Realist Still-life 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
Singer I
By Carol Wax
Located in Palm Springs, CA
This mezzotint from 1984 is an excellent example of this difficult medium. Signed, titled and numbered, from the edition of 75.
Wax is recognized as a master of the mezzotint techni...
Category
1980s Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
$1,200
BRUSSEL-SMITH SELF PORTRAIT Hand Drawn Stone Lithograph, Bearded Man w Pipe
Located in Union City, NJ
BRUSSEL-SMITH SELF PORTRAIT is an original hand drawn stone lithograph by the American artist Bernard Brussel-Smith, hand printed by Master printer Joseph Kleineman, JK Fine Art Edit...
Category
1970s Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rhinoceros (State II), Wild Animal Art, Realist Art, Black white and gold art
By Tammy Mackay
Located in Deddington, GB
RHINOCEROS (state II) by Tammy Maclay.
Edition of 20.
Photopolymer print with hand painted gold detail.
22.2 H x 29.5 W (inches)
56.4 H x 75 W (CM)
Dürer’s iconic Rhinoceros print w...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Metal
"Orange Leaves" (2000) By Kate Breakey, Archival Pigment Print
By Kate Breakey
Located in Denver, CO
"Orange Leaves" (2000) by Kate Breakey is a limited-edition archival pigment print that is hand colored using pencil and pastel that depicts a vase of wilted plants with orange leave...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
"Tilted Tree, Mendocino, California" (2000) By Kate Breakey, Original Print
By Kate Breakey
Located in Denver, CO
"Tilted Tree, Mendocino, California" (2000) by Kate Breakey is a limited-edition archival pigment print that is hand colored using pencil and pastel.
About the artist:
Kate Breakey...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
"The Gloves Left Behind, 33 of 138" (2019) By Sophy Brown, Mixed-Media Collage
Located in Denver, CO
"The Gloves Left Behind 33 of 138" (2019) by Sophy Brown is an original mixed media collage on paper depicting a collection of gloves at different angles a...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Peonies, Realist Aquatint Etching by Jane Freilicher
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jane Freilicher, American (1924 - 2014)
Title: Peonies
Year: 1989
Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 25
Size: 29.5 x 22 in. (74.93 x 55.88 cm)
Category
1980s Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Michael Sansers, Bicyclette, Large Canvas Print, Affordable Art, Art Online
Located in Deddington, GB
Michael Sansers
Bicyclette
Large Canvas Print
Edition of 50
Sold Unframed
(Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how a piece m...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Canvas, Archival Ink
(There
s A Place) Oriental Bar, Venice
By Johnny Bull
Located in Deddington, GB
(There’s A Place) Oriental Bar, Venice [2021]
limited_edition
Digital on 315gsm etching paper
Edition number 200
Image size: H:50 cm x W:50 cm
Complete S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Digital
GAME-WORK #20
Located in Santa Monica, CA
KATSUNORI HAMANISHI (b.1949)
GAME-WORK #20 (S.22) c. 1984. Mezzotint, Signed titled and numbered 12/100 in pencil, 13 x 8 5/8 inches. Sheet 18 3/4 x 14 inches. In excellent condi...
Category
1980s Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Thames Bridges, Prints of London, Monochrome Etchings, Affordable Cityscape Art
By John Duffin
Located in Deddington, GB
John Duffin
Thames Bridges
Limited Edition Etching
Edition of
Sheet Size: H 76cm x W 56cm x D 0.1cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that in situ images are pur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Fourteen Cameras - unframed print
Located in Fairfield, CT
This print is sold UNFRAMED.
Stott’s work is almost object portraiture, applying traditional still life compositions and lighting but ventures beyond time honored subject matter. ...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Giclée
Orchid Illusion, by Mark Jenkins
By Mark Jenkins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
From an edition of 25. Photography and digital print of a dramatic orchid in a stone vase.
Based in San Francisco, Mark Jenkins has spent the majority of his career working as a com...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Digital
Sunflower, by Mark Jenkins
By Mark Jenkins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
From an edition of 25. Photography and digital print.
Based in San Francisco, Mark Jenkins has spent the majority of his career working as a commercial photographer and graphic desi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Digital
Botanical Rhapsody
Realistic/Abstract Floral Pattern Photograph Blue/White
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Botanical Rhapsody" by Judith Allen-Efstathiou is an exquisite photographic cyanotype print in deep blue and white of wildflowers abstracted. Highly intricate and lavishly depicted...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Mulberry Paper, Photographic Paper
STILL LIFE WITH GRAPES AND PEAR Signed Lithograph, Geometric Pattern, Fruit
Located in Union City, NJ
STILL LIFE WITH GRAPES is an original hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the American artist Lowell Nesbitt (b.1933-1993). Printed on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free using hand lithography techniques. STILL LIFE WITH GRAPES is a modern fruit still life depicting two bunches of plump green and red grapes, and green pear displayed on an Southwest style geometric Aztec patterned textile as a background. STILL LIFE WITH GRAPES is an eye-appealing composition using vivid colors including warm red, black, gray, yellow gold, light green, purple, burgundy and white.
Print size - 21.5 x 28.25 inches, unframed, excellent condition, very fine impression, hand signed in pencil by Lowell Nesbitt
Edition size - 175, plus proofs
Year published - 1978
Lowell Blair Nesbitt (October 4, 1933 - July 8, 1993) was an American painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor. He studied at Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia and at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Nesbitt worked in abstraction until Robert Indiana suggested in the early 1960s that he explore realism in his paintings. As subjects for his work he favored studio interiors, articles of clothing, piles of shoes, his Rottweiler, the Neo-Classical facades of 19th century cast iron buildings, and Manhattan's bridges. He was also famous for his enormous paintings and prints of roses, lilies, irises, and other flowers. He served as the official artist for the NASA Apollo 9, and Apollo 13 space missions; in 1976 the United States Navy commissioned him to paint a mural in the administration building on Treasure Island spanning 26 feet x 251 feet, then the largest mural in the United States; and in 1980 the United States Postal Service honored Lowell Nesbitt by issuing four postage stamps depicting his paintings.
His first solo exhibition was mounted at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1958 and during his lifetime he had more than 130 solo exhibitions of his work at various galleries, museums, and universities, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Kent State University, the McNay Art Museum, the Butler Institute of American Art, the Burpee Art Museum, and the Tyler Gallery...
Category
1970s Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"The Gloves Left Behind 27 of 138" (2019) By Sophy Brown, Mixed-Media Collage
Located in Denver, CO
"The Gloves Left Behind 27 of 138" (2019) by Sophy Brown is an original mixed media collage on paper depicting a collection of gloves at different angles a...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Still life 13/100. Paper, linocut, 5/100, 22x25 cm, 1967
Located in Riga, LV
Still life 13/100. Paper, linocut, 5/100, 22x25 cm
1967
Olgerts Abelite (1909-1972)
The subject matter of this linocut is a still life composition featuring a fish on a plate. Sti...
Category
1960s Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Linocut
$266 Sale Price
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Cut Watermelon
By Mary Pratt
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Mary Pratt (1935-2018) is a revered and cherished figure in Canadian art and one of Canada's foremost figurative painters.
Spending her life and career in Newfoundland, Pratt is re...
Category
1990s Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Botanical Rhapsody II
Realistic/Abstract Floral Pattern Photograph Blue/White
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Botanical Rhapsody II" by Judith Allen-Efstathiou is an exquisite photographic cyanotype print in deep blue and white of wildflowers abstracted. Highly intricate and lavishly depic...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Mulberry Paper, Photographic Paper
Arman - Accumulations - Original Signed Etching
By Arman
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Arman - Accumulations - Original Signed Etching
Title: Accumulations
Signed
Dimensions: 57 x 38 cm
1980s
Arman
Armand Pierre Fernandez was ...
Category
1990s Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Realist still-life prints for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Realist still-life prints 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 still-life prints created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of purple, blue and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Lowell Nesbitt, James Carter, Mark Jenkins, and Jane Freilicher. Frequently made by artists working with Lithograph, and Paper 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 still-life prints, so small editions measuring 8.5 inches across are also available. Prices for still-life prints made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $100 and tops out at $24,000, while the average work sells for $795.