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Au Cafe
By Robert Philipp
Located in Los Angeles, CA
diverse subject matter, genre scenes, clowns, flowers, portraits, and costal areas. He also painted scenes
Category

1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Panel, Oil

Israeli Modernist Abstract Expressionist Gouache Painting Boats
By Motke Blum
Located in Surfside, FL
become young Blum's greatest love. He befriended several of the clowns and other performers and, when not
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Moonlit: Gisella (2022) color pencil portrait, woman, face, hyperrealism, blue
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Angeles, Honolulu and Berlin), Roq La Rue Gallery (Seattle), Strychnin Gallery (Berlin), Auguste Clown
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Panel, Wood Panel, Archival Paper, Color Pencil

Israeli Modernist Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
By Motke Blum
Located in Surfside, FL
become young Blum's greatest love. He befriended several of the clowns and other performers and, when not
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Georgian Contemporary Art by Ramaz Chantladze - Untitled 14
Located in Paris, IDF
” expressions of clowns. We should also mention the series of paintings of animals and fairy birds. All the
Category

2010s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Georgian Contemporary Art by Ramaz Chantladze - Untitled 17
Located in Paris, IDF
” expressions of clowns. We should also mention the series of paintings of animals and fairy birds. All the
Category

2010s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Portrait of a Blonde, circa 1965
By Barry Leighton-Jones
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
life and work of the famous American clown - Emmett Kelly. Taking a page out of Norman Rockwell's book
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Moonlit: Blue I (2022) color pencil portrait, woman, face, hyperrealism, blue
Located in Jersey City, NJ
(Seattle), Strychnin Gallery (Berlin), Auguste Clown Gallery (Melbourne), Deep Space Gallery (Jersey City
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Panel, Wood Panel, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Color Pencil

Moonlit: Oceania (2023) color pencil portrait, woman, face, hyperrealism, blue
Located in Jersey City, NJ
(Berlin), Auguste Clown Gallery (Melbourne), Deep Space Gallery (Jersey City) and more. She has been
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Panel, Wood Panel, Archival Paper, Color Pencil

Israeli Modernist Abstract Expressionist Seascape Oil Painting Tel Aviv Harbor
By Motke Blum
Located in Surfside, FL
circus. The circus would become young Blum's greatest love. He befriended several of the clowns and other
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Israeli Modernist Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media Painting White on White
By Motke Blum
Located in Surfside, FL
. He befriended several of the clowns and other performers and, when not painting or playing in clay
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Circus Harlequin Musicians
Located in Surfside, FL
masterpieces paved his way to international exhibitions.Barrios vibrant colors, Music, Clown, Circus
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Israeli Motke Blum Modernist Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Bezalel Artist
By Motke Blum
Located in Surfside, FL
greatest love. He befriended several of the clowns and other performers and, when not painting or playing
Category

20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil, Illustration Board

Untitled by Damien Hirst
By Damien Hirst
Located in New Orleans, LA
1993 while dressed as a clown at a street fair, emphasizing his intention to foreground play and wonder
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Post-Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, House Paint

Flowers on Table
By Robert Philipp
Located in Los Angeles, CA
diverse subject matter, genre scenes, clowns, flowers, portraits, and costal areas. He also painted scenes
Category

1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Portrait de Femme
By Gabriel Zendel
Located in Los Angeles, CA
include slightly macabre clowns and circus performers and the landscapes (both rural and urban) that were
Category

1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Les trapezistes The Trapezists
By Jean Dufy
Located in New Orleans, LA
. For years, he explored the animated and joy-filled world of circus entertainers such as clowns
Category

20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled Spin Painting By Damien Hirst
By Damien Hirst
Located in New Orleans, LA
while dressed as a clown at a street fair, emphasizing his intention to foreground play and wonder in
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, House Paint

Circus Performers - French Naive Figurative Oil by Camille Bombois
By Camille Bombois
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
work depicts circus performers - three clowns and a strong woman in a pink dress - standing on an
Category

1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Cake Boy II
Located in BARCELONA, ES
men. Sometimes he betrays their origins ("Thai eye"/"Candy man"). They often look a bit like clowns
Category

2010s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Emo Boy
Located in BARCELONA, ES
men. Sometimes he betrays their origins ("Thai eye"/"Candy man"). They often look a bit like clowns
Category

2010s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Playing Tambourine
By Jules Chéret
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
of clowns, acrobats and female dancers. Jules Chéret was also a very remarkable landscape artist but
Category

19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Night Sail/Violet Distance
By Gigi Mills
Located in New York, NY
Brothers' Circus. Burdened animals and clowns occupy a non-space en route to nowhere, and conjure a
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Crayon, Oil, Archival Paper

One Eyed Cat/Restaurant In Greece
By Gigi Mills
Located in New York, NY
Brothers' Circus. Burdened animals and clowns occupy a non-space en route to nowhere, and conjure a
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Crayon, Oil, Archival Paper, Pencil

Sad Cat Beach/Greece II
By Gigi Mills
Located in New York, NY
Brothers' Circus. Burdened animals and clowns occupy a non-space en route to nowhere, and conjure a
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Ink, Oil, Archival Paper, Carbon Pencil

Greyhound, Green and Blue Balls
By Gigi Mills
Located in New York, NY
Brothers' Circus. Burdened animals and clowns occupy a non-space en route to nowhere, and conjure a
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Night Sky/Starfish-Silver Sea
By Gigi Mills
Located in New York, NY
Brothers' Circus. Burdened animals and clowns occupy a non-space en route to nowhere, and conjure a
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Crayon, Oil, Archival Paper

"Congress of Wonders, Carnival Show" Dennis Burlingame, WPA Figurative Modernism
Located in New York, NY
of clowns and sideshow scenes, Burlingame's early works became part of a circus art genre. Several
Category

1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Le cirque
By Jean Dufy
Located in New Orleans, LA
canvas. For years, he explored the animated and joy-filled world of circus entertainers such as clowns
Category

20th Century Fauvist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

One More Time (Black Devil) Outsider Art Painting, Drawing
By Peter Dean
Located in Surfside, FL
creating their amazingly opulent costumes. Dean's figures play the roles of mocking clowns like those found
Category

1980s Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Oil Pastel, Acrylic

One More Time (Black Devil) Outsider Art Painting, Drawing
By Peter Dean
Located in Surfside, FL
creating their amazingly opulent costumes. Dean's figures play the roles of mocking clowns like those found
Category

1980s Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Oil Pastel, Acrylic

Industrial Scene
By George Biddle
Located in Los Angeles, CA
appreciation. He was also known for landscapes, cities, soldiers, mules, clowns, still lifes, flowers and nudes
Category

1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Nu Allonge -19th Century Watercolor, Nude Figure in Interior by Kees van Dongen
By Kees van Dongen
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Médrano circus, where he made pictures of clowns and acrobats. Fernande Olivier, then Picasso's companion
Category

Early 20th Century Impressionist Nude Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Large Israeli Colorful Metal Wall Sculpture Painting Circus Scene Calman Shemi
By Calman Shemi
Located in Surfside, FL
unicycle, clown with umbrella, and acrobat under the circus big top tent. Calman Shemi, sculptor and
Category

1990s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Metal

"French Landscape" Impressionist Oil Painting by Jean D Esparbes
By Jean d Esparbès
Located in Pasadena, CA
dreams." Jean’s art, primarily focused on human figures—self-portraits, musicians, clowns, and biblical
Category

1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Composition" an Original Color Lithograph signed by Alexander Calder
By Alexander Calder
Located in Milwaukee, WI
animals and clowns with which he gave circus performances in his studio. His first exhibition of paintings
Category

1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Lithograph

Abstract Mixed Media Painting. Oil on Silver Lame Screen Fabric
By Izhar Patkin
Located in Surfside, FL
adaptation of Jean Genet's play The Blacks: A Clown Show. As a painter and sculptor, Patkin works in a
Category

1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Cape Elizabeth - Maine - American Realist Seascape Oil Painting by George Luks
By George Luks
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
from Boston Common (c. 1923, oil on canvas); A Clown (1929, oil on canvas) Chicago (Terra Foundation
Category

1920s American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting Mod Bull Jewish Woman Outsider Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
act (reminiscent of Alexander Calder) with fire eater, clowns, juggler, tiger and elephant acts
Category

1980s Folk Art Animal Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting Outsider Circus Trapeze Horse Acrobats
Located in Surfside, FL
Alexander Calder) with fire eater, clowns, juggler, tiger and elephant acts. Zeldis and her daughter have
Category

1980s Folk Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting Outsider Circus Trapeze Horse Acrobats
Located in Surfside, FL
Alexander Calder) with fire eater, clowns, juggler, tiger and elephant acts. Zeldis and her daughter have
Category

1980s Folk Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting Outsider Circus Trapeze Artist Acrobats
Located in Surfside, FL
Calder) with fire eater, clowns, juggler, tiger and elephant acts. Zeldis and her daughter have written
Category

1980s Folk Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting Sports Basketball Arena Coca Cola Sign
Located in Surfside, FL
circus acts (reminiscent of Alexander Calder) with fire eater, clowns, juggler, tiger and elephant acts
Category

1980s Folk Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting Wine Cigarettes Woman Outsider Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Calder) with fire eater, clowns, juggler, tiger and elephant acts. Zeldis and her daughter have written
Category

1980s Folk Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting Outsider Artist Circus Fire Eater, Tiger
Located in Surfside, FL
act (reminiscent of Alexander Calder) with fire eater, clowns, juggler, tiger and elephant acts
Category

1980s Folk Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Large Figurative Expressionist Oil Painting Rediscovered New York City Artist
By Jonah Kinigstein
Located in Surfside, FL
King and queen with clowns and jesters. Bold, colorful, expressionist masterful painting. Jonah
Category

20th Century Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Side Show Band
Located in Los Angeles, CA
to depicting circus themes, ranging from clowns, musicians, acrobats, and bareback riders to horse
Category

1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Carnivale in Venice by Dietz Edzard (Bremen 1893 – 1963 Paris)
By Dietz Edzard
Located in Knokke, BE
musicians to clowns, acrobats and unicyclists. Edzard’s short career as a rope dancer with the circus seems
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

French Israeli Judaica Oil painting Old Synagogue Interior in Safed Israel
By Raphael Pricert
Located in Surfside, FL
painting clowns in a circus. At the Salon des Indépendants, he displays a new composition : “Jeune fille à
Category

20th Century Post-Impressionist Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

French Israeli Judaica Oil painting Old Synagogue Interior in Safed Israel
By Raphael Pricert
Located in Surfside, FL
painting clowns in a circus. At the Salon des Indépendants, he displays a new composition : “Jeune fille à
Category

20th Century Post-Impressionist Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

Vue de Saint Tropez - Post Impressionist Oil, Coastal Landscape by Othon Friesz
By Achille-Émile Othon Friesz
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Trapeze Artist, The Clown and The Horsewoman. In the south of France he also painted the Olive Trees
Category

1920s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Aviary - 20th Century Post Impressionist Oil, Exotic Birds by Othon Friesz
By Achille-Émile Othon Friesz
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
remaining clear and resonant. In 1909 he painted the Cirque Médrano series: The Trapeze Artist, The Clown
Category

Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Laid Paper

“Profiles, 1954”
By Nahum Tschacbasov
Located in Southampton, NY
Art in New York City acquires "The Clown" and "The Matriarch". Tschacbasov exhibits at the University
Category

1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Projet de Fleurs - Fauvist Flowers Gouache by Raoul Dufy
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
. Following his move to Perpignan, he painted nudes, clowns, landscapes and, not least, views of wheatfields
Category

1920s Fauvist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Gouache

The Clown
By Anastas Kamburov
Located in Sofia, BG
The clown is an abstract figurative style painting by the Bulgarian artist Anastas Kamburov. The
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Blue Clown
By Ray Batchelor
Located in Soquel, CA
Blue clown by Ray Batchelor (American, 1922-2009). Presented in a wooden frame. Signed "
Category

1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

The Clown
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
The imagery of Maurice Kish (1895-1987), whether factories or carousels, reliably subverts expectations. His vision hovers just around the unraveling edge of things, where what is so...
Category

20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

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Clown Paintings For Sale on 1stDibs

Find a variety of clown paintings available on 1stDibs. Finding the perfect contemporary, modern or Post-Impressionist examples of these works for your space is difficult — today, we have a vast range of variations and more on offer. These items have been produced for many years, with earlier versions available from the 19th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 21st Century. Adding a colorful piece of art to a room that is mostly decorated in warm neutral tones can yield a welcome change — see the clown paintings on 1stDibs that include elements of brown, gray, black, blue and more. Gigi Mills, Zahra Zeinali, Armand (François Joseph) Henrion, Roger Etienne and Maurice Kish took a thoughtful approach to this subject that are worth considering. Each of these unique pieces was handmade with extraordinary care, with artists most often working in paint, oil paint and fabric. If space is limited, there are small clown paintings measuring 0.1 across, while our inventory also includes pieces up to 97.5 inches across to better suit those in the market for large iterations.

How Much are Clown Paintings?

The average selling price for clown paintings we offer is $3,500, while they’re typically $175 on the low end and $365,000 for the highest priced.

Finding the Right Paintings for You

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Cave walls were the canvases for what were arguably the world’s first landscape paintings, which depict natural scenery through art. Portrait paintings and drawings, which, along with sculpture, were how someone’s appearance was recorded prior to the advent of photography, are at least as old as Ancient Egypt. In the Netherlands, landscapes were a major theme for painters as early as the 1500s. Later, artists in Greece, Rome and elsewhere created vast wall paintings to decorate stately homes, churches and tombs.

Today, creating a wall of art is a wonderful way to enhance your space, showcase beautiful pieces and tie an interior design together.

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Questions About Clown Paintings
  • 1stDibs ExpertFebruary 13, 2023
    The Polish artist Jan Matejko painted The Sad Clown in 1862. Today, the painting hangs in The National Museum in Warsaw, Poland. Shop a variety of paintings from some of the world’s top galleries on 1stDibs.

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