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.
Find a collection of original Postimpressionist paintings, mixed media, prints and other art on 1stDibs.
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Friends. Children, animals, figurative oil painting, girls portrait, dog
Located in Oslo, NO
"In the painting "Friends" I painted my dog Daisy, who met her favorite little friend on a walk," said Anna Shesterikova about this work. "The girl gently and affectionately stroke...
Oil
$784Sale Price|20% Off
Buoux Hillside Rooftops and Valley View Provence Watercolour
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Buoux Hillside Rooftops and Valley View Provence Watercolour Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour on paper, unframed Signed lower right “P. Neveu”. Inscrib...
Watercolor
Swedish Spring Forest Landscape with Stream – Axel Zachrison
Located in Stockholm, SE
Spring Brook presents a springtime woodland motif associated with the forests of Dalsland, a region in western Sweden long celebrated for its deep woods, lakes, and winding streams. ...
Canvas, Oil
$7,901
“In the warm rays of the sun” X-Large impressionistic landscape .Impasto. Oil.
Located in Oslo, NO
This artwork captures the serene beauty of a wooded lakeshore, where nature's elegance is on full display. The foreground is dominated by a cluster of slender trees, their trunks and...
Canvas, Oil
$486Sale Price|20% Off
French Village Street Scene with Horse and Church Watercolor and Ink Signed
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Village Street Scene with Horse and Church Watercolor and Ink Signed Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour on card, unframed Size (H x W): 7.25 x 10....
Watercolor
TIMUR. original painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
I am interested in portraits that reveal all the complexity and versatility of a person's spiritual appearance, when the inner content is revealed through the external. Painting a p...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Rare Oil Painting Arab Man Bezalel School Jerusalem 1913, Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
Extremely rare work of art from the early Bezalel School of Boris Schatz in Ottoman Palestine. it depicts an Orientalist Arab Sheik in traditional Headwear. YITSKHOK LIKHTENSHTEYN ...
Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil
$757Sale Price|20% Off
Provence Village Church Bell Tower Gouache Pierre Neveu
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Provence Village Church Bell Tower Gouache Pierre Neveu Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Gouache and felt pen on paper, unframed Size (H x W): 20.25 x 26.25 inches...
Gouache, Felt Pen
$4,647Sale Price|20% Off
Need To Return To Earth Tomorrow. Oil painting, large format, figurative, angels
Located in Oslo, NO
"This work appeared in my head like a sudden insight. I saw it only in my imagination." said Anna Shesterikova about this artwork. "The next day I invited two young men who posed for...
Oil, Acrylic
Winter Scene by the Water, 1912
Located in Stockholm, SE
This atmospheric winter painting depicts a solitary wooden building, likely a small workshop or riverside shed, situated beside a partially frozen waterway. Snow blankets the ground ...
Canvas, Oil
$811Sale Price|20% Off
Ansouis Provence Chapel Road Landscape Pastel Pierre Neveu
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Ansouis Provence Chapel Road Landscape Pastel Pierre Neveu Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Pastel and coloured pencil on paper, unframed Size (H x W): 22.25 x 30....
Pastel, Color Pencil
$621Sale Price|20% Off
Country House Green Shutters Garden Flowers Trees and Lawn Watercolor
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Country House Green Shutters Garden Flowers Trees and Lawn Watercolor Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour on artist paper, unframed Size (H x W): 6.25 x 8...
Watercolor
$519Sale Price|20% Off
French Hilltop View of Forcalquier Mid Century Watercolour Landscape
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Hilltop View of Forcalquier Mid Century Watercolour Landscape Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour on artist paper, unframed Size (H x W): 6.25 x 8....
Watercolor
Notre Dame de Paris - Seine River Banks circa 1935
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
MICHEL A. (1911-NC) Notre Dame de Paris - Seine River Banks Oil on canvas signed low left New golden wood frame Dim canvas : 95 X 76 cm Dim frame : 114 X 95 cm MICHEL A. (1911-NC) 2...
Oil
Ascesis
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Within the series “The Smile of Medusa,” this work introduces the theme of feminine endurance gradually transforming into a distinct form of strength. Limited resources and prolonge...
Acrylic
$1,324Sale Price|20% Off
Family Picnic With Children Eating Fruit Beneath Sunlit Tree French Oil Painting
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Family Picnic Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) signed lower right Medium: oil on canvas, unframed Canvas: 39.5 x 39.5 inches Condition: Good and sound condition Signed and inscr...
Oil
La Porte de St.Denis, Paris
Located in Sheffield, MA
Francois Gerome French, 1895 La Porte de St.Denis, Paris Oil on canvas 16 by 20 in. W/frame 22 by 26 in. Signed lower right Framed in a period House of Heydenr...
Oil
$811Sale Price|20% Off
La Tour d’Aigues Provence Village River Landscape Watercolour
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: La Tour d’Aigues Provence Village River Landscape Watercolou Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Gouache and watercolour on paper, unframed Size (H x W): 20.25 x 26.5...
Watercolor, Gouache, Felt Pen
The Red Pulse of Stone, series Architecture of Memory
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this piece, I explore the hidden energy of ancient walls. Using a palette knife, I created a sharp contrast between the deep, dark alleyway and a vibrant red facade that seems to ...
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Acrylic
$1,400Sale Price|36% Off
“Country Girl”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a wonderful expressive portrait of a blue eyed country girl by the American artist David Pallock. Signed top right and dat...
Canvas, Oil
Mental Drift
Located in Zofingen, AG
Within the series “Inner Round Dance,” the artist reveals the multilayered nature of thought, observing how certain inner states gradually displace others. More global ideas slowly ...
Acrylic
$27,200Sale Price|20% Off
Thistles Mixed Media Still-Life, Pastel on Paper, Signed 1938
Located in Miami, FL
The present Joseph Stella work is a sensitive study of a botanical arrangement of thistles in a vase resting atop a Corinthian pedestal that sits on a tabletop. Signed, dated lower r...
Pastel
$1,750
'Harbor Mist', Pasadena Art Museum, California, Post-Impressionist oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Jonathan Scott' (British, 1914-1995) and titled verso. Provenance: Nancy Moure, Glendale, California Jonathan Scott studied first at the Heatherly School in Lond...
Oil, Cardboard
Landscapes with sea. Two paintings on hardboard, one is signed.
Located in San Francisco, CA
These paintings "Landscape" are 2 oils on hardboard by noted French fauvist artist Lucien Mainssieux 1885-1958. One of the two is signed at the lower...
Oil
$1,622Sale Price|20% Off
Provence Hill Top Perched Village 1960's French Oil Painting Orange Ochre Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Provence by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 32 x 21 inches very good condition provenance: from the artists estate, France Josine Vignon ...
Oil
Aoum II by Auguste Herbin
Located in New Orleans, LA
Auguste Herbin 1882-1960 French Aoum II Signed and dated 'herbin 1944' (lower right); titled "aoum" 2 (lower left) Oil on canvas This bold and vivid abstract oil on canvas was painted by French painter Auguste Herbin, a pioneer in popularizing Modernist abstraction. Over his expansive nearly 60-year career, Herbin rubbed shoulders with art history greats from Pablo Picasso to Georges Braque before honing his personal and innovative style. Entitled Aoum II, the painting stands apart for its daring color palette and crisp composition. Painted in 1944, Aoum II embodies Herbin’s fully-formed artistic aesthetic and stylistic tenets. Only two years prior to its creation, Herbin developed his “alphabet plastique,” a synergistic visual language of color and form that he described in detail in his published book L’art non-figuratif non-objectif. Though the artist was highly cerebral in his process of creating art, one does not need to perfectly understand his principles to feel Aoum II's magnetism. The geometric shapes visible in the composition — primarily fragmented triangles and circles — are rendered in bold pinks, blues and yellows on a deep black background. His tiered application of color creates a natural three-register visual effect as if to tell a story from the apex of the form to its denouement. Auguste Herbin began his artistic training at the École des Beaux-Arts de Lille before moving to Paris in 1901. In the early years of his career, he experimented with a variety of styles, exhibiting Post-Impressionistic works at the Salon des Indépendants in 1906 and Fauvist paintings at the Salon d'Automne in 1907. After a brief Cubist period following his introduction to Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Otto...
Canvas, Oil
Touraine - Early 20th Century French Post Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
* No US duty or taxes to pay on this item * A beautiful large early 20th century French post-impressionist oil on canvas depicting a landscape in Touraine, by Charles Picart Le Doux...
Oil
$784Sale Price|20% Off
Saignon Provence Village Rooftops Landscape Watercolour
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Saignon Provence Village Rooftops Landscape Watercolour Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Gouache and watercolour on paper, unframed Size (H x W): 19.75 x 25.75 inc...
Watercolor, Gouache, Felt Pen
In The Rose Garden. Liechtenstein. Portrait of a girl in the traditional dress
Located in Oslo, NO
At the center of the painting "In the Rose Garden. Liechtenstein" is a girl in the principality's traditional costume, holding a bouquet of bright flowers. Her calm, open gaze is fil...
Canvas, Oil
$1,076Sale Price|20% Off
Polish/ French Mid 20th Century Signed Oi Figures in Paris Busy Street Scene
By Josef Popczyk
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris by Jozef Popczyk, Polish 1890 - 1971 signed oil on board, framed framed: 7 x 8.25 inches board: 5.5 x 7 inches Provenance: private collection, Paris Condition: very good condi...
Oil
$383Sale Price|20% Off
Village Market Woman Preparing Produce French Rural Modernist Watercolor
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Village Market Woman Preparing Produce French Rural Modernist Watercolor Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour on card, unframed Size (H x W): 5.75 x 5.75 i...
Mixed Media, Watercolor
Don't look up!2
Located in Zofingen, AG
The city dictates direction and pace, forcing movement without pause or choice. Light and color exist somewhere nearby and above, but for these figures they never become experience.
Canvas, Acrylic
$1,394Sale Price|20% Off
On The Shore. Oil painting, horizontal, lake, children, turquose
Located in Oslo, NO
The painting "On The Shore" captures a moment of fleeting childhood. The artist masterfully conveys a random episode from life - two children sitting on the shore of a lake in the wa...
Canvas, Oil
$556Sale Price|20% Off
French River Plain Landscape Post Impressionist Watercolour Pierre Neveu
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French River Plain Landscape Post Impressionist Watercolour Pierre Neveu Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour on paper, unframed Size (H x W): 17.75 x 25.2...
Watercolor
$751Sale Price|20% Off
Provence Road with Cypress and Mountain Pastel Pierre Neveu
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Provence Road with Cypress and Mountain Pastel Pierre Neveu Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Pastel on paper, unframed Size (H x W): 19.75 x 25.75 inches Signed lo...
Pastel, Pencil, Oil Pastel
$594Sale Price|20% Off
1950's Mid Century French Impressionist Oil Flowers in Vase in Windowsill
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Flowers in the Window Sill French impressionist artist, mid 20th century oil on on canvas, unframed canvas : 22 x 18 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: very goo...
Oil, Canvas
$486Sale Price|20% Off
Cote dAzur Cap Camarat Coastal Landscape Watercolor French Modern Pierre Neveu
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Cote dAzur Cap Camarat Coastal Landscape Watercolor French Modern Pierre Neveu Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour on paper, mounted, unframed Signed lowe...
Watercolor
$2,054Sale Price|20% Off
Huge French Contemporary Expressionist Signed Painting Atmospheric Greys
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Jan Maï (1944–2011) French School oil with ink on canvas, unframed canvas: 46 x 32 inches Inscribed verso, titled and dated 2002 Provenance: private collection, France Condition: ve...
Oil, Ink
$681Sale Price|20% Off
Mid 20th Century 1950's French Post-Impressionist Oil September Rural Farm Field
By Regine David
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Septembre, 1959 by Regine David (female French artist, 1910-2018) oil painting on board, unframed measures: 13 x 16 inches condition: the painting is in very sound and presentable co...
Oil
Vanishing Perspectives, series Architecture of Memory
Located in Zofingen, AG
In Vanishing Perspectives, I explore the feeling of being pulled into the deep, rhythmic space of an old city. Using a palette knife, I created a sharp contrast between the massive, ...
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Acrylic
$1,400Sale Price|20% Off
20th Century Industrial Cityscape Oil painting, Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Work sold to benefit the CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART Joseph B. O’Sickey (American, 1918–2013) Industrial Cityscape Oil on paper Signed lower left 13.75 x 16.5 inches Joseph O'Sicke...
Oil
$2,000Sale Price|20% Off
Autumn Light in Paris Beautiful Atmospheric River Seine Boats View, French Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris in the Autumn by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 26 x 36 inches Very good condition Provenance: from the artists estate, France Jo...
Canvas, Oil
$697Sale Price|20% Off
Orchestra in Performance by Pierre Neveu French Watercolour Musician Scene
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Orchestra in Performance by Pierre Neveu French Watercolour Musician Scene Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour on artists paper, unframed Size (H x W): 9....
Watercolor
$427Sale Price|20% Off
Spring Awakening Blossoming Trees Under a Moody Sky in a Pastel Landscape
By Regine David
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Spring Awakening by Regine David (female French artist, 1910-2018) pastel painting on artist paper, stuck on artist paper painting: 12 x 15.5 inches condition: This painting is in ex...
Pastel
$2,433Sale Price|20% Off
Amedee Boucher French Post Impressionist Busy City Street Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title Amedee Boucher French Post Impressionist Busy City Street Oil Painting Key Details Artist: Amedee Boucher, French, mid 20th century Title: Busy Fr...
Oil
$492Sale Price|20% Off
Clisson Riverside Village and Historic Stone Buildings French Watercolor
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Clisson Riverside Village and Historic Stone Buildings French Watercolor Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour on paper, unframed Size (H x W): 15 x 11.25 i...
Watercolor
The House That Isn't There. Original painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this work, balance is understood not as a compromise, but as a natural coexistence. Acceptance of darkness and light becomes the basis of inner support, from which a sense of home...
Canvas, Acrylic
$1,297Sale Price|20% Off
Biot South of France Provence Sun Scorched Landscape Colorful Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Biot, Provence French School, dated 2004 signed acrylic on canvas, framed framed: 25.5 x 29 inches canvas: 18 x 21.5 inches Inscribed verso Provenance: private collection, France C...
Acrylic
Morning forest
Located in Zofingen, AG
Morning Forest invites the viewer into a quiet woodland space where light and shadow create a delicate balance between stillness and awakening. A narrow path leads deeper into the tr...
Acrylic, Archival Paper
1965 French, 'The Rooftops of Rome' Post Impressionist
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Jean-Marie Bertaux (French, 1924–2024) The Rooftops of Rome, 1965 Oil on board Inscribed ‘Vue de la Villa Medici’ (on the reverse) and dated 1965 14¾ x 17¾ in. (37.5 x 45.3 cm) A viv...
Oil, Board
$459Sale Price|20% Off
French Market Scene Fruit Stalls Figures and Colourful Awnings Watercolor
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Market Scene Fruit Stalls Figures and Colourful Awnings Watercolor Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour on artists paper, unframed Size (H x W): 9.7...
Watercolor
$325Sale Price|20% Off
Modern abstract expressionist woman's figure painting on paper "Calm reflection"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
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...
Paper, Watercolor
$1,510
Sounds Of The Sea. Acrylic painting, figurative, woman, waves, semi-abstract
Located in Oslo, NO
“Sounds Of The Sea” is a romantic painting of a woman listening to the sounds of a seashell, which takes me back to childhood memories of the whispering sea and a whole range of asso...
Acrylic
Eucalyptus
Located in Zofingen, AG
Eucalyptus is a hymn to vital energy and the courage to be oneself in any environment. The saturated turquoise leaves, contrasting with the vibrant background, symbolize stages of ac...
Canvas, Acrylic
$513Sale Price|20% Off
Seine Valley French Farmhouse Landscape Pastel Drawing Rural France Pierre Neveu
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Seine Valley French Farmhouse Landscape Pastel Drawing Rural France Pierre Neveu Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Pastel and coloured pencil on artist paper, unfra...
Pastel
S. L'Heureux Thereloe
Located in North Clarendon, VT
Wonderful post impressionist painting by German artist Helmut Albrecht. Appears to be a french scene painted in 1955. Oil on Canvas, inscribed on reverse. 10 1/8" x 14 1/4" canvas, 1...
Oil
$1,730Sale Price|20% Off
1950's Colorful French Impressionist Flower Garden Archway Signed Impressionist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Le Jardin by Gaston ANDRE (1884-1970) titled verso signed oil on canvas, framed framed: 26 x 32 inches canvas: 20 x 26 inches Provenance: private collection, Loire Valley, France Co...
Oil, Canvas
Release
Located in Zofingen, AG
A kitten rests on a sofa, soft and unguarded — yet somewhere within, it already knows itself as something greater. Not small, not fragile, but vast. A quiet lion in the making. It lo...
Board
Fresh from the garden Hela - Contemporary flower oil pastel still life painting
By Hela
Located in DE
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...
Canvas, Acrylic
$805Sale Price|20% Off
Mid 20th Century 1950's French Post-Impressionist Oil The Old French Town
By Regine David
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Old French Town by Regine David (female French artist, 1910-2018) oil painting on board, unframed measures: 13 x 16 inches condition: the painting is in very sound and presentabl...
Oil