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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Sprite Girl
Located in New York, NY
Fun, vibrant mixed media piece featuring woman in vintage bathing suit. On wood. About the Artist: Allen's work has gained recognition world-wide for it's complex layering of mixed media works that create a narrative of modern American culture. His work today is a culmination of many years of painting, thinking and experiencing. He blends urban street art with his background of typography, mixed media collage, and abstract expressionism into each of his urban pop expressionist works. The son of fine artist / commercial artist Harrison Allen, Mark learned a lot very early from his talented father. His think training also includes a bachelor degree in commercial art from Texas State University in San Marcos, TX. He continued study at Parson's School of Design in New York City where he had an apartment across the street from Andy Warhol's factory (they met in 1982.) He continued study later at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. Allen is represented in galleries throughout the world. Museums he has shown in include The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Museum - Cleveland, OH; Experience Music Project - Seattle, WA; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art; Dallas Museum of Art, and Acadian Museum - Lafayette, LA. He was a major figure in the graphic design community for over two decades. Much of his celebrated work is from the entertainment industry doing graphic design work for high profile clients including the 'Yu-Gi-Oh' logo, 'The Wizard of Oz' 60th Anniversary logo, redesigned Coca-Cola bottles, designed 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' logo for Disney and art directed for recording artist Sean 'P Diddy' Combs record label, Bad Boy Records. Promotion work for Pepsi, Diet Coke...
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2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Wood, Mixed Media

Audrey
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic on Wood Panel. Portrait or Audrey Hepburn is 24x24. Vibrant colors. About the Artist: "Tomlin is young, upcoming artist based out of NY. His interests in portraits, i...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Wood Panel

La Mer Melee au Soleil, 2009
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Taulé was born in 1945 in Sabadell, Barcelona. His father imparted the taste for painting to Antoni as a boy as the young artist watched him paint. After his primary studies, he began studying architecture in Barcelona and graduated in 1970. In 1965, he arrived in Paris and worked in architectural firms. It was Sartre's Paris, the construction of Unesco, the year of Le Corbusier's death and the end of Chandigarh, the French Cinematheque and Antonioni's films. Since the age of 14, he has never stopped painting and made his first personal exhibition in 1966 at the Academie de Belles Arts in Sabadell. Upon receiving his degree in architecture, he worked on the construction of l’Université autonome de Barcelone for a year. In 1971, he was asked to work on the development of a large shipyard on the small island of Formentera. There he met Laetitia Ney of Elchingen, who he would go on to marry. He devoted himself entirely to painting, and Formentera, like Paris, became one of his favorite places in both his life and to work. His first exhibition in Paris was in 1975 with Mathias Fels, presented to him by Hervé Télémaque—showing many paintings of his young daughter Djamilla, then three years old. The exhibition was titled, Espace hors temps (Space out of Time), with a foreword by Alain Jouffroy. In 1976, Taulé exhibited Contre-Jour (Against Day) at Fabien Boulakia on rue Bonaparte with a preface by Gérald Gassiot-Talabot and in Barcelona at the Aimé Maeght gallery—an exhibition visited by Joan Miró and Alexander Calder. In 1977, he exhibited at the Beaubourg gallery, with then associates Nahon and Trigano. In 1983, he met Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar, who wrote the novella Fin d’étape (End of Stage) for Taulé That same year, he was named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) by Jack Lang...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

The dream - Julien Calot, 21st Century, Contemporary figurative painting
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Hand-signed lower right by the artist Unique work Discover the new works on canvas by the French emerging and talented artist Julien Calot in his personal ex...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Venice - Julien Calot, 21st Century art, Contemporary figurative painting
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Hand-signed lower right by the artist Unique work Discover the new works on canvas by the French emerging and talented artist Julien Calot in his personal ex...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

The inseparable I -Timothy Archer, 21st Century, Contemporary painting
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint and pastel on paper Hand-signed and dated lower right by the artist
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil

Monastery
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Vladimir Skryabin was an innovative painter who lived in Leningrad/St. Petersburg during the 20th century. He was classically trained as a painter and graphic artists and his painti...
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1960s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Full Palette
Located in New York, NY
Oil painting on wood panel. Building blocks. A glimpse into a child's world, one we all have experienced. Tone is engaging, fun with universal appeal. About the artist: Mollo...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

The bird behind the curtain -Timothy Archer, 21st Century, Contemporary painting
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint and pastel on paper Signed and dated by the artist
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil

The Satyrs
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Unsigned Edmund F. Ward estate stamp on verso
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Bora - Julien Calot, 21st Century, Contemporary figurative painting
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Hand-signed lower right by the artist Unique work Discover the new works on canvas by the French emerging and talented artist Julien Calot in his personal ex...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

He brought the dawn in its wake Timothy Archer 21st Century Contemporary paint
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint and pastel on paper Signed and dated lower right
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil

"End of Track, " Paperback Cover, 1951
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left End of Track - Paperback Cover, written by Ward Weaver, Popular Library, 1951.
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1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mother with Child by Candlelight
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right Illustration, 1917
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1910s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Medium Oil painting of Vintage, Antique, Collectable Toy Wearing American Flag
Located in Fort Worth, TX
Political Chatter, 2017 John Hartley discovered his life's passion while growing up in Piqua, Ohio. Encouraged to develop his talents in an academic envi...
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2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Oil

The Subdivision, Liberty Magazine Cover, June 18, 1927
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Laid on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 14.50" x 13.00;" Framed 23.75" x 21.75" The Subdivision, Liberty Magazine Cover, June 18...
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1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

Study for World War I Soldier Collier's Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned Study for the July 7, 1917 cover of Collier's National Weekly (the title story was "Why I'd Let My Boy Go To War").
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1910s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

L'incubo, 2010
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Gigino Falconi was born in Giulianova (Teramo) in 1933. He began painting at the age of sixteen, and in 1954 he obtained a Liceo Artistico of Pescara. During the early years of his c...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Fred C. Dobbs Paddle Steamer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right This illustration dates circa 1950.
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1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Seats of the Haughty, Munsey's Magazine Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Seats of the Haughty, Munsey's Magazine illustration, December 1906 Literature: This illustration appeared in O. Henry's shor...
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Early 1900s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

"Spring is Here" The Country Home Magazine Cover, March (Year Unknown)
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Laid on Board Signature: Signed Lower Left "Spring Is Here" The Country Home Magazine Cover, March (Year Unknown).
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20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

Tribesmen with Headdresses
Located in Miami, FL
Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel "Robert Riggs was awarded the Gold Medal for Excellence by the New York Art Directors Club for ten consecutive years and received many additional awards." He was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts and the U.S. Library of Congress. Riggs's compositons are "monumental" Walt Reed Riggs was a Gay Artist...
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1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Tempera

United Together
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"United Together" is part of a series called "Spoken" by artist Kelvin Agyepong Ansong which depicts the fierce fight women around the world continue t...
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2010s Cubist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

“Golden to the Winds” by Achmed Abdullah, Good Housekeeping
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Upper Left "Dan Content 29" Story Illustration, Good Housekeeping Magazine, September 1929, pg 32-33 Biography: Daniel Content was born of Dutch parents and grew up in New York City. He attended New Eutriek High School in Brooklyn, NY. He studied under Dean Cornwell at the Pratt Institute as well as attending the Art Students League. Mr. Content worked as a freelance artist for about thirty years. He illustrated for such magazines as Colliers, Cosmopolitan, Readers Digest, and McCall's. In 1928 he illustrated the Windermere Series printing of Robin Hood. During World War II he traveled with the USO to Burma and India entertaining the service men with personal sketches. In the late 1950s he was an Art Director for Benton & Bowles in NYC. He also taught at the workshop School of Advertising Art. Mr. Content continued his sculpting and painting long after retirement. Some of his work can be found at Society of Illustrators in their permanent Museum. Exhibited: Masters of the Golden Age: Harvey Dunn and His Students South Dakota Art...
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1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mister Universe - Julien Wolf, 21st Century, Contemporary Expressionist Painting
Located in Paris, FR
Oil on canvas 2019 Signed Unique work Julien Wolf is a French painter born in 1981 in Strasbourg, France. In 2007, he graduated from the DNSEP Art section at the Strasbourg Decora...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Lovers
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed on the Back
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1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ensemble
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Jean-Louis Mendrisse is a self-taught painter born in 1955 in Clermont-Ferrand. Art, family affairs Jean-Louis Mendrisse studied the deal with his famous sculptor father, Jean Mos...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

White and black suite, Caroline Veith 21st Century Contemporary figurative paint
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on cut paper pasted on paper Signed and dated lower left Unique work
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

The Smoke Shop
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Story of a Bad Boy" Book Illustration
By Edward John Prittie
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1927 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 27.00" x 18.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right "We Amused Ourselves for an Hour or More, Darting in and out Among the Crowd and Setting off our Crackers", The Story of a Bad Boy...
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1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The faithfuls - Joanna Flatau, Contemporary Expressionist painting
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Signed Unique work Joanna Flatau was born in Varsaw, Poland. She graduated from Varsaw History of Arts University and from the Fine Arts Varsaw Academy in ...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Queen's Grace
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Center
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20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

In The Bride's Shop, Lord & Taylor
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right Printer's and designer's marks in margins "Tool pearls in bodice, train & headband & ribbon under bosom." Ex-collection photographer Frank Paulin...
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1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Superstar
Located in New York, NY
Innocence of childhood. Portrait. About the Artist: My art is a visual recording of the powerful imagines that occur regularly in life, distilling them down and preserving the ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"The Cave Man, " Liberty Magazine Cover, 1927
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1927 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Liberty Magazine Cover, November 12, 1927 "The Cave Man or the Cave Max?"
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1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Girl in Pareu"
By RAD Miller
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Robert Alexander Darrah “R.A.D.” Miller (1905 - 1966) Robert Alexander Darrah Miller, called “RAD” by his friends, was born in Philadelphia. He enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1923 to 1927 under the tutelage of Daniel Garber. In 1928, Miller moved to Bucks County where he would meet and marry Celia Belden Marshall, daughter of Dr. George M. Marshall, who at that time owned the Phillips Mill property. Nearly a year later, in 1929, a committee headed by artist, William Lathrop, negotiated to purchase the Mill property from Dr. Marshall for the purpose of holding art exhibitions. Thus, the Phillips Mill Art Association was formed. RAD Miller was a regular exhibitor at the Phillips Mill with the traditional New Hope Impressionists. Many of the original founders of the New Hope Art Colony, set in their ways, frowned upon the concept of modernist painting. A decision was made by the Association to not include the growing group of modernist painters in the area to exhibit with them at Phillips Mill. Although clearly not a traditional impressionist, Miller was not being excluded with the others, largely because his father-in-law formerly owned the mill and was one of the Association’s board of directors. RAD was sympathetic to his fellow modernists. In 1933, he was one of the original members of the Independents, a group formed for modernist artists who chose to embark on a more non-traditional creative path. They would exhibit in tandem with the Impressionists but at different locations. Around the time of his arrival to New Hope in 1928, Miller struck up a friendship with Thomas Hart Benton, and in 1932 he worked under Benton on a mural project. RAD’s paintings...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Futbolito Piscinero
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born in Manziales, Colombia in 1987, Esteban received his MFA from the New York Academy of Art before returning to his native country. Related works are featured in top collections, ...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Woman in Horror and Terror at Gunpoint
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right. Inscribed on the reverse 'My first color illustration, Nov. 1954.' Work is unframed, Film Noir in paint
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1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Keith Snow Storm
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media on wood featuring the infamous Keith Richards. Photographed by Joester. About the Artist: Steve Joester is a British-born Rock & Roll photographer and mixed media a...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Mixed Media, Photographic Film

Red & White Food Stores Calendar Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Initialed Lower Left
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20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

La lecture au jardin (Lesson in the Garden)
Located in New Orleans, LA
French Post-Impressionist painter Georges d’Espagnat captures a charming moment between a mother and her child in this vibrant oil on canvas. Rendered with a studied use of complementary colors and bold brushstrokes, the painting showcases the artist's unique Post-Impressionist style. Remembered as one of the most individualistic artists of the 20th century, his distinctive canvases bring together the loose brushwork of the Impressionists and the bold color palette favored by the Fauves. Together, they achieve a vibrant spontaneity that lends itself well to the carefree subjects of the present work. Masterfully composed, La lecture au jardin moves beyond the Impressionist instinct to capture a fleeting moment on canvas. Rather, d'Espagnat succeeds in creating a deep feeling of harmony in the work. Warm colors are perfectly balanced with cool tones, while vertical and horizontal lines are softened by the curves of the foliage and his subjects' figures. Through his simplification of forms and intentional use of color and line, he creates a scene that is carefully designed and thoroughly modern. A similar view of a mother and her child by d'Espagnat is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York). The Post-Impressionist painter was an individualist since his youth, choosing to forgo traditional schooling in order to independently study the Old Masters in the Louvre. He soon became involved with the most prominent Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters of the age, including Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Signac, who themselves existed outside the traditional norms of French Academic training. In 1891, he exhibited at the Salon des Refusés, and again the following year at the Salon des Indépendants. By 1895, he held his first one-man show in Paris, and just three years later his success earned him a solo show at the prestigious Durand-Ruel Gallery. Between 1905 and 1910 he made several trips to visit Renoir on the Côte d’Azur. Their close friendship resulted in a group exhibition at Marcel Bernheim...
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Late 19th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Western Scene
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 20.00" x 29.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right
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Late 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Sea Witch and the Jellyfish" oil portrait on Dibond panel
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Rachel Bess Sea Witch and the Jellyfish, 2017 oil on Dibond 30.5” x 22" unframed 36" x 27.25" framed Rachel Bess is known for her precise and theatrical oil...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Reckless
Located in New York, NY
Oil painting of car on a curve. Sunglasses hang from the steering wheel. Tone is engaging, fun with universal appeal. About the artist: Molloy...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Candy Girl
Located in New York, NY
Innocence of childhood. Portrait. About the Artist: My art is a visual recording of the powerful imagines that occur regularly in life, distilling them down and preserving the ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The passengers - Julien Calot, 21st Century, Contemporary figurative painting
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Hand-signed lower right by the artist Unique work Discover the new works on canvas by the French emerging and talented artist Julien Calot in his personal ex...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Red Houses No. 1, Norway by Calo Carratala - Snowy landscape painting
Located in Paris, FR
Red Houses No. 1 is a unique oil on laminated wood painting from the Norway series by Spanish contemporary artist Calo Carratalá, dimensions are 46 × 74 cm (18.1 × 29.1 in). The art...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Boy Reading
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned
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1920s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Caïn and Abel II
Located in Paris, IDF
Bruno DESPLANQUES (Born in 1966, France) Caïn and Abel II Painting on wood 120 cm x 90 cm 2021
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paint

Interior Scene
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left Medium: Mixed Media Illustration
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20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Violin Studies
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvasboard Signature: Signed Lower Right Revere F. Wistehuff was one of the central group of cover artists in the New Rochelle Art Colony in the 1920's, '30s, '40s w...
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20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

1900 Young Girl
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned
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20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Magic - Simone Picciotto, 21st Century, Contemporary figurative painting
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Signed lower right
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Prayer - Simone Picciotto, 21st Century, Contemporary figurative painting
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Signed lower right
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Pajama Party
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right Medium: Gouache on Board
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1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board

Dizzy Dean, The Pride of St Louis
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Dizzy Dean, The Pride of St Louis
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20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The mysterious flamboyant -Timothy Archer, 21st Century, Contemporary painting
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint and pastel on paper Signed and dated by the artist
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil

Figurative Paintings for Sale

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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