Realist Figurative 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
Chinese Contemporary Art by Su Yu - Flowers are Crying
By Su Yu
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Su Yu is a Chinese artist born in 1987 who lives & works in Beijing in China. He was an old student of prestigious art teachers as Shi Liang & Chen Danqing at Oil Pain...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$36,000 Sale Price
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"Still Life with Pet Coke" – Oil Painting of Rocks, Bird Skeleton, Gas Station
By Brad Davis
Located in Denver, CO
Brad Davis’s "Still Life with Pet Coke", a 2025 oil painting on wood panel, is a hauntingly atmospheric composition that blurs the line between classical still life and contemporary ...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
InPublic: Reading .304
By Scott Duce
Located in Greenwich, CT
Signed verso
American, b. 1956
Scott Duce is an international artist working in New York. Duce’s work is included in many corporate, museum, and private collections. Notable collec...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"The Whispers in the Shadows, " Oil on Canvas
By Bruno Surdo
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago-based fine art painter Bruno A. Surdo is classically trained in drawing and oil painting in the tradition of Renaissance masters. With strong command of the human form, Surdo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
“Bruyères en fleurs” 1949, 20th Century oil on canvas by William Didier-Pouget
Located in Madrid, ES
WILLIAM DIDIER - POUGET
French, 1864 - 1959
BRUYÈRES EN FLEURS
signed and dated “Didier-Pouget / 1949” (lower right)
inscribed, located and signed ““Le Malin dans la vallée du Lot.”...
Category
1940s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Luster" (2024) Oil Painting by Karen Offutt, Female Portrait
By Karen Offutt
Located in Denver, CO
Karen Offutt's (US based) "Luster" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a portrait of a woman on an abstracted background. The painting is framed, with overall dimensio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$1,975 Sale Price
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German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Wacholderwald und Heide, Schmarbeck
Located in Paris, IDF
Egg tempera on canvas, Shadow joint frame
Frank Suplie is a German artist born in 1950 lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Painters Association of the North Ge...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Canvas
$14,560 Sale Price
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"Liusana" Figurative Portrait Oil Painting 59" x 47" inch by Dmitriy Krestniy
Located in Culver City, CA
"Liusana" Figurative Portrait Oil Painting 59" x 47" inch by Dmitriy Krestniy
ATTENTION: Painting ships rolled in a tube.
A look through Dmitriy’s d...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Plastic Figure 7" Oil Painting
By Jason Walker
Located in Denver, CO
Jason Walker's (CAN based) "Plastic Figure 7" is an oil painting that depicts a lone red plastic Native American figure toy aiming his bow and arrow into the darkness.
Group photo...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Sag Harbor Cinema Under Construction" Oil painting rebuild of local landmark
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Oil painting of the Sag Harbor Cinema being rebuilt. Painted en plein air during the Summer of 2019, Tina Orsolic Dalessio found herself captivated b...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Walking in the night, the magic of Tokio
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this painting, I've captured the mesmerizing allure of city lights, contrasting vibrantly against the contemplative solitude of a lone figure immersed in the night. Utilizing the...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Blue Wood - Oil Acrylic Figurative Painting Ivory Blue White Brown Green
Located in Sofia, BG
" The blue wood " is a modern art line painting by Maestro Dimitar Voynov -Junior,
About the artwork:
TECHNIQUE: Acrylic, oil on canvas painting
STYLE: Realistic, Contemporary
E...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chinese Contemporary Art by Su Yu - The Girl
By Su Yu
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Su Yu is a Chinese artist born in 1987 who lives & works in Beijing in China. He was an old student of prestigious art teachers as Shi Liang & Chen Danqing at Oil Pain...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$12,800 Sale Price
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"Rainbow Six Pack 3" Oil Painting
By Jason Walker
Located in Denver, CO
Jason Walker's (CAN based) "Rainbow Six Pack 3" is an oil painting that depicts a half dozen donuts glazed in yellow, orange, red, green, blue, and purple all packed together.
**Pl...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Shelter "oil on canvas. 47"x44" Cuban Artist Refuge in the American flag Life
Located in Houston, TX
"Shelter" 47" x 44" oil on canvas
Young girl wrapped in the American flag on her back, takes shelter, shelters herself, takes refuge in the American flag. The sea is her space fo...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Opus One Wine (original painting)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original oil painting on canvas. Hand signed on front by Thomas Stiltz. Canvas size 36 x 24 inches. Frame size approx 43 x 31 inches.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Frame has...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$3,375 Sale Price
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"Dante", painting by Peter Hoffer (44x20'), 2019
By Peter Hoffer
Located in Paris, France
"Dante", oil painting of a tree by Peter Hoffer.
Peter Hoffer is a Canadian artist who has enjoyed a successful career in Northern America.
Peter Hoffer portrays trees. He invites t...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Wood, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Board
Lady of the Lake, 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Lady of the Lake is an oil on panel painting, 23.5 xx 25.5" panel size, signed ‘HOFMANN’ lower right, and framed in a custom, contemporary, gold-leaf frame.
Douglas Hofmann’s works ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Eva 90x70 cm, oil/canvas, 2007
By Igor Maikov
Located in Riga, LV
Igor Maikov (1966)
Education:
1981 - 1984 The Art Academy of Latvia
1973 - 1983 Salaspils Primary and Secondary School
Exhibitions:
1994 - Group Exhibition «Rol-Art», Latvia
...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Mirror" " Espejo" 47x40 inch Female Figure Anatomy Cuban Artist oil canvas
Located in Houston, TX
Mirror 47" x 40" Oil on Canvas Cuban Artist Figurative Art
A young girl hides her gaze from us, the white sheet covers her anatomy, it is an eroticism translated into coldness, the d...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Ready to Roll" (2022) By Timothy J. Standring, Original Still-Life Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Though small in scale, Timothy James Standring’s oils and watercolors pierce the assumed poetics both media aspire to express. Over the past decade, Standring has brought a gimlet-ey...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Oil
The Cardinal's Visit
Located in Madrid, ES
SALVADOR SÁNCHEZ BARBUDO
Spanish, 1857 - 1917
THE CARDINAL'S VISIT
signed, located and dated "Barbudo / ROMA 1902" (lower right)
oil on canvas
22 x 33-2/3 inches (55.5 x 85.5 cm.)
framed: 36-1/2 x 48-1/4 inches (92.5 x 122.5 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Munich
LITERATURE
Visita con el cardenal combines the two most salient characteristics of Sánchez-Barbudo's work: the search for novelty of theme and narrative content, and the use of minutely detailed brushwork and luminosity. Sánchez-Barbudo specialised in elaborate 'costume pictures', delighting the viewer with impressive details finely rendered with dazzling technical virtuosity.
Here, Sánchez-Barbudo depicts a well-to-do bourgeois family receiving a cardinal in their home. The interior, sumptuously furnished in the rococo style, along with the rich costumes and fabrics, are beautifully observed. Yet beyond the high technique lavished upon the composition, the treatment is comic and full of character and suffused with a gently satirising anti-clericalism.
The cardinal, far from getting the attention he expects, is, literally, sidelined, his expression and body language showing his pique. There is no doubt that contemporary collectors and spectators took pleasure in the sight of noble self-respecting figureheads of the church being brought back down to earth. The comedy was appealing, and the message suited the prevailing political mood of an increasingly secular middle-class buying public.
Salvador Sánchez Barbudo was born on March 14, 1857 in Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz). He was one of the most important Spanish artists of the "casacón" genre, who followed the Fortuny tradition in Rome. During his childhood he was under the protection of the Marquis del Castillo and in 1875 he moved to Seville where he attended the School of Fine Arts, becoming a disciple of José Villegas...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Busy Venetian Harbor Scene Italian Seascape Oil Painting
Located in Rochester, NY
Venetian harbor scene with St Marks in the background oil on oak panel. Exceptional quality. Signed illegibly lower left. From an old Philadelphia collection.
...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Grace, 2011
Located in Greenwich, CT
Grace is an oil on Masonite painting, 32 x 25" panel size, signed ‘HOFMANN’ lower right and framed in a custom, closed-corner, baroque-style frame.
Douglas Hofmann’s works have been...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Zaeli" (2024) Oil Painting by Karen Offutt, Female Portrait
By Karen Offutt
Located in Denver, CO
Karen Offutt's (US based) "Zaeli" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a female bathed in light with oversized white and pink blooms surrounding her. The painting is fr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Fernand Adriaenssens, Antwerp 1859 – 1944, Belgian Painter, Still Life with Book
Located in Knokke, BE
Adriaenssens Fernand
Antwerp 1859 – 1944
Belgian Painter
Still Life with Books
Signature: Signed bottom middle left, on revers signed and placed
...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shadows Across the Land, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Shadows Across the Land" by Seth Winegar (United States) is a handmade landscape painting that is framed and ready to hang.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$4,080 Sale Price
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Julius Kronberg’s Angelica – A Romantic Heroine of Renaissance Legend
Located in Stockholm, SE
Literary Origins of Angelica
The subject of this painting is Angelica, a princess from the epic chivalric romances of the Italian Renaissance. She first appears in Matteo Maria Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato (1483) and reappears famously in Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso (1532). In these poems – part of the Matter of France cycle of Charlemagne and his paladins – Angelica’s extraordinary beauty ensnares many knights, including Orlando (Roland) and his cousin Rinaldo, sparking rivalries and adventures. Ariosto’s narrative particularly highlights Angelica’s tumultuous journey: at one point she is stripped and chained to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea monster (a scene mirroring the myth of Andromeda) before being dramatically rescued by the valiant knight Ruggiero on his winged horse. Ultimately, however, Angelica chooses her own destiny. She falls in love with a humble Saracen soldier, Medoro, whom she nurses back to health, and she returns with him to her far-off Asian kingdom – an affair that drives the heartbroken Orlando to madness. This independent resolution (marrying outside the circle of Christian knights) made Angelica an emblem of feminine agency and romantic idealism in Renaissance literature. Her story remained popular in art and literature through the centuries, symbolizing the allure and elusiveness of love.
Kronberg’s Portrayal and Composition
In Julius Kronberg...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Farmhouse by a River in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Farmhouse by a River in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist, Peter J Greenhill
Art measures 30 x 20 inches
Frame measures 35 x 2...
Category
20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"ARROZAL DE LA MARISMA". Contemporary, realism, figurative, oil, landscape
Located in MADRID, ES
Contemporary, realism, figurative, oil, landscapa, waterscape, pastel colors
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
"Time lift"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
A staircase is usually considered to be a simbol of the spiritual path to self-knowledge and deep meanings of existence.But travelling in aloft, you never know what awaits you when t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Campo de maiz". Contemporary, realism, figurative, oil, landscape, waterscape
Located in MADRID, ES
Contemporary, realism, figurative, oil, landscapa, waterscape, pastel colors
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Gathering Hops, British Realist, William A. Witherington, Genre, Figural
Located in Wiscasset, ME
William Frederick Witherington was born in London in 1785. In 1805, he began his studies at the Royal Academy Schools. He first exhibited at the British Institution in 1808, and at the Royal Academy in 1811, where he continued to exhibit almost every year. He also exhibited for several years at the Birmingham Society of Arts. He travelled around England painting views of rural life in Devon, Kent, Wales and the Lake District. During the 18th and 19th centuries the hop gardens of Kent, Sussex and Surrey provided artists with a rich source of subject matter. The picking season was the English equivalent of the French and Italian grape...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Daenerys morning
Located in Zofingen, AG
Once upon a time, a wonderful girl posed for Evgeniy, outwardly very similar to the well-known blonde from Game of Thrones. Almost a doppelganger of her fairy-tale sister .. And then...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Tempera, Wood Panel
"Convergence of Peppers and Beets" (2022) By Timothy J. Standring, Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Though small in scale, Timothy James Standring’s oils and watercolors pierce the assumed poetics both media aspire to express. Over the past decade, Standring has brought a gimlet-ey...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Oil
'All over the shop'
Located in Paris, FR
Ray Richardson is a contemporary British artist known for his cinematic paintings. The artist employs icons of working-class London, including bull terriers, soccer pitches, and grit...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Hide n seek Home Scene w Grandma Russian early 20th Century Oil Genre Painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
Signed on the bottom right is "J. Braze", Osip Emmanuilovich Braz (1873 - 1936), renowned as a Russian-Jewish realist painter. As the scene unfolds on the canvas, we witness the gran...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Olde World Charm, Original Oil Painting
By Deb Komitor
Located in Denver, CO
"Olde World Charm" by Deb Komitor (United States) is a handmade landscape oil painting that is ready to hang.
Deb Komitor was born and raised in Ohio and now resides in Colorado Sp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Act. Oil on canvas, 58x69 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Act. Oil on canvas, 58x69 cm
Victor Karnaukh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer, graduate of Latvia...
Category
1990s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Confab
Located in Fort Washington, PA
This charming scene of four boys sitting on a bench having a conversation is typical of the sentimentalized portrayals of street urchins that John George Brown...
Category
1880s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
"Meditation" Dutch Woman Sewing Interior Genre Home scene Fruit Flowers on Table
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Bernard de Hoog was born in Amsterdam in 1866. He studied under J.F. Hulk and J.C. van Essen at the Quellinus School in Amsterdam. Mainly a genre and portrait painter, he occupies a distinguished place among the masters of Dutch modernism. He was associated with The Hague School, primarily a movement of realism, a reaction against Romanticism. He lived and worked in Laren, Haarlem, Bussum, and The Hague enjoying much commercial success. His paintings were readily exported to the United State, Canada, and England.
De Hoog advocated the simple country life and produced many endearing interior scenes inspired by compassion for the impoverished existence of the Dutch peasantry. Set within a quiet domestic interior space, our painting catches a meditative moment of a woman in the midst of her sewing. A large window illuminates this intimate interior. de Hoog’s delicate brushwork captures the sunlight reflected in the woman’s red dress...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil on Canvas Titled "Catch of the Day”
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Carlos Antonio Rancaño was born in Miami, FL. from Cuban/Panamanian parents. After graduating Cum Laude from MIU with a Bachelors Degree in Grap...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Presque Isle (Day 121), June 23, 2024" by Primary Hughes, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Presque Isle (Day 121), June 23, 2024" by Primary Hughes (United States) is a handmade landscape painting that is created on location or en plein air. The piece is framed, and ready...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hurdy-gurdy with Peony and Fruit - 21st Century Classic Style Dutch Still-Life
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Cornelis le Mair (Netherlands, Eindhoven, July 3rd 1944) is a Dutch painter.
This Classic painter is famous because of his 17th century paintings. You can see him in his house on o...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Painting (After Rubens)
Located in Natchez, MS
This oil on canvas painting exemplifies the skill inherent in all of Girbent's work. The work, "Painting (After Rubens), is in fact a painting in the sty...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rare Catherine Koenig Nude Female Artist American Trompe L'oeil Pastel Pink
Located in Buffalo, NY
A Modern realist “trompe l’oeil” egg tempera painting by American female artist Catherine Catanzaro Koenig depicting a painting of a nude held up by masking tape. Koenig inspired by Magritte, creates captivating works that delight the eye.
Catherine C. Koenig was born Caterina Catanzaro in 1921 and grew up on the West side of Buffalo, NY. She graduated from Lafayette High School Buffalo in 1939. She exhibited a talent for drawing and painting early on and attended Albright Art School, where she graduated with an Associate's Degree in 1942.
Her professional career as an artist began in the 1940s when she started to exhibit her work. From 1946-1956, she taught drawing and painting at the Art Institute of Buffalo. She married Buffalo artist...
Category
1980s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Tempera, Egg Tempera, Board
"Emancipation of Space" Figurative Oil Painting 59" x 47" in by Dmitriy Krestniy
Located in Culver City, CA
"Emancipation of Space" Figurative Oil Painting 59" x 47" in by Dmitriy Krestniy
ATTENTION: Painting ships rolled in a tube.
A look through Dmitriy’s designs reveals a glamorous, f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Afternoon Cala Molto", Oil on canvas of underwater swimmers, cool tones
Located in Dallas, TX
"Afternoon Cala Molto" is a stunning oil on canvas by Patsy McArthur, showing a couple underwater swimmere surrounded by refreshing, cool turquoise green water and stunning reflectio...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
$6,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Olaf Schneider, "Tiny Dancer", 16x10 Ballet Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
"Tiny Dancer" by Olaf Schneider is a 16"x10" oil painting on canvas. This life-like painting depicts a brunette ballerina dancer in pose, dressed in blue with a white hair piece tyi...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary portrait "Stop!"
Located in Zofingen, AG
I capture a mesmerizing blend of solitude and defiance, set against a sprawling, desolate backdrop that poses the timeless question of direction in life’s journey. The stark contra...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Marie Channer, "Leap of Faith", 24x16 Ballet Dancer Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Leap of Faith", is a 24x16 oil painting on canvas by artist Marie Channer. Featured is a ballet dancer in the spotlight of the stage, caught in pose. Overall cool tones ...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Departure, 2020
By Edward Povey
Located in Atlanta, GA
1972-73 Eastbourne College for Art and Design: Fine Art Foundation Course: studies drawing.
Works through the South Coast Period of paintings. Studio: South Coast of England.
1974-81 University of Wales: studied painting under Welsh artist Selwyn Jones. Public and private commissions: twenty-five multistory murals in Wales and England: documented by the BBC and British National Newspapers. Studios: Bethesda and Bangor City, Wales. Studies composition and portraiture. Shows at the Royal Exchange, London; Bangor City Museum, Wales.
1981-82 Commission: The Trial of Saint Deiniol: 19-panel, 18 x 21 ft. painting. Studio: Shropshire, England
1982-86 The New York Times send photographer Dith Pran (on whom the movie The Killing Fields was based) to photograph Povey in New York with The Trial of Saint Deiniol painting at Art Expo New York 1986. Povey is advised by George Bush Senior’s former campaign manager Zena Temkin on shaping his public persona. The BBC film Edward Povey with former President of the Royal Academy of Art in London - Sir Hugh Casson KCVO, RA, RDI in which Sir Hugh interviews Povey about his art career. Public and private commissions for collections in the United States, London, Wales, Belgium, West Indies. Studies symbolism and trains in color with Jan de Maere in Brussels and works through the Tapestry Period of paintings Studio: Grenada, West Indies.
1987-91 Studies psychology and narrative in art whilst he builds the extensive Childhood, Illusion and Desire Period of paintings. Studio: Guisborough, England courtesy of the town mayor. Shows in Belgium, London, New York.
1992-93 Public commission: Hall of Illusion mural: 20 X 40 ft. interior oil painting in the Chamber Concert Hall of the University of Wales. The commission is followed by BBC Television, S4C Television; BBC Radio Four and regional and national newspapers. Studios: Guisborough, England; Bangor City, Wales. Designs the Hall of Illusion mural on the island of Grenada, West Indies.
1994-96 Deepens his studies in the relationship between art and the psyche. Researches new ways to evolve concepts with models using theaters...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Rainy Day
Located in Greenwich, CT
Rainy Day is an oil on panel painting, 22.12 x 46.31" panel size, signed ‘HOFMANN’ lower left and framed in a custom, contemporary, gold-leafed frame.
Dougl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Mom in Love" 19th Century Academic Realistic French Oil Painting on Canvas
By Emile Munier
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Émile Munier, a French academic artist born in 1840, was renowned for his exquisite depictions of children and domestic scenes during the late 19th century. "Mom in Love," a masterpi...
Category
19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Prisoner of Love" Figurative Oil Painting 47" x 47" inch by Dmitriy Krestniy
Located in Culver City, CA
"Prisoner of Love" Figurative Oil Painting 47" x 47" inch by Dmitriy Krestniy
2019
ATTENTION: Painting ships rolled in a tube.
A look through Dmitriy’s designs reveals a glamorous,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Citrus and Ginger" (2024) By Jeff Legg, Original Still Life Oil Painting
By Jeff Legg
Located in Denver, CO
Jeff Legg's (US based) "Citrus and Ginger" is an oil painting created in 2024 depicting a white and blue pot alongside a sliced orange, grapes and ginger.
About the artist:
Jeff C. ...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
An Interior of a Hunter, Franz Poledne, Vienna 1873 – 1932, Austrian Painter
Located in Knokke, BE
Poledne Franz
Vienna 1873 – 1932
Austrian Painter
'An Interior of a Hunter'
Signature: Signed bottom right
Medium: Aquarelle
Dimensions: Image size...
Category
19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Antique Painting, 19th Century, European Monogrammist, "The Emigration".
Located in Berlin, DE
Signed and dated.
Dimensions are without frame.
Including certificate of authenticity.
Frame has slight damage in places.
Category
19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$7,683 Sale Price
20% Off
Tears for Life - Oil Acrylic Figurative Painting Colors Black Ivory White Brown
Located in Sofia, BG
"Tears for life " is a modern art line painting by Maestro Dimitar Voynov -Junior,
About the artwork:
TECHNIQUE: Acrylic, oil on canvas painting
STY...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil Painting / Photorealism / Figurative Art / Human Figure /Museum
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is includ...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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