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Expressionist Paintings

EXPRESSIONIST STYLE

While “expressionist” is used to describe any art that avoids naturalism and instead employs a bold use of flattened forms and intense brushwork, Expressionist art formally describes early-20th-century work from Europe that drew on Symbolism and confronted issues such as urbanization and capitalism. Expressionist artists experimented in paintings and prints with skewed perspectives, abstraction and unconventional, bright colors to portray how isolating and anxious the world felt rather than how it appeared. 

Between 1905 and 1920, Austrian and German artists, in particular, were inspired by Postimpressionists such as Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh in their efforts to strive for a new authenticity in their work. In its geometric patterns and decorative details, Expressionist art was also marked by eclectic sources like German and Russian folk art as well as tribal art from Africa and Oceania, which the movement’s practitioners witnessed at museums and world’s fairs.

Groups of artists came together to share and promote the themes now associated with Expressionism, such as Die Brücke (The Bridge) in Dresden, which included Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and investigated alienation and the dissolution of society in vivid color. In Munich, Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a group led by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, instilled Expressionism with a search for spiritual truths. In his iconic painting The Scream, prolific Norwegian painter Edvard Munch conveyed emotional turmoil through his depiction of environmental elements, such as the threatening sky.

Expressionism shifted around the outbreak of World War I, with artists using more elements of the grotesque in reaction to the escalation of unrest and violence. Printmaking was especially popular, as it allowed artists to widely disseminate works that grappled with social and political issues amid this time of upheaval. Although the art movement ended with the rise of Nazi Germany, where Expressionist creators were labeled “degenerate,” the radical ideas of these artists would influence Neo-Expressionism that emerged in the late 1970s with painters like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente.

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Style: Expressionist
Above Westminster IX, London, Alicia Dubnyckyj, Original Cityscape Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Alicia Dubnyckyj Above Westminster IX, London Original Cityscape Painting Gloss Paint on Board Board Size: H 100cm x W 122cm x D 0.5cm Sold Unframed ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings

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Board, Paint

Mid Century Expressionist European Nighttime Steet Scene
Located in Surfside, FL
Moody, Expressive European oil painting. signed illegibly lower right. it looks to be German or Austrian.
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20th Century Expressionist Paintings

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Oil, Board

Chassidic Rabbi, Judaica Expressionist Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
In this painting, Nussbaum depicts a Rabbi as his subject; a recurrent figure in his body of work. The artist uses gestural marks and vibrant blue colors in this composition. Nussba...
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20th Century Expressionist Paintings

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Gouache

Nude with Fruit Basket, Oil Painting by A. Raymond Katz c1949
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexander Raymond Katz, Hungarian / American (1895 - 1974) Title: Nude with Fruit Basket Year: circa 1949 Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 48 x 33 in. (121.92 x 83.82 cm)
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1940s Expressionist Paintings

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Oil

Expressionist Seascape, "Impact"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original oil on wood panel expressionist seascape by Darlene Katz. Its dimensions are 10"x8". It is unframed. A certific...
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2010s Expressionist Paintings

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Oil

Not All At Once, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
My abstract paintings are all about creating excitement for the viewer through concentrated exploration. Each painting is inspired by nature, travels, or imagination and created to e...
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2010s Expressionist Paintings

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Oil

Spotlight, seated female figure with plants warm and cool green combinations
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an oil on linen painting signed and dated on reverse.
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2010s Expressionist Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Expressionistic Portrait, "Dreaming"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original expressionistic painting by San Diego artist Stefan Talian. Its dimensions are 40" x 40" x 1.5". It is unfra...
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2010s Expressionist Paintings

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Acrylic

pregnancy beauty, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
pregnancy beauty Bernard Simunovic, Deutschland, 2021 Acryl auf Leinwand, 100x70cm :: Painting :: Expressionism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity sig...
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2010s Expressionist Paintings

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Acrylic

Nothing But Me, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This supersized expressive portrait features shining rhinestone tears, which are protected by an archival varnish, and set with a flexible bonding glue. Shipping WORLDWIDE in a re...
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2010s Expressionist Paintings

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Acrylic

"Militair" Gray Toned Abstract Watercolor Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Gray toned abstract watercolor painting on paper titled "Militair." Back side of the paper has another painting depicting red, yellow, green, and blue abstract shapes with figurative...
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1960s Expressionist Paintings

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Watercolor

Lady with Cats, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Diana Elena Chelaru presents an expressionist portrait of a lady with her two cats. She communicates her love for them through gentle caresses as they sleep. Flowers and organic shapes decorate her beautiful rich plum dress...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings

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Acrylic

Third Eye
Located in Buffalo, NY
An unsigned large scale oil on un-stretched canvas, created in the 1970's. This work is meant to hang pinned to the wall.
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1970s Expressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Woman II, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
My work is about dealing with the real world and above all using the images that surround us in everyday life. I often search for the unexpected. An ironic turn to images or things y...
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2010s Expressionist Paintings

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Acrylic

Portrait of a Woman
Located in Wien, 9
Deling with the work of Erich Waske today, one encounters first of all a number of reasons why this outstanding artist has fallen into such undeserved oblivion. In addition to the de...
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20th Century Expressionist Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Monica Angle Contemporary Painting Large Scale Landscape Abstract 2014
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original acrylic on paper by American contemporary artist Monica Angle created in 2014. This work is being sold unframed. Wholesale framing is available in a variety of presenta...
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2010s Expressionist Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Little Bushkill Creek, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Acrylic painting of a creek in Pike County PA., on gallery wrapped cotton canvas. Shipping approx., more exact info upon serious inquiry. :: Painting :: Expressionism :: This piece ...
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2010s Expressionist Paintings

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Acrylic

untitled, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
My work is about dealing with the real world and above all using the images that surround us in everyday life. I often search for the unexpected. An ironic turn to images or things y...
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2010s Expressionist Paintings

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Acrylic

With head in the clouds, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
My paintings are very personal, they capture my everyday life, my reaction to things I experienced, either yesterday, in my childhood or even events I imagine. My portraits pick up o...
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2010s Expressionist Paintings

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Acrylic

"Farmer" Portrait Oil Painting 16" x 12" inch by Shaaban Zaki
Located in Culver City, CA
"Farmer" Portrait Oil Painting 16" x 12" inch by Shaaban Zaki circa 1930 Signed. Shaaban Zaki came from a lower-middle-class family who was mostly government employees, but he was...
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20th Century Expressionist Paintings

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Wood, Oil

Woman VI, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
In my pictures I try to combine the visual and the conceptual. For me, drawing is a medium of knowledge which, beyond direct expression, makes visible material and immaterial forces,...
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2010s Expressionist Paintings

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Acrylic

Fried Fish, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This artwork painted not in standard canvas , it is oval "egg" form canvas ! Roasted fishes always inspired me to paint they , because the look already ready painting they have so mu...
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2010s Expressionist Paintings

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Oil

Portrait Of A Man
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Portrait of a man Oil on artist board 28"x22" Artist signed lower left, gallery label on verso. Sylvain Vigny is a French painter born in Vienna (Austria) on April 8, 1903. He moved to Nice in 1934. He died in Nice on February 4, 1970. Self-taught artist, coming from Austria like Willy Eisenschitz...
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1960s Expressionist Paintings

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Oil, Board

Notre Dame by Jacques Endzel, Oil on Canvas Colorful CItyscape of Paris
Located in Atlanta, GA
Welcome to Heritage, our carefully curated collection of French vintage and antique paintings. We scour the flea markets and fairs for these gems: poignant portraits of long-gone Me...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"6.5 Koi 23" Bright Red & White Koi Swimming in Swirls of Blue Water with Green
Located in Wellesley, MA
"6.5 Koi 23" is a complex work of koi fish swimming underwater filled with light and brilliant color painted in a lush and fluid style bordering on abstraction. Fish are in shades...
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2010s Expressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Lilaine Danino, Rose de sable, painting
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Liliane Danino, Rose des sables, Queen of the desert, natural pigment, fabric and mixed media on canvas, hand-signed and dated lower right, woman of vi...
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2010s Expressionist Paintings

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Mixed Media, Pigment

Interspecies Communication, colorful mythological swirling pattern orange tones
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists and metalic paints and old pastels. For Octopus and cephalopod fans. Janet Morgan’s explosive art captures the exu...
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2010s Expressionist Paintings

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Watercolor, Mixed Media, Archival Paper

Still Life with Blue Drapery
Located in Sheffield, MA
Lillian Burk Meeser American, 1864-1942 Still Life with Blue Drapery Oil on canvas 32 by 36 in, w/ frame 38 by 42 ¼ in Signed lower left Born at Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, on July ...
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Early 20th Century Expressionist Paintings

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Oil

"Bouquet of flowers with mimosas", 20th Century Oil on Canvas by Moïse Kisling
Located in Madrid, ES
MOÏSE KISLING French-Polish, 1891 - 1953 BOUQUET OF FLOWERS WITH MIMOSA signed & dedicated "à Edith Mara", Kisling (lower left) oil on canvas 13 X 88-1/2 inches (33 X 22.5 cm.) frame...
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1930s Expressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mid Century Modern Mini Expressive Landscape Oil Painting - Woodland Colour
Located in Bristol, GB
WOODLAND COLOUR Size: 38 x 33 cm (including frame) Oil on board A small but very impactful mid century modernist landscape composition, painted in oil onto board. In this painting ...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Paintings

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Oil, Board

Dressage, Portrait of a Horse, Oil on canvas, French Art, Expressionism, Modern
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
"Dressage," a painting by Sophie Dumont, masterfully captures the elegance and intensity of an equine subject through a combination of dynamic brushstrok...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings

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Oil

"Happiness in the Air" Expressionist Landscape with Waterfall
Located in Austin, TX
A colorful and idyllic expressionist landscape with a waterfall by Dominique Boisjoli. 38" x 26" Acrylic and Gold Leaf on Paper
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Sea. Sailboat, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Inspired by love for the sea, the sunny coast of Jurmala, where I live. Painting in positive colors, uplifting and ready to be in any interior. High-quality professional oil pain...
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2010s Expressionist Paintings

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Oil

Acrylic on Canvas Titled: "Little Rita”
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Robert was born in 1949 to Dominick and Antoinette Catapano in Brooklyn New York. He is a self taught artist. He began drawing and painting as a child. He says he did it as a way of ...
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2010s Expressionist Paintings

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Acrylic

Expressionist Seascape, "Thinking About You"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original expressionist seascape by San Diego artist Anna Cardoso. Its dimensions are 24x48x2. It comes in a silver frame. A certif...
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2010s Expressionist Paintings

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Oil, Board

Red Sofa seated female figure with cat and pillows dominant red color
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This painting of a seated woman with her cat is an early work by the artist. It has been held by the artist, exhibited only twice in the 36 years since its creation and is on excelle...
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1980s Expressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vintage Mid-Century Abstract Landscape Framed Oil Painting - Season
Located in Bristol, GB
SEASON Size: 30 x 35 cm (including frame) Oil on Board A small yet characterful mid-century abstract painting, executed in oil onto board. Although largely abstract in nature, the ...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Paintings

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Oil, Board

Girl, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
My work is about dealing with the real world and above all using the images that surround us in everyday life. I often search for the unexpected. An ironic turn to images or things y...
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2010s Expressionist Paintings

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Acrylic

"Landscape of a Village Near Mountains" Expressionistic Oil Painting on Masonite
Located in New York, NY
A strong modernist oil painting depicted in 1969 by Russian painter Michael Baxte. Mostly known for his abstracted figures on canvas or street scenes, this piece is a wonderful representation of his bold still life paintings, with expressive use of color, shape, and form. Later in his career, Baxte explores Expressionism, infusing both European and North American stylistic trends. This piece is from later in his career, but we can feel this underlying style throughout. Art measures 18 x 21.75 inches Michael Posner Baxte was born in 1890 in the small town of Staroselje Belarus, Russia. For the first half of the 19th century it was a center of the Chabad movement of Hasidic Jews, but this group was gone by the middle of the 19th century. By the time the Baxte family immigrated to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, the Jewish population numbered only on the hundreds. The native language of the Baxte family was Yiddish. It is likely that the death of Michael Baxte’s father triggered the family’s immigration. Three older brothers arrived in New York between 1903 and 1905. Michael and his mother, Rebecca, arrived in 1907. By 1910 Michael, his mother, and brother, Joseph, were living in New Orleans and may have spent some time on a Louisiana plantation. Around 1912, Michael Baxte returned to Europe to study the violin. In 1914 he, his mother, and Joseph moved to New York City. Meanwhile, in Algeria, a talented young woman painter, Violette Mege, was making history. Since for the first time, a woman won the prestigious Beaux Art competition in Algeria. At first, the awards committee denied her the prize but, with French government intervention, Mege eventually prevailed. She won again 3 years later and, in 1916, used the scholarship to visit the United States of America. When Violette came to New York, she met Baxte, who was, by then, an accomplished violinist, teacher, and composer. Baxte’s compositions were performed at the Tokyo Imperial Theater, and in 1922 he was listed in the American Jewish Yearbook as one of the prominent members of the American Jewish community. As a music teacher he encouraged individual expression. Baxte stated, “No pupil should ever be forced into imitation of the teacher. Art is a personal experience, and the teacher’s truest aim must be to awaken this light of personality through the patient light of science.” By 1920 Michael Baxte and Violette Mege were living together in Manhattan. Although they claimed to be living as husband and wife, it seems that their marriage did not become official until 1928. On their “unofficial” honeymoon around 1917, in Algiers, Baxte confided to her his ambition to paint. There and later in New Mexico where the wonderful steeped sunlight approximates the coloring of Algiers, she taught him his heart’s desire. He never had any other teacher. She never had any other pupil. For ten years she devoted all her time, energy, and ambition to teaching, encouraging, inspiring him. Then in 1928, their mutual strivings were rewarded, as his works were being chosen as one of the two winners in the Dudensing National Competition for American Painters. Out of 150 artists from across the country participated in the Dudensing, and Michael Posner Baxte and, Robert Fawcett, were the winners. In his 1924 naturalization application, he indicated that he was sometimes known as “Michael Posner Baxte.” One of the witnesses to his application was Bernard Karfiol, a Jewish American artist. That’s when Michael may...
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1960s Expressionist Paintings

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Oil, Masonite

Dramatic, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Always looking to find trouble in every corner.. Dramatic. :: Painting :: Expressionism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready...
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2010s Expressionist Paintings

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Oil

"Autumns End" Oil on Canvas Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Landscape
Located in Carmel, CA
"Autumns End" is a compelling 20" x 28" oil on canvas by Masri that beautifully marries abstract art with the subtle intimations of a landscape at the cusp of fall. The canvas is a t...
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Early 2000s Expressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Artist at his studio" - Horizontal indoor purple and yellow painting.
Located in Miami, FL
The artist is creating inside his studio.
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Early 2000s Expressionist Paintings

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Acrylic, Masonite

Double Feature
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original expressionist oil on canvas painting by American female artist Jackie Felix.
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1980s Expressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Nascent Stream Wappinger Creek
Located in Buffalo, NY
A contemporary abstract expressionist acrylic painting by American female artist Rebecca Allan.
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2010s Expressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Smell of spring, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
The beauty of flowering trees and the colors of a windy spring day inspired the artist to create a work of art "Smell of spring". This oil painting on canvas, ready to hang, is an ex...
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2010s Expressionist Paintings

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Oil

'Tuscany Nature ' oil on board by Masri
Located in Carmel, CA
A Lebanese born, Italian artist ,Masri has developed a style that captures mideastern mood with A Lucien Freud brush touch. His work is varied and known e...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Sing it Cindy or High C
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil painting by American female artist Jackie Felix titled Sing it Cindy, or High C.
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1980s Expressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Quarantine Blues
Located in Toronto, ON
23” x 12” Unframed Original Acrylic on Canvas Board Hand Signed by Todd White Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes with contrasting colors serving the viewer’...
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2010s Expressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Self Exposure, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
A flowing piece that exemplifies our abstractness of ourselves by way of combining colour and technique to cleverly dictate the movement of the hand and tilted head. :: Painting :: E...
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2010s Expressionist Paintings

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Oil

Snow peaks, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
For those who love white in their interior. For those who love snow and skiing. For those who set goals and accomplish them, climbing step by step, reaching the top. For those who...
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2010s Expressionist Paintings

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Oil

After Icarus, ghostly floating figure, black w orange, blue nude
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on canvas ABOUT the artist: Audrey Frank Anastasi is a prolific feminist artist, working in painting, drawing, collage, mixed media, & printmaking. She is also curator, gallerist, educator and arts advocate. Most of Ms. Anastasi's figurative works are painted with her non-dominant left hand. She has created large bodies of works of birds, animals and birch trees. She has had 20 solo & 200 group shows. Her "ref-u-gee" series will be shown in 2020 at Medgar Evers College in collaboration with the Valentine Museum of Art, Brooklyn. Accompanying the show will be a limited-edition monograph w/ over 180 images and a foreword by Phyllis Braff. Ms. Anastasi's collage series was exhibited at Welancora Gallery, Brooklyn, in May, 2019. In 2018, ten paintings were exhibited in "Painting to Survive," curated by Yale critic Jonathan Weinberg. Book and catalog publications include "Stations of the Cross", SPQR press, BREUCKELEN magazine, “Audrey Frank Anastasi”, catalog essay Cindy Nemser, and "Collage," essay by Giancarlo T. Roma. Public art includes a portrait of Jo Davidson...
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2010s Expressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Rafael Coronel, "Untitled, " Mixed Media on Painter's Board, Signed by Artist
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'Untitled' by Rafael Coronel, is a fabulous and stylistically distinct example of Coronel's work from the 1960s and 1970s in which his subjects are located at the surface of blank, ...
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Paintings

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Mixed Media

Baby Dragon (Red)
Located in Kuala Lumpur, MY
Zhou Bin is good at using his solid traditional classical oil painting techniques to express images that are contemporary, trendy, academically profound, and meet the needs of modern...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Paint, Oil

Ray by the river, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Excellent piece of original art. Handmade Signed Painting. Original Oil painting by Ukrainian artist Sergey Chernyakovsky Title: "Ray by the river" Size: "23.6x27.5" (60 x 70 c...
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2010s Expressionist Paintings

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Oil

"Il motivo di un viaggio" by Enzio Wenk, 2006- Acrylic on Metal, Urban Landscape
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "The reason for a trip" Acrylic on metal plate.
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Early 2000s Expressionist Paintings

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Metal

Before the rain, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Landscape with mountains, painted in the style of art impressionism art, art realism, art expressionism. The painting is painted in cool shades of gray and green. I have depicted i...
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2010s Expressionist Paintings

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Oil

In the rays of the sun, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
In his paintings, i shows the interaction of human and animal nature. The beauty of the interaction of two beings is what gives meaning and depth to his art. Tiger - symbolizes mili...
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2010s Expressionist Paintings

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Oil

The One That Got Away. Smoking man in antique bathtub soft green tones humorous
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an oil on wood painting. There is a rough stipple texture to this work achieved by mixing a pumice like compound into the primer. The work is consistent with the artists humo...
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Early 2000s Expressionist Paintings

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Wood, Oil

Expressionist paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Expressionist paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple, green and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Iryna Kastsova, Maria Asuncion Raventos, Masri Hayssam, and Evelyne Ballestra. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Expressionist paintings, so small editions measuring 1 inches across are also available.

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