Alexander Sergheev Figurative Paintings

Serge de Vries, Dutch artist Interior with secretary Desk 90 x 70 cm Oil on canvas A jug, a sugar bowl, a tea bag – these are objects that we hold carelessly every day, but Dutch f...

Chess Players WPA Depression Era Mid-20th Century American Scene Realism Modern. Signed upper right and verso 8 x 10 inches oil on board. BIO The son of a men's haberdasher, Mervin ...

This intimate studio interior from 1930 belongs to the more psychologically engaging side of Carlo Hornung Jensen’s oeuvre. A seated woman has paused beside her easel and turned towa...

Bartosz Kolata was born in Torun, Poland in 1979. In 2006 he graduated in Art Conservation and Restoration from Nicolas Copernicus University UMK, secur...

Atin Basak - Untitled - 15 x 15 inches ( Unframed Size ) Tempera on Board The work will be shipped unframed . Inclusive of shipment in roll form. Style : Atin Basak says that his r...

Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Left Sight Size 27.00" x 23.75;" Framed 34.50" x 37.50" Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, September 12, 1959. ...

American Diner Painting by Leading British Urban Landscape Artist, Angela Wakefield. Paintings of American Diners, Food Courts, Truck Stops, Gas Station...

Oil on canvas Signed Unique work 1 / Hélène DUCLOS, 2016 – Artist Statement “Questioning the human condition and the position of being alive – What is i...

Colorful Modernist Portrait of Two Women in a Mediterranean Interior Artist: Miquel Torner de Semir Title: Two Women in a Mediterranean Interior Medium: Oil and mixed media on canvas Dimensions: 54 × 65 cm / 21.26 × 25.59 in Orientation: Landscape Signature: Signed lower right Frame: Unframed Country of origin: Spain Period: Late 20th century Style: Modernist, Figurative, Neo-Expressionist Subject: Female figures, portraiture, interior scene, Mediterranean landscape Condition: Good vintage condition. The surface presents pronounced impasto, visible texture and intentional irregularities characteristic of the artist’s technique. Description A vibrant and highly decorative modern figurative painting by Catalan artist Miquel Torner de Semir, depicting two stylized women within a richly textured Mediterranean interior. The composition presents one standing woman dressed in vivid red, holding a small turquoise object, while a second female figure appears in profile in the foreground. Their pale faces, large expressive eyes, elongated necks and carefully arranged hairstyles create the enigmatic, timeless presence that defines Torner de Semir’s most recognizable paintings. Behind the figures, the artist constructs a fragmented interior through architectural forms, dark window-like structures and a distant view of white Mediterranean buildings beneath an intense blue sky. The result combines female portraiture, interior painting and Mediterranean landscape within a single layered composition. Strong black outlines organize the scene into flattened areas of cobalt blue, crimson red, turquoise, ochre, brown and violet. Thick impasto, graphic marks and collage-like passages give the canvas a tactile, almost sculptural surface. The contrast between the monumental figures and the abstracted background creates both decorative impact and psychological tension. The painting reflects Torner de Semir’s fascination with Catalan Romanesque frescoes, Gothic portraiture, early Renaissance painting and modern European figuration. The frontal poses, hieratic expressions and simplified forms recall medieval religious imagery, transformed here into a colorful and unmistakably contemporary vision of Mediterranean womanhood. A particularly representative example of the artist’s mature figurative language, combining expressive female portraiture, bold color, textured surfaces and a sophisticated Mediterranean atmosphere. Its compact dimensions and strong visual presence make it especially suitable for a modern interior, eclectic collection or gallery wall. About the artist Miquel Torner de Semir was born in Santa Pau, Girona, in 1938. He studied at the Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts in Barcelona and continued his artistic education at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts in Madrid. He was also a pupil of Catalan muralist, engraver and illustrator Ricard Marlet. Torner de Semir developed a deeply personal figurative style rooted in the visual traditions of Catalonia and the wider Mediterranean world. His work draws inspiration from Romanesque mural painting, Gothic art, Italian primitive painters, Renaissance portraiture and the major European artistic movements of the 20th century. He is especially known for his stylized female figures, characterized by almond-shaped eyes, elongated necks, strongly outlined features and elaborate hairstyles. These mysterious women often inhabit imaginary interiors, theatrical settings or fragmented Mediterranean landscapes. His compositions combine flattened perspective, saturated color and heavily worked surfaces. Through the use of impasto, graphic lines and collage-like textures, Torner de Semir gives his paintings an almost architectural construction. His figures appear simultaneously ancient and modern, combining the solemnity of medieval icons with the expressive freedom of modern figurative art. He held his first solo exhibition in Terrassa in 1968 and subsequently exhibited extensively in Spain and abroad, including France, other European countries, the United States and Japan. His distinctive female portraits and Mediterranean compositions have made his work highly recognizable among collectors of Catalan and Spanish modern art. Pictorial inspiration The composition evokes the expressive female figures of Pablo Picasso, the chromatic intensity and decorative freedom of Henri Matisse, the poetic atmosphere of Marc Chagall, the elongated elegance of Amedeo Modigliani and the simplified, sculptural forms of Paul Gauguin. Its bold outlines, flattened perspective and Mediterranean palette also connect the work with modern European figurative painting and the tradition of Catalan Romanesque art. Colorful modernist painting, female portrait painting, two women painting...

This is an oil painting done from life with the artist's young son''s large stuffed red Elmo in repose in front of the mirror. The painting is both tender and bold. It captures one...

Serge de Vries, Dutch artist Interior with red walls 90 x 70 cm Oil on canvas A jug, a sugar bowl, a tea bag – these are objects that we hold carelessly every day, but Dutch fine p...

Bartosz Kolata was born in Torun, Poland in 1979. In 2006 he graduated in Art Conservation and Restoration from Nicolas Copernicus University UMK, securing a Master of Art degree. He...

Oil on canvas Signed lower right Unique work 1 / Hélène DUCLOS, 2016 – Artist Statement “Questioning the human condition and the position of being alive – What is it to be a living being? Who / what can we believe? Who / what can we trust? How real is our view of the world? And how is that perspective angled, and ultimately limited? These are the issues at the heart of my work as an artist. Painting, drawing, engraving and embroidery give me the freedom to approach my subjects from an ambivalent and flexible standpoint. I am building up a dynamic body of work, like pieces that you can put together in one way or another to shape different structures, pierced with numerous openings. And the title that I give each piece acts as a possible clue as to how to enter inside that system. I can portray both softness and monstrosities. I focus on the links and barriers lying between living beings and their surroundings, and evoke how permeable these connections are. My aim is not to create a visual documentary reporting fact, but rather immerse myself in observing everyday life, and in a host of images depicting real events (pictures, photos and videos). Instilled with these images, I can give a more personalized, unique and allegorical vision of the world around me. I am also interested in the key transition periods of human existence, those turning points that forge our identity within a family, a group, and society as a whole at the heart of a specific environment. I centre on what makes up and creates cohesion (rituals, myths and tales….), and indeed the opposite - what leads to life becoming shattered, hindered and frustrated (moving populations, exile and migration…) Amidst a landscape roaming with wild beasts and hybrid creatures, between love and separation, metaphors for our own desires and fears lie in hiding, or reveal themselves in the painted or embroidered spaces. Sometimes they are etched with lines, symbols and tiny architectural designs. These works might depict our inner landscapes, as if harking back to a primordial and cosmic point of origin. My most recent collections recreate the images of bodies or landscapes using abstract zones and figurative details that have no direct link with either anatomy or geography. Intimacy and the unspeakable are themes that run throughout my work, and I make sure to incorporate areas of both visual tension and relief, so as to give the viewer the space to project him or herself into the work. And here, such paradoxes can only be reached through the interplay between abstraction and figuration.” 2 / Thierry Delcourt Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and author of works on the process of artistic creation, and the conditions of existential and social creativity : "Entering into the world of Hélène Duclos in her drawings, paintings, embroidery and words means letting yourself be carried away by a torrent towards strange shores of creation where only a few artists have ever dared to venture. As if perched on a watchtower on the threshold of different worlds, Hélène Duclos throws us out of our depth, plunging us into spaces filled with destitute mankind, and guiding us through her stem-like maze of a scheme, bristling with roots and clues. But the mystery here, like a poetic, human rebus that never ends, only compels us to take a closer look.” 3 / Hélène Duclos ‘s biography : After graduating from the Duperré School of Applied Arts in Paris with a degree in textile design, I set off on a six-month sea voyage from Vannes in Brittany, to Dakar. On returning to France, I set up my atelier...

Bartosz Kolata was born in Torun, Poland in 1979. In 2006 he graduated in Art Conservation and Restoration from Nicolas Copernicus University UMK, securing a Master of Art degree. He...

Private readings - Angelo Granati Italia 2013 This is his reinterpretation of a greatest old master painting "Comparisions"by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. ...