Fauvist Paintings

This artwork captures the serene beauty of a winter landscape with remarkable precision. The scene is dominated by a blanket of glistening snow, reflecting a spectrum of blues under ...

"Fleurs" is an original watercolor paintng on paper by French artist, Charles Cobelle (1902 - 1994), signed lower right. The painting measures 21.5 x 27.5 inches and is framed to 32...

'Abstract Figure' Suzanne Vattier, French 1901-1996 gouache painting on artist paper, framed size: 9.75 x 12.5 inches Fabulous 1970s abstract goauche painting. The colours used in t...

In "Apples and Tea", French artist Natalya Mougenot offers a lyrical meditation on color, emotion, and the quiet grace of daily rituals. At first glance, the composition appears disa...

This contemporary post-impressionist Fauvist still life painting depicting two red apples and a flower was created by French artist Natalya Mougenot and forms part of her ongoing ser...

1970s fauvist watercolour of a forest glade by Belgian artist André Pierard. Not signed but acquired from his estate along with others of his works. A be...

Acrylic on paper laid board. Frameless.

Title French Modernist Provence Cote d'Azur Coastal Seascape Villa Oil Painting Key Details Artist: French School, 20th century, signed Title: La Cote d'Azur Medium: Oil painting on ...

Hela is an emerging contemporary artist whose vibrant and playful paintings celebrate the quiet glamour of everyday life. With a focus on table settings, cocktails, glassware, and el...

Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman Acrylic on canvas on cardboard. Work measurements 55x46 cm. Frameless. Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish painter...

"Autumn Harvest III" is an abstract expressionist painting by Romina Milano where a dance of black gestures unfolds across colorful brushstrokes infused with raw emotion. Romina Mi...

This contemporary vivid expressionist woman’s figure was created by French artist Natalya Mougenot and forms part of her ongoing Women series, where she explores resilience, radiance...

Hela is an emerging contemporary artist whose vibrant and playful paintings celebrate the quiet glamour of everyday life. With a focus on table settings, cocktails, glassware, and el...

Original oil on artist board painting by the Russian/American artist Ben Benn. Signed lower right and signed titled and dated in pencil verso. 1929. Overall in custom contemporary ...

Framed size: 23" x 29" 'Steam Ships' is a joyful celebration of Britain's rich maritime heritage, brought to life through the unmistakable energy and imagination of Simeon Stafford....

This is a beautiful landscape painting by Alexandra Czierpka. By reducing color and form to their essentials, she invites the observer to contemplate the harmony between humans and n...

Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman Mixed technique on canvas cardboard. Work measurements 41x33 cm. Frameless. Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish pa...

R. Poch. original acrylic painting Born in Badalona (Barcelona). Photographer and advertising film director. Founding partner of the advertising production company La Cosa de las P...

This contemporary vivid expressionist woman’s figure was created by French artist Natalya Mougenot and makes part of her ongoing series dedicated to Women, where she explores identit...

Spanish Modernist Portrait of a Woman with Guitar, Catalan Fauvist Interior Artist: Jordi Curós Ventura (Spanish, 1930–2017) Title: Woman with Guitar Date: 1980 Medium: Oil on panel Dimensions: 46 × 38 cm (18.11 × 14.96 in) Framed dimensions: 64 × 56 cm (25.20 × 22.05 in) Signature: Signed and dated lower right Period: Late 20th century Style: Spanish Modernism, Catalan Modern Art, Figurative Expressionism, Fauvist influence Subject: Female portrait, woman, guitar, interior, flowers Condition: Good vintage condition, consistent with age Frame: Framed Description A striking 1980 oil painting by Catalan artist Jordi Curós Ventura, depicting a seated young woman in an intimate interior accompanied by a Spanish guitar and a vase of red flowers. The composition is constructed through large areas of warm, expressive color. The intense coral-orange background establishes an immediate chromatic presence, while the woman's pale yellow jacket, dark violet trousers, blue-green vase and orange guitar create a carefully balanced yet deliberately unconventional palette. Curós simplifies forms without abandoning figuration, giving the painting the visual immediacy associated with postwar European modernism and the coloristic freedom of Fauvism. The sitter occupies the center of the composition, frontal and still, her crossed legs and folded hands producing an almost sculptural stability. Behind her, the guitar introduces an unmistakably Mediterranean and Spanish note, while the vase and small table transform the portrait into an intimate domestic scene. Rather than functioning merely as accessories, these objects divide the composition into chromatic zones and establish a rhythmic dialogue between figure, still life and interior. The painting is signed and dated lower right and retains its substantial period frame. Biography Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, 1930–2017) was an important Catalan painter associated with the renewal of Spanish figurative painting during the second half of the 20th century. He trained at the Escola d'Arts i Oficis of Olot, a city with one of Catalonia's most distinguished landscape-painting traditions. His first solo exhibition took place at Galerías Jardín in Barcelona in 1950, and from 1951 he participated in the influential Salons d'Octubre, which played an important role in introducing new artistic languages into postwar Catalan art. Curós exhibited at prominent Barcelona galleries including Sala Caralt, Galerías Layetanas, Galería Syra and Sala Vayreda. His Madrid debut took place at Galerías Biosca in 1953, and he also exhibited internationally. In 1952 he was selected by the influential Catalan intellectual and critic Eugeni d'Ors for the X Salón de los Once. The following year he participated in the II Bienal Hispanoamericana de Arte in Havana. Curós received scholarships that enabled him to work in Paris, first from the Institut Français de Barcelona in 1954 and later from Barcelona City Council in 1958. Contact with the Parisian art world contributed to the development of the increasingly experimental language that characterized his work during the following years. Between approximately 1958 and 1963, his painting moved toward abstraction and Informalism, with strongly textured surfaces, arabesques and enamel-like areas of color. He later returned to figuration, developing a highly personal style characterized by luminous color, simplified forms and an interest in capturing the immediacy of everyday life. From 1965 to 1989 he exhibited repeatedly at Barcelona's historic Sala Parés, one of Spain's oldest and most prestigious commercial galleries. His career also included participation in major exhibitions of contemporary Spanish art in Havana, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Lisbon, Porto and Brussels. The Museu d'Art Modern de Barcelona acquired one of his paintings as early as 1953. Today Curós is regarded as a distinctive representative of postwar Catalan painting, occupying a fascinating territory between Mediterranean figuration, Expressionism, abstraction and the legacy of French modernism. Artistic Inspiration and Context This painting belongs to Curós's mature return to figuration after his experiments with abstraction and Informalism. Its saturated palette and simplified construction recall the great colorist tradition of 20th-century European painting, particularly Henri Matisse, Kees van Dongen and Raoul Dufy, while its psychological directness and deliberately economical drawing place it firmly within Spanish and Catalan postwar figurative art. There is also a subtle connection with the intimate interiors of the School of Paris: a solitary figure, ordinary domestic objects and an apparently simple setting transformed through color into something psychologically charged. The guitar is especially significant. Beyond its decorative function, it introduces a distinctly Spanish cultural symbol into an otherwise cosmopolitan modernist composition. Together with the flowers and intensely colored background, it gives the work a warm Mediterranean character highly characteristic of Curós's mature figurative vocabulary. The result is both portrait and interior, combining Spanish identity, Catalan postwar modernism and the chromatic freedom inherited from Fauvism. Jordi Curós Ventura Spanish Modern Art Catalan Modern Art Catalan Painting Spanish Figurative Painting Spanish Expressionism Fauvist Painting Fauvism Postwar European Art Postwar Spanish Art Mid-Century European Art 20th Century Spanish Painting Modernist Portrait Female Portrait Woman Portrait Painting Woman with Guitar Guitar Painting Spanish Guitar Art...

Oil on card view of a street in Bruges by Jacques Buecher. The painting is signed bottom left and there is an exhibition label to the back of the board. This artwork portrays a capt...

Artist/ School: French School, circa 1950's Title: Sunny Provencal Street Scene in the South of France (possibly Menton) Medium: oil on canvas, unframed Canvas: 31.5 x 25.75 inche...

This artwork captures a serene moment of a dancer at rest. Rendered with expressive brushstrokes, it showcases a woman sitting on a textured armchair, clad in a black leotard and bal...

Simó Busom i Grau (Barcelona, ​​1927 – November 25, 2020[1]) was a Catalan landscape painter. He trained as a painter at the Acadèmia Baixas, and in his early works the influence of ...

Rue de Rivoli 2 Charles Cobelle, French (1902–1994) Date: circa 1968 Acrylic on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 15 x 30 in. (38.1 x 76.2 cm) Frame Size: 23 x 37 inches

Maria Vich is an artist from the Balearic Islands. Influenced by her teacher Tito mCittadini, she focuses her work on reflecting the countryside environment, its workers, its landsc...

Jordi Curos - View of Barcelona - Oil on cardboard Oil measurements 55x46 cm. Frameless. Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish painter. He trained at the O...

Genre: Modern Subject: Figures Medium: Oil Surface: Board Country: United States Dimensions w/Frame: 31 x 37 Donald Roy Purdy is an American painter whose work evolved through a ran...

French fauvist Marine Landscape, probably the Mediterranean, mid century oil on board. The painting is signed bottom right but as yet undeciphered. Presented in a period chip carved ...

Raoul Dufy was an important multifaceted French artist who worked in a variety of media including painting, print making, mural design, theatre and costume design, upholstery, wall paper, ceramics, and fabric. In his paintings he often depicted the circus, equestrian scenes, Parisian cafe life, yachting scenes, colorful views of the French Riviera, and musical events in a distinctive style that combined the various artistic trends of the day, most notably Fauvism. Born in 1877 in Le Havre France, and after a year of military service in 1900, Dufy won a scholarship to the Ecole Nationale superieure des Beaux-Arts, in Paris, studying under Othon Friesz. He exhibited extensively throughout Paris and France at the various salons, including the Salon des Tuileries. For the 1937 Exposition Internationale in Paris, Dufy completed one of the largest paintings ever conceived, a 250...

Bright, colorful Fauvist figurative painting of a woman with vase of flowers in a vibrant interior space, by an unknown Bay Area artist (American, 20th Century). Unsigned. Presented ...

Vintage American fauvist interior scene oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Measuring: 29 by 25 inches overall, and 20 by 24 painting alone. Handsomely framed in wide modern wood m...

A beautiful mixed media painting by Bernard Lamotte. A crowded park in Paris is focused on a horse drawn carriage with French flags in the background. Watercolor, pen, mixed media o...

'Abstract Figure' Suzanne Vattier, French 1901-1996 gouache painting on artist paper, framed size: 19.75 x 25.75 inches Fabulous 1970s abstract goauche painting. The colours used in...

La obra va firmada por el artista en la parte inferior En la parte trasera, va nuevamente firmado, titulado y fechado del año 1984 Se presenta sin enmarcar la obra El estado de la...

Genre: Modern Subject: Jewish Elder , Judaic Prayer Surface: Board Country: United States signed lower left Donald Roy Purdy is an American painter whose work evolved through a rang...

"Turkey Tail Mushrooms in Blue" is an abstract expressionist painting by Romina Milano where a dance of black gestures unfolds across colorful brushstrokes infused with raw emotion. ...

Abstracted Landscape Suzanne Vattier, French 1901-1996 gouache painting on artist paper, framed size: 8 x 11 inches Suzanne Vattier (1901-1996) was a pupil of the famous painter, An...

Two mid-century impressionist watercolours, double sided on one paper, by Belgian artist André Pierard. On one side a rural scene with houses, signed and dated 51 bottom left and on ...

RALPH DELLA-VOLPE (1923-2017) Fine Art Painter, American Contemporary The Valley Oil on canvas Hand signed lower left and again to stretcher and verso 16 x 20 inches. frame dimens...

Vibrant fauvist portrait of a woman by Sarena Rosenfeld (American, b. 1940), 1995. The piece is close cropped on the woman's face, with a bold red and blue background framing her. Th...

Jordi Curos - View of Barcelona - Oil on cardboard Oil measurements 55x46 cm. Frameless. Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish painter. He trained at the O...

Acrylic on paper laid board. Frameless. Needs restoration

Title: Rambla de Barcelona Artist: Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2017) Technique: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 28.7 x 23.6 in (73 x 60 cm) Support: Canvas...

'Le Cirque' Suzanne Vattier, French 1901-1996 Signed by the artist on the lower left hand corner Signed and dated '1980' verso Oil painting on canvas, framed Framed size: 24.5 x 29.5...

Fauvist Seated Woman with Fan Spanish Figurative Modern Mediterranean Painting Artist: Jordi Curós Ventura (1930–2007) Title: Woman with Fan Date: 1979 Medium: Mixed media on canvas...

Artist/ School: French School, circa 1930's, inscribed verso. Title: Provencal Village street scene with figures, old houses and washing hanging. Medium: oil painting on board, un...

"Duo of Colorful Seaweed" is an acrylic painting on high-quality watercolor paper of minimal botanical algae, drawn and painted in the style of Henry Matisse...

Morning Bath - Abstract Expressionism in Oil on Board Colorful abstract figurative of couple in the morning by Kristin Cohen (American, b. 1963). Two brightly colored figures are sh...

Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman Acrylic on canvas on cardboard. Work measurements 55x46 cm. Frameless. Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish painter...

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An orchard in full blossom behind a Normandy farm. The trees fill almost the entire canvas, their white flower painted in thousands of short loaded touches over a high, pale sky, wit...

Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman Mixed technique on canvas cardboard. Work measurements 46x38 cm. Frameless. Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish pa...

Artist: Josep Maria Rosselló i Virgili Title: Woman and Cat in the Sun Technique: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 13 x 16 in (without frame) 16 x 19.3 in (with frame) Date: 1980s Conditio...

Garden sculpture. 2015. Paper, pastel. 69x92 cm Colorful abstract composition in fauvist style with figures

Artist: Charles Cobelle, French (1902 - 1994) Title: Pont de Paris Year: 1965 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 12 x 16 in. (30.48 x 40.64 cm) Frame Size: 20 x 24.5 ...

'Lungomare Le sain' Suzanne Vattier, French 1901-1996 signed and dated on back 1973 inscribed verso gouache painting on artist paper, framed size: 19.5 x 25.5 inches Fabulous 1970s...

Immerse yourself in the luscious world of color and form with this original oil painting on cradled wood by contemporary artist Alai Ganuza. Titled "Macedonia" and completed in 2025,...

DESCRIPTION Oil on cardboard 55 x 46 cm (21.66 x 18.12 in) Unframed Signed Good condition A powerful self-portrait by Jordi Curós, executed circa 1980, depicting the artist in his ...

'Ville' Abstract Surrealist Oil Painting, Signed By artist Suzanne Vattier, French 1901-1996 Signed by the artist on the lower right h...