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Art For Sale
Style: Photorealist
Style: Academic
Portrait of a woman, Tasie
Located in PARIS, FR
Jean Jules Antoine LECOMTE DU NOÜY Paris, 1842 - Paris, 1923 Portrait of a woman, Tasie Painting, oil on wood Signed, titled and dated 1876: "Tasie / Lecomte du Nouy / 76" Painting: ...
Category

1870s Academic Art

Materials

Oil

Composition with Two Male Nudes - painting Paula Craioveanu oil on canvas
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Composition with Two Male Nudes", oil and silver leaf on canvas, 35.5x23.5in / 90x60cm Part of my Male Nude series. Shipped as it is, stretched, directly from the artist's studio.
Category

2010s Academic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Echoes 2 - painting Paula Craioveanu oil on canvas
Located in Forest Hills, NY
Echoes 2 Composition with Two Female Nudes, oil on canvas, 35.5x19.5in / 90x50cm Part of WIngs of Gods, solo show. Shipped as it is, stretched, directly from the artist's studio.
Category

2010s Academic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Lady in paris Street 1900
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
LEBAS Léonie (19th-20th) "Lady in Paris Street 1900" Oil on wood panel signed low right Old Frame regilded with gold leaves Dim panel : 16 X 22 cm Dim frame : 50 X 41 cm LEBAS Léoni...
Category

1890s Academic Art

Materials

Oil

Fair scene with actors
Located in PARIS, FR
French school circa 1815 Fair scene with actors Painting, oil on wood Unsigned Painting: 20 x 27 cm Period frame: 30 x 36.5 cm Very good condition
Category

Early 19th Century Academic Art

Materials

Oil

Bilhete de identidade, Untitled 2
Located in MADRID, ES
Analogue photo. Photography, printed on Aluminium Dibond. Edition of 3 + 1 artist proof. Walnut wood frame, 35 mm depth, 4 mm thickness. Bilhete de Identidade series In this series...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

Materials

Digital

Iconics by Fabrizio La Torre - Set # 2 - Roma - 1956 - Vintage Photographs
Located in Brussels, BE
Artworks sold in perfect condition : Set # 2 composed of 5 Gallery Print 30x40 cm This is an exceptional offer that we are presenting today. For almost four years, here on 1stdibs, a...
Category

1950s Photorealist Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

"Glass Giants"
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
John Schieffer graduated in 1995 from Paier College of Art in Hamden, Connecticut with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. The salutatorian entered the world of illustration at Mercer Ma...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Iconics by Fabrizio La Torre - Set # 2 - Roma - 1956 - Vintage Photographs
Located in Brussels, BE
Artworks sold in perfect condition : Set # 2 composed of 5 Gallery Print 30x40 cm This is an exceptional offer that we are presenting today. For almost four years, here on 1stdibs, a...
Category

1950s Photorealist Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

C Sørensen, Still Life With Trollius, Tea Cup & Books, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This charming early 20th-century oil painting by Danish artist C Sørensen depicts an arrangement of trollius with a vase, tea cup and books. Little is known about C Sørensen, which ...
Category

1930s Photorealist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Iconics by Fabrizio La Torre - Set # 2 - Roma - 1956 - Vintage Photographs
Located in Brussels, BE
Artworks sold in perfect condition : Set # 2 composed of 5 Gallery Print 30x40 cm This is an exceptional offer that we are presenting today. For almost four years, here on 1stdibs, a...
Category

1950s Photorealist Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Iconics by Fabrizio La Torre - Set # 2 - Roma - 1956 - Vintage Photographs
Located in Brussels, BE
Artworks sold in perfect condition : Set # 2 composed of 5 Gallery Print 30x40 cm This is an exceptional offer that we are presenting today. For almost four years, here on 1stdibs, a...
Category

1950s Photorealist Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Jungle Cadi
Located in West Hollywood, CA
The artwork “Jungle Cadi” beckons the viewer to submerge into an atmosphere of sophistication and mystery, skillfully blending the sleek Cadillac against a verdant backdrop that grad...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Summer Valley, Impressionism Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karen Darbinyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Linen, Year: 2024 Style: Impressionism Title: Summer Valley, Size: 9" x 13.5" x 0...
Category

2010s Academic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Bilhete de identidade, Untitled 6
Located in MADRID, ES
Analogue photo. Photography, printed on Aluminium Dibond. Edition of 3 + 1 artist proof. Walnut wood frame, 35 mm depth, 4 mm thickness. Bilhete de Identidade series In this series...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

Materials

Digital

"FernLake" Cargo Ship at Sea - Company Chromolithograph on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
"FernLake" Cargo Ship at Sea Chromolithograph on Canvas Original Maiden Voyage of the FernLake Chromolithograph from the painting by Norwegian artist Carl B. Hestman (Norwegian, 19...
Category

1960s Photorealist Art

Materials

Printer's Ink, Stretcher Bars, Canvas, Photogravure, Lithograph

Magoanine Verde, Untitled 8
Located in MADRID, ES
Analogue photo. Photography, printed on Aluminium Dibond. Edition of 3 + 1 artist proof. Walnut wood frame, 35 mm depth, 4 mm thickness. Magoanine Verde started in 2023 as a photogr...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

Materials

Digital

Bilhete de identidade, Untitled 3
Located in MADRID, ES
Analogue photo. Photography, printed on Aluminium Dibond. Edition of 3 + 1 artist proof. Walnut wood frame, 35 mm depth, 4 mm thickness. Bilhete de Identidade series In this series...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

Materials

Digital

Bilhete de identidade, Untitled 4
Located in MADRID, ES
Analogue photo. Photography, printed on Aluminium Dibond. Edition of 3 + 1 artist proof. Walnut wood frame, 35 mm depth, 4 mm thickness. Bilhete de Identidade series In this series...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

Materials

Digital

Iconics by Fabrizio La Torre - Set # 2 - Roma - 1956 - Vintage Photographs
Located in Brussels, BE
Artworks sold in perfect condition : Set # 2 composed of 5 Gallery Print 30x40 cm This is an exceptional offer that we are presenting today. For almost four years, here on 1stdibs, a...
Category

1950s Photorealist Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

The Blue Room
By Jack Mendenhall
Located in New York, NY
DESCRIPTION Bears O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, New York label, verso. SIGNATURE Signed and dated Mendenhall '79, verso
Category

1970s Photorealist Art

Materials

Linen, Oil

"The Treasure Key, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Ruddy Taveras' "The Treasure Key" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts two clear spheres, coins and a skeleton key perched atop a marble ledge. About the artist: Rudd...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Oil

“Clipper under Full Sail”
Located in Southampton, NY
Very well executed oil on academy board by the well known American marine and portrait painter, Sam Sargent. Signed lower left “S. Sargent”. Signed verso, “Newburyport Studio, S. Sa...
Category

1930s Academic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Magoanine Verde, Untitled 7
Located in MADRID, ES
Analogue photo. Photography, printed on Aluminium Dibond. Edition of 3 + 1 artist proof. Walnut wood frame, 35 mm depth, 4 mm thickness. Magoanine Verde started in 2023 as a photogr...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

Materials

Digital

Magoanine Verde, Untitled 6
Located in MADRID, ES
Analogue photo. Photography, printed on Aluminium Dibond. Edition of 3 + 1 artist proof. Walnut wood frame, 35 mm depth, 4 mm thickness. Magoanine Verde started in 2023 as a photogr...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

Materials

Digital

Magoanine Verde, Untitled 4
Located in MADRID, ES
Analogue photo. Photography, printed on Aluminium Dibond. Edition of 3 + 1 artist proof. Walnut wood frame, 35 mm depth, 4 mm thickness. Magoanine Verde started in 2023 as a photogr...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

Materials

Digital

Sweet Dream - underwater nude photograph - print on paper 25" x 35"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater black and white (sepia) photograph of a naked young woman covered with tulle. Original gallery quality archival pigment print on archival paper signed by the artist. L...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

San Carlo
Located in Milano, MI
Photo taken inside the San Carlo Church of Milan. Marcelo Soulé (Buenos Aires, 1958) trained at the Artistic Lyceum and the Brera Academy in Milan. He l...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Black and White, Inkjet, Pigment

San Maurizio
Located in Milano, MI
Photo taken inside the San Maurizio Church of Milan. Marcelo Soulé (Buenos Aires, 1958) trained at the Artistic Lyceum and the Brera Academy in Milan. H...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Black and White, Inkjet, Pigment

Milano Palazzo Reale
Located in Milano, MI
Photo taken inside the Royal Palace of Milan. Marcelo Soulé (Buenos Aires, 1958) trained at the Artistic Lyceum and the Brera Academy in Milan. He lives...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Black and White, Inkjet, Pigment

The Hunter, Mid-Century Photo Realist Drypoint Etching Portrait, Limited Edition
By Gilbert Schoenbrod
Located in Soquel, CA
An incredible photo-realist drypoint etching of a Native American man by Gilbert Adam Shoenbrod (American, 1903-1996), 1937. Titled "The Hunter", this hyper detailed portrait depicts...
Category

1930s Photorealist Art

Materials

Drypoint

The Love Letter
Located in Washington, DC
Signed and dated '1884' lower right
Category

1880s Academic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Le Martyr de Saint Sebastian (Academic Figurative Oil Painting in Gold Frame)
Located in Hudson, NY
Academic style figurative oil painting on canvas 48 x 24 inches unframed 58 x 32 x 3 inches in gold leaf wood frame This vertical, contemporary figurative painting of Le Martyr de Saint Sebastian was made by Mark Beard under his fictitious artistic persona, Hippolyte-Alexandre Michallon. Painted in a modern Academic style, Beard paints this Christian saint with dramatic detail and emotional gravity. The scene is a common artistic depiction of Sebastian who according to traditional belief, was killed during the Roman emperor Diocletian's persecution of the Christians. Here the artist depicts a nearly nude Saint Sebastian standing stoically while tied to a rustic brown post. A lush green forested terrain decorates the background while a white neo-classical building sits in the distance, which is perhaps the tomb where Saint Sebastian's remains were laid to rest. Saint Sebastian's pale blue-grey, stone-like stone tone is characteristic of Mark Beard's work who often portrays muscular young men similarly to Greek statues. The vertical Academic style figurative oil painting is complimented with a vintage style gold leaf wood frame. The painting is signed 'H. A. Michallon 1872' in red oil paint in the lower right corner. The gold frame is also signed and inscribed with black oil paint in several places (please see images). Mark Beard is a contemporary artist who made this work under the pseudonym Hippolyte A. Michallon who painted during the late 1800's so slight wear (see images) is intentionally staged to align with the factitious artist's purposed history. About the artist: Mark Beard is perhaps the most literal example of an artist pulled in so many different directions that he chose to “invent” six different personae in which to channel his overflowing energy and need for expression. Each painting style is radically different from the next, so it remains entirely believable that the work could stem from six completely different people of different time periods and different schools of thought. With a background in set design, Beard has always been one who could conjure total magic with anything available. Mark Beard has exhibited with Carrie Haddad Gallery for nearly twenty years and there has never been a dull moment. Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt Lake city, now lives in New York City. His works are in museum collections worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City; the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; and the Harvard, Yale, and Princeton University Art Museums; among many others. We would not be the least bit surprised to see new ‘personas’ emerge in the coming years. About: Hippolyte - Alexandre Michallon, 1849 -1930 The long and peripatetic artistic career of Hippolyte-Alexandre Michallon began in a conventional fashion. The only son of prosperous bourgeois parents in Tours, he first studied drawing with his mother, an accomplished amateur painter of insects. His father, an undertaker who appreciated his son's talent and supported his ambition to become a painter, sent him to Paris at age sixteen to enroll in the studio of Francois-Edouard Picot (1786-1868), an eminent history painter and professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, with whom he studied for three years, until Picot's death. Under his aging teacher's guidance and tutelage, Michallon entered the preliminary stages of the Prix de Rome contest at the Ecole three times, winning an Honorable Mention in 1869 for his composition entitled The Solider of the Marathon. For the next twenty years Michallon regualarly exhibited paintings on historical and biblical themes at the Paris Salon, as well as commissioned portraits. By his own account, the most ambitious work of Michallon's career was a thirty-foot canvas depicting Noah's Ark, which he exhibited in the Salon in 1875. Michallon began painting atmospheric but zoologically correct images of exotic animals in the wild. These achieved a certain popularity among French and foreign collectors alike, providing Michallon with financial security for the first time in his career. Michallon moved to England in 1893. His outstanding technical skills easily earned him a position on the faculty of the Slade School of Art in 1900. The craze for animal paintings proved short-lived. He continued to teach at Slade for the next two decades, but his classes gradually dwindled in size as the academic approach and methods he espoused went from outmoded to downright unpopular. Finally in 1922, finding himself reduced to a single pupil, the talented young American Bruce Sargeant, he retired from Slade, persuading Sargeant to leave with him and undergo private instruction at home. Several years later he retired to a cottage at St. Ives, Cornwall, where he lived quietly until his death in 1930, forgotten by all but a few former students, among them Edith Thayer Cromwell...
Category

Early 2000s Academic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Family
Located in San Francisco, CA
An excellent example of Molinari's photorealistic technique, the level of detail in rendering the subtle fluctuations of the crumpled surfaces, as well as the play of light and shado...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Oil

British mid century watercolour and pen drawing of black and tan terrier dogs
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Mona Alizon Edmonds (British, circa 1944) The black and tans day Inscribed with title, signed and dated ‘May 1944 M. Alizon Edmonds.’ (lower edge) Pencil, watercolour and body colour...
Category

20th Century Academic Art

Materials

Watercolor, Pencil

Ogni Giorno, Painting, Acrylic on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
Brand new painting entitled Ogni Giorno, Italian for Every Day. Inspired by a trip to Agrigento, Sicily. It shows a man working in a supermarket. :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This ...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Acrylic

72A
Located in San Francisco, CA
An excellent example of Molinari's photorealistic technique, the level of detail in rendering the subtle fluctuations of the crumpled surfaces, as well as the play of light and shado...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Oil

Moss Landing - 1965 Original Black and White Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Moss Landing - 1965 Original Black and White Photograph Original black and white photograph of Moss Landing in 1965 by Al Weber (American, 1930-2016). The photograph shows Moss Land...
Category

1960s Photorealist Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper

"Spiral Martini"
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
John Schieffer graduated in 1995 from Paier College of Art in Hamden, Connecticut with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. The salutatorian entered the world of illustration at Mercer Ma...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Wood Panel, Oil

Portrait Painting Oil on Canvas by Joseph Badger
Located in Rome, IT
Joseph Badger (c. 1707–1765) was a portrait artist in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 18th century. This amazing painting depicting a young boy with a bird. oil on canvas cm 93 x73...
Category

18th Century Academic Art

Materials

Oil

"Star Confetti"
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
John Schieffer graduated in 1995 from Paier College of Art in Hamden, Connecticut with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. The salutatorian entered the world of illustration at Mercer Ma...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Still life with Pears- original realism still life painting-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
"Pears" is a captivating masterpiece that pays homage to the intrinsic beauty and timeless allure of this delectable fruit. Executed with meticulous precision and infused with the sp...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Stbo097-Contemporary, Abstract, Minimalism, Modern, Pop art, Geometric, Acrylic
Located in London, London
Stq097, 1997 His work has been shown in Reina Sofía Museum of Madrid, Royal Academy of London, Arco Madrid, Pinta Art Fair, London, London Art Fair, The Other Art Fair, London, and...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Paper, Acrylic, Pencil

Cold Song III - underwater photograph - archival pigment print
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater photograph of a man diving in the pool with bouquet of flowers Original gallery quality print signed by the artist. Digital archival pigment print on archival paper w...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

The Black Keys "Red Vision 2" Phoenix AZ 2022 by Larry Niehues
Located in Austin, US
The Black Keys “Red Vision 2” Phoenix AZ 2022, signed limited edition prints by The Black Keys official photographer Larry Niehues. The Black Keys relatio...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Still Life with Sugars, Photorealist Serigraph by Ralph Goings
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ralph Goings, American (1928 - 2016) Title: Still Life With Sugars Year: 1981 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 300; 40 AP's Image Size: 19 x 20 inc...
Category

1980s Photorealist Art

Materials

Screen

Pantheon
Located in Milano, MI
Marcelo Soulé (Buenos Aires, 1958) trained at the Artistic Lyceum and the Brera Academy in Milan. He lives and works between Milan and Barcelona. He bega...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Black and White, Inkjet, Pigment

Master of the city, Digital on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
a gargoyle on the top of the Notre dame Cathedral in Paris looking over the city of light :: Digital :: Photorealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity ...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Digital

Lemon water- original modern realism oil painting- impressionist art
Located in London, Chelsea
Immerse yourself in a moment of tranquility with "Lemon Water," an original still life painting by the talented artist Irina Trushkova. Executed on canvas in the style of contemporar...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Superhero
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Cesar Santander Superhero Original Oil Painting -- Please watch video in listing 16" x 20" original painting on board. This is a unique, original painting of which no copies have bee...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

Materials

Oil, Board

San Pietro
Located in Milano, MI
Photo taken at San Pietro - Rome Marcelo Soulé (Buenos Aires, 1958) trained at the Artistic Lyceum and the Brera Academy in Milan. He lives and works be...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Black and White, Inkjet, Pigment

Duomo
Located in Milano, MI
Marcelo Soulé (Buenos Aires, 1958) trained at the Artistic Lyceum and the Brera Academy in Milan. He lives and works between Milan and Barcelona. He bega...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Black and White, Inkjet, Pigment

The landing, Digital on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Multiple shots of a blue heron landing on a tree top. The photo is in black and white, emphasizing the grace of those fantastic birds in their flight :: Digital :: Photorealism :: Th...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Digital

Sailor fisherman in his boat Spain oil on canvas painting seascape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Domingo Alvarez (Spain 1942) - sailor fisherman in his boat - oil on canvas Canvas size 46x61 cm. Unframed.
Category

Early 2000s Photorealist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Solar power, Digital on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
A beautiful sunflower on a black background :: Digital :: Photorealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: S...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Digital

Flight over Dolores
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Lightness of Being' - depicts a white brick building with warm sunlight and shadows cascading across the facade of the warm bricks with white inset window. Birds flying are reflecte...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

French school Drawing 18th Portrait Ténor SAINT AUBIN three chalks Paris Opéra
Located in PARIS, FR
French school of the 18th century Three pencils (pencil, red chalk, white chalk) on paper 27 x 18 cm (45 x 34 cm with frame) Inscription at bottom “Saint-Aubin de l’Académie de musique” Dated "1785" Augustin d'Herbez known as "Saint-Aubin" was a tenor and member of the Royal Academy of Music...
Category

1780s Academic Art

Materials

Carbon Pencil, Paper, Chalk

British mid century watercolour and pen drawing of black and tan terrier dogs
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Mona Alizon Edmonds (British, circa 1944) Black and tan terriers Watercolour on paper Signed, inscribed and dated ‘Black and tan terriers (minature) Dogs and Bitch. AM Edmonds. 19...
Category

20th Century Academic Art

Materials

Watercolor, Pencil

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