Realist Figurative Prints
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
STANDING NUDE DARK HAIR Signed Original Etching, Full-figured Woman, Casual Pose
Located in Union City, NJ
STANDING NUDE DARK HAIR is a signed original etching by Raphael Soyer, the renowned Russian-born American realist painter, draftsman, and printmaker. Printed on archival printmaking ...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
SERENA SUITE
Located in Aventura, FL
Suite of 4 prints. Each hand signed, dated, and numbered by the artist. Each print measures 33.5 x 24 inches. Hand numbered TP 3/5 (there was a manin edition of 30 plus 10 artist'...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Screen
$15,960 Sale Price
20% Off
Evacues
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Theophile Alexandre Steinlen (Swiss, 1859-1923)
Title: Evacues
Year: 1916
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: Numbered 98/100 in pencil
Paper: Japan
Image size: 14 x 9.5 inch...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
WINTER IS UPON US
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 350.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity is included. All reasonable o...
Category
1990s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
$150 Sale Price
50% Off
Waiting Women
By R.C. Gorman
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork, titled "Waiting Women", 1976 is an original color lithograph by renown Navajo artist Rudolph Carl Gorman, 1932-2005. It is hand-signed, dated and numbered 63/120 in pencil by the artist, also dedicated "To Purificacion Ramirez" With the blindstamp of the artist and another blindstamp. The sheet size is 22 x 30 inches, framed size is 22.5 x 30.5 inches. Custom framed in a clear acrylic box. It is in excellent condition. The acrylic box is in good condition with a few very faint scratches.
Artist: R.C. Gorman (1932-2005)
Title: Waiting Women
Medium: Lithograph on Paper
Sheet Size: 22" x 30"
Framed size: 22.5" x 30.5"
Year Produced: 1976
Edition Size: 120 plus proofs (25 proofs) This one: 63/120
About the artist:
Born in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona and raised in a hogan on the Navajo Reservation, R.C. Gorman became one of the Southwest's best known late 20th-century artists. His signature works were Navajo women in a variety of poses. Many persons have been fascinated by the fact that he, an Indian artist, became famous in the white man's world with some calling him the "Picasso of Indian artists". Of this kind of attention, he said: "I wish people would quit pushing my being Indian. The only time I was interviewed as If I were a normal person was by the Jewish Press in Tucson. It was the first time I felt international and almost white". (Samuels 222)
His parents were Carl Nelson...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
OLD PRO Dave Wilcox San Francisco 49ers NFL Football History, Signed Lithograph
Located in Union City, NJ
OLD PRO is an original limited edition lithograph by the American artist, Merv Corning printed from hand drawn lithographic stones using traditional hand ...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Western Front" (2024) Limited Edition Poster Print, Portrait of Woman
Located in Denver, CO
"Western Front" is a limited edition poster print by the acclaimed UK artist Ed Fairburn. This captivating piece, released in 2024, is reproduced onto 100% 290gsm cotton rag premium ...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Archival Pigment
DUELO (Duel)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
FRANCISCO MORA (1922 - 2002)
DUELO (Duel) c. 1945
Lithograph signed in pencil. Published by the TGP Taller de Grafica Popular. Label on verso. 9 5/8 x...
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1940s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Brazilian signed limited edition original art print photoengraving n6
Located in Miami, FL
Regina Silveira (Brazil, 1939)
'Huella from Portfolio ""Eclipses""', 2005
photoengraving on paper Velin Arches 300 g.
27.6 x 19.7 in. (70 x 50 cm.)
Edition of 99
ID: SIL1692-002-106_...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
James Abbott McNeill Whistler: Firelight: Joseph Pennell, No.1
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of the Artist Joseph Pennell a lithograph by James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American, 1834 - 1903). This portrait, one of 3 Whistler did of Joseph Pennell, was done in 1896 ...
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Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Vellum, Lithograph
La Tauromaquia, Plate #5
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Brave Moor Gazul" from the suite "La Tauromaquia" engraved between 1815 and 1816, is a photogravure on creme wove paper after renown Spanish artist Francisco Jose De Goya...
Category
Early 19th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Photogravure
"Pennsylvania" (2022) Limited Edition Poster Print, Portrait of Woman
Located in Denver, CO
"Pennsylvania" is a limited edition poster print by the acclaimed UK artist Ed Fairburn. This captivating piece, released in 2022, is reproduced onto 100% 290gsm cotton rag premium M...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Archival Pigment
Benita
By R.C. Gorman
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Benita" first state, 1981 Is an original lithograph on Wove paper by renown Navajo artist Rudolph Carl Gorman, 1932-2005. It is signed, dated and numbered 122/180 in pencil by the artist. With the blind stamp of the artist and printer. The image size is 22 x 30 inches, the sheet size is 24 x 31.75 inches. It is in excellent condition, has never been framed, the colors are fresh bright.
About the artist:
Born in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona and raised in a hogan on the Navajo Reservation, R.C. Gorman became one of the Southwest's best known late 20th-century artists. His signature works were Navajo women in a variety of poses. Many persons have been fascinated by the fact that he, an Indian artist, became famous in the white man's world with some calling him the "Picasso of Indian artists". Of this kind of attention, he said: "I wish people would quit pushing my being Indian. The only time I was interviewed as If I were a normal person was by the Jewish Press in Tucson. It was the first time I felt international and almost white". (Samuels 222)
His parents were Carl Nelson...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,650
HARDWOOD LANE
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 350.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity is included. All reasonable offers will be considered.
About the artist: As a self taught artist, Jake's style has developed over many years, evolving since childhood. Early in life he nurtured a bond with nature and wildlife that eventually became the basis for his artistic endeavors. Jake captures the landscape with striking compositions emphasizing light and color. Among the artist\'s favorite subjects are serene lakes, forests, and mountains of North America. Jake has enjoyed a popular following throughout the past 23 years that he has been showing, and his art continues to attract collectors throughout Canada and beyond. His art has found homes...
Category
1990s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
$150 Sale Price
50% Off
"Colorado Geological" (2023) By Ed Fairburn, Limited Edition Print, Portrait
Located in Denver, CO
"Colorado Geological" (2023) is a limited edition poster print by the acclaimed UK artist Ed Fairburn. This captivating piece is reproduced onto 100% 290gsm cotton rag premium archiv...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Archival Pigment
Salzburg Main Square
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Salzburg Main Square" c.1935 is an original color etching by Austrian/American artist Tana Kasimir Hoernes, 1887-1972. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist....
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Bell Inn, Waltham St Lawrence
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Bell Inn, Waltham St Lawrence" is a chromolithograph by noted British artist Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin, 1870-1935. It is hand signed at the lower left corner by the artist. With the blindstamp of the Fine Art Trade Gulid, published and printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode ltd, London. The image size is 15 x 13 inches, sheet size is 17.5 x 14.25 inches. it is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin RBA (28 April 1870 - 6 January 1935) was a British artist and illustrator best known for his paintings and sketches of animals, sports, and rural life.
Born in Slough, he was educated at Eastbourne College and Solihull Grammar School. He studied anatomy at South Kensington and animal painting under William Frank Calderon. He lived at The Abbots, Sulhamstead Abbots from 1913 to 1914 and was church warden of St Mary's church.
Early influences included Randolph Caldecott and John Leech. His drawings first made their way into print in The Building News of 12 September 1890, and began to appear throughout many popular journals and magazines; his work was published in The Graphic in 1891.
His illustrations include two of the original 1894 magazine publications of stories from Rudyard Kipling's The Second Jungle Book, the 1910 edition of Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers and The Bunch Book (1932, about Bunch, a Sealyham Terrier) by James Douglas. He also published a short series of fully illustrated books in 1923, Old Manor Houses and Old Inns.
His village scenes and rural buildings were executed in chalk, pencil and wash sketching was used for country scenes. Aldin was an enthusiastic sportsman and a Master of Fox Hounds and many of his pictures illustrated hunting.
An early work on a tiger in a zoo was studied from life, but found to be a copyright of the ideas in a photograph by Gambier Bolton.
A popular book by Aldin was Sleeping Partners, a sequence of pastel drawings of his dogs on a couch. It included his Irish Wolfhound Micky and his favorite model, Cracker, a Bull Terrier with a dark patch over one eye.
He also did some work for Cadburys advertising.
Born 28 April 1870. He was educated at Eastbourne College then Solihull Grammar School. Cecil Aldin's father was a keen amateur artist so Cecil started drawing at a very young age. He studied art at the studio of Albert Moore and then the National Art Training School which later became The Royal College of Art. After this he spent a summer with the fine animal painter and teacher, Frank Calderon.
In 1892 he bombarded the illustrated periodicals with his illustrations and thereby started a long association with The Illustrated London News. He was commissioned by The Pall Mall Budget in 1894 to illustrate "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling. At the invitation of the fine genre painter, Walter Dendy Sadler...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
1984 Olympic Runner Print, Hand Signed by April Greiman AND Jayme Odgers w/ COA
Located in New York, NY
Renowned artists and designers
April Greiman and Jayme Odgers
1984 Olympic Games Print (Hand Signed by both April Greiman and Jayme Odgers), 1982
Offset Lithograph Poster - art in sports -
Signed in graphite pencil on the front. Accompanied by a letter of authenticity from the publisher
Also accompanied by Certificate of Guarantee issued by Alpha 137 Gallery
36 x 24 inches
Unframed
Accompanied by a letter of authenticity from the publisher on Olympic letterhead. This is one of 750 hand signed lithographic posters (though fewer than 200 said to be extant), published in 1982 to celebrate the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics .
April Greiman is an American designer widely recognized as one of the first designers to embrace computer technology as a design tool. Greiman is also credited, along with early collaborator, the late artist Jayme Odgers, with helping to import the European New Wave design style to the US during the late 70s and early 80s."
The Olympic Committee commissioned 15 nationally known artists, including April Greiman and Jayme Odgers to create unique designs to promote the event. The complete list of artists is: Sam Francis, David Hockney, Richard Diebenkorn, Carlos Almaraz, Robert Rauschenberg, Jennifer Bartlett, Jonathon Borofsky, Roy LIchtenstein, April Gornik, Raymond Saunders, Martin Puryear, John Baldessari, Lynda Benglis, Billy Al Bengston and Garry Winogrand. This was Greiman and Odger's contribution to the portfolio. In 2017, the Olympic Museum in Lausanne Switzerland...
Category
1980s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset, Pencil
Rothenburg, City Hall Gate
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Rothenburg, City Hall Gate" c. 1975 is a color etching by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. Printed...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Winter Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Winter Landscape" c.1950, is a color etching on paper by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir, 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the ...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Happy Sisters
By Ming Wai
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork Titled "Happy Sisters" 1977 in a color off set lithograph by renown Chinese/American artist Wai Ming A.K.A Lo Hing Kwok, b.1938. It is hand signed and inscribed A.P (Artist Proof) in pencil by the artist. The image size is 29 x 19 inches, sheet size is 36 x 25 inches, framed size is 42.25 x 31 inches. Custom framed in a wooden gold leaf rubbed, scratched style frame, with off white matting. It is in excellent condition, the colors are fresh and bright.
About the artist:
Wai Ming, was born in Canton, South China on November 11, 1938, the son of a school master with nine children. Extremely poor as a child, he was raised in Hong Kong enduring many hardships amidst a chaotic environment of war and refugee settlements. Wai Ming's love for art flourished and he developed his drawing techniques without any art education, just painting what he saw. In the 1960s, Ming found representation in Hong Kong and also took the unusual step of opening his own gallery to display his work in. His primary interest being to capture images of life in fishing villages, or 'fish-folk', who have retained traditional Chinese culture, his work was at home with the sensibilities of many art buyers in Hong Kong. Crossing the ocean in his mid-30s, Wai Ming arrived in San Francisco from Hong Kong in 1974. There, he experienced initial resistance from galleries and the official art world for a variety of reasons, but was ultimately embraced by dealer Jack Swanson...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
TAA Trans-Australia Airlines original vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original TAA Trans Australia Airlines vintage travel poster. Linen-backed and ready to frame. TAA Airlines was started in 1946 and was renamed Australian Airlines in 1986. In 1...
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20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Nude Model with Banner and Fish Weathervanes, by Philip Pearlstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Philip Pearlstein
Title: Nude Model with Banner and Fish Weathervanes
Year: 2010
Medium: Lithograph, Signed and Numbered in Pencil
Edition: 40
Size: 34.5 x 25 in. (87.63 x ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Adrian Collaert 17th Century engraving Martin de Vos The Visitation of the Magi
Located in London, GB
We have the full series of 52 prints from Vita Passio et Resurrectio Iesu Christi listed. To find the others scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all fro...
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17th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Klosterneuburg, Austria
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Klosterneuburg, Austria" c.1950 is a color etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed by the artist's estate in pencil at the lower center. The plate mark (image) size is 7.75 x 5.85 inches, framed is 18.15 x 15.15 inches. It is framed in a wooden antique silver frame. It is in very good condition.
About the artist.
Luigi Kasimir was born in 1881 at Pettau, today Ptuj, Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He inherited his talent from his ancestors; his grandfather was a painter and a poet, and his father an officer in the Habsburg army, who later became a professional painter. Kasimir attended the Vienna Academy of Art where he studied under Wilhelm Unger, who introduced him to the technique of the coloured etching, and also to his future wife, the artist Tanna Hoernes.[1] He died in 1962 in Grinzing, a suburb of Vienna.Kasimir was among the first to develop the technique of the coloured etching. Before this, prints were usually hand-coloured with the colour being applied in a casual, haphazard manner. Kasimir would first create a sketch usually in pastel, he then transferred the design on as many as four to six plates, printing one after the other and applying the colour on the plate, all done by hand.
Kasimir is mainly famous for his etchings, but he also produced some oil painting, as well as some pastels. One of his favourite genres was the landscape, or veduta. He demonstrated a predisposition street scenes, and tourist landmarks. He depicted places from all over Europe, mainly Italy, Austria, and Germany. He also travelled to the United States to do a series of etchings of famous sights ranging from urban landmarks such as New York City skyscrapers, to natural wonders like Yosemite Valley. Luigi Kasimir’s etchings...
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Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
George Brookshaw
s Black Frontiniac Wine Grape Aquatint from "Pomona Brittanica"
Located in Alamo, CA
George Brookshaw's (1751-1823) beautiful Black Frontiniac Wine Grape hand-colored aquatint engraving, plate XVII from his "Pomona Brittanica", considered to be the finest British botanical large format treatise of the 19th-century. His engravings were unique for their rich tones and colors, elegant compositions with the fruit seeming to float on a rich mottled background.
The print is presented in a gold and burgundy-colored wood frame and a light gray mat. The print is in very good condition.
Another Brookshaw engraving from his series of fruit illustrations is available on 1stdibs. It is framed and matted identically to this one. It can be viewed on our 1stdibs storefront by typing Timeless Intaglio...
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Early 19th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Happy Sisters
By Ming Wai
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork Titled "Happy Sisters" 1977 in a color off set lithograph by renown Chinese/American artist Wai Ming A.K.A Lo Hing Kwok, b.1938. It is hand signed and inscribed A.P (Artist Proof) in pencil by the artist. The image size is 29 x 19 inches, sheet size is 36 x 25 inches. It is in excellent condition, the colors are fresh and bright, it has never been framed.
About the artist:
Wai Ming, was born in Canton, South China on November 11, 1938, the son of a school master with nine children. Extremely poor as a child, he was raised in Hong Kong enduring many hardships amidst a chaotic environment of war and refugee settlements. Wai Ming's love for art flourished and he developed his drawing techniques without any art education, just painting what he saw. In the 1960s, Ming found representation in Hong Kong and also took the unusual step of opening his own gallery to display his work in. His primary interest being to capture images of life in fishing villages, or 'fish-folk', who have retained traditional Chinese culture, his work was at home with the sensibilities of many art buyers in Hong Kong. Crossing the ocean in his mid-30s, Wai Ming arrived in San Francisco from Hong Kong in 1974. There, he experienced initial resistance from galleries and the official art world for a variety of reasons, but was ultimately embraced by dealer Jack Swanson...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Limited Edition Print of Chrysler Building New York City NYC by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Limited Edition Print of Chrysler Building New York City NYC by Contemporary British Artist, Angela Wakefield. This is a striking, colourful and vibrant depiction of the Chrysler Bui...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Color, Digital, Giclée
Saint Florian Monastery, Austria
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Saint Florian Monastery, Austria" c.1950 is a color etching on Wove paper by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It ...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Family - Original vintage lithograph poster "Drawings New-York 1967" #Mourlot
Located in Paris, IDF
Henri MATISSE (after)
Family - Drawing 1967
Lithograph printed in MOURLOT workshop
Printed signature in the plate
75 x 52 cm (c. 30 x 21")
Original lithograph poster for the exhibit...
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1960s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Keswick" By Ed Fairburn, Limited Edition Poster Print, Nude Portrait of Woman
Located in Denver, CO
"Keswick" is a limited edition poster print by the acclaimed UK artist Ed Fairburn. This captivating piece is reproduced onto 100% 290gsm cotton rag premium archival Moab paper with ...
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2010s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Archival Pigment
A Young Woman of Otaheite, Dancing (Tahiti) 1784 Captain Cooks Voyage by Webber
By John Webber
Located in Paonia, CO
A Young Woman of Taheite Dancing (Tahiti) is from the 1784 First Edition Atlas Accompanying Capt. James Cook and King; Third and Final Voyage of Captain James Cook.John Webber (1752-...
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1780s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Familia Indigena III
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Familia Indigena III" 1983 is an original colors lithograph on Wove paper by renown Costa Rican/Mexican artist Francisco Zuniga, 1912-1998. It is hand signed, dated and numbered 67/100 in pencil by the artist. The artwork size is 22 x 29.85 inches, framed size is 28.5 x 36.5 inches. Published and printed by La Poligrafa, Barcelona, Spain. Referenced and pictured in the artist's catalogue raisonne "Zuniga The Complete Graphics, 1972-1984, by Jerry Brewster, plate #93. Beautifully framed in a custom acrylic display box, with brown fabric backing. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Internationally acclaimed sculptor and printmaker Francisco Zuñiga was born in Costa Rica. He studied drawing, stone sculpture, and engraving at the School of Fine Arts in San Jose. Later, in 1936, he studied stone carving at La Esmeralda in Mexico City. He was appointed to the faculty of La Esmeralda where he remained until his retirement in 1970.
Zuniga's art reflects a love and respect for Central American people and traditions. In 1972, he created his first lithograph. As a complement to his emotionally powerful sculpture, Zuniga's prints articulate the sensitivity and sensuality of the human figure. He has been the recipient of numerous international prizes and awards. His work is exhibited frequently in prominent galleries throughout the world and may be found in the permanent collections of twenty-nine museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum, the Mexican Museum in San Francisco, and the Phoenix Art Museum.
In 1936, Francisco Zuniga left San Jose, Costa Rica, where he had studied drawing at the School of Fine Arts and worked as an assistant in his father's studio, a workshop which produced religious sculpture for the churches and convents in and around the city. His destination was Mexico City. It was from there that he would begin an illustrious career as a sculptor and draftsman. Zuñiga's exploration into the nuances of volume, in line and space, are demonstrated in this, the most complete exhibition of his work to be shown in more than a decade.
Mexico City in 1936 was, even then, one of the major art centers of the Americas. As such it witnessed and participated in many of the frenzied and controversial art movements which reflected the political and intellectual climate of the first three decades of the twentieth century. Muralism, the graphic arts, the incorporation of in-ternational movements had produced an artistic climate, which would eventually attract to Mexico international artists and intellectuals such as Sergei Eisenstein...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Kanovitz Andre champagne: vintage 1970s wood grain still life pop art style
Located in New York, NY
This richly-hued screenprint depicts the ripped-open box packaging for Andre Champagne Cellars. On the side of the box is printed "Cold Duck," referri...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Portrait of Liz, Signed Lithograph, Seated Woman Fluffy Hair, Pink Tunic, Jeans
Located in Union City, NJ
Portrait of Liz is an original lithograph by Raphael Soyer, the renowned Russian-born American realist painter, draftsman, and printmaker. Printed on archival Arches paper 100% acid ...
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1970s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rothenburg, Plontein
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Rothenburg, Plontein" is an color etching by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991 It is hand signed and titled in pencil. The plate mark (image) s...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Munich, Der Alte Hof
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Munich, Der Halte Hof" 1910 is a color etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist at the lower right corner. The image size is 12.35 x 10.85 inches, plate mark is 12.75 x 11.25 inches, framed size is 20.85 x 19.25 inches. Custom framed in a wooden black/silver frame, with light beige matting and black fillet. It is in very good condition, the paper is toned by age,
About the artist.
Luigi Kasimir was born in 1881 at Pettau, today Ptuj, Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He inherited his talent from his ancestors; his grandfather was a painter and a poet, and his father an officer in the Habsburg army, who later became a professional painter. Kasimir attended the Vienna Academy of Art where he studied under Wilhelm Unger, who introduced him to the technique of the coloured etching, and also to his future wife, the artist Tanna Hoernes...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Marsha Feigin, Slam, 1977, photo-etching of tennis player
Located in New York, NY
Marsha Feigin's print Slam, brings home the drama we all love about tennis. She GETS IT!
There's something about the energy and maybe torque of the body here that makes us think "I ...
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1970s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Intaglio
La Vilaine, France
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Roger Hebbelinck (Belgian, born 1912)
Title: La Vilaine
Year: Circa 1965
Medium: Color etching with aquatint
Edition: Numbered 30/350 in p...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
The Communicants - Original lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Maurice DENIS (1870 - 1943)
The Communicants
Original lithograph with charcoal enhancement
Printed signature in the plate
On light vellum 48 x 28 cm (c. 19 x 11 inch)
Excellent con...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$356 Sale Price
40% Off
Le Luxe II BHGG, Gagosian poster (hand signed, dated, inscribed by Roe Ethridge)
By Roe Ethridge
Located in New York, NY
Roe Ethridge
Le Luxe II BHGG, Gagosian poster (hand signed, dated and inscribed by Roe Ethridge), 2023
Offset lithograph poster invitation/mailer (hand...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset, Lithograph
Sewing Girl - Original Handsigned Etching
By Mily Possoz
Located in Paris, IDF
Mily POSSOZ (1888-1967)
Sewing Girl , 1930
Original etching
Handsigned in pencil by the artist
Numbered / 50 copies
Blind stamp of the editor Marcel Guiot (Paris)
On vellum 67 x 47 ...
Category
1930s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Vintage David Hockney portrait Exhibition poster Graves Art Gallery
80
Located in New York, NY
The portrait of the David Hockney’s mother featured on this vintage David Hockney poster is currently on view at the National Portrait Gallery’s e...
Category
1980s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Old Violinist - Late 19th Century Figurative Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Finely detailed late 19th century chromo-lithograph portrait of a violinist street musician by John George Brown (British, 1831-1913). Many of Brown’s paintings were reproduced in lithography (Chromo-lithograpy), as is the case with the one offered here. Presented in a rustic antique Oak wood frame with giltwood fillet. Image, 15.63"H x 10.63"W.
John George Brown was a British citizen and an American painter born in Durham, England. His parents apprenticed him to the career of glass worker at the age of fourteen, in an attempt to dissuade him from pursuing painting. He studied nights at the School of Design in Newcastle-on-Tyne while working as a glass cutter there between 1849 and 1852, and evenings at the Trustees Academy in Edinburgh while working at the Holyrood Glass Works between 1852 ad 1853. After moving to New York City in 1853, he studied with Thomas Seir Cummings at the National Academy of Design where he was elected a National Academician in 1861. Brown was the Academy’s vice-president from 1899 to 1904.
Around 1855, he worked for the owner of the Brooklyn Glass Company, and later he married the daughter of his employer. His father-in-law encouraged his artistic abilities, supporting him financially, letting Brown pursue painting full-time. In 1866, he became one of the charter members of the Water-Color Society, of which he was president from 1887 to 1904. Brown became famous for his depictions of street urchins found of the streets of New York (bootblacks, street musicians, posy sellers, newsboys, etc.).
Brown’s art is best characterized as British genre painting...
Category
1870s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Central Synagogue Lexington Avenue Looking North Etching and aquatint S/N Framed
By Richard Haas
Located in New York, NY
Richard Haas
Central Synagogue - Lexington Avenue Looking North, 1991
Etching and aquatint on wove paper
Signed, dated and numbered 8/35 in graphite pencil on the front; bears the or...
Category
1990s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Brazilian 2005 signed limited edition original art print photoengraving n8
Located in Miami, FL
Regina Silveira (Brazil, 1939)
'Gafas from Portfolio ""Eclipses""', 2005
photoengraving on paper Velin Arches 300 g.
27.6 x 19.7 in. (70 x 50 cm.)
Edition of 99
ID: SIL1692-002-106_8...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Native Civilians of America -- "De L
Amerique" Published Frankfurt / 1683
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful etching, originally page 365 in a book De L'amerique by Alain Manesson Mallet, circa 1683, depicts the artist's concept of the appearance and activities of the native occupants of America in graphic detail. Unsigned. Displayed in a black and giltwood frame. Image, 6.5"H x 4.5"L.
1683 Manesson Mallet "Bresiliens" Amerindians, Indigenous Native Brazilians, Brazil, South America, Antique Print...
Category
1680s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Woodcut
The Red Capote
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " The Red Capote" 1986 is a color offset lithograph on Artcote paper by Crow Indian artist Penni Anne Cross A.K.A. (Alawa-Sta-We- ...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Group of Workers
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Group of Workers" 1943, is an original lithograph on paper by noted American artist John Edward Costigan, 1888-1972. It is hand signed and titled in pencil by th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Richard Haas, Hong Kong, Etching
Aquatint, Signed 26/35, Framed
By Richard Haas
Located in New York, NY
Richard Haas
Hong Kong, 1990
Etching and Aquatint on wove paper
Hand Signed, numbered 26/35 and dated on the front
Frame included; held in the original vintage hand made wood frame ...
Category
1990s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Amoureux a Tarang, Yap, Ouest Carolines (Lovers of Tarang, Yap, West Carolines)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Amoureux a Tarang, Yap, Ouest Carolines 1935 is an original color woodcut by French artist Paul Jacoulet, 1896-1960. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
College Fun at the University of Cambridge, engraving by William Bunbury
Located in London, GB
William Bunbury, engraved by James Bretherton
College Fun or Quizzing the Proctor
Hand coloured engraving
27 x 34 cm
c.1790
In this playful scene, a proctor--garnering a powdered wig and academic dress--is reading a public proclamation regarding a 'general fast.' Unbeknownst to him, a mischievous student is pinning a satirical note on his back. The note mocks the proctor's authority, reading, "From all Pride, Vanity, Glory and Hypocrisy, Good Lord Deliver us." Meanwhile, two other students, dressed in academic gowns and mortarboards, stand to the left, laughing and gesturing at the proctor, clearly enjoying the other student's prank.
This caricatural scene dates from the late 18th century, a period when William Bunbury, alongside James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson, and Isaac Cruikshank...
Category
1790s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Reproachful
Located in Berlin, DE
Willibrord Haas (*1936 Schramberg), Reproachful, 2010. etching, 33.5 cm x 20 cm (plate size), 54 cm x 37.5 cm (sheet size). Signed “Willibrord Haas” in lead by the artist, dated “201...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Cityscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "cityscape" c. 1960 is a color etching by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. The plate mark (image) size is 1...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Miss Hawtin - Born without Arms
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
Miss Hawtin, born without arms, 18th century. Born in Coventry, she exhibited her dexterity cutting decorative watch papers with her feet all over England...
Category
19th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
$104 Sale Price
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Jack Levine American Modernist Social Realist WPA Artist Lithograph Dinner Party
By Jack Levine
Located in Surfside, FL
This is being sold unframed. Reception in Miami.
Born to Lithuanian Jewish parents, Levine grew up in the South End of Boston, where he observed a street life composed of European immigrants and a prevalence of poverty and societal ills, subjects which would inform his work. He first studied drawing with Harold K. Zimmerman from 1924-1931. At Harvard University from 1929 to 1933, Levine and classmate Hyman Bloom studied with Denman Ross. As an adolescent, Levine was already, by his own account, "a formidable draftsman". In 1932 Ross included Levine's drawings in an exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard, and three years later bequeathed twenty drawings by Levine to the museum's collection. Levine's early work was most influenced by Bloom, Chaim Soutine, Georges Rouault, and Oskar Kokoschka. Along with Bloom and Karl Zerbe, he became associated with the style known as Boston Expressionism.
In 1935, shortly after its formation, Levine joined the WPA’s Federal Art Project, where he was employed intermittently until 1939. In 1937, while with the WPA, Levine painted The Feast of Pure Reason...
Category
20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Color, Lithograph
WOMAN LONG DARK HAIR Signed Lithograph, Female Portrait, V-Neck Top, Realism
Located in Union City, NJ
WOMAN LONG DARK HAIR is an original hand drawn (not digitally or photo reproduced) limited edition lithograph by the artist Raphael Soyer - Russian/American Social Realism...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Heiligenblut, Austria
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Heiligenblut, Austria" c.1950 is a color etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed by the artiste's estate in pencil at the lower center. The plate mark (image) size is 7.75 x 5.75 inches, framed is 17.85 x 15.15 inches. It is framed in a wooden antique silver frame. It is in very good condition.
About the artist.
Luigi Kasimir was born in 1881 at Pettau, today Ptuj, Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He inherited his talent from his ancestors; his grandfather was a painter and a poet, and his father an officer in the Habsburg army, who later became a professional painter. Kasimir attended the Vienna Academy of Art where he studied under Wilhelm Unger, who introduced him to the technique of the coloured etching, and also to his future wife, the artist Tanna Hoernes.[1] He died in 1962 in Grinzing, a suburb of Vienna.Kasimir was among the first to develop the technique of the coloured etching. Before this, prints were usually hand-coloured with the colour being applied in a casual, haphazard manner. Kasimir would first create a sketch usually in pastel, he then transferred the design on as many as four to six plates, printing one after the other and applying the colour on the plate, all done by hand.
Kasimir is mainly famous for his etchings, but he also produced some oil painting, as well as some pastels. One of his favourite genres was the landscape, or veduta. He demonstrated a predisposition street scenes, and tourist landmarks. He depicted places from all over Europe, mainly Italy, Austria, and Germany. He also travelled to the United States to do a series of etchings of famous sights ranging from urban landmarks such as New York City skyscrapers, to natural wonders like Yosemite Valley. Luigi Kasimir’s etchings...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Feed Everyone (for the Black Panthers at 1960s Harvard Square Be-in) food in art
Located in New York, NY
Unknown Artist
Feed Everyone, ca. 1969
Offset lithograph poster
Frame included: held in original vintage metal frame
Measurements:
Framed
27.5 inches vertical by 16 inches vertical b...
Category
1960s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
César - Centaur - Picasso
s Homage - Original Signed Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
César Baldaccini
Original Etching
Dimensions: 56.5 x 40 cm
Signed and Numbered
Edition of 99
It is the only original etching ever made by César.
César Baldaccini was born in Marseille in 1921. At the age of 12, he left the school to help his father, cooper. At 15 years old, he studied at the Art college of Marseille. He took evening drawing teachings, and then was interested in sculpture until 1939.
In 1942, César received a scholarship and went to Paris. He studied ten years at the School of Beaux-Arts; he worked in the studios of Gaumont and Alfred Jeanniot and was named “Grand Massier” (teacher) of this school. At that time, he was living in the same house as Alberto Giacometti.
In 1944, short of resources, he went to Marseille, then return to Paris, next year. With the 50s, he made discovered his work through his first exhibitions. One of its works (« The fish ») obtained a place in the Museum of Modern Art in Paris (1955). Henceforth, he exhibited ceaselessly, participating in numerous “Salons” in France and abroad. César received numerous prices there. He got personal exhibitions everywhere (Japan, the United States, Holland, France, Italy, etc.). Important retrospectives came, later. In 1970, he was named professor a foreman to the School of Beaux-Arts in Paris.
During his all life, Caesar was stimulated by « the love of the profession » and by an extraordinary will to innovate. The humor of the man did not miss and was noticed through his work. Pablo Picasso was his major reference, also Alberto Giacometti, Germaine Richier, Pablo Gargallo and Julio Gonzales...
Category
1980s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Realist figurative prints for sale on 1stDibs.
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