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Realist Art

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
Sparrow-Hawk Bird Watercolor on Paper Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
381 Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan, Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Watercolor on Paper Year: 2024 Style: Classic Art Title: Sparrow-hawk Size: 12 x 16 ...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Robert Kenneth White "Old Ram" California Hillside Flock, Signed Oil on Canvas
Located in Miami, FL
ROBERT KENNETH WHITE – "OLD RAM" Oil on Canvas ⚜ Hand Signed Lower Right ⚜ Frameless Display A MOUNTAIN KING IN DAPPLED LIGHT A majestic and earthy depiction by Robert Kenneth Whit...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Golden Glow, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Jose Luis Bermudez presents a tranquil lake bathed in a radiant golden light. "The atmosphere envelops this setting, providing a sense of stability and connection to the earth," says Jose Luis. The water reflects a magical and captivating effect as the sun sits low in the sky, just above the trees. Plants reach for the last rays, vibrant and full of life, while the atmosphere glows with deep yellow hues. Jose Luis invites the viewer to contemplate nature's fleeting beauty and appreciate the magic that can exist in a single moment. The painting arrives with a thin white floating frame.


About the Artist
Artist Jose Luis Bermudez brings to life natural sceneries with breathtaking detail. His realistic oil paintings invite the viewer into a captivating, serene world of golden sunsets and peaceful wetlands. “I offer a fragment of my existence, where you can escape from daily life, visit beautiful scenes and moments, or simply recall a fond memory,” says Jose Luis. Graduating in 2008 with a BA from the San Alejandro School of Fine Arts in Havana, Cuba, he later shared his expertise as a painting teacher at his alma mater. In 2014, he took the leap and moved to Miami, Florida, seeking better opportunities. The decision did not come easy for Jose Luis to leave his home country. Yet, he encountered career obstacles that made him feel artists lacked the resources and opportunities for broader impact, access to more information, and improved working conditions. These challenges became the catalyst for his bold decision to make the move. Today, he paints in a spacious, well-lit studio, which he keeps clean and organized, always accompanied by piano or instrumental music. When he is not painting, he loves connecting with nature. He travels outside the city to places removed from everyday life, breathing fresh air and listening to self-improvement audio books to charge him with energy and continue.


Words that describe this painting: nature, lake, sunset, sun, water, realism, oilpaint, reflection, large, warm, grass, foliage, woods, evening, nature, realism, oil painting, yellow


Golden Glow...

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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Woman with Three Goats
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Woman with Three Goats" c.1960 is an original linocut on thin fiber paper by noted Turkish artist Nevzat Akoral, 1926-2016 It is signed in the plate as issue. The image...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Linocut

"Century Seascape"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Seascape with Ships and Figures Oil on canvas Framed: 58 x 65 cm Canvas: 42 x 30 cm No signatured This elegant 18th-century seascape captures a tranquil yet dynamic maritime scene, ...
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18th Century Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Brilliant Reflections; Rocky Point, Carmel, California
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist Signed "Peter Adams" on lower right Artist Statement "While on a recent painting trip along the 101 Highway to Carmel I stopped twice to paint at one of my favorite spots, Rocky...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

"Fortification, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Che Leviathan (US based) "Fortification" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a brown horse in profile, with thick black mane and a black a...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

Study of a Butterfly, Watercolour on Silk Applied to Handmade Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
One from a set of four watercolours of butterflies on silk, applied to handmade paper, with hand cut edges, by French artist La Roche Laffitte. Signed bottom right. (The other 3 items are available separately) A beautifully observed and detailed study of a butterfly painted...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Silk, Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper, Carbon Pencil

Vintage Hockney poster Kammer 1981 Celia in a Black Dress and Red Stockings
Located in New York, NY
Printed for Galerie Kammer’s 1981 David Hockney exhibition “Drawings and Prints”, this beautiful poster reproduces Hockney’s drawing Celia in a Black Dress and Red Stockings 1973. Fa...
Category

1980s Realist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Morning Has Broken; Carmel, California
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist. Signed "Michael Godfrey" on lower left FRAMED: 30.75" x 42.75" x 1.375" UNFRAMED: 24" ...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Monhegan Morning - Fog and Seagulls, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Mist lingers over the distant ocean, softening the horizon and capturing the mystic beauty of Monhegan Island in the early morning. Waves and currents weave thr...

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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Red Apples On The White Tablecloth - apples oil painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
Professional realistic oil painting with red apples near the light window will give you a sense of harmony and lyrical mood. The picture will became a wonderful gift for You and Your...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Emergence, " Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Brian O'Neill's (US based) "Emergence" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a floral robe slipping from a female figure's shoulders and expos...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Silver, Gold Leaf

"Vineyard Haven Dinghy, " Framed Limited Edition Giclee Print, 36" x 48"
Located in Westport, CT
This realistic nautical limited edition print by Michel Brosseau captures a view of a small white dinghy boat tied to a dock. Two ores rest inside the small boat, which is surrounded...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Digital, Giclée

I Might Have Been Mistaken/Tornado Landscape, by Mark Gilmore, Oil on Paper
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This framed 40"x 32" oil and prismacolor on paper landscape painting, ' I Might Have Been Mistaken,' by Mark Gilmore, depicts dark storm clouds hovering ...
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Late 20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Color Pencil, Paper

Joan of Austria / - The luminosity of the print -
Located in Berlin, DE
Gérard Edelinck (1640 Antwerp - 1707 Paris), Joan of Austria, 1707. Copperplate engraving, 51.2 cm x 29.8 cm, inscribed below the image: "Jeanne d'Autriche Grande Duchesse de Toscane...
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Early 1700s Realist Art

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Paper

Spring - Chalk design drawing for a Minton plaque by Herbert Wilson Foster
Located in London, GB
HERBERT WILSON FOSTER (1846-1929) Spring Inscribed with title beneath the mount Chalk, circular Framed Diameter 42 cm., 16 ½ in. (frame size 61 by 58 cm., 24 by 22 ¾ in.) Herbert Wilson Foster was born in Endon, Staffordshire. He attended Hanley School of Art before continuing his studies in London, Belgium and France. His paintings of rural and domestic subjects were exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1873 and 1899. In 1893 he accepted a teaching position at the Nottingham School of Art, where his pupils included Laura Knight and Harold Knight. Works by him are in the collections of the Minton archives; the Wisbech & Fenland Museum; Leicester Art Gallery; Rushcliffe Council and Nottingham Castle Museum. In addition to his work as a painter he worked as a porcelain painter, working at one point on the tile panels in the Victoria & Albert Museum. He is known to have worked at Mintons from 1872 where he specialized in portraits of contemporary personalities, including members of the Royal Family. This head of a girl was probably intended for a painted ceramic wall charger...
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1870s Realist Art

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Chalk, Pencil

On The Slopes Of Sugarbush, Vermont, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photo
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of people relaxing at the chalet of stockbroker A Albert Sack Jr, at the Sugarbus...
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1960s Realist Art

Materials

Lambda

Old Teapot, Still life, Oil painting, Impasto, Canvas on panel, Vertical
Located in Oslo, NO
This still life was painted in 2024. Vertically composed, oil on canvas on panel. The main subject is the Old black Teapot, accompanied by a cup and a red apple on a golden-yellow ...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"The Farewell Kiss"
Located in Southampton, NY
This is a beautiful original bronze casting by the foremost Russian sculptor of his day Evgeny Lanceray. Artist signed on the base in Cyrillic (image 5) and is also inscribed on the ...
Category

Late 19th Century Realist Art

Materials

Bronze

Spring Sky, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A sweeping landscape where rugged mesas rise beneath a vast, glowing sky. Layers of deep indigo and violet mountains fade into the distance, while golden and ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Painting of the Chrysler Building 42nd Street New York City by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Painting of the Chrysler Building 42nd Street New York City by Contemporary British Artist, Angela Wakefield. Art measures 24 x 36 inches Frame measures 30 x 42 inches This origina...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Paint, Acrylic, Cotton Canvas, Canvas

Cyclamen II
Located in New York, NY
Mr. Mazur’s restless artistic temperament led him to explore a variety of styles and media, shuttling between realism and abstraction. He produced narrative paintings like “Incident ...
Category

1980s Realist Art

Materials

Monotype

Eileen Soper - 20th Century British Wildlife Drawing of a Fox
Located in London, GB
EILEEN SOPER (1905-1990) Fox Pen and ink over traces of pencil Framed 12.5 by 19 cm., 5 by 7 ½ in. (frame size 28 by 33.5 cm., 11 by 13 ¼ in.) Provenance: The artist’s estate; Ch...
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Late 20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Pencil

Kingfisher, Bird, Watercolor Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
252 Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan, Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Watercolor on Paper Year: 2024 Style: Classic Art Title: Kingfisher Size: 12 x 16 inc...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

"Across Hope" by Michael Magrin, Oil Painting, CO Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
Michael Magrin's ( US based) "Healing Promise" is an original, handmade oil painting of a tranquil sunrise. This piece is framed in a natural float fram...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Linen, Oil

The Prince s Room
Located in Buffalo, NY
Born in Szeged, Hungary, he became one of the better known and successful illustrators of the Golden Age of Illustration, completing over 100 books. Among them are "A Treasury of Verse for Little Children," "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam," and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." He is probably best known for pen and ink drawings of mythology subjects geared towards children. He studied at Budapest Technical University and attended art schools in Munich and Paris before moving to London at age 23. In 1907, he began illustrating children's books and did a series of annual gift books...
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1940s Realist Art

Materials

Gouache, Graphite, Pen, Watercolor

Still Life of Roses - Scottish Colourist thirties art floral oil painting flower
Located in Hagley, England
This superb floral still life oil painting is by Scottish artist David Alison. Painted circa 1930 it is an arrangement of pink roses in a glass vase on a table. The darker background...
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1930s Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Swiss Landscape, original oil on canvas, c1870, Austrian realist painter
Located in Naples, Florida
This beautiful oil on canvas painting of a Swiss Landscape is circa 1870 and is by the artist Eduard Boehm (1830 - 1890). Austrian landscape pain...
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1870s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Kiss Me # (Besame) Paris Impressionism France Oil on Canvas Framed
Located in Houston, TX
KISS ME BESAME #2 is a new painting from the studio of Cuban artist Cristian Mesa Velazquez. Kiss Me #2is an oil painting done in the Realist Style of contemporary painting which...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

L’entrée d’un village animé de paysans en Artois
By Leon Lhermitte
Located in PARIS, FR
1905 Pastel on paper mounted on canvas Signed lower left “L. Lhermitte”
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Early 1900s Realist Art

Materials

Paper, Pastel

Sunflowers and Stories - original surreal realism seascape floral oil painting
Located in London, Chelsea
In "Sunflowers and Stories by the Sea," Luis Fuentes captures a serene moment by the coast, inviting viewers to experience the tranquil beauty of the seaside. This original floral an...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Contemporary portrait "Guardians"
Located in Zofingen, AG
I wake up in the morning, open Facebook, read the news... and when the hell will I finally wake up from this nightmare...In creating this piece, I sought to bridge the classic with t...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Rocky Mountain National Park Oil Painting Landscape
Located in Zofingen, AG
Rocky Mountain National Park – Original Oil Painting By Olga Nikitina Dimensions: 25x25cm Medium: Oil on stretched canvas (Ready to Hang) Technique: Palette Knife / Impasto Signed: F...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

Eagle, Bird, Watercolor Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
130 Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan, Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Year: 2023 Style: Classic Art, Title: Eagle, Size: 12 x 16 in...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Dos Mujeres Mayas (Two Mayan Women)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Dos Mujeres Mayas (Two Mayan Women)") 1983 is an original Mixograph cast paper bas relief by Costa Rican/Mexican artist Francisco...
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Late 20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Other Medium

Great Tit Watercolor on Paper Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
388 Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan, Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Watercolor on Paper Year: 2024 Style: Classic Art Title: Great Tit Size: 12 x 16 inch...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Kingfisher Bird Watercolor on Paper Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
348 Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan, Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Watercolor on Paper Year: 2024 Style: Classic Art Title: Kingfisher Size: 12 x 16 inc...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Vintage Hockney poster Celia Wearing Checkered Sleeves 1981 Chicago Art Fair
Located in New York, NY
Printed by Petersburg Press for their exhibition of David Hockney prints and drawings at the 1981 Chicago Art Fair, this beautiful poster reproduces Hockney’s drawing Celia Wearing Checkered Sleeves, 1973...
Category

1980s Realist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Impossible Series (Garden with Peacock), Lowell Nesbitt - Painting
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: Impossible Series (Garden with Peacock) Year: 1986 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 81 x 104 inches Inscription: Signed, dated by the artist, ver...
Category

1980s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Eagle Watercolor on Paper Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
353 Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan, Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Watercolor on Paper Year: 2024 Style: Classic Art Title: Eagle Size: 12 x 16 inch, (...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Magpie Bird Watercolor on Paper Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
355 Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan, Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Watercolor on Paper Year: 2024 Style: Classic Art Title: Magpie Size: 12 x 16 inch, ...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Grosbeak Bird Watercolor on Paper Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
373 Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan, Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Watercolor on Paper Year: 2024 Style: Classic Art Title: Grosbeak Size: 12 x 16 inch,...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Bison Animal Watercolor on Paper Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
376 Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan, Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Watercolor on Paper Year: 2024 Style: Classic Art Title: Bison Size: 12 x 16 inch, (...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Still life with lemon and pomegranate
Located in Zofingen, AG
The fruit on the table is a gliding light on the texture of a lemon, and a peeled peel, translucent and twisted in a spiral. Broken pomegranate with many grains, like a man in a big ...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Wood, Oil

20th Century Miniature Oil Painting of an English River Scene by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
20th Century Miniature Oil Painting of an English River Scene by British Artist, Linda D Brooks Art measures 10 x 7 inches Frame measures 15 x 12 inc...
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20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Board, Paint

A Dance in Otaheite (Tahiti) 1784 James Cook Final Voyage by John Webber
Located in Paonia, CO
A Dance in Otaheite ( Tahiti ) is from the 1784 First Edition Atlas Accompanying Capt. James Cook and King; Third and Final Voyage of Captain James Cook. John Webber (1752-1793) who...
Category

1780s Realist Art

Materials

Engraving

Mother Washing with Children Nearby
Located in Stockholm, SE
This delightful painting by Carl Ewald Lönngren captures a serene moment of rural life in late 19th-century Sweden. The scene shows a mother kneeling by a wash basin, surrounded by h...
Category

Late 19th Century Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

Donald Duck and Le Petit Ecolier, Early 20th Century Oil on Board.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th century oil on board portrait of a young schoolboy 'Le Petit Écolier', with Donald Duck, by Pierre Villain (French, 1880-1950). Signed top ri...
Category

Early 20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Chevre Allongee (Reclining Goat)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Chevre Allongee (Reclining Goat)" c. 1860, is bronze sculpture after renown French artist Antoine Louis Barye, 1796-1875. Signature is impressed in the bronze. The subject size is 4.25 x 7 x 3.35 inches, including marble base is 5.25 x 4 x 7.75 inches. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Antoine-Louis Barye lived his entire life in Paris and may never have left France. He was born in 1795 (a date revised in the 1990s from 1796 as a result of Martin Sonnabend's recalculation of the Revolutionary calendar). He is reported to have had minimal formal schooling even in reading, and to have acquired his extensive liberal-arts education on his own. His initial professional training was in metalwork: first with his father, a goldsmith from Lyons, then with a metal engraver in military equipment, and finally with Martin-Guillaume Biennais (active 1800-1832), then master goldsmith to Napoleon. After serving in the army from 1812 to 1814, Barye trained in the fine arts with sculptor François-Joseph Bosio (1768-1845) and painter Baron Gros (1771-1835). He then studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts from 1818 to 1823. His miniature medallion, Milo of Crotona Devoured by a Lion, won an honorable mention in metal engraving in 1819, but he failed to win the Prix de Rome. He worked as a craftsman for the goldsmith Jacques-Henri Fauconnier (1779-1839) from 1823 to 1831 and made his Salon debut in 1827 with a selection of busts. Barye made his critical and public mark as a sculptor four years later, in the Salon of 1831, with groups representing predatory violence in the wild. His first government commission came soon after, precisely for such a subject. The Minister of the Interior purchased Barye's monumental plaster Lion (since called Lion Crushing a Serpent), shown in 1833, and had it cast in bronze by Honoré Gonon and shown in 1836, before placing it in the public Tuileries Gardens (now Musée du Louvre, Paris). In 1834 Barye was chosen for a project that was never executed, the colossal eagle as the crowning element of the triumphal arch at the Etoile. Around 1836 the government commissioned him to execute the emblematic animal decoration on the July Column at the place de la Bastille, inaugurated in 1840. He produced a monumental effigy of Saint Clotilde for the Church of the Madeleine, Paris, in the early 1840s. In 1846 the government commissioned a pendant Seated Lion for the Tuileries Lion Crushing a Serpent (1847, bronze, Portal, Pavillon de Flore, Palais du Louvre, Paris). During these same years the royal family began buying and commissioning small-scale works from Barye for their private collections. Around 1834, the duc d'Orléans commissioned a highly publicized surtout de table representing hunts of different regions and historical periods, possibly one of several tabletop projects that he ordered from Barye. The duc's sister Marie d'Orléans allegedly commissioned a lost-wax bronze of Barye's Charles VI Surprised in the Forest of Le Mans (location unknown; later serial variants), a model first shown in the Salon of 1833; his brother, the duc de Montpensier, apparently commissioned a pair of figurative...
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Mid-19th Century Realist Art

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Bronze

Working Horses in a Landscape - Dutch Victorian animal art equine W/C painting
Located in Hagley, England
This lovely Victorian animal landscape watercolour painting is by Dutch artist Johannes Martinus Vrolyk or Vrolijk. Painted in 1875, the painting is of two working horses, one white ...
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1870s Realist Art

Materials

Watercolor

Dolores Guinness, Sardinia, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features German-born socialite Dolores Guinness (1936 - 2012) in Porto Cervo on the Costa Smerelda, ...
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1960s Realist Art

Materials

Lambda

Sir Alfred Munnings Watercolour Titled The Hunt
Located in Uppingham, GB
Sir Alfred James Munnings, P.R.A., R.W.S. (1878-1959) 'The hunt' Signed and dated 'A.J. Munnings. 1913.' (lower right) pencil, watercolour and bodycolour on a prepared sheet of paper...
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1910s Realist Art

Materials

Watercolor

Portrait of Lady Ruthven - Edwardian Society British American art oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
An original oil on canvas by Sir James Jebusa Shannon. The painting depicts Lady Ruthven in a stunning silk and lace dress. It dates to the Edwardian period and depicts a bold Britis...
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20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Oil

"Faun and Fawn" Aaron Bohrod, Realist Still Life, Deer and Putti
Located in New York, NY
Aaron Bohrod Faun and Fawn, 1984 Signed lower right Oil on gesso board 16 x 12 inches Aaron Bohrod's work has not been limited to one style or medium. Initially recognized as a regionalist painter of American scenes, particularly of his native Chicago, Bohrod later devoted himself to detailed still-life paintings rendered in the trompe l'oeil style. He also worked for several years in ceramics and wrote a book on pottery. Born in 1907, Bohrod began his studies at Chicago's Crane Junior College in 1925, and two years later enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago. But it was at the Art Students League in New York City, from 1930 to 1932, that he studied under the man believed to be his most significant early influence, John Sloan. Sloan's romantic realism is reflected in the many depictions of Chicago life, which comprised most of Bohrod's early work. Under Sloan's tutelage, Bohrod came to subscribe to the belief that painters should find the subjects of their art in the immediate world around them. These paintings emphasized architecture unique to north Chicago and featured Chicagoans engaged in such everyday activities as working, playing or going to the theatre. The romantic aspect was conveyed by the use of misty colors, and the realism by attention to detail. In 1936, Bohrod won the Guggenheim Fellowship award in creative painting...
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1980s Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Adrenaline. Self-portrait
Located in Zofingen, AG
This modern psychological portrait captures the tension between inner resilience and external chaos. A young woman with silver-white hair meets the viewer with calm determination. ...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Robin Watercolor on Paper Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
345 Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan, Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Watercolor on Paper Year: 2024 Style: Classic Art Title: Robin Size: 12 x 16 inch, (...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Brass Coffee Grinder and Bowl, Photorealist Oil Painting by Andras Gombar
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Andras Gombar, French (1946 - ) Title: Still Life 1 Year: circa 1965 Medium: Oil on Canvas mounted to Wood, signed Size: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 60.96 cm)
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1960s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Oil

Flowers Above the Cove
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist Signed "J.Paquet" on lower left corner. Exhibitions Crystal Cove Alliance, 2008 Coastal Splendor Invitational Art Show a...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Bison, Watercolor Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
200 Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan, Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Watercolor on Paper Year: 2023 Style: Classic Art Title: Bison Size: 12 x 16 inch, (...
Category

2010s Realist Art

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Paper, Watercolor

Realist art for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Realist art 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 art 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, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Slim Aarons, Michael Budden, Daniel Pollera, and Su Yu. 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 art, so small editions measuring 0.1 inches across are also available.

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