In the revolutionary wake of Impressionism, artists like Vincent van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin advanced the style further while firmly rejecting its limitations. Although the artists now associated with Postimpressionist art did not work as part of a group, they collectively employed an approach to expressing moments in time that was even more abstract than that of the Impressionists, and they shared an interest in moving away from naturalistic depictions to more subjective uses of vivid colors and light in their paintings.
The eighth and final Impressionist exhibition was held in Paris in 1886, and Postimpressionism — also spelled Post-Impressionism — is usually dated between then and 1905. The term “Postimpressionism” was coined by British curator and art critic Roger Fry in 1910 at the “Manet and the Postimpressionists” exhibition in London that connected their practices to the pioneering modernist art of Édouard Manet. Many Postimpressionist artists — most of whom lived in France — utilized thickly applied, vibrant pigments that emphasized the brushstrokes on the canvas.
The Postimpressionist movement’s iconic works of art include van Gogh’s The Starry Night (1889) and Seurat’s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884). Seurat’s approach reflected the experimental spirit of Postimpressionism, as he used Pointillist dots of color that were mixed by the eye of the viewer rather than the hand of the artist. Van Gogh, meanwhile, often based his paintings on observation, yet instilled them with an emotional and personal perspective in which colors and forms did not mirror reality. Alongside Mary Cassatt, Cézanne, Henri Matisse and Gauguin, the Dutch painter was a pupil of Camille Pissarro, the groundbreaking Impressionist artist who boldly organized the first independent painting exhibitions in late-19th-century Paris.
The boundary-expanding work of the Postimpressionist painters, which focused on real-life subject matter and featured a prioritization of geometric forms, would inspire the Nabis, German Expressionism, Cubism and other modern art movements to continue to explore abstraction and challenge expectations for art.
Find a collection of original Postimpressionist paintings, mixed media, prints and other art on 1stDibs.
Neige à Saint Martin de Boscherville
Located in LE HAVRE, FR
Louis Jacques VIGON (1897-1985) Neige à Saint Martin de Boscherville Oil on canvas Size: 60 x 81cm Signed lower left. Titled on the back Provenance : - Tuffier Gallery, Les Andelys...
Canvas, Oil
$1,000
Guardian of the Bridge by Lesley Powell, Oil Paris Scene with Blue and Neutral
Located in Atlanta, GA
unframed this piece measures 12 x 12. Lesley Powell paints in oils with a classical approach to composition and color, but she has a point of view that is fresh and contemporary. Wh...
Oil, Wood Panel
La Place Carnot Sous la Neige (Lyon) by H. Claude Pissarro - Snow scene painting
Located in London, GB
La Place Carnot Sous la Neige (Lyon) by H. Claude Pissarro (b. 1935) Pastel on card 37 x 51 cm (14 ⁵/₈ x 20 ¹/₈ inches) Signed lower left, H. Claude Pissarro This work is accompanie...
Pastel
$919Sale Price|20% Off
"View of a London street". Post-Impressionist classical urban scene.
Located in Segovia, ES
"London on view". Oil on panel. Post-Impressionist London townscape. Dimension art: 18 x 27 x 0.5 cm. Dimension framed: 37 x 45 x 4 cm. Small-format townscape of a London street with a car, a cyclist and an elegant woman in the foreground wearing a cheerful spring outfit...
Oil, Panel
$5,493Sale Price|20% Off
Sheep Shearers, Tangiers - British 1920's Orientalist figurative oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This superb vibrant Orientalist Post Impressionist oil painting is by noted British artist Gerald Spencer Pryse. It was painted about 1925 when Pryse was visiting Morocco and Norther...
Oil
Paysans devant le village - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Marcel Dyf
By Marcel Dyf
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas figures in landscape circa 1950 by French post impressionist painter Marcel Dyf. The work depicts workers tending to a field beside a rural village. Signature: ...
Canvas, Oil
$1,648Sale Price|20% Off
Flowers By My Window - 20th Century Still Life Pastel by William Henry Innes
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Innes first exhibited his work during the Second World War while he was in the Royal Air Force. He showed extensively at the Royal Academy, New England Arts Club and the Royal Instit...
Paper, Pastel
$20,000
La Rade; Temps Gris by H. Claude Pissarro - Post-Impressionist style painting
Located in London, GB
La Rade; Temps Gris by H. Claude Pissarro (b. 1935) Oil on canvas 50 x 61 cm (19 ³/₄ x 24 inches) Signed lower left, H. Claude Pissarro This work is accompanied by a certificate of ...
Canvas, Oil
Oldsmobile Cutlass Car Advertisement Artwork Automobilia
Located in Miami, FL
This Oldsmobile Cutlass advertisement from 1977 depicts a complex figural composition integrated with a car and a homey landscape. Beyond its status as a historical document of an Ol...
Gouache, Illustration Board
$22,000
The Tree Cutters - Children Playing on a Fallen Tree - Saturday Evening Post?
By Joe Bowler
Located in Miami, FL
This golden age of illustration work was most likely done for an interior story illustration for the Saturday Evening Post. Joe Bowler paints it in a loose but academically correct ...
Gesso, Casein, Wood Panel
Fauvist Tulips Painting, Oil on Canvas, 1990s, Unframed, 77x51 in.
Located in Miami, FL
Tulips is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This piece is a part of a flower series, defined by their distinct bright colors, satiny, silky, vibrati...
Oil, Canvas
Sunflower Fields Painting, Fauvist Style, Oil on Canvas, 1990s
Located in Miami, FL
Sunflower fields is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This piece is a part of a flower series, defined by their disti...
Oil, Canvas
Natasha - huile sur toile, encadré, 38x60 cm.
Located in Nice, FR
Huile sur toile de Joelle Gainon, encadré 70cm x82 cm
Oil
$608Sale Price|20% Off
Fragment 13 (dreamy woman back skin female figurative painting soft Earth tones)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
A solitary back, stripped of identity, rendered in layers of translucent scumbling and incised abrasion. The flesh becomes terrain—scratched, weathered, elusive. In this fragment, R...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
$25,000
Art Journalism - War Lessons, Illustration for Collier's, Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Marta Sawyers. Illustrator Journalist. She was sent to war-ravaged countries to “Paint the Story”. What's unique here? This represents the work an Artist Journalist/War Correspondent...
Pastel
$18,000
Large Middle Eastern Figurative Oil Painting Resting Along Algerian Water Canal
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This painting is signed bottom left. This Monumental Middle Eastern Figurative painting by Charles Theriat (1860-1937) is an oil on canvas and comes with frame. His artistic training...
Canvas, Oil
$15,000
Blond Child in Red Dress Reading Snow White to Elf - Fairy Tale
Located in Miami, FL
Maud Tausey Fangel - Baby Painter. In profile, we see a charming, young, ruddy-cheeked, blond girl with pig tales in a bright red-orange dress. She is reading Snow White as a sma...
Pastel, Board
$1,005Sale Price|25% Off
Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) Anemones and daffodils, Signed oil on canvas
Located in Paris, FR
Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) A Bunch of anemones and daffodils in a vase Signed lower left Oil on canvas In good condition 36 x 31 cm In its original frame : 51 x 46 cm Maurice As...
Oil
Dimanche au Champ de Course (Deauville) (Sunday at the Racetrack)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Hugues Claude Pissarro b.1935 French Dimanche au champ de course (Deauville) (Sunday at the Racetrack) Signed “H. Claude Pissarro” (lower left) Pastel on card French artist Hugues Claude Pissarro offers a unique perspective of the racetrack in Deauville in this exceptional pastel. The spectators are as much his subject as the sport in this artistic tribute to a leisurely Sunday at the tracks. Following the impressionist tradition of his father and grandfather before him, Pissarro infuses this pastel with dynamic light and vibrant colors. Entitled Dimanche au Champ de Course (Deauville), it showcases the artist's highly distinctive and sophisticated style. Hailing from a long lineage of painters, Pissarro's artistic talents were cultivated at an early age. He exhibited his first works at the young age of 14 and later studied in Paris at the École du Louvre and École Normale Supérieure. A 1959 White House commission to paint the portrait of President...
Oil Pastel, Cardboard
$4,200
Children Conversing in the Meadow, original oil on canvas, early 20thC
By Charles Theunissen
Located in Naples, Florida
Signed by the artist. Charles Theunissen (1871 - 1948) was a painter who was born and lived in Belgium.
Canvas, Oil
$18,000
Le Pont Rose sous la Neige - Châteaudun by H. Claude Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
Le Pont Rose sous la Neige - Châteaudun by H. Claude Pissarro (b. 1935) Oil on canvas 38 x 46 cm (15 x 18 ¹/₈ inches) Signed lower left, H. Claude Pissarro This work is accompanied ...
Canvas, Oil
Vue de Rouen
Located in LE HAVRE, FR
Gaston Sebire (1920-2001) Vue de Rouen Oil on canvas Size : 65 x 81 cm Signed lower right Provenance : Private Collection, France Very good condition. Original canvas. Frame included...
Canvas, Oil
$12,500
Tropical Hawaiian School. Teacher and children, Illustration Art General Ele
Located in Miami, FL
Original Illustration Art for General Electric Calendar, Tags on verso Deftly rendered in a post-impressionist style . Signed lower right Simple period wood frame - work could benefit from a new frame. Terpning has done movie posters for Doctor Zhivago, Cleopatra, Gone with the Wind and Guns of Navarone...
Gouache, Illustration Board
Seychelles Granite II Painting, Fauvist Oil on Canvas, Circa 1980s
Located in Miami, FL
Seychelles Granite II is a colorful painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist, while she was in Seychelles for art residency. The artist uses bright colors in ...
Oil, Canvas
Les Iles à Cantepie by Paulémile Pissarro - River scene painting
Located in London, GB
Les Iles à Cantepie by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972) Oil on canvas 54 x 65 cm (21 ¹/₄ x 25 ⁵/₈ inches) Signed lower right, Paulémile Pissarro Signed and titled on the reverse Execut...
Canvas, Oil
Woman in Kimono
Located in Sheffield, MA
Everett Lloyd Bryant American, 1864-1945 Woman in Kimono Oil on canvas Signed lower right 30 by 25 in. W/frame 35 by 30 in. Everett studied wit...
Oil
Drunk Man at Party Watercolor, Post-Impressionist, 1940s, Framed
By Jaro Fabry
Located in Miami, FL
During the Golden Age of Hollywood no illustrator chronicled the great stars, pin-ups and good girls better than Jaro Fabry, Work is Framed i...
Watercolor
The Climb, colorful abstract patterns w figures, earthy red tones
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
One of a series on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Here they make the treacherous climb out of the underworld: Now thro' the noiseless throng their way they bend, And both with pa...
Canvas, Oil
$6,000
No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest bright pointillist patterns text global currency
By Jenna Lash
Located in Brooklyn, NY
No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest Australian 10 Dollar Note, Acrylic On Canvas, 60" x 48" Jenna Lash specializes in global currency featuring animals, portra...
Canvas, Oil
$21,000
Paysage d'Hiver by Paulémile Pissarro - River scene, oil painting
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE Paysage d'Hiver by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972) Oil on canvas 54 x 65 cm (21 ¹/₄ x 25 ⁵/₈ inches) Signed lower ...
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Scottish Boy - Like Robert Henri
Located in Miami, FL
Margery Ryerson paints a stunning portrait of a boy dressed in Scottish clothes. The paint application is quick and loose but based on a sound academic understanding of how to constr...
Canvas, Oil, Board
$848Sale Price|35% Off
Arc de Triomphe Paris - Late 20th Century Impressionist Oil by James B. Woods
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
James B. Woods Arc de Triomphe Paris - Late 20th Century Impressionist Oil by James B. Woods Created with oil and in a modern black wooden frame. Keywords - Paris, France, post, ...
Oil
Praslin Oil Painting on Canvas, Fauvist Style, 1980s, Unframed
Located in Miami, FL
Praslin is a colorful painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist, while she was in Seychelles for art residency. The artist uses bright colors in this expressio...
Oil, Canvas
Construction Workers Painted the Style of Vuillard Post-Impression Les Nabis
Les Homards, Fauvist Oil Painting on Canvas, Excellent Condition
Located in Miami, FL
Her work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged. Her work create...
Oil, Canvas
May Valley Oil Painting on Canvas, Fauvist Style, Circa 1980s
Located in Miami, FL
May Valley is a colorful painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist, while she was in Seychelles for art residency. The artist uses bright green tons colors in ...
Oil, Canvas
Exotic Sunshine Oil Painting on Canvas, Fauvist Style, 21st Century
Located in Miami, FL
Exotic Sunshine is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This piece is a part of a flower series, defined by their distinct bright colors, satiny, silky...
Oil, Canvas
$5,775
Farming Family on a Sunday Morning, Oil on Canvas. Framed and Signed
Located in brussel, BE
The Namur painter and engraver, Louis Decoeur (1884-1960) became a member of “L’Effort” around 1910. This artist’s association provided a free studio for painters in Brussels, on the...
Canvas, Oil
"Great Wall, " Pointillist Woodcut, 2012
By Ren Hui 1
Located in Chicago, IL
This exquisite woodcut entitled "Great Wall" was made by internationally renowned Chinese artisan Ren Hui. He expertly picks out the fine details of China's greatest landmark in his ...
Plywood, Acrylic
$3,840Sale Price|36% Off
The Scene
Located in West Hollywood, CA
A black and white pointillism feminist figurative painting of Marie Antoinette by artist Maurizio Battifora on view at the "GO LOCO" exhibition at M...
Canvas, Acrylic
Lord Cardigan, Charge of the Light Brigade, British Army Military Officer
Located in Miami, FL
This graphic composition depicts Lord Cardigan on horseback commanding an equestrian military unit with the Union Jack flag proudly displayed. The famous battle scene "Charge of the Light Brigade...
Ink, Gouache, Paper
$25,000
Mother and Child in Tender Moment - Female Illustrator Golden Age
Located in Miami, FL
Female Illustrator of the Golden Age, Ruth Mary Hallock, paints a sensitive, heartwarming portrait of Mother and Child in a post-impressionist style. Richly saturated hues and gestur...
Canvas, Oil
Dancing Girls
Located in Sheffield, MA
Bencion (Benn) Rabinowitch Poland 1905 - Paris 1989 Dancing Girls Oil on Board 14 ½ in. by 21 in. W/frame 21 ½ in. by 28 in. He came from a rabbinic family, his father was an ar...
Oil
Kindred of the Dust, Frontier Town Cosmopolitan Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
A somewhat similar Cornwell featuring a strong woman at the center of a the composition just sold at Christie's for $164,000. In this work we also see a strong woman at the center of the composition. Here she surrounded by men. More than 20 beautifully rendered post-impressionist portraits in character, define Dean Cornwell as one of America's great artists. In his time, he was a famous as Norman Rockwell and was Norman Rockwell's favorite illustrator. "One thing puzzled Dirty Dan extremely. That was the perfectly frank, friendly manner in which his employer and this outcast woman greeted each other, the earnestness with which they conversed, and the effect of the woman's low-spoken words upon the color of Hector McKaye's face." Morris Weiss collection...
Oil
Redheaded Model Purple Fashion Illustration for Women's Wear Daily
Located in Miami, FL
Redheaded model wearing Traina Sport by Kay Unger and Jesper Nyeboe. Illustration published on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, February 25, 1971. Gouache o...
Paper, Gouache
$16,000
No Sad Songs
By Alec Montroy
Located in New York, NY
Pointillist painter Alec Montroy depicts a crowd assembled beneath the marquee of the Broadway musical The Phantom of the Opera in his painting “No Sad Songs,” with theatergoers walk...
Canvas, Oil
Halloween Madness, 1981
By Alec Montroy
Located in New York, NY
In his work, “Halloween Madness, 1981,” Alec Montroy paints costumed figures on Halloween night parading past city storefronts.
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Russian painting of Lenin by Yevgeny Danilevsky
By Evguéne Danilevsky
Located in London, GB
20th Century Russian painting of Lenin by Yevgeny Danilevsky Russian, 20th Century Height 60cm, width 80cm This fine, perhaps politically motivated painting depicts Russian leader V...
Canvas, Oil
Fauvist Blooming Oil Painting on Canvas, 2010s, Excellent Condition
Located in Miami, FL
Her work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past. Her earlier works done in shallow relief, break down “form” into the most basic elem...
Oil, Canvas
L'Orne au Pont de Vey by H. Claude Pissarro - Post-Impressionist style
Located in London, GB
L'Orne au Pont de Vey by H. Claude Pissarro (b. 1935) Oil on canvas 38 x 46 cm (15 x 18 ¹/₈ inches) Signed lower right, H. Claude Pissarro This work is accompanied by a certificate ...
Canvas, Oil
Iris Conversation Oil Painting on Canvas, Fauvist Style, 1990s
Located in Miami, FL
Iris conversation is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This piece is a part of a flower series, defined by their distinct bright colors, satiny, sil...
Oil, Canvas
Redhead Girl in Window with Flower Pots - Woman Illustrator
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
Redhead Girl in Window with Flower Pots by Lorraine Fox can be a joyful addition to your home. A beautiful redheaded young girl looks back at us from ...
Oil
$8,500
Bouquet of Lilacs and Orange / Bouquet de lilas à l'orange
By Georges Anatolovitch de Pogedaieff
Located in London, GB
GEORGES ANATOLOVITCH DE POGEDAIEFF 1897-1971 Pogedaievska 1897 - 1971 Ménerbes (Russian/ French) Title: Bouquet of Lilacs and Orange / Bouquet de lilas à l'orange, 1964 Technique:...
Oil
Price Upon Request
Picnic by the Seine - Impressionist Figurative Oil by Albert Dubois-Pillet
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on paper laid on board figures in landscape circa 1890 by French Neo-Impressionist painter Albert Dubois-Pillet. This pointillist piece depicts and elegant couple enjoying...
Oil, Board, Laid Paper
Price Upon Request
Spring
Located in Rye, NY
Duong Viet Nam is a Vietnamese contemporary artist known for his Post-Impressionistic style of painting. He often captures city scenes during busy parts of the day. In his paintings...
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
'Hanoi Style' Impressionist Painting
Located in Rye, NY
Duong Viet Nam is a Vietnamese contemporary artist known for his Post-Impressionistic style of painting. He often captures city scenes during busy parts of the day. In his paintings...
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
French Village Landscape, Trees and The Square, Gassin.
Located in Cotignac, FR
An important oil on canvas village landscape, probably Gassin in the South of France, by noted Dutch painter Willem Anthonie 'Wim' Oepts. The painting carries the atelier stamp botto...
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
Carlotta
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Literature Dorival, Bernard & Rouault, Isabelle, Rouault, L’Oeuvre peint(Monaco, 1988), vol. 2, p. 150, no. 1864 (illus.) Executed in 1937, Carlotta belongs to a group of portraits...
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
Le Panier de Fleurs, L'Arc de Triomphe
Located in Missouri, MO
Francois Gerome (b. 1895) "Le Panier de Fleurs, L'Arc de Triomphe" c. 1950 Oil on Canvas Signed "F. Gerome" Lower Right Canvas Size: 20 x 24 inches Framed Size: approx. 26 1/2 x 30 ...
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
Quai de Louvre
Located in Missouri, MO
Antoine Blanchard "Quai de Louvre" Oil on Canvas Signed Canvas Size: approx 13 x 18 Framed Size: approx. 22 x 26
Canvas, Oil