Early 2000s Figurative Paintings

Bright work with blue teapot, egg, white and blue Luisa Albert was born in Turin, Italy where she currently lives and works. In 1989 she enrolled at the Istituto Europeo di Design i...

Very interesting painting of the French Village of Beziers by this rare American city and town painter. Little is known about Smallwood other than they painted at the beginning of ...

Untitled II is a unique tempera and oil on canvas painting by contemporary artist Valérie de Sarrieu, dimensions are 130 × 162 cm (51.2 × 63.8 in). The artwork is signed, sold unfram...

Body I is a unique oil on free-standing canvas painting by contemporary artist Ferle, dimensions are 200 × 140 cm (78.7 × 55.1 in). The artwork is signed, sold unframed and comes wit...

Bosques Alpes N2 is a unique oil on canvas painting by Spanish contemporary artist Calo Carratalá, dimensions are 140 × 200 cm (55.1 × 78.7 in). The artwork is signed, sold framed a...

Newborn sound #83 is a unique painting by contemporary artist Maho Maeda. This painting is made with acrylic, coloured pencil and ink on cotton canvas and carved wood, dimensions are...

Academic style figurative oil painting on canvas 48 x 24 inches unframed 58 x 32 x 3 inches in gold leaf wood frame This vertical, contemporary figurative painting of Le Martyr de Saint Sebastian was made by Mark Beard under his fictitious artistic persona, Hippolyte-Alexandre Michallon. Painted in a modern Academic style, Beard paints this Christian saint with dramatic detail and emotional gravity. The scene is a common artistic depiction of Sebastian who according to traditional belief, was killed during the Roman emperor Diocletian's persecution of the Christians. Here the artist depicts a nearly nude Saint Sebastian standing stoically while tied to a rustic brown post. A lush green forested terrain decorates the background while a white neo-classical building sits in the distance, which is perhaps the tomb where Saint Sebastian's remains were laid to rest. Saint Sebastian's pale blue-grey, stone-like stone tone is characteristic of Mark Beard's work who often portrays muscular young men similarly to Greek statues. The vertical Academic style figurative oil painting is complimented with a vintage style gold leaf wood frame. The painting is signed 'H. A. Michallon 1872' in red oil paint in the lower right corner. The gold frame is also signed and inscribed with black oil paint in several places (please see images). Mark Beard is a contemporary artist who made this work under the pseudonym Hippolyte A. Michallon who painted during the late 1800's so slight wear (see images) is intentionally staged to align with the factitious artist's purposed history. About the artist: Mark Beard is perhaps the most literal example of an artist pulled in so many different directions that he chose to “invent” six different personae in which to channel his overflowing energy and need for expression. Each painting style is radically different from the next, so it remains entirely believable that the work could stem from six completely different people of different time periods and different schools of thought. With a background in set design, Beard has always been one who could conjure total magic with anything available. Mark Beard has exhibited with Carrie Haddad Gallery for nearly twenty years and there has never been a dull moment. Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt Lake city, now lives in New York City. His works are in museum collections worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City; the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; and the Harvard, Yale, and Princeton University Art Museums; among many others. We would not be the least bit surprised to see new ‘personas’ emerge in the coming years. About: Hippolyte - Alexandre Michallon, 1849 -1930 The long and peripatetic artistic career of Hippolyte-Alexandre Michallon began in a conventional fashion. The only son of prosperous bourgeois parents in Tours, he first studied drawing with his mother, an accomplished amateur painter of insects. His father, an undertaker who appreciated his son's talent and supported his ambition to become a painter, sent him to Paris at age sixteen to enroll in the studio of Francois-Edouard Picot (1786-1868), an eminent history painter and professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, with whom he studied for three years, until Picot's death. Under his aging teacher's guidance and tutelage, Michallon entered the preliminary stages of the Prix de Rome contest at the Ecole three times, winning an Honorable Mention in 1869 for his composition entitled The Solider of the Marathon. For the next twenty years Michallon regualarly exhibited paintings on historical and biblical themes at the Paris Salon, as well as commissioned portraits. By his own account, the most ambitious work of Michallon's career was a thirty-foot canvas depicting Noah's Ark, which he exhibited in the Salon in 1875. Michallon began painting atmospheric but zoologically correct images of exotic animals in the wild. These achieved a certain popularity among French and foreign collectors alike, providing Michallon with financial security for the first time in his career. Michallon moved to England in 1893. His outstanding technical skills easily earned him a position on the faculty of the Slade School of Art in 1900. The craze for animal paintings proved short-lived. He continued to teach at Slade for the next two decades, but his classes gradually dwindled in size as the academic approach and methods he espoused went from outmoded to downright unpopular. Finally in 1922, finding himself reduced to a single pupil, the talented young American Bruce Sargeant, he retired from Slade, persuading Sargeant to leave with him and undergo private instruction at home. Several years later he retired to a cottage at St. Ives, Cornwall, where he lived quietly until his death in 1930, forgotten by all but a few former students, among them Edith Thayer Cromwell...

Contemporary Moroccan figurative painting by Khalid Nadif. Mixed media and paint on canvas, offered framed. Signed on back by the artist. Portrait, female figure, figurative art,...

Brown earth tone contemporary figurative painting by Moroccan artist Said Housbane. Acrylic on canvas. Size: 56 x 60 inches. Offered in wood frame. Said Housbane began his career by...

Hunt Slonem IO Moths, 2009 Oil paint on canvas painting Hand Signed, titled and dated on the back; also bears artists original label Unique work Provenance: Created by Hunt Slonem e...

Mediterranean original landscape acrylic painting Ribas (El Masnou, Barcelona, 1949) is a Spanish painter whose large and hyper-realistic paintings reflect, above all, the beauty o...

Painted wood wall hanging sculpture "Red, White and Blue," (and gold) 2008 Stamped signed with initials, date and edition 2/5 Oded Halahmy, Abstract Modernist artist, was born in Iraq in the old city of Baghdad in 1938, the artist came from a family of Orthodox Jews with deep roots in ancient Babylonian culture. His father, Salech Haskel Chebbazah, was a prosperous goldsmith in Baghdad and a Jewish member of the Communist Party when Jews comprised more than a quarter of the population of Baghdad. He refers to his home as the “land of wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives and dates.”, Oded moved with his family to Israel in the 1950s, was educated at St. Martin's School of Art in London which was then a leading center for sculpture, led by Anthony Caro and Philip King and having links to Henry Moore. He taught sculpture are in the collection of the Guggenheim Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum, and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, as well as many other public and private collections worldwide. He currently lives in New York City and Old Jaffa, Israel. Like countless New Yorkers who arrived from distant lands, Oded Halahmy has a rich personal history of exile, migration and travels. Although New York has been his home for over 45 years, memories of Iraq left an indelible imprint on his life and work. Known for his dynamic yet often playful figurative pop art style sculptures in wood and bronze, he fills his work with images — albeit abstracted from reality — that evoke the landscape, architecture and rich colors of the Middle East. Palm trees, doves, pomegranates, temples and age-old symbols abound along with deep reds, amber, sky blue and the familiar greenish-blue hues of aged bronze. SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Dates-Pomegranates-Olive Oil: Chanukah Lamps, Yeshiva University Museum, New York, NY District of Columbia Jewish Community Center Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery, Washington, D.C. Homeward: Baghdad - Jerusalem - New York, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY Homelands: Baghdad-Jerusalem-New York, A Retrospective, The Ann Loeb Gallery, Washington, Homelands: Baghdad-Jerusalem-New York, A Retrospective, Yeshiva University Museum, NY The Common Ground; The Sculpture Of Oded Halahmy, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY Herr-Chambliss Fine Arts, Hot Springs, AR Artists Studio, Old Jaffa, Israel Byer Museum of Art, Evanston, IL The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT Tomasulo Gallery, Union College, Cranford, NJ Martha White Gallery, Louisville, KY Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY New England Center for Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, CT Hebrew Union College, New York, NY Bicentennial Tribute, United States Federal Plaza, New York, NY Horace Richter Galleries, Jaffa, Israel, 1976 Parsons School of Design, New York, NY America-Israel Culture House, New York, NY Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY Gallery Moos, Toronto, Canada Old Jaffa Gallery, Jaffa, Israel Pollack Gallery, Toronto, Canada SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2006 Iraqi Art...

original neo-expressionist acrylic painting contemporary work by the mallorquin artist Toni CALDENTEY Painting on paper Perfect state CALDENTEY, Toni - (Portocolom, Mallorca - Spain...

Almazan Realistic Still Life Acrylic Painting. FRAMED MIQUEL was an artist focused on the art of realism. His structured works on his great mastery of drawing, are romantic and tran...

Subirachs Ferrer is, besides an extremely gifted painter and draftsman, an illustrator who denotes, in each of her pieces, a vocation that intelligently connects with the classical a...

Even without the punch line, Gahan Wilson's highly stylized paintings are marvelous to behold. He is one of a few artists with a unique style instantly re...

Oil painting on canvas Unique work Hand-signed by the artist

Oil painting on canvas composed of two pieces : the main part and the predella in the lower part Hand-signed by the artist

Named after the greek god, also known as Apollo, Febo was the radiant god of the sun. In this painting, he is depicted in his cart, pulled by horses, which was said to drag the sun f...

OIl painting on canvas Unique work Hand-signed lower right

Oil painting on canvas Unique work Hand-signed lower left by the artist

Almazan Realistic Still Life Acrylic Painting. frameD MIQUEL was an artist focused on the art of realism. His structured works on his great mastery of drawing, are romantic and tra...

acrylic on original lenticular Barbara Strasen manipulates memories by finding the malleable moments of perception. In the “S” series, a figure appears in each painting. Yet, it is ...

Flirty. 2006, canvas, mixed media, 100x30 cm

Sublimation or weightlessness. 2006, canvas, oil, 70x90 cm

Artist: TARKAY, ITZCHAK Title: LAKE CAFE Year: 2000-2010 Size: 36 X 48 INCHES Medium: ORIGINAL ACRYLIC ON CANVAS Edition: ORIGINAL 1/1 Description: Hand signed by the artist. The art...

Almazan Realistic Still Life Acrylic Painting . framed Almazan was an artist focused on the art of realism. His structured works on his great mastery of drawing, are romantic and tr...

Signed lower right, 'Hessam' for Hessam Abrishami (Iranian, born 1951) and painted circa 2000. Titled by artist, 'Quiet Moment'. Paper dimensions: 22 H x 28 W inches Hessam Abrisha...

Portrait Of A Young Woman 1 - Figurative Oil Painting, New Renaissance Contemporary painting oil on canvas

Portrait Of A Young Woman 2 - Figurative Oil Painting, New Renaissance Contemporary painting oil on canvas

Michael Vasquez is an American artist most recognized for his works that explore identity and the cultivation of community amidst an inherent disposition of broken homes inside margi...

Thelma Appel The Fool, 2009 Acrylic on Canvas Signed, titled and dated by Thelma Appel on the back Frame included (held in the artist's original wood frame) Measurements: Frame: 50 ...

Artist: John Matos Crash  Title: R Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas Size:  74.5 x 18 Inches  Year: 10/2006 Notes: Hand Signed, Dated and Titled on Verso. Acquired from Art Link Internat...

Signed lower left, 'Hessam' for Hessam Abrishami (Iranian, born 1951) and painted circa 2000. Titled by artist, 'Color Me Music'. Paper dimensions: 28 x 21.75 inches. Hessam Abrisha...

Acrylic and Flashe on linen Barbara Strasen manipulates memories by finding the malleable moments of perception. In the “S” series, a figure appears in each painting. Yet, it is on...

Ramananda Bandyopadhyay Untitled Acrylic on Canvas Board 12 x 15 inches 30.5 x 38 cm 2004 ( Framed & Delivered ) Inclusive of shipment without the frame. Style : Lyrical and...

Ramananda Bandyopadhyay Untitled Mixed Media on Paper 14.5 x 10.5 inches 36.8 x 26.7 cm 2005 ( Framed & Delivered ) Inclusive of shipment without the frame. Style : Lyrical a...

Dragonfly is a painting that was created using a special acrylic collage. The top layer of paint was set aside and the paper at the bottom was removed. This is how the image of the g...

BOLERO. original expressionist acrylic painting. framed Spanish painter maximum representative of the art of Mallorca at the end of the 20th century. Costumbrista work. With differe...

KG Subramanyan Untitled , Gouache on Paper 8 x 11.5 inches 20.3 x 29.2 cm 2007 ( Framed & Delivered ) Style : K G Subramanyan was one of the leading artists who was part of Ind...

Le Pont Neuf - Paris. Oil on canvas by Spanish artist Joan Raset. Dimension with frame 84 cm H x 104 cm W x 4 cm D Dimension without frame 73 cm H x 92 cm W x 2 cm D Beautiful Pa...

Expressionist interior corner that has an orchid as its protagonist. Predominant chromaticism between fuchsia-pink and yellow. Oil on linen by Spanish artist Chico Montilla. Beautifu...

MATERNIDAD. original pastel painting. Framed Maria Vich is an artist from the Balearic Islands. Influenced by her teacher Tito mCittadini, she focuses her work on reflecting the coun...

Otoño en Amsterdam (Autumn in Amsterdam Oil on canvas by Spanish artist Joan Raset. Dimension 81 cm H x 65 cm W x 2 cm D Interesting close up view of an Amsterdam canal in autumn....

Sweet Toof's , acrylic painting, framed in a gilt frame with glass is , an unmistakable image that can be spotted throughout East London. Renowned London S...

Mediterranean Cottages with Red Roof Tiles in Rural European Countryside by Irish Artist Art measures 7 x 4 inches Frame measures 13.5 x 10.5 inches Impressionistic painting usi...

Primavera en jardín ( Spring in garden). Oil on canvas by Spanish artist Joan Raset. Dimension with frame 104 cm H x 121 cm W x 4,5 cm D Dimension without frame 73 cm H x 92 cm W x 2...

Born in New York City in 1959, Max Ferguson started as a filmmaker, making award-winning animated films as a teenager. But it was while he was a visiting student at an art school in ...

Mariusz Zdybal (born in 1955) He was awarded with "Golden Palm" at the international painting competition in Cannes and his works has been shown in Cannes, Warsaw, Gdansk and Berli...

Góndolas frente a Santa Maria della Salute - Venezia. Oil on canvas by Spanish artist Joan Raset. Dimension with frame 126 cm H x 191 cm W x 4,5 cm D Dimension without frame 97 cm...

Maritime Seascape Oil Painting entitled Galleons at Sea by British Artist Keith English (1935-2016) Art measures 36 x 24 inches Unframed (framing by a...

Few artists have mastered the use of pigments in the way that Sax Berlin has and his delicate touch with them imbues this painting with warmth and love. The dark inked lines surround...

A tour de force from Sax Berlin with this piece. It’s a glowing, almost three dimensional painting full of warmth with stunning use of red tonal colours. His figure is enigmatic and ...

Beethoven original expressionist mixed media painting RAVENTÓS Mª Assumpció – (San Sadurní d’Anoia, Barcelona 1930). Raventos trained at the elite Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts in B...

Beautiful painting depicts a young black man holding skull and flip phone. Gouache on illustration board, image measuring 8 x 10 inches; 16 x 20 inches framed. Signed lower left.

original neo-expressionist acrylic painting contemporary work by the mallorquin artist Toni CALDENTEY Painting on paper Perfect state CALDENTEY, Toni - (Portocolom, Mallorca - Spain...

Artist: Mel Ramos, American (1935 - ) Title: O from the Hollywood Suite Year: 2009 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated verso Size: 39.5 in. x 30 in. (100.33 cm x 76.2 cm) Frame S...

As a young person, Gordon Rayner learned to paint from his father, a commercial artist and weekend painter, and from his father`s close friend, Jack Bush. He spent 17 years working i...