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Realist Nude 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
Prayer Rug 2
Located in Buffalo, NY
A Modern realist “trompe l’oeil” egg tempera painting by American female artist Catherine Catanzaro Koenig depicting a person curled up titled “Prayer Rug #2″. Catherine C. Koenig was born Caterina Catanzaro in 1921 and grew up on the West side of Buffalo, NY. She graduated from Lafayette High School Buffalo in 1939. She exhibited a talent for drawing and painting early on and attended Albright Art School, where she graduated with an Associate's Degree in 1942. Her professional career as an artist began in the 1940s when she started to exhibit her work. From 1946-1956, she taught drawing and painting at the Art Institute of Buffalo. She married Buffalo artist...
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1980s Realist Nude Paintings

Materials

Board, Egg Tempera, Tempera, Wood

Prayer Rug 2
$2,800 Sale Price
37% Off
Nude in the Window, Oil Painting by Sandu Liberman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Sandu Liberman Title: Nude in the Window Year: circa 1970 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 24 in. x 24 in. (60.96 cm x 60.96 cm) Frame: 31 x 31 inches
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1970s Realist Nude Paintings

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Oil

The fall
Located in Vienna, AT
Was born in 1993 in the city of Marganets, Ukraine. Artist Gorbachenko Multiple participants of group and solo exhibitions and Art Fair Vilnius. The artist's works are in private col...
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2010s Realist Nude Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache

"Symbiosis" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Kierstin Young's (US based) "Symbiosis" is an oil painting that depicts branches and foliage emerging from a female figures nude back and hands with a bright pink background Artist ...
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2010s Realist Nude Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Late-Hellenistic sculpture from the Monument to Daochos
Located in Boston, MA
Signed verso. Based in New York, John MacConnell received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and his MFA from the School o...
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2010s Realist Nude Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

OLGA, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
A moment of concentration and meeting with herself :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :...
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2010s Realist Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil

Prime of Miss Jean I, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Back of nude scene from above on blue velvet sofa. :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes ...
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2010s Realist Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil

Baby's Blue
Located in Dallas, TX
Words fall short when art speaks for itself. A language all its own. "Inspiration was never something to seek out but to be awake for." Based in Southern California, Miriam contin...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Baby's Blue
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
Woman lying
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
In this work I present a woman lying down as a study of the female body, the figure is cut on a brownish background, with a very marked texture intentionally based on glazes to highl...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Nude Paintings

Materials

Wood Panel, Oil, Wood

Intimate II
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
This work captures the essence of female intimacy. Intimo II presents a fragment of a woman, seated and wrapped in a shawl that delicately covers her torso. The piece maintains a fro...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Woman lying with rose.
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
In this fascinating work, the painter transports us to a moment of serenity and contemplation through his study of a reclining woman. The central figure, with closed eyes and a delic...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil, Linen

Red-haired woman
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
More than a simple artistic representation, this painting serves as a study of the human figure, characterized by a loose and quick execution technique. The choice of ochre tones for...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil, Linen

Pin Up
Located in Sofia, BG
Painting's name "Pin Up" (The painting is unframed!) About the artwork: TECHNIQUE: acrylic on aluminium panel NEW MOVEMENT & STYLE: Contemporary Edition :...
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2010s Realist Nude Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

Oil On Canvas Portrait Of A Seated Ballerina By Maria Szantho Framed
Located in Gavere, BE
"Oil On Canvas Portrait Of A Seated Ballerina By Maria Szantho Framed" Nice and large painting "two ballerinas", painted by the female artist Maria Szantho (1897 - 1998) Hungarian sc...
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1960s Realist Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Nude Painting by Andre Belichenko (Russian).
Located in Uppingham, GB
Nude with Silks by Andre Belichenko ( Russian) Andrei Belichenko was born in 1974 in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. He is a graduate of the Republican Art Schoo (1990). Andrei studied in t...
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2010s Realist Nude Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

"Up" oil painting of nude figure with blue shawl in black frame with gold trim
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted from life, a nude, female figure sits with an blue cloth draped around her bottom. Ramiro places the figure floating in the atmosphere. 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 left corner and on verso Painting Dimensions: 12.6 x 7.5 inches Framed dimensions: 16.75 x 11.5 inches 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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Girl on the Bus
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
This work shows a study of a woman on a bus, leaning against the back of her seat. leaning on the back of her seat. In order to highlight the figure more, the background is left with...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil, Linen

Boy
Located in White Plains, NY
'Boy' 2003 by American artist, Kim McCarty. Watercolor on paper, 29.75 x 22.25 in. (framed). This work on paper expresses the fragile vulnerability of adolescence. By using a “wet into wet” watercolor medium, the artist conveys the transitory and emergent state. The figures heads become too large for their small, narrow bodies, their hands too large for their arms. The translucent watercolor expresses both the flaws and perfection. Kim McCarty is known for her nubile and waif-like figurative watercolors in muted hues, which she likens to “blurry afterimages drifting past closed eyelids.” McCarty began working with the medium in 1993, after a fire destroyed her studio and she could no longer find a space with proper ventilation for working with oil paint and became quickly intrigued with watercolor’s transparency, immediacy, and “unforgiving qualities.” She works in a wet-on-wet technique, in which watercolor is applied to a moistened sheet of paper—a technique that allows for very little control over the final image because of the pigment’s tendency to spread. For McCarty, this style corresponds to the longing, loss, and vulnerability embodied in her subjects. A graduate of UCLA (MFA) and the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena (BFA), McCarty has had many solo exhibitions include Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York and David Klein Gallery...
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Early 2000s Realist Nude Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Desire 2
Located in Atlanta, GA
Marshall Jones is a realist painter born in Atlanta Georgia, and presently working and living in New York City. From 2008 to 2015 Marshall was the recip...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil

Desire 5, 2011
Located in Atlanta, GA
Marshall Jones is a realist painter born in Atlanta Georgia, and presently working and living in New York City. From 2008 to 2015 Marshall was the recip...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Banksia" Oil Painting 27" x 39" inch by Sasha Sokolova
Located in Culver City, CA
"Banksia" Oil Painting 27" x 39" inch by Sasha Sokolova Life Still "I produced this series in 2020 while mostly in lockdown due to the Coronavirus. I a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Nude Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Realist nude paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Realist nude 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 nude 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, green and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Dmitriy Krestniy, Ellina Zhanu, Mark Beard, and Janusz Szpyt. 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 nude paintings, so small editions measuring 5.5 inches across are also available. Prices for nude paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $295 and tops out at $86,641, while the average work sells for $4,100.

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