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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
"Your Choice, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Samantha Buller's (US based) "Your Choice" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts one opened and two unopened green tea bags on a pink background. Bio/artist statement...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Waiting for the tide - Oil Acrylic Figurative Ivory Blue White Brown Green
Located in Sofia, BG
"Waiting for the tide" is a modern art line painting by Maestro Dimitar Voynov -Junior, About the artwork: TECHNIQUE: Acrylic, oil on canvas paintin...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The cast away
Located in London, GB
This is a rather unusual work for Allan Douglas Davidson, who primarily painted nudes. Please note that the title is not contemporary to the painting (which was most probably execute...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Angel In Blue - Oil Acrylic Figurative Colors Ivory Blue White Green
Located in Sofia, BG
"Angel In Blue" is a modern art line painting by Maestro Dimitar Voynov -Junior, About the artwork: TECHNIQUE: Acrylic, oil on canvas painting STYLE: Realistic, Contemporary Edi...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Blaze, " Watercolor painting
Located in Denver, CO
Joanna Barnum's (US based) "Blaze" is an original, handmade watercolor painting that depicts a female red-headed model using a double exposure effect. ...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor, Paper

"The Last Remaining Breath, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Daire Lynch's "The Last Remaining Breath" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a dark haired feminine figure in red flannel with a yellow bac...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Panel, Oil

Cup with Strawberries - Oil on Canvas by Zhang Wei Guang (Mirror) - 2000
Located in Roma, IT
Original oil on canvas realized by Zhang Wei Guang in the early 2000s. Includes a contemporary black frame 38x48,5 cm. Excellent conditions. Zhang Wei Guang, also called ‘mirror' ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Street view at spring. Oil on cardboard, 97x130 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Small town view at spring. Oil on cardboard, 97x130 cm
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Early 2000s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Cardboard, Oil

New York City Street Scene Painting by Leading British Contemporary Artist
Located in Preston, GB
New York City Street Scene Painting by leading British Contemporary Artist, Angela Wakefield. Art measures 24 x 12 inches Frame measure 28...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Paint, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Board

"Florence´s Bridge", 19th Century Oil on Canvas by Antonietta Brandeis
Located in Madrid, ES
ANTONIETTA BRANDEIS Czechoslovakian, 1848 - 1926 FLORENCE´S BRIDGE signed "ABrandeis" lower right oil on canvas 10-3/5 x 14-4/5 inches (27 x 37.5 cm.) unframed PROVENANCE Private Collection, Barcelona Antonietta Brandeis (also known as Antonie Brandeisová) (1848–1926), was a Czech-born Italian landscape, genre and portrait painter, as well as a painter of religious subjects for altarpieces. She was born on January 13, 1848, in Miskovice (near Kutná Hora) in Bohemia, Austria-Hungary.[2] The first bibliographical indication of Antonietta Brandeis dates from her teens, when she is mentioned as a pupil of the Czech artist Karel Javůrek of Prague.[3] After the death of Brandeis' father, her mother, Giuseppina Dravhozvall, married the Venetian Giovanni Nobile Scaramella; shortly afterward the family apparently moved to Venice. In the 1867 registry of the Venetian Academy of Fine Arts, Brandeis is listed as being enrolled as an art student. At this time, Brandeis would have been nineteen, and one of the first females to receive academic instruction in the fine arts in Italy. In fact, the Ministry granted women the legal right to instruction in the fine arts only in 1875, by which time Brandeis had finished her education at the Academy. Brandeis’s professors at the Venetian Academy of Fine Arts include Michelangelo Grigoletti and Napoleone Nani for life drawing, Domenico Bresolin for landscape, Pompeo Marino Molmenti for painting and Federico Moja for perspective. Already during her first years of study there is evidence of Brandeis' skill-in her first year she is awarded prizes and honors in Perspective and Life Drawing. Brandeis’ continuing excellence and diligence in her artistic studies during the five years she spends at the Academy is attested to in the lists of prize-winning students of the Academy “Elenco alunni premiati Accademia Venezia in Atti della Reale Accademia di Belle Arti in Venezia degli anni 1866-1872”.[4] It includes numerous mentions of prizes and high honours won by Brandeis in Art History, Perspective, Life Drawing, Landscape and Anatomical Drawing, Drawing of Sculpture, and “Class of Folds”. It is in Venice at the Academy that Brandeis perfected her skills as a meticulous landscape and cityscape painter, with intricate and luminous details in the tradition of the eighteenth-century “vedutisti”. In 1870, while still a student at the Academy, she participated in her first exhibition; that of the Società Veneta Promotrice di Belle Arti with the oil painting Cascina della Madonna di Monte Varese. She is documented as having exhibited eight paintings during the years 1872 to 1876 with the Società Veneta Promotrice di Belle Arti, both landscapes and genre scenes. In the exhibit of 1875 her landscape Palazzo, Marin Falier is sold to M. Hall of London for 320 lire, a first indication of the success Brandeis will achieve with foreign collectors of her work (particularly the English and German visitors to Italy on the Grand Tour circuit). During these same years, she showed two paintings in the Florentine exhibit Promotrice Fiorentina. The first painting, entitled “Gondola” is a subject which she repeats in new variations throughout her career with great success. The second, perhaps a genre painting, is entitled “Buon dì !” The two paintings remained unsold and were presented at the same exhibition the following year, together with two more genre scene paintings. In 1876 and 1877 she exhibited three landscapes of Venice at the Promotrice Veneta, which sold to foreign collectors. In November 1877 Brandeis showed the large painting Palazzo Cavalli a Venezia at the exhibition of the Hungarian Fine Arts Society in Budapest. In both Florence and Budapest, Brandeis showed her work under the name “Antonio Brandeis”. The biographer De Gubernatis offers the following explanation for the change of name: “her first pictures received praise and criticism; she took the criticism, but when she was praised as a woman she was annoyed, and therefore exhibited under the name Antonio Brandeis.” During the years 1878 to 1893 Brandeis painted and exhibited numerous works, primarily scenes of Venice, and although she resided chiefly in that city she also traveled and painted in Verona, Bologna, Florence, and Rome. As well as in Venice and Florence, she exhibited in Turin, Milan, and Rome. In 1880 she was present at the International Exposition of Melbourne with three paintings: Palazzo Cavalli, A Balcony in Venice and The Buranella- native of Burano Island near Venice. Brandeis was a prolific painter, and often replicated her most popular subjects with only slight variations. She was represented in Venice at the photographer Naya’s studios in Piazza San Marco and in Campo San Maurizio and in Florence she collaborated with the picture dealer Giovanni Masini. During this period of intense activity painting landscapes en plein air and genre scenes, Brandeis also is documented in De Gubernatis as a painter of religious altarpieces. Several of these altarpieces can be found on the Island of Korcula in Croatia. Two are visible in the parish church of Smokvici and of in the church of St. Vitus in Blato. In the sacristy of the Cathedral of Korcula is a Madonna with Christ Child painted by Brandeis. For the same church she also painted a copy of the central panel of Giovanni Bellini’s triptych from the Venetian Church of Santa Maria dei Frari Gloriosa (1488). In 1899, for the main altar of the chapel of St. Luke in the Korcula town cemetery, Brandeis painted a St. Luke, which shows the sparkling colors and free impasto typical of her plein air oil paintings. On October 27th 1897 at the age of 49, Brandeis married the Venetian Antonio Zamboni, a knight and officer of the Italian Crown and knight of the Order of SS. Maurizio and Lazzaro. The couple continued to reside in Venice and Brandeis continued to show at Italian exhibitions in Venice, Florence, and Rome although more sporadically and with fewer works than before. Although she participated in the International Exposition of Watercolourists in Rome in 1906 with a “Study” and in the Società Promotrice delle Belle Arti in Florence in 1907 and 1908 with two oil paintings, De Gubernatis quotes Brandeis as saying in 1906, that even though she resides in Venice “I am a foreigner, and for some time I have not taken part in Italian Exhibitions, sending all my paintings to London.[3] Antonio Zamboni died 11...
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1890s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Erwartungsvoll (oil painting woman portrait hair neck flesh tones vintage art)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil painting, earth tones, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary figurative painting, dreams, symbolic...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Scorpion angry" figuratif animal acrylic on linen canvas 38x48cm 2010
Located in Roscoff, FR
figuratif "Scorpion angry" acrylic on linen canvas 38x48cm send on wood crate on a day of anger
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Early 2000s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

"Sunlit Heights" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Rob Alexander's "Sunlit Heights" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts snow capped blue mountains rising from the mist. This painting is c...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Wood Panel, Oil

"Magique Noir, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Tina Garrett's (US based) "Magique Noir" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a model with a painted face. This is a secondary market work with one previous owner.
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Board, Oil

"Water Bottle", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dianne L. Massey Dunbar's (US based) "Water Bottle" is an oil painting that depicts a Aquafina Water Bottle with an open lid in an interior setting. A...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

"ZEUS" Acrylic on canvas 36" x 26" inch painting by Tom Barnabi
Located in Culver City, CA
"ZEUS" Acrylic on canvas 36" x 26" inch painting by Tom Barnabi Tom Barnabi is a part of the modern generation of artists, who managed to absorb several ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Paper

A Summers Day in the Country
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
Henry John Yeend King (1855-1924) was a landscape and rustic genre painter. He began his artistic career by working for three years in glass works. King went on to study painting under William Bromley in London, and also with Bonnat and Cormon in Paris. He exhibited from 1874 to 1924 at The Royal Academy and The New Watercolour Society. He was elected to the Royal Society of British Artists in 1879, the Royal Institute in 1886, later becoming Vice President. He was also a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. In 1898 his picture 'Milking Time' was purchased by the Tate Gallery in London. Yeend King was a fine late-Victorian oil painter...
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Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"The Last Remaining Light, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Daire Lynch's "The Last Remaining Light" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a blonde haired feminine figure clasping her hand while cast in...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Panel, Oil

German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Berlin Osthafen, Reigen der Kräne
Located in Paris, IDF
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 German Realists since 2006. He paints everyda...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Egg Tempera

"Untitled, ' Oil Painting
By Brian Busch
Located in Denver, CO
Brian Busch's (US based) "Untitled" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a female model with short hair and a red jacket. This is a secondary market work with one pre...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Panel

"Cream Cannoli" Contemporary Dutch Fine Realist Painting of Still-Life Pastry
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 goldsmith, proved of great value in painting his realistic still life’s. In "Cream Cannoli" the artist's attention to fine detail is traceable in the way he painted the sprinkle of powdered sugar...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Panel

"Cymbidium Orchids" Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Narelle Zeller's "Cymbidium Orchids" is an oil painting that depicts four blush colored orchid flowers blossoming in contrast with the vivid orange back...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Panel

"Kate In The Barn"
By Timur Akhriev
Located in San Antonio, TX
Timur Akhriev Image Size: 31 x 58 Frame Size: 38 x 65 Medium: Oil "Kate In The Barn" Biography Born in Vladikavkaz, the territory where Southern Russia meets...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Oil on Canvas Titled "Hopeless Romantic II”
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
"The arrows in the back of the figure symbolizes the amount of times the individual has fallen in love" -Artist Statement Carlos Antonio Rancaño...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of a Fisherman with a hat
By Pieter van der Hem
Located in Brookville, NY
This detailed charcoal and pastel of a fisherman with a tall black hat, blue eyes and a details coat, depict the hardships of a fishermans life. The artist, Pieter van der Hem...
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1910s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Pastel

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Fencer with Dog
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas Signed in red, u.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 moveme...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Man with Ropes and Rings
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite Signed in red, u.r. $7000.00 + $350.00 framing This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. “Bruce Sargeant is a mythic figure ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Masonite

"Bed of Roses, " Acrylic Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Ifeoluwa Alade ( Nigeria based) "Bed of Roses" is an original, handmade acrylic painting that depicts a female model with roses and a colorful background....
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Panel

In Search of New Beginnings (The Paintings 1)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
In Search of New Beginnings (The Paintings 1) Watercolor on Arches heavyweight paper, 2021 Signed with the artist's initials in the shadows of the books (see photo) Signed, titled an...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

House By The Sea
Located in Delray Beach, FL
House By The Sea signed and dated "88 Charles Haigh-Wood was born in 1856 in a home above a workshop in Bury, England where his father Charles Wood,...
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1880s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Evening, Broad Marsh, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Shawn Krueger's "Evening, Broad Marsh" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a grouping of trees and lush grasses around a pond cast in the yellow and orange glow of sun...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Linen

Museology 17
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Bio Aaron M. Brown was born in Wichita, KS. He received a BFA from the University of Kansas, MFA from Syracuse University. Awards include grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Endless Rhythms" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Rob Alexander's "Endless Rhythms" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a blue waves restless crashing and churning. This painting is currently unframed but will come ...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Panel, Oil

"Cherry Creek" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Andrzej Skorut's (US based) "Cherry Creek" is an oil painting that depicts clouds looming over the vast plains with distant mountains in the background....
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Vintage California Mountain Pond Landscape with Ducks by Luke Stamos
Located in Soquel, CA
Stunning California landscape of a small reflective pond with tall trees, big boulders, and ducks rendered in crisp detail by Luke Stamos (American, 20th century). Signed "L. Stamos" lower right. Displayed in a rustic giltwood frame. Image, 20"H x 16"L. Luke Stamos graduated from San Jose State in 1960 with a B.A. in fine arts. He is a wildlife/landscape artist, focusing primarily on the area in the remote back country of Santa Clara County behind Mt. Hamilton. He has had two one-man shows and his work can currently be viewed at the Los Gatos Museums Gallery in Los Gatos, CA. Artists statement: "I was born in Chicago, and began studying art at the Chicago Art Institute at age 5. When my family moved to San Francisco in 1944, I became aware of California’s splendid outdoor life, and began to pursue a life-long hobby of hunting and fishing. While attending high school in Daly City...
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1980s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Zehdenick/Havel, Seerosen, Gänse klein
Located in Paris, IDF
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 German Realists since 2006. He paints everyda...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Egg Tempera

"I had a dream last night" Oil Painting 24" x 28 "inch by Dmitriy Krestniy
Located in Culver City, CA
"I had a dream last night" Oil Painting 24" x 28 "inch by Dmitriy Krestniy 2007 Comes in a custom frame Size with frame: 26" x 30" A look through Dmi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

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

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Canvas, Oil

"The Desolation" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Rob Alexander's "The Desolation" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a barren sandy landscape filled with rock formations and far off mountains on the horizon. This...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Wood Panel, Oil

"Blacksmith" Portrait of Craftsman working metal on an anvil glowing hot red
Located in Austin, TX
Title: "Blacksmith" Artist: Nikolai Sergeyev Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 19" x 14.5" Framed
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20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Pretty In Pink", Hans Amis, Realistic Portrait, Flowers, Original Oil, 40x30 in
Located in Dallas, TX
"Pretty in Pink" by Hans Amis, also known as An He, is an original oil on canvas portrait painting that measures 40x30 in. in a gold ornate frame. This period portrait depicts a carefree young woman with brown hair picking...
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Early 2000s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

"After, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Mia Bergeron's (US based) "After" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a dark haired woman in a dark interior with a yellow lamp lit behind her. Mia Bergeron's intere...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Last Light" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Casey Childs' (US based) "Last Light" is an oil painting that depicts a lone female figure sitting with a red umbrella looking out towards a field and tre...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Photorealist oil painting by Cesar J. Santander, Two Toy Banks
Located in White Plains, NY
'Two Toy Banks' 1982 by American artist Cesar J. Santander. Oil on panel, 27.75 x 34.5 in. This painting features a finely detailed monkey and clown piggy ban...
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1980s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Wood Panel, Oil

"Two Boys" CHINESE YOUNG BOYS. ADORABLE
Located in San Antonio, TX
Luo Tong "Young Chinese Boys" Image Size: 30 x 24 Frame Size: 38.5 x 32.5 Medium: Oil "Two Boys" Biography Tong Luo was born in Huai Yang, County of Henan Province, China, in 1...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Groß Dölln/Uckermark, Grünes Hais
Located in Paris, IDF
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 German Realists since 2006. He paints everyda...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Egg Tempera

"Flag of France" Small French Flag (Blue/Gold/Red), 23 Karat Gold Leaf and Oil
Located in Wellesley, MA
Charlotte Gibbs’ "flag" and "star" paintings often reference the artist's interest in Pop art and sometimes incorporate 23 karat gold leaf in addition to oil paint, but not always. ...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Cafe Romance
Located in Greenwich, CT
A couple embracing in front of a cafe.
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Early 2000s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

"Magic Pika I" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Sarah Becktel's "Magic Pika I" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a small wild rodent opening its mouth so that a rainbow can arch from it.
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Panel, Oil

Les Masons
Located in New York, NY
This elegant and sophisticated oil painting was realized by an underrecognized (but extraordinary) Flemish painter named F.V. Sliches in 1946. Entitled Les Masons (or the masons), th...
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1940s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"The Red Umbrella" - Contemporary Impressionist Woman Portrait
Located in New Orleans, LA
A delightful portrait of a young lady in motion, umbrella in hand, with sure brushstrokes and wonderful mastery of color. Proudly presented by Guy Lyman Fine Art...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Berlin, auf der Oberbaumbrücke
Located in Paris, IDF
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 German Realists since 2006. He paints everyda...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Egg Tempera

"Over the Pass" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Rob Alexander's "Over the Pass" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an arctic landscape where a mysterious castle perched on a snowy mount...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Panel

"Beyond, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Ximena Rendon's "Beyond" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a lavender hued Bride with a tulle veil turning away.
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Panel, Oil

Serenidad. Oil/cutting board Trompe-l'oeil. Cups, jars, Heinz ketchup still-life
By Angela F. Ayensa
Located in Segovia, ES
"Serenidad", oil on wood, 80 cm H x 42 cm W This piece of art in the shape of a cutting board is ideal for a kitchen. It is made with the use of the technique "Trompe l'oeil", that...
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Early 2000s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Wood Panel, Oil

"Twins, " Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Susan McDonnell's (U.S. based) "Twins" is an original, handmade oil painting of two birds (Black-throated Sparrows) facing the viewer and clouds in the background. The painting is 20 x 16" and with the frame it is 21.25 x 15.37". 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...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Self Portrait En Plein Air
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Oil painting of the artist, Tina Orsolic Dalessio. She is a beautiful, modern day woman with a keen resemblance to Audrey Hepburn. She wears a straw hat, to keep the sun out of her f...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

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Linen, Oil

"The Evening Walk, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Shawn Krueger's "The Evening Walk" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts trees on a sloping hillside cocooned by bright orange light of a setting sun. About the Artist...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Realist figurative paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Realist figurative paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add figurative paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, red, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Su Yu, Janusz Szpyt, JC Spock, and Matt Talbert. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Realist figurative paintings, so small editions measuring 0.5 inches across are also available.

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