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Style: Tribal
Animal Large Painting on Canvas Tribal Art India Natural Mud Village Rainbow
By Anil Vangad
Located in Norfolk, GB
This is a fabulous, large tribal painting on cloth canvas with dung wash and white paints. Anil Vangad, Cloth size: 87 x 119 cm, Image size 78.5 x 110.5 cm, white colour on dung wa...
Category

2010s Tribal Paintings

Materials

Fabric, Canvas, Mixed Media

The African dentist acrylic on board painting Africa
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
George Lilanga (1934-2005) - The African dentist - Acrylic on board Painting size 61x61 cm. Frameless. George Lilanga was born in 1934 in the city of Kikwetu, in the southeast of Ta...
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Early 2000s Tribal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Board

Corn Kachina, by Riley Sunrise, Quoyavema, Hopi, Kachina, Dancer, painting
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Corn Kachina, by Riley Sunrise, Quoyavema, Hopi, Kachina, Dancer, painting Artist Signature - Riley Sunrise (1914-2006) Quoyavema “Another of the earlier Hopi artists, Riley Sunrise (Quoyavema) worked with Fred Kabotie and Waldo Mootzka in illustrating John Louw Nelson’s Rhythm for Rain. He is also known as Quoyavema or Kwayeshva, according to Nelson. His paintings are comparable to Fred Kabotie’s, with some of them showing more action and most of them revealing less detail. Sunrise is represented in the collections of the Denver Art Museum, Gilcrease Institute (Tulsa), and the Southwest Museum. The Museum of the American Indian in New York has an extensive collection of his paintings of native Hopi dances.” (Clara Lee Tanner: Southwest Indian...
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1940s Tribal Paintings

Materials

Paint, Paper

Virgen con niño - óleo sobre tela.
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Anónimo. "Virgen con niño". Óleo cobre tela. Medidas obra: 55 cm. x 40 cm. Medidas marco: 81 cm. x 66,5 cm. Interesante oleo sobre lienzo de Virgen con Niño, es de Escuela coloni...
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Mid-19th Century Tribal Paintings

Materials

Oil

African tribal dance acrylic on board painting
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
George Lilanga (1934-2005) - Tribal dance - Acrylic on board Painting size 61x61 cm. Frameless. George Lilanga was born in 1934 in the city of Kikwetu, in the southeast of Tanzania ...
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Early 2000s Tribal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Board

Malagasy life scenes
Located in Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, FR
The present decorative frieze, signed by the Malagasy painter Georges Razanamaniraka, is organized around the central figure of an enigmatic and hypnotic dancer. The quasi-symmetrica...
Category

1920s Tribal Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Goddess Kali Appears to a Hunter - Balinese Ubud Painting Mask Dance
Located in Soquel, CA
Incredibly detailed depiction of the goddess Kali appearing before a hunter by Konci (Balinese, 20th Century). Overflowing with details and imagery, this piece depicts the goddess Kali in the forest along with other godlike figures. A hunter is kneeling before them, wearing a quiver, and with hands folded in prayer. Kali is depicted in a traditional Balinese style, but with a multitude of faces engulfed in flames. The jungle background is full of swirling plants. Signed "Konci" in the lower right corner. Cloth wrapped around wood panel. Unframed. Image size: 35"H x 25.5"W This carved, wooden mask represents the mythical creature known in Bali as Banaspati Raja, meaning “King of the Forest,” also called the Barong Ket. Lion-like masks such as this one are the most common type, but Barong can take on the features of a number of different animals, including wild boar, dog, deer, and tiger, individually or in composite form. In Balinese society, all Barong masks...
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1970s Tribal Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Barong Mask Dance - Balinese Ubud Painting by KT Sunu
Located in Soquel, CA
Highly detailed depiction of a Barong Mask dance in Bali. Several people wearing elaborate masks are taking part in a dance or ritual. People are dressed i...
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1970s Tribal Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Woman with a White Veil, Mixed Media on Canvas, circa 1915
Located in London, GB
Woman with a White Veil by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961) Mixed media with gold and silver on board, laid on canvas 59.5 x 34.5 cm (23 ⅜ x 13 ⅝ inches) Signed lower right, Manz...
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1910s Tribal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Board

Native American Indian Warriors on Horseback with Dramatic Moonlit Landscape
Located in Preston, GB
Native American Indian Warriors on Horseback with Dramatic Moonlit Landscape Oil Painting by British Artist. Art measures 49 x 26 inches Born in 1952 in Bournemouth, Alan Langfor...
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1990s Tribal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil

Deer Dance, painting by Tonita Pena, Santa Fe, Cochiti, Pueblo, male, female
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Deer Dance, painting by Tonita Pena, Santa Fe, Cochiti, Pueblo, male, female Tonita Peña (born 1893 in San Ildefonso, died 1949 in Kewa Pueblo, New Mexico) was born as Quah Ah (meaning white coral beads) but also used the name Tonita Vigil Peña and María Antonia Tonita Peña. Peña was a renowned Pueblo artist, specializing in pen and ink on paper embellished with watercolor. She was a well-known and influential Native American artist and art teacher of the early 1920s and 1930s. Tonita Peña was born on May 10, 1893, at San Ildefonso Pueblo, to Ascensión Vigil Peña and Natividad Peña of San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico. When she was 12, her mother and younger sister died, as a result of complications due to the flu. Her father was unable to care for her and she was taken to Cochití Pueblo and was brought up by her aunt Martina Vigil Montoya, a prominent Cochití Pueblo potter. Peña attended St. Catherine Indian School in Santa Fe. Edgar Lee Hewett, an anthropologist involved in supervising the nearby Frijoles Canyon excavations (now Bandelier National Monument) was instrumental in developing the careers of several San Ildefonso “self-taught” artists including Tonita Peña. Hewett purchased Peña's paintings for the Museum of New Mexico and supplied her with quality paint and paper. Peña began gaining more notoriety by the end of the 1910s selling an increasing amount of her work to collectors and the La Fonda Hotel. Much of this early work was done of Pueblo cultural subject matter, in a style inspired by historic Native American works, however, her use of an artist's easel and Western painting mediums gained her acceptance among her European-American contemporaries in the art world. At the age of 25, she exhibited her work at museums and galleries in the Santa Fe and Albuquerque area. In the early 1920s, Tonita did not know how much her painting sold for at the Museum of New Mexico, so she wrote letters to the administrators because a local farmer was worried that she got paid too little. In the 1930s Peña was an instructor at the Santa Fe Indian School and at the Albuquerque Indian School and the only woman painter of the San Ildefonso Self-Taught Group, which included such noted artists as Alfonso Roybal, Julian Martinez, Abel Sánchez (Oqwa Pi), Crecencio Martinez, and Encarnación Peña. As children, these artists attended San Ildefonso day school which was part of the institution of the Dawes Act of 1887, designed to indoctrinate and assimilate Native American children into mainstream American society. In 1931, Tonita Peña exhibited at the Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts which was presented at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York City. Works from this exhibition were shown at the 1932 Venice Biennial. That year is the only time Native American artists have shown in the official United States pavilion at that biennial, and Tonita Peña's paintings were part of that exhibition.[1 Her painting Basket Dance, that had shown in the Venice Biennial was acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York for $225. This was the highest price paid up to this time for a Pueblo painting...
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1940s Tribal Paintings

Materials

Paint, Paper

Painting of an Antique Caucasian 'Kuba' Tribal Rug, Watercolour on Silk
Located in Cotignac, FR
A late 20th century watercolour on silk on handmade paper of an antique Caucasian 'Kuba' rug by French artist La Roche Laffitte. Faintly signed to the bottom right. This is one of a ...
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Late 20th Century Tribal Paintings

Materials

Silk, Watercolor, Handmade Paper

Eric Gill "Hawaiian Drummer" Original Airbrush Painting C.1930s
Located in San Francisco, CA
Eric Gill "Hawaiian Drummer" Original Airbrush Painting C.1930s Small but mighty airbrush. Classic 1930s Hawaiian painting by Eric Gill. Dimension...
Category

Early 20th Century Tribal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Rimpa School Six-Panel Screen, Chrysanthemum Motif, Japan, Meiji Period
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A Rimpa School six-panel screen with a chrysanthemum motif in gold, red, green, and white by an unknown Japanese artist from the Meiji Period. The artwork is unsigned. Provenance: Pr...
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19th Century Tribal Paintings

Materials

Pigment

Painting of an Antique Caucasian 'Kuba' Tribal Rug, Watercolour on Silk
Located in Cotignac, FR
A late 20th century watercolour painting on silk laid on handmade paper of an antique Caucasian 'Kuba' rug by French artist La Roche Laffitte. Faintly signed to the bottom right. Thi...
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Late 20th Century Tribal Paintings

Materials

Silk, Watercolor, Handmade Paper

Painting of an Antique Caucasian 'Kuba' Tribal Rug, Watercolour on Silk
Located in Cotignac, FR
A late 20th century watercolour on silk on handmade paper of an antique Caucasian 'Kuba' rug by French artist La Roche Laffitte. Faintly signed to the bottom right. This is one of a ...
Category

Late 20th Century Tribal Paintings

Materials

Silk, Watercolor, Handmade Paper

Painting of an Antique Caucasian 'Kuba' Tribal Rug, Watercolour on Silk
Located in Cotignac, FR
A late 20th century watercolour on silk on handmade paper of an antique Caucasian 'Kuba' rug by French artist La Roche Laffitte. Faintly signed to the bottom right. This is one of a ...
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Late 20th Century Tribal Paintings

Materials

Silk, Watercolor, Handmade Paper

Painting of an Antique Caucasian 'Kuba' Tribal Rug, Watercolour on Silk
Located in Cotignac, FR
A late 20th century watercolour on silk on handmade paper of an antique Caucasian 'Kuba' rug by French artist La Roche Laffitte. Faintly signed to the bottom right. This is one of a ...
Category

Late 20th Century Tribal Paintings

Materials

Silk, Watercolor, Handmade Paper

Painting of an Antique Caucasian 'Kuba' Tribal Rug, Watercolour on Silk
Located in Cotignac, FR
A late 20th century watercolour on silk on handmade paper of an antique Caucasian 'Kuba' rug by French artist La Roche Laffitte. Faintly signed to the bottom right. This is one of a ...
Category

Late 20th Century Tribal Paintings

Materials

Silk, Watercolor, Handmade Paper

Painting of an Antique Caucasian 'Kuba' Tribal Rug, Watercolour on Silk
Located in Cotignac, FR
A late 20th century watercolour on silk on handmade paper of an antique Caucasian 'Kuba' rug by French artist La Roche Laffitte. Faintly signed to the bottom right. This is one of a ...
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Late 20th Century Tribal Paintings

Materials

Silk, Watercolor, Handmade Paper

FLOW
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
45x45cm + 5cm of white edge Acrylic on canvas Shipped rolled in a tube I can do commissioned works
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2010s Tribal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Permanent Marker

Antique Southeast Asian Landscape Painting, by Mystery 20th Century Artist
Located in New York, NY
Mystery Artist Untitled, c. 20th Century Oil on canvas 22 x 30 in. Framed: 28 3/8 x 36 x 1 in. Signed lower right Provenance: Former Humala Pontas collection
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20th Century Tribal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Painting of an Antique Caucasian 'Kuba' Tribal Rug, Watercolour on Silk
Located in Cotignac, FR
A late 20th century watercolour on silk on handmade paper of an antique Caucasian 'Kuba' rug by French artist La Roche Laffitte. Faintly signed to the bottom right. This is one of a ...
Category

Late 20th Century Tribal Paintings

Materials

Silk, Watercolor, Handmade Paper

African tribal dance acrylic on board painting Africa
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
George Lilanga (1934-2005) - Tribal dance - Acrylic on board Painting size 61x61 cm. Frameless. George Lilanga was born in 1934 in the city of Kikwetu, in the southeast of Tanzania ...
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Early 2000s Tribal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Board

Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri (c.1929-1984) "Marla Serpent Story" Aboriginal Art
Located in PARIS, FR
Artist: Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri (c.1929-1984) Titled:"Marla Serpent Story" size: 68x96 cm year: c.1977 Aboriginal art Australian Art Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri (c.1929-1984) est né à ...
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1970s Tribal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic Polymer

Lunar Embrace
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original oil painting on linen by artist Tony Pro. 29.5 X 23.5 Framed.
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21st Century and Contemporary Tribal Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

6 Panel Japanese Byobu, Japan, Meiji/Taisho Period (Early 20th Century)
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A six panel Japanese Byobu in gold and green, paint on paper and wood by an unknown artist from the Meigi or Taisho peiord. The artwork is unsigned. Provenance: Private Collection Heather James Fine Art...
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19th Century Tribal Paintings

Materials

Paint

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HAPPY ANIMALS
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HAPPY ANIMALS
HAPPY ANIMALS
H 21.26 in W 21.26 in D 0.4 in
HAPPY ANIMALS
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Acrylic on canvas Shipped rolled in a tube I can do commissioned works
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HAPPY ANIMALS
HAPPY ANIMALS
H 21.26 in W 21.26 in D 0.4 in

Tribal paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Tribal 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. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Angel Rivas, Anil Vangad, Eric Gill, and Kevin Red Star. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Acrylic 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 Tribal paintings, so small editions measuring 11 inches across are also available. Prices for paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $189 and tops out at $25,000, while the average work sells for $1,085.

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