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Lime Pocket Painting 4c, original painting, still-life, nature
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly from life allows her to translate three dimensions
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lemon Pocket Painting 2c, original painting, still-life, nature
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly from life allows her to translate three dimensions
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fig Green Pocket Painting 3c, original painting, still-life
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly from life allows her to translate three dimensions
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sloe Berries Pocket Painting (PaleBlue)2c, original painting, still-life
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
(1.18 in)
Dani Humberstone uses the symbolism of ripe fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Peas in a Pod Painting 3c, original painting, still-life
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
in)
Dani Humberstone uses the symbolism of ripe fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lovebirds Pocket Painting 2, original painting, contemporary
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
narrative. Painting directly from life allows her to translate three dimensions into two and capture the
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lime Pocket Painting 2, original painting, contemporary
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
narrative. Painting directly from life allows her to translate three dimensions into two and capture the
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ladybird Pocket Painting 7, original painting, contemporary
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
narrative. Painting directly from life allows her to translate three dimensions into two and capture the
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Otter
Cow Pocket Painting c, diptych, original painting, still-life
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
symbolism of ripe fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly from life allows her to translate
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Highland Cow
Otter Pocket Painting 2c, diptych, original painting, still-life
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
(1.18 in)
Dani Humberstone uses the symbolism of ripe fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Egg Blackbird Greenish Pocket Painting 4c, original painting, still-life
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
symbolism of ripe fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly from life allows her to translate
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Egg Blackbird Greenish Pocket Painting 5c, original painting, still-life
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
symbolism of ripe fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly from life allows her to translate
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Egg Blackbird
s Greenish Pocket Painting 6c, original painting, still-life
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
symbolism of ripe fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly from life allows her to translate
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Egg Blackbird
s Greenish Pocket Painting 4c, original painting, still-life
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
symbolism of ripe fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly from life allows her to translate
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Apple Wild Pocket Painting 2c, original painting, still-life, nature
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly from life allows her to translate three dimensions
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Autumn Leaf
Pea in a Pod Pocket Painting, diptych, original painting
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
in)
Dani Humberstone uses the symbolism of ripe fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cherries Dark Pocket Painting 2c, original painting, contemporary
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
of ripe fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly from life allows her to translate three
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Plum Juicy Purple Pocket Painting , original painting, contemporary
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly from life allows her to translate three dimensions
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Quince Fluffy Pocket Painting 2, original painting, contemporary
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
of ripe fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly from life allows her to translate three
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
EgPear Blush Pocket Painting 6c, original painting, contemporary
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
narrative. Painting directly from life allows her to translate three dimensions into two and capture the
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lately - Figurative Painting Seascape Swimmer Dark Ocean Peach Sky Clouds, 2021
By David Konigsberg
Located in Kent, CT
-narrative paintings that are both objective and conceptual. His work occupies a netherworld of image and
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Clementine Small
Green Fig Pocket Painting, Set of 2, original painting
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
ripe fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly from life allows her to translate three
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Egg Blackbird Yellow Greenish Pocket Painting 3c, original painting, still-life
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
Humberstone uses the symbolism of ripe fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly from life allows
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fig Green
Doh-Nut Pocket Painting 3c, original painting, still-life
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly from life allows her to translate three dimensions
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Autumn Leaf Pale Blue Pocket Painting 6A c, original painting, still-life
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
in)
Dani Humberstone uses the symbolism of ripe fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Apple Deep Red Pocket Painting 2c, contemporary, original painting
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
narrative. Painting directly from life allows her to translate three dimensions into two and capture the
Category
2010s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rusty Wild Pear Pocket Painting 2, original painting, contemporary
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
of ripe fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly from life allows her to translate three
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Licorice Allsorts Candy Sweets Pocket Painting, original painting, contemporary
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly from life allows her to translate three dimensions
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Egg Blackbird
s Greenish Pocket Painting 3c, original painting, contemporary
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly from life allows her to translate three dimensions
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
"A Wet Windy Day", Joe Rader Roberts, 30x40, Original Oil on Canvas, Western Art
By Joe Rader Roberts
Located in Dallas, TX
these scenes of the early west. Roberts is best known for his western narrative paintings.
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mast - Narrative Landscape Painting, Original Oil on Linen, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
This new narrative landscape painting allows me the vulnerability I needed to claim my art practice
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Plum Juicy Pocket Painting 2c, original painting, oil paint, still life, nature
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly from life allows her to translate three dimensions
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Buzzcut for a Sonambulist
By Adrienne Sherman
Located in Burlingame, CA
narrative paintings, grounded in realism, are strongly influenced by the Italian Renaissance, and like most
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Stray Hair
By Adrienne Sherman
Located in Burlingame, CA
narrative paintings, grounded in realism, are strongly influenced by the Italian Renaissance, and like most
Category
1990s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Testa Rossa
By Adrienne Sherman
Located in Burlingame, CA
next. Her unique narrative paintings, grounded in realism, are strongly influenced by the Italian
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Skull Blue Pocket Painting c, original painting, contemporary, still-life
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
narrative. Painting directly from life allows her to translate three dimensions into two and capture the
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blush Pear Yellow Pocket Painting, original painting, still-life, contemporary
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly from life allows her to translate three dimensions
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
THE FALL - Portrait Painting / Narrative Style / Autumn / Realism / Storytelling
By Mavis Smith
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting by Mavis Smith.
Mavis Smith (b. 1956, Trenton, NJ) studied art and design at
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Panel
Fig Green Pocket Painting 3c
4c, Set of 2, original painting, still-life
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly from life allows her to translate three dimensions
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jump Before the Little Woods - Oil Painting Figurative Landscape Field, 2008
By David Konigsberg
Located in Kent, CT
the divide between art and real life in semi-narrative paintings that are both objective and
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Egg Blackbird
s (White Collection) Pocket, original painting
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
)
Dani Humberstone uses the symbolism of ripe fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly from
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pomegranate Tableau
Apple Wild Painting, Set of 2, original painting
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
narrative. Painting directly from life allows her to translate three dimensions into two and capture the
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Bellerophon and Pegasus" Striking Art Deco Painting with Male Nude Mythological
By Bryson Burroughs
Located in Philadelphia, PA
renowned for his murals in the Boston Public Library, Burroughs was interested in narrative painting, and
Category
Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paint
Pocket Deep Red Apple 2c, original painting, still-life
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
Humberstone uses the symbolism of ripe fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly from life allows
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Temptation Island- 21st Century Stilllife painting of a bowl with sweets
By Erik van Elven
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
determine what is painted and how it is done. Colorful narrative paintings. However, the paintings are more
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Pomegranate Pinky Red Pocket Painting, oil paint, still life
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
Humberstone uses the symbolism of ripe fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly from life allows
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Strawberry Very Ripe
Pomegranate Deep Red Pocket Painting, diptych
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
in)
Dani Humberstone uses the symbolism of ripe fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Strawberry Very Ripe
Blackberry Very Pocket Painting, diptych, original
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
in)
Dani Humberstone uses the symbolism of ripe fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Absolution - Jumping Flying Figure Golden Yellow Clouds Sky Landscape, 2025
By David Konigsberg
Located in Kent, CT
verso.
David Konigsberg bridges the divide between art and real life in narrative paintings that are
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Home - 21st Century Contemporary Oil Painting
By Daniela Astone
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
narrative paintings show a technique that is special. Her style is virtuoso and her subjects narrative. The
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Spring flowers (set of 2) Pocket Paintings set, Still life, Original
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
the symbolism of ripe fruit and food to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly from life allows
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Owl Tawny, original painting, oil paint, still life, nature
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly from life allows her to translate three dimensions
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Clementine Bright
Pear Green Speckled Pocket Painting 2, diptych, original
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
Humberstone uses the symbolism of ripe fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly from life allows
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gone but not forgotten Pocket Paintings set, Still life, Original
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
symbolism of ripe fruit and food to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly from life allows her to
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painswick Beacon, Landscape Collection Pocket Series, original painting
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
symbolism of ripe fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly from life allows her to translate
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
"The Fisherman
s Fight" oil painting, narrative realism, figures hauling boat in
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"The Fisherman Fight" is a realist oil on linen painting. It depicts five figures heaving a rope
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Egg Blackbird Yellow
Egg Blackbird Greenish, Set of 2, original painting
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
Humberstone uses the symbolism of ripe fruit to illustrate the narrative. Painting directly from life allows
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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Narrative Painting For Sale on 1stDibs
On 1stDibs, you can find the most appropriate narrative painting for your needs in our varied inventory. There are many Contemporary, Abstract and Expressionist versions of these works for sale. Finding the perfect narrative painting may mean sifting through those created during different time periods — you can find an early version that dates to the 19th Century and a newer variation that were made as recently as the 21st Century. On 1stDibs, the right narrative painting is waiting for you and the choices span a range of colors that includes black, gray, brown and white. There have been many interesting narrative painting examples over the years, but those made by Tom Bennett, Stephen Basso, Fiona Ackerman, Britt Spencer and Gerard Schriemer are often thought to be among the most thought-provoking. Artworks like these of any era or style can make for thoughtful decor in any space, but a selection from our variety of those made in paint, oil paint and paper can add an especially memorable touch.
How Much is a Narrative Painting?
The average selling price for a narrative painting we offer is $1,450, while they’re typically $300 on the low end and $18,000 for the highest priced.
Finding the Right Paintings for You
Painting is an art form that has spanned innumerable cultures, with artists using the medium to tell stories, explore and communicate ideas and express themselves. To bring abstract paintings, landscape paintings, still-life paintings and other original paintings into your home is to celebrate and share in the long tradition of this discipline.
When we look at paintings, particularly those that originated in the past, we learn about history, other cultures and countries of the world. Like every other work of art, paintings — whether they are contemporary creations or works that were made during the 19th century — can often help us clearly see and understand the world around us in a meaningful and interesting way.
Cave walls were the canvases for what were arguably the world’s first landscape paintings, which depict natural scenery through art. Portrait paintings and drawings, which, along with sculpture, were how someone’s appearance was recorded prior to the advent of photography, are at least as old as Ancient Egypt. In the Netherlands, landscapes were a major theme for painters as early as the 1500s. Later, artists in Greece, Rome and elsewhere created vast wall paintings to decorate stately homes, churches and tombs.
Today, creating a wall of art is a wonderful way to enhance your space, showcase beautiful pieces and tie an interior design together.
No matter your preference, whether you favor Post-Impressionist paintings, animal paintings, Surrealism, Pop art or another movement or specific period, arranging art on a blank wall allows you to evoke emotions in a room while also showing off your tastes and interests. A symmetrical wall arrangement may comprise a grid of four to six pieces or, for an odd number of works, a horizontal row. Asymmetrical arrangements, which may be small clusters of art or large, salon-style gallery walls, have a more collected and eclectic feel.
Download the 1stDibs app, which includes a handy “View on Wall” feature that allows you to see how a particular artwork will look on a particular wall, and read about how to arrange wall art. And if you’re searching for the perfect palette for your interior design project, what better place to turn than to the art world’s masters of color?
On 1stDibs, you’ll find an expansive collection of paintings and other fine art for your home or office. Browse abstract paintings, portrait paintings, paintings by emerging artists and more today.
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