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
"Pozi Bales, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Samantha Buller's (US based) "Pozi Bales" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a stack of yellow hay bales.
Bio/artist statement:
Sama...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Composition with jars and fruit. Realistic Oil painting still-life Bright colors
Located in Segovia, ES
Composition with jars and fruit. Realistic Oil painting still-life Bright colors.
Oil on panel by Spanish artist Álvaro Toledo.
Measurements in centimeters: 44 x 71 x 1 cm / Framed...
Category
1990s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Rainy Day", Oil Painting
By Matt Talbert
Located in Denver, CO
Matt Talbert ( US based) "Rainy Day" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a brunette female model resting her hand against her face.
Artist bio/statement:
Matt Talber...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Portrait of "At Ease" by Emin Abbasov (b. 1950, Azerbaijan)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Native American "Portrait of a Jolly Man"
Emin Abbasov (b. 1950, Azerbaijan)
Oil on cardboard, signed
5 7/8 x 3 3/4 (17 x 15 frame) inches
Emin Abbasov ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
An Unlikely Pair by Ginny Williams Framed Still Life Oil on Canvas
Located in Atlanta, GA
We were immediately drawn to the thoughtfully painted work, the clever titles and the rich, deep hues. And when we got to know the artist, we were equally charmed by her delightful w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil Painting of Welsh Hamlet with Snowdon in the distance by 19th Century Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Original Oil Painting of Welsh Hamlet with Snowdon in the distance by 19th Century Artist, Robert Gallon (British, 1845–1925)
Art measures 18 x 12 inches
Frame measures 24 x 18 inc...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
"Even Fall" a fun oil of a race horse with his jockey falling at horse race
Located in Charleston, US
Scottish artist, David McEwen's oil painting, "Even Fall I" is a fun oil of a race horse with his jockey falling off at a horse race or steeplechase. McEwen is renown for being an e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
On the beach. 1976. Cardboard /mixed media. 50x59cm
Located in Riga, LV
On the beach. 1976. Cardboard /mixed media. 50x59cm
Marina landscape with beach, boats and people relaxing on the seashore.
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
Traders Came from the East by Ginny Williams Framed Still Life Oil on Canvas
Located in Atlanta, GA
We were immediately drawn to the thoughtfully painted work, the clever titles and the rich, deep hues. And when we got to know the artist, we were equally charmed by her delightful w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
An Interior of a Hunter, Franz Poledne, Vienna 1873 – 1932, Austrian Painter
Located in Bruges, BE
An Interior of a Hunter
Poledne Franz
Vienna 1873 – 1932
Austrian Painter
Signature: Signed bottom right
Medium: Aquarelle
Dimensions: Image size 2...
Category
19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Curves" figuratif nude oil on linen canvas 92x65cm 2009
Located in Roscoff, FR
"Curves" figuratif nude oil on linen canvas 92x65cm 2009
The flesh full of pleasure…
Category
Early 2000s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
''Blue Plums” Contemporary Fine Realist Still-Life Painting of Blue Plums
Located in Utrecht, NL
During his successful career as a goldsmith the desire to paint grew on Dutch artist René Smoorenburg (1954). The attention to detail, which was of great importance in his work as a ...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"The Barber of Seville", Early 20th Century Oil on Canvas by José Villegas
Located in Madrid, ES
JOSÉ VILLEGAS CORDERO
Spanish, 1844 - 1921
THE BARBER OF SEVILLE
signed & dated "J. Villegas. / Junio 1913." (lower left)
oil on canvas
19-3/8 x 28-3/4 inches (49 x 73 cm.)
framed: 27-1/2 x 36-3/4 inches (69.5 x 93 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private Collector, Seville, Spain
José Villegas Cordero (Seville, August 26, 1844-Madrid, November 9, 1921) was a Spanish painter. He directed the Prado Museum between 1901 and 1918.
He was the brother of the painter Ricardo Villegas Cordero. He began his apprenticeship very young with José María Romero, with whom he remained for two years until entering the School of Fine Arts in Seville, where he was under the tutelage of Eduardo Cano.
In 1860, when he was only 16 years old, he sold his work Little Philosophy for 2,000 reais at the Seville Exhibition. In 1867 he traveled to Madrid, where he entered Federico Madrazo's studio. There he established friendship with painters Eduardo Rosales and Fortuny.
He went regularly to the Prado where he copied Velázquez, from whom he acquired spontaneity and the use of color for his technique.
Finally, and out of admiration for Fortuny's orientalist painting, he returned to Seville and organized an excursion to Morocco.
At the end of 1868 he decided to travel to Rome accompanied by the painters Rafael Peralta and Luis Jiménez Aranda...
Category
1910s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Raspberry Greens" Oil Painting
By Robin Cole
Located in Denver, CO
Robin Cole's (Us based) "Raspberry Greens" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a small patch of foliage and leaves with contending light and shadows dotting their form...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Orange
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted from a sketch from life, a nude, female figure sits with an orange cloth draped around her shoulders. Ramiro places the figure on a pedestal, draped in white linens. The figure's back is revealed, curving sensually and naturally, hair pulled up in a bun to accentuate her form.
Signed: Angel Ramiro Sanchez in lower right corner
Angel Ramiro Sanchez was born in 1974 in Maracaibo, Venezuela. At age six was accepted with full scholarship into the Instituto the Niños Cantores del Zulia, school for musically gifted children. At age fourteen he began five years of apprenticeship with the realist painter, Abdon J. Romero, an eminent specialist in murals for churches and public buildings. In 1993, a study grant from Mgr. Gustavo Ocando Yamarte, Founder the Niños Cantores, enabled him to travel to Florence, Italy, where he studied at the renowned Accademia di Belle Arti, graduating Magna Cum Laude in 1997. At the same time, he was enrolled at The Florence Academy of Art,founded by painter Daniel Graves, where he received a diploma in Painting. Ramiro was appointed senior painting instructor at The Florence Academy of Art in 1997, and is currently Director of the Advanced Painting Program.
Ramiro paints only from life, searching for accuracy beyond physical appearance to reach the psychological state of his subject. He believes the painter must draw his information from "all five senses" to tell the complete human story.
Ramiros work is predominantly represented by th e Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor, New York, but also Scriba Gallery, venice, Italy, Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Tx.
Ramiros works can be found in numerous private collections in Europe, The United States and South America. Public collections include: The Fondazione Stelline, Milan, Italy. The Fremantle Foundation for Foreing Artist in Tuscany at Villa Peyron, Florence, Italy and The Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA. USA. He shares his life and passion for art with his wife, the artist Melissa Franklin-Sanchez.
Education
1993-1997 Florence Academy of Art, directed by Daniel Graves, Florence, Italy.
1993-1997 Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze Graduated Magna Cum Laude, Thesis: Historic and Technical Notes of Academic Realism Today.
1995 Florence, Italy: Michael John Angel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Carina
Located in Paris, FR
Jean-Gabriel Domergue
1889-1962 French
"Carina"
Oil on panel
Signed lower right
Painting : 28 3/4" high x 23 5/8" wide
Frame: 37 3/8" high x 32 1/4" wide
Jean-Gabriel Domerg...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Landscape Painting of Angling in Donegal Ireland by 20th Century Irish Artist
By Robert B Higgins
Located in Preston, GB
Landscape Painting of Angling in Donegal Ireland by 20th Century Irish Artist
Art measures 18 x 14 inches
Frame measures 29 x 25 inches
R. B. Higg...
Category
20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Hercules, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Claudia Griesbach-Martucci's "Hercules" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a black and white cat encircled with yellow roses.
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Lady @ Bar' Contemporary, Colorful, Night Scene, Oil/Canvas by Andrew Jackson
By Andrew Jackson
Located in Carmel, CA
'Lady in bar' oil on canvas by Andrew Jackson
Working Fine Artist since 1991, Andrew Jackson brings to the Outer Edge Studio, his 20 year experience of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary 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
German Wild Turkey Chicken Oil Painting Animal Farm Antique Von Wille 1868
Located in Buffalo, NY
An antique German animal painting by Clara Von Wille which features Wild Turkeys and chickens in a whimsical setting.
Original period frame.
Category
1860s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Realistic Acrylic Painting, "One Love"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original acrylic painting by San Diego artist Stefan Talian. Its dimensions are 40" x 40" x 1.5". It is unframed. A certificate of authenticity will follow de...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"A Good Read, Venice, " Watercolor, 19th c. Realist, Small, Richly Detailed
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Antonio Canella, born in 1849, was a Venetian painter who exhibited in Venice and Paris. He painted charming vignettes of street life in Venice and the...
Category
19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Harbour view. Oil on canvas. Signed.
Located in Paris, FR
Charles John de Lacy (1856 – 13 December 1929) was one of the foremost British marine artists of his period. He was especially known for his warship imagery an...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Afternoon. Workers with tractor by the river. Oil on canvas, 60, 5x78, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Afternoon. Oil on canvas, 60,5x78,5 cm
Work in the socialist realist manner. People workers and tractor by the river
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The North East Coast of England, Ralph Stubbs, Bridlington 1826 – 1879 Levisham
Located in Bruges, BE
The North East Coast of England
Stubbs Ralph
Bridlington 1826 – Levisham 1879
English Painter
Signature: Signed bottom right and dated 1861, verso stamp
Dimensions: Image size 58,5...
Category
19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Girl with a Lute
Located in Lawrence, NY
The well known and highly regarded landscape and figure painter Nicolai S. Cikovsky was born in Russia in 1894. He studied at the Vilna Art School, 1910-1914; the Penza Royal Art School, 1914-1918; and Moscow High Tech Art Institute, 1921-1923. Thus he came of age during a period of momentous cultural, political, and social upheaval.
In the aftermath of the civil war, he left Russia and emigrated to the United States in 1923, exhibiting in that year in New York City at the Charles Daniels Gallery and, in the early 1930s, the Downtown Gallery and the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1942, Cikovsky began spending summers on Long Island, New York, in the North Sea area, where he moved permanently in the late 1970s.
Best known for his plein air landscapes of bucolic Hampton Bays, NY and figurative works, Cikovsky was lauded for his ability to infuse his art with feeling, capturing the spirit of a place. In Long Island he was one of the Hampton Bay Group of artists.The informally noted leader of the group was dramatic and acclaimed Blaue Reiter,Futurist- Expressionist fellow Russian artist David D. Burliuk. Emigre artists who would later be involved in the group came to America around the same time but under different circumstances. Burliuk and Cikovsky left an unhospitable Bolshevik Russia following Worl War II , arriving here in 1922 & 1923, respectively. The Soyer twins, Moses and Raphael, arrived as youngsters in 1912, fleeing Tsarist anti-Jewish persecution. John Graham (b. Ivan Dombrovski) and Arshile Gorky (formerly Vosdanig Adoian) arrived in 1920 in search of a place to make a living as artists. George Constant arrived from Greece in 1910 seeking an art education. Once in New York, these artists sought out places to exhibit their work. Ultimately, the downtown Manhattan gallery scene united them with many other artists emigre artists.
Cikovsky was a member of New York City institutions, including the National Academy of Design (Associate 1968; Academician 1970); National Institute of Arts and Letters; and Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Cikovsky’s works were exhibited & won prizes in the most important exhibitions of the day, including the Brooklyn Museum's 1926 International Exhibition of Modern Art, the National Academy of Design & Art Institute of Chicago annuals, and at the NY World’s Fair...
Category
1940s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Gerberas - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Realistic Little Girl Portrait
By Kamil Lisek
Located in Salzburg, AT
KAMIL LISEK (born in 1980) Studied under the guidance of prof. Maciej Świeszewski at the faculty of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. He graduated with distinction obta...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen, Canvas
"Showtime", Oil Painting
By Matt Talbert
Located in Denver, CO
Matt Talbert ( US based) "Showtime" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a brunette female model.
Artist bio/statement:
Matt Talbert is a contemporary oil painter liv...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen, Panel
'In the Window' by Pauline Palmer - 1928 Young Girl Figurative Oil Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Pauline Palmer 1867–1938
Still, arguably the best-known Chicago woman artist of her time, Pauline Lennards (or Lennard) Palmer was born in McHenry, Illinois, attended school in Milwaukee and taught art in Chicago public schools.
Her marriage in 1891 to prosperous Chicago physician Albert Palmer enabled her to have a full-time career as an artist. Palmer studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and began exhibiting there in 1896; she completed her formal training with three years of study in art academies in Paris. On her return to Chicago in 1902, Palmer opened a portrait studio and she quickly established herself as a fixture in the city’s art world. She exhibited regularly in the Art Institute’s three annual exhibitions and in important national and international exhibitions, notably the prestigious Paris Salon. At the Art Institute, she won numerous prizes. Her first solo exhibition was held there in 1913 at the same time as the famous so-called Armory Show of modernist art.
In 1917, Palmer joined the influential artists’ community in the Tree Studios building on Chicago’s Near North Side. A leader among local artists, she was the first woman to serve as president of the Chicago Society of Artists, between 1918 and 1921, and she led the Association of Chicago Painters and Sculptors from 1929 to 1931. Palmer and her husband traveled widely, making several visits to Europe. In 1910 she worked in Giverny, France, an international center of impressionist practice where she absorbed the influence of American figural painter Richard Emil Miller...
Category
20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Street of Shadows - Finding the Light 2
Located in Denver, CO
"Street of Shadows - Finding the Light 2," is an original oil painting on 5 acrylic panels by Michelle Jader. It is framed and ready-to-hang.
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Partida de Tresillo", Late 19th Century Oil on Canvas by José Jiménez Aranda
Located in Madrid, ES
JOSÉ JIMÉNEZ ARANDA
Spanish, 1837 - 1903
PARTIDA DE TRESILLO
signed, located & dated “J. Aranda / Madrid. 1893.” (lower right)
oil on canvas
31-1/2 x 39-1/3 inches (80 x 100 cm)
framed: 40-1/3 x 48 inches (102.5 x 122 cm.)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- This picture being mentioned and illustrated in “LA ILUSTRACION ESPAÑOLA Y AMERICANA”, Madrid, September 15, 1895
- José Jiménez Aranda, 1837-1903: Centro Cultural El Monte, Seville, October 2005, illustrated p. 102
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, USA
José Jiménez Aranda (7 February 1837 – 6 May 1903) was a Spanish painter and brother of the painters Luis Jiménez...
Category
1890s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Native American "Portrait of a Jolly Man" -Emin Abbasov (b. 1950, Azerbaijan)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Native American "Portrait of a Jolly Man"
Emin Abbasov (b. 1950, Azerbaijan)
Oil on cardboard, signed
5 7/8 x 3 3/4 (17 1/2 x 15 1/2 frame) inches
Emin ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
"Feed, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Samantha Buller's (US based) "Feed" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a stack of yellow hay bales.
Bio/artist statement:
Samantha Buller currently lives in Sonoma...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Strang Lake
By Thelma Appel
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel Strang Lake, 2010
Oil on Canvas painting
Hand signed, dated and titled on the back
Held in original artist frame
30.5 inches (vertical) x 40.5 inches (horizontal) x 1.5 ...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Clutch for Keys - Realistic Illustration by Michael Eggleston
Located in Soquel, CA
Highly detailed drawing by Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th Century). A wallet with keyring attachments sits on a surface. The wallet is made of folded, stitched leather, su...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Two Men on Ropes
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Signed in black, l.l.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Price includes framing.
“Bruce Sargeant is a mythic figure in the modern art move...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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"Gallo" Oil Painting
By Jill Soukup
Located in Denver, CO
Jill Soukup's "Gallo" is an original, handmade oil painting.
About the artist:
Jill Soukup was born in Buffalo, New York. Shortly thereafter, her family moved to Colorado, where sh...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Before the Walls of Jerusalem", 19th Century Oil on Canvas by José Villegas
Located in Madrid, ES
JOSÉ VILLEGAS CORDERO
Spanish, 1844 - 1921
BEFORE THE WALLS OF JERUSALEM
signed "Villegas" (lower left)
oil on canvas
12-1/4 x 17-1/4 inches (31.1 x 43.7 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private Collector, Seville, Spain
José Villegas Cordero (Seville, August 26, 1844-Madrid, November 9, 1921) was a Spanish painter. He directed the Prado Museum between 1901 and 1918.
He was the brother of the painter Ricardo Villegas Cordero. He began his apprenticeship very young with José María Romero, with whom he remained for two years until entering the School of Fine Arts in Seville, where he was under the tutelage of Eduardo Cano.
In 1860, when he was only 16 years old, he sold his work Little Philosophy for 2,000 reais at the Seville Exhibition. In 1867 he traveled to Madrid, where he entered Federico Madrazo's studio. There he established friendship with painters Eduardo Rosales and Fortuny.
He went regularly to the Prado where he copied Velázquez, from whom he acquired spontaneity and the use of color for his technique.
Finally, and out of admiration for Fortuny's orientalist painting, he returned to Seville and organized an excursion to Morocco.
At the end of 1868 he decided to travel to Rome accompanied by the painters Rafael Peralta and Luis Jiménez Aranda...
Category
1880s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early Mid Century Modern Self Portrait by renowned Abstract Expressionist
By Ron Gorchov
Located in New York, NY
Ron Gorchov
Historic Self Portrait, 1955-1959
Oil painting on board
Hand signed in paint on the upper recto and dated 1955-9
Frame included: held in original vintage artist's frame
This work was exhibited at the Sager Reeves Gallery in Columbia, Missouri in their Masters Exhibit in December, 2022, and is reproduced as a full page in their exhibition catalogue. A copy of this catalogue accompanies the artwork.
In 2019, the year before Ron Gorchov passed away, Stephen Truax, director of Cheim & Read, his then gallery, passed along details of this extraordinary painting to Gorchov's studio to be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonne. When shown the work, Gorchov remembered it well, but was amazed that the painting was still in existence after so many years. This historic early self-portrait, done over a period of four years, from 1955-1959, starting when he was only 25 years old reveals Gorchov's distinctive and sophisticated sense of color and form. This is one of the artist's earliest works, and very few works by Gorchov from this era ever appear on the market or are known to remain in existence. It should be in any museum or career retrospective. This work was gifted by the artist to Elthea Rembrandt Peale...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Dive into the sea" Mediterranean, swimming, Sea, Green, Oil cm. 40 x 40
Located in Torino, IT
Water,Swimmer,Yellow,Green,Summer,sea
Birgitte LYKKE MADSEN (Odense, Denmark, 1960)
1981-86, Educated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Odense
First solo exhibition in 1983
Artist statement:
“I am a painter. I am fascinated by the difference in cold and warm colors and the different atmospheres that it creates in our mind. My hereby presented oil paintings are describing people in water...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Within The Snow, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Samantha Buller's (US based) "Within The Snow" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a white house surrounded with a fresh snow fall.
Bio/artist statement:
Samantha B...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Thrum of the Forge" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
David Cheifetz's "Thrum of the Forge" is an oil painting depicting a city avenue lined with buildings and cars as a surreal red evening colors the sky overhead.
Bio/artist statement...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Play it on the B side by Noland Anderson, Vibrant Black Jazz Trumpeter
Located in Charelston, SC
Noland Anderson is a self taught portrait artist who strives to create works of art that are a celebration of people of color. He is known for his deta...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Deep Red Apple and Yellow Banana diptych
Located in Deddington, GB
Deep Red Apple and Yellow Banana diptych
Overall size cm : H66x W66
Deep Red Apple by Dani Humberstone [2021]
original
Oil paint on canvas
Image size: H:15 cm x W:15 cm
Complete Si...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Soldier Shooting Gun with Bikini Girls, Mid-Century Mens Magazine War
Located in Miami, FL
The artist tells a whole action-packed story in one picture. A handsome young soldier shoots his pistol at a passing bomb-dropping airplane. The close call splashes water on him and his two sexy girl...
Category
1960s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache, Pencil
Book Dealers. Oil on canvas, 88x115 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Book Dealers. Oil on canvas, 88x115 cm
Size with frame 113x142 cm
Alfredo Palmero De Gregorio / Maestro Palmero / Alfredo PALMERO (1901-1991)
Alfred...
Category
1960s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Still-Life with Nautulus Cup and Chinese Bowl with Pumpkin, by Cornelis le Mair
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
Enfants et les oies - Realist Oil, Figures & Geese in Landscape by Paul Druard
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
A beautiful and charming oil on panel circa 1890 by French realist painter Paul Druard. The work is a depiction of farm life. A mother is seated on the grass with a daughter seated t...
Category
1890s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
European Cityscape #1
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "European Cityscape" c. 1990 is a oil painting on hard board by Argentinian artist Henry D. Ramirez. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The hard board ...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Sitting" figuratif nude acrylic on linen canvas 60x60cm 2010
Located in Roscoff, FR
figuratif "Sitting" acrylic on linen canvas 60x60cm nude 2010
the beauty of the body in opposition to violence.
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Classic Racing Yachts on the Solent, Fine British Marine Signed Oil Painting
By George Drury
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Britannia & Lulworth Racing on the Solent
by George Drury (British b. 1950)
signed lower corner, titled verso
oil painting on board, framed
framed size: 22 x 32 inches
condition: excellent
provenance: private collection, England
A very fine marine oil painting depicting this classic yachts...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hamilton Beach
By Joseph Lomoff
Located in Lawrence, NY
Russian-American artist Lomoff is best known for his highly colored Social Realist works. This particular work was reviewed by the NYT in 1937. Edward Alden...
Category
1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Figure of a Boy Walking, Ancel Nunn, Egg Tempera Realism
By Ancel Nunn
Located in New York, NY
Ancel E. Nunn (1928 - 1999)
Figure of a Boy Walking, 1970
Egg tempera on board
20 x 16 inches
Signed and dated lower right
Provenance:
Private Collection, Long Island, New York, circa 1970s
Born in Seymour, Texas, Ancel Nunn began drawing at age 12. He added to his early art education through summer workshops under noted artists such as Dong Kingman and Alexander Hogue. In 1944 his dry point etching, The Domino Players, won Honorable Mention in the prestigious Ingersoll Competition. The following year his watercolor, The Cockfight, was awarded first place.
Nunn graduated from high school in Abilene in 1946. He entered the U.S. Army in 1947, spending several different active duty periods and attaining the rank of Major. During this period he did little or no painting...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Board
Act. 1978. Canvas, oil, 66x86 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Act. 1978. Canvas, oil, 66x86 cm
In this painting viewer can see beautiful young woman depicted nude. Woman is lying on soft orange surface and smiling. There is few sun rays on her knee. Painting nude figure artist wanted this work to feel timeless.
Information about artist...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Alexander III Bridge and the banks of the Seine Oil on canvas, 55x81 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Alexander III Bridge and the banks of the Seine Oil on canvas, 55x81 cm
Gustave Madelain (1867-1944)
Landscape painter, Gustave Madelain was born in...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Hard Candy
Located in Nashville, TN
"Hard Candy" by Denise Stewart-Sanabria is a hyper-realist food portrait from the artist's widely successful ongoing series Edible Dramas. Like many of ...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Coastal Seascape Landscape Painting with Boats by 20th Century French Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Coastal Seascape Landscape Painting with Boats by 20th Century French Artist, Pierre de Clausade (1910-1976).
Oil on canvas, Signed on the lower ...
Category
20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Oil
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