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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
"Winter Solace" by Devin Michael Roberts, Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Devin Michael Roberts' ( US based) "Winter Solace" is an oil painting depicting a snowy landscape with a small river fork and a bright orange sunset above. Artist bio/statement: Dev...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

Landscape. Paper, watercolor, 42x30 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Landscape. Paper, watercolor, 42x30 cm Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013) Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In 1947...
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1970s Realist Art

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Paper, Watercolor

Woods, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Golden light from the setting sun glows softly on one side of the woods, while the foreground rests in cool shadow. Autumn colors peek through the trees. A wind...

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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

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Oil

Poolside Backgammon (Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, 1972. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from th...
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1970s Realist Art

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Lambda

The Beginning of the Road
Located in Zofingen, AG
In my artwork, I explore the symbolic intersection of journey's end and new beginnings. Using acrylics, I depict a person next to their classic car by a "road ends" sign. The spaciou...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Two Girls with a Dog - Stone Lithograph - Mourlot, 1928
Located in Paris, IDF
Marie LAURENCIN Two Girls with a Dog (1928) Stone Lithograph Printed in Atelier Mourlot Printed signature in the plate On China paper 42 x 31 cm (c. 17 x 12") Excellent condition
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1920s Realist Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Vasyl in a sheepskin coat"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
The portrait of a young man is painted in oil. He poses in the center of the frame, facing the viewer. He is wearing a dark blue shirt with a white collar, over which he has thrown ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

RMS Laconia, signed oil painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
RMS Laconia, 1921 by Louis Letouche (French 1924-2015) oil painting on linen canvas, stretched over board framed Framed size: 14.25 x 22.75 inches Superb oil painting by the well ...
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1990s Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Oil on canvas - Philippine landscape
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Firmado por el artista en la parte inferior Se presenta sin enmarcar la pintura Buen estado de conservación Medidas obra: 77 cm. de altura x 101 cm. de ancho
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Early 20th Century Realist Art

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Oil

Portrait of Languid Girl in Blue Camisole 18th century Italian Rococo Master
Located in Stockholm, SE
Attributed to Pietro Antonio Rotari (1707 - 1762), Italian painter of the Rococo era. His portraits, mostly of women, are renowned for being beautiful and realistic. The details and ...
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Mid-18th Century Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Oil

Autumn Trees by River in County Tyrone by 20th Century Modern Irish Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Vintage Oil Painting of Autumn Trees by a Riverside in County Tyrone by 20th Century Modern Irish Artist, John S Haggan (1946-2021) Art measures 10 x 12...
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Late 20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

I wish I was in Carrickfergus
Located in Zofingen, AG
Evgeniy loves to listen to the great Jim McCann during the painting sessions and one of the Irish folk songs performed by him, very suitable in terms of lyrics and mood, gave the tit...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Tempera, Wood Panel

Nude Painting by Andre Belichenko (Russian).
Located in Uppingham, GB
Nude with Silks by Andre Belichenko ( Russian) Andrei Belichenko was born in 1974 in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. He is a graduate of the Republican Art Schoo (1990). Andrei studied in t...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Acrylic

"Snarling Fox"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Charles Verlat (1824–1890) "Snarling Fox" This dramatic oil painting by Charles Verlat, a prominent 19th-century Belgian artist, captures a striking and emotionally charged depictio...
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19th Century Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

"Out in the Open, " Framed Limited Edition Giclee Print, 24" x 36"
Located in Westport, CT
This coastal seascape Limited Edition giclee print by Daniel Pollera is an edition size of 10. It captures a scene of a sailboat on blue, glistening water, sailing along the coast, w...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Digital, Giclée

Landscape, canvas/cardboard/oil, 39x50 cm, 1929
Located in Riga, LV
Landscape, canvas/cardboard/oil, 39x50 cm, 1929
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1920s Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Ken Otsuka, "Lewey Lake", Summer Lake Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Lewey Lake" is a 24x34 oil painting on canvas by artist Ken Otsuka. Featured is a serene summer view out into a still body of water, lush green...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Olde World Charm, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Olde World Charm" by Deb Komitor (United States) is a handmade landscape oil painting that is ready to hang. Deb Komitor was born and raised in Ohio and now resides in Colorado Sp...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Lily_01, Painting, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
This is one of my studio paintings. Trying to capture nature of beauty. I love watercolor because it’s a very challenging medium. I used Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors with wo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Watercolor

"Down the Road, " Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Judd Mercer's (US based) "Down the Road," is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a dirt country road leading down a grassy hill into a farm house and barn. About the Artist: Judd Mercer is a watercolor painter based in Denver, Colorado. After attending art school for industrial design, Judd pursued a career in digital design and user experience and is co-owner of Elevated Third, a Denver-based digital agency. After committing to writing and illustrating a full-length fantasy novel in his spare time, Judd began watercolor painting around 2014, studying with teachers such as Alvaro Castagnet, Joseph Zbukvic...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Ignite, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A weathered can rests beside a Bible atop a wooden stool. Golden wheat stalks rise from a small tin cup, adding a touch of nature and warmth to the scene. The a...

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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Watercolor

Vintage Lakeland Landscape Painting with Sheep by 20th Century British Artist
By Peter McKay
Located in Preston, GB
Vintage Lakeland Landscape Painting with Sheep by 20th Century British Artist, Peter McKay Art measures 20 x 16 inches Frame measures ...
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20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Bluebonnets, Oak, and Yucca
Located in Houston, TX
Willian A. Slaughter (1923-2003) William A. Slaughter was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1923 and died in Dallas, Texas December 2003. His first call was to the ministry and after ser...
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1970s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Three Graces - Original lithograph poster - 1960 ( Buisson #60.28)
Located in Paris, IDF
Leonard Tsuguharu FOUJITA La jeunesse, les trois graces Stone lithograph printed by MOURLOT Printed signature in the plate On paper 20 x 30...
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1960s Realist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Period Portrait of Ohio Governor and Abolitionist Charles Anderson
Located in Baltimore, MD
Portrait and history painter Charles Webber was born in New York State and moved to Cincinnati in the later 19th century. There he became a leader in that city’s art circles. He is ...
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1880s Realist Art

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Oil

Cat Animal Watercolor on Paper Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
477 Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan, Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Watercolor on Paper Year: 2025 Style: Classic Art Title: Cat Size: 12 x 16 inch, (30...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Fly Me to the Moon
Located in Zofingen, AG
There are models of such amazing beauty that all dramatic ideas are postponed for a while and the artist simply begins to glorify joie de vivre, the joy of life. This theme was born ...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

"Porcelain Pattern Sphynx 2" - Hand-Painted Resin Cat Sculpture, 2024
Located in Denver, CO
Nana Williams’ "Porcelain Pattern Sphynx 2" is a captivating resin sculpture that merges delicate craftsmanship with intricate surface decoration. This 2024 original work is a resin cast, hand-painted with acrylic gouache, standing at 5.50 x 2 x 3.50 inches (13.97 x 5.08 x 8.89 cm). Inspired by the elegance of fine porcelain, the piece mimics the timeless beauty of blue-and-white ceramic motifs...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Resin, Acrylic, Gouache

River Landscape - Arun Sussex - British art 1950 landscape oil painting Arundel
Located in Hagley, England
This superb large oil on canvas painting of a river landscape is by British artist William Thomas Wood. Painted in 1950, the river is the Arun near Arundel in Sussex. Wood beautifull...
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1950s Realist Art

Materials

Oil

"Time of Day" (2018) By Sophy Brown, Original Mixed Media Horse Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Time of Day" (2019) by Sophy Brown is an original mixed media illustration depicting a white horse on the plains. Painting for me is a way of responding...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Portrait of a Lady in Pince Nez - British 1919 art portrait oil painting
By Alfred Kingsley Lawrence
Located in Hagley, England
This superb British portrait oil painting is by noted artist Alfred Kinglsey Lawrence. Painted in 1919 it is a seated portrait of a young woman with a lush burgundy velvet curtain be...
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1910s Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Portrait of a Lady - Scottish art early 20thC drawing society woman hat cameo
Located in Hagley, England
This is a fine circa 1910 pencil drawing of a Scottish society lady. Executed by one of the leading artists of the day in the circle of John Lavery it is a very striking and fascina...
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19th Century Realist Art

Materials

Charcoal, Pencil

Winter Morning
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist Signed "Dunaway" on lower left Artist Statement “I often will go on painting trips with other artists to remote locations to do plein air sketches and gather reference for larger studio paintings. This was painted from a winter painting trip to Montana, where about ten of us gathered together at a cabin in February to paint landscapes and portraits in the snow. The morning when I saw this scene, we were all heading out into the fresh snow to go paint landscape—my artist friend was standing just outside the door of the cabin in this pose, contemplating the day ahead and looking like a painting himself! The early morning sky was white, as fresh snow was falling all around, blanketing the landscape and tree behind him. I knew this was a moment I had to capture in paint—an artist immersed in reflective thought on a winter morning.” —Michelle Dunaway...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Venice I
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
I painted this view of the Venice canal on a foggy gray morning, playing with the chromaticism of the scene to alter the colors and create a special luminosity. I used soft tones to ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Linen, Oil

Venice I
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YE PIPE AND BOWL Signed Lithograph Colonial Sign Painter, American Illustration
Located in Union City, NJ
Artist: Norman Rockwell, American (1894 - 1978) Title: Ye Pipe and Bowl Year: 1976 Medium: Hand Drawn Lithograph on Arches paper, 100% acid free, hand signed in pencil by Norman Rock...
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1970s Realist Art

Materials

Lithograph

San Francisco, Fisherman s Wharf
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "San Francisco, Fisherman's Wharf" c.1975 is a color etching on Wove paper by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed n pencil by th...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Etching

Cat Animal Watercolor on Paper Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
463 Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan, Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Watercolor on Paper Year: 2025 Style: Classic Art Title: Cat Size: 12 x 16 inch, (30...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Cat Animal Watercolor on Paper Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
462 Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan, Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Watercolor on Paper Year: 2025 Style: Classic Art Title: Cat Size: 12 x 16 inch, (30...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

"Afternoon Along the Nile"
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Provenance: Property from an American Private Collection John Beard Jackson, Pittsburgh (1845-1908, 'one of the best known men of Pittsburgh', served in ma...
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19th Century Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

"Winter Barn" by artist named Berger
Located in Chesterfield, MI
Winter--in all its delicate beauty-- in this lithograph by artist named Berger who pencil signed it and titled it also. It is beautifully framed in a gold wooden frame.
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Late 20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Winter Begins; Truckee River
By Kathleen Dunphy
Located in Pasadena, CA
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist UNFRAMED: 24" x 48" FRAMED: 32" x 56" x 1.625" Artist Statement "I painted this piece in the studio using studies done along the T...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Linen, Oil

Contemporary portrait "White Lincoln"
Located in Zofingen, AG
This artwork captures a tranquil desert scene centered on a vintage white convertible parked on expansive sands. The car’s sleek design and chrome accents evoke nostalgia and freedom...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

An apple every day
Located in Zofingen, AG
I love the way the objects are reflected on each other and the subtle warm and cool color throughout. The strong light vibrates on porcelain and glass. A dark background helps to rev...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Fairy Wren, bird, Watercolor Art Handmade Painting
Located in Granada Hills, CA
5 Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan, Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Year: 2022 Style: Realism, Subject: Fairy Wren, Size: 12 x 16 ...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Hawk, Bird, Watercolor on Paper, Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
326 Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan, Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Watercolor on Paper Year: 2024 Style: Classic Art Title: Hawk Size: 12 x 16 inch, (3...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

On the Roof with a Cat
Located in Zofingen, AG
A mesmerizing fusion of elegance and mystery, this painting captures a woman draped in flowing turquoise fabric, standing on a rooftop, her presence seamlessly merging with the city’...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Portofino, Italy, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1980s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests relaxing on the terrace at the villa of Umberto and Pucci Nordio, Portofino This i...
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1980s Realist Art

Materials

Lambda

Great Tit, Bird, Watercolor on Paper, Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
303 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...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Porcelain
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Porcelain” is a painting that pays homage to the natural beauty and timeless elegance of things around us in everyday life. All these porcelain things that appeared in my workshop b...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Valley of Thebes at Dusk
Located in New York, NY
Amédée Rosier (French, 1831-1898) Title: The Valley of Thebes Medium: Oil on Panel Size: 12 inches x 22 1⁄2 inches Size framed: 23x33in Markings: Signed lower right A pupil of Cogn...
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19th Century Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Panel, Wood Panel

OIL PAINTING FRENCH By ? Beautiful lady of Nobility in a Gold Neoclassical Frame
Located in Ferndown, GB
OIL PAINTING By ? Beautiful lady of Nobility in a Neoclassical Frame FINE Portrait OIL PAINTING Old Master Early 19th Century French artist ...
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18th Century Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Antoine Louis-Barye "Walking Tiger" Antique Engraving by Firmin Gillot ca. 1870
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Walking Tiger" Antoine Louis-Barye Antique Engraving by Firmin Gillot Circa. 1870 11 1/3 x 7 3/4 (21 3/8 x 17 1/2 frame) inches This is "Walking Tig...
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1870s Realist Art

Materials

Black and White

Racing Horses
Located in Chesterfield, MI
Kentucky Derby lovers---this is for you! Horse racing whether it the the Belmont or the Preakness--decorate for your home party with this moving oil painting rendition of racing ho...
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Late 20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Olive Grove - Black and White Landscape of Greek Island
Located in New York, NY
George Tzannes's Landscape with Olive Tree is a 21.5 x 28.5 inches black and white monotype representing a Greek landscape. Olive trees populate the landscape. Tzannes is an American painter of Greek origins. In his twenties he visited Kythira, the Greek island of his father's birth. Since that time, the island has become the major reference of his creativity. The choice of using black and white to represent this landscape gives the mighty hundred-years old olive trees a monumental presence. The viewer is drawn into the timeless, spiritual quality of the Greek landscape. Despite the absence of color, Tzannes' mastery of drawing creates a tangible effect of the Greek light...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Monotype

Portrait
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Portrait, ca. 1975. Period print measuring 8.75 x 11.25 inches. Unframed. Studio stamp on verso. Mounting and framing services available. Victor Arimondi (November 8, 1942 – July 24, 2001) was an Italian American photographer and model who lived and worked in Europe before moving to the United States in the late 1970s. His early fashion photography, his portraits of Grace Jones and other artists, and his male nudes photographed in New York and San Francisco captured the pre-AIDS culture of the 1970s and early 1980s. Arimondi's nudes were collected in several books, including David Leddick's award-winning[1] The Male Nude, (New York: Taschen 1998, 2005 and 2015). The photographer's later work documented homeless individuals in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood and the toll of the AIDS epidemic on the city. His photographs, featured in several posthumous exhibitions, also are in the collections of Sweden's museum of modern art, Moderna Museet, and San Francisco's GLBT Historical Society. Biography Arimondi was born Vittorio Maria Tevitti to his unwed mother, Alessandra Calligaris, in Bologna, Italy on November 8, 1942. His mother struggled financially, which left an impression on her only child. In 1948, she temporarily left him at a children's boarding school and orphanage in Italy to move to Sweden for a job. There she met and married Bruno Arimondi, who adopted her son. The family returned to Naples, Italy in 1952 where Victor graduated from high school.[1] In 1960, Arimondi returned to Sweden to study at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, although he did not graduate. Meanwhile, he worked at several blue collar jobs, including as a mailman, before he gave up on traditional full-time work to pursue what he considered more essential— a life of creative expression. He created costume-like clothing for himself and friends and at age 19 became a fashion model. Even as a teenager, the Italian born photographer who spent his 20s and 30s primarily based in Sweden, noted that he preferred fantasy to the trials of real life.[1] That conflict, and his passion for beauty as well as his sexual energy, were major factors in his life and his work.[2] From 1965 through 1972 Arimondi worked as model in London, Milan, Germany, New York and Stockholm, appearing in catalogs and fashion magazines including Vogue , Harper's Bazaar and Esquire and on the runway in several Valentino fashion shows. In 1972 he decided to try working on the other side of the lens as a photographer to better express his creativity.[2] Arimondi moved to New York in 1979 and continued to build his photography portfolio. Portrait of Bearded Man, New York City, 1979 Two years later, in 1981, he moved to San Francisco where he lived and worked for twenty years until his death of AIDS at age 58 on July 24, 2001. The year he moved to San Francisco, Arimondi opened a photo gallery in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood for a short time. When he struggled financially, he gave up on trying to earn a living through commercial fashion photography and closed the gallery.[3] Arimondi returned to modeling for the financial benefits, though he did so on less of an international scale than in his early years. He continued to create photographic portraits of the denizens of the San Francisco gay and arts cultures, to shoot male nudes and publish his work in magazines, and he began to compose and photograph evocative still lifes using his own photographic images. Many of them touched on the death of dozens of his former photography models from AIDS. Arimondi was in the midst of a new photography project that brought together his background as a fashion photographer and his more recent social documentary work when he died several months after he learned he was HIV-positive.[4] The project featured his former colleague, haute couture cover model Ivy Nicholson,[5] who he found living homeless in San Francisco. Several of the haunting portraits he took of her were later included in a noted group exhibit at SF Camerawork. Art Arimondi's early photography in the 1970s in Stockholm included portraits of the stars of Sweden's fashion, theater and dance worlds. His first two photography exhibits were in Stockholm and met with mixed reviews. But as he matured as a photographer and tapped into his fashion world contacts, Arimondi landed a number of commercial fashion jobs, including shooting for the Italian designer Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A.'s I.Magnin department store ad that ran in Vogue. Marlboro Man Nude, New York City,1980. He also shot other artists and models for his own portfolio, including Grace Jones, the Norwegian actress, Liv Ullmann, and the American writer, Norman Mailer. Arimondi's aesthetic vision was focused on fantasy and drama, and he prided himself on pushing limits.[6] Although less well-known than his San Francisco contemporary...
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1970s Realist Art

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Photographic Paper

Great Tit Bird Watercolor on Paper Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
403 Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan, Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Watercolor on Paper Year: 2025 Style: Classic Art Title: Great Tit Size: 12 x 16 inch...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

"Argus and Mercurios"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Jan Both (1610–1652) – Attributed "Argus and Mercury" Circa 1650 Oil on canvas Framed: 107.5 x 92 cm Nosignature This exceptional Baroque mythological painting is attributed to t...
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17th Century Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Wren Bird Watercolor on Paper Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
394 Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan, Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Watercolor on Paper Year: 2025 Style: Classic Art Title: Wren Size: 12 x 16 inch, (3...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

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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