"Violet" Figurative Oil Painting 55" x 32" inch by Yousra Hafad
By Yousra Hafad
Located in Culver City, CA
"Violet" Figurative Oil Painting 55" x 32" inch by Yousra Hafad Yousra Hafad is a young artist who excels in portraiture and particularly the meticulous art of drapery which she ado...
Canvas, Acrylic
"Last Night" Figurative Oil Painting 43" x 39" inch by Yousra Hafad
By Yousra Hafad
Located in Culver City, CA
"Last Night" Figurative Oil Painting 43" x 39" inch by Yousra Hafad Yousra Hafad is a teacher at the Faculty of Art Education in her native Luxor.
Canvas, Oil
"Sisterhood II" Figurative Oil Painting 43 "x 39" inch by Yousra Hafad
By Yousra Hafad
Located in Culver City, CA
"Sisterhood II" Figurative Oil Painting 43 "x 39" inch by Yousra Hafad Yousra Hafad is a young artist who excels in portraiture and particularly the meticulous art of drapery which ...
Canvas, Oil
"Lady in Waiting I" Figurative Oil Painting 47" x 35" in by Yousra Hafad
By Yousra Hafad
Located in Culver City, CA
"Lady in Waiting I" Figurative Oil Painting 47" x 35" in by Yousra Hafad Yousra Hafad is a young artist who excels in portraiture and particularly the meticulous art of drapery whic...
Canvas, Oil
"Lady in Waiting II" Figurative Oil Painting 55" x 39" inch by Yousra Hafad
By Yousra Hafad
Located in Culver City, CA
"Lady in Waiting II" Figurative Oil Painting 55" x 39" inch by Yousra Hafad Yousra Hafad is a young artist who excels in portraiture and particularly the meticulous art of drapery w...
Canvas, Oil
Sold
H 39 in W 32 in D 1 in
"Celestial Robe" Oil painting 39" x 32" inch by Yousra Hafad
By Yousra Hafad
Located in Culver City, CA
"Celestial Robe" Oil painting 39" x 32" inch by Yousra Hafad Yousra Hafad is an Egyptian artist, born in March 1980.
Canvas, Acrylic
"Untitled" Oil painting 24" x 32" inch by Yousra Hafad
By Yousra Hafad
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled" Oil painting 24" x 32" inch by Yousra Hafad Yousra Hafad isan Egyptian artist, born in March 1980.
Canvas, Oil
"Autumn" Oil painting 47" x 35" inch by Yousra Hafad
By Yousra Hafad
Located in Culver City, CA
"Mysterious" Oil painting 47"x35"in. by Yousra Hafad Yousra Hafad is an Egyptian artist, born in March 1980.
Canvas, Oil
Sold
H 47 in W 32 in D 1 in
"Another Land" Oil painting 47" x 32" inch by Yousra Hafad
By Yousra Hafad
Located in Culver City, CA
"Another Land" Oil painting 47" x 32" inch by Yousra Hafad Yousra Hafad is an Egyptian artist, born in March 1980.
Canvas, Oil
$2,485
H 27.56 in W 37.41 in D 0.71 in
An Unremarkable Evening, Realist Acrylic on Canvas, Signed 70 x 95 CM
By Nataliya Bagatskaya
Located in Zofingen, AG
This painting captures an intimate, seemingly ordinary evening that gradually reveals a quiet psychological tension. A young woman sits on the floor beside a bed, dressed in vivid tu...
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
$937
H 7.88 in W 5.91 in D 1.19 in
Ricqlès Pour Une Sorcière, Oil Painting, Figurative, Contemporary Realism
By Jade Boissin
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Oil Painting, Handmade artwork and Unique Work. Medium : Oil painting on naturel wood panel. Artist : Jade Boissin Subject : Ricqlès pour une sorcière (FR -Title) Ri...
Oil
$2,259
H 35.44 in W 29.53 in D 0.71 in
Emotional Pause Acrylic Painting, Figurative Style, 90x75 cm
By Nataliya Bagatskaya
Located in Zofingen, AG
This meticulously crafted acrylic painting combines refined aesthetics with quiet emotional depth. The composition draws the viewer into a delicate narrative filled with subtle symbo...
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
$2,100
H 22 in W 18 in
"All the Women You Once Were" Contemporary Oil Painting, 21st Century
By Katherine Fraser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
“All the Women You Once Were” is an original oil painting on canvas by Katherine Fraser. This piece measures 22"h x 18"w. Katherine Fraser’s paintings depict moments of quiet reflec...
Canvas, Oil
$3,500Sale Price|33% Off
H 30.25 in W 39.875 in D 1.625 in
Robert K. White "Frame and Pause" Large Oil on Canvas Figurative Painting
By Robert Kenneth White
Located in Miami, FL
ROBERT KENNETH WHITE (b. 1950) – "FRAME AND PAUSE" Oil on Canvas ⚜ Signed on Verso ⚜ Frameless Display A CONTEMPLATIVE FIGURATIVE INTERIOR STUDY "Frame and Pause" is a quietly power...
Canvas, Oil
$7,500
H 39 in W 48 in D 1.5 in
Silent - Original Painting on Canvas, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Gardani Art
Located in Yardley, PA
Silent captures a contemplative moment through masterful realism, showcasing the emotional depth achievable in figurative art. This original oil painting on canvas presents a woman i...
Oil
$3,276
H 37.41 in W 47.25 in D 0.71 in
She Learned to Wait, Acrylic on Canvas, Signed, 120x95 cm, 2026
By Nataliya Bagatskaya
Located in Zofingen, AG
There is a particular kind of silence that exists when waiting is no longer a temporary pause, but a way of living. A woman sits fully dressed on a couch, her hands resting quietly ...
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
$4,800
H 50.25 in W 32 in
"Remembering Forward" Contemporary Expressive Figurative Oil Painting
By Katherine Fraser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
“Remembering Forward,” is an original oil painting on canvas by Katherine Fraser. This piece measures 50.25"h x 32"w. Katherine Fraser’s paintings depict moments of quiet reflection...
Canvas, Oil
"Where is Home?", Oil Painting
By Pegah Samaie
Located in Denver, CO
Pegah Samaie's (CA based) "Where is Home?" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a reclining nude woman, wrapped in a white fabric, gently touching the golden compass th...
Oil, Panel
$23,954Sale Price|20% Off
H 57.49 in W 43.31 in D 1.19 in
The three graces. 2022. Oil on canvas, 146x110 cm
By Normunds Braslinsh
Located in Riga, LV
The three graces. 2022. Oil on canvas, 146x110 cm Normunds Braslinsh (1962) Born 1962 in Riga, Latvia 1980–1986 Latvian Academy of Art, Painting Department 1973–1980 Janis Rozentā...
Canvas, Oil
$1,898Sale Price|20% Off
H 55.12 in W 40.16 in
Sitting woman - XXI century, Oil figurative painting, Interior, Warm tones
By Iszchan Nazarian
Located in Warsaw, PL
ISZCHAN NAZARIAN ( born in 1946) Artist of Iranian origin. In 1947 he moved with his family to Yerevan in Armenia. After high school he entered the Academy of Fine Arts of the Artist...
Canvas, Oil
$4,600
H 31 in W 43 in
"No Hay Nada Mas" Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, 31x43 in.
By Katherine Fraser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"No Hay Nada Mas" is a 31in x 43in original oil painting by Katherine Fraser in a handmade wood frame. Artist Statement // Life often strikes me as a string of moments, like a serie...
Canvas, Oil
$14,948Sale Price|30% Off
H 51.19 in W 63.78 in D 0.79 in
"Serenidad" Signed. Spanish Contemporary Woman Portrait Oil Painting. 130x162 cm
Located in Segovia, ES
¨Serenidad¨. Spanish Contemporary Woman Portrait Lying On The Couch. Figurative Realism. Oil on canvas. Dimensions: (H) 130x (W) 162 x (D) 2 cm. / Inches 51.18 x 63.78 x 0.79 " ...
Oil, Canvas
$5,500
H 41.875 in W 30.125 in D 1 in
Robert K. White "Unbound Elegance" Oil on Canvas, Large-Scale Figurative Work
By Robert Kenneth White
Located in Miami, FL
ROBERT KENNETH WHITE – "UNBOUND ELEGANCE" Oil on Canvas ⚜ Signed and Dated Lower Left ⚜ Frameless Display A LUXURIANT STUDY IN MOTION AND FORM Robert Kenneth White’s Unbound Elegan...
Canvas, Oil
$14,689
H 31.5 in W 21.66 in D 0.79 in
Figurative Oil Painting on Canvas, Contemporary, 2019, Unframed
By Svetoslav Stoyanov
Located in Roma, IT
Oil painting, 2019. Certificate of authenticity by the author. In creating this piece, I ventured into the realm of the enigmatic, where realism dances with surrealism. The oil medi...
Canvas, Oil
"Mystique" 49x67" Oil on Canvas
By Ceravolo
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite painting titled "Mystique"' is a large oil on canvas by Ceravolo that measures 49x67", it is signed on the front of the canvas on the bottom right. The canvas was pai...
Canvas, Oil
A direct challenge to Abstract Expressionism’s subjectivity and gestural vigor, Photorealism was informed by the Pop predilection for representational imagery, popular iconography and tools, like projectors and airbrushes, borrowed from the worlds of commercial art and design.
Whether gritty or gleaming, the subject matter favored by Photorealists is instantly, if vaguely, familiar. It’s the stuff of yellowing snapshots and fugitive memories. The bland and the garish alike flicker between crystal-clear reality and dreamy illusion, inviting the viewer to contemplate a single moment rather than igniting a story.
The virtues of the “photo” in Photorealist art — infused as they are with dazzling qualities that are easily blurred in reproduction — are as elusive as they are allusive. “Much Photorealist painting has the vacuity of proportion and intent of an idiot-savant, long on look and short on personal timbre,” John Arthur wrote (rather admiringly) in the catalogue essay for Realism/Photorealism, a 1980 exhibition at the Philbrook Museum of Art, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At its best, Photorealism is a perpetually paused tug-of-war between the sacred and the profane, the general and the specific, the record and the object.
“Robert Bechtle invented Photorealism, in 1963,” says veteran art dealer Louis Meisel. “He took a picture of himself in the mirror with the car outside and then painted it. That was the first one.”
The meaning of the term, which began for Meisel as “a superficial way of defining and promoting a group of painters,” evolved with time, and the core group of Photorealists slowly expanded to include younger artists who traded Rolleiflexes for 60-megapixel cameras, using advanced digital technology to create paintings that transcend the detail of conventional photographs.
On 1stDibs, the collection of Photorealist art includes work by Richard Estes, Ralph Goings, Chuck Close, Audrey Flack, Charles Bell and others.
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.
Browse an extensive collection of figurative paintings on 1stDibs.