$661
H 6.5 in W 8.08 in
Brenda King Venetian Schoolchildren 1974 oil on board Naive Modern British Art
Located in London, GB
"See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the artist you want. Brenda King
Oil
Sold
H 7.68 in W 7.29 in
Brenda King Santo Spirito, Florence (1974) oil on board Naive Modern British Art
Located in London, GB
"See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the artist you want. Brenda King
Oil, Board
Sold
H 6.5 in W 8.08 in
Brenda King 'Near Henley' oil on board (1974) Modern British Art
Located in London, GB
"See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the artist you want. Brenda King
Oil, Board
Sold
H 6.5 in W 8.08 in
Brenda King, 'Berkshire Village' (1974) oil on board Naive Modern British Art
Located in London, GB
"See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the artist you want. Brenda King
Oil
$1,350Sale Price|25% Off
H 14 in W 11 in
Warhol superstar Ultra Violet & friends nude for 'After Dark' magazine
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
Warhol superstar Ultra Violet, art dealer Jason McCoy and art historian Ron Caran photographed nude for 'After Dark' magazine in 1971. This is a vintage gelatin silver print, made b...
Silver Gelatin
$9,056
H 5 in W 7 in
Evening in Paris - 20th Century Oil, Figures in Cityscape at Night - Louis Hayet
By Louis Hayet
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
A wonderful oil on canvas by Louis Hayet depicting figures in a cityscape at evening time. Signed and dated 1932 lower left. Louis Hayet had a difficult and itinerant childhood, du...
Canvas, Oil, Board
$364Sale Price|78% Off
H 16.15 in W 13 in D 0.79 in
French school Still Life Oil painting Signed
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️Still Life from J Robert⬅️ 🟢Jacques Robert (1921–1997) was a French writer, journalist, and screenwriter. Born on June 27, 1921, in Lyon, France, he began his career in journalis...
Oil, Linen, Canvas, Gesso, Stretcher Bars
$12,000
H 24 in W 36 in
My Inner Sanctum - Nude Woman Reclining On Chair w/ Cats, Original Oil Painting
By Bruno Surdo
Located in Chicago, IL
A nude female reclines on an overstuffed chair, her hand raking through her hair. Beside her sits a tabby cat, thoroughly involved in its own hygiene. Another cat in the bottom lef...
Canvas, Oil
$1,760
H 12 in W 14 in
19th century English landscape setting with cottage by a pond
By Charles Morris
Located in Woodbury, CT
19th Century English Landscape, with a cottage, pond and trees. This exquisite English Victorian 19th-century landscape by Charles Morris, circa 1890, beautifully captures the idyll...
Oil, Board
$2,500
H 14 in W 17 in D 1.25 in
"Bush Lupine" Colorful Impressionistic Spring Time Landscape Oil Painting Framed
By David Chapple
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful impressionist pastoral landscape with beautiful color tones throughout. David Chapple has portrayed this piece in a most intimate, yet energetic way, and has packed much ...
Oil, Board, Canvas
$2,173Sale Price|20% Off
H 26 in W 36 in D 3 in
Mountain Lake in Spring Oil Painting of the Scottish Highlands by British Artist
By Andrew Grant Kurtis
Located in Preston, GB
Mountain Lake in Spring Oil Painting of the Scottish Highlands by British Artist by British Artist, Andrew Grant Kurtis M.A.(Lon) B.Des.(Hons) L.S.I.A.D. Art measures 30 x 20 inche...
Canvas, Oil
$850
H 9.5 in W 8.25 in D 1 in
A Cheeky 1945 Nude Interior Scene, "En Route to VT, Hotel Room" by Harold Haydon
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming, diminutive & humorous 1945 oil painting titled "En Route to VT, Hotel Room" by notable Chicago Modern artist Harold Haydon. Haydon affectionally called these colorful, s...
Oil, Paper
$1,210Sale Price|44% Off
H 14 in W 11 in
Adult film star Cal Culver (AKA Casey Donovan) 'After Dark' Nude, Signed
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
Adult film star Cal Culver (AKA Casey Donovan) 'After Dark' magazine nude study, photographed in 1972. This is a vintage gelatin silver print, selenium toned, made by hand by master ...
Silver Gelatin
$372Sale Price|20% Off
H 14 in W 18 in D 2 in
"Once Upon a Time" Mid Century Figurative Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming mid-century naive painting of small figures and chickens in a rural landscape by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Signed with the monogram "I. M. H." on lower lef...
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
$2,500
H 33.5 in W 33.5 in D 1 in
A Large, Quirky Painting of Artist Harold Haydon Painting in a Vermont Farm Yard
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Large, Colorful Vermont Landscape Painting by Famed Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon. A wonderful quirky self portrait of the artist sketching in a field of grazing cows, loca...
Canvas, Oil
$4,865Sale Price|30% Off
H 21 in W 27 in
English 19th century Victorian Cottage Garden Harvest landscape, with flowers
By Charles James Lewis
Located in Woodbury, CT
This is a wonderful outstanding quality scene of an English cottage garden scene. The quality of the piece is amazing with a real understanding of how to make a very desirable pain...
Oil, Panel
$6,966
H 28 in Dm 41 in
View Of Southampton From The River Itchen and Southampton Water In The Distance
Located in Blackwater, GB
View Of Southampton From The River Itchen and Southampton Water In The Distance, circa 1800 by John Tobias Young (1755-1824) - rare early view of Southampton Large circa 1800 view...
Oil, Panel
$2,089
H 15.75 in W 20.48 in
Lardenne, Toulouse - Mid 20th Century South France French Naïf Oil Painting
By Jean Fous
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful mid 20th century French naïf oil on board depicting Lardenne in Toulouse, by Jean Fous. The work is signed lower right and presented in a fine swept gilt frame. Inscrib...
Oil
$2,138
H 18.9 in W 24.41 in
1957 Vintage Modernist Abstract Figurative Framed Oil Painting- Senoritas
Located in Bristol, GB
SENORITAS Size: 48 x 62 cm (including frame) Oil on Board An outstanding semi-abstract figurative oil composition, painted in 1957 by the established Swedish artist Ivar Morsing (19...
Oil, Board
$2,200
H 22 in W 31.5 in
1950's Mid Century French Modernism Abandoned Fiat Automobile Art Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Jean Porcher, French, 1927, La vieille 'Fiat abandonnée', Oil on canvas modernist painting Provenance: verso gallery label "Galerie Drouant-David St Honore Paris" Hand signed and da...
Oil
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Figurative art, as opposed to abstract art, retains features from the observable world in its representational depictions of subject matter. Most commonly, figurative paintings reference and explore the human body, but they can also include landscapes, architecture, plants and animals — all portrayed with realism.
While the oldest figurative art dates back tens of thousands of years to cave wall paintings, figurative works made from observation became especially prominent in the early Renaissance. Artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and other Renaissance masters created naturalistic representations of their subjects.
Pablo Picasso is lauded for laying the foundation for modern figurative art in the 1920s. Although abstracted, this work held a strong connection to representing people and other subjects. Other famous figurative artists include Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. Figurative art in the 20th century would span such diverse genres as Expressionism, Pop art and Surrealism.
Today, a number of figural artists — such as Sedrick Huckaby, Daisy Patton and Eileen Cooper — are making art that uses the human body as its subject.
Because figurative art represents subjects from the real world, natural colors are common in these paintings. A piece of figurative art can be an exciting starting point for setting a tone and creating a color palette in a room.
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