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Realist Figurative Paintings

REALIST STYLE

Realist art attempts to portray its subject matter without artifice. Similar to naturalism, authentic realist paintings and prints see an integration of true-to-life colors, meticulous detail and linear perspectives for accurate portrayals of the world. 

Work that involves illusionistic techniques of realism dates back to the classical world, such as the deceptive trompe l’oeil used since ancient Greece. Art like this became especially popular in the 17th century when Dutch artists like Evert Collier painted objects that appeared real enough to touch. Realism as an artistic movement, however, usually refers to 19th-century French realist artists such as Honoré Daumier exploring social and political issues in biting lithographic prints, while the likes of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet painting people — particularly the working class — with all their imperfections, navigating everyday urban life. This was a response to the dominant academic art tradition that favored grand paintings of myth and history. 

By the turn of the 20th century, European artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, were experimenting with nearly photographic realism in their work, as seen in the attention to every botanical attribute of the flowers surrounding the drowned Ophelia painted by English artist John Everett Millais.

Although abstraction was the guiding style of 20th-century art, the realism trend in American modern art endured in Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and other artists’ depictions of the complexities of the human experience. In the late 1960s, Photorealism emerged with artists like Chuck Close and Richard Estes giving their paintings the precision of a frame of film.

Contemporary artists such as Jordan Casteel, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Aliza Nisenbaum are now using the unvarnished realist approach for honest representations of people and their worlds. Alongside traditional mediums, technology such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence and immersive installations are helping artists create new sensations of realism in art.

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Style: Realist
Golden Aspens, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Golden Aspens" by Jane Hunt (United States) is a handmade landscape oil painting that is framed and ready to hang.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Education"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Title: Education Size: 100 x 100 cm, oil on canvas, 2019–2025 Series: The Pathos of Bureaucracy Description: This painting reflects the idea that in our world, being intelligent is ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Place de la Concorde", 19th Century Oil on Canvas by Artist Joaquín Pallarés
Located in Madrid, ES
JOAQUÍN PALLARÉS ALLUSTANTE Spanish, 1853 - 1935 PLACE DE LA CONCORDE signed & located "J. PALLARÉS / París." (lower right) oil on canvas 13-1/4 x 18-...
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1890s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Migration, " Oil painting Featuring migrating geese
Located in Denver, CO
Morgan Cameron's "Migration" is a dynamic and vibrant handmade original oil on panel artwork, capturing the essence of movement and freedom. Created in 2022, this piece measures 18 x...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Three Children and Dog in a Rowing Boat at a Farmhouse Flower Garden in England
Located in Preston, GB
Three Children and Dog in a Rowing Boat at a Farmhouse Flower Garden in England by British Artist, Les Parson entitled "Going Home". Art measures 30 x 20 ...
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1980s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Paternity oil acrylic on canvas painting realism Spain Sitges 70s
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Frameless. Is born in Madrid on the 21st july 1951. After attending primary school, he starts to grow an enormous tendency for drawing. At the age of 14 he begins to work in advertising and attends to the Vallecas school of arts. At the age of 14 he travels to Switzerland and in Geneve he gets intensly into painting and decides to dedicate himself only to it. When he returns to Spain he enrolls Arts Studies, and at the begining of summer '66, he visits Sitges, where he'll come back year after year and where ultimately he'll set his home. At this time he starts selling his painting in the flea market in Madrid and later in Sitges, setting himself on the street, thus completing his studies and making it economically. While he's in Madrid he recives lessons by Pedro Mozas at Bellas Artes and starts to learn profoundly about painting. In 1969 he starts painting portraits in the streets. In Sitges he creates, with other friends, a great artistic atmosphere in the Paseo de la Ribera, by the sea, that today still exists. He starts travelling through Europe, visiting and painting in Paris, London and Amsterdam. In the middle of this bohemian epoque, he moves to the Cannary Islands during the winters for 5 years in a row, he moves in the Parque de Santa Catalina "Las Palmas de Gran Canaria" where he works and meet all sorts of people in the streets, which later would mark his pictoric line. He becomes friend with Sidney Nagley in 1969, who organizes his first exhibition in Toronto, Canada. Afterwards he'll leave his studies and start painting exclusively in his studio. He gathers his first exhibition in the Ateneu of Barcelona in 1970. He befriends with the art critic of La Vanguardia, Fernando Gutierrez and the Count of Caralt orders him a set of illustration for a new edition of Garcia Lorcas Romancero Gitano. His first exhibition in a commercial gallery is done in the Majestic Gallery in Barcelona with a gorgeous collection of nudity drawings. He achieves huge success and for some years he affords his painting thanks to those drawings. During a period in Madrid, Mr Ponce de León, a consul in the Ministry of Exterior Affairs grants him with bachelor degree to study in the prestigious Academia de España in Rome. However, he can't accept it due to militar service obligations. Some days later, before joining the ranks he opens in the Cuatre Gats (Palma de Mallorca) with hiperrealist pieces that already then he presented as the first painter in that city, that later would become a fashion in 1973. After this period he meets José Maria Gudiol who advises positively. Since then, the intense work and the fight for daily improvement that has become the trademark of his life. The seek of styles and situations, the journeys through Europe always aware of all the tendencies that have in the art line that we can see nowadays. At his more than fifty years given to paint, his individual exhibitions beat the 100, his artwork is highly appreciated and valued in the complex market of art. In October 1982 hi makes his first exhibition in Tarragona. In the catalogue, writing of the unforgettable Fernando Gutierrez, he says "Fuentetaja is an artist of character and exceptional upbringing with a masterly knowledge of technique and resourses, and personality completely uncommon to the dimension of his sensitivity, as the richness of his deep and bloomed liricism. A judgement as accurate as foreseeing for the future outstanding of the artist, in where his paint soared through different phases mantaining an unquestionable quality. Lines, cubist, expressionist and hiperrealist till his current realism, in the middle of his creative maturity. Jose Luis Fuentetaja...
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1980s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Conversation by the Fence
Located in Stockholm, SE
We are offering a painting for sale by the Swedish artist Nils Andersson (1817–1865). This beautiful landscape showcases Andersson’s characteristic style of capturing Swedish nature ...
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1840s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

“Self Portrait in My Garden (Fireflies)“ oil painting, tuscan landscape sunset
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting on copper panel by contemporary painter, Melissa Franklin Sanchez (b. 1984, Warwickshire, England). A verdant yard, a blanket of green grass speckled by violet flowe...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Copper

" Calma piatta" Olio su tela cm. 50 x 40
Located in Torino, IT
Opera molto luminosa e realistica di Luisa Albert
Category

Early 2000s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Wa Market
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance On consignment to the gallery from a private collector in Newport Beach, California. Signed "Mian Situ" on lower right Artist Statement "The location is in a small town ...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Nowhere is Everywhere" (2016) By Adam Lupton, Realist Oil and Wax Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Nowhere is Everywhere" (2016) is a striking realist oil portrait by American painter Adam Lupton, depicting a woman lying on the floor, in the corner of a blank room, enshrouded in ...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wax, Oil

Garlic - realistic painting
Located in New York, NY
This hyperrealistic painting by Roni Yoffe is from her latest body of works. It is oil on wood and comes not framed, but framing options are available. "My paintings in recent years ...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Wood, Oil

"Violent Engines" – Oil Panorama Cityscape Painting With Sunset and Figure
Located in Denver, CO
Brad Davis’s "Violent Engines" is a panoramic oil painting on wood panel that captures a moment of stillness and introspection against the backdrop of industrial sprawl and natural b...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

"Starry Sky" (2025) By Rodney O Dell Davis, Original Oil Painting
By Rodney O dell Davis
Located in Denver, CO
Rodney O'Dell Davis's (US based) "Starry Sky" is an original, handmade oil painting that is framed at 22.50 x 22.50 inches, and is ready to hang. Rodney O’Dell Davis followed his pa...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Light Warms the Cold" by Stephen Day, Original Colorado Landscape Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Light Warms the Cold" by Stephen Day is an original oil painting depicting evergreen and aspen trees on a spring morning, resting across the ridge of a mountainside river stream. St...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"Beyond Reality #2" Portrait Oil Painting 47" x 39" inch by Dmitriy Krestniy
Located in Culver City, CA
"Beyond Reality #2" Portrait Oil Painting 47" x 39" inch by Dmitriy Krestniy ATTENTION: Painting ships rolled in a tube. A look through Dmitriy’s designs reveals a glamorous, femin...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Sky Castle, " Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Judd Mercer's (US based) "Sky Castle," is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a green grassy hill sloping upwards to meet lush canopies of tree...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Mystique n.1" Portrait Oil Painting 28" x 28 "inch by Dmitriy Krestniy
Located in Culver City, CA
"Mystique n.1" Portrait Oil Painting 28" x 28 "inch by Dmitriy Krestniy ATTENTION: Painting ships rolled in a tube. A look through Dmitriy’s designs reveals a glamorous, feminine,...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Horse Pulling the Heavy Loaded Wooden Kart British Chalk Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
John Rabone Harvey ( 1966 - 1922) graphic and chalk deep green artist paper , unframed artist paper : 5.5 x 7 inches Provenance: private collection Condition: very good condition Ha...
Category

Mid-19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Chalk, Graphite

Hippie Original oil acrylic on canvas painting realism Spain Sitges 70s
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Frame size 52x44 Is born in Madrid on the 21st july 1951. After attending primary school, he starts to grow an enormous tendency for drawing. At the age of 14 he begins to work in advertising and attends to the Vallecas school of arts. At the age of 14 he travels to Switzerland and in Geneve he gets intensly into painting and decides to dedicate himself only to it. When he returns to Spain he enrolls Arts Studies, and at the begining of summer '66, he visits Sitges, where he'll come back year after year and where ultimately he'll set his home. At this time he starts selling his painting in the flea market in Madrid and later in Sitges, setting himself on the street, thus completing his studies and making it economically. While he's in Madrid he recives lessons by Pedro Mozas at Bellas Artes and starts to learn profoundly about painting. In 1969 he starts painting portraits in the streets. In Sitges he creates, with other friends, a great artistic atmosphere in the Paseo de la Ribera, by the sea, that today still exists. He starts travelling through Europe, visiting and painting in Paris, London and Amsterdam. In the middle of this bohemian epoque, he moves to the Cannary Islands during the winters for 5 years in a row, he moves in the Parque de Santa Catalina "Las Palmas de Gran Canaria" where he works and meet all sorts of people in the streets, which later would mark his pictoric line. He becomes friend with Sidney Nagley in 1969, who organizes his first exhibition in Toronto, Canada. Afterwards he'll leave his studies and start painting exclusively in his studio. He gathers his first exhibition in the Ateneu of Barcelona in 1970. He befriends with the art critic of La Vanguardia, Fernando Gutierrez and the Count of Caralt orders him a set of illustration for a new edition of Garcia Lorcas Romancero Gitano. His first exhibition in a commercial gallery is done in the Majestic Gallery in Barcelona with a gorgeous collection of nudity drawings. He achieves huge success and for some years he affords his painting thanks to those drawings. During a period in Madrid, Mr Ponce de León, a consul in the Ministry of Exterior Affairs grants him with bachelor degree to study in the prestigious Academia de España in Rome. However, he can't accept it due to militar service obligations. Some days later, before joining the ranks he opens in the Cuatre Gats (Palma de Mallorca) with hiperrealist pieces that already then he presented as the first painter in that city, that later would become a fashion in 1973. After this period he meets José Maria Gudiol who advises positively. Since then, the intense work and the fight for daily improvement that has become the trademark of his life. The seek of styles and situations, the journeys through Europe always aware of all the tendencies that have in the art line that we can see nowadays. At his more than fifty years given to paint, his individual exhibitions beat the 100, his artwork is highly appreciated and valued in the complex market of art. In October 1982 hi makes his first exhibition in Tarragona. In the catalogue, writing of the unforgettable Fernando Gutierrez, he says "Fuentetaja is an artist of character and exceptional upbringing with a masterly knowledge of technique and resourses, and personality completely uncommon to the dimension of his sensitivity, as the richness of his deep and bloomed liricism. A judgement as accurate as foreseeing for the future outstanding of the artist, in where his paint soared through different phases mantaining an unquestionable quality. Lines, cubist, expressionist and hiperrealist till his current realism, in the middle of his creative maturity. Jose Luis Fuentetaja...
Category

1980s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Andrada Trapnell s Reaching For the Sun Original Monkey Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Andrada Trapnell's "Reaching for the Sun" is a captivating original artwork created in 2023. This piece measures 30 x 40 inches and features a masterf...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Thriving in Adversity
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authent...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Fabric, Canvas

No Limits - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Hyperealism, Africa
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Fal...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

British Chalk Pencil Sketch of Farmers Harvesting the Fields
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
John Rabone Harvey ( 1966 - 1922) graphic and chalk deep green artist paper , unframed artist paper : 5.5 x 7 inches Provenance: private collection Condition: very good condition Ha...
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Mid-19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Chalk, Graphite

Oil Painting Called "The Young Artist" by Swedish Johan Christoffer Boklund
Located in Stockholm, SE
Introducing a captivating oil painting by Johan Christoffer Boklund (1817-1880). The artwork depicts a young boy practicing his painting skills. Seated beside him is a wooden horse t...
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19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

"Venice, 1906, " Italy, Warren W. Sheppard, Realist, Oil, Gondola, Canal
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Marine painter Warren W. Sheppard was born in Greenwich, New Jersey, to a ship captain father who instilled in his son a love and respect for the sea. He studied privately with Mauritz F. H. De Haas and took courses in drawing at Cooper Union in New York City. He traveled along the Mediterranean coast in 1879, sketching the ports of Naples, Gibraltar, Genoa and Messina. Sheppard’s foreign tours continued between 1888 and 1893, with stays in Paris and Venice, where he captured the architecture and busy canals of the Floating City. This fondness for travel also translated to his home country. He sailed along the East Coast from New Jersey to Maine in search of subjects and was an expert navigator, eventually writing the book Practical Navigation. Yacht design became a second career for Sheppard and he participated in a number of sailing competitions himself, most notably winning the New York-to-Bermuda race twice while skipper of the Tamerlane. Sheppard exhibited at the Denver Exposition, Chicago Exposition...
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Early 1900s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Last Witness
Located in Zofingen, AG
This artwork confronts the viewer with a contemporary allegory: a dark figure in a gas mask against a field of yellow flowers, beneath a grey, unsettled sky. It is a bold and symboli...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Landscape from Kvikkjokk, Sápmi, c. 1861
Located in Stockholm, SE
Per Daniel Holm (Malingsbo, Dalarna 1835–1903 Stockholm) Attributed to. Landscape from Kvikkjokk, c. 1861 oil on board unframed 39 x 56 cm (15.4 x 22 inches) framed 46.5 x 63 cm (...
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1860s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Puppy Dog, Kitten, Mouse Greeting Card painting (Children s room decor)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Ferd Sondern (b.1923) Puppy chasing Kitten chasing Mouse, 1977. Pencil, gouache and watercolor on illustration board. Complete panel measures 7 x 15 inches. Signed lower left. Cr...
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1970s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board

A cup of coffee for good start III
Located in Zofingen, AG
With this piece, I wanted to capture the quiet introspection in a bustling world. Using oil, I blended impressionism with realism to highlight the warmth of a simple moment—a woman s...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A portrait with wild flowers
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this oil painting, I embraced the delicate dance of light and shadow, capturing the serene beauty of a woman holding a bouquet of wildflowers. Each stroke reflects a moment of tra...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Evening (Ode to B. Foster), " Original Autumn Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Evening (Ode to B. Foster)" by Shawn Krueger (United States) is a handmade landscape oil painting that is painted on a cradled board and ready to hang. Krueger depicts a marsh in the autumn with warm afternoon light. Shawn Krueger, born 1973, is a contemporary landscape painter whose work sits comfortably in both the American Tonalist and Arts & Crafts traditions. Shawn received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Calvin College in 1998, studying under Chris Stoffel...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Portrait of a Man , oil on canvas by Jozef Isräels
Located in London, GB
Jozef Isräels (1824-1911) 'Portrait of a Man' ‍ Oil on canvas 72 x 57 cm, 90 x 77 cm (framed) 1861 Signed and dated middle left 'J. Israels 1861' Jozef Israëls was considered the l...
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1860s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Two Studio Models
Located in New York, NY
Gouache on paper Signed and dated, l.r. This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City Born in California, John Button (1929-1982) was educated at University of Cali...
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1970s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Paper

"8th and Watts" – Oil Painting of Abandoned Car in Industrial Garage
Located in Denver, CO
Brad Davis’s *8th and Watts* (2025) is an original oil painting on wood panel that measures 24 x 36 inches, housed in a 26 x 38 inch frame. This detailed and atmospheric composition ...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

A portrait with sunflowers
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this painting, I poured my passion into blending vibrant sunflowers with the poised figure of a woman, capturing a moment of quiet strength and radiant optimism. The rich oil text...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Young Woman with a Gold Earring , Paris, Royal Academy, Colarossi, Jeu-de-Paume
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'A Young Parisienne' by Christine Sundberg, 1888. Royal Academy of Arts, Academie Colarossi, Jeu-de-Paume ---- Signed center left, 'Christine Sundberg' (Swedish, 1837-1892) and date...
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1880s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Starfish. 2008. Canvas, oil, 50x65 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Igor Maikov (1966) Education: 1981 - 1984 The Art Academy of Latvia 1973 - 1983 Salaspils Primary and Secondary School Exhibitions: 1994 - Group Exhibition «Rol-Art», Latvia ...
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Early 2000s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

18th Century Antique Oil Painting Coastal Harbor Scene with Towers Old Master
Located in Stockholm, SE
This captivating seascape presents a masterful coastal harbor scene from the 18th century, attributed to an unknown master of marine art. The composition is built around 2 watchtower...
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Late 18th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Wood, Walnut, Oil

Lost Years 3 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Restoration, Mixed Media
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
In 2020, amidst the lockdown's intensity, my art journey ignited professionally. With ample time to delve deep, I explored figurative painting and abstract drawings until early 2022. I created a different series of paintings, one standout series, "Black, Bold, and Beautiful," celebrated the radiant essence of black women through six vibrant portraits clad in Ankara suits. While one found a home with a collector in Tel Aviv, the rest lingered in my studio. Two years on, a spark ignites within me to revisit this series, infusing it with the evolved narrative that aligns and fits into the conversation my works now engage in as a Contemporary Gospeller. The notions of “Restoration and restitution” weigh heavily in my heart, reflecting on personal and global scales. While global discourse focuses on returning stolen artefacts from Africa back to their origins, my perspective delves deeper into the restoration of lost time and purpose. My point of view on Restoration and Restitution is from this notion that man can lose years of his life in futility, and when the time of profit comes, it occurs mostly at the brink of life. A profound scripture, "I'll restore the years that the locust has eaten," resonates deeply, offering a beacon of hope amidst perceived futility. When I read this verse, it distinctly jumped out at me. Wow! Years can be restored! There is hope! To make this revisiting more contextual, I look out for material which can be regarded as “used-up”, “less-value”, or “wasted” - then it appears to me that Jute sack fits into this context! The Jute sack stands for the lost years of glory, having exchanged hands from one country to another before ending up in my studio to take a new life, different from what it has been used for. Thus, the series finds renewal through the symbolism of jute bags...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

In a new place, Contemporary Still-life with Axe Oil Painting by Igor Sventitski
Located in Zofingen, AG
Original oil painting on canvas, still life painting made under natural light. This artwork is painted using high-quality fine linen canvas and sold unframed, stretched, and ready to...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Long View, " Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Judd Mercer's (US based) "Long View," is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a cliff vista, with lush red and green vegetation, dropping off to reveal the atmospheric blu...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Chinese Contemporary Art by Su Yu - Two Young Patients Mother
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Su Yu is a Chinese artist born in 1987 who lives & works in Beijing in China. He was an old student of prestigious art teachers as Shi Liang & Chen Danqing at Oil Pain...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Herd Rhythm, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Herd Rhythm" by Emma Kalff (United States) is a handmade landscape oil painting that is framed and ready to hang.
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Chinese Contemporary Art by Su Yu - Confrontation
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Su Yu is a Chinese artist born in 1987 who lives & works in Beijing in China. He was an old student of prestigious art teachers as Shi Liang & Che...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Chinese Contemporary Art by Su Yu - Vermeer Dollar
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Su Yu is a Chinese artist born in 1987 who lives and works in Beijing. He was an old student of prestigious art teachers as Shi Liang Chen Danqing at Oil Paintin...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Lost Years 1 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Restoration, Mixed Media
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
In 2020, amidst the lockdown's intensity, my art journey ignited professionally. With ample time to delve deep, I explored figurative painting and abstract drawings until early 2022. I created a different series of paintings, one standout series, "Black, Bold, and Beautiful," celebrated the radiant essence of black women through six vibrant portraits clad in Ankara suits. While one found a home with a collector in Tel Aviv, the rest lingered in my studio. Two years on, a spark ignites within me to revisit this series, infusing it with the evolved narrative that aligns and fits into the conversation my works now engage in as a Contemporary Gospeller. The notions of “Restoration and restitution” weigh heavily in my heart, reflecting on personal and global scales. While global discourse focuses on returning stolen artefacts from Africa back to their origins, my perspective delves deeper into the restoration of lost time and purpose. My point of view on Restoration and Restitution is from this notion that man can lose years of his life in futility, and when the time of profit comes, it occurs mostly at the brink of life. A profound scripture, "I'll restore the years that the locust has eaten," resonates deeply, offering a beacon of hope amidst perceived futility. When I read this verse, it distinctly jumped out at me. Wow! Years can be restored! There is hope! To make this revisiting more contextual, I look out for material which can be regarded as “used-up”, “less-value”, or “wasted” - then it appears to me that Jute sack fits into this context! The Jute sack stands for the lost years of glory, having exchanged hands from one country to another before ending up in my studio to take a new life, different from what it has been used for. Thus, the series finds renewal through the symbolism of jute bags...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Mixed Media

Chinese Contemporary Art by Su Yu - Yangtze River
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Su Yu is a Chinese artist born in 1987 who lives and works in Beijing. He was an old student of prestigious art teachers as Shi Liang Chen Danqing at Oil Paintin...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Chinese Contemporary Art by Su Yu - Beach
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Su Yu is a Chinese artist born in 1987 who lives and works in Beijing. He was an old student of prestigious art teachers as Shi Liang Chen Danqing at Oil Paintin...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

DEUTEROS II, 2016
Located in Atlanta, GA
1972-73 Eastbourne College for Art and Design: Fine Art Foundation Course: studies drawing. Works through the South Coast Period of paintings. Studio: South Coast of England. 1974-81 University of Wales: studied painting under Welsh artist Selwyn Jones. Public and private commissions: twenty-five multistory murals in Wales and England: documented by the BBC and British National Newspapers. Studios: Bethesda and Bangor City, Wales. Studies composition and portraiture. Shows at the Royal Exchange, London; Bangor City Museum, Wales. 1981-82 Commission: The Trial of Saint Deiniol: 19-panel, 18 x 21 ft. painting. Studio: Shropshire, England 1982-86 The New York Times send photographer Dith Pran (on whom the movie The Killing Fields was based) to photograph Povey in New York with The Trial of Saint Deiniol painting at Art Expo New York 1986. Povey is advised by George Bush Senior’s former campaign manager Zena Temkin on shaping his public persona. The BBC film Edward Povey with former President of the Royal Academy of Art in London - Sir Hugh Casson KCVO, RA, RDI in which Sir Hugh interviews Povey about his art career. Public and private commissions for collections in the United States, London, Wales, Belgium, West Indies. Studies symbolism and trains in color with Jan de Maere in Brussels and works through the Tapestry Period of paintings Studio: Grenada, West Indies. 1987-91 Studies psychology and narrative in art whilst he builds the extensive Childhood, Illusion and Desire Period of paintings. Studio: Guisborough, England courtesy of the town mayor. Shows in Belgium, London, New York. 1992-93 Public commission: Hall of Illusion mural: 20 X 40 ft. interior oil painting in the Chamber Concert Hall of the University of Wales. The commission is followed by BBC Television, S4C Television; BBC Radio Four and regional and national newspapers. Studios: Guisborough, England; Bangor City, Wales. Designs the Hall of Illusion mural on the island of Grenada, West Indies. 1994-96 Deepens his studies in the relationship between art and the psyche. Researches new ways to evolve concepts with models using theaters...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

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Linen, Plaster, Paper, Oil

Chinese Contemporary Art by Su Yu - Ship
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Su Yu is a Chinese artist born in 1987 who lives and works in Beijing. He was an old student of prestigious art teachers as Shi Liang & Chen Danqing at Oil Painting In...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Figures and horses by a country tavern"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Unidentified Dutch Artist (17th Century) "Figures and Horses by a Country Tavern" (1618) Oil on canvas Framed: 69 x 82 cm Canvas: 52 x 64 cm No signatured This exquisite 17th-century Dutch painting masterfully depicts a bustling village scene with figures and horses gathered outside a country tavern. The composition is rich in detail, featuring travelers, merchants, and townspeople engaging in lively interactions, while a Dutch flag waves above the rustic inn, reinforcing the national identity of the scene. Executed in oil on canvas, the painting showcases warm earthy tones and delicate use of light and shadow, capturing the golden glow of a late afternoon or early evening setting. The finely rendered architecture, expressive figures, and atmospheric depth are reminiscent of the works of Isaac van Ostade, Jan Steen, or Adriaen van de Velde...
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17th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

FINE Original Antique By H. Carnier 19th Century British OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING
Located in Ferndown, GB
OLD FINE Original Antique 19th Century British OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING Good Condition Canvas. With one repair overtime , Professional Cleaned & Re-vanished , Ready to hang. " Origi...
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Mid-19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Boat Couture: Home Edition
Located in Zofingen, AG
A surreal and contemplative composition, this painting captures a poised woman standing in a delicate pale pink rowboat that gently floats atop still water—remarkably, within the con...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Catch Me if You Can, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

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A portrait of a woman glowing under the sun captures her quiet confidence. With expressive brushwork and saturated color, the figure feels both glamorous and el...

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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Upstate, Green, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Upstate" by Shawn Krueger (United States) is a handmade landscape oil painting that is unframed, but ready to hang.
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Kazuya Ushioda "Spring Breeze" - Oil On Panel Figurative Painting 2021
Located in Denver, CO
Kazuya Ushioda’s Spring Breeze (2021) is an original, handmade oil on panel artwork that measures approximately 44.12 x 11.87 x 0.70 inches. This vertical composition offers a meticu...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Panel

"Y los sueños, sueños son" – Abstract Figurative Female Portrait, Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Jessica Oliveras (b. 1991) is a Spanish visual artist whose work explores the intersection of the spiritual and physical realms through a unique blend of figuration and abstraction. ...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Preparation for the New Day
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Falope Ibrahim...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Alexander III Bridge and the banks of the Seine Oil on canvas, 55x81 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Alexander III Bridge and the banks of the Seine Oil on canvas, 55x81 cm Gustave Madelain (1867-1944) Landscape painter, Gustave Madelain was born in...
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Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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