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Bobby - Large Scale Colorful Original Pop Art Textured Portrait Artwork
By Alea Pinar Du Pre
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Alea Pinar Du Pre's original mixed media artworks portray human figures in a graphic pop-realist style. An enterprising autodidact merging technology and fine art, her vibrant contemporary pop-figurative artworks colorfully explore the territory between human reality and artificial reality. Her paintings portray the fact that our perceptions of solid reality are deceptively virtual. This unique collage is a part of her "Snapshot" series, as she explains: "We consist of the same atoms, created billions of years ago in a supernova. And here we are living and breathing and experiencing life, and we think we are all so different. I think we are all the same, it’s just that are masks and poses are different. I love humanity and this game we are playing. With snapshot I am trying to capture the unawareness of the fact that we are the greatest wonder of the universe". This one-of-a-kind 68 inch tall by 52 inch wide vertical artwork includes bright neon colors and sparkle. Pinar Du Pre's fusion of materials - acrylics, printed elements, and layers of gilt captured under an epoxy lens - represents the layered reality she aims to depict. The sides of this canvas are painted metallic and it does not require framing. Pinar Du Pre has signed, titled, and dated this original artwork...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Glitter

Portrait of Marelen Dietrich
By Jean Dominique van Caulaert
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jean Dominique Van Caulert, (1897-1979), although most often associated with his celebrity portraits and works for the theater, he was also a true symbolist in the tradition of the B...
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1930s Art Deco USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul (Grammy, Album Art, Iconic, Music, Rock and Roll)
By Kerry Smith
Located in Kansas City, MO
Kerry Smith Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul Mixed Media on Crescent board Year: 2022 Size: 21x22in Framed Signed, dated by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1622 *Black frame with a mirror...
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2010s Outsider Art USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Board

Memories of Love III (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Memories of Love III (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and signatur...
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2010s Contemporary USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Untitled (original oil painting)
By Nicola Simbari
Located in Aventura, FL
Original oil on canvas painting. Hand signed lower right front by Nicola Simbari. Canvas size 27.5 x 39.5 inches. Frame size approx 37.5 x 49.25 inches. Artwork is in excellent c...
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1990s Expressionist USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled (Censor Painting Pink)
By Richard Prince
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled (Censor Painting Pink)" is a nude figurative acrylic on inkjet board painting by Richard Prince in 2009. The artwork is 35 1/2 x 30 inches and 37 1/2 x 32 x 1 1/2 inches wi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Inkjet, Acrylic

La Fille Du Pêcheur By William Bouguereau
By William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Located in New Orleans, LA
William-Adolphe Bouguereau 1825-1905 French La fille du pêcheur (The Fisherman’s Daughter) Signed and dated “W-Bouguereau-1882” (middle right) Oil on canvas William Bouguereau's...
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19th Century Academic USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Smile (original painting on paper)
By Mr. Brainwash
Located in Aventura, FL
Screen print with stencil, acrylic and spray paint on wove paper. Hand signed on front; hand signed, dated with thumbprint by Mr. Brainwash and studio catalog number on verso. Art...
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2010s Street Art USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Screen, Stencil

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Football Players Waiting on the Sidelines
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Listed price includes $150 additional cost of framing. This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
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2010s Contemporary USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

"Cloud Movement" (2024) By Lorenzo Chavez, Original Oil Painting of Landscape
By Lorenzo Chavez
Located in Denver, CO
"Cloud Movement" (2024) by Lorenzo Chavez is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a cloudy landscape in dim evening sunlight. About the artist: Born, 1959 Lorenzo Chavez...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

NO CARDS ALLOWED (DISNEY MONOPOLY)
By Jozza
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed on front; hand signed and titled on verso by Jozza. Canvas is stretched. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity in...
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21st Century and Contemporary Street Art USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

The Dugout, Post Cover
By Norman Rockwell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed by Artist Lower Left The present work was published on the cover of the September 4th, 1948 edition of The Saturday Evening Post. An accompanying “Keeping Posted” article about Norman Rockwell’s process behind the painting was printed on page 10 inside the issue. (Image above) The Post described, “Boston baseball fans saw a strange spectacle at Braves’ Field early this summer. As the stands filled, two respectable-looking men stood on the field staring at the spectators. Every now and then they would point to someone, run up into the stands and invite the man or woman to sit in a box above the dugout. Then the thinner of the two would contort his face into an expression of wild delight or disgust and invite the spectator to do the same, while a photographer made pictures. The explanation is on our cover. The two suspicious characters were Kenneth Stuart, the Post’s art editor and the artist, Normal Rockwell. For a detailed description of how Boston...
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1940s USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Oil

Red Squirrel on Lavender - Original Vivid Figurative Animal Painting on Canvas
By Naomi Jones
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Naomi Jones's richly patterned realistic paintings focus on the preservation of vulnerable wildlife. Jones finds catharsis in painting soulful animals. Portraits of vulnerable specie...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Classic Mickey - Figurative Street Art on Newspaper Original Gary John Art
By Gary John
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene during the Art Basel Miami art fair in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Street Art USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Newsprint

Corn Kachina, by Riley Sunrise, Quoyavema, Hopi, Kachina, Dancer, painting
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Corn Kachina, by Riley Sunrise, Quoyavema, Hopi, Kachina, Dancer, painting Artist Signature - Riley Sunrise (1914-2006) Quoyavema “Another of the earlier Hopi artists, Riley Sunrise (Quoyavema) worked with Fred Kabotie and Waldo Mootzka in illustrating John Louw Nelson’s Rhythm for Rain. He is also known as Quoyavema or Kwayeshva, according to Nelson. His paintings are comparable to Fred Kabotie’s, with some of them showing more action and most of them revealing less detail. Sunrise is represented in the collections of the Denver Art Museum, Gilcrease Institute (Tulsa), and the Southwest Museum. The Museum of the American Indian in New York has an extensive collection of his paintings of native Hopi dances.” (Clara Lee Tanner: Southwest Indian...
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1940s Tribal USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paint, Paper

The Violet Dress 28 - Minimalist Figurative Original Ink Painting on Paper
By Bettina Mauel
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bettina Mauel expresses vitality and sensuality in her abstract and figurative paintings. “I paint what I experience,” she articulates. “This includes landscapes, dancers and people ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Ink, Mixed Media

"White Shirt" (2023) Original Painting by Barbara Hack, Female Portrait
Located in Denver, CO
"White Shirt" by Barbara Hack is an original portrait painting depicting a female model. This piece is framed and ready to hang. Barbara Hack’s work is an ongoing reflection on peo...
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2010s Impressionist USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Metal

Fishing Village - Massachusetts Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Fishing Village - Massachusetts Watercolor on Paper Cloudy day on the Massachusetts Coast by Richard Clark Hare (American, 1906-1959). Richard Clarke Hare was a painter best known f...
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1950s American Impressionist USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

"Out Of The Blue" - Oil Seascape Nocturne With Crashing Waves, 2024
By Mark Harrison
Located in Denver, CO
Mark Harrison’s “Out Of The Blue” (2024) is a luminous original oil on canvas capturing the powerful serenity of an ocean at night. Bathed in moonlight, this nocturne seascape presen...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Galaxy - Colorful Original Abstract Gestural Figurative Portrait Painting
By Sally K
Located in Los Angeles, CA
As your gaze lingers on one of Sally K’s paintings, you notice how Sally’s brush strokes add playfulness and life to the canvas, incorporating unexpected images and abstract color co...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic

"Interior Scene in Paris" Post-Impressionist Oil Painting on Canvas Framed
By Jacques Zucker
Located in New York, NY
A charming oil painting depicting an interior scene of an elegant woman crossing her legs, reclining on a chair. She exudes a calmness while we can feel the breeze coming through th...
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20th Century Post-Impressionist USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Early 20th Century Likeness of Jack London
By Robert Alexander Graham
Located in Soquel, CA
Early 20th Century Likeness of Jack London Wonderful portrait of a gentleman with a striking likeness to Jack London by Robert Alexander Graham (American, ...
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Early 1900s Realist USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Antique Fauvist "Still Life with Flowers and Skull" Louis Mathieu Verdilhan
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Fauvist Vanitas "Still Life with Flowers and Skull" Louis Mathieu Verdilhan (Provence, France, 1875-1928) Circa 1910 Oil on canvas on ...
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Early 1900s Fauvist USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Oil

"Auto Service" (2025) By Greg Gandy, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Auto Service" (2025) is a striking handmade still-life oil painting by American realist Greg Gandy, depicting an older car in a bay at an auto service station. Artist Bio: Greg Ga...
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2010s American Realist USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

The Jester, Post Cover
By Norman Rockwell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed by Artist Lower Right The Saturday Evening Post, February 11, 1939, cover illustration Literature The Saturday Evening Post, February 11, 1939, cover illustration Thomas S....
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1930s USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Portrait of a Woman in Yellow, Surrealist Oil Painting by Juan Garcia Ripolles
By Juan García Ripollés
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Juan Garcia Ripolles, Spanish (1932 - ) Title: Woman in Yellow Year: 1970 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l. Size: 15 in. x 21.75 in. (38.1 cm x 55.25 cm) Frame Size: 16 x 23...
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1970s Impressionist USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Lust for Life" Oil Painting by Claudia Griesbach-Martucci, Whimsical Fox
By Claudia Griesbach-Martucci
Located in Denver, CO
Claudia Griesbach-Martucci's "Lust for Life" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a fox in a red velvet suit licking his chops in a forma...
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2010s Realist USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Hummingbird V
Located in Atlanta, GA
Gwen Wong's work is both painterly and allegorical, caught somewhere in the middle between the representational painter and the narrator. "I am inspired by the idea of a childhood re...
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2010s Contemporary USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Hello Kitty - Pop Art Character Inspired Painting on Canvas by Randy Morales
Located in Los Angeles, CA
US Navy veteran Randy Morales fuses nostalgia and graphic expressionism within his street-pop artworks. The choice of subjects within his artworks is strongly influenced by his exper...
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2010s Street Art USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Intersection Figurative art, Social Realism Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Suren Sokhakyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 1978 Style: Social Realism, Title: Intersection Size: 40" x 54" x ...
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2010s Impressionist USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Breaking Barriers” collaboration by Gabrielle Benot and Timo Bernhard - Car Art
Located in Carmel, CA
Gabrielle Benot (Latvian, born 1978) "Breaking Barriers" 2024 Acrylic paint, Rice Paper, Resin, Mixed Media, Canvas, Stretcher bars The artist signed the bottom right of the painting...
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2010s Contemporary USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Resin, Acrylic, Rice Paper, Stretcher Bars

Quarantine (LARGE!! 6'x5' - 183 x 152cm)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Artist : Ryan Wilks Title: Quarantine Medium: India ink, chalk pastel, graphite on canvas. Year: 2020 Size: 60W" x 72H" Description : This response to Covid...
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2010s Contemporary USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Chalk, Pastel, India Ink, Graphite

"Morning Swimmer 5" Original Oil painting
By Jon Doran
Located in Denver, CO
"Morning Swimmer 5" by Cornish artist Jon Doran, crafted in 2023, is an evocative oil painting that captures the serenity of a solitary moment in nature. Measuring 100 x 80 cm and fr...
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2010s Impressionist USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Almazan Bicycle Still-Life Acrylic Painting
By Luis Almazan Miquel
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Almazan Realistic Still Life Acrylic Painting MIQUEL was an artist focused on the art of realism. His structured works on his great mastery of drawing, are romantic and translates ...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Pastel

"Trees in a Landscape" Eanger Irving Couse, American Southwestern Landscape
By Eanger Irving Couse
Located in New York, NY
Eanger Irving Couse Trees in a Landscape, circa 1900 Signed lower left Oil on canvas 9 1/8 x 14 5/8 inches Provenance Fenn Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico Private Collection, Arizona ...
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Early 1900s French School USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mid Century Original Spanish Impressionist Fishing Village
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Original Spanish Impressionist Fishing Village Scene with Figures Spanish impressionist oil painting by A. Boneto (Spanish, 20th Century), circa 196Painterly impression...
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1960s Impressionist USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

19th century American Folk Art of a Seated Lady in her Sunday best clothes
Located in Woodbury, CT
Unknown Artist (American School, 19th century) Portrait of a Lady in Blue, c. 1835–1850 Oil on canvas This painting is unsigned This quietly elegant portrait captures a mature woman...
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1850s Folk Art USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

La Bueno Vida
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery. Her works were recently featured in the March issue of American Art Collector magazine 2022. A hardbound-book is included with your purchase. Whether depicting lively night parties on the beach, Parisian streets, or bustling sidewalk cafes of her native Madrid, the paintings of Paloma Hinojosa...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Elvis", Denied Andy Warhol Silver & Black Pop Art Painting by Charles Lutz
By Charles Lutz
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Elvis, Metallic Silver and Black Full Length Silkscreen Painting by Charles Lutz Silkscreen and silver enamel painted on vintage 1960's era linen with Artist's Denied stamp of the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board. 82" x 40" inches 2010 Lutz's 2007 ''Warhol Denied'' series gained international attention by calling into question the importance of originality or lack thereof in the work of Andy Warhol. The authentication/denial process of the [[Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board]] was used to create value by submitting recreations of Warhol works for judgment with the full intention for the works to be formally marked "DENIED". The final product of the conceptual project being "officially denied" "Warhol" paintings authored by Lutz. Based on the full-length Elvis Presley paintings by Pop Artist Andy Warhol in 1964, this is likely one of his most iconic images, next to Campbell's Soup Cans and portraits of Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor, and Marlon Brando. This is the rarest of the Elvis works from the series, as Lutz sourced a vintage roll of 1960's primed artist linen which was used for this one Elvis. The silkscreen, like Warhol's embraced imperfections, like the slight double image printing of the Elvis image. Lutz received his BFA in Painting and Art History from Pratt Institute and studied Human Dissection and Anatomy at Columbia University, New York. Lutz's work deals with perceptions and value structures, specifically the idea of the transference of values. Lutz's most recently presented an installation of new sculptures dealing with consumerism at Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater House in 2022. Lutz's 2007 Warhol Denied series received international attention calling into question the importance of originality in a work of art. The valuation process (authentication or denial) of the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board was used by the artist to create value by submitting recreations of Warhol works for judgment, with the full intention for the works to be formally marked "DENIED" of their authenticity. The final product of this conceptual project is "Officially DENIED" "Warhol" paintings authored by Lutz. Later in 2013, Lutz went on to do one of his largest public installations to date. At the 100th Anniversary of Marcel Duchamp's groundbreaking and controversial Armory Show, Lutz was asked by the curator of Armory Focus: USA and former Director of The Andy Warhol Museum, Eric Shiner to create a site-specific installation representing the US. The installation "Babel" (based on Pieter Bruegel's famous painting) consisted of 1500 cardboard replicas of Warhol's Brillo Box (Stockholm Type) stacked 20 ft tall. All 1500 boxes were then given to the public freely, debasing the Brillo Box as an art commodity by removing its value, in addition to debasing its willing consumers. Elvis was "the greatest cultural force in the Twentieth Century. He introduced the beat to everything, and he changed everything - music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution." Leonard Bernstein in: Exh. Cat., Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art and traveling, Elvis + Marilyn 2 x Immortal, 1994-97, p. 9. Andy Warhol "quite simply changed how we all see the world around us." Kynaston McShine in: Exh. Cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art (and traveling), Andy Warhol: Retrospective, 1996, p. 13. In the summer of 1963 Elvis Presley was just twenty-eight years old but already a legend of his time. During the preceding seven years - since Heartbreak Hotel became the biggest-selling record of 1956 - he had recorded seventeen number-one singles and seven number-one albums; starred in eleven films, countless national TV appearances, tours, and live performances; earned tens of millions of dollars; and was instantly recognized across the globe. The undisputed King of Rock and Roll, Elvis was the biggest star alive: a cultural phenomenon of mythic proportions apparently no longer confined to the man alone. As the eminent composer Leonard Bernstein put it, Elvis was "the greatest cultural force in the Twentieth Century. He introduced the beat to everything, and he changed everything - music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution." (Exh. Cat., Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art (and traveling), Elvis + Marilyn 2 x Immortal, 1994, p. 9). In the summer of 1963 Andy Warhol was thirty-four years old and transforming the parameters of visual culture in America. The focus of his signature silkscreen was leveled at subjects he brilliantly perceived as the most important concerns of day to day contemporary life. By appropriating the visual vernacular of consumer culture and multiplying readymade images gleaned from newspapers, magazines and advertising, he turned a mirror onto the contradictions behind quotidian existence. Above all else he was obsessed with themes of celebrity and death, executing intensely multifaceted and complex works in series that continue to resound with universal relevance. His unprecedented practice re-presented how society viewed itself, simultaneously reinforcing and radically undermining the collective psychology of popular culture. He epitomized the tide of change that swept through the 1960s and, as Kynaston McShine has concisely stated, "He quite simply changed how we all see the world around us." (Exh. Cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art (and traveling), Andy Warhol: Retrospective, 1996, p. 13). Thus in the summer of 1963 there could not have been a more perfect alignment of artist and subject than Warhol and Elvis. Perhaps the most famous depiction of the biggest superstar by the original superstar artist, Double Elvis is a historic paradigm of Pop Art from a breath-taking moment in Art History. With devastating immediacy and efficiency, Warhol's canvas seduces our view with a stunning aesthetic and confronts our experience with a sophisticated array of thematic content. Not only is there all of Elvis, man and legend, but we are also presented with the specter of death, staring at us down the barrel of a gun; and the lone cowboy, confronting the great frontier and the American dream. The spray painted silver screen denotes the glamour and glory of cinema, the artificiality of fantasy, and the idea of a mirror that reveals our own reality back to us. At the same time, Warhol's replication of Elvis' image as a double stands as metaphor for the means and effects of mass-media and its inherent potential to manipulate and condition. These thematic strata function in simultaneous concert to deliver a work of phenomenal conceptual brilliance. The portrait of a man, the portrait of a country, and the portrait of a time, Double Elvis is an indisputable icon for our age. The source image was a publicity still for the movie Flaming Star, starring Presley as the character Pacer Burton and directed by Don Siegel in 1960. The film was originally intended as a vehicle for Marlon Brando and produced by David Weisbart, who had made James Dean's Rebel Without a Cause in 1955. It was the first of two Twentieth Century Fox productions Presley was contracted to by his manager Colonel Tom Parker, determined to make the singer a movie star. For the compulsive movie-fan Warhol, the sheer power of Elvis wielding a revolver as the reluctant gunslinger presented the zenith of subject matter: ultimate celebrity invested with the ultimate power to issue death. Warhol's Elvis is physically larger than life and wears the expression that catapulted him into a million hearts: inexplicably and all at once fearful and resolute; vulnerable and predatory; innocent and explicit. It is the look of David Halberstam's observation that "Elvis Presley was an American original, the rebel as mother's boy, alternately sweet and sullen, ready on demand to be either respectable or rebellious." (Exh. Cat., Boston, Op. Cit.). Indeed, amidst Warhol's art there is only one other subject whose character so ethereally defies categorization and who so acutely conflated total fame with the inevitability of mortality. In Warhol's work, only Elvis and Marilyn harness a pictorial magnetism of mythic proportions. With Marilyn Monroe, whom Warhol depicted immediately after her premature death in August 1962, he discovered a memento mori to unite the obsessions driving his career: glamour, beauty, fame, and death. As a star of the silver screen and the definitive international sex symbol, Marilyn epitomized the unattainable essence of superstardom that Warhol craved. Just as there was no question in 1963, there remains still none today that the male equivalent to Marilyn is Elvis. However, despite his famous 1968 adage, "If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings" Warhol's fascination held purpose far beyond mere idolization. As Rainer Crone explained in 1970, Warhol was interested in movie stars above all else because they were "people who could justifiably be seen as the nearest thing to representatives of mass culture." (Rainer Crone, Andy Warhol, New York, 1970, p. 22). Warhol was singularly drawn to the idols of Elvis and Marilyn, as he was to Marlon Brando and Liz Taylor, because he implicitly understood the concurrence between the projection of their image and the projection of their brand. Some years after the present work he wrote, "In the early days of film, fans used to idolize a whole star - they would take one star and love everything about that star...So you should always have a product that's not just 'you.' An actress should count up her plays and movies and a model should count up her photographs and a writer should count up his words and an artist should count up his pictures so you always know exactly what you're worth, and you don't get stuck thinking your product is you and your fame, and your aura." (Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again), San Diego, New York and London, 1977, p. 86). The film stars of the late 1950s and early 1960s that most obsessed Warhol embodied tectonic shifts in wider cultural and societal values. In 1971 John Coplans argued that Warhol was transfixed by the subject of Elvis, and to a lesser degree by Marlon Brando and James Dean, because they were "authentically creative, and not merely products of Hollywood's fantasy or commercialism. All three had originative lives, and therefore are strong personalities; all three raised - at one level or another - important questions as to the quality of life in America and the nature of its freedoms. Implicit in their attitude is a condemnation of society and its ways; they project an image of the necessity for the individual to search for his own future, not passively, but aggressively, with commitment and passion." (John Coplans, "Andy Warhol and Elvis Presley," Studio International, vol. 181, no. 930, February 1971, pp. 51-52). However, while Warhol unquestionably adored these idols as transformative heralds, the suggestion that his paintings of Elvis are uncritical of a generated public image issued for mass consumption fails to appreciate the acuity of his specific re-presentation of the King. As with Marilyn, Liz and Marlon, Warhol instinctively understood the Elvis brand as an industrialized construct, designed for mass consumption like a Coca-Cola bottle or Campbell's Soup Can, and radically revealed it as a precisely composed non-reality. Of course Elvis offered Warhol the biggest brand of all, and he accentuates this by choosing a manifestly contrived version of Elvis-the-film-star, rather than the raw genius of Elvis as performing Rock n' Roll pioneer. A few months prior to the present work he had silkscreened Elvis' brooding visage in a small cycle of works based on a simple headshot, including Red Elvis, but the absence of context in these works minimizes the critical potency that is so present in Double Elvis. With Double Elvis we are confronted by a figure so familiar to us, yet playing a role relating to violence and death that is entirely at odds with the associations entrenched with the singer's renowned love songs. Although we may think this version of Elvis makes sense, it is the overwhelming power of the totemic cipher of the Elvis legend that means we might not even question why he is pointing a gun rather than a guitar. Thus Warhol interrogates the limits of the popular visual vernacular, posing vital questions of collective perception and cognition in contemporary society. The notion that this self-determinedly iconic painting shows an artificial paradigm is compounded by Warhol's enlistment of a reflective metallic surface, a treatment he reserved for his most important portraits of Elvis, Marilyn, Marlon and Liz. Here the synthetic chemical silver paint becomes allegory for the manufacture of the Elvis product, and directly anticipates the artist's 1968 statement: "Everything is sort of artificial. I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts. The artificial fascinates me, the bright and shiny..." (Artist quoted in Exh. Cat., Stockholm, Moderna Museet and traveling, Andy Warhol, 1968, n.p.). At the same time, the shiny silver paint of Double Elvis unquestionably denotes the glamour of the silver screen and the attractive fantasies of cinema. At exactly this time in the summer of 1963 Warhol bought his first movie camera and produced his first films such as Sleep, Kiss and Tarzan and Jane Regained. Although the absence of plot or narrative convention in these movies was a purposely anti-Hollywood gesture, the unattainability of classic movie stardom still held profound allure and resonance for Warhol. He remained a celebrity and film fanatic, and it was exactly this addiction that so qualifies his sensational critique of the industry machinations behind the stars he adored. Double Elvis was executed less than eighteen months after he had created 32 Campbell's Soup Cans for his immortal show at the Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles in July and August 1962, and which is famously housed in the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In the intervening period he had produced the series Dollar Bills, Coca-Cola Bottles, Suicides, Disasters, and Silver Electric Chairs, all in addition to the portrait cycles of Marilyn and Liz. This explosive outpouring of astonishing artistic invention stands as definitive testament to Warhol's aptitude to seize the most potent images of his time. He recognized that not only the product itself, but also the means of consumption - in this case society's abandoned deification of Elvis - was symptomatic of a new mode of existence. As Heiner Bastian has precisely summated: "the aura of utterly affirmative idolization already stands as a stereotype of a 'consumer-goods style' expression of an American way of life and of the mass-media culture of a nation." (Exh. Cat., Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie (and traveling), Andy Warhol: Retrospective, 2001, p. 28). For Warhol, the act of image replication and multiplication anaesthetized the effect of the subject, and while he had undermined the potency of wealth in 200 One Dollar Bills, and cheated the terror of death by electric chair in Silver Disaster # 6, the proliferation of Elvis here emasculates a prefabricated version of character authenticity. Here the cinematic quality of variety within unity is apparent in the degrees to which Presley's arm and gun become less visible to the left of the canvas. The sense of movement is further enhanced by a sense of receding depth as the viewer is presented with the ghost like repetition of the figure in the left of the canvas, a 'jump effect' in the screening process that would be replicated in the multiple Elvis paintings. The seriality of the image heightens the sense of a moving image, displayed for us like the unwinding of a reel of film. Elvis was central to Warhol's legendary solo exhibition organized by Irving Blum at the Ferus Gallery in the Fall of 1963 - the show having been conceived around the Elvis paintings since at least May of that year. A well-known installation photograph shows the present work prominently presented among the constant reel of canvases, designed to fill the space as a filmic diorama. While the Elvis canvases...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Enamel

!8th century Irish or English portrait of a woman with Ermin, blue dressing lace
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful 18th century Irish or English portrait, attributed to the Irish painter Nathaniel Hone. Nathaniel Hone was born in Dublin but by 1748 had set...
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1780s Old Masters USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

No Love Without Envy by Eugene Von Blaas
By Eugene von Blaas
Located in New Orleans, LA
Eugen von Blaas Italian I 1843-1932 No Love Without Envy Signed and dated "Eugen von Blaas 1901" (lower right) Oil on canvas Eugen von Blaas masterfully captured the spirit and charm of Venice, and No Love Without Envy stands as one of his most exceptional compositions. Larger and more finely detailed than many of his works, this grand painting reflects his unparalleled mastery of light, color and narrative. Rich in detail and emotion, this scene is believed to feature a stylized self-portrait of the artist alongside his wife, Paola Prina. Set in a sun-drenched Venetian courtyard, the composition brims with life and intrigue. At its center, an orange seller—modeled by Prina—engages in a flirtatious exchange with an admirer, the artist himself, while three onlookers observe with amusement and envy. The interplay of light and texture is remarkable: von Blaas' exquisite brushwork renders the delicate lace, sumptuous fabrics and intricately adorned garments with near-photographic precision, while the soft flesh tones contrast beautifully against the timeworn stonework of Venice. This attention to detail, combined with the work’s luminous palette, creates a sense of immediacy and warmth that defines the best of von Blaas' Venetian genre paintings. Born in 1843 to Austrian parents in Italy, von Blaas was raised in a household steeped in artistic tradition. His father, Karl Blaas, was a renowned portraitist and history painter, while his brother specialized in military scenes. When Karl was appointed professor at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts, the family relocated to the floating city—a move that profoundly shaped von Blaas’ artistic vision. Though he studied in Rome, Vienna and Paris, it was Venice that remained his greatest muse. Captivated by its light, architecture and everyday moments of romance and social interplay, he became the foremost painter of Venetian genre scenes. During Venice’s Austrian rule, von Blaas adopted the Italianized name “Eugene de Blaas...
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20th Century Academic USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

La Clarinette et La Baignoire, The Clarinet and the Bathtub and Birdcage
By Max Herve
Located in Beachwood, OH
Max Herve (French, 1926-2018) La Clarinette et La Baignoire oil on canvas signed lower right 21.5 in. h x 25.75 in. w., canvas 28 in. h. x 31.25 in. w., as framed Max Hervé was an a...
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Late 20th Century USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mid Century Portrait of an African American Man
By Genevieve Rogers
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid-century figure study of an African American man by American Impressionist artist Genevieve Rogers. Unsigned, but acquired with a collection of her...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Laid Paper

"Eve", Original Oil painting by Kelly Birkenruth of Young Woman
By Kelly Birkenruth
Located in Denver, CO
Kelly Birkenruth's "Eve" (2024) is an original oil painting on panel, measuring 14 x 11 x 2 inches. This exquisite artwork features a detailed portrayal of a female back, capturing the soft curvature and delicate play of light and shadow on the skin. The lace trim of her clothing adds a touch of elegance and femininity to the composition. The muted tones and soft background highlight Birkenruth’s technical skill and artistic vision. The painting is framed, with overall dimensions of 15 x 12 inches, enhancing its presentation. Known for her ability to convey the human form with both realism and sensitivity, Birkenruth’s "Eve" is a captivating addition to any art collection. Kelly Birkenruth’s captivating paintings are in the style of contemporary realism while staying firmly grounded in the tradition of the Old Masters. She is able to pull the viewer into her paintings by interweaving emotion with a humanistic quality through her supreme handling of light. Through her portraits and still lifes she is able to evoke sensitivity and empathy, which in turn allows her to create images which transcend mere representation to capture the true essence of her subject. Kelly’s arresting compositions, draftsmanship, use of color and observation of detail allow her to create paintings with a timeless quality. After earning her degree from Pennsylvania State University, Kelly moved...
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21st Century and Contemporary USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

"Splash" woman in swim cap and swim suit dances into the wave
By Fred Calleri
Located in Edgartown, MA
Fred Calleri was born in Maryland and has slowly moved westward towards his current home in Santa Barbara, California. On his way, he earned an Illustration and Graphic Design degree...
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2010s Contemporary USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Anatomy of a Swimming Pool No.2 - oil on canvas
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Using the striking imagery that is abundant in the California landscape, queer artist Kory Alexander creates dreamy paintings that are flooded with vibrancy and movement. Kory consid...
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2010s USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Honor Y Beatles 2 - Origami Inspired Figurative Painting on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Emilio Rama's captivating pop art-inspired paintings featuring origami animal figures are a distinctive and original contribution to the realm of contemporary art. With a vibrant int...
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2010s Pop Art USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Bouquet of Roses
By Jean-Pierre Cassigneul
Located in New York, NY
A very rare composition by the artist Jean-Pierre Cassigneul, the woman holds a beautiful Bouquet of Roses by the artist, she is wearing a chapeau in front of a painting showing th...
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Late 20th Century Expressionist USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Abstract Expressionist Figurative Homage to Willem de Kooning
By Michael Pauker
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Expressionist Figurative Homage to Willem de Kooning's "Women Singing" Colorful and dynamic abstract expressionist figurative mixed media painting contemporary piece, featu...
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Late 20th Century Modern USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Magazine Paper, Stretcher Bars

"Heaven's Blossom" - Oil Landscape Painting with Pink Cloudscape
By Warren Neary
Located in Denver, CO
"Heaven's Blossom" by Warren Neary is a captivating original oil painting that exemplifies the quiet majesty of contemporary landscape art. Crafted meticulously by hand, this substan...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Odd Woman In" Oil Painting
By Ron Hicks
Located in Denver, CO
Ron Hick's (US based) "Odd Woman In" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an impasto rendering of a female model with dark hair and an abstracted background. Ron Hick'...
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2010s Impressionist USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

"Anoop's Place" Oil Painting
By Raymond Bonilla
Located in Denver, CO
Raymond Bonilla's "Anoop's Place" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts the façade of a brick building with balconies as the morning light hits its surface. About the Artist: Raymond Bonilla is a nationally recognized illustrator and fine artist in Buffalo, NY. Raymond graduated from the State University in New York at Fredonia in 2005 with a degree in New Media and Illustration. He continued his studies at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco where he completed his Masters of Fine Art in 2009. He was awarded Best in Show in the Great Lakes Emerging Artist Competition, was a finalist in the Artists Magazine Annual Art Competition, has been awarded Gold Medals in advertising from both Society of Illustrators of New York and Los Angeles, and juried into the Communication Arts Illustration Annual. He currently lives in Buffalo, New York where he spends his time painting and teaching part-time at SmART School and Visual Arts Passage. He is represented by Principle Gallery in Alexandria...
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2010s Realist USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

French Art Class Figurative Interior Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
2843a Oil on artist board set in a vintage gilt wood frame.Signed backwards by Judith M.Musaro 1971 Image size 11.5x9.5"
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1970s USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Men Drinking Coffee
By Norman Rockwell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed by Artist Lower Right Maxwell House Coffee
Category

1920s USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

"I'm Late" (2024) By Zoa Ace, Original Mixed Media Collage on Wood
By Zoa Ace
Located in Denver, CO
Zoa Ace's (US based) "I'm Late" is an original, handmade mixed media collage on wood that is unframed and ready to hang. About the Artist: "My work is figurative and deals primarily...
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21st Century and Contemporary USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Wood, Paper, Mixed Media

The Sun, 20th Century Magic Realism Painting by Cleveland School Artist
By Paul Riba
Located in Beachwood, OH
Paul Riba (American, 1912-1977) The Sun Oil on masonite Signed lower right, titled verso 14 x 21.5 inches 20.75 x 28.25 inches, framed Paul Riba was a painter of Magic Realism. He ...
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20th Century Surrealist USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Many Umbrellas, Impressionist beach scene
By Donald Roy Purdy
Located in Greenwich, CT
This marvelous, colorful and light filled work is a desirable work by the painter. It is in an impressionist style carved and leafed frame. Illustrated in the book by the artist "A...
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1990s USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

(Untitled) Little Girl Cradling Her Black Cat, in Greens and Chestnut
Located in San Francisco, CA
Poignancy. A little girl hugging her black kitty rendered in any realistic palette would be cloying. But not here. You look longer. Tight little patterns bubble over in the backgroun...
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1960s Modern USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Milena in Black Figurative art Original oil Painting One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Eduard Matevosyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Paper Year: 2025 Style: Figurative art Title: Milena in Black Size: 16" x 12" x...
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2010s Impressionist USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil

"Street In Paris (Eglise St. Julien)" Jane Peterson, American Impressionism
By Jane Peterson
Located in New York, NY
Jane Peterson Street In Paris (Eglise St. Julien), circa 1910 Signed lower right; artist's labels on the reverse Oil on canvas 24 x 18 inches Exhibited New York, Lincoln Glenn Galle...
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1910s American Impressionist USA - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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