$2,800
British Modernist Portrait of Chaim Weizmann President of Israel Oil Painting
By Alfred Aaron Wolmark
Located in Surfside, FL
This group includes painters David Bomberg, Mark Gertler and Jacob Kramer, as well as (by association) the sculptor Jacob Epstein, First World War poet-painter, Isaac Rosenberg, and ...
Canvas, Oil
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H 24.02 in W 22.84 in
Clare Winsten (1894-1989) - British Oil, Self Portrait after Isaac Rosenberg
By Clare Winsten (Clara Birnberg)
Located in Corsham, GB
A post-war British self portrait by the London Whitechapel artist Clare Winsten. This interesting portrait is a fantastic example of Clare Winsten's work and is painted to resemble t...
Oil
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H 20.08 in W 14.18 in
Clare Winsten (1894-1989) - Mid 20th Century Oil, Reading In Lamp Light
By Clare Winsten (Clara Birnberg)
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. Acquired with another signed piece by the same hand, from the same studio. On canvas.
Oil
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H 23.23 in W 17.33 in
Clare Winsten (1894-1989) - English School Mid 20th Century Oil, Man in Profile
By Clare Winsten (Clara Birnberg)
Located in Corsham, GB
A dynamic portrait study of a young man in profile, captured in gestural brushstrokes and a rich palette. Unsigned. Presented in a gilt frame. On canvas.
Oil
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H 20 in W 16 in
British Modernist Portrait of Chaim Weizmann President of Israel Oil Painting
By Alfred Aaron Wolmark
Located in Surfside, FL
This group includes painters David Bomberg, Mark Gertler and Jacob Kramer, as well as (by association) the sculptor Jacob Epstein, First World War poet-painter, Isaac Rosenberg, and ...
Canvas, Oil
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H 20 in W 16 in
British Modernist Portrait of Chaim Weizmann President of Israel Oil Painting
By Alfred Aaron Wolmark
Located in Surfside, FL
This group includes painters David Bomberg, Mark Gertler and Jacob Kramer, as well as (by association) the sculptor Jacob Epstein, First World War poet-painter, Isaac Rosenberg, and ...
Canvas, Oil
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H 27.76 in W 19.69 in
Clare Winsten (1894-1989) - Signed 1961 English Oil, Portrait of Lady With Fruit
By Clare Winsten (Clara Birnberg)
Located in Corsham, GB
A mid 20th century British self portrait by the London Whitechapel artist Clare Winsten. This interesting portrait is a fantastic example of Clare Winsten's work, titled 'Trattoria',...
Canvas, Oil
"Portrait of Millen Brand"
By Nahum Tschacbasov
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a museum exhibited oil on canvas work by the Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed lower left and dated 1975. The border of this painting...
Oil, Canvas
$1,947
H 28.75 in W 23.63 in
René Mels (1909-1977) Portrait of a young man, oil on canvas signed
Located in Paris, FR
René Mels (1909-1977) Portrait of a young man, signed lower right oil on canvas 73 x 60 cm Framed : 77.5 x 64.5 This impressive portrait is obviously touching and striking for it...
Oil
$1,500Sale Price|40% Off
H 22 in W 30 in D 0.75 in
Mid-Century Modern Man - Portrait in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Subtle and moody portrait of a Pensive man by Joan Tidwell (American, 1930-2002). The sitter in the portrait is a middle-aged man looking slightly downwards, wearing a collared shirt...
Canvas, Oil
Israeli Judaica Rabbi Expressionist Gouachel Painting
By Adolf Adler
Located in Surfside, FL
size includes frame Adolf Adler 1917 - 1996 Adolf Adi Adler was born in Romania in 1917. Attended the Art College of Kluj Romania in 1950. (in Satu Mare, original home city of the Sa...
Paper, Gouache
Self Portrait, 20th Century Jewish Artist Oil Painting
By Carl Felkel
Located in London, GB
Oil on board, signed bottom right Image size: 13 1/2 x 17 inches (34.25 x 43 cm) Contemporary frame The Artist Painter Carl Friedrich Felkel was born in 1896, in Stockerau, near V...
Oil, Board
$1,850
H 28 in W 25 in D 3 in
Vintage modernist portrait painting of Handsome Man - listed artist Arbit Blatas
By Arbit Blatas
Located in Baltimore, MD
This colorful portrait of a young man is by well listed and collected Arbit Blatas. Painted just after the Second World War, there is a fresh modernist approach to the style. His he...
Oil
$2,376Sale Price|20% Off
H 31 in W 27 in D 2 in
Portrait of George Hopkinson - British 20's male oil painting Russian Jewish art
By Jacob Kramer
Located in Hagley, England
This superb portrait oil painting is by noted Russian Jewish artist Jacob Kramer. The sitter is a friend of the artist, George Hopkinson, proud Yorkshireman and textile businessman w...
Oil
$210Sale Price|20% Off
H 19 in W 16 in D 0.1 in
HENRI MILOCH (1898-1979) SIGNED 1930'S OIL PAINTING - PORTRAIT OF A DAPPER GENT
By Henri Miloch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Man by Henri Miloch (1898-1979) signed and dated lower left 1934 oil painting on unstretched canvas, unframed canvas: 19 x 16 inches Very decorative 1930's oil painti...
Oil
$4,317Sale Price|20% Off
H 23 in W 19 in D 2 in
Portrait Head and Shoulders of a Man - Jewish 20s art male portrait oil painting
By Jacob Kramer
Located in Hagley, England
Jacob Kramer is a Jewish artist who migrated with his family to Leeds to escape the Russian pogroms when Kramer was only eight. This portrait oil painting was painted when Kramer was...
Oil
$318Sale Price|20% Off
H 18 in W 15 in D 1 in
AKOS BIRO (HUNGARIAN 1911-2002) EXPRESSIONIST SIGNED OIL - MALE PORTRAIT
By Akos Biro
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Portrait of a Man" by Akos Biro (Hungarian 1911-2002) signed verso, oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 18 x 15 inches provenance: the artists estate, France Original oil pa...
Oil
$1,012Sale Price|25% Off
H 29.25 in W 23 in D 0.75 in
Mid Century Modern Portrait of a Man in a Suit in Oil on Masonite
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Modern Portrait of a Man in a Suit in Oil on Masonite Mid Century Modern portrait of an older man by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). This portrait is made of layers o...
Oil, Masonite
$1,377Sale Price|20% Off
H 26.38 in W 20.48 in D 3.94 in
Portrait of a Man, Oil on Canvas, Signed by the Author, circa 1937
Located in Opole, PL
An oil painting on canvas with the half-length portrayal of a man. The painting is signed by the pre-war painter of Lviv, Adam Krotochwila. This fine piece of art is in very good...
Canvas
$4,000
H 13 in W 10 in
"Figure Study" Aaron Shikler, American Portrait, Mid-Century, Elegant Gentleman
By Aaron Shikler
Located in New York, NY
Aaron Shikler Figure Study, 1957 Signed and dated lower left Oil on board 9 x 6 inches Aaron Shikler (1922–2015) was a distinguished American portrait painter best known for his un...
Oil, Board
$2,200
H 20.5 in W 6.5 in
Rare Oil Painting Arab Man Bezalel School Jerusalem 1913, Judaica
By Isaac Lichtenstein 1
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
$1,400
H 10.5 in W 8.5 in
Rare Self Portrait Oil Painting Polish, Ecole D'Paris, WPA, Bezalel School
By Jacques (Jakub) Zucker
Located in Surfside, FL
Signed self portrait. Jacques Zucker was born in 1900 in Radom, Poland. He was a notably famous Jewish American artist mostly known for his expressionist figure paintings. In his you...
Paper, Oil
$534Sale Price|20% Off
H 11 in W 7.5 in
Portrait of A Dapper Man with Pipe Bold Colors British Modernist Oil Painting
By Irina Hale
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Dapper Man Portrait by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil painting on artist paper booklet, unframed painting: 11 x 7.5 inches provenance: private collection, Cotswolds condition: ve...
Oil
An elegant and sophisticated decorative touch in any living space, portrait paintings have remained popular throughout the years and are widely loved pieces of art for display in many homes today.
Portrait paintings are at least as old as ancient Egypt, where realistic, lifelike depictions of the recently deceased — commonly known as “mummy portraits” — were painted on wooden panels and affixed to mummies as part of the burial tradition.
For centuries, painters have used portraiture as a means of expressing a subject’s nobility, societal status and authority. Portraits were given as gifts in Renaissance Europe, and a portrait artist might have been commissioned to help mark a significant occasion such as a wedding or a promotion to high office. Prior to the advent of photography, which eventually replaced painted portraits as a quicker and more efficient way of capturing a person’s essence, the subject of a portrait had to sit for hours until the painter had finished. And during the 18th century in particular, if an artist commissioned for a portrait struggled with how to adequately memorialize and capture a subject’s likeness, sometimes a portrait painting wasn’t completed for up to a year.
Whether it’s part of the gallery-style approach to your living-room or dining-room walls or merely inspiration as you devise an eye-grabbing color scheme in your home, a portrait painting is a timeless decorative object for any interior. A landscape painting or sculpture might give you the kind of insight into a specific region of the world or a different culture that you can ascertain only through art. Similarly, when you take the time to learn about the subject of a portrait painting that you bring into your home — the sitter’s history, the relationship between the sitter and the artist should one exist, the story of how the portrait came to be — that work can become intensely personal in addition to its place as an object for an art-hungry corner of your apartment or house.
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