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Item Ships From: Bay Area
Flora
By Adrienne Sherman
Located in Burlingame, CA
Adrienne Sherman creates works that celebrate the mystery of life, anchored in history, and inspired by dreams, everyday magic, and stories passed from one generation to the next. He...
Category
1990s Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
19th century French Portrait of Matron
Located in San Francisco, CA
19th century French Portrait of Matron
Oil on Aluminum
No visible signature
10 x 12.5 unframed, 15.5 x 18 framed
Category
19th Century Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Young Woman
Located in San Francisco, CA
Ohio-born painter William J. Forsyth (1854-1935) spent most of his life in Indianapolis and initially trained at the Indiana School of Art. But by 1882 Forsyth wanted to hone his drawing and rendering skills abroad. He enrolled at the Royal Academy in Munich, Germany. Fellow Hoosier students in Munich included artists T. C. Steele and J. Ottis Adams, which helped the new arrival’s transition.
Forsyth painted figures like this one while in Munich. One intriguing indication that this piece may have been done during the artist’s Academy period is that a very similar portrait of a remarkably similar sitter was described at auction as "German School, 1891" with the inscription "G. Büttner/Munich '91."
However, while there Forsyth shifted his interest to landscapes under the influence of American artist J. Frank Currier...
Category
1880s Barbizon School Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Family
By David Shevlino
Located in Burlingame, CA
Here is a beautiful, original new oil on canvas painting inspired by found black and white photographs that feature the artist’s Italian ancestors. The artwork is painted in a contem...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$15,000
Figure no. 2, 2025
By John Goodman
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Figure no. 2, 2025' by John Goodman. The artwork is 40 x 30 inches, professionally framed in maple measuring 40 3/4 x 30 3/4 inches. Artist signed, dated in ink verso. Condition is ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Delivering a Promise to Marry
Located in San Francisco, CA
During Renaissance Italy, one way to send a message about the life-changing binding of two affluent families was to sit for a portrait like this. The finished work would then be deli...
Category
18th Century Italian School Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figure no. 10, 2020
By John Goodman
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Figure no. 10, 2020' by John Goodman. The artwork is 8 x 5 inches. Artist signed, dated in ink verso. Condition is excellent, as new.
Goodman’s signature restrained palette and i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
A Cherub with a Future Prime Minister Inside
Located in San Francisco, CA
The biggest surprise for new parents is how much their child’s personality is already baked-in at birth. Croatian painter Vilko Šeferov responded to this toddler’s innate intensity i...
Category
20th Century Modern Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Halloween
Located in Burlingame, CA
Halloween - an iconic American painting by James Torlakson who is known for his photorealist oil paintings, watercolors and aquatint intaglio etchings.
Torlakson’s photorealism subj...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Car Wash
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Car Wash' a highly collectable 48 x 48 inch oil on canvas painting by Internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson, framed in a contempo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Subway no. 3 - Beijing
Located in Burlingame, CA
BING ZHANG's Subway no. 3, 48 x 48 inches, oil on canvas. Proudly presented by Andra Norris Gallery in California.
Bing Zhang’s Subway painting series explores themes of class, labo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Stray Hair
By Adrienne Sherman
Located in Burlingame, CA
Adrienne Sherman creates works that celebrate the mystery of life, anchored in history, and inspired by dreams, everyday magic, and stories passed from one generation to the next. He...
Category
1990s Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Testa Rossa
By Adrienne Sherman
Located in Burlingame, CA
Adrienne Sherman creates works that celebrate the mystery of life, anchored in history, and inspired by dreams, everyday magic, and stories passed from one generation to the next. He...
Category
1990s Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Lady in Blue Original Portrait Painting By Henri Plisson
Located in San Francisco, CA
Portrait painting of an elegant lady in a blue dress and coordinating hat by listed artist Heni Plisson (French, 1908-2002)
Original oil on canvas
Signed lower right
Canvas dimensio...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hubert Wackerman (1945-Active) Native American Portrait
Located in San Francisco, CA
Hubert Wackerman (1945-Active)
Beautiful Native American Portrait, 1978
Oil on canvas board
Unframed: 15" x 24"
Framed: 16.75" x 25.75"
Category
1970s Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Young Man Sitting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Rendered with the etherial background and casual elegance of a mid-century society woman’s portrait slated for her Palm Beach master suite, the subject of this work is instead a youn...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Surya
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
The paintings from Willard Dixon's "NEWS series" are generally taken from small black and white newspaper photos from the artist's daily reading of the news. He changes the images somewhat by cropping them, taking things out, adding color, etc. But the image is definitely something seen originally by someone else. “I must say”, says Dixon, “I have rather strong feelings about these images myself. I see them at least in part as an homage to the intrepid photographers on the front lines who are telling truth to the world about what’s actually going on out there.” This is 'Surya', which is hindu for sun; A 48 x 60 inch oil on canvas painting depicting a kaleidoscope of colorful women...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$12,000
A Soulful Modernist Portrait
By Boris Deutsch
Located in San Francisco, CA
On offer is a portrait of an unknown sitter who is rendered with profound dignity yet lifted from gloomy solemnity by a vibrant and intriguing background. Notably, artist Boris Deuts...
Category
1950s American Modern Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Vessel no. 1
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Vessel no. 1' contemporary portrait oil on canvas painting by Tamera Avery, whose paintings are created with wit and wisdom. Avery's work deals with serious themes including global ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Young Man Sitting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Rendered with the casual elegance of a mid-century society woman’s portrait slated for her Palm Beach master suite, the subject in this work is instead a young man. The artist's sign...
Category
1950s Modern Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Evergreen
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Evergreen' 2022, a contemporary oil on canvas painting by Tamera Avery, whose paintings are created with wit and wisdom. Avery's work deals with serious ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
$12,000
Pistil
By Chikako Okada
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Pistil' A young ladies body changing from childhood to adulthood along with caterpillar to butterfly. Her innocence is tarnished with a vine of thorns that surrounds her body. Condi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
No Way Up No Way Down
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
'No Way Up No Way Down' 2019, is a figure of a man. Acrylic on paper 14 x 11 inches unframed and 15 x 12 inches framed, Part of the artist's new Face to Face series started in 2017 a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Who Are These Angels CXV
By Naoko Paluszak
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This is an original oil painting on gallery wrapped canvas.
About the Artist
Naoko Paluszak began her career by studying graphic design in Tokyo, followed by several years working as a designer, before switching to oil painting. Now located in the United States, Naoko continues to develop her style through different series of paintings that have varying degrees of abstraction. By bridging representational with non-representational forms, the artist seeks to stir personal memories and spark new narratives. “Art is about having a sense of mystery and drama,” she says. Naoko is also passionate about color. She mixes her paints based on the intuitive emotions that different colors can trigger within the viewer, and within herself.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untold Story no. 22
By John Goodman
Located in Burlingame, CA
John Goodman was born in California and graduated from the University of California at Davis. He is an American Postwar and Contemporary painter who draws inspiration from the early ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Amusement Park (diptych)
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Amusement Park' 2021, This is a diptych (two oil on canvas panels that are each 84”x48” and 84”x 36”) The overall dimension is 84 x 84 inches. A contem...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Chinese " 100 Beauties " Porcelain Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Chinese Painting on Porcelain " The Image of 100 Beauties " Hand Carved wood frame.
Category
20th Century Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Oil Painting of Madonna and Child
Located in San Francisco, CA
Antique Oil Painting of Madonna and Child
Oil on canvas. Approximate dimensions 20" wide x 24" high.
The frame is approximately 22" wide x 2...
Category
Early 20th Century Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Control Top
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Control Top' contemporary portrait oil on canvas painting by Tamera Avery, whose paintings are created with wit and wisdom. Avery's work deals with serio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Void / oil on wood panel
By Chikako Okada
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Void' features the face of a young woman with ladybugs and intricately patterned queen's lace. The painting in red-orange, sea green and white and is 16 x 12 1/2 inches, unframed, w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
19th Century Child and Dog Portrait
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fabulous 19th Century oil on canvas portrait of a child with their dog. It is signed and dated 1872 underneath the gold matting. I cannot decipher the signature. Painting could be ei...
Category
1870s Realist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Wicked Witch of the East
By Chikako Okada
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Wicked Witch of the East' is a masterfully painted oil on panel, that features a long haired, young and nude woman with a scar down her stomach. I bird atop her head gazes down at a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
He Said What?
By Myron Stephens
Located in Burlingame, CA
In this cinema noir series of original oil and acrylic painting on wood panels, Myron Stephens realistically recreates images of people and often mundane objects that are masterfully...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Figure no. 8, 2020
By John Goodman
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Figure no. 8, 2020' by John Goodman. The artwork is 7 x 5 inches. Artist signed, dated in ink verso. Condition is excellent, as new.
Goodman’s signature restrained palette and im...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
Vintage Camisole: A.P. / mixed media
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
mixed media on paper - Stabilo pencil, Prismacolour, watercolor, water crayon, gouache, ink, dry pigment. The artwork is 12 x 9 inches. The outer dimension of the frame (white washed...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Brother Sister
By Pierre Lavarenne
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Pierre Lavarenne (French, born 1928)
Title: Brother Sister
Year: Circa 1975
Medium: Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 15 x 18.25 inches
Signat...
Category
Late 20th Century Academic Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
We Believe
By Myron Stephens
Located in Burlingame, CA
In this cinema noir series of original oil and acrylic painting on wood panels, Myron Stephens realistically recreates images of people and often mundane objects that are masterfully...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Figure no. 2
By John Goodman
Located in Burlingame, CA
John Goodman was born in California and graduated from the University of California at Davis. He is an American Postwar and Contemporary painter who draws inspiration from the early ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Infanta - oil and gold leaf Contemporary Art
By Elena Zolotnitsky
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Infanta' is a contemporary portrait of a young woman created in oil and gold leaf on wood panel. from Russian American Elena Zolotnitsky who is Inspired by the concepts of beauty, a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold, Gold Leaf
Innocent Love
By Chikako Okada
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Innocent Love' is a masterfully painted oil on panel, that features a young topless woman with a tattoo on her arm that read "kiss my ass". She is draped in a blanket and holding a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Face No. 319, 2018
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
A face in multi color, including mainly indigo and tan with orange. Acrylic on paper, 14 x 11 inches (unframed). Part of the artist's new Face to Face series started in 2017 and f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Untold Story no. 8
By John Goodman
Located in Burlingame, CA
John Goodman was born in California and graduated from the University of California at Davis. He is an American Postwar and Contemporary painter who draws inspiration from the early ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Arthur J. Krakower "December 31, 1996" Original Oil Painting c.1996
By Arthur Krakower
Located in San Francisco, CA
Arthur J. Krakower Oil Painting c.1996
Original oil painting by listed Octogenarian artist Arthur J. Krakower.
Krakower took up painting later in life. Most of his works are done w...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untold Story no. 32
By John Goodman
Located in Burlingame, CA
John Goodman was born in California and graduated from the University of California at Davis. He is an American Postwar and Contemporary painter who draws inspiration from the early ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Untold Story no. 17
By John Goodman
Located in Burlingame, CA
John Goodman was born in California and graduated from the University of California at Davis. He is an American Postwar and Contemporary painter who draws inspiration from the early ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
M. Moshall "The Young King" Original Oil Painting Early 20th C.
Located in San Francisco, CA
M. Moshall "The Young King" Original Oil Painting Early 20th C.
Original oil on panel
Dimensions 8" wide x 9" high
The frame measures 12" wide x 14" high
Signed lower right
The ...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Untold Story no. 6
By John Goodman
Located in Burlingame, CA
John Goodman was born in California and graduated from the University of California at Davis. He is an American Postwar and Contemporary painter who draws inspiration from the early ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Self Portrait No. 2
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
An early painting from 1991 by Kim Frohsin. Figurative self portrait with complex coloration (burgundy, gold, pale blue) and indigo cast shadow. Heavy acrylic on masonite panel. 18 x...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Sings the Tune Without the Word
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Sings the Tune Without the Words' contemporary portrait oil on canvas painting by Tamera Avery, whose paintings are created with wit and wisdom. Avery's work deals with serious them...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Green Purse
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Green Purse', 2022 is 31.5 x 23.5 inches, oil on linen painted by French American Frédéric Choisel, is inspired by the cities and countrysides of France, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Lovers / oil on wood - twin sisters conjoined surreal two heads
By Chikako Okada
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Lovers' a mysterious and fascinating portrayal of a women with two heads and singular body draped in an intricately painted multicolored kimono. The scene includes interior architec...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Face: Emerald
By Elena Zolotnitsky
Located in Burlingame, CA
The face of a young woman is featured in this oil painting on mylar, mounted on panel that is 12 x 12 inches. Professionally framed in burnished gold leaf over wood with an outer dim...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Mixed Media, Oil, Panel
Tick Tock
By Chikako Okada
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Tick Tock' is a masterfully painted oil on canvas. The painting is 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches unframed. Tick Tock is wired and ready to hang and enjoy. Conditio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Linen
Vessel no. 3
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Vessel no. 3' contemporary portrait oil on canvas painting by Tamera Avery, whose paintings are created with wit and wisdom. Avery's work deals with serious themes including global ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Paul Marigny Female Portrait Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Classic Paul Marigny (1922-1998, French) painting of 2 young ladies with flowers.
Oil on canvas
Canvas dimensions 24" x 36"
Frame dimensions 30" x 42"
Category
Mid-20th Century Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Young Piegan Woman
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Nancy Mclaughlin Powell – American (1932-1985)
Title: Young Piegan Woman
Year: 1958
Medium: Pastel on paper
Sight size: 15.5 x 11.5 inches wit...
Category
1950s Realist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Woman with Cel Phone
By Mary Robertson
Located in Burlingame, CA
“Mary Robertson’s joyous and meditative paintings are are colorful simulations of contentment and sacred play.” Wayne Thiebaud.
Steeped in the Bay Area figurative movement, Mary...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pointillist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
She's Got a Ticket to Ride / oil on wood
By Chikako Okada
Located in Burlingame, CA
'She's Got a Ticket to Ride' features a long haired young woman with hummingbirds, who is shrouded in mystery. Tattooed and decorated with ladybugs and sitting within a ring of stone...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
In the Bathroom
By Elena Zolotnitsky
Located in Burlingame, CA
Portrait of a young woman in the bathroom, painted with oil and gold leaf on paper. The artwork is is 14 x 11 inches. And it is newly and professionally framed with all museum materi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
That Perches in the Soul
Located in Burlingame, CA
'That Perches in the Soul' contemporary portrait oil on canvas painting by Tamera Avery, whose paintings are created with wit and wisdom. Avery's work deals with serious themes inclu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
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