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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
'The Yawning Butcher'
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...
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Early 2000s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Maid of Orleans
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this oil painting, I aimed to capture a moment of pure determination and inspiring leadership. The central figure, astride a regal white horse, symbolizes strength and courage. He...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Delightful Soul
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
There is a moment when all we need is one person always there to put a smile on our faces, lighten up our hearts, set our path for the greater good, and believe in us. Delightful Soul encompasses how important and impactful it is to have a shadow-like friendship, one’s shadow sticks together. No matter how tough it might get, how rough the road may be, how distorted one’s feelings are, and how unbalanced the world around one is. What keeps one going is the opportunity to have a good friend, a companion, an amazing shadow that keeps a person uptight, makes one feel things will get better soon, and that one friend that serves as an agent of laughter to the soul. How delightful one mind is to have a source of happiness Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Taiwo Samuel...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Even Flow, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Eric G. Thompson's "Even Flow" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a river with grassy banks flowing into the distance. About the Artist: Eric G. Thompson captures s...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Irises. Floral still life acrylic painting, Classic, Realistic, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative floral still life acrylic on board painting by Polish artist Janusz Szpyt. Artwork style is classic and realistic achieved with wide brush strokes. Janusz S...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Board

"Summer in the High Desert" Original Oil Painting of a Landscape & Jackrabbit
Located in Denver, CO
Venture into the wild beauty of the Southwest with Lindsey Kustusch's "Summer in the High Desert," an original 2023 oil painting on a 30 x 60 x 1.50-inch wood panel. This expansive p...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Self Portrait - cool, expressive, male, figurative, oil and collage on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In a closely cropped self-portrait, with snowy beard and hair awry, Dan Hughes explores the theme of observational realism. A moment of emotional tension is amplified by blurred feat...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Contemporary portrait "Joshua Tree"
Located in Zofingen, AG
This artwork captures a solitary moment in a remote desert setting. The scene focuses on a vintage motel, "Desert Inn," with its bright yellow façade standing out against the dark, m...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

"Night Speed Skating, " Mix Media Drawing
Located in Denver, CO
Linda Tracey Brandon's (US based) "Night Speed Skating" is an mixed media drawing that depicts a black clad skater racing towards the foreground w...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Carbon Pencil

"Trees 3" (2024) By Brian Sostrom, Original Acrylic Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Trees 3" (2024) by Brian Sostrom is an original handmade acrylic painting that depicts a pine trees in front of a colorful sunset with flowing clouds above. Brian Sostrom grew up ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Wood Panel

Greece. Venetian Fortress On The Greek Island Of Corfu. Signed Tin Florias
Located in Firenze, IT
Venetian fortress on the Greek island of Corfu. Signed Tin Florias (1897-1969, Greek) The creation of this fortress was started under Byzantine domination...
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20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Contemporary portrait "Вlack Leather Gloves"
Located in Zofingen, AG
This is a partial homage to David Hockney's art. In this painting, I explored the interplay of realism and symbolism through the figurative use of acrylic. The central figure, clad i...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Oil Painting Called "The Young Artist" by Swedish Johan Christoffer Boklund
Located in Stockholm, SE
Introducing a captivating oil painting by Johan Christoffer Boklund (1817-1880). The artwork depicts a young boy practicing his painting skills. Seated beside him is a wooden horse t...
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19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

American oil painting, Still life of Sea Shells Late 20th Century
Located in Woodbury, CT
American Still life of Sea Shells A totally unique scene of seashells and objects painted Late 20th Century by an American Painter. Original driftwood influenced frame and in com...
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1940s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

It Was a Land of Plenty, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"It Was a Land of Plenty" by Shawn Krueger (United States) is a handmade landscape oil painting that is framed and ready to hang.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Game with waves
Located in Zofingen, AG
From the series «Summer Memories» This painting depicts a little girl playing on the beach on a summer day. Her small figure is touchingly integrated into the vast blue of the water...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Wild Bill 1873, 53x 40", oil on canvas Large Old West Yellowstone cowboy style
Located in Southampton, NY
Wild Bill Hickok 1873 by Ceravolo is an oil on canvas featuring Ceravolo's trademark illusion brush strokes painted over his oil on canvas painting. T...
Category

1990s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

42nd Street at Night Unique Acrylic painting, best architectural muralist Signed
Located in New York, NY
Richard Haas 42nd Street at Night from the Multiplex Cinema Roof, 2008 Acrylic on canvas laid to board Hand signed and dated 2008 on the front Frame included: elegantly framed in art...
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Early 2000s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Enchanted Light, Orignal Gouache Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Enchanted Light" by Thane Gorek (United States) is a handmade landscape oil painting that is framed and ready to hang.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache

"Serenity' (2020) By Beth Sistrunk, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Beth Sistrunk's "Serenity" is an oil on panel featuring a model with pink petals. About the artist: Beth's interests in painting the figure, women’s fashion, flowers, landscape phot...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Paternity oil acrylic on canvas painting realism Spain Sitges 70s
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frameless. Is born in Madrid on the 21st july 1951. After attending primary school, he starts to grow an enormous tendency for drawing. At the age of 14 he begins to work in advertising and attends to the Vallecas school of arts. At the age of 14 he travels to Switzerland and in Geneve he gets intensly into painting and decides to dedicate himself only to it. When he returns to Spain he enrolls Arts Studies, and at the begining of summer '66, he visits Sitges, where he'll come back year after year and where ultimately he'll set his home. At this time he starts selling his painting in the flea market in Madrid and later in Sitges, setting himself on the street, thus completing his studies and making it economically. While he's in Madrid he recives lessons by Pedro Mozas at Bellas Artes and starts to learn profoundly about painting. In 1969 he starts painting portraits in the streets. In Sitges he creates, with other friends, a great artistic atmosphere in the Paseo de la Ribera, by the sea, that today still exists. He starts travelling through Europe, visiting and painting in Paris, London and Amsterdam. In the middle of this bohemian epoque, he moves to the Cannary Islands during the winters for 5 years in a row, he moves in the Parque de Santa Catalina "Las Palmas de Gran Canaria" where he works and meet all sorts of people in the streets, which later would mark his pictoric line. He becomes friend with Sidney Nagley in 1969, who organizes his first exhibition in Toronto, Canada. Afterwards he'll leave his studies and start painting exclusively in his studio. He gathers his first exhibition in the Ateneu of Barcelona in 1970. He befriends with the art critic of La Vanguardia, Fernando Gutierrez and the Count of Caralt orders him a set of illustration for a new edition of Garcia Lorcas Romancero Gitano. His first exhibition in a commercial gallery is done in the Majestic Gallery in Barcelona with a gorgeous collection of nudity drawings. He achieves huge success and for some years he affords his painting thanks to those drawings. During a period in Madrid, Mr Ponce de León, a consul in the Ministry of Exterior Affairs grants him with bachelor degree to study in the prestigious Academia de España in Rome. However, he can't accept it due to militar service obligations. Some days later, before joining the ranks he opens in the Cuatre Gats (Palma de Mallorca) with hiperrealist pieces that already then he presented as the first painter in that city, that later would become a fashion in 1973. After this period he meets José Maria Gudiol who advises positively. Since then, the intense work and the fight for daily improvement that has become the trademark of his life. The seek of styles and situations, the journeys through Europe always aware of all the tendencies that have in the art line that we can see nowadays. At his more than fifty years given to paint, his individual exhibitions beat the 100, his artwork is highly appreciated and valued in the complex market of art. In October 1982 hi makes his first exhibition in Tarragona. In the catalogue, writing of the unforgettable Fernando Gutierrez, he says "Fuentetaja is an artist of character and exceptional upbringing with a masterly knowledge of technique and resourses, and personality completely uncommon to the dimension of his sensitivity, as the richness of his deep and bloomed liricism. A judgement as accurate as foreseeing for the future outstanding of the artist, in where his paint soared through different phases mantaining an unquestionable quality. Lines, cubist, expressionist and hiperrealist till his current realism, in the middle of his creative maturity. Jose Luis Fuentetaja...
Category

1980s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Portrait of a gypsy woman
Located in Zofingen, AG
Gypsies are spread in the world, on different countries and even continents. I have hade opportunity to contact this folk in Moldova, during my childhood and youth and I have had even the possibility to visit house of the Gypsy Baron in our town...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Giants Shadow, " Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Judd Mercer's (US based) "Giants Shadow," is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a pastoral landscape of pasture and agriculture fields of yellow and green surrounding a ...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Serene Countryside Landscape with Sailboat & Wild Flowers in English Countryside
Located in Preston, GB
Serene Countryside Landscape with Sailboat & Wild Flowers in the English Countryside by British Artist, Les Parson Art measures 16 x 12 inches Frame measures 22 x 18 inches Serene ...
Category

1980s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Gairnshiel Bridge, " Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Judd Mercer's (US based) "Gairnshiel Bridge," is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a stone bridge extending over a rocky river and leading to a small countryside shire or town. About the Artist: Judd Mercer is a watercolor painter based in Denver, Colorado. After attending art school for industrial design, Judd pursued a career in digital design and user experience and is co-owner of Elevated Third, a Denver-based digital agency. After committing to writing and illustrating a full-length fantasy novel in his spare time, Judd began watercolor painting around 2014, studying with teachers such as Alvaro Castagnet, Joseph Zbukvic and Herman Pekel...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Contemporary portrait "Here Comes Texas!.."
Located in Zofingen, AG
This artwork depicts a young woman confidently poised at the Texas state line, symbolizing both a literal and metaphorical crossing. Set against a vibrant blue sky, the scene cente...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Gifted Treasure -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Beauty Women
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authent...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Luigi Lucioni attr. Traditional American Still Life, 20th century
Located in New York, NY
Attributed to Luigi Lucioni Untitled (Still Life), c. 1900 Oil on canvas 30 x 26 in. Framed: 34.5 x 30 in. Born in Malnate, Italy, in 1900, Luigi Lucioni became one of America's well-known landscape painters, whose work has been noted for its heightened realism and photographic attention to detail. Lucioni immigrated to the United States with his family in 1911. In 1915 he won a competition which allowed him to attend Cooper Union, and he began studying there with William Starkweather. In 1920, he studied with William Auerbach Levy...
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Early 1900s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

'Dreamtime'
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

"Forest Edge" (2023) By Judith Peck, Original Oil Painting of Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
"Forest Edge" (2023) by Judith Peck is an original, handmade oil painting on cradled board that depicts a forest with tall grass in the bright sunlight, th...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

English Village Countryside Scene - Original Pastel on Paper by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
English Village Countryside Scene - Original Pastel on Paper by British Artist Art measures 12 x 8 inches Frame measures 17 x 13 inches (approx.) British School – “Country Lane, No...
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20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil Pastel, Pastel

Room Alone / oil on canvas - figurative surrealism
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Room Alone' is a masterfully painted oil on canvas, that features a young bespectacled semi-nude woman redlining on a pile of rocks at the interior of a formal room with heavy drape...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil

Man of Valor
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authent...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

"Road to Castle Valley, " Original Southwestern Landscape Pastel Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Road to Castle Valley" by Lorenzo Chavez (US based) is a handmade, landscape, pastel painting that depicts a meandering dirt road flanked by majestic sandstone cliffs. “Road to Ca...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Pastel

Contemporary portrait "Black ang Gold"
Located in Zofingen, AG
Crafted with acrylics in a symphony of black and gold, this painting captures the essence of strength and elegance. The striking contrast and precise realism convey a sense of intros...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Something I Left Behind - original Impressionism London cityscape painting - Art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. Embark on a journey of poignant nostalgia with "Something I L...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Board

The Autumn portrait
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this oil painting, I aimed to capture the quiet melancholy and reflective beauty of autumn through the soulful eyes of a young woman cloaked in a deep blue coat. Her gaze, interwo...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Golden Slumber-original impressionism figurative oil painting-contemporary art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. "Golden Slumber" by Kelly-Anne Cairns is an enchanting portraya...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

African Beauty
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Agwunwa Theophilus' "African Beauty" is a striking piece of artwork that celebrates the essence of African identity and individuality. Through the m...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Fabric, Canvas

“Pears” Contemporary Fine Realist Still-Life Painting of Pears, Fruit
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

Realist french painting Fishermen wifes BILLET portrait costumes 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Pierre BILLET Cantin (North), 1837 – Cantin, 1922 Oil on canvas 38.5 x 28.5 cm (48 x 36.5 cm with frame) Signed lower left “Pierre Billet” Stamp of the c...
Category

1880s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

"A Fragile Beauty, " Southwestern Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"A Fragile Beauty" by Lorenzo Chavez (US based) is a handmadeoil painting that depicts a country road leading to an adobe house bathed in warm afternoon light. “A Fragile Beauty”. ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Yachts in the bay of Bali, Original Seascape Mountainscape Oil Painting, Large
Located in Zofingen, AG
Catalogue raisonné reference: Publisher: Tvorchestvo (2015) Language: English Russian ISBN-10: 5000280512 ISBN-13: 978-5000280515. Artwork description Original oil painting on canva...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Notre-Dame de Paris. Oil on canvas, 65x54 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Notre-Dame de Paris. Oil on canvas, 65x54 cm Max Band (1901-1974) Max Band was born in Lithuania in 1900. He was drawing and painting from a young age, copying the works of great m...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Hippie Original oil acrylic on canvas painting realism Spain Sitges 70s
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frame size 52x44 Is born in Madrid on the 21st july 1951. After attending primary school, he starts to grow an enormous tendency for drawing. At the age of 14 he begins to work in advertising and attends to the Vallecas school of arts. At the age of 14 he travels to Switzerland and in Geneve he gets intensly into painting and decides to dedicate himself only to it. When he returns to Spain he enrolls Arts Studies, and at the begining of summer '66, he visits Sitges, where he'll come back year after year and where ultimately he'll set his home. At this time he starts selling his painting in the flea market in Madrid and later in Sitges, setting himself on the street, thus completing his studies and making it economically. While he's in Madrid he recives lessons by Pedro Mozas at Bellas Artes and starts to learn profoundly about painting. In 1969 he starts painting portraits in the streets. In Sitges he creates, with other friends, a great artistic atmosphere in the Paseo de la Ribera, by the sea, that today still exists. He starts travelling through Europe, visiting and painting in Paris, London and Amsterdam. In the middle of this bohemian epoque, he moves to the Cannary Islands during the winters for 5 years in a row, he moves in the Parque de Santa Catalina "Las Palmas de Gran Canaria" where he works and meet all sorts of people in the streets, which later would mark his pictoric line. He becomes friend with Sidney Nagley in 1969, who organizes his first exhibition in Toronto, Canada. Afterwards he'll leave his studies and start painting exclusively in his studio. He gathers his first exhibition in the Ateneu of Barcelona in 1970. He befriends with the art critic of La Vanguardia, Fernando Gutierrez and the Count of Caralt orders him a set of illustration for a new edition of Garcia Lorcas Romancero Gitano. His first exhibition in a commercial gallery is done in the Majestic Gallery in Barcelona with a gorgeous collection of nudity drawings. He achieves huge success and for some years he affords his painting thanks to those drawings. During a period in Madrid, Mr Ponce de León, a consul in the Ministry of Exterior Affairs grants him with bachelor degree to study in the prestigious Academia de España in Rome. However, he can't accept it due to militar service obligations. Some days later, before joining the ranks he opens in the Cuatre Gats (Palma de Mallorca) with hiperrealist pieces that already then he presented as the first painter in that city, that later would become a fashion in 1973. After this period he meets José Maria Gudiol who advises positively. Since then, the intense work and the fight for daily improvement that has become the trademark of his life. The seek of styles and situations, the journeys through Europe always aware of all the tendencies that have in the art line that we can see nowadays. At his more than fifty years given to paint, his individual exhibitions beat the 100, his artwork is highly appreciated and valued in the complex market of art. In October 1982 hi makes his first exhibition in Tarragona. In the catalogue, writing of the unforgettable Fernando Gutierrez, he says "Fuentetaja is an artist of character and exceptional upbringing with a masterly knowledge of technique and resourses, and personality completely uncommon to the dimension of his sensitivity, as the richness of his deep and bloomed liricism. A judgement as accurate as foreseeing for the future outstanding of the artist, in where his paint soared through different phases mantaining an unquestionable quality. Lines, cubist, expressionist and hiperrealist till his current realism, in the middle of his creative maturity. Jose Luis Fuentetaja...
Category

1980s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

''Pears on Green” Contemporary Fine Realist Still-Life Painting of Pears
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

Reservations
Located in East Hampton, NY
Realism. Black and white figurative painting Women that are edgy and sexy. One of a kind Oil on Canvas Paintings. About The Artist: Cindy Press is a visual artist living and workin...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Distrust - Contemporary, Figurative Painting, Window, Blue, Human, Female, Male
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Distrust, 2012 Oil on canvas (Signed on reverse) 70.86 H x 70.86 W in 180 H x 180 W cm Radu Rodideal is interested in the atmosphere of his work. Human ...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Jeune Femme Au Piano XIXe Siècle
Located in GOUVIEUX, FR
Huile sur panneau acajou Dim sans cadre 38/46 cm Dim avec cadre 53/62 cm Ecole Française Signé : A Mlle André souvenir 92 FPCordova On pourrait attribuer notre tableau à Fernand Pele...
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Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mahogany

"Yearling Black Bear, " Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Susan McDonnell's (U.S. based) "Yearling Black Bear" is an original, handmade watercolor and gouache painting of a young bear peeking behind a tree. The painting is 11 x 15" and with the frame it is 15.37 x 19.87". Artist bio: Susan McDonnell is a realist painter who has recently moved back to Minnesota after living in Southern California for 30 years. Her paintings are narratives inspired by her observations of wild animals in their natural habitats. Albrecht Dürer and Otto Marseus van Schrieck...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache

Esther, After My Mom's
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Esther, After My Mom's" is a captivating artwork that beautifully captures the essence of storytelling through painting. Adeniyi Joshua Adetayo...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Pen

Graffiti Break
Located in Atlanta, GA
This item is in excellent condition, only shown in a gallery. Griselda Ferrandez was born in the city of Barcelona, a cosmopolitan and open city. From her balcony she could contempla...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Graffiti Break
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Carousel, original NYC realist landscape
Located in Spring Lake, NJ
When summer arrives, Central Park in Manhattan comes alive, to the delight of New York City residents and tourists alike! True to life, the park is packed with revelers and sun wors...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Study for 'Penance'" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Raymond Bonilla's (US based) "Study for 'Penance'" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a quiet scene of foliage with warm afternoon light. About the Artist: Raymond...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

"Brighter Prospects" (2023) by Judd Mercer, Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Judd Mercer's ( US based) "Brighter Prospects" is an oil painting depicting a the Rocky mountains with a river winding through a forest. Artist bio/statement Judd Mercer is a conte...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Panel, Oil

"Letters to the Universe."
Located in Zofingen, AG
"We know that everything around us is energy, the energy of the universe. When an artist paints, images sometimes suddenly appear in her mind. This only means that she is conducting ...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

“MARISMA“. Contemporary, realism, figurative, oil, landscape, waterscape, earth
Located in MADRID, ES
Contemporary, realism, figurative, oil, landscapa, waterscape, pastel colors, earth colors
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Wood, Oil, Acrylic

"Presque Isle (Day 97) June 24, 2023" by Primary Hughes, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Presque Isle (Day 97) June 7, 2023" by Primary Hughes (United States) is a handmade landscape painting that is framed, and ready to hang.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Milan Street" by Christopher Clark, Original Oil Painting, Italian Cityscape
Located in Denver, CO
Christopher Clark's "Milan Street" is an original, hand made oil and acrylic painting that depicts a night scene of a bustling cityscape in Italy. Christopher has been an artist since early childhood, when he would watch Bob Ross on PBS and mimic the famed oil painter’s art with crayons. He considers himself a self-educated artist, with his studies ranging from personal training with contemporary masters, to classical academic art technique, with much inspiration from 19th Century art and the Impressionist Movement. Christopher lived in Italy for a time, immersing himself in Italian culture and art, which continues to influence his painting. His fan base has grown considerably since his return to the US, gaining the attention of Lucasfilm and Marvel Fine Art, which both signed him as an officially licensed artist in 2016. Other clients include George Lucas, Major League Baseball, Louisville Slugger, and Fender Guitars. Christopher’s painting skills are not his only talent in the arts. He has won several national swing dance championship competitions, and also studies tango and blues dancing. He has played guitar since the age of 12, and during his time as lead guitarist for a rock band, he opened for Blue Oyster Cult and Eddie Money...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Out of the Ordinary
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
In the work "Out of the Ordinary", Yuriy Grigoryan is talking about geniuses in the crowd, about those who are not afraid of being different from t...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Realist figurative paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

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