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.
Lake in The Rockies, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Lake in the Rockies This contemporary painting is executed in an impressionistic style and by using the pointillism technique. The landscape is inspired from a lake seen in the...
Acrylic
$716Sale Price|20% Off
Henri Matisse, Series H, Var. 9, Drawings, Themes and Variations, 1943 (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Henri Matisse (1869–1954) Title: Series H, Variation 9 (Serie H, var. 9) Year: February 27, 1943 Medium: Collotype on velin pur fil paper Paper Size: 9.62 x 12.88 inches (24....
Collotype Print
"Sailing Boat, " Pointillist Woodcut
By Ren Hui 1
Located in Chicago, IL
Entitled “Sailing Boat,” this pointillist woodcut by renowned Chinese artist Ren Hui depicts a lone sailboat at sea within a network of small notches into painted plywood. Red Hui's ...
Plywood, Acrylic
$1,059Sale Price|35% Off
Looking Up To Highgate - Late 20th Century Landscape of Park in London by Quirke
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Looking Up To Highgate Michael Quirke was born in 1946 and studied at St Martin’s School of Art, London. After moving from London, Michael became a member of the art community in St...
Canvas, Acrylic
$920Sale Price|20% Off
Whistlers Mother by Anonymous Artist Original Oil on Canvas 1924 after Whistler
Located in Soquel, CA
Whistlers Mother by Anonymous Artist Original Oil on Canvas 1924 Nicely executed painting after James McNeil Whistler of his mother by an anonymous artist (American, 19th-20th C.) I...
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Carmen Espel Vives - Mansion with Garden - Oil on Canvas
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Carmen Espel Vives - Mansion with Garden and Palm Tree - Oil on Canvas - 65 x 50 cm Oil on canvas. Signed by the artist in the lower right. Artwork: 65 × 50 cm (25.6 × 19.7 in.). O...
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Bouquet of Flowers in a Blue Vase)
Located in Surfside, FL
in this Shabby Chic painting the artist takes as his subject matter an inanimate object, a vase with flowers. The artist uses controlled brushstrokes, and emphasizes on quality over ...
Oil, Board
Snow scene by Hughes Claude Pissarro, Cantepie, Sous la Neige
Located in London, GB
Cantepie, Sous la Neige by Hughes Claude Pissarro (b. 1935) Pastel on card 51 x 37 cm (20 ¹/₈ x 14 ⁵/₈ inches) Signed lower left, H. Claude Pissarro The work comes with a certifica...
Pastel
Swedish Rural Landscape at Ängarås, Original Drawing
By Olof Thunman
Located in Stockholm, SE
Olof Thunman (1879–1944) Sweden View Over Ängarås, Gröngatan monogram signed lower right pencil on paper a landscape study recto, with a study of trees verso framed 32 × 46.5 cm (1...
Paper, Pencil
Roger Marcel Limouse, 1894 – 1989, French, Interior with Flowers - Nature Morte
By Roger Marcel Limouse
Located in Knokke, BE
Roger Marcel Limouse Collo, Algeria 1894 – 1989 Paris French Painter 'Interior with Flowers – Nature Morte' The painting "Interior with Flowers - Nature Morte," created by Roger Ma...
Canvas, Oil
Nordic Mountain Landscape with Winding River, Oil Painting 1936
Located in Stockholm, SE
Axel Haggren (1898–1968) Sweden Mountain Landscape, 1936 signed and dated lower left A. Haggren -36 oil on panel unframed 39 × 49 cm (15.4 × 19.3 in) framed 50 × 59 cm (19.7 × 23.2...
Oil, Board
$2,046
Horse stable. Horizontal, Swiss mountains, landscape painting, impressionism
Located in Oslo, NO
The painting "Horse Stable" (60x80 cm), done in oil on canvas, is a large study, painted from life in a decorative manner. The peculiarity of the work lies in its clear and transluce...
Canvas, Oil
$1,875
Summer Village Road – A. Roy, French Post-Impressionist Landscape, circa 1908
Located in Genève, GE
Signed "A-Roy" in the lower left corner. The precise identity of the artist A. Roy has not been firmly established. Summer Village Road – A. Roy, French Post-Impressionist Landscape, circa 1908 An atmospheric early 20th-century French landscape signed A. Roy, depicting a sunlit country road leading towards a small rural village. The composition is structured around the winding path that extends from the foreground towards a group of warm terracotta-roofed houses in the distance. A solitary figure walking along the road introduces a subtle human presence and emphasizes the depth of the landscape. On either side of the path, abundant vegetation, rocks and mature trees are rendered with increasingly free and expressive brushwork. Particularly striking is the large tree dominating the right side of the composition, its foliage painted through loosely applied touches of olive green, ochre and silver-grey. The warm earth tones of the road and surrounding rocks contrast beautifully with the pale blue sky and luminous clouds. The combination of naturalistic observation, broken brushwork and an emphasis on changing light reflects the influence of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist landscape painting at the beginning of the 20th century. A Roy painting, A Roy French painter, French landscape painting, French School painting, French Post-Impressionist painting, Post-Impressionist landscape, French Impressionist painting, Impressionist landscape, French countryside painting, rural village painting, village road painting, country road painting...
Canvas, Oil
Jean Emile Laurent, Oriental Pasture, Oil on Canvas, 1930s
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on Canvas by Jean Émile Laurent (1906–1983) — Shepherd Child with Two Black Goats in an Oriental Pasture. This lyrical oil on canvas by Jean Émile Laurent—undoubtedly one of the...
Canvas, Oil
Wrapped in wild grass
Located in Zofingen, AG
Wrapped in Wild Grass is a manifesto of vital force and the right to a unique blooming. The tall, vibrant clusters of fireweed, pushing through the dense weave of meadow grasses, emb...
Canvas, Acrylic
$1,148Sale Price|35% Off
Spring Dining - Mid Late 20th Century Oil of Garden Cafe by Frank Hill
By Frank Hill
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Frank Hill is a professional artist living and working in North Norfolk. He studied art at Waltham Forest School of Art and later at St Martins School of Art. Frank’s professional career included employment with various advertising agencies and commercial studios as a designer and illustrator, later becoming self-employed as a freelance illustrator working for both advertising and publishing clients. Over the course of his long career Frank has illustrated many children's and educational books, including Enid Blyton...
Oil, Board
$716Sale Price|20% Off
Henri Matisse, Series C, Var. 6, Drawings, Themes and Variations, 1943 (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Henri Matisse (1869–1954) Title: Series C, Variation 6 (Serie C, var. 6) Year: February 27, 1943 Medium: Collotype on velin pur fil paper Paper Size: 9.62 x 12.88 inches (24....
Collotype Print
$1,698
'A Town in Flanders', Post-Impressionist Oil on Canvas, Framed, 1910s
Located in London, GB
Emil Oelieden (1875-1934) 'A Town in Flanders' Oil on canvas 50 x 40 cm Signed lower left
Canvas, Oil
$1,630Sale Price|20% Off
Super 1950's French Post-Impressionist Signed Oil - Fishermen Marseille Harbour
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, mid 20th century, signed lower corner Title: Fishermen in Marseille Harbour, painted with wonderfully rich impasto oil creating a beautiful textured s...
Oil
"Frontispice pour la Lithographie en Couleurs" lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: multi-stone color lithograph (after the original Bonnard lithograph). Printed in 1952 on Renage paper at the Mourlot atelier in faithful recreation of the original. According...
Lithograph
$716Sale Price|20% Off
Henri Matisse, Series D, Var. 9, Drawings, Themes and Variations, 1943 (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Henri Matisse (1869–1954) Title: Series D, Variation 9 (Serie D, var. 9) Year: February 27, 1943 Medium: Collotype on velin pur fil paper Paper Size: 9.62 x 12.88 inches (24....
Collotype Print
Post-Impressionistic Painting From Saint Cloud, Paris, 1912 by Dick Beer
By Dick Beer
Located in Stockholm, SE
Dick Beer (b. London 1893 - d. Stockholm 1938) Saint Cloud, 1912 oil on board board dimensions 40.5 x 32.5 cm frame 51.5 x 43.5 cm signed Dick Beer painted 1912 Exhibited: The Swedish-French Art Gallery, Memorial Exhibition, Catalog nr 5, 1942 Provenance: A private collection, Sweden Dick Beer (1893-1938) Dick Beer was born in London in 1893. His father, John Beer (1853-1906), was a Swedish painter from Stockholm who had a career mainly as a watercolour painter with motifs of horses from racetracks and fox hunts from the countryside. Barely fifteen years old, Dick Beer became an orphan and came to Sweden in 1907. Already in 1908-1909, he started at Althin's painting school in Stockholm. And later, at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1910-1912. His teachers were, among others, Gustaf Cederström, Oscar Björk and Alfred Bergström...
Oil, Board
$716Sale Price|20% Off
Henri Matisse, Series D, Var. 2, Drawings, Themes and Variations, 1943 (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Henri Matisse (1869–1954) Title: Series D, Variation 2 (Serie D, var. 2) Year: February 27, 1943 Medium: Collotype on velin pur fil paper Paper Size: 9.62 x 12.88 inches (24....
Collotype Print
$716Sale Price|20% Off
Henri Matisse, Miss P.C., from Portraits by Henri Matisse, 1954 (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Henri Matisse (1869–1954) (after) Title: Miss P.C. (Mademoiselle P.C.) Year: December 20, 1954 Medium: Heliogravure on grand velin Renage filigrane a la marque de l'editeur p...
Offset
Marjorie Webb (1903-78) English oil painting Winter Sunset Mid 20th Century
Located in Cirencester, GB
ARTIST: Marjorie Webb (1903-1978) British TITLE: "Winter Sunset" SIGNED: Lower right MEDIUM: oil on canvas SIZE: 61cm x 51cm inclusive of frame CONDITION: very good NOTES: Painte...
Oil
Paraglider Over Gams. Landscape Paintings, mountains, Switzerland, Impressionism
Located in Oslo, NO
"Paraglider Over Gams" is a small sketch that I painted en plein air." said Anna Shesterikova about this artwork. "April mood, mountains, church - everything is buried in the foam of...
Oil
$1,763Sale Price|35% Off
Wapping Group of Artists by the Thames - Mid 20th Century Oil by Donald Blake
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Wapping Group of Artists by the Thames - Mid 20th Century Oil by Donald Blake Frederick Donald Blake Born in Greenock, Scotland in 1908 and died in 1997. Blake's family moved to Lon...
Canvas, Oil
$2,500
Louis GOYET. Self-portrait with a pipe, circa 1940. Oil on board. Fauvism.
Located in Paris, FR
Louis Goyet (1907-1982) Self-Portrait with Pipe Oil on cardboard H. 44.5 cm - W. 35.5 cm Unsigned Louis Goyet is another example of a working-class painter. Living in the Lyon subur...
Oil, Board
Roland Garros - 1984 Poster - Sports - Tennis - Pointillism
Located in PARIS, FR
This poster is the 5th poster to promote the 1984 French Open tennis tournament (Roland Garros tournament), now called Roland Garros, which is one of the four Grand Slam tournaments....
Paper, Lithograph
Chevaux de goumiers - Huile sur panneau d'Henri Rousseau, signé en bas à gauche
Located in Ixelles, BE
Henri Emilien Rousseau (1875-1933) Chevaux de goumiers c. 1930 Signé en bas à gauche "Henri Rousseau" Huile sur panneau 14 x 22 cm Henri Rousseau est né au Caire, en 1875. Sa famill...
Oil, Wood Panel
The Generosity of Autumn
Located in Edinburgh, GB
This charming impressionist still life by V. Smirnov captures the rich warmth of a seasonal harvest. A heavily woven wicker basket overflows with ripe red apples and branches of brig...
Oil
Flowers in the Black Vase. Floral acrylic painting, large square, gift
Located in Oslo, NO
"Flowers in the Black Vase" is an expressive floral composition made with acrylic on glued cardboard in the 60x60 cm format. The author works in a bold, almost impressive manner, cre...
Acrylic, Cardboard
$545Sale Price|20% Off
Expressive Fauvist Floral Still Life, Original Oil Painting European art
By Jordi Curos
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Fauvist Floral Still Life Original Oil Painting Artist: Jordi Curós Ventura (1930–2017) Title: Floral Still Life Date: Circa 1980 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 35 × 27 cm / 13.7...
Canvas, Oil
$527Sale Price|20% Off
French River Landscape with Seated Figure in Boat and Reflections Watercolor
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French River Landscape with Seated Figure in Boat and Reflections Watercolor Signed Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour on card, unframed Size (H x W): 9....
Watercolor
$2,174Sale Price|20% Off
20th Century French Fauvist Colorful Street Scene Figures Oil Painting Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title 20th Century French Fauvist Colorful Street Scene Figures Oil Painting Canvas Key Details Artist: French Fauvist School, 20th century Title: Figur...
Oil
$25,000
Pierre Montezin - original signed oil on canvas - Bords du Loing, Moret
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
A quiet stretch of river in summer, a screen of tall trees along the left bank throwing their reflections into still green water, a village roof or two glimpsed through the trunks, ...
Oil
Sunlit Orchard with Red Roof Farmhouses at Bellefosse Watercolour Painting
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Sunlit Orchard with Red Roof Farmhouses at Bellefosse Pierre Neveu (French, b. 1929) Signed and inscribed Bellefosse. Medium: watercolour on artist paper. Size: 10 × 24.5 inches Prov...
Watercolor, Pen
$1,322Sale Price|35% Off
Cotswolds Landscape - Mid 20th Century Impressionist Oil by William Henry Innes
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
William Henry Innes (1905-1999) Innes first exhibited his work during the Second World War while he was in the Royal Air Force. He showed extensively at the Royal Academy, New Engla...
Paper, Oil Pastel
Maurice Rétif (1887-1966).The Descent Of A Staircase, circa 1920. Oil On Canvas.
Located in Paris, FR
Maurice RETIF (Sancoins 1887 - En Calcat 1966) The Descent of a Staircase, circa 1920 Oil on canvas Signed lower right 65 × 50 cm Maurice Rétif, originally from Nevers, qu...
Canvas, Oil
Post Impressionist View of Copenhagen Stock Exchange by French artist R Derieux
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Roger Derieux (French 1922-2015) The Stock Exchange, Copenhagen Oil on paper Signed ‘Roger Derieux’ (lower right) 10.1/4 x 11.3/4 in. (26 x 30 cm.), including frame From the artist’s...
Oil, Board
$852Sale Price|29% Off
“Bowl of Fruit”
"Scene de famille" lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: pochoir (after the lithograph). Printed in Paris in 1927 at the atelier of Daniel Jacomet and published by Henri Floury. The total sheet size is 8 x 10 1/4 inches (200 x 260 ...
Lithograph, Stencil
$1,918
Altafulla, Spain - Seascape with Sailboarder, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Altafulla, Spain - Mediterranean seascape with sailboarder This painting representing a Mediterranean seascape is a tribute to the sea and to travels. Thousands of dots are composi...
Acrylic
$1,996Sale Price|20% Off
Henri Matisse, Acrobats, from Last Works of Matisse, 1958 (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Henri Matisse (1869–1954) (after) Title: Acrobats (Acrobates) Year: July 28, 1958 Medium: Lithograph on velin du Marais paper Paper Size: 14 x 10.5 inches (35.56 x 26.67 cm) ...
Lithograph
$852
Spring in Walenstadt. Mountains and house. Impressionism. Landscape Paintings
Located in Oslo, NO
"I painted this sketch outdoors in April 2024 in the Swiss town of Walenstadt." said Anna Shesterikova to this painting. "It was a clear, sunny day. The awakened nature has spread br...
Oil
$716Sale Price|20% Off
Henri Matisse, Series C, Var. 3, Drawings, Themes and Variations, 1943 (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Henri Matisse (1869–1954) Title: Series C, Variation 3 (Serie C, var. 3) Year: February 27, 1943 Medium: Collotype on velin pur fil paper Paper Size: 9.62 x 12.88 inches (24....
Collotype Print
$8,400Sale Price|20% Off
Henri Matisse, Frontispiece, from Drawings, Themes and Variations, 1943
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Henri Matisse (1869–1954) Title: Frontispiece (Frontispice) Year: February 27, 1943 Medium: Linocut on velin pur fil paper Paper Size: 12.88 x 9.62 inches overall; 8.5 x 5.8 ...
Linocut
$2,337Sale Price|20% Off
Mid Century French Post-Impressionist Signed Oil Apples on Green Table Interior
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, mid century, signed Habnot? Title: Beautiful interior scene with apples on the most lovely green tablecloth, thickly p...
Oil
Premonition
Located in Zofingen, AG
The work explores inner silence and the state of being alone with one’s thoughts. The two birds covering the woman’s eyes symbolize inner emotions, intuition, and things that cannot ...
Canvas, Acrylic
$3,819Sale Price|30% Off
Sunset Over the Lake, 1919 by Swedish Artist Carl Kjellin (1862-1939)
Located in Stockholm, SE
"Sunset Over the Lake" by Carl Kjellin is a Nordic Light painting capturing the ephemeral beauty of a lake at sunset. The vibrant canvas, dominated by a b...
Canvas, Oil
$1,500
'14 Years (Orange Lilies)' - still life - floral, orange, impressionism
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting features vibrant hues of orange and green. Chattanooga-based artist Christina Renfer Vogel’s “Turning Towards the Sun” features paintings that reflect an intentional turn towards beauty in the face of the tension & uncertainty of recent years. Through nourishing periods of focused observation, she has allowed herself to delight in jubilant color, playful pattern & sensual gesture. Her works delight in the delicate unfurling of a tender leaf & the gentle turn towards an open window, as flowers seek warmth & stretch towards sunlight in the space of a painting session. “Bringing plants...
Oil, Canvas
Lady in a Castle Interior, Oil on Canvas, French Post-Impressionist, Framed
Located in PARIS, FR
Conditions : Good overall Conditions. Provenance: Bonhams sale, MA. US Oil on canvas framed, signed René Lelong on the lower right part. Complementary shipping worlwide by DHL, FEDEX...
Oil
Escher-Inspired Mobius Strip II by Zadora-Gerlof
Located in New Orleans, LA
Crafted by the famed jeweler and sculptor Andreas von Zadora-Gerlof, this compelling stainless steel and polymer sculpture brings to life the work of the gr...
Copper, Stainless Steel
Celso Lagar, Pavillon de Cirque
By Celso Lagar
Located in Madrid, ES
CELSO LAGAR Spanish, 1891 - 1966 PAVILLON DE CIRQUE signed "Lagar" (lower right) oil on canvas 15 x 18 inches (38 x 46 cm.) framed: 21-1/2 x 24-1/2 inches (54 x 62 cm.) NOTE: THIS W...
Oil, Canvas
Louis Goyet (1907-1982). Composition on a Tablecloth.Oil on cardboard.
Located in Paris, FR
Louis Goyet (1907-1982) Composition on a Tablecloth Oil on cardboard H. 55 cm - W. 44 cm Unsigned Louis Goyet is another example of a working-class painter. Living in the Lyon subur...
Oil, Board
$13,514
A Sussex Farm - Fauvist Landscape Oil Painting by Robert Polhill Bevan
By Robert Polhill Bevan
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Fauvist oil on board landscape circa 1905 by British painter Robert Polhill Bevan. The piece depicts a view of farm in Sussex. The red-roofed farmhouses are nestled between lush gree...
Board, Oil
$716Sale Price|20% Off
Henri Matisse, Series L, Var. 12, Drawings, Themes and Variations, 1943 (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Henri Matisse (1869–1954) Title: Series L, Variation 12 (Serie L, var. 12) Year: February 27, 1943 Medium: Collotype on velin pur fil paper Paper Size: 9.62 x 12.88 inches (2...
Collotype Print
$24,087
Pourquoi partir? - Post Impressionist Still Life Landscape Oil by Marcel Dyf
By Marcel Dyf
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas still life in landscape circa 1980 by sought after French post impressionist painter Marcel Dyf. The work depicts a view of a harbour from beyond the open green ...
Canvas, Oil
$1,477Sale Price|27% Off
Mediterranean Garden with Woman, Colorful Spanish Figurative Oil Painting
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Mediterranean Garden with Woman, Colorful Spanish Figurative Oil Painting José Antonio Pineda Bueno (Motril, Spain, 1950) Title: Luz en el jardín Medium: Oil on canvas Painting size...
Oil
$716Sale Price|20% Off
Henri Matisse, Series L, Var. 13, Drawings, Themes and Variations, 1943 (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Henri Matisse (1869–1954) Title: Series L, Variation 13 (Serie L, var. 13) Year: February 27, 1943 Medium: Collotype on velin pur fil paper Paper Size: 9.62 x 12.88 inches (2...
Collotype Print