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
Boldness 3
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
When I was very young I lost self-confidence, and self-esteem, Losing self-confidence and self-esteem at a young age can be a difficult experience. It can impact how you view yoursel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
$1,600 Sale Price
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"Where the Spots Come From" Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Andrada Trapnell's "Where The Spots Come From" is a captivating original artwork created in 2024. This piece measures 30 x 48 inches and is ready to hang. The painting depicts a maje...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Hyperrealist Countryside Landscape Gouache Painting by Harry Bennett
By Harry Bennett
Located in Atlanta, GA
American artist Harry Bennett designed this stunning gouache painting on cardboard. This early hyperrealist design features a church or school in the middle of nowhere in the country...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Cardboard
"Even Flow, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Eric G. Thompson's "Even Flow" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a river with grassy banks flowing into the distance.
About the Artist:
Eric G. Thompson captures s...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Bed of Roses, " Acrylic Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Ifeoluwa Alade ( Nigeria based) "Bed of Roses" is an original, handmade acrylic painting that depicts a female model with roses and a colorful background....
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
"Reclining Nude in Green" - Oil Painting of Seated Nude Woman, Realist Style
Located in Denver, CO
Diego Glazer’s “Reclining Nude in Green” (2022) is an original, handmade oil painting on canvas panel that presents a seated nude woman in a classical pos...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
LEONID. original painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this oil painting, I've melded realism with a touch of impressionism to capture a moment both timeless and fleeting. The subject's gentle gaze exudes a warm serenity. His coy smil...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Twilight #2 - contemporary, figurative, portrait, oil on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This realistic oil painting is a portrait of a young Kenyan girl by Daniel Hughes.
Internationally recognized as a fine artist, Daniel Hughes has painted a haunting image with this ...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Hosta Party" (2025), Original Floral Still Life Oil Painting on Panel
Located in Denver, CO
"Hosta Party" by Tracy Wall (United States) is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a landscape and is framed and ready to hang.
As an artist, Tracy Wall sheds new light ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Shielded
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
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This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
About Artist
Falope Ibrahim...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,800 Sale Price
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"Confetti of Life" Original Oil Painting, Two Blue Birds with Patterned Leaves
Located in Denver, CO
Andrada Trapnell's "Confetti of Life" is a captivating original artwork created in 2024. This piece measures 20 x 16 inches and is ready to hang. The painting depicts a blue harmony ...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
LOVE Original Hyperrealistic Painting Acrylic on Wood
Located in Palm Desert, CA
LOVE (2018) by Gerard Boersma
Acrylic on Woodpanel
70 x 90 cm
Unique
Hand-signed by the artist
Black wooden frame is included
Dutch artist Gerard Boersma studied painting and fi...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
"Ohio River Spider" – Oil Painting, Forest Scene
By Brad Davis
Located in Denver, CO
Brad Davis's "Ohio River Spider" is an oil painting on wood panel, measuring 12 x 18 inches unframed and 14 x 20 inches framed. This striking depiction portrays an expansive, deeply ...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Underwater oil painting of Sun Dappled Trout swimming
Located in Woodbury, CT
Rod Sutterby (20th Century)
Sun Dappled Trout
Oil on canvas, signed lower left
Circa 1996
Rod Sutterby’s Sun Dappled Trout is a striking underwater study that captures a school of t...
Category
1990s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Motif From Långälven in Värmland, Sweden.
Located in Stockholm, SE
This enchanting Swedish painting, dated circa 1890, is believed to depict the tranquil waters of Långälven in Värmland, a testament to Ohlson's prowess in capturing the essence of the Swedish countryside.
The scene is a gentle narrative, where we witness a family moment frozen in time. Parents stand by their daughter on a wooden dock, poised to embark on a journey across the reflective waters. The young girl, dressed in period attire, appears eager and curious, a universal symbol of youth's anticipation for adventure. Her parents, dressed in the fashion of the late 19th century, exude a sense of calm and assurance.
Ohlson's brushwork brings the scene to life with a delicate interplay of light and shadow, mirroring the cloud-speckled sky on the lake's surface. The background is dotted with other vessels, suggesting the shared pleasure of the day's end on the water.
Oscar Ohlson (1847–1912), born in Linneryd, Småland, and later settling in Borås, was a multifaceted artist who, after pursuing law, found his true calling in the arts. A student of Alfred Wahlberg...
Category
1890s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,625 Sale Price
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"Exhale" (2025) Oil Floral Painting on Panel
By Patrick Kramer
Located in Denver, CO
This beautiful original photorealist oil painting by Patrick Kramer is framed at 30.25 x 28.25 inches and is ready to hang.
About the artist:
Patrick Kramer was born and raised in ...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Fencing Class
By Casey Childs
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by American Legacy Fine Arts directly from the artist.
Signed "Childs" on lower left
FRAMED: 17" x 20" x 1.75" UNFRAME...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Copper
"Dust
Scarlet" (2023) By Blair Atherholt, Original Oil Painting on Panel
Located in Denver, CO
"Dust & Scarlet" (2024) by Blair Atherholt is an original, handmade oil painting on panel that depicts a still-life featuring a white flower, a red rib...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Chinese Contemporary Art by Su Yu - The Double Face
By Su Yu
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...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Presque Isle (Day 121), June 23, 2024" by Primary Hughes, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Presque Isle (Day 121), June 23, 2024" by Primary Hughes (United States) is a handmade landscape painting that is created on location or en plein air. The piece is framed, and ready...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The sadness of Maria Magdalena
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this painting, I sought to capture a tender moment of introspection. The rich light bathes the figure in warmth, emphasizing the reflective mood. Textured shadows and the vibrant ...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,793 Sale Price
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Let
s play for real money
Located in Paris, FR
Ray Richardson is a contemporary British artist known for his cinematic paintings. The artist employs icons of working-class London, including bull terriers, soccer pitches, and grit...
Category
1990s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Chinese Contemporary Art by Su Yu - Flowers are Crying
By Su Yu
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...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Splitting of Silence" (2025) Original Oil Painting, Blue Skyscape
Located in Denver, CO
"The Splitting of Silence" by Kirsten Savage, an original handmade oil painting. Created in 2025, this artwork measures 24 x 48 inches with framed dimensions of 30 x 54 inches. The p...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Bunch of Roses, Oil on Paper
By Gustave Lino
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on Paper Mounted on Cardboard by Gustave Lino (1893-1961), France, 1950s. Bunch of Roses. Format: 12P. Signed: "Lino" (see photo).
Dimensions:
With frame: 73.5 x 58.6 cm (28.9 x...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Cardboard
19th Century British Seascape Oil Painting Fishermen in Storm Signed Fletcher
Located in Stockholm, SE
This Romantic oil painting from the late 19th century, attributed to the noted British maritime artist Edwin Henry Eugene Fletcher (1857-1945), depicts a dramatic scene: in the foreg...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
"3/3" by Conrado López, Original Oil and Acrylic Painting, Female Portrait
Located in Denver, CO
"3/3" by Conrado López is a delicate yet expressive 2024 artwork, utilizing acrylic, gold leaf and oil on a canvas sized at 15.75 x 15.75 in (40 x 40cm).
This piece is a prime exa...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Cherubs
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
George Henry Hall (1825-1913). Cupids, 1875. Oil on canvas, 6 x 9.25 inches; 10 x 13.25 inches framed. Original frame with label verso. Excellent condition with no damage or restoration. Signed and dated lower right.
Price on request
Biography:
Birth place: Manchester, NH
Addresses: Primarily in NYC from 1852
Profession: Still-life, genre, portrait painter
Studied: between 1849-52 in Paris and Rome; and Düsseldorf Royal Acad. with Eastman Johnson
Exhibited: PAFA, 1853-68; Royal Acad., British Inst., Suffolk Street Gal., all in London, 1858-74; Brooklyn AA, 1861-81; NAD, 1862-1900; AIC, 1888; Boston AC, 1881, 1889
Member: ANA, 1853; NA, 1868; Century Assn.
Work: MMA; BM; BMFA
Comments: Best known for his still-lifes, he specialized in detailed and vividly colored fruit and flower...
Category
19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,000 Sale Price
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The beauty of retro time II
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this piece, I captured a quiet, elegant moment wrapped in soft light and gentle shadows. The blend of impressionism and realism brings to life the grace and calm of everyday beaut...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Soldier on horseback"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Attributed to Antonio Calza ( Verona)
"Soldier on Horseback"
Oil on panel
Diameter: 26 cm
No signatured
This striking oil painting on panel, attributed to the renowned Italian Baroqu...
Category
16th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$4,781
Interior - XXI Century, contemporary oil painting, Light
shadow contrasts
By Ilona Sapka
Located in Warsaw, PL
ILONA SAPKA
studied at the School of Applied Arts, "Schola Posnaniensis" in Poznan. She received her diploma from the Faculty of Painting in the studio of stained glass led by prof. ...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
One Way
Located in Zofingen, AG
This surreal artwork portrays a solitary figure in a dark coat standing on a desert road, evoking mystery and introspection. A red phone booth to the l...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Eyes That Sees
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The future that seems far away
The joy that comes once the night fades away
The beauties that hang within the horizon of the mind
Only the eye that sees can behold that which was hidden but yet obvious.
If only we could see, less shall we journey in a circle.
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
Olaniyi Timothy...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$1,920 Sale Price
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"Bob’s Used Auto Parts" – Oil on Wood Panel, Vintage Car Scene
By Brad Davis
Located in Denver, CO
Brad Davis’s "Bob’s Used Auto Parts" is an oil painting on wood panel measuring 18 x 14 inches, presented in a contemporary frame with overall dimensions of 20 x 16 inches. Framed an...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Shed n5"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
This is an old house on the outskirts of Warsaw. Probably, a poor old woman onse lived in this house, decorating her windows with various curtains and her yard with simple flowers. I...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Beach (Triptych) Thailand
Located in Burlingame, CA
Bing Zhang’s The Beach (Triptych), a large-scale oil on canvas painting presented by Andra Norris Gallery in California, is a striking testament to the artist’s command of realist fi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A necklace - Nude Female Portrait Oil Painting, Realistic, Polish artist
By Janusz Szpyt
Located in Warsaw, PL
Janusz Szpyt was born in 1960, he is a Polish painter. He graduated from the Graphic design faculty and painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. 1983 onward, he became the m...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Little Girl with Flowers Basket
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Little Girl with Flowers Basket" c.1975 is an oil painting on canvas by Italian artist, Franco Rispoli, 1921-1989. It is signed a...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Northern California Duck Lake, Realist Landscape
By Luke Stamos
Located in Soquel, CA
Crisp realist landscape of two ducks on the lakeside surrounded by rolling hills near Mt Tamalpais by Luke Stamos (American, b. 1938). Unsigned; one of 3 we purchased (one of which is signed) in Los Gatos California from the buyer who acquired them from the artist. Unframed. Measures: 18"H x 24"L.
Luke Stamos was born in Chicago, and began studying art at the Chicago Art Institute at age 5. His family moved to San Francisco in 1944 and became aware of California’s splendid outdoor life, and began to pursue a life-long hobby of hunting and fishing. While attending high school in Daly City...
Category
1990s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Presque Isle (Day 87) June 14, 2022 Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Presque Isle (Day 87) June 14, 2022" by Primary Hughes (United States) is a handmade landscape painting that is unframed, and will require a frame.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Morning coffee with Julia
Located in Zofingen, AG
At one time Evgeniy Monahov made a whole series of morning portraits-etudes, catching this wonderful slightly sleepy mood, cold morning light, tousled hair and extremely natural look...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Rehab" – Oil on Wood Panel, Construction Site Scene
By Brad Davis
Located in Denver, CO
Brad Davis presents "Rehab," a 2025 oil on wood panel measuring 18 x 18.50 inches, framed to 20 x 20.50 inches and ready to hang. This compelling contemporary work captures a moment ...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
The man
Located in Zofingen, AG
A real man needs a little - ironed shirt, good bourbon and silence. And then he will be able to do much more - he will survive new love affairs, fights and adventures, fall from the received blows and get up to move on, to write new books or to paint pictures.
***
In 2021 Evgeniy Monahov...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$18,482
"Still Life with Pet Coke" – Oil Painting of Rocks, Bird Skeleton, Gas Station
By Brad Davis
Located in Denver, CO
Brad Davis’s "Still Life with Pet Coke", a 2025 oil painting on wood panel, is a hauntingly atmospheric composition that blurs the line between classical still life and contemporary ...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Cold Walk" by Clyde Steadman, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Cold Walk" by Clyde Steadman (United States) is a handmade landscape painting that is unframed, but ready to hang.
Clyde Steadman got his start as an artist drawing people in coffe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Moments of Reflection Depicting a Woman Sitting by the Fire, Original Oil Paint
By Sam Uhrdin
Located in Stockholm, SE
We are pleased to present a captivating painting by the artist Sam Uhrdin (1886-1964). This beautiful artwork depicts a woman from Dalarna, sitting in front of a warm, glowing fire. The entire painting is bathed in a soft, radiant light, particularly illuminating her face and traditional white/red attire. The woman appears contemplative, lost in thought, perhaps thinking of someone dear to her heart. She is depicted in a kitchen, taking a moment to relax after a day's chores in her home.
Sam Uhrdin's artistic journey began in the early 1900s, he traveled to Stockholm in 1903 to further continue his studies in painting. He worked as a painter during the day and attended various evening schools in the evenings. In 1906, he journeyed to America to work as a sign painter, but he mainly ended up working as an upholsterer. Returning to Leksand in 1909 via London and Paris, his artistic talent gained recognition, and with the help of some patrons, he began studying at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1911, occasionally attending Althin's painting school in Stockholm. Financial circumstances cut his study time short, and his skill as a portrait painter earned him numerous portrait commissions, which further occupied his time.
In 1921, Uhrdin received a scholarship from the Royal Academy, enabling him to embark on a study trip in 1922 to the Netherlands, Belgium, and France, which he had to cut short due to his wife's illness. He later visited places like Spain and Portugal.
Uhrdin's breakthrough came with his portrait of the former Prime Minister Nils Edén, which he executed in 1919. In 1921, he portrayed the participants of the Swedish Academy. Among other representatives of official Sweden captured by Uhrdin were Gustav V, Manne Siegbahn, Ludvig Stavenow, and bishops Gottfrid and Einar Billing. In 1932, he held a solo exhibition at Konstnärshuset in Stockholm, and he participated in various exhibitions, including the Swedish Artists' Association in Stockholm in 1917, Swedish Art at Valand-Chalmers in Gothenburg in 1923, Dalarna Artists displayed at Liljevalchs Konsthall in 1936, and the National Museum's traveling exhibition "Barnet i konsten" (Children in Art...
Category
1940s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Cielo" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Kierstin Young's (US based) "Sol" is an oil painting that depicts a green Luna moth and a blue patterned background with organic designs
Artist Statement/Bio:
(b. The Year of the ...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Acrylic
1880 Original Romantic Pastoral Oil Painting Alpine River with Watermill Signed
Located in Stockholm, SE
This exquisite oil on canvas from 1880 captures a vibrant summer landscape in the Alps. It presents a picturesque nook: a small watermill with a grassy roof sits by a quiet river, a ...
Category
1880s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
Newsweek Cover , Visitor from the Kremlin, Russia - Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan
By Robert Engle
Located in Miami, FL
The work is in excellent condition and meticulously rendered in a photo-realistic style. It showcases the artist's high-level sense of design. Newsweek could hire any artist in the...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Presque Isle (Day 108) May 30, 2024" by Primary Hughes, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Presque Isle (Day 108), May 30, 2024" by Primary Hughes (United States) is a handmade landscape painting that is created on location or en plein air. The piece is framed, and ready ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Home Alone This Saturday Morning -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Africa
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube.
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
About the Artist
Joy Eyitayo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Pears on Green” Contemporary Fine Realist Still-Life Painting of Pears
Located in Utrecht, NL
During his successful career as a goldsmith the desire to paint grew on Dutch artist René Smoorenburg (1954). The attention to detail, which was of great importance in his work as a ...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Gapers (2015)
Located in Denver, CO
Gapers (2015)
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
December Rose Opening (2025), Realist Close-Up Floral Still-Life Pastel Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Artist Statement
I've been working in pastel full-time for the last twenty-nine years and have been teaching workshops for the past fifteen. My artistic influences range from Paleol...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
LARA Original- oil canvas-still life painting
By Juan Lara
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
"FLOWERS" 1950- Juan Lara-Original- oil canvas-still life painting
Category
1990s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chinese Contemporary Art by Su Yu - Uncle Pushing the Door to See Me
By Su Yu
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas - diptych x 2
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 Danqi...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Life Magazine Satirical Society Cartoon Illustration
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Barbara Shermund (1899-1978). Society Satirical Cartoon, ca. 1940s. Gouache on heavy illustration paper, image measures 17 x 14 inches; 23 x 20 inches in matting. Signed lower left. Very good condition but matting panel should be replaced. Unframed.
Provenance: Ethel Maud Mott Herman, artist (1883-1984), West Orange NJ.
For two decades, she drew almost 600 cartoons for The New Yorker with female characters that commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony.
In the mid-1920s, Harold Ross, the founder of a new magazine called The New Yorker, was looking for cartoonists who could create sardonic, highbrow illustrations accompanied by witty captions that would function as social critiques.
He found that talent in Barbara Shermund.
For about two decades, until the 1940s, Shermund helped Ross and his first art editor, Rea Irvin, realize their vision by contributing almost 600 cartoons and sassy captions with a fresh, feminist voice.
Her cartoons commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony, using female characters who critiqued the patriarchy and celebrated speakeasies, cafes, spunky women and leisure. They spoke directly to flapper women of the era who defied convention with a new sense of political, social and economic independence.
“Shermund’s women spoke their minds about sex, marriage and society; smoked cigarettes and drank; and poked fun at everything in an era when it was not common to see young women doing so,” Caitlin A. McGurk wrote in 2020 for the Art Students League.
In one Shermund cartoon, published in The New Yorker in 1928, two forlorn women sit and chat on couches. “Yeah,” one says, “I guess the best thing to do is to just get married and forget about love.”
“While for many, the idea of a New Yorker cartoon conjures a highbrow, dry non sequitur — often more alienating than familiar — Shermund’s cartoons are the antithesis,” wrote McGurk, who is an associate curator and assistant professor at Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. “They are about human nature, relationships, youth and age.” (McGurk is writing a book about Shermund.
And yet by the 1940s and ’50s, as America’s postwar focus shifted to domestic life, Shermund’s feminist voice and cool critique of society fell out of vogue. Her last cartoon appeared in The New Yorker in 1944, and much of her life and career after that remains unclear. No major newspaper wrote about her death in 1978 — The New York Times was on strike then, along with The Daily News and The New York Post — and her ashes sat in a New Jersey funeral...
Category
1940s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Almazan Realistic Still Life pastel Painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Almazan Realistic Still Life Acrylic Painting virtual frame
MIQUEL was an artist focused on the art of realism. His structured works on his great mastery of drawing, are romantic an...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Business District" – Framed Oil Painting of Woman on Phone in City Night Scene
By Brad Davis
Located in Denver, CO
Brad Davis’s Business District is a luminous oil painting on wood panel, framed and ready to hang, measuring 36 x 36 inches (framed to 38 x 38 inches). Executed in 2025, this work ca...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
42nd Street at Night Unique Acrylic painting, best architectural muralist Signed
By Richard Haas
Located in New York, NY
Richard Haas
42nd Street at Night from the Multiplex Cinema Roof, 2008
Acrylic on canvas laid to board
Hand signed and dated 2008 on the front
Frame included: elegantly framed in art...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Realist figurative paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Realist figurative 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 figurative 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, red, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Su Yu, Janusz Szpyt, JC Spock, and Matt Talbert. 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 Realist figurative paintings, so small editions measuring 0.5 inches across are also available.
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