Gerald Merfeld "Street Market, Vietnam" Original Oil Painting c.1980s
Located in San Francisco, CA
Gerald Merfeld (American, 20th c.) "Street Market, Vietnam" Original Oil Painting c.1980s Fine oil painting of a bustling street market scene in Vietnam.
Canvas, Oil
Vietnamese Village Scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
Charming really well drawn and painted watercolor of what looks to be possibly a Vietnamese village. A farmer is walking his ducks along the road and seems to have them all in a row....
Watercolor
$2,550
H 30.5 in W 36.5 in D 2 in
Louis (Lajos) Szanto "Market Scene" Original Oil Painting c.1930s
By Louis Szanto
Located in San Francisco, CA
Lajos Szanto (1889-1965) Original Oil Painting c.1930s A bustling market scene. Oil on canvas. Dimensions 30.5" wide x 24.5" high. The frame measures 36.5" wide x 30.5" high. Sig...
Canvas, Oil
$550
H 27 in W 15 in D 1 in
Antonio De Vity (1901-1993) Oil Painting Italian Street Market Scene Cityscape
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Italian Market Street – Antonio De Vity (1901–1993) A charming original vintage oil painting on canvas signed Antonio De Vity, depicting a lively Italian street market surrounded by ...
Oil
$757
H 6.5 in W 8 in D 1 in
French Oil painting of a Outdoor Market Scene in Impressionist Style
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Oil painting of a Outdoor Market Scene in Impressionist Style By Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 6.5 x 8 inches (height x width) Signed: Bottom left Oil painting on bo...
Oil
$696
H 6.75 in W 8.25 in D 1 in
French Oil painting of Market Scene in Impressionist Style with Flower Sellers
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Oil painting of Market Scene in Impressionist Style with Flower Sellers By Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 6.75 x 8.25 inches (height x width) Signed: Bottom right Oil...
Oil
$779
H 29.53 in W 38.19 in D 1.19 in
Enric Pinet Pamies – Village Market – Colorful Oil on Canvas
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Enric Pinet Pamies – Village Market – Oil on Canvas – 60 × 81 cm Vibrant figurative oil painting by Spanish artist Enric Pinet Pamies (1912–1974), depicting the lively weekly market ...
Canvas, Oil
$811
H 7 in W 9 in
1950's French Impressionist Oil Painting Market Scene Bathed in Sunlight
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Impressionist, mid 20th century oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 7 x 9 inches provenance: private collection condition: good and sound, some paint loss
Oil, Canvas
$2,200
H 28 in W 40 in D 1 in
European Street Scene Oil Painting, Impressionist, Framed, 1960s
By Theodore Van Oorschot
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
European Street Scene Artist signed. Theodore Van Oorschot 1910-1989 Dutch. The artist lived and worked in Schijnde, Netherlands. A student of the Academy of Visual Arts in Tilburg...
Oil, Cotton Canvas
$1,120Sale Price|20% Off
H 29.5 in W 41.75 in D 2.5 in
Old Manila Street Scene, Mid Century Modern Figurative Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Modern Old Manila Street Scene, 1960s Figurative Landscape Beautiful mid century modern figurative landscape by Didi Fernandez (Filipino, 20th Century). This charming 1...
Canvas, Oil
$275Sale Price|52% Off
H 13 in W 15 in
NYC Street Fair Colorful Figurative Acrylic Painting 1970's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6031 Colorful figurative painting of a lower Manhattan street fair Image 10.5x13.5"
Acrylic
$1,016Sale Price|35% Off
H 25.6 in W 31.89 in
Market Scene Oil on Canvas, Post-Impressionist, Signed, 1970s
By Sebastia Congost i Pla
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
**Artwork Technical Sheet and Description** **Artist:** Sebastià Congost i Pla (Olot, 1919 – Olot, 2009) **Title:** Market Scene **Technique:** Oil on canvas **Dimensions:** 25.6...
Canvas, Oil
$4,293
H 15.75 in W 21.66 in D 1.58 in
Reinhard Bartsch 1927 Berlin - 1990 Berlin Impressionist 19 Jhdt Market scene
Located in Berlin, DE
Reinhard Bartsch 1927 Berlin - 1990 Berlin oil on canvas 55x 40 cm signed lower right Reinhard Bartsch (1927–1990) was a German painter and graphic artist, born and active in B...
Oil
Gerard Meyer (b.1926) - 20th Century Oil, Market in Mulhouse
Located in Corsham, GB
This vibrant painting captures the bustling atmosphere of a morning market scene, with colourful awnings sheltering vendors and shoppers beneath a canopy of autumn trees. The artist ...
Oil
$1,350
H 16 in W 24 in D 0.5 in
Farmer's Market, unframed oil on board, 16x24" figurative painting
By Lu Haskew
Located in Loveland, CO
Farmer's Market, by Lu Haskew Oil 16x24" image size Painting of a busy outdoor market selling vegetables, fruit and flowers This painting is unframed, canvas on gator board, the pri...
Oil
$669
H 8 in W 10 in
1970's Impressionist Oil Painting - Mount Abu Market busy figurative scene
By Barbera Doyle
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Barbara Doyle, British b. 1917 Barbara Doyle (British b.1917, born in Halifax Yorkshire, lived most of her life on the South Coast of England. She was an extremely a...
Oil
$3,989
H 20 in W 24 in D 2 in
Oil Painting by Alfred Montague "A Busy Market Scene"
By Alfred Montague
Located in Mere, GB
Oil Painting by Alfred Montague "A Busy Market Scene" flourished 1832 - 1883. Leading painter of townscenes, landscapes and marine scenes. Prolific exhibitor with over 300 works at t...
Oil
$1,725Sale Price|20% Off
H 16 in W 20 in D 2 in
English Harvest - Vintage Impressionist Landscape Painting with Horses & Figures
Located in Preston, GB
English Harvest - Vintage 20th Century Impressionist Oil Painting with Horses & Figures by British Artist, David Hyde Art measures 16 x 12 inches Frame measures 20 x 16 inches...
Oil, Board
Emerging in 19th-century France, Impressionist art embraced loose brushwork and plein-air painting to respond to the movement of daily life. Although the pioneers of the Impressionist movement — Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir — are now household names, their work was a radical break with an art scene led and shaped by academic traditions for around two centuries. These academies had oversight of a curriculum that emphasized formal drawing, painting and sculpting techniques and historical themes.
The French Impressionists were influenced by a group of artists known as the Barbizon School, who painted what they witnessed in nature. The rejection of pieces by these artists and the later Impressionists from the salons culminated in a watershed 1874 exhibition in Paris that was staged outside of the juried systems. After a work of Monet’s was derided by a critic as an unfinished “impression,” the term was taken as a celebration of their shared interest in capturing fleeting moments as subject matter, whether the shifting weather on rural landscapes or the frenzy of an urban crowd. Rather than the exacting realism of the academic tradition, Impressionist paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings represented how an artist saw a world in motion.
Many Impressionist painters were inspired by the perspectives in imported Japanese prints alongside these shifts in European painting — Édouard Manet drew on ukiyo-e woodblock prints and depicted Japanese design in his Portrait of Émile Zola, for example. American artists such as Mary Cassatt and William Merritt Chase, who studied abroad, were impacted by the work of the French artists, and by the late 19th century American Impressionism had its own distinct aesthetics with painters responding to the rapid modernization of cities through quickly created works that were vivid with color and light.
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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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