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Item Ships From: California
Figure Drinking from Bottle
By Alois Mosbacher
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Alois Mosbacher– Austrian (1954- )
Title: Figure Drinking from Bottle
Year: 1982
Medium: Mixed Media – Acrylic and watercolor on paper
Size: 16.75 x 24 inches (42.5 x 61 cm) ...
Category
1980s Other Art Style California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
Girl with Roses
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Girl with Roses" c.1990 is an oil painting on canvas by noted British artist Brenda Burke, b.1957. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The canvas size is 30 x 20 inches, framed size is 37.5 x 27.5 inches. Framed in original wooden beige and gold ornate frame, with fabric liner. The artwork and frame are in excellent condition. The fabric liner is separated at the 4 corners and will be replaced by a new one when sold, before shipping, This will bring the over all condition to excellent.
About the artist:
Brenda Burke started to paint at an early age of three years. Her career has spanned more than half a century, encompassing paintings, portraits, sculpture and printmaking. She has trained in the classical style of the old masters at the renowned Farnham art school just outside of London, England and continuing her studies in Florence and Rome, Italy, Burke’s wealth of experience, technical excellence and artistic vision is evident in each of her exceptional works of art.
Her work can be seen in private collections around the world. Sometimes known as the Painter of Royalty, Brenda has been chosen to present her work to Her Majesty The Queen of England. She was commissioned to paint the celebratory portrait for Prince Charles and Lady Diana's engagement, and she was again selected to create the painting for the christening of Prince William.
Her skill and versatility has also been shown in a collection of limited edition wax and porcelain dolls, dressed in fine silks and antique French lace...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Original Abstract Expressionist - Hawaiian Mother and Baby
By Michael William Eggleston
Located in Soquel, CA
Polynesian Mother and Baby - Original Abstract Expressionist Figurative Acrylic on Paper
Abstract Expressionist figurative painting by Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th Cent...
Category
1980s Contemporary California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
$1,240 Sale Price
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Rosie Red - Romantic Red and Pink Floral Painting Expressive Still Life Bouquet
By Kellie Newsome
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Georgia-based artist Kellie Newsome specializes in dynamic and abstracted still-life artworks. Her expressive style emphasizes line structure, creating vibrant paintings that celebra...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Lounge Drawing Room By Bruno Paoli - Figurative Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Certificate of authenticity and artist catalogue are included.
Bruno Paoli (1915-2005)
Teaching the masters helped create this contemporary master.
Bruno was a professor of art in F...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Multi-Color Abstract Expressionist Figurative
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Exceptional mid century Abstract Expressionist figurative painting from her study with David Park by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). Signed lower right "Honora Berg" and on verso. Unframed. Image 36"H x 30"W.
Berg studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with David Park, Elmer Bischoff, and James Budd Dixon. Berg's friend Edith Truesdell...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,280 Sale Price
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Body Clock - Mixed Media Abstract Original Figurative Painting
By Carl Smith
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Carl Smith is an American artist who has been living in Berlin, Germany, since 2001. He works with a combination of silkscreen printing, collage, and resin to create his urban inspir...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Resin, Mixed Media, Wood Panel
$500 Sale Price
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Red Tables By Bruno Paoli - Figurative Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Certificate of authenticity and artist catalogue are included.
Bruno Paoli (1915-2005)
Teaching the masters helped create this contemporary master.
Bruno was a professor of art in F...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ocean Park Bench
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting qn exceptional oil on panel by American artist Ron Blumberg(1908-2002)
Ocean Park bench, is an original oil on panel, signed, c.1957, painted ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$16,500
TEAM No. 2 / 30 x 30 inch children beach play in sunlight
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Beach scene with children at play in the ocean water. Willard Dixon is one of the finest American contemporary realist painters who has painted western landscapes for 35 years. His ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscapes with sea. Two paintings on hardboard, one is signed.
By Lucien Mainssieux
Located in San Francisco, CA
These paintings "Landscape" are 2 oils on hardboard by noted French fauvist artist Lucien Mainssieux 1885-1958. One of the two is signed at the lower...
Category
Mid-20th Century Fauvist California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th century interior of women at spinning wheel
Located in San Francisco, CA
19th century interior of women at spinning wheel
Oil on canvas
Restored
25.75×28.25 framed
19.25×20.5
Category
19th Century California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Abstracted Figurative -- Downtown Couple Art Exhibit
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant mid century modern abstracted figurative in orange, red and black by Bay Area artist Paul Sheppard. Dated 1959 and signed "Sheppard." Presented i...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dawn Stroll - Expressive Color Drenched Textured Impasto Figurative Painting
By Ekaterina Ermilkina
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ekaterina Ermilkina’s original, abstract fine art paintings are created using a skillful combination of applying and removing oil paint with a palette knife on canvas. Her inspiratio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Carnivore TV - Retro Television Urban Contemporary Pop Art by Gary John
By Gary John
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Newsprint
Methods Of Persuasion - Original Figurative Surrealist Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Robert Lebsack creates artworks using mixed media with ink, acrylic, and charcoal on archival copies of newspapers, textbooks, and sheet music. As a visionary artist, Lebsack weaves ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
$1,040 Sale Price
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Latin Village - Marc Zimmerman
By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
An old village by the sea bathed in a warm summer's atmosphere reminds us of the joys of Latin life. A girl descends the road to the colorful village where life is easy and carefree...
Category
20th Century Contemporary California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$7,600 Sale Price
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The Lone Navajo Horseman
Located in Soquel, CA
Substantial California oil painting of a Navajo horseman in the New Mexico mountains. Stylistically similar to Constantine Cherkas Navajo Rider painti...
Category
1950s American Impressionist California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$920 Sale Price
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Untitled Mid-Century Painting - Group of Men
Located in Soquel, CA
Untitled painting of a group of men by Antonio Rodríguez Luna (1910-1985.)
This moody piece by Antonio Rodríguez Luna is an excellent example of his work from the early 1960s, which...
Category
1960s Neo-Expressionist California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Stretcher Bars, Linen
"Pebbles" Bold Colorful Original Contemporary Art by Gary John
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 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Newsprint
"Shooting Blindly" Original Contemporary Pop Art Abstract Figure
By Gary John
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Board
Circus Wagons
By Millard Sheets
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This watercolor is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Circus Wagons, 1927, watercolor on paper, signed and dated lower left, 10 x19 ¾ inches (sight), provenance includes Stary-Sheets Art Gallery (Gualala, CA); J. Ralph & Louis Stone Foundation; presented in a newer metal frame behind glazing
About the Painting
Millard Sheets was only twenty years old and in his third year of studies at the Chouinard Art Institute when he painted Circus Wagons. Despite his youth, Sheets was already an accomplished artist who had publicly exhibited his work and won prestigious prizes. Within several years, he would have his first solo exhibition at one of Los Angeles’ premiere galleries and become a painting instructor at his alma mater. In Circus Wagons we already see Sheets deft handling of the watercolor medium and his interest in the California Scene. In this case, Sheets captures a back lot view of a traveling circus, a subject he sometimes returned to, including in a color screen print in the collection of the National Gallery. Sheets made a career by painting what he knew and observed firsthand. This approach allowed Sheets to capture with authenticity the details of each narrative. Even with a narrowly limited palette and an economy of brushstrokes, Sheets effectively depicts the southern California scene with its strong and mysterious shadows, as well as the workers and circus animals. Seen through the hindsight of his six-decade long career, Circus Wagons offers a fascinating insight into the early development of California Scene painting which would by the mid-1930s become the best recognized style on the West Coast.
About the Artist
Millard Sheets was the dean of California watercolorists. His list of accomplishments is so extensive that his entry in Who was Who in American Art is over forty lines. Born in Pomona, California, Sheets became a painter at an early age, winning a prize at the Los Angeles County Fair in 1918. By the mid to late-1920s, Sheets became a regular at art exhibitions in the western part of the United States, winning several additional prizes before he reached the age of twenty-five. Sheets studied at the prestigious Chouinard Art Institute from 1925 through 1929 with Frank Tolles Chamberlin and Clarence Hinkle and had his first solo show with Los Angeles’ Dalzell Hatfield Gallery in 1929. During the 1930s, Sheets was invited to exhibit at almost every major American Museum and in many ways, his work came to represent the California watercolor school...
Category
1920s American Realist California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Doll In The Mirror By Bruno Paoli - Figurative Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Certificate of authenticity and artist catalogue are included.
Bruno Paoli (1915-2005)
Teaching the masters helped create this contemporary master.
Bruno was a professor of art in F...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"THE BLACK COAT PROJECT - COURTNI" Painting 72 x 48 in by Charles Malinsky
By Charles Malinsky
Located in Culver City, CA
"THE BLACK COAT PROJECT - COURTNI" Painting 72 x 48 in by Charles Malinsky
Artwork ships rolled in a tube.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Charles Malinsky is an internationally acclaimed Canad...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Red Dress 1 - Oil Painting on Canvas, Framed
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 peopl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract California - 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...
Category
2010s California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Two Nude Female Models in Acrylic on Paper San Francisco Abstract Expressionist
Located in Soquel, CA
Two Nude Female Models in Acrylic on Paper San Francisco Abstract Expressionist
Colorful painting of two models by acclaimed bluegrass musician and San Francisco artist Katherine "K...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
"Beneath the Veil" Modern Nude Figurative Oil Painting.
By Orielle Anais
Located in Carmel, CA
24 x 24” Oil on Canvas – Contemporary Figurative Nude Oil Painting.
This original contemporary oil painting showcases the timeless beauty of the nude figure through bold modern col...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cristina And The City By Bruno Paoli - Figurative Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Certificate of authenticity and artist catalogue are included.
Bruno Paoli (1915-2005)
Teaching the masters helped create this contemporary master.
Bruno was a professor of art in F...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Two Nuns Facing the Ocean
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Two Nuns Facing the Ocean" c.1950 is an oil painting on hardboard by Australian artist Joan Wilkie, 1903-? It is signed at the lower right co...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
City Life
By Marek Zbyslaw Maciejewski
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Marek Zbyslaw Maciejewski (Polish, 1946-1999)
Title: City Life
Year: Circa 1970
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size of image: 26 x 22.25 inches
Signature: Signed lower right
Condition...
Category
20th Century Impressionist California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Uncle Penny Bags Social Distancing - Original Photorealistic 3-D Artwork
By Kathleen Keifer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kathleen Keifer is a California-based internationally collected artist. She is a leading force of the New California Realism. Keifer brings a fresh perspective to her hyperrealistic ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$1,480 Sale Price
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The Piano
By KOKO HOVAGUIMIAN
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
The piece is called ‘The Piano’ because it is the central instrument in the orchestra arrangement and composition.
-"As a pianist myself, one of my favorit...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$7,500
"Jetsons Ride" Original Colorful Pop Art by Gary John
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 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Newsprint
A Different Crowd II - Original Colorful Artwork on Canvas
By Ricky Hunt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ricky Hunt’s work is influenced by Egyptian hieroglyphs, graffiti and his tumultuous past that led to a paradigm shift in creativity and life. He covers the canvas with unique imager...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Sierra Foothills
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Sierra Foothills" c.1980, is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist Bill Shaddix, b.1930. It is signed at the lower left corne...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape with Houses and Pond, California
By Clifford Holmes
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape with Houses and Pond, California" c.1950 is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist Clifford Holmes 1876-1963. It is signed at the lower left cor...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Riders of Pigeon Hill
By Jon Corbino
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Riders of Pigeon Hill, c. 1940s, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 24 x 36 inches, label verso with title, artist’s name and address; same information inscribed verso; ex-collection...
Category
1940s American Modern California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wrestling the Shadows
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Wrestling the Shadows' is a figurative portrait by multi-disciplinary artist Kim Frohsin. Professionally framed in a white ash hardwood floater frame, with an opening on the back, to reveal the artist's signature, title of the painting, and year of its making - 2007. Ready for hanging and also suitable to sit of a table as a sculpture.
Frohsin’s work is held by the San Jose Museum of Art, the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, the Office of the Governor, State Capital, Sacramento, and the United States Department of State. Her work is also in numerous corporate and private collections, among them the Morgan Flagg Family Collection, Buck Fine Arts, Adobe Systems, Inc Neiman Marcus and the Gap, Inc. Frohsin began exhibiting in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1990s, and in 1993 was included with Nathan Olivera, Manuel Neri and Stephen De Staebler in an exhibit of "Four Figures from the Bay." With Wayne Thiebaud as the juror, she won the California Society of Printmakers' Award in 1996, and the following year exhibited at the de Young Museum in San Francisco in "Bay Area Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Carbon Pencil, Pigment
"Awakening" - Bright Colorful Textural Figurative Woman Sitting Abstract Artwork
Located in Carmel, CA
Maura Petersen (American, born 1956)
"Awakening" 2025
Acrylic Paint, Canvas, Stretcher Bars
The artist signed the bottom right of the painting.
In “Awakening,” Maura Petersen captur...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars
Seescape Bretany signed Karnec
By Karnec Jean Etienne
Located in Pasadena, CA
Oil on pannel by J.E. KARNEC, born in 1865 (in Austria after GERALD SCHURR), died in 1934. Painter of landscapes, seascapes, port landscapes, water landscapes. "Orientalist trend" (...
Category
1890s Impressionist California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Once Upon a Time" Mid Century Figurative Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming mid-century naive painting of small figures and chickens in a rural landscape by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Signed with the monogram "I. M. H." on lower lef...
Category
1960s Folk Art California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
$372 Sale Price
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Truckee Rail Yard II
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Truckee Rail Yard II" 2015, is an oil painting on canvas by noted American artist Andrew (Andy) Skaff, b.1945. It is signed at the lower right corner by the arti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Perfect Empire #4", Classical Greek Sculpture Figurative Study on Red
Located in Soquel, CA
Contemporary figure study of a classical Greek sculpture of a supine man, depicted with expressive brushstrokes on a bold, deep red background, by UK-based Filipino artist...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Warrior and Pegasus Fight the Kraken - Original Surrealist On Board
By Russell Tripp
Located in Soquel, CA
Warrior and Pegasus Fight the Kraken - Original Surrealist On Board
Dramatic and dynamic fantasy scene by Russell R. Tripp (American, 1942-2025). This piece depicts a warrior atop a...
Category
1980s Modern California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Printemps
By Charles Levier
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
A beautiful woman sits at an open window, gazing down at a small bird who has landed nearby in this serene portrait by Charles Levier. Warm orange tones are played off their complements in shades of blue, the artist utilizing several different layers of oils to create a subtle and relaxed view of a spring day near the sea. Beyond the window a small chapel sits on a peninsula, surrounded tranquil blue waters.
This work, like many of Levier's, belongs to the French figurative movement of the Glorious Thirty (Les Trente Glorieuses) - the golden period of thirty years after WWII which were a time of great hope and prosperity in France. Inspired by Hollywood cinema, Charles Levier sought harmony in composition and purity of color and form. His said that his creations represented "a light and delicate world, of dark and subtle shades and colors."
Levier worked in a somewhat abstracted, cubist style. Additionally he often employed the French technique of "cloisonnism" (after the French for "partition"), a style of post-Impressionist painting with bold and flat forms separated by dark contours, also seen in this work. The term was coined by critic Edouard Dujardin on the occasion of the Salon des Indépendants, in March 1888 and was commonly used by artists like Émile Bernard, Louis Anquetin, Paul...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
To Be Understood
By Brett Hammond - Pop Art
Located in Napa, CA
Brett Hammond’s spray-painted canvas panels pay homage to pop art traditions as he explores his own interests in satire, drama, and romantic tension. Above all, his work is smart, fu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Cowgirl of Hearts - Pink Vintage Pinup Inspired Figurative Painting on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Jesse’s imagery often merges playful and gritty elements, blending floral patterns, vintage-inspired designs, and bold outlines with a touch of whimsy. His artwork exudes a sense of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"The Family Hearth" - Turn of the Century Cozy Interior Figurative Scene
By Charles Everett Johnson
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming turn-of-20th Century interior painting that takes the viewer back to simpler times with grandmother, grandfather, mother sewing and a young girl playing with her greyhound a...
Category
Early 1900s Realist California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Mid Century Slovakian Village by the Lake
Located in Soquel, CA
A beautiful impressionist oil painting of a small Slovakian lakeside village with vibrant green mountains and red-roofed homes in the foreground. Unsigned. Unframed. Image, 30"H x 24"L.
Category
1960s Impressionist California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board
$431 Sale Price
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An August Resaissance / 2018 - framed nude
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Blue nude is swirling abstracted water figurative painting from Kim Frohsin's "Emergence" series from 2018. Frohsin, third generation Bay Area Figurative artist—from the movement tha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Tempera, Gouache, Color Pencil
The 8998
By Peter Korling
Located in West Hollywood, CA
We are proud to present for the first time in more than thirty years, the original painting of American artist Peter Korling.
Peter Korling was classically trained at the Chicago In...
Category
1980s Modern California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$18,500
Clown, Medrano Circus, France
By Benton Scott
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Clown, Medrano Circus, France" c.1960 is an oil painting on canvas by noted American artist Benton Scott, 1907-1983. It is signed at the lower left side by the a...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Figure sitting playing flute
By Moshe Katz
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original oil by Moshe Katz depicting a figure sitting playing the flute
Oil on canvas
1966
52.75" W × 22.75" H, framed
45" W x 15" H, unframed
Category
1960s California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Model And Painter By Bruno Paoli - Figurative Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Certificate of authenticity and artist catalogue are included.
Bruno Paoli (1915-2005)
Teaching the masters helped create this contemporary master.
Bruno was a professor of art in F...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Brainiac VII Abstract
By Michael Pauker
Located in Soquel, CA
Large-scale abstract with multi-colored brains layered on a neutral background by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b.1957). Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$3,600 Sale Price
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“Demure”- oil on linen
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...
Category
2010s California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Depicting the annunciation of the shepherds
Located in San Francisco, CA
Continental school
Oil on canvas
Depicting the annunciation of the shepherds
18th/19th century
No visible signature
Realigned/restored
26.5 x 30.5
Category
18th Century California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Hike Down to Nude Beach”- oil on linen, framed
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...
Category
2010s California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Six O
Clock
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Six O-Clock, c. 1942, oil on canvas, 30 x 20 inches, signed and titled several times verso of frame and stretcher (perhaps by another hand), marked “Rehn” several times on frame (for the Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries in New York City, who represented Craig at the time); Exhibited: 1) 18th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings from March 21 to May 2, 1943 at The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. #87, original price $450 (per catalog) (exhibition label verso), 2) Craig’s one-man show at the Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries, New York City, from October 26 to November 14, 1942, #10 (original price listed as $350); and 3) Exhibition of thirty paintings sponsored by the Harrisburg Art Association at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg in March, 1944 (concerning this exhibit, Penelope Redd of The Evening News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) wrote: “Other paintings that have overtones of superrealism inherent in the subjects include Tom Craig’s California nocturne, ‘Six O’Clock,’ two figures moving through the twilight . . . .” March 6, 1944, p. 13); another label verso from The Museum of Art of Toledo (Ohio): original frame: Provenance includes George Stern Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
About the Painting
Long before Chris Burden’s iconic installation outside of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Urban Light, another artist, Tom Craig, made Southern California streetlights the subject of one of his early 1940s paintings. Consisting of dozens of recycled streetlights from the 1920s and 1930s forming a classical colonnade at the museum’s entrance, Burden’s Urban Light has become a symbol of Los Angeles. For Burden, the streetlights represent what constitutes an advanced society, something “safe after dark and beautiful to behold.” It seems that Craig is playing on the same theme in Six O-Clock. Although we see two hunched figures trudging along the sidewalk at the end of a long day, the real stars of this painting are the streetlights which brighten the twilight and silhouette another iconic symbol of Los Angeles, the palm trees in the distance. Mountains in the background and the distant view of a suburban neighborhood join the streetlights and palm trees as classic subject matter for a California Scene painting, but Craig gives us a twist by depicting the scene not as a sun-drenched natural expanse. Rather, Craig uses thin layers of oil paint, mimicking the watercolor technique for which he is most famous, to show us the twinkling beauty of manmade light and the safety it affords. Although Southern California is a land of natural wonders, the interventions of humanity are already everywhere in Los Angeles and as one critic noted, the resulting painting has an air of “superrealism.”
About the Artist
Thomas Theodore Craig was a well-known fixture in the Southern California art scene. He was born in Upland California. Craig graduated with a degree in botany from Pomona College and studied painting at Pamona and the Chouinard Art School with Stanton MacDonald-Wright and Barse Miller among others. He became close friends with fellow artist Milford Zornes...
Category
1940s American Modern California - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$12,500
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