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Photorealist Still-life Paintings

PHOTOREALISM

A direct challenge to Abstract Expressionism’s subjectivity and gestural vigor, Photorealism was informed by the Pop predilection for representational imagery, popular iconography and tools, like projectors and airbrushes, borrowed from the worlds of commercial art and design.

Whether gritty or gleaming, the subject matter favored by Photorealists is instantly, if vaguely, familiar. It’s the stuff of yellowing snapshots and fugitive memories. The bland and the garish alike flicker between crystal-clear reality and dreamy illusion, inviting the viewer to contemplate a single moment rather than igniting a story.

The virtues of the “photo” in Photorealist art — infused as they are with dazzling qualities that are easily blurred in reproduction — are as elusive as they are allusive. “Much Photorealist painting has the vacuity of proportion and intent of an idiot-savant, long on look and short on personal timbre,” John Arthur wrote (rather admiringly) in the catalogue essay for Realism/Photorealism, a 1980 exhibition at the Philbrook Museum of Art, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At its best, Photorealism is a perpetually paused tug-of-war between the sacred and the profane, the general and the specific, the record and the object.

Robert Bechtle invented Photorealism, in 1963,” says veteran art dealer Louis Meisel. “He took a picture of himself in the mirror with the car outside and then painted it. That was the first one.”

The meaning of the term, which began for Meisel as “a superficial way of defining and promoting a group of painters,” evolved with time, and the core group of Photorealists slowly expanded to include younger artists who traded Rolleiflexes for 60-megapixel cameras, using advanced digital technology to create paintings that transcend the detail of conventional photographs.

On 1stDibs, the collection of Photorealist art includes work by Richard Estes, Ralph Goings, Chuck Close, Audrey Flack, Charles Bell and others.

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Style: Photorealist
Period: 1980s
Shadow Iris, Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: Shadow Iris Year: 1982 Medium: Oil on linen Size: 60 x 90 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed, dated, titled by the artist, verso LOWELL NESBITT (1933-1993) One of the most celebrated and most noted for his floral works of art. An artist with a highly personal style, Nesbitt made realistic studies of many themes throughout his career. His most well known series, and perhaps his most beautiful and poetic, are the more than four hundred works he created using the flower as theme. Since his first show in 1957, Nesbitt has had more than eighty one man shows. His painting, drawings and prints...
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1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Linen, Canvas

Mr. Jefferson’s Garden, Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: Mr. Jefferson’s Garden Year: 1986 Medium: Oil on linen Size: 81 x 104 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed, dated, titled by the artist, verso LOWELL NESBITT (1933-1993) One of the most celebrated and most noted for his floral works of art. An artist with a highly personal style, Nesbitt made realistic studies of many themes throughout his career. His most well known series, and perhaps his most beautiful and poetic, are the more than four hundred works he created using the flower as theme. Since his first show in 1957, Nesbitt has had more than eighty one man shows. His painting, drawings and prints...
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1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

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Linen, Oil, Canvas

Garden Vision (The Greenhouse), Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: Garden Vision (The Greenhouse) Year: 1984-87 Medium: Oil on linen Size: 70 x 70 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed, dated, titled by the artist, verso LOWELL NESBITT (1933-1993) One of the most celebrated and most noted for his floral works of art. An artist with a highly personal style, Nesbitt made realistic studies of many themes throughout his career. His most well known series, and perhaps his most beautiful and poetic, are the more than four hundred works he created using the flower as theme. Since his first show in 1957, Nesbitt has had more than eighty one man shows. His painting, drawings and prints...
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1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

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Linen, Oil, Canvas

China, Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: China Year: 1983 Medium: Oil on linen Size: 80 x 110 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed, dated, titled by the artist, verso LOWELL NESBITT (1933-1993) One of the most celebrated and most noted for his floral works of art. An artist with a highly personal style, Nesbitt made realistic studies of many themes throughout his career. His most well known series, and perhaps his most beautiful and poetic, are the more than four hundred works he created using the flower as theme. Since his first show in 1957, Nesbitt has had more than eighty one man shows. His painting, drawings and prints...
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1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

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Linen, Oil, Canvas

Frosted Mountain, Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: Frosted Mountain Year: 1982 Medium: Oil on linen Size: 78 x 104 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed, dated, titled by the artist, verso LOWELL NESBITT (1933-1993) One of the most celebrated and most noted for his floral works of art. An artist with a highly personal style, Nesbitt made realistic studies of many themes throughout his career. His most well known series, and perhaps his most beautiful and poetic, are the more than four hundred works he created using the flower as theme. Since his first show in 1957, Nesbitt has had more than eighty one man shows. His painting, drawings and prints...
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1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

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Linen, Oil, Canvas

Flower Piece with Storm, Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Flower Piece with Storm Year: 1986 Medium: Acrylic on Panel, with Artist Painted Frame Size: 58.5 x 46.5 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription...
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1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

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Acrylic

Vintage American School Signed Super Realist Kitchen Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed still life oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed.
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1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Yellow Cab Broadway
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Khawam’s first genre of paintings started in 1980 during the heights of the Superrealism movement in New York City where Khawam was the youngest among the group and in his first year...
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1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

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Acrylic

Vintage Large American Modernist Trompe L'Oeil Rose Flower Still Life Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American super realist oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Possibly signed verso.
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1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Marcia’s Meadow (Vermont)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Marcia’s Meadow (Vermont) Year: 1983 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 50 x 72 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed recto; signed, date...
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1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Diptych Hand Paintings
Located in Washington, DC
Exceptional pair of paintings by Manon Cleary (1942-1911). Paintings are oil on canvas. Dated 1980 and signed in the front lower right corner and on reverse. Manon Cleary's work is ...
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1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Tulips of the Red Stars
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Tulips of the Red Stars Year: 1988 Medium: Acrylic on Panel Size: 52 x 42 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed recto; signed, dated,...
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1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

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Wood Panel, Acrylic

Very Baroque Flowerpiece with Red Birds of Paradise and Shining Parrot
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Very Baroque Flowerpiece with Red Birds of Paradise and Shining Parrot Year: 1989 Medium: Acrylic on Panel, with Artist Painted Frame Size: 58.5...
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1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

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Acrylic

The Quarry (Scotland)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: The Quarry (Scotland) Year: 1983 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 50 x 72 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed recto; signed, dated, a...
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1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Lilies & Mushrooms with my Parrot Kouka
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Lilies & Mushrooms with my Parrot Kouka Year: 1985 Medium: Acrylic on Panel, with Artist Painted Frame Size: 65.50 x 52.50 inches Condition: Exc...
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1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

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Acrylic

Gardenia, Realist Flower Painting by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
This painting was created by American artist Lowell Blair Nesbitt. His most well known series, and perhaps his most beautiful and poetic, are the more than four hundred works he crea...
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1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Ancient Flowers Beneath a Black Sun
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Ancient Flowers Beneath A Black Sun Year: 1987 Medium: Acrylic on Panel Size: 52 x 42 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed recto; sig...
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1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

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Wood Panel, Acrylic

Martin Heade’s Window, Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Martin Heade’s Window Year: 1980 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 48 x 36 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed recto; signed, dated, and titled by the artist, verso. Provenance: Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY; Private Collection, MI Notes: A seminal example of Hornak’s Photorealist multiple exposure landscape...
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1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

The Winter Iris, Large Flower Painting by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: The Winter Iris Year: 1986 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated verso Size: 54 in. x 54 in. (137.16 cm x 137.16 cm) Fra...
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1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Victory Corset shop, acrylic on canvas, 36x30 Vintage New York City image
Located in Southampton, NY
Charles Ford's work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of the City of New York. A wonderful rare early painting (1982) by Charles Ford of the classic "Victory Corset" shop in New York City...
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1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Lemons and Limes on Quilt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt Title: Lemons and Limes on Quilt Year: 1988 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated verso Size: 39 in. x 48 in. (99.06 cm x 121.92 cm) Frame Size: 40.25 ...
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1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Pink Ball & Hook (Photorealist Oil Painting of Industrial Equipment on Blue)
Located in Hudson, NY
Vertical photo-realist painting on canvas of pale pink ball with steel colored hook on a bright sky blue background 72 x 36 x 1.5 inches oil on canvas, thin wood stripping signed "Richards" on bottom right corner in yellow paint wire is installed on the back for easy hanging This precisely detailed photo-realist painting was made by Joseph E. Richards in 1981. The artist painted this piece when he was 60 years old during a successful career painting trains, cargo ships, and industrial machinery. Richards served in the US Navy during WWII and went on to study at the American Academy of Art in Chicago and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia before showing with Ivan Karp of O.K. Harris Gallery in NYC. The artist moved upstate to Hillsdale, NY for the later years of his life. This painting captures one of Richards' most beloved subjects, close up views of industrial equipment against a vivid blue sky. With a photo-realist approach to the subject, Richard was able to capture detailed changes in light and shadow, shape and form. The pale pink colored ball and steel colored hook, down to each screw and bolt, is completed with extreme focus and precision. One could easily confuse this painting with a photograph since it was completed with a very smooth application of paint, with no texture built upon the surface. It is not until you examine the painting up close, do you realize the artist's calculated brushwork. The painting is framed with natural wood stripping. The work is lightweight and easy to hang with wire installed on the back.The artist's signature is located on the front and back of the canvas. About the artist: Joseph Richards’ precisely painted canvases of giant cranes, cargo booms, propellers and train engines are fueled with a fascination like that of a six-year old boy. Working directly from photographs, Richards unites light and color together as one element, evident in the reflective surfaces of steel. The otherwise mundane signs of corrosive wear are magnified; rust stains glow on the canvas and yellow painted pulleys radiate like beacons against a bright, blue sky. Richards finds beauty in their dramatic color, resilient texture, definitive form and functionality. Richards paints sections of these objects in grand scale, with canvases up to 6 feet long and eye-popping color, calling attention to their massive proportions and exceptional strength. Richards had solo exhibits in New York City, Scottsdale AZ, and Washington DC, and his work is found in private and corporate collections here and abroad, e.g., the Tucson Museum of Fine Arts, Mobil Oil, Lankenau Hospital in Philadelphia, and E. Jean Belloni in Geneva, Switzerland. Resume: Born in 1921 in Des Moines, Iowa, Joseph Richards left for Chicago after high school to pursue a career in art. After serving in the U.S. Navy from 1942 – 1945, he went on to study at the American Academy of Art in Chicago and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. He eventually settled with his wife, Betty, in New York City. In 1969, longtime dealer Ivan Karp opened The OK Harris Gallery on West Broadway in Manhattan’s SoHo. Karp was at the forefront of the Photorealism movement, showing artists such as Duane Hanson and Manny Farber...
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1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

No. 11 (White Industrial Machinery in Modern Photo Realist Style on Bright Blue)
By Joe Richards
Located in Hudson, NY
contemporary hyper realist painting of industrial white pulley against a bright sky blue background still life painting, oil on canvas Neve...
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1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Crane: Large Photo-Realist Painting of Industrial Red Ball & Grey Crane on Blue
Located in Hudson, NY
Large, vertical photo-realist painting on canvas of industrial red ball and steel grey crane on a sky blue background by Joseph Richards oil on canvas,...
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1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Attributes of Art
By Dana Loomis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Dana Loomis Title: Attributes of Art Year: 1984 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and titled in marker Size: 40 in. x 46 in. (101.6 cm x 116.84 cm) Frame Size: 41 x 47 inches
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1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Tulip
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Hilo Chen Title: Tulip Year: 1988 Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed and dated Size: 9 x 6.5 in. (22.86 x 16.51 cm) Frame: 16 x 13 inches
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1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

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Watercolor

Birds of Paradise, Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: Birds of Paradise Year: 1986 Medium: Oil on linen Size: 80 x 73 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed, dated, titled by the artist, verso LOWELL NESBITT (1933-1993) One of the most celebrated and most noted for his floral works of art. An artist with a highly personal style, Nesbitt made realistic studies of many themes throughout his career. His most well known series, and perhaps his most beautiful and poetic, are the more than four hundred works he created using the flower as theme. Since his first show in 1957, Nesbitt has had more than eighty one man shows. His painting, drawings and prints...
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1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

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Linen, Canvas, Oil

Life
By Linda Rosenzweig Prince
Located in Long Island City, NY
An oil painting by Linda Rosenzweig Prince from 1981. A photo-realistic painting of of news stand magazines piles forming a layered landscape. Signed and dated verso, framed in cherr...
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1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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Photorealist still-life paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Photorealist still-life 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 still-life 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, green, pink, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Gregory Block, James Zamora, Lynette Cook, and Lowell Nesbitt. 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 Photorealist still-life paintings, so small editions measuring 3.5 inches across are also available. Prices for still-life 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 $228 and tops out at $88,000, while the average work sells for $3,736.

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