona. She practices drawing and easel painting....
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Self Portrait - Oil on Masonite by Paulo Ghiglia - 1937
By Paulo Ghiglia
Located in Roma, IT
Signed on top left side P. Ghiglia 937. Good conditions.
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1930s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Large painting Hollywood Legends Marilyn Dean Mc Queen Hepburn
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
SGARRA Robert (1959) Technic :Mix Acrylic paint and photograph Collage Mount : Wood panel Dimension : (H) 100cm x (L)150 cm x (T) 10 cm SGARRA Robert (1959) French Painter and Sculp...
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Late 20th Century Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Dad's Lesson / oil on canvas - skateboard father and son
Located in Burlingame, CA
Father and son skateboard together. One wonders who is teaching who, in this vibrant impasto painting by William Rushton. Oil on canvas and framed in a clear maple hardwood floater f...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Portrait of a Girl in Blue Dress
By Jan Hanson Travis
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful portrait of a young girl in blue dress by Jan Hanson Travis (American, 20th century). Circa 1970. Signed "Jan Hanson Travis" lower left an...
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1970s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Little cellist - XXI century Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Bright Colors
Located in Warsaw, PL
MONIKA ROSSA studied painting at the University of Arizona, in the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and at the Escuela de Diseno in Barcelona. She practices drawing and easel painting....
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Arriva la Pioggia- 21st Century Contemporary Figure Painting of a Farmer's Wife
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Marten Huitsing made this oil painting on a wooden panel. The frame is a high quality frame which completes the painting in a strong way. It's an ode t...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Standing Still nr. 1 120 x 60 cm olieverf
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Mitzy Renooy made this painting in the summer of 2018. At that time she got inspired by children in and around the water playing . This painting makes an impression due to the simplicity of the brushstrokes and the narrative that is told by artist Mitzy Renooy. Mitzy Renooy finds her inspiration, people in their environment, movement and the ryhthm of life, Cuba, traveling. Her latest serie is about ice-skating, also available at Galerie Bonnard. The loose painting style of Renooy developed during the last two years of her study at Academy of Classical Arts in Groningen under the guidance of her mentor Sam Drukker...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Winter Fun
By Knut Ekwall
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
Born in Saby in Sweden in 1843, Knut Ekwall trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. He moved to Berlin where he started working as an Engraver producing illustrations for p...
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Late 19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

DOUBLE JOHN LENNON
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed by the artist on verso. Hand Painted Unique Silkscreen on Canvas. Artwork is in excellent condition. Canvas is not stretched. Certificate of authenticity included. All...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Dancing Elephant
Located in Sofia, BG
"Dancing Elephant" is a water color painting on paper by Zdravko Denev. The painting is unframed. “The impressions of Zdravko's paintings on the viewer is so mighty, mesmerizing, g...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Oil on canvas Painting -- Le Chat Plus Grande
Located in Troy, NY
Although this painting of oil on canvas is named after the "Cat" (le Chat), the painting mainly depicts a woman sweeping with a broom. The cat, a popular tabby painted in great detai...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Artists Model, Nude Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Artists Model By J.B.Holmes, British 20th Century Oil painting on board, unframed Board size: 16 x 12 inches Captivating oil painting, showing a nude model being painted by anartist. There is a sense of relaxation in this portrait, with a radio on...
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20th Century Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Oil

Erica with Pearls
Located in New York, NY
Erica with Pearls, 2018 Hand embellished monoprint on canvas 47 1/5 × 39 2/5 in 120 × 100 cm Sophia’s Safehouse in an Uncanny Valley examines the recent c...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Monoprint, Canvas, Carbon Pencil

The Castle, Signed Watercolour painting by Norman Lindsey
By Norman Lindsay
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Castle By Norman Lindsay (1879-1969), Watercolour painting on canvas mounted on board and framed signed to lower right painting measures: 30.5cm x 23.5cm framed: 77.5cm x 70.5cm ...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

HOPE INDIANS
Located in Aventura, FL
Original mixed media painting. Hand signed on lower left by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be consi...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Paper

Lady Like - Original Figurative Pop Street Art Painting on Canvas by Gary John
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...
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21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Pair of French Character Portraits, Brown and Navy Backgrounds
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pair of French Character Portraits French school, Mid 20th Century Gouache on unframed paper Both stamped and named on the backs, with the artists ...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Watercolor

R
Located in Aventura, FL
Original acrylic on canvas. Hand signed, titled and dated on verso by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable offers will ...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Man Riding Skateboard on Santa Monica Boardwalk
Located in San Francisco, CA
Man Riding Skateboard on Santa Monica Boardwalk Warren Keating Oil painting on stretched canvas One-of-a-kind Signed on front back 2015 48 in. h x 36 in. w x 1.5 in. d 15 lbs. 0 oz....
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Paintings

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Oil

In a Boston park with my father and sister 1960s, Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This is a beautiful one-of-a-kind original impressionist painting. The piece ships ready to hang and is signed by the artist on the bottom right. This item ships from Ireland.
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2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Understanding
By Aida Correa
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful modern portrait painting on brown paper by Merida artist Aida Correa, 2012. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat fits a standard-siz...
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2010s Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic

Poor Ruby
Located in Houston, TX
Dynamic monotype titled "Poor Ruby" by American artist Kismine Varner signing Kiz Starr, 2005. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival pla...
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Early 2000s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Monotype

"Little Fisherman"
By Delbert Coombs
Located in San Antonio, TX
Delbert Coombs (1850 - 1938) Maine Artist Image Size: 12 x 9 Frame Size: 15 x 12 Medium: Oil Dated: 1897 "The Little Fisherman" Biography Delbert Coombs (1850 - 1938) Delbert Dana Coombs was born in Lisbon Falls, Maine, on July 26, 1850. Although primarily self-taught, Coombs took painting lessons from Scott Leighton...
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1890s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Little Physician
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1897 Medium: Watercolor on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Dimensions: 12.00" x 9.50"
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1890s Portrait Paintings

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Watercolor, Board

Study of Little Girl
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Unsigned A study of a little girl. Joseph Christian Leyendecker (March 23, 1874 - July 25, 1951) was one of the pre-eminen...
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1920s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Board

"Country Boy" American Contemporary Folk Oil Painting Figural Portrait Green
Located in Wellesley, MA
Charlotte Gibbs recently had the distinct honor of being awarded First Prize in The Roddy Compeition held at the Concord Center for Visual Arts in Concord, MA where she was singled ...
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2010s Portrait Paintings

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Oil

"City Boy" American Folk Painting Portrait Figural Contemporary Modern Oil Green
Located in Wellesley, MA
Charlotte Gibbs recently had the distinct honor of being awarded First Prize in The Roddy Compeition held at the Concord Center for Visual Arts in Concord, MA where she was singled ...
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2010s Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of William Lancaster
By Eleanor Revere Weeden
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Portrait of young William Lancaster Signed lower right
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20th Century Other Art Style Portrait Paintings

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Pastel, Canvas

"Portrait of Young Boy and His Toy Train"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
This particular piece is one of Walter's signature images of children, among the subjects for which she is known. Clearly a formal portrait, it was likely commissioned for the home of an affluent client, given the child's elegant costume and the portrait;s grand size. In this arresting portrait, she captures the delight of a young blond boy...
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20th Century Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Young Patriot" Portrait American Folk Figural Oil Painting Contemporary Flag
Located in Wellesley, MA
Charlotte Gibbs recently had the distinct honor of being awarded First Prize in The Roddy Compeition held at the Concord Center for Visual Arts in Concord, MA where she was singled ...
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2010s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Country Gentleman (An Early Thanksgiving)
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed and Dated 'N.C. Wyeth' (Lower Left) The Country Gentleman, vol. 91, no. 11, November 1, 1926, cover illu...
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1920s Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Art Cafe
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original acrylic painting by American Primitive Artist Robert Sellers.
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21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Board, Acrylic

Mid Century Boy and His Dog Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful oil painting of artist's son, Ray Rogers, by Virginia Sevier Rogers (American, 1916-2015). Signed "VSR" 7/50 (July 1950) on verso. Unframed. Image: 34"H x 24"W. Rogers stu...
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20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Linen

Military Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
This illustration is a portrait of a military man in front of the Statue of Liberty. Signed Lower Left. Lawrence Wilbur was born in Whitman, MA in 1897. Wilbur attended night...
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20th Century Other Art Style Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

"Frances in Braids"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork. Pastel portrait of artist's granddaughter. Complemented by original signed Harer frame. Illustra...
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1930s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Pastel

Listen
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic on canvas.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Oil on Cardboard La Femme au Tir II by Dietz Edzard, 1938
Located in Berlin, DE
Dietz Edzard (German/French 1893-1963) Oil on cardboard, 1938, stamped at lower right with the initials D.E. Framed. Property of the Estate of Dr. Max Stern sold for the benefit of ...
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1930s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Cardboard, Oil

"There's a Blue Light" post-modern oil painting of artist in his studio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"There's a Blue Light" is a contemporary oil painting of the artist in his studio. Weber's signature abstractions play around him. Nick Weber (b.1971), living and painting in Spring...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Young lady
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood Brown wooden frame 53 x 48 x 5.5 cm
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1950s French School Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Late 19th-Century German School, Portrait Of A Young Man
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This charming late 19th-century German oil painting depicts a young scholar standing before an expansive lake with distant hills and castle. He’s wearing a dark suit with a blue bow...
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1890s Folk Art Portrait Paintings

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Board, Oil

The Four Musea: Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne each of the nine Muses occupies a creative niche. The Four Muses; Calliope, Clio, Erato and Euterpe represent Epic Poetry, History, Lyric Choral Poetr...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Large Victorian Signed Oil Painting Portrait of Young Girl in Blue Dress
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of Young Girl in Blue Dress John Hodgson Campbell (British 1855-1927) signed and dated 1881 oil on canvas, framed framed: 35 x 30.5 inches canvas: 30 x 25 inches provenance:...
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1880s Victorian Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Charles Dickinson Langley, Portrait Of A Mother & Child, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This beautiful mid-19th-century oil painting by British artist Charles Dickinson Langley (1799-1873) depicts a mother and child before a landscape. Little is known about Langley, wh...
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1840s Victorian Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

The Light Refreshment - Nabis Oil, Seated Figures in Interior - Edouard Vuillard
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figurative oil on board circa 1890 by French Nabis school painter Edouard Vuillard. The work depicts two seated ladies dressed in black with grey pinafores enjoying coffee together. Illustrated in the Catalogue Raisonne of Edouard Vuillard by Antoine Salomon and Guy Cogeval - Volume I, Page 229 - Reference IV-7 This striking work dates to between 1890 and 1891 which was without doubt Vuillard’s greatest decade as an artist. At this time the painter was working with the group of artist known as "Les Nabis" which included Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Paul Ranson, Ker-Xavier Roussel, Félix Vallotton, Paul Sérusier and Auguste Cazalis. The group played a large part in the transition from impressionism and academic art to abstract art, symbolism and the other early movements of modernism. They believed that a work of art was not a depiction of nature, but a synthesis of metaphors and symbols created by the artist. Signature: Signed lower right Dimensions: Framed: 19.25"x20.25" Unframed: 9.25"x10.25" Provenance: Renou et Poyet - Paris Roland, Browse & Delbanco - London (labels verso) c. 1955 The collection of Sir Alec Guinness Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva - 1972 Nichido Gallery - Tokyo 1972 Private collection - Japan Christie's London - Impressionist & Modern Art - June 2016 Édouard Vuillard attended the Lycée Condorcet in Paris, where he made friends with Maurice Denis, Lugné-Poe, and Ker-Xavier Roussel, later his brother-in-law. He studied in Maillart’s studio; for six weeks came under the tutelage of Jean-Léon Gérôme at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris; and later under William Bouguereau and Robert at the Académie Julian, where he became closely linked with the Nabis group (from the Hebrew word for ‘prophet’). He met Marcel Proust in 1902. From 1908, he taught at the Académie Ranson. In 1937, he was elected member of the Institute. At first, Vuillard painted small subjects, disciplined and proficient, qualities for which the prestigious École Française was famous. His earliest still-lifes (1888) are astonishing in their decisiveness and subtlety. His empathy for the object had already compelled him to soften its appearance; the object, which, by virtue of its bright or glossy presence, remained the nonego and the ‘thing represented’ for so many others. ‘Intimacy’ developed immediately between the painter and this modest environment; inhabiting it every day enabled him to celebrate its splendour, and it was to remain his favourite environment. But he was already alternating between small portraits and still-lifes, which gained recognition because of their natural qualities and dignity of tone: a rare combination in a beginner. About 1890, influenced indirectly by Paul Gauguin, all the certainties which the self-styled Nabis painters had contented themselves with suddenly collapsed. Everything was called into question again: both the linear layout of the picture and its colour scheme; the choice of subject and its material aspect; its manufacture and its purpose. Vuillard’s paintings at that time show surprising, bold innovations and an arbitrary power, which one would expect 15 or 20 years later at the height of the Fauvist period. The preoccupation with an internal geometry set them apart from earlier studies. From then on, the paintings were based on forms, lines, and colours. Vuillard made concessions. He produced a portrait or interior with its furniture and its wallpapers, in which the family inhabiting it, evolves. Treated with flat areas of colour and solid shades of ochres, reds, blues, and saffron yellow, without modulation, they seem to prefigure certain paintings by Henri Matisse and Roger de La Fresnaye. In 1891, Vuillard painted an Elegant Lady, a silhouette seen from the back; a long vertical shape starting from the hair decorated with brown feathers; there is a kind of pink cloak, the tight and never-ending black skirt, erect in front of a half-open, bright orange door in a green wall, from where the light of another vertical shape emerges, which is bright yellow, and is reflected in red on the parquet at the feet of the elegant lady. This painting meets his concerns about the actual moment of creating ‘harmonies corresponding to our feeling’, and by virtue of its almost geometric structure, its drawing entirely free of detail, its light effects and colour harmonies, very much prefigures aspects of the future Abstraction movement and is oddly reminiscent of the final period of Nicolas de Staël. All too often, Vuillard is only admired in his role as the harmonist, the serene contemplator who combines an exquisite sense of nuance, rhythms, and values with the most acute observation. These singular investigations, these three-dimensional meditations including a table, a folding metal cot...
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1890s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Dawn Sidoli NEAC RWS RWA (1933-2022) - 1994 Oil, Bath Busker
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming oil study depicting a man playing the accordion on the streets of Bath, Somerset. The artist captures the man in a dark, atmospheric palette with his face half shadowed fr...
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20th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Italian Old Master Portrait Painting 18th Century Portrait of a Gentleman
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
A Venetian Gentleman 18th Century Venetian School oil painting on board, framed framed: 7.25 x 6 inches board: 5.25 x 4 inches provenance: private collection, UK condition: some scu...
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18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

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Oil

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