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Art Subject: Portrait
"Le Gilet Bleu” The Blue Jacket
"Le Gilet Bleu” The Blue Jacket

"Le Gilet Bleu” The Blue Jacket

By René Genis

Located in Berlin, MD

Rene Genis (French 1922-2004) "Le Gilet Bleu” The Blue Jacket. Portrait of a young man in a blue jacket/sweater with an insignia on the breast and a blue ...

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Mid-20th Century Abstract Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Laid Paper

"Decisions", Original Oil painting by Kelly Birkenruth of Young Man
"Decisions", Original Oil painting by Kelly Birkenruth of Young Man

"Decisions", Original Oil painting by Kelly Birkenruth of Young Man

By Kelly Birkenruth

Located in Denver, CO

Kelly Birkenruth's "Decisions" (2023) is an original oil painting on panel, measuring 14 x 11 x 2 inches. This striking piece portrays a young man in deep contemplation, with his head resting on his hand. The background features a pattern of dark circles, adding a modern touch to the classical pose. Birkenruth's exceptional skill in rendering the male form and capturing the subtle nuances of light and shadow is evident in this work. The painting is framed, with overall dimensions of 17 x 14 inches, enhancing its presentation. Known for her emotional depth and technical prowess, Birkenruth's "Decisions" is a compelling addition to any art collection. Kelly Birkenruth’s captivating paintings are in the style of contemporary realism while staying firmly grounded in the tradition of the Old Masters. She is able to pull the viewer into her paintings by interweaving emotion with a humanistic quality through her supreme handling of light. Through her portraits and still lifes she is able to evoke sensitivity and empathy, which in turn allows her to create images which transcend mere representation to capture the true essence of her subject. Kelly’s arresting compositions, draftsmanship, use of color and observation of detail allow her to create paintings with a timeless quality. After earning her degree from Pennsylvania State University, Kelly moved...

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21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Cloud

Cloud

By William Wegman

Located in New York, NY

William Wegman is a renowned photographer famous for his unique and artistic photographs of Weimaraner puppies. His approach to is far from conventional, avoiding the typical "cuddly...

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Pigment

Keeping Records, Oil Painting
Keeping Records, Oil Painting

Keeping Records, Oil Painting

By Eric Vanasse

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A girl stands on a grassy mountain slope, sketching a skull in black and white on her easel. In front of her, a large elephant passes by, while snow-covered pea...

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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

Jimi Hendrix classic color by Gered Mankowitz

Jimi Hendrix classic color by Gered Mankowitz

By Gered Mankowitz

Located in Austin, TX

Jimi Hendrix “Classic Color” 1967 by Gered Mankovitz Available is the following sizes, signed and numbered by Gered Mankowitz. 16x20” - Edition 50 20x24" - Edition 50 30x40” - Edit...

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Late 20th Century Photorealist Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Barnum and Bailey Circus Lithograph, Late 20th Century, Unframed

Barnum and Bailey Circus Lithograph, Late 20th Century, Unframed

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Paper Size: 56 x 41 inches ( 142.24 x 104.14 cm ) Image Size: 56 x 41 inches ( 142.24 x 104.14 cm ) Framed: No Condition: C: Several Signs of use and handling, some visible marks Sup...

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Late 20th Century Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

BABY- Black and white photography Italy 1970s
BABY- Black and white photography Italy 1970s

BABY- Black and white photography Italy 1970s

Located in Napoli, IT

Beautiful b/w photo depicting a little Peruvian girl

Category

1970s Photorealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

"Cocktail Dress" by John Chillingworth

"Cocktail Dress" by John Chillingworth

Located in London, GB

"Cocktail Dress" by John Chillingworth 4th September 1954: A cocktail dress and waist length fitted jacket in cream satin made by Jacques Fath. Original Publication: Picture Post - ...

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1950s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Black and White

A Study in Contrast - Contemporary Oil Portrait on Wood Panel
A Study in Contrast - Contemporary Oil Portrait on Wood Panel

A Study in Contrast - Contemporary Oil Portrait on Wood Panel

By Tim Okamura

Located in Bloomfield, ON

This contemporary oil painting portrait is by Canadian Artist Tim Okamura. Tim Okamura was drawn to using oil paints from an early age. He believes that the richness of oil comes cl...

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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Fine Antique French Signed Oil Painting - Portrait of a Lady with Grey Hair
Fine Antique French Signed Oil Painting - Portrait of a Lady with Grey Hair

Fine Antique French Signed Oil Painting - Portrait of a Lady with Grey Hair

By Antique French

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Artist/ School: French School, signed and dated 1904 Title: Portrait of an elderly lady Medium: oil on canvas, unframed Canvas : 24 x 20 inches Provenance: private collection, ...

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Early 20th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Framed Mid 20th Century Oil - Lady Knitting
Framed Mid 20th Century Oil - Lady Knitting

Framed Mid 20th Century Oil - Lady Knitting

Located in Corsham, GB

This intimate portrait depicts a figure dressed in dark lace clothing; the lady's hands are engaged in needlework or knitting. The artist employs thick, expressive brushwork and a so...

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20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Holbein Hand-colored Portrait of Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury for Henry VIII
Holbein Hand-colored Portrait of Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury for Henry VIII

Holbein Hand-colored Portrait of Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury for Henry VIII

By (After) Hans Holbein The Younger

Located in Alamo, CA

This framed hand colored stipple engraving and etching portrait of William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury under King Henry VII and his son King Henry VIII was created by Francesco Bartolozzi (1728–1815) after a drawing and a painting by Hans Holbein (1497-1543), who was Henry VIII's court painter. The print was published in London by John Chamberlaine in 1795. The print was created utilizing stipple engraving and etching techniques by the Italian artist Francesco Bartolozzi, who was employed as the royal engraver by King George III of England. The publisher, John Chamberlaine, was Keeper of the King's Drawings and Medals. The inscription beneath the portrait reads" "In His Majesty's Collection", "Engraved by F. Bartolozzi R A Historical Engraver to His Majesty'' in the lower right, and ''From an original drawing by Hans Holbien'' in the lower left. The original painting by Holbein is displayed at Lambeth Castle and the original drawing is in the art collection at Windsor Castle. The engraving is held by many museums, including: The British Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Portrait Gallery, The Chicago Art Institute and The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. This portrait depicts Archbishop William Warham facing to his right, wearing a black cap covering his ears and fur trimmed clerical robes. The print is presented in a decorative gold-colored wood frame with a blue-grey fabric mat. The frame measures 26.5" x 20.13" x 1". The print is in excellent condition. William Warham (1450-1532) was the last of the pre-Reformation archbishops of Canterbury, serving under King Henry VII and then under King Henry VIII. He was a quiet, unassuming intellectual whose career ended with a strong and brave stance against the divorce of King Henry VIII and the king's resultant withdrawal of England from the Catholic church and his draconian actions against the clergy. As Lord Chancellor...

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Late 18th Century Portrait Prints

Materials

Engraving, Etching

Emile Charles H. Lecomte-Vernet (1821-1900) - Fine 1860 Oil, A Refined Gentleman
Emile Charles H. Lecomte-Vernet (1821-1900) - Fine 1860 Oil, A Refined Gentleman

Emile Charles H. Lecomte-Vernet (1821-1900) - Fine 1860 Oil, A Refined Gentleman

Located in Corsham, GB

A fine mid-19th century portrait by the accomplished artist Émile Charles H. Lecomte-Vernet (1821-1900), portraying a refined gentleman dressed in a formal coat adorned with a subtle...

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Mid-19th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

Located in Palm Desert, CA

A photograph by Lawrence Schiller. ""Marilyn Monroe"" is a nude, figurative vintage silver gelatin photograph in black and white by American Post-War artist Lawrence Schiller. Lawrence Schiller only remembers the 60s in this way: Fast. As in: Blur. Which is, for those who lived through it, as accurate a description as one is likely to find about the decade that began with optimism and ended in chaos. It was ten years of turmoil and exploration. And through this turbulent and tumultuous decade, it often seemed that whenever a headline-making news event occurred, Lawrence Schiller was there. Schiller was not just lucky to be in the right place at the right time; he was prescient. He was there to cover the event, to add to it, to help us see it, to aid its meaning and its depth. ""It was a time in which things happened awfully fast,"" Schiller says of the decade. ""It was a wild, wild period; an uncontrolled period. I don’t think you had any sense of perspective in the 60s. You had to wait and look back at it, because it was a period in which things were happening that had no rhyme or reason to it. But by the end of the ‘60s I had covered so many stories, had so many magazine covers, I had somehow become part of that decade’s history. And I already had my eye on the future."" When Lawrence Schiller got the assignment from the French magazine, Paris Match to photograph Marilyn Monroe on the 20th Century Fox set of Something’s Got to Give, he thought nothing of it. It wasn’t to be a private, studio shoot. He wasn’t going to set up lights, create backgrounds, or use a tripod. Just another assignment, he figured. Monroe by then was firmly established as a figment in the imagination of most young men. The orphan Norma Jean had recreated herself as the blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe. She’d appeared in twenty-nine films by the time Schiller photographed her in black and white and color in May, 1962. The world was unprepared for the moment when Marilyn jumped in the swimming pool in a flesh-colored bikini and came up out of the water au natural. She was all smiles and in her element: the sex goddess...

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Mid-20th Century Post-War Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Playmates, Portrait of Girls and a Kitten
Playmates, Portrait of Girls and a Kitten

Playmates, Portrait of Girls and a Kitten

By Emile Vernon

Located in Grand Rapids, MI

Emile Vernon (French, 1872 - 1919) Signed: E. Vernon Paris 1914 " Playmates ", Paris, 1914 (Three Girls with Kitten) Oil on Canvas 21 3/8" x 25 5/8" Housed in a 3 1/2" Ornamente...

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Early 20th Century Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Greta Garbo - Black and White Photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1930
Greta Garbo - Black and White Photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1930

Greta Garbo - Black and White Photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1930

By Clarence Sinclair Bull

Located in Soquel, CA

Greta Garbo - Black and White Photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1930 1930 Black and white portrait photograph of Swedish/American actress Greta Garbo (Swedish, 1905-1990) by Clarence Sinclair Bull (American, 1896-1979). Greta Garbo poses in a top hat and collard shirt while gazing away from the camera. Printed by the artist circa 1970's. A black and white photograph, matte finish, double-weight paper, depicting a 1931 shot of the star titled 'Mata Hari,' printed decades later from the original negative, pencilled in the lower left corner "A.P.," Estate stamped and blind embossed in the lower right corner "Clarence Sinclair Bull," further blind embossed in same corner "The Kobal / Collection," verso with the photographer's black ink credit stamp, verso further with two "Edward Weston" black ink credit stamps dated "1981" and "1992," originally from the John Kobal Collection. Greta Garbo was a Swedish-American actress. Regarded as one of the greatest screen actresses of all time, she was known for her melancholic, somber persona, her film portrayals of tragic characters, and her subtle and understated performances. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on its list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema. Clarence Sinclair Bull was born in Sun River, Montana, in 1896. His career began when Samuel Goldwyn hired him in 1920 to photograph publicity stills of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio's stars. He is most famous for his photographs of Greta Garbo, taken between 1926 and 1941. Bull's first portrait of Garbo was a costume study for the silent romantic drama film Flesh and the Devil in September 1926. Bull was able to study with the great Western painter...

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1930s Photorealist Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

INTI Chilean Street Artist Fine Art Print Polvo de Estrellas produced Marinoni
INTI Chilean Street Artist Fine Art Print Polvo de Estrellas produced Marinoni

INTI Chilean Street Artist Fine Art Print Polvo de Estrellas produced Marinoni

By INTI Castro

Located in Draper, UT

Introducing "Polvo de Estrellas" by renowned Chilean artist Inti. This exquisite art print is a true masterpiece, limited to only 100 editions. Created with an 18-color lithograph, this print was produced at a historic print...

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2010s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Screen

Contaminating the Innocent - Young Girl Swimming Surrounded by Plastic Waste
Contaminating the Innocent - Young Girl Swimming Surrounded by Plastic Waste

Contaminating the Innocent - Young Girl Swimming Surrounded by Plastic Waste

By Bruno Surdo

Located in Chicago, IL

This painting reflects Bruno Surdo’s continued engagement with classical realism as a vehicle for contemporary allegory. A young girl, centered and frontal, sits in an inflatable ring surrounded by floating plastic waste—bottles, containers, straws—both above and beneath the water’s surface. The composition is calm, almost symmetrical, yet emotionally unsettling. Surdo’s atelier-based training is evident in the careful modeling of the child’s anatomy, the naturalistic rendering of skin tones, and the controlled atmospheric perspective. The figure is painted with the same dignity and structural clarity found in Renaissance portraiture, elevating what could be a simple environmental image into a modern history painting. Art historically, the work draws from the tradition of allegorical portraiture, where innocence is personified to communicate moral themes. The child recalls Renaissance depictions of putti or symbolic youth figures, yet here innocence is placed in peril. The floating debris creates a contemporary vanitas motif: instead of skulls and extinguished candles, the symbols of decay are plastic and petroleum byproducts—markers of environmental neglect. The waterline dividing the composition subtly recalls the layered moral narratives of Baroque painting, where surface beauty often concealed deeper truths. The title, Contaminating the Innocent, underscores this allegorical intent, transforming the image into a meditation on generational responsibility. Within Surdo’s broader oeuvre—often concerned with spectacle, identity, and human consequence—this painting shifts toward ecological consciousness. Yet it remains consistent with his practice of grounding urgent modern themes in the visual authority of classical technique. By presenting environmental degradation through the lens of Renaissance-informed realism, Surdo avoids didactic illustration and instead creates a quiet, haunting indictment. The stillness of the child’s gaze contrasts with the chaos of the polluted water, reinforcing the central tension: the vulnerability of innocence in a world shaped by adult action. Bruno Surdo Contaminating the Innocent oil on canvas 48h x 48w in 121.92h x 121.92w cm BRS072 Bruno A. Surdo b. Chicago, 1963 EXHIBITIONS 2020 Realities, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2018 Liberation, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Blood Sport, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Art on Paper 2018, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Pier 36, New York, NY SOFA Chicago 2018, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL 2017 POP!ARAZZI, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Coming Attractions, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2015 SOFA Chicago 2015, Ann Nathan Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL Bruno Surdo: Allegories, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2014 Bruno Surdo: Respond, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Modern Metaphors, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL 2013 Bruno Surdo: Revelations, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Vice + Virtue, Northern Illinois University Museum of Art 2012 Contemporary Realism Biennial, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN 2011 Bruno Surdo, University of St. Francis School of Creative Arts, Fort Wayne, IN Uncensored, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010 Art Chicago 2010, Ann Nathan Gallery, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 2009 Art Chicago 2009, Ann Nathan Gallery, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 2007 Bruno Surdo, Art Institute of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 2006 Context/Content: Making Meaning with the Figure, University of Arkansas, Conway, AR Creative Imaginings, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL Bruno Surdo: Cycles, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2005 Art Chicago 2005, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Richard M. Daley Center, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 2004, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Group Show, Arcadia Gallery, New York, NY Drawings VII, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA Armory Show, New York Armory, New York, NY 2003 Paintings & Drawings, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL The Art Show, New York, NY Bruno Surdo: New Work, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 2003, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2003-10 International Show of Contemporary Artists, Chicago Art Open, Chicago, IL 2002 Bruno Surdo: Perception of Appearance, Frye Museum, Seattle, WA Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Richard M. Daley Center, Chicago, IL Bruno Surdo: Transcendence, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 2002, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2001 Magic Vision, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR 1998 Evanston and Vicinity Artists, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 1996 Bruno Surdo: A Personal View, University of Wisconsin, Kenosha, WI 1995 Bruno Surdo: Recent Works, College of Lake County, IL AIDS in Our Society, Loyola University, Chicago, IL Bruno Surdo: Life, Struggle, and Hope, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL 2001 Magic Vision, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR Bruno Surdo: Dualities of Life, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 1999 Group Show, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 1998 Group Exhibition, Fine Arts Building Gallery, Chicago, IL 1995 Spiritual Inquiries, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL 1994 Recent Works, The 14th Annual Juried Exhibition for Lake County Artists, Grayslake, IL Go Figure, Figurative Works on Paper, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago, IL SELECTED COLLECTIONS The Re-Birth of Venus, Temporary Loan, Fort Wayne Museum of Art Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR College of Lake County, Greyslake, IL Flashpoint Academy, Chicago IL John Robert Wiltgen Design Shoemaker Ruud Collection Julie & Thomas Danilek Michael Vozzella and Mike Silver Benjamin Fernandez Tom Braake Betsy Colburn Michael Diemand & Lor LaRose Michael Staab & Kathy Brock Bruce Leep Frank Tzurect Mary Foley Rosalyn Carlson Mimmy Turney Janet Long Halstead Billy Hunt Carol Galli Myles Kerrigan Honorable & Mrs. Edwin Berman Theodore Gage Northrop Art Museum Past Present & Future Company Dr. James & Peggy Kemmler Salvatore Monastero Nix & Virginia Lauridsen Joel Miller David & Marlene Zerkel Ann & Andy Abel Claudia Rush Marc Miller Leonard Goldberg Lawrence Pucci Howard Tullman Collection Susan & Manny Kramer James Rinnert Richar Interiors Michael & Nancy Colt Khalid Altijir Dr. Joe Grodman Beryl & Jack Gore Larry Wolf & Eric Naegle Chuck Wolandi Jack Schwab & David Sandelin Thomas Kaczmarek Marti Dinerstein Craig & Michael Golden...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Immortelle - 21st Century, Contemporary portrait, Mixed media, Africa
Immortelle - 21st Century, Contemporary portrait, Mixed media, Africa

Immortelle - 21st Century, Contemporary portrait, Mixed media, Africa

By Modou Guèye

Located in Barcelona, Catalonia

In “Immortelle”, the juxtaposition of purple and green panels commands attention, enhancing the rich depth of the subject’s dark skin. The figure, adorned in a red plaid garment, exu...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Greta Garbo "Her Rise And Fall #2" - 1931 Photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull
Greta Garbo "Her Rise And Fall #2" - 1931 Photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull

Greta Garbo "Her Rise And Fall #2" - 1931 Photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull

By Clarence Sinclair Bull

Located in Soquel, CA

Greta Garbo "Her Rise And Fall #2" - 1931 Photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull A black and white photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull (American, 1896-1979), matte finish, double-weight paper, depicting a 1931 shot of Swedish/American actress Greta Garbo (Swedish, 1905-1990) on the set of the film Susan Lenox (Her Fall And Rise) directed by Robert Z. Leonard. Greta Garbo poses in a hat, her hand resting on her face, while gazing into the camera. Printed decades later from the original negative, penciled in the lower left corner "A.P.," Estate stamped and blind embossed in the lower right corner "Clarence Sinclair Bull," further blind embossed in same corner "The Kobal / Collection," on verso with the photographer's black ink credit stamp and with "Edward Weston" black ink credit stamps dated "1981" and "1992," originally from the John Kobal Collection. Greta Garbo was a Swedish-American actress. Regarded as one of the greatest screen actresses of all time, she was known for her melancholic, somber persona, her film portrayals of tragic characters, and her subtle and understated performances. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on its list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema. Clarence Sinclair Bull was born in Sun River, Montana, in 1896. His career began when Samuel Goldwyn hired him in 1920 to photograph publicity stills of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio's stars. He is most famous for his photographs of Greta Garbo, taken between 1926 and 1941. Bull's first portrait of Garbo was a costume study for the silent romantic drama film Flesh and the Devil in September 1926. Bull was able to study with the great Western painter...

Category

1930s Photorealist Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Soldier - Lithograph - 19th Century
Soldier - Lithograph - 19th Century

Soldier - Lithograph - 19th Century

Located in Roma, IT

Soldier is an original hand-colored Lithograf realized by an Anonymous artist of the XIX century. In good condition except for a rip on the lower margin that doesn't affect the imag...

Category

19th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Dreamer
Dreamer

Dreamer

Located in Stratford-Upon-Avon, GB

Graeme Wilcox (British born.) Dreamer Medium: Oil on canvas Unframed size: 27.5 x 23.75 inches Framed size: 34 x 30 inches Signature: Signed (on the reverse) Provenance: Direct fro...

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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Erasmus of Rotterdam Portrait, 19th Century Oil on Wood Panel
Erasmus of Rotterdam Portrait, 19th Century Oil on Wood Panel

Erasmus of Rotterdam Portrait, 19th Century Oil on Wood Panel

By English School

Located in GB

Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98 – 1543) was one of the greatest painters of the Northern Renaissance. Born in Augsburg, Germany, he was the son of Hans Holbein the Elder, also a pa...

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19th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

"Looking Back, " Oil Painting
"Looking Back, " Oil Painting

"Looking Back, " Oil Painting

By Ryan Morse

Located in Denver, CO

Ryan Morse's "Looking Back" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts the back of a nude female figure as she looks over her shoulder to the viewer and her long brown hair c...

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2010s Impressionist Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Rendille Moran at Nyiru by John Kenny.  26.5 x 18" portrait with Acrylic Mount

Rendille Moran at Nyiru by John Kenny. 26.5 x 18" portrait with Acrylic Mount

Located in Coltishall, GB

I met this stunning Rendille moran (warrior) in the shade of trees near the base of Mount Nyiru. Spring waters, flowing from the huge mountain plateau above, ensure year-round greenery in this area of great aridity. The morans of both the Rendille and the Samburu wear beautifully ornate necklaces. Each design is specific to warriors within a clan and to a time in history (the ‘age-set’ that a young man enters after circumcision). The necklace thus identities his group and places him in the chronology of his tribe. A tribal elder can look at a warrior’s necklace...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Octopus Tattoo

Octopus Tattoo

By Wes Hempel

Located in Fairfield, CT

A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict or legitimate only certain kinds of experience. Despite the good intentions of critical theorists questioning the validity of the canon, paintings of the old masters on the walls of museums like the Met, the Louvre, Rijks museum still have a certain cache. They're revered not just for their technique but because they enshrine our collective past experience. Of course, it's a selected past that gets validated. Conspicuously absent to me as a gay man...

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2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique Hand Colored Print of Chinese Life
Antique Hand Colored Print of Chinese Life

Antique Hand Colored Print of Chinese Life

Located in Rochester, NY

Early 19th century hand colored engraving of Chinese life. Original print from "The punishments of China" illustrated by twenty-two engravings by Mason, George Henry; Dadley, J. P. P...

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Late 18th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper

I Wonder

I Wonder

By Molly McCall

Located in Sante Fe, NM

Molly’s current photographic work explores themes of memory, the passage of time, a sense of place, and the natural world, using both painting and photography. Her unique silver gela...

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Original 1943 German wartime poster - Oberfeldwebel Steinbatz
Original 1943 German wartime poster - Oberfeldwebel Steinbatz

Original 1943 German wartime poster - Oberfeldwebel Steinbatz

Located in PARIS, FR

This original 1943 German wartime poster, published in the Kunstblatt für die Zeit, depicts Oberfeldwebel Friedrich Steinbatz, a highly decorated Luftwaffe pilot during World War II....

Category

1940s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

"Luminous, " Oil Painting
"Luminous, " Oil Painting

"Luminous, " Oil Painting

By Sara Scribner

Located in Denver, CO

Sara Scribner's (US based) "Luminous" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a realistic portrait of a feminine form in a white dress with delicate white butterflies drawing near her in the darkness. About the Artist: Sara Scribner (B. 1982 Fremont, California) is a figurative painter living in Oklahoma. She earned a BFA in painting from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She has exhibited in museums and galleries across the US and in Europe, including European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM) museum in Barcelona, Spain, Wausau Museum of Art in Wausau, WI, Wally Workman Gallery...

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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Kate Bush Lionheart album back cover

Kate Bush Lionheart album back cover

By Gered Mankowitz

Located in Austin, TX

Portrait of singer and dancer, Kate Bush by acclaimed photographer, Gered Mankowitz, taken in his London studio in 1978 for the back cover of her album, Lionheart. Gered recalls, "The cover series of portraits that I shot for Lionheart in August 1978. I art directed the album cover and my assistant at the time, Richard Grey...

Category

Late 20th Century Photorealist Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print