Issachar Ryback Figurative Paintings

"Red Nude", oil on canvas. Original, one-of-a-kind, painting. FRAMED with gold minimalist frame. Part of "Nude in Interior" solo show, March 2022. "Red Nude" is a bold and visceral ...

Interesante cristal pintado, representando a un Rey. Va con una cornucopia de madera tallada dorada, del siglo XIX. El cristal esta en buen estado. La cornucopia tiene diversas falta...

Woman reclining, pink we send the work anywhere Edgardo CORBELLI (Turin, 1918 - 1989) From the traditional composition of the 1930s, the painting of Corbelli leads to technical and ...

A farm stands before you on the horizon. A windmill majestically slices the blue sky. A bird, painted in taut brushstrokes, struts on a branch. These are tranquil images; horizon far...

A farm stands before you on the horizon. A windmill majestically slices the blue sky. A bird, painted in taut brushstrokes, struts on a branch. These are tranquil images; horizon far...

Expressionist Clown with Dog Oil Painting 1978, Surreal Figurative Character Scene, Spanish Modern Art Artist: Antoni Mut Torroja (Barcelona, 1921–1990) Title: Inspiración Year: 1...

Expressionist Clown Accordion Player Painting, European Oil on Canvas, 1978 Artist: Antoni Mut Torroja Title: Acordeón melancólico (No. 5) Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 81 × 54 ...

Florida is an oil and ink mixed media artwork mounted on panel, 24 x 20 inches, signed and dated 'STEINBERG/1969' lower right. Inscribed '22 Florida' verso in pencil. Framed in a con...

Spanish Female Figure Harvest Landscape Andalusian Oil Painting 1976 Artist: José Antonio Castro Cadenas (Córdoba, Spain, 1926–2006) Title: Woman in Harvest Landscape Date: 1976 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 81 × 65 cm (31.9 × 25.6 in) Signature: Signed and dated lower left Condition: Very good overall condition. Stable support and well preserved paint layer Frame: Unframed DESCRIPTION Expressive Spanish figurative oil painting depicting a seated rural woman holding a woven basket within a Mediterranean harvest landscape, executed in 1976 by Andalusian painter José Antonio Castro Cadenas. The composition combines portrait presence and narrative landscape structure in a balanced and psychologically quiet scene characteristic of poetic Spanish realism of the second half of the 20th century. The female figure occupies the foreground with strong sculptural calm while the background unfolds into a luminous agricultural environment including haystacks, a worker figure and a horse, reinforcing the symbolic connection between human presence and cultivated land. Rather than functioning as a secondary setting, the landscape acts as an emotional extension of the figure, creating a contemplative atmosphere typical of Mediterranean figurative painting traditions. The chromatic harmony is especially refined, combining golden harvest tones, cool mountain blues and warm earth pigments that generate depth, stillness and narrative unity across the composition. Narrative rural figure compositions of this type remain among the most recognizable and collectible themes within 20th century Spanish figurative painting. ARTIST BIOGRAPHY José Antonio Castro Cadenas (Córdoba, 1926–2006) was a Spanish figurative painter known for his portraits, female figures and Mediterranean rural landscapes. He developed most of his artistic career in Córdoba, exhibiting at Galería Studio–Juan Bernier, an important cultural reference within Andalusian figurative painting of the postwar period. His work is characterized by strong drawing structure, tonal sensitivity and a lyrical atmosphere aligned with the tradition of Spanish poetic realism during the second half of the twentieth century. Today his paintings are appreciated for their quiet psychological presence and their continuity with Mediterranean figurative heritage. ARTISTIC CONTEXT / INSPIRATION This painting belongs to the Mediterranean poetic figurative tradition associated with artists such as Julio Romero de Torres in the symbolic integration of female presence and landscape atmosphere. Its structured figure construction and psychological stillness also connect with the figurative realism developed by Antonio López García. The integration of figure and cultivated landscape recalls narrative strategies found in works by Jean‑François Millet and Jules Bastien‑Lepage...

This beautiful figurative painting by Jeroen Allart is part of his interio figurative paintings he did in his home country the Netherlands. A farm stands before you on the horizon. ...

19th century French School oil on canvas. Four portraits and self-portraits after Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn on a rectangular gilded...

"9 Koi 23" is a complex work of koi fish swimming underwater filled with light and brilliant color painted in a lush and fluid style bordering on abstraction. Fish are in shades o...