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Impressionist Paintings

IMPRESSIONIST STYLE

Emerging in 19th-century France, Impressionist art embraced loose brushwork and plein-air painting to respond to the movement of daily life. Although the pioneers of the Impressionist movement — Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir — are now household names, their work was a radical break with an art scene led and shaped by academic traditions for around two centuries. These academies had oversight of a curriculum that emphasized formal drawing, painting and sculpting techniques and historical themes.

The French Impressionists were influenced by a group of artists known as the Barbizon School, who painted what they witnessed in nature. The rejection of pieces by these artists and the later Impressionists from the salons culminated in a watershed 1874 exhibition in Paris that was staged outside of the juried systems. After a work of Monet’s was derided by a critic as an unfinished “impression,” the term was taken as a celebration of their shared interest in capturing fleeting moments as subject matter, whether the shifting weather on rural landscapes or the frenzy of an urban crowd. Rather than the exacting realism of the academic tradition, Impressionist paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings represented how an artist saw a world in motion.

Many Impressionist painters were inspired by the perspectives in imported Japanese prints alongside these shifts in European painting — Édouard Manet drew on ukiyo-e woodblock prints and depicted Japanese design in his Portrait of Émile Zola, for example. American artists such as Mary Cassatt and William Merritt Chase, who studied abroad, were impacted by the work of the French artists, and by the late 19th century American Impressionism had its own distinct aesthetics with painters responding to the rapid modernization of cities through quickly created works that were vivid with color and light.

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Style: Impressionist
Urban Jungle
Located in Zofingen, AG
This painting will come to you stretched on a wooden stretcher and completely ready to be placed in the interior. ABOUT THE ARTWORK "Urban Jungle" delves into the serene coexistence...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Scottish Impressionist landscape with Geese in a farmyard with trees, hay bales
Located in Woodbury, CT
Outstanding Scottish landscape from the late 19th to early 20th century oil on canvas. Born in Scone, Frazer would participate in the growth and development of Scottish landscape painting during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Long desiring to compete with the artistic endeavors of England, Scotland was making sure to make its mark, investing heavily in its artists. Indeed, Frazer would attend the acclaimed Royal Scottish Academy to receive his art education, intended to compete with English schools such as the Royal Academy in London. When his studies were complete, he would then base himself out of Edinburgh as he pursued a professional career. Edinburgh was and remains, the art capital of Scotland, and there was no place better for budding artist to plant their roots. Frazer’s work is a prime example of the growing influence of impressionism on Scottish landscape art...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

I was lost but I'm found
Located in Zofingen, AG
This painting will come to you stretched on a wooden stretcher and completely ready to be placed in the interior. ABOUT THE ARTWORK "I Was Lost But I'm Found" from the "PERICHORESIS...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Mountain Landscape
Located in Austin, TX
By Charles Berninghaus (1905-1988) 19" x 23" Oil paint on canvas An impressionistic landscape painting of a wide open plane with mountains in the background and blue skies above by ...
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20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Snowy Scene with Creek
Located in Austin, TX
By Charles Berninghaus (1905-1988) 22" x 28" Oil paint on canvas An impressionist snowy landscape painting by 20th century American artist Charles Berninghaus. Framed
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20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Autumn Landscape in the Mountains
Located in Austin, TX
By Emile Albert Gruppe (1896-1978) 30" x 36" Oil paint on canvas This landscape painting by American impressionist Emile Albert Gruppe depicts a fall scene on a hill with trees in t...
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20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Girl on a motorcycle
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
"It's your road. Oters can ride it with you but no one can ride it for you."
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Fleurs" by Hadley Rampton, Landscape Oil Painting, Cherry Blossoms
Located in Denver, CO
Hadley Rampton's "Fleurs" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an aspen tree with blue sky in the background. Artist Statement Some tell me I’m crazy for painting in...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

"Elan" by Hadley Rampton, Landscape Oil Painting, Aspen with Blue Sky
Located in Denver, CO
Hadley Rampton's "Elan" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an aspen tree with blue sky in the background. Artist Statement Some tell me I’m crazy for painting in t...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Indigo Trees, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Linen Year: 2024 Style: Impressionism, Title: Indigo Trees, Size: 27.5" x 26.5" ...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Enrique Pastor Bulls in the Field original acrylic canvas painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Bulls in the Field origial realist acrylic canvas painting Enrique Pastor is a self-taught painter, with the privilege of having a teacher close by, his own father equally won by th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Queen For A Day - Impressionist Pastel Flower Painting
Located in Boston, MA
Queen For A Day 8.0 x 8.0 x 0.1, 1.0 lbs Pastel on archival paper Hand signed by artist Artist's Commentary: "Queen Ann's Lace always reminds me of summer. These beauties were ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings

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Pastel

Sunny Nantucket Panorama
Located in Greenwich, CT
Jan Pawlowski Biography Polish, b. 1949 Pawlowski was born in 1949 in Poland. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 1979 he was awarded his "authorization and certi...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

You Kiss Like Fire - Impressionist California Sunset Pastel Painting
Located in Boston, MA
You Kiss Like Fire 8.0 x 8.0 x 1.0, 1.0 lbs Pastel on archival paper Hand signed by artist Artist's Commentary: "'You Kiss Like Fire' was inspired by a magical sunset in the fa...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings

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Pastel

Vintage Oil painting on canvas, seascape, Sailing ship, Unsigned, Framed
Located in Framingham, MA
This is an original signed vintage oil painting on canvas depicting a Sailing Ship on the High Seas. Beautifully done, textured, great blue colors. Framed measuring 32.5" x ...
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20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Fine Antique French Impressionist Signed Oil Painting River through Meadows
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Meadow RIver by Charles Martin-Sauvaigo (French 1881-1970) * see notes below French Impressionist painter oil painting on wooden panel unframed size: 13 x 18 inches condition: very ...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Fine Edwardian Portrait of a Lady 1900's British Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Lady British School, early 1900's Circle of Samuel Luke Fildes (1843-1927) British. Bust Portrait of a Lady, Oil on canvas, 24" x 20" (61 x 50.8cm) plus gilt swept f...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Impressionistic Fireworks Painting Michael Budden 4th July Washington Monument
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Spectacular Radiance, 4th of July, Washington Monument oil/panel 6 x 8 image unframed, 15.5 x 13.5 framed in a very showy frame. Frame can be changed. Spectacular Radiance is an oil ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Ocean Beach Impressionistic Seascape Oil Painting Michael Budden Summer Day
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Summer Day Beach Study Oil/panel 4.75 x 11 unframed, 8.75 x 14.75 framed Summer Day is an oil painting on canvas by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden that showcases a ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Winter Landscape Oil Painting by Michael Budden Winter Tree Study I
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Winter Tree Study I oil/canvas panel 6 x 8 image unframe, 9.50 x 11.50 I enjoy playing with light in my paintings and creating a mood while trying to push the range of color using su...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Winter Landscape Oil Painting by Michael Budden Winter Farm II
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Winter Farm II oil/canvas panel 6 x 8 image unframe, 9.63 x 11.63 framed I enjoy playing with light in my paintings and creating a mood while trying to push the range of color using ...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Sweet summer red cherries from the garden
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This colorful artwork "Sweet summer red cherries from the garden " is my way to express my love for the south of France which is rich in fruits. I explore the beauty of these bea...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Dusk on the marshes. by Rachael Dalzell. Acrylic on paper.
Located in Coltishall, GB
Rachael’s works on paper are particularly organic. Diluted paint is allowed to migrate on a damp surface, sticks are used to daub and scratch, heavier splatters are dropped, lines ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Bords de L'Orne - Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting by Paul-Emile Pissarro
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas landscape circa 1950 by French impressionist painter Paul-Emile Pissarro. The work depicts a view of the river Orne in Normandy, France. The bright blue sky can ...
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1950s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Your Song Refreshed My Soul, Original painting, Woodland, Landscape, Summer
Located in Deddington, GB
‘Your Song Refreshed My Soul’ is an original acrylic painting by Sarah Ollerenshaw. This painting resonates and inspires for a moment a spiritual transportation away from the busynes...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Acrylic, Board

Church of Trinity in Serebryaniki
Located in Zofingen, AG
This view of the square in the Tagansky district from the monument to Dmitry Donskoy in the sketch shows only the cross on the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Serebryaniki on a ...
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Early 2000s Impressionist Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

Grey day at the breakwater, Original Landscape Painting, Oil on Board, Seascape
Located in Deddington, GB
An oil painting inspired by the stormy sea at the breakwater in Bude, Cornwall. The rough sea is conveyed through thick paint applied spontaneously with a palette knife. The colour p...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Board

SOPHIE DANIELLE RUBINSTAIN (1922-2018) HUGE 1960s FRENCH SURREALIST SIGNED OIL
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Surrealist Composition" by Sophie Danielle Rubinstain (1922-2018) signed lower left hand side, oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 23.5 x 28.5 inches Stunning original oil p...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

20th Century French Forest Landscape Oil painting Signed
Located in Zofingen, AG
Landscape of Fontainebleau Georges Bousquet Moret (1904-1976) was, first, an engineer passionate about arts. This passion led him to devote his f...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1930s French Impressionist Watercolour of a Church
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Impressionist watercolour on paper view of a church by Henri Clamen. The painting is unsigned but was acquired from the artists ...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

"You are the rose of my heart" ( a bouquet of red roses in a vase)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This contemporary floral artwork "You are the rose of my heart " celebrates the charm of blooming red roses. I explore the beauty of these beautiful flowers via the expressive bru...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

c1900 French Orientalist Oil Painting The Fruit Seller portrait
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Fruit Seller French Orientalist artist, circa 1900 oil on canvas, framed in antique wooden frame. framed: 19.5 x 22.75 inches canvas: 15 x 18 inches provenance: private collecti...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Bird sitting on the beach umbrella
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This artwork " Bird sitting on the beach umbrella " celebrates my love for the south of France and refers to my lovely summer vacations spent in this region of France. I explore the...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Sailing Boats in a Harbour
Located in West Sussex, GB
Emily Beatrice Bland (1864-1951) British Sailing Boats in a Harbour Oil on board:10 x 9 in. Frame: 15 x 14 in. Inscribed on old gallery label ve...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

"Falling in love with Provence" seaside vineyard mountains south of France
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This seaside artwork " Falling in love with Provence" celebrates my love for the south of France. I explore the beauty of one charming finishing village of the south of France which...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

"Winter Evening at the Grand Army Plaza" Impressionist 5th Ave NYC Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
A stunning jewel and pertinent example of Berthelsen's charming New York City scenes. Here we find an evening winter scene with The Pulitzer Fountain at Grand Army Plaza covered in s...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

"What is the sea singing about in a shell?" Summer seascape
Located in Zofingen, AG
"What is the sea singing about in a shell?" Summer seascape. Painted in oil on canvas.
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Lacquer, Oil

Fishing Boats, Gloucester MA, American Impressionist Harbor Scene
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Fishing Boats, Gloucester, MA" is a 25" x 30" oil on canvas, New England harbor scene by Pennsylvania Impressionist painter and New Hope School member Antonio Martino. It is framed...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

KaDi Pan Landscape Original Oil On Canvas "Above The River"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Above The River Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 24 x 24 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This pai...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Garden View - Mid 20th Century Modern British Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful 1960's Modern British oil on canvas laid on board depicting a view from a back garden. Presented in a painted frame. Artist: British School, mid 20th century Title: View...
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1960s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Three Part Study Series for Robin Hood Mural
By Gerald Cassidy
Located in Milford, NH
This collection of three works is a study series for a Robin Hood mural in a Houston, Texas home by Gerald Ira Diamond Cassidy (1869-1934). Gerald Cassidy was an American artist best...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Ink, Oil, Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite

March. Sunset. Tsaritsyno Park
Located in Zofingen, AG
Already the warm rays of the sun in March melt the snow and give the motif in Tsaritsyno park with poplar a finished look with a beautiful play of textures. The main task I set for m...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Cardboard, Oil, Cotton Canvas

Landscape with Distant Town - Antique French Impressionist Impasto Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful signed and dated 1933 French impressionist oil on panel depicting a landscape with distant town. The work is superbly painted with swirling impasto brushstrokes. Presente...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Panel

My dreamy beach of the south of France
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This contemporary seaside artwork "My dreamy beach of the south of France " celebrates my love for the beach, sea, sand and summer vacations spent in the south of France. I explore ...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Paper, Oil

Herison J. original painting on canvas, Seascape, Sailing Ship, Gorgeous Frame
Located in Framingham, MA
Up for sale is a beautiful original oil painting on canvas depicting a majestic sailing ship at sea, beautifully depicted amidst dynamic ocean waves. The ship is fully rigged with al...
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20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Summer, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Linen Year: 2024 Style: Impressionism, Title: Summer, Size: 21" x 17" x 0.8'' in...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique impressionist landscape oil painting of houses on a hillside
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Antique post impressionist landscape oil painting on board in a fabulous old frame. This stunning Art Deco painting sits within an equally stunning frame. On a board that is smooth...
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1910s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Blossom Trees, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Linen Year: 2024 Style: Impressionism, Title: Blossom Trees, Size: 17.5" x 30" x...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

‘Yellow and Red Umbrellas’ Beach Seascape Oil Painting
Located in Toronto, CA
Impasto style brushwork creates a vibrant beach day with colourful umbrellas. Strong impressionist influence can be seen through the gestural brushstrokes, with figures dotting the s...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

At the Bend - Abstracted Russian Landscape Yuri Gusev
By Yuri Gusev
Located in Soquel, CA
Impressionist landscape of a river at the edge of the woods by Yuri Gusev (Russian, b. 1928). There is a kneeling figure between the trees in the foreground. Presented in a pink-hued...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Linen

'Carnivale in Venice' by Dietz Edzard (Bremen 1893 – 1963 Paris)
Located in Bruges, BE
Dietz Edzard Bremen 1893 – 1963 Paris German Painter 'Carnivale in Venice' Signature: signed lower right ‘D Edzard’ c. 1958-1960 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: image size 35 x 2...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Gondolas At St Mark's, Venice and Casole D'elsa III Dyptich, Original paintings
Located in Deddington, GB
Gondolas At St Mark's, Venice is an original oil on board painting by artist Lucy Pratt. This painting features her beautiful and considered use of impressionist style mark making al...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Board, Oil

A ballerina at the window
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this oil painting, I've captured a moment of contemplative grace, portraying a ballerina seated by the window. The natural light cascades through the glass, highlighting the delic...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Over the estuary, Gwbert, Original Landscape Painting, Oil on Board
Located in Deddington, GB
An oil painting painted en plein air overlooking the Teifi estuary in Gwbert, West Wales. Oil Paint on Board 34 H x 40 W x 3 D cm (13.39 x 15.75 x 1.18 in) Sold framed SIZE: Image...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Board

"Bluebonnet Creek" Texas Hill Country 1957 39 x 49 Framed!!!
Located in San Antonio, TX
Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 30 x 40 Frame Size: 39 x 49 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dated 1957 "Bluebonnet Creek" Texas Hill Country Biography Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) Porfirio Salinas was a self-taught artist who painted landscapes of Central Texas with an emphasis on the vast bluebonnet fields that grow there in the springtime. Born in 1910 in Bastrop, Texas, he attended public schools in San Antonio. He also observed works in progress by the director of the San Antonio Art School, Jose Arpa, as well as landscape painter, Robert Wood. Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets". Salinas served in the military from 1943 to 1945. Although he was assigned to Fort Sam Houston, he was allowed to live at home. At the fort, Colonel Telesphor Gottchalk assigned him to paint murals for the officer's lounge and various other projects, and Salinas continued to be able to paint during his entire conscripted period. Even before he achieved notoriety among galleries, dealers, and museums, Salinas was widely followed and appreciated by many Texans, including former President Lyndon B. Johnson, who may be considered responsible for launching Salinas popularity beyond the boundaries of Texas. In 1973, Texas capital, Austin, honored Salinas for having "done much to bring the culture of Mexico and Texas closer together with his paintings". Salinas died in April 1973 in San Antonio, Texas. From the years of the Great Depression through President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society of the 1960s, Texan Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) remained one of the Lone Star State's most popular artists. Today, his works remain popular with Texas collectors and those who love landscapes of the beautiful "Hill Country" that lies in the center of the state. One of the first Mexican American painters to become widely recognized for his art, Salinas was a favorite of President Lyndon Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, as well as of Sam Rayburn, the longest-serving Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Texas Governor John Connelly. In fact, President Johnson was so enamored with his Salinas paintings that the artist will forever be associated with America's first Texas-born President. Works by Porfirio Salinas are in a number of museum collections, grace the halls of the Texas State Capitol and the Governor's Mansion in Austin, and are included in virtually every major private collection of Early Texas Art. Porfirio Salinas was born on November 6, 1910, near the small town of Bastrop, Texas, about thirty miles from Austin. His father, Porfirio G. Salinas (1881-1967), and his mother, Clara G. Chavez, struggled to make a hardscrabble living as tenant farmers, but eventually were forced to give up farming. The family moved to San Antonio, where Salinas' father was able to get a job working as a laborer for the railroad, but the scenic area around Bastrop, with its pine trees and the wide expanse of the Rio Grande River, would forever remain a touchstone for the artist. For the rest of his life, Salinas and his brothers went back frequently to visit their grandmother in her little farmhouse. When in Bastrop, Porfirio painted on the banks of the Rio Grande or in the groves of pine trees. The Salinas family was close-knit and Porfirio was the middle child of five children, so he had an older brother and sister as well as a younger brother and sister. His mother was a native of Mexico, so throughout his childhood the family made the long drive to Mexico to visit Clara Salinas' family. As a child growing up in the bi-lingual section of San Antonio, Salinas drew and painted incessantly and by the time he was ten, he was already producing work that was mature enough to sell to his schoolteachers. Many years later in an article in the New York Times he was described as a "boy whose textbooks were seldom opened and whose sketchbook was never closed." Instead of studying, the young artist spent his spare time watching artists paint in and around San Antonio. As an aspiring painter, Salinas was fortunate to grow up in the historic city, which had the most active art scene in Texas. It was his exposure to older, professional painters that encouraged the precocious young painter to leave school early in order to help his family and pursue a career as a professional artist, despite his father's inability to see art as a career with any future for his son. When Salinas was about fifteen he came to know the artist Robert W. Wood (1889-1979). He met Wood while he was employed in an art supply store and he soon began to work as an assistant to the English-born painter, who had moved from Portland to San Antonio in 1924. Although the diminutive Englishman was already an established professional artist, he did not have a great deal of formal art training and so he was then studying with the academically trained Spanish painter Jose Arpa (1858-1952) in order to augment his knowledge and give his work a more polished look. Salinas was an eager young man, and while working in Wood's downtown San Antonio studio he learned to stretch canvases, frame paintings and to sketch in larger compositions from small plein-air studies for the English artist. He began to accompany Wood and Arpa to the hills outside San Antonio, where they painted small Plein-air studies of fields of blue lupin - the state flower, the famous "Bluebonnets" of Texas - in the springtime and scenes of the gnarled Red Oaks as they changed color in the fall. He was soon assisting Wood in the tedious work of painting the tiny blue flowers that collectors wanted to see in the landscapes they purchased of central Texas. According to a 1972 newspaper story, "Legend has it that one day in the 1920s artist Robert Wood decided he could not bear to paint another bluebonnet in one of his landscapes. He hired young Porfirio Salinas to paint them in for him at five dollars a painting." Whether this story is accurate or apocryphal isn't clear, but the ambitious and independent young Salinas wasn't destined to be anyone's assistant for very long. The formative event of Porfirio Salinas' teenage years was the Texas Wildflower Competitive Exhibitions, a Roaring-Twenties dream of the eccentric oilman Edgar B. Davis (1873-1951). These competitive shows of paintings of wildflowers and Texas life were mounted in San Antonio from 1927 to 1929. Held at the newly opened Witte Museum each spring, the exhibition featured large cash prizes donated by the philanthropic Davis, which were an inducement for artists to travel from all over the United States to paint in the Hill Country of Texas. The "Davis Competitions," as they were known, helped to cement San Antonio's reputation as an art center, a legacy that remains with the "River City" today. The shows generated a great deal of excitement in the area, helping to make celebrities of the some of the artists who had already settled there and encouraging others to make San Antonio their home. Over the three years that the wildflower competitions were held, more than 300 paintings were exhibited, and many thousands of viewers saw the paintings at the Witte Museum and on tours throughout the state and in New York. Each year Davis would generously purchase the winning paintings and then donate them to the San Antonio Art League. Young Porfirio Salinas would have been able to not only watch his two mentors - Robert W. Wood and Jose Arpa - paint the works that they entered in the Davis Competitions, he would have been able to see Arpa take several of the major prizes, receiving the judge's accolades for "Verbena," "Cactus Flower" and "Picking Cotton," works that are still on view at the San Antonio Art League Museum today. Unfortunately, Davis eventually put his donations to work in other charitable endeavors, bringing to an end the wildflower events, but only after they inspired Salinas and other young painters and had helped to make wildflower paintings the most sought-after subject for traditionalist Texas collectors. In 1930, when he was only twenty, Salinas hung out a shingle and began to paint professionally, augmenting the sales of his easel paintings with what little business he could garner by painting signs for local concerns. It was a struggle for the young artist to make a living, as the effects of the Great Depression were settling in. His early works are very similar to those of Robert Wood's, both in subject matter and treatment. Salinas did small paintings of Bluebonnets for the tourists who visited San Antonio to see the famous Alamo as well as paintings of the Texas missions...
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1950s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

1950's French Impressionist Oil Painting Coastal Harbour Scene Old Stone Jetty
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Old Jetty French Impressionist artist, mid 20th century oil on canvas laid over board, framed painting: 3.5 x 9 inches framed: 5 x 10.5 inches condition: overall very good, a few...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

KaDi Pan Still Life Original Oil Painting "The Light"
Located in New York, NY
Title: The Light Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 24 x 24 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This painting ...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Yellow Blooming
Located in Colorado Springs, US
Signed on the Bottom Right, 15.5 X 18.5 Framed, Oil on Linen Panel
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings

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Linen, Oil, Panel

Impressionist paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Impressionist paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, green, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Vahe Yeremyan, Richard Szkutnik, Iryna Kastsova, and Michael Budden. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Impressionist paintings, so small editions measuring 0.1 inches across are also available.

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