Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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 Winds, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
A frosen over river in the middle of winter with trees in the distance. :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Worker_01, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
By Helal Uddin
Located in Yardley, PA
I love to paint portrait from live model and also from picture. I took this man picture from Toronto during his break time, his name is Ben. I was trying to capture his passionate pe...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Nara temple wooden beam, Painting, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Japan is one of my favorites themes to draw. I always find so many details in every aspect of Japanese life. It´s a delight for drawing artists. Here the detail of the old wood of ...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Frozen in Time, Painting, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
A winter scene featuring a weathered old barn with a snow covered roof. :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist ...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Winter's Breath, Drawing, Pastels on Pastel Sandpaper
Located in Yardley, PA
Award winner at the Chicago Pastel Painters Bi-annual National Juried Exhibit at the McCord Gallery in Palos Park, IL., October 2021. The McCord Gallery featured Winter's Breath on t...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Mystery Dwelling, Painting, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Two interesting windows on the side of an old textured building creating a feeling of intrigue and mystery. :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate o...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Woman at Wall
Located in Miami, FL
This is an intensely personal and iconic image that is instantly recognizable as a George Tooker.
Framed under glass. Hinged to backing board along the upper edge. Mild toning to the sheet. Small 1/4 inch abrasion to the extreme left edge of the sheet, not visible in current framing.
Framed Dimensions 21.5 X 17.5 Inches -The artwork will look slightly different under different light conditions.
In the former collection of Art Paul, who with Hugh Hefner created Playboy.
Peter B...
Category
1970s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
"The journey matters more than the destination."
Located in Zofingen, AG
Title: The Journey Matters More Than the Destination
Description:
This work is a map of an invisible terrain, where direction is set not by external markers but by inner landscapes. ...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Carbon Pencil
Sunset
Located in Zofingen, AG
When even change has become familiar.
This work reflects on the paradoxical moment when change itself becomes a constant — no longer evoking fear, but instead blending into the fabr...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Carbon Pencil
I really love shrimp.
Located in Zofingen, AG
I Really Love Shrimp
This work is about desire. Small, funny, seemingly trivial — yet painfully real. It’s about food as a metaphor for something greater: a longing for pleasure, for...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Carbon Pencil
You are always beautiful — remember that.
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Reflections on Beauty and Self-Perception"
This work invites an inner dialogue about how we perceive ourselves and what we associate with the idea of beauty. It explores the subtle ...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Carbon Pencil
After the Storm, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
A close up of a country tree near by a lake with blown down branches after a heavy late March wind storm. :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Malvern Hills in Autumn, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
The Malvern Hills.This original watercolour was painted from the British Camp ( herefordshire Beacon) looking towards Colwall and the Worcestershire Beac...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
On the Malvern Hills. Original watercolour, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor
Located in Yardley, PA
Original watercolour of the stunning Malvern Hills from the slopes of the Worcestershire Beacon towards the British Camp.Presented in a double white beve...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Malvern Buzzard.Original watercolour, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Malvern Buzzard. A common buzzard on the slopes of the Worcestershire Beacon.This original is painted on 300 lb handmade waterolourpaper.Presented in a double white bevel cut mount 5...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Movie Night, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
For this painting the artist assembled everything necessary for a successful movie night - popcorn, candy, DVD, soft drink, and an adult drink. It is paint...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Cadence, Drawing, Pastels on Pastel Sandpaper
Located in Yardley, PA
Biking along Textile Road greenway near Saline, MI. :: Drawing :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Reclining Nude – 19-09-21, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
A New Session This reclining nude is completed two days after the last model session I held at my studio. Being the first drawing I completed after July’s session means last month’s drawing has not been completed yet. This one was relatively easy though. It comprises a fairly simple composition with no technical or compositionary challenges. I could focus on soft skin textures and folds in the sheets. First I made a rough estimation of the composition in charcoal. I worked it out with Conté pastel pencils (black and white) later. Relax Baby! After the completion of my colored pencil drawing ‘Leiden – Herengracht – 14-09-21’ I was in the mood for some simple stuff, nothing fancy. So I had her take a comfortable position, reading a book on paradoxes I bought a couple of weeks ago at the Groninger Museum. I like these talks with my model because it both makes us relax and somehow this relaxation speaks through the musculature in her back. I tried to capture that and I think I got away with it. Moreover, the bond between artist and model is important and when the right chemistry is there, magic can happen. Materials Completely coincidental the first thing I pulled out of the bag of drawing paper was a block of Strathmore Toned Gray. In my pencil and pastel case I found an old charcoal holder. Perfect for a session on the bed with me sketching on the bedside. When I come to think of it, the best model sessions are improvised, not fixated on too many poses. It can cramp both model and artist. The iPad Pro...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Watermelon_01, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
By Helal Uddin
Located in Yardley, PA
This is one of my studio paintings. I love watercolor because it’s a very challenging medium. I used Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors with world-class acid-free Arches 300gsm wa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Grapes 01, Painting, Watercolor on Paper
By Helal Uddin
Located in Yardley, PA
I always inspired by beauty of nature to paint and this one of my still life painting, painted on my studio. I was trying to capture of real fruit color and light. I love watercolor ...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Faded Dreams, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Old abandoned country home with several broken windows and other missing pieces. All paintings are completed on 140 to 300lb acid free watercolour paper and using the best artist q...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Overflowing Creek, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Small stream reflecting the brightness of the afternoon sky. All paintings are completed on 140 to 300lb acid free watercolour paper and using the best artist quality watercolour pa...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Flow of Life, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
A flowing river in late March with trees and land in the foreground.. All paintings are completed on 140 to 300lb acid free watercolour paper and using the best artist quality water...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Orange Braids, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Transparent watercolour on paper. This gorgeous little First Nations girl had such an appealing face and expression. She actually looks a little Tibetan I think. With the wonderful...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Lost in Time, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
The remains of an old car that has eroded and weathered over time in a country field. :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Green Back Heron, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Green Back Heron in mangroves in a river in Costa Rica :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: ...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Ferry Watch, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Seagulls (Laughing Gulls) standing on Ferry pilings :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No ...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Blue Bonnet, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Watercolor of a baby wearing a blue bonnet while being held in her mother's arms. There are touches of pastel over the watercolor. The painting itself is...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Spring melt, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
A fallen dead tree at the edge of a calm river with melting snow. :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Rea...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
No one home, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
An abandoned country home with the presence of past lives. :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to ...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Winter Palace, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
A weathered old mill blending in with the snow on a cold winters day. :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
LAST STANCE, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Patterns of melting snow out in the country near the end of March. All paintings are completed on 140 to 300lb acid free watercolour paper and using the best artist quality watercol...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Hula Study, energetic realistic charcoal drawing on paper, girl and hula hoop
Located in Dallas, TX
"Hula Study" is an energetic and unique charcoal on paper by Patsy McArthur showing a female figure dancing with a hula hoop. It is created using charcoal and pastel on pale pink Mur...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper, Pastel, Handmade Paper
Armenian Contemporary Art by Kamsar Ohanyan - Snow Track II
Located in Paris, IDF
Pencil on paper
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Handmade Paper
Armenian Contemporary Art by Kamsar Ohanyan - To Clean Snow II
Located in Paris, IDF
Pencil on handmade paper
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Handmade Paper
Armenian Contemporary Art by Kamsar Ohanyan - Listening to the Radio
Located in Paris, IDF
Pencil on paper
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Handmade Paper
Armenian Contemporary Art by Kamsar Ohanyan - Camilla
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor and pencil on paper
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Profile Portrait by Philadelphia Artist Julius Bloch
By Julius Bloch
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Julius Thiengen Bloch
(American, born Germany, 1888–1966)
Profile Portrait
Crayon on paper, 5 x 3 1/4 inches
FRAMED: 13 1/2 x 12 inches (approx.)
This sketch comes directly from th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Regal Stretch
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original scratchboard drawing signed by the Artist on the lower left corner.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Etching
New York City Police Fortune Magazine Illustration
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
This original illustration, titled "Cops at Ease in the Muster Room of a Station," accompanied the article Nineteen Thousand Cops published in the July 1939 issue of Fortune Magazine. This issue was dedicated to the city of New York and included a total of ten paintings by Riggs for this article on New York City's police department. Robert Riggs was a gay artist.
Category
1930s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
October 3:30 PM sketch
Located in Greenwich, CT
Sketch for Minoff's painting October 3:30 PM.
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Graphite, Paper
Baghdad Military Mystery Espionage Illustration Colliers , Saturday Evening Post
By John Pike
Located in Miami, FL
21.25 x 28 in. (54 x 71.1 cm.)
Magazine illustration most likely for Colliers or The Saturday Evening Post
Title : The One Behind Him, by Charles B . Child
Work is unframed
Category
1950s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Into the Ring"
By Paul Sample
Located in Lambertville, NJ
signed Lower Right
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Paul Sample established his reputation as a Regionalist landscape, figure and genre painter, particularly of New England subject matter.
In 1925, he moved to California and enrolled at the Otis Art Institute where his teacher was Jonas Lie, and he took private lessons from Stanton MacDonald-Wright and Frank Tolles Chamberlin...
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1940s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Canards Sauvages
By Karl Bodmer
Located in Atlanta, GA
Swiss-born Karl Bodmer (1809–1893) was one of the first and most accomplished European artists to document the landscape of the North American interior and its Indigenous peoples. He...
Category
19th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Le matin : Cerf et Biches, 1858
By Karl Bodmer
Located in Atlanta, GA
Swiss-born Karl Bodmer (1809–1893) was one of the first and most accomplished European artists to document the landscape of the North American interior and its Indigenous peoples. He...
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19th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
"Hawthorn, Whitethorn - Mespilus Oxycantha"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Ashley John is proud to offer this artwork by:
Emily Stackhouse (1811 - 1870)
Miss Emily Stackhouse was born in the West Country in 1811, the same year as botanist and writer Reve...
Category
1840s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Crow Maiden
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
One of a kind, original charcoal drawing on paper by Brandon Bailey CA.
Signed lower left.
Framed Dimensions: 24 X 20
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Animal drawing of sitting crow in black by enlightened british painter
Located in Milan, IT
Peter Paillou (c.1720 – c.1790) was a British artist best known for his paintings of birds, many of which were used as book illustrations. He gained repute in the 18th century as a natural history painter and illustrator. He was employed by two leading naturalists and antiquarians of the time, Taylor White (1701-1772) and Thomas Pennant (1726-1798). He illustrated the latter's British Zoology and decorated the hall at Downing, Pennant's house in Flintshire, with several pictures of birds...
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18th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
DEBRIS - Large Ink Drawing - Study for the Print
Located in Santa Monica, CA
EDWARD HAGEDORN (AMERICAN 1902 – 1982)
DEBRIS, ca. 1930 Large Ink Drawing - Study for the Print.
Image 16 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches, sheet 17 1/2 x 28 inches. Ink wash, on blank side of...
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1930s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Bull
Located in Missouri, MO
Bull by W. R. Leigh (1866-1955)
Signed Lower Left
Unframed: 20" x 16"
Framed: 33.25" x 27.25"
Born near Falling Waters, West Virginia on a plantation a year after the Civil War, and raised in Baltimore, William Leigh became one of the foremost painters of the American West with a career of seventy-five years. Some people referred to him as the "Sagebrush Rembrandt".
He was the son of impoverished Southern aristocrats and took his first art training at age 14 from Hugh Newell (1830-1915) at the Maryland Institute where he was regarded as one of the best students in his class. From 1883 to 1895, he studied in Europe, mainly at the Royal Academy in Munich with Ludwig Loefftz. From 1891 to 1896, he painted six cycloramas or murals in the round, a giant German panorama.
In 1896, he began working as a magazine illustrator in New York City for Scribner's and Collier's Weekly Magazine, and he also painted portraits, landscapes, and genre scenes. However, he was not a very successful artist in those years in New York.
Trips to the Southwest began in 1906 when he made an agreement with William Simpson, Santa Fe Railway advertising manager, to paint the Grand Canyon in exchange for free transportation West. In 1907, he completed his Grand Canyon painting...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Price Upon Request
Mr. Lucky
By Fidan Kim
Located in West Hollywood, CA
It is with great pride that we present a recently completed oil painting by Azerbaijani artist, Fidan Kim.
Ms. Kim is a classically trained painter whose paintings evoke the surreal nature of life as seen through the feminine perspective.
"My Lucky", is surrounded by adoring beautiful women. He knows what a lucky fellow he is, but they do not need to know that.
This is an original pen and ink, signed, executed in 2020, and has just arrived at our West Hollywood gallery...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Price Upon Request
Caesar Provoked
Located in Missouri, MO
Alessandro Pigna (Italian, 1862-1919)
"Caesar Provoked" c. 1890
Watercolor
Signed Lower Left "APigna"
Site Size: approx. 18 x 28.5 inches
Framed Size: approx. 24 x 34.5 inches
Ales...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Price Upon Request
Goliathus Rorschachi 3
By Lindsey Meyers Carroll
Located in Kansas City, MO
Artist : Lindsey Meyers Carroll
Title : Goliathus Rorschachi 3
Materials : Charcoal, ink, chalk and gouache on paper.
Date : 2017
Dimensions : 16 x 18 in.
Lindsey Meyers Carroll is a contemporary artist working in magic realism through large-scale charcoal drawings. She received her BA in Fine Arts and Spanish Literature from the University of Montana in Missoula in 2008. Exhibitions include the Art Spirit in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Brink Gallery in Missoula, Montana and Turman Larison Contemporary in Helena, Montana. Carroll is a recipient of the Grants to Artist Award from the Myrna Loy Center.
Figurative,
Animal Drawings,
Animal Paintings,
Insect Drawings...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Ink, Gouache
Price Upon Request
The Village Market
Located in Missouri, MO
Jacob (Yaacov) Eisenscher
"The Village Market" 1947
Gouache/Watercolor on Paper
Signed and Dated Lower Left
Image Size: approx 18 x 12.5
Framed Size: approx 27 1/8 x 22 1/4 inches
...
Category
1940s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Price Upon Request
Lillies
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a magnificent early watercolor by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010.)
Lillies, is an original watercolor on paper, signed, painted in 1936, currently unframed with an image dimension of 10.5 x 15 inches, excellent original condition, acquired directly from the personal collection of the artist.
Please contact our West Hollywood gallery...
Category
1930s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Price Upon Request
Western Panorama with Sculpture of Native American Warrior
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Oil on two joined canvases
Signed and dated, l.c.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt Lake City, now lives in New York C...
Category
1980s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Roseata Spoonbill Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Wonderful realist painting depicting four roseata spoonbills by renowned artist Oris Robertson. Painting was made with acrylic paint and has a nice light colored background.
Artist...
Category
20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Carriage Ride in the Park
Located in Missouri, MO
Constantin Guys (1802-1892)
"Carriage Ride in the Park" c. 1860s
Ink and Wash on Paper
Original Labels Verso
Site Size: approx. 8 x 11.5 inches
Framed S...
Category
1860s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Self-Portrait
By Sean Keating
Located in Missouri, MO
Sean Keating (Irish 1889-1977)
"Self Portrait" c. 1950s
Charcoal on Paper
Signed Lower Right
Framed Size: approx 20 x 16 inches
A noted portrait and figure painter, influenced by both Romanticism and Realism, Sean Keating was an Irish nationalist painter who executed several iconic images of the Irish Civil war era, and of the ensuing period of industrialization. One of the great exemplars of representational painting in Ireland, Keating was an intellectual artist in that he set out to depict the birth and development of the Republic of Ireland, and his pictures are deliberately idealized even heroic. However, he held very conservative views about art - verging on the academic style - and was a committed defender of traditional Irish painting, considering much modern art to be bogus.
Born in Limerick, Sean Keating studied drawing at the Limerick Technical School before winning a scholarship, arranged for him by William Orpen, to study fine art painting at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin. In 1914 he won the Taylor Scholarship and the following year exhibited three paintings at the Royal Hibernian Academy.
Over the next period of years he spent time on the Aran Islands off County Galway, and then in London. He returned to Ireland in 1916 and painted the war of independence and the subsequent civil war. Works he completed at this time include the painting: Men of the South (1921) depicting a group of IRA men about to stage a military ambush, and An Allegory (c. 1922) which features a cluster of figures representing the fractures in the young Irish state.
Meantime, in 1919, Keating was appointed an assistant teacher at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. Then in 1921, he staged his first one-man show at The Hall, Leinster Street. In 1923, he was elected to the Royal Hibernian Academy.
In a Dublin exhibition of Irish art held in 1924, Keating was awarded the gold medal for his picture Homage to Hugh Lane - now hanging in the Hugh Lane Gallery. In the late 1920s, Keating was commissioned to record the building of the hydro-electric power generator at Ardnacrusha, near Limerick. He painted a number of paintings of this scheme. Not unlike the Soviet Realism School of painting, these paintings sought to promote the construction work as an achievement of heroic proportions.
Keating's works began to attract interest abroad. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in London and, in 1930, he held a one-man show at the Hackett Gallery, New York. In 1931 Keating's one-person exhibition was staged at the Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin. In 1934 he was made professor of the National College of Art in Dublin, and Professor of Painting, three years later. His 1937 exhibition at the Victor Waddington Galleries attracted considerable interest. In 1939, he was asked to paint a wall-painting for the Irish pavilion at the New York World Fair and duly created a huge mural of fifty-four panels. He was President of the Royal Hibernian Academy from 1949 to 1962, exhibiting nearly 300 works during the period. In 1963, a retrospective exhibition was staged at the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, which was opened by Irish President de Valera...
Category
1950s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Price Upon Request
The Flirtation
By Allesandro Battaglia
Located in Missouri, MO
Allesandro Battaglia (1870-1940, Italian)
"The Flirtation" 1906
Watercolor on Paper
Signed "A. Battaglia, Roma 1906"
Site Size: 30 x 20 inches
Framed Size: approx 41 x 33 inches
Son of Clelia Bompiani and Ercole Battaglia, he was trained by his grandfather Roberto Bompiani...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Price Upon Request
Realist drawings and watercolor paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Realist drawings and watercolor paintings 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 drawings and watercolor paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple, green and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Victor Roschkov, Carl August Walther, Gustave Poetzsch, and Frank Girard. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Watercolor 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 drawings and watercolor paintings, so small editions measuring 0.1 inches across are also available. Prices for drawings and watercolor paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $61 and tops out at $985,000, while the average work sells for $899.