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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
Óleo sobre tabla - Bodegón con elementos chinescos - Año 1929
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Excepcional obra del prestigioso pintor holandes Albert Boven (Bruselas, act. sig. xix - xx) Se trata de un oleo sobre tabla de gran tamaño y calidad Representando un bodegon con e...
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1920s Realist Art

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Oil

Gladiators - Original Pencil Drawing
Located in Paris, IDF
Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950) Gladiators Original pencil drawing Stamp of the Estate auction sale on the back on thin vellum 14 x 22 cm (c. 6...
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1890s Realist Art

Materials

Pencil

Woman in Traditional Japanese Suit Looking at the Sea - Original etching
By Étienne Prosper Berne-Bellecour
Located in Paris, IDF
Etienne Prosper BERNE BELLECOUR (1838-1910) Woman in Traditional Japanese Suit Looking at the Sea Original etching Printed signature i...
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Late 19th Century Realist Art

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Etching

Study of Autumn, 1949, oil on plywood, 20, 5x29, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Oto Pladers (1897.8.III – 1970.2.V) Oto Pladers learned in Riga city school of art (1913 – 15). He was called into the army in 1916 and continued studies after the war in Latvia Art ...
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1940s Realist Art

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Plywood, Oil

Miss Marlboro
Located in Zofingen, AG
This work blurs the boundary between classical portraiture and conceptual commentary. At its center is a poised woman whose relaxed demeanor and introspective gaze create a magnetic ...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Acrylic

"Ego" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
David Cheifetz's "Ego is an oil painting featuring a dark skull contrasted with a light background. About the artist: David is an internationally acclaimed and collected artist wh...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Silent Winter Landscape with Snow-Laden Trees
Located in Stockholm, SE
Ferdinand Boberg (1860–1946) Snow-Laden Trees Ink and watercolor with black framing lines on cardboard signed BOBERG. 18 x 13 cm (approx. 7.1 x 5.1 in) frame: 40.5 x 35 cm (approx....
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1920s Realist Art

Materials

Watercolor, Board, Pencil

Top People s Eatery, San Francisco, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Journalist Lucius Beebe beside a gold place setting in the glass roofed Garden Court of the...
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1970s Realist Art

Materials

Lambda

Hummingbird in Flight, Colorful Miniaturist Realist Painting on Parchment
Located in New York, NY
A captivating miniature painting by renowned artist Dina Brodsky, known for her masterful technique in gouache and watercolor. This exquisite work, painted on authentic animal parchm...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Parchment Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

"Genre Scene of Children"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Johann Ferdinand J. Hintze (1849–1877) – Genre Scene of Children Artist: Johann Ferdinand J. Hintze Period: 19th Century (Dated 1874) Medium: Oil on Panel Dimensions: Framed: 42 x 33...
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19th Century Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

The Country House - Farm Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
The Country House - Farm Landscape Highly detailed scene with a country house, workers, and a hare with rider by an unknown artist (19th Century). Five people - one on a horse - are...
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19th Century Realist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Munichau (Austria)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Munichau (Austria)" 1926, is a color etching on paper by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir, 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist's estate at the lower center. The plate mark (image) size is 11.5 x 11.5 inches, framed size is 21 x 20.75 inches. Custom framed in a wooden gold frame, with grey/green matting . It is in Excellent 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 Art

Materials

Etching

Pocket Dragonfruit by Dani Humberstone, Contemporary oil painting, original art
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Dragon Fruit [2022] original and hand signed by the artist Oil paint on canvas Image size: H:17 cm x W:15 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:7 cm x W:5 cm x D:2cm Frame Siz...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Red
Located in Chicago, IL
Nathan Brad Hall Haven charcoal on paper 18h x 24w 45.72h x 60.96w cm NBH004 Framing Options Available Nathan Brad Hall lives and works in Brooklyn...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

Portrait of Chlorinda with Letter - British art Victorian genre oil painting
By George Wells
Located in Hagley, England
This charming oil portrait painting is by noted British Victorian artist George Wells. Painted circa 1880 we know the elegant sitter is Chlorinda but her relationship to Wells is unk...
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19th Century Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Mercedes 300 SLR Uhlenhaut coupe Figurative acrylic on paper painting Polish art
Located in Warsaw, PL
Acrylic on paper contemporary figurative painting by Michal Wojtysiak. Artwork depicts mercedes car in realistic style. MICHAŁ WOJTYSIAK (ur. 1984) Graduated of Academy of Fine Art...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

“Cloud over colors” Mixed media on canvas 20" x 20" Harmony and Contrast
Located in Houston, TX
“Cloud over colors” Mixed media on canvas 20" x 20" Harmony and Contrast by Mexican artist Nancy Rullan. Artist Statement :This is a piece that represents harmony and contrast for...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media

Weinstube Street, Urbani Keller
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Weinstube Street, Urbani Keller" c.1920, is an etching on paper by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil at the lower right corner and inscribed on the left. The plate mark (image) size is 14 x 9.5 inches, framed size is 26.35 x 21.5 inches. Custom framed in a wooden black/silver frame, with off white matting and black color fillets. It is in excellent 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 Art

Materials

Etching

Ulm on the Blau, Germany
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Ulm on the Blau, Germany" c.1950 is a color etching by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed n pencil by the artist, inscribed "T...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Etching

White Cliffs of Dover by Johan Jacob Bennetter (1822 - 1904) Norwegian
Located in Knokke, BE
Johan Jacob Bennetter Oslo, Norway 1822 -1904 Norwegian Painter 'White Cliffs of Dover' Signature: signed lower right Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: image size 41,50 x 63 cm, f...
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Late 19th Century Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Rowing Off Sicily, Estate Edition (Taormina, Italy: rocky turquoise seascape)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons' Rowing Off Sicily, an Estate Edition photograph, is a vintage scene of two couples out rowing off the coast of Sicily, Italy, near Taorm...
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1970s Realist Art

Materials

Lambda

Castlewellan Lake in Northern Ireland by 20th Century British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Castlewellan Lake in Northern Ireland by 20th Century British Artist, Spencer Coleman. Unique Vintage Original, Oil on Canvas, Signed. Art measures 20 x 16 inches Frame measures 24 ...
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1990s Realist Art

Materials

Gesso, Canvas, Cotton, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

1890 British German Romantic Oil Painting Italian Scene Shepherd and Girl Signed
Located in Stockholm, SE
This exceptional oil on canvas, attributed to Wilhelm August Rudolf Lehmann (1819-1905), a British artist of German descent, depicts a tender exchange between a young shepherd and an...
Category

Late 19th Century Realist Art

Materials

Gold Leaf

Saint-Tropez Beach, Estate Edition, French Riviera
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons' Saint-Tropez Beach, an Estate Edition photograph, is a vintage scene of sunbathers on the French Riviera, August 1971. Colorful coral red and mint green umbrellas shelte...
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1970s Realist Art

Materials

Lambda

Lapmezciems pier oil/canvas, 50x80 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Lapmezciems pier oil/canvas, 50x80 cm
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Kingfisher Birds Watercolor on Paper Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
356 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

When I Was A Boy Framed Upper Class Country Pursuits And Interior Oil Painting
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
John Arthur Lomax. English ( b.1857 - d.1923 ). When I Was A Boy. Oil On Panel. Signed Lower Right. Image size 9.5 inches x 11.4 inches ( 24cm x 29cm ). Frame size 17.3 inches x 1...
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Late 19th Century Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Empire State Building Sunset in Manhattan New York City by British Urban Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Empire State Building Sunset in Manhattan New York City by British Urban Artist, Angela Wakefield. This is a rare early work from her New York Series. Featured in international front cover article in 2011. Art measures 24 x 47 inches Unframed - highest quality Pintura Italian Box Canvas Wakefield's work is a unique blend of abstraction and realism, with a strong emphasis on colour. Her paintings are known for their bold, expressive brushstrokes and vibrant hues, which capture the energy and diversity of New York City. From the towering skyscrapers of Manhattan to the gritty streets of Brooklyn, Wakefield's art reflects the city's many moods and personalities. Whether she is depicting the frenzied pace of Times Square or the quiet beauty of Central Park, Wakefield's paintings are a testament to the enduring allure of New York. Angela Wakefield has twice been on the front cover of ‘Art of England’ and featured in ARTnews, attracting international attention and critical acclaim with her urban landscape paintings of New York, London & the North of England. The style of painting has been described as ‘contemporary realism’, and is often favourably compared with Edward Hopper by collectors and art critics. Angela’s work is held in private collections in Europe and the USA, including the British Royal Family. Her admirers include leading figures in international business...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Gesso, Paint, Acrylic Polymer, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Board

Mary Pickford Douglas Fairbanks at Walpi First Mesa Hopi Village 1920 Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks at Walpi First Mesa Hopi Village 1920 Photograph Original Sepia toned Silver gelatin photographic print by Charles Roshe (British, 1885-1974). Provenance: Mary Pickford, Elizabeth (Bess) Huggins. Image 10.75"H x 13.75"W He was Mary Pickford's favorite cinematographer and a personal friend, shooting all of the films in which she starred from 1918 to 1927, before they had a falling out during production of Coquette (1929). He was the first cinematographer to receive an Academy Award, along with Karl Struss, for Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), and won again for The Yearling (1946), with Leonard Smith and Arthur Arling. He was also nominated four times. Walpi, pueblo (village), Navajo county, northeastern Arizona, U.S., on the edge of a high mesa in the Hopi Indian Reservation. It comprises a group of angular stone houses of two to three stories crowded on a narrow tip of the steep-walled mesa at an elevation of 6,225 feet (1,897 metres). The original pueblo (founded c. 1700) was on a lower part of the mesa, but following the Pueblo Rebellion, the inhabitants moved to the top as a defensive measure against Spanish retaliation. Walpi is known for an antelope ceremony and for snake dances, held during odd years in August and generally closed to non-Hopi spectators. Shitchumovi (Sichomivi) pueblo is adjacent and Hano is nearby. Pickford was the first Canadian to win an Oscar. She was also the second to win best actress and the first for a role in a film with sound. She was one of the founding members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 1919 Pickford took the lead in organizing the United Artists Corporation with Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks. In 1920, after the dissolution of her first marriage (1911–19) to actor Owen Moore, she married Fairbanks (divorced 1936). Pickford’s popularity continued unabated in Pollyanna (1920), Little Lord...
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1920s Realist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

"After the storm"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
The work is based on the artist's observation of changes in nature from the window of a house in Ukraine.
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"After the storm"
"After the storm"
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Impossible Series (Iris), Lowell Nesbitt - Painting (60 x 100 inches)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: Impossible Series (Iris) Year: 1983 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 60 x 100 inches Inscription: Signed, dated by the artist, verso LOWELL NESB...
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1980s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Poolside Secrets, Estate Edition, Slim Aarons Palm Beach Collection
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Flo Smith (left) and Lily Pulitzer share a secret at a pool party, Palm Beach, Florida, April 1961. Description and alt text: In this classic image of midcentury poolside glamour, two suntanned white women share a moment by the sparkling blue and green reflective swimming pool. Flo Smith wears a breezy straw hat and sailor striped top with white shorts, and Lily Pulitzer wears a mod Grecian vase print and coral pants, and a vibrant pink kerchief. The figures in the foreground are in crisp detail, and the lush background of palm trees and cool blue sky is in soft focus. There is a beautiful contrast between the soft-focus background foliage and its graphic, bright reflection in the pool in the middle ground. Flo holds a white bag and her nails are painted red, echoing the trim of her hat. Pulitzer wears a jade bracelet, echoing the jade of the pool and her top, and her nails are natural. A blue cabana can be seen in the background. Flo holds an arm around Lily's waist, and Lily lightly tips the corner of Flo's hat. This is a perfect image for a collector of classic photography, midcentury glamour, or iconic friendship. Color chips for complementary decorative shades of soft red, deep pink, delft blue (sky), and jade greens (pool, palms and poolside foliage) can be seen in slideshow. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate Collector will receive the next number in the edition Modern printing from original transparency C-type print on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, Crisp detail, continuous tone and brilliant color Paper weight 210gms Matte Satin Surface Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. Photograph is unframed Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp. Collector will get the next number in the edition * We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). * Undercurrent Projects, New York, is proud to represent Aarons' full collection of photography, negatives and transparencies. Housed at Getty Images Hulton Archive in London, The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Internal tags are vintage glamour, vintage Palm Beach, midcentury glamour featuring Lily Pulitzer, Slim Aarons, classic midcentury photography, perfect reflection, iconic friendship, historic glamour, red, pink, blue and green, turquoise and jade...
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1960s Realist Art

Materials

Lambda

Realist Still Life, "Unnamed Floral Still Life"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is an original George M. Walker floral still life painting. This painting has been previously owned. Its dimensions are 27.5" x 23.5" x 1". It is framed. Walker was born in Oklahoma on Sept. 6, 1901. Walker was a resident of Bartlesville, Oklahoma. In 1930 he settled in San Diego, CA. He painted as a hobby and was a long-time pupil of Alfred Mitchell...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Triptych of Pocket Striped Bellona Tulip, Veronique Tulip and Upstar Tulip
Located in Deddington, GB
3 Original paintings. Pocket Striped Bellona Tulip is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a nod to baroque still life painting. The paintings are set in a black wood layered frame...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Dumbledore s Wand
Located in Greenwich, CT
Oil on canvas still-life realist painting of Dumbledore's wand.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ulm on the Danube
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Ulm on the Danube" c.1950 is a color etching on Wove paper by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed ...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Etching

Dark Still Life Photography FIne Art Print - Natura Morte 4 by Koukouwitakis
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Dark Still Life Photography FIne Art Print - Natura Morte 4 by Koukouwitakis From the series "Natura Morte" still life: The photographic image of the withered flowers, rotten fruit,...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Giclée, Lithograph

Stonebridge, Yosemite
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist Signed "T. Solliday" on lower left. Exhibited California Art Club’s 107th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition, Natural History...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A Door to the Past, Deering Estate Stone House, American Dream, Cuban American
Located in Houston, TX
On a summer morning in 1993 a 22 years old young came to Florida from a small old town in the central area of Cuba called Santa Clara. In his bag, he brought no more than two valuable things, his worn-out brushes and a great dream. The dream to one day become a professional artist in this new land that welcomed him with open arms. Captivated by his love for the beauty of the Landscapes, his last works are what he sees even in the most common scenes: the close relationship of life and who we are with the natural world around us that asks us to respect and care for it. Other available paintings are shown below. Deering Estate Stone House Stone House was designed by Phineas Paist...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Alfred Kunze, Chemnitz 1866 – 1943, German Painter, View of Funchal – Madeira
Located in Knokke, BE
Kunze Alfred Chemnitz 1866 – 1943 German Painter View of Funchal – Madeira, Portugal Signature: Signed bottom right and dated 31 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: Image size 47 x 57...
Category

Early 20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Notre-Dame de Paris. Oil on canvas, 65x54 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Notre-Dame de Paris. Oil on canvas, 65x54 cm Max Band (1901-1974) Max Band was born in Lithuania in 1900. He was drawing and painting from a young age, copying the works of great m...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Farmhouse
Located in Greenville, DE
George W. Drew 1875-1968. Excellent example of his work, housed in a period Louie XIV style frame measuring 20.5 x 24.5in. Painted in early to mid 20th century.
Category

Early 20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Poolside Interruption, Palm Springs Poolside Series, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s lifestyle photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Lita Baron talking with a guest at a poolside party at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Pal...
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1970s Realist Art

Materials

Lambda

Elegy to a Dead Tree - Kent Landscape - British 1950 s art oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This superb British 1950's landscape oil painting is by noted artist Laurence Henry Irving. Painted in 1952 it is entitled verso as Elegy to a Dead Tree. In ...
Category

1950s Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Swiss Pastoral landscape Alpine valley at sunset 19th century Oil painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
Romanticism movement is well maintained here by Benedikt Franz Hess (1817-1870), Swiss / American, a painter of panoramic landscapes in a detailed transcriptive yet broadly painted s...
Category

Early 19th Century Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Oil

"ROCK ISLAND Rail Road LINES" ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIMITED VINTAGE 1907 ADVERT SIGN
Located in San Antonio, TX
Antique Advertising Signs Image Size: 20 x 40 Frame Size: 25 x 45 Medium: Lithograph Date: 1907 "Rock Island RR Lines" Rocky Mountain Limited Vintage Sign Railroad
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20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Barcas al atardecer en la costa - Óleo sobre tabla
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
La obra va firmada por el artista en la parte inferior La obra se presenta enmarcada con un marco de la época de la obra Medidas obra: 15 cm. altura x 29 cm. ancho Medidas obra: 3...
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Early 1900s Realist Art

Materials

Oil

"Pastoral Landscape with Shepherd and Sheep"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Unidentified Artist (19th Century) "Pastoral Landscape with Shepherd and Sheep" (1860) This idyllic 19th-century oil painting on canvas beautifully...
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19th Century Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

DEEP INSIDE 41, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
God has no faces. It has colours and forms. And God is love. Tender love. Series of tender artworks DEEP INSIDE is ready. Feel him in every artwork. DEEP INSIDE - it’s a series of ...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Oil

"Two Dogs, One Cat Walking" Original ink drawing
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Margaret. Sweet Johnson (American, 1893-1964) Title: "Two Dogs, One Cat Walking" Year : Circa 1930 Medium: original ink drawing Paper: Stock image size: 9.25 x 7 inc...
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Early 20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Ink

"Two"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
A SERIE OF ARTWORKS «FAIRIES OR SPIRITS» We are humans, and each of us has our own life. We are so immersed in it that we do not see others. Often while seeing the problems of other...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Panoramique" a photorealist maritime oil painting with a ship sailing
Located in Edgartown, MA
Michel Brosseau was born in Nantes and has lived in Bordeaux for many years. Both cities are on the Atlantic coast of France and have rich maritime histories, highlighted by prospero...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Linen, Oil

Manchester Maine #4 Expressionist Landscape
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Elizabeth Osborne (American/Philadelphia, b. 1936) Manchester #4, 1988. Watercolor painting on paper. Signed and dated l.l. Sight: 8 3/4" x 11 3/4". Frame: 17" x 20". Provenance: Purchased from Jane Haslem Gallery in 1990. From the collection of Nancy Elizabeth Stanley. 1936, born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1959, BFA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1954-58, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania SOLO EXHIBITIONS Berry Campbell, New York, Elizabeth Osborne: A Retrospective, 2022. Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Reflections: Painting Memory, 2017. Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Watercolors: Five Decades, 2017. The Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware, Elizabeth Osborne: The 1960s, 2016. Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., Color Bloc: Paintings by Elizabeth Osborne, 2015. The James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Veils of Color: Juxtapositions and Recent Work by Elizabeth Osborne, 2015. (Traveled to The Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 2016.) Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Luminous Gestures: New Works by Elizabeth Osborne, 2013. Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Osborne: Watercolors, 2011. Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, New Work, 2011. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Osborne: The Color of Light, 2009. Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Figurative ‘60s, 2007. Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Floating Landscapes: 1971-1979, 2006. J. Cacciola Galleries, New York, Works on Paper, 2006. The Print Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Recent Prints, 2005. Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2004. Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Osborne: 30 Years, Works on Paper, 2002. Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Vantage, 2000. Old Main Art Museum, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, 1998. Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1997. Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1994. Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1994. North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota, 1993-94. Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1992. Arronson Gallery, The University of Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Watercolors, 1991. University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1990. Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1988. Fischbach Gallery, New York, 1988. Fischbach Gallery, New York, 1984. Fischbach Gallery, New York, 1982. Fischbach Gallery, New York, 1980. Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1978. Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1976. Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, Ltd., New York, 1977. Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, Ltd., New York, 1974. Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Landscapes, 1972. Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1970. American Consulate, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1969. Peale Galleries, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1967. Perakis Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1967. Perakis Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1963. GROUP EXHIBITIONS Avery Galleries, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, The Women of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: Past to Present, 2024. Berry Campbell, New York, Perseverance, 2024. Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, From Dusk Till Dawn, 2015. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, “Something Clicked in Philly”: David Lynch and His Contemporaries, 2014. Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, It’s Not the Numbers, 2014. Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Works on Paper, 2013. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World, 2013. Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, Four Visions/Four Painters: Murray Dessner...
Category

1970s Realist Art

Materials

Watercolor, Rag Paper

Sugarbush Skiing, Estate Edition, Vermont
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1660 winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an individual skiing at Sugarbush, a mountain resort in Vermont, April 1960. This is an...
Category

1960s Realist Art

Materials

Lambda

Pocket Conker and Shell 2 c, Original Painting, Realist, Autumnal art
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Conker and Shell 2 c is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a nod to baroque...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Woman eating / - Interior Pictures -
Located in Berlin, DE
Ruth Schloss (1922 Nuremberg - 2013 Kfar Shmaryahu), Woman eating, around 1990. Mixed media on watercolor paper, 22.2 cm x 26.5 cm, signed “Schloss” lower left and signed again in He...
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1990s Realist Art

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Paper

A rough collie
Located in London, GB
A charming and sensitively rendered late 19th-century oil portrait of a Rough Collie, this work captures the breed's intelligence and gentle temperament with remarkable clarity. Indi...
Category

Late 19th Century Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A Jolly Time -- German Genre Tavern Painting, 1918
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful German genre painting of 17th century tavern scene in style of Franz Hals by Karl Josef Muller (German, 1864-1942) dated 1918. Signed and dated lower left corner "Karl Muller - Hamburg 1918". Condition: Good; professionally restored: Canvas restreched on new stretcher bars; five repairs made to small tears in canvas (see image); cleaned and re-varnished with UV-resistant varnish. Unframed. Image size: 39.5"H x 55"W. We have the original frame which needs some extensive repair to the gesso. Happy to include the frame with the painting as is. Karl Müller was born in Hamburg-Altstadt in 1865. His wealthy Jewish parents Abraham Müller (1832-1896), citizen of the Hanseatic city since 1869, and Henriette "Jette", b. Burchard (born 1832 Neubuckow / Mecklenburg), had a cigar factory at Spielbudenplatz 5 in St.Pauli. When Karl Müller was ten years old, next to factory and warehouse, now at Speersort 11 (Altstadt), there was also a branch in Altona-Ottensen with the address Am Felde 68. The family lived at the time at Pferdemarkt 13 (Old Town). After attending the Jewish Foundation School at the Zeughausmarkt, Karl Müller completed a three-year lithography apprenticeship. From 1886 to 1888, he studied at the Royal Saxon School of Applied Arts in Dresden with the history and decoration painter Donadini, then with Professor Hanke of the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin. Karl Müller's painting style was conventional-realistic and did not follow modern trends. In 1891, the oil paintings "Preparation for the Service", "In the guardroom", tattoo", "gymnastics lesson", "covert patrol” and "return from the field service exercise”, whose main motive almost always soldiers formed.In 1893, he painted the" invasion of the 76er " as a horizontal format in black and white, the painting was acquired by the Museum of Hamburg History in 1930. The disposition of Karl Müller could be classified as "kaisertreu" and "national" (Maike Bruhns) at this time - not by chance he acted with his Nicknamed "Soldatenmüller", he successfully participated in exhibitions in Berlin and Hamburg before the turn of the century. Even at this time, the frequent change of residence is striking: 1893 Papendamm 25 (Rotherbaum), 1896 Bundesstraße 9 (Rotherbaum). In 1898 he was in the Hamburg address book as a "genre and portrait painter" with the residential address 1. average 43 (Rotherbaum) out. At the age of 38, Karl married in 1903 in the Hanseatic city of the Jewish Louise Hauer (born 12.2.1872 in Hamburg), called "Lieschen". Before her marriage, she lived with her mother at Grindelberg 78. Her father, Martin Hauer (1836-1897), also born in Hamburg and was a citizen of the city since 1862, owned a factory for soap and perfume. In 1904 and 1911, the two daughters Karla and Lotte were born. 1904, the family lived at this time in the Bogenstraße 20, Karl Müller commissioned a portrait of the emigrated hamburger Henry Jones opening the same lodge in the Hartungstraße 9-11. Already at this time he might have been a member of the Hamburg Artists Association of 1832. Starting from 1908 further change of dwellings on the basis of the telephone books are comprehensible: nearly yearly the family moved and moved thereby from the Grindel quarter over Hoheluft east to Harvestehude and Winterhude. Around 1912 she moved into an apartment in Sierichstraße 156. Here, the landlord Schröder provided the artist with an area of ​​around 45 square meters as a studio on the dry floor. But the building police criticized this use and after some disputes, the painter had to move once again with family and studio. The official telephone directory recorded as an address from 1914 to 1918 Klosterallee 20 (Harvestehude). Friedrich Jansa described Karl Müller's changed motif choice in his artist's glossary in 1912: "In recent years he has been watercolouring a lot in the Hamburg area and now mainly takes his motifs from Hamburg harbor...
Category

1910s Realist Art

Materials

Linen, Oil

Spring Walk, Realist Style Painting, Traditional Woodland Painting, Floral Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Spring Walk is an original acrylic painting by artist Jane Peart. Jane took sintered from a walk through the woods on a spring day when the blossoms were out. This painting really capture the light passing through the trees. Jane Peart prints are available at Wychwood Art online and in the gallery. Jane Peart was born in London and studied illustration at Ealing School of Art where she graduated with distinction in 1975. She worked in a design studio in London before moving to Oxford in 1978. After many years of devoting time to pencil and pen & ink drawings, Jane took up etching - she now devotes most of her creative energies to printmaking. Jane Peart's work has been exhibited at Printspace Bankside, London; The Affordable Art Fair Battersea, 2003 annually to date; The Brighton Art Fair 2004, 2006; The Contemporary Art Fair Battersea and annually during the Oxford Artweeks Festival. I also took part in the Edinburgh Art Fair 2011; she regularly exhibits with The Oxford Printmakers venues including; The Ashmolean Museum, Christchurch Picture Gallery...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Faithful Couple: Mick Jagger Marianne Faithfull at Leixlip Castle, Estate Ed.
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons's iconic and unusual photograph of 60's rock and roll legends, captured in a moment of casual glamour. 1968: Singer Marianne Faithfull, the Honorable Desmond Guinness and Mick Jagger (of the Rolling Stones) sit on a sofa under a large gilt framed portrait of a woman in 18th century silk dress at Leixlip Castle, Ireland, the home of Desmond Guinness. The sofa is a deep burgundy red, and the background features a richly patterned and gilded wallpaper...
Category

1960s Realist Art

Materials

Lambda

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