Photorealist 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
Blue heaven, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Ocean painting inspired by The Turks And Caicos and The Bahamas ocean colors, as seen from an aerial perspective Different shades of blue, turquoise, teal, aqua, beige and white Th...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The beach, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Different shades of blue, turquoise, teal, aqua, beige and white This painting does not need to be framed, the painted image continues over the sides, it is wired, signed, ready to ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Lucent ocean waters, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Dealing with depression, PTSD and anxiety, painting is a form of therapy for me. In this painting I create a peaceful and safe space for the child and adult in me both, a place to ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Aerial Australia #2, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Unique original aerial ocean painting inspired by aerial view of the spectacular Shark Bay, Australia Different shades of blue, turquoise, teal, aqua, beige, black and gold This pain...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Fluid Cadi
Located in West Hollywood, CA
The painting “Fluid Cadi” draws inspiration from a fusion of the artist’s travel recollections and dreamscapes. Captured during a trip to California, the artist encountered this Cadi...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The Game of Life, Jacque
Located in West Hollywood, CA
In her painting entitled “The Game of life, Jaque”, Eva Carzul captures life’s complexities, portraying it as a chess game, all the while adorned in a top that ironically expresses g...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Fizzical Intent
By Randy Ford
Located in Boca Raton, FL
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About Randy Ford
Exhibitions of Ford’s work have taken place at Art Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, Editions/Line Gallery, Marlton, NJ, Edward Hopper House Museum, Nyack, NY, Galería artelibre Zaragoza,Spain, Hughes Gallery, Boca Grande, FL, J. Willott Gallery...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
$3,200 Sale Price
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DEEP INSIDE #14, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
God has no faces. It has colours and forms. And God is love. Tender love. Series of calm artworks DEEP INSIDE are ready. Feel him in every artwork. DEEP...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
A beach for daydreaming, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Original, one-of-a-kind, hand painted, inspired by the aerial view of The Bahamas Dealing with depression, PTSD and anxiety, painting is a form of therapy for me. In this painting...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
This is perfection, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Original, one-of-a-kind, hand painted, inspired by the aerial view of The Turks and Caicos Islands Dealing with depression, PTSD and anxiety, painting is a form of therapy for me. ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Notre Dame de Paris at Night", Sorin, Photorealism, French, Landscape
Located in Dallas, TX
"Notre Dame de Paris at Night" by Sorin is a 30x40 inch original oil on canvas. The painting captures a photorealistic night view of the medieval Cathol...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Window into my shoul, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Original, one-of-a-kind, hand painted, inspired by the aerial view of The Turks And Caicos Islands Dealing with depression, PTSD and anxiety, painting is a form of therapy for me. In...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Gas Lamp, Painting, Oil on MDF Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
This is an oil painting the paper and tape is an illusion is called Trompe-l'Å“il The painting is signed and dated by the year and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. DENNI...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
LOL, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
LOL written with gold balloons on a pink background :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Paroles de femmes (Women's words, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
A red moouth in a white plastic bag on a black background :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready t...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
????, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Four silver balloons representing question marks on a black background; Painted with several layers of paint on a fine canvas, :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This piece comes with a...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
FRAGILE II, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Ball covered with adhesive tape "FRAGILE" on a black background. symbolizing the planet. Several layers of paint on a fine canvas. Matt varnish :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This p...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lys roses (Pink lilies), Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Pink lilies and other flowers on a white background. Several layers of paint. Matt varnish :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenti...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sailing trip., Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Sailing trip. The work is written with inspiration, positively. Nature: seascape, clear sky over the ocean, light reflected from the incoming waves, glare of the sun on the water, se...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
SEGUIMI, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
DETAILS: Oil on canvas, size 20x40x1.5 inches - 50x100x4 cm - Sides are painted to match the painting SUPPORT: gallery canvas, wrapped around the sides and stapled to the back SI...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Aerial Australia - Kimberley Broome, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Unique original aerial ocean painting inspired by aerial view of the spectacular Broome in Kimberley zone, Australia Different shades of blue, turquoise, teal, aqua, beige, black and...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The happy place, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Original, one-of-a-kind, hand painted, inspired by the aerial view of The Bahamas and Turks And Caicos Islands from in my last vacation there Dealing with depression, PTSD and anxiet...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Aladdin
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist Statement
Nothing But Neon, 2021
I see beauty in old neon signs.
I have always been fascinated by the glow inside the hand-bent, glass tubes. I enjoy the sculptural, mechan...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Night River", Alexander Volkov, 30x48, Oil on Canvas, Photorealism Landscape
Located in Dallas, TX
"Night River" by Alexander Volkov is an original oil on canvas. This painting is a photorealistic view of the sunset of a river. You can see the clouds and...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Little wave #7, Painting, Acrylic on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
Miniature round ocean painting Inspired by The Turks And Caicos ocean colors Different shades of blue tones, turquoise, teal, aqua, gold and white This painting does not need t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Ocean waves #40, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Seascape Painting Inspired by The Turks And Caicos ocean colors Different shades of blue tones, turquoise, teal, aqua, beige and white This painting does not need to be framed,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Roanheads Chimneys #1, 2018
By Agnes Murray
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This original oil on birch-wood panel is a signature painting of Roanheads, Scotland by Agnes Murray. Ms. Murray is notable for capturing the crystalline quality of northern light. ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Black cans, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Black crushed cans on a yellow background :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
The soldier, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Portrait of a soldier :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes :: Signatu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
At the Airport
Located in Miami, FL
Before there was Photorealism, there was Austin Briggs.
Done in 1951, this work has all the hallmarks of the 1970's fine art movement and more.
Briggs is using photographs as a refer...
Category
1950s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Gratitude 1. ~Inspired by a pandemic~, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This work was inspired by a pandemic. The "normal life" has been lost due to the pandemic, and the new environment has changed the perspectives of people. Now, the so-called "ordi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Crawler 2., Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
All universal life is GOD’s masterpiece. The intricate details that highlight living qualities - pedals, veins, feathers, scales, skin, and fur are all in alignment with GOD’s e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Superior, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Many people are fascinated by Arowana because of its beauty with dignity. :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Overlapped dawn - Cactus, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
All universal life is GODΓÇÖs masterpiece. The intricate details that highlight living qualities - pedals, veins, feathers, scales, skin, and fur are all in alignment with GODΓÇÖs e...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Self Portrait With Between Clock And Bed, Painting, Acrylic on MDF Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
On this painting you see the artist himself enjoying a self portrait by Edvard Munch :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity sign...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Amaryllis, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Flowers on a white background Several layers of paint Hanging hardware is provided :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity sign...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bouches (Mouths), Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Mouth-shaped candies in a black try on a white background Several layers of paint hanging hardware is provided :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This piece comes with an official cert...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
January's Calendar Month, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
By Grace Diehl
Located in Yardley, PA
This series painting displays objects relating to the calendar month. The cold, winter's of January in this fine art reflect a bird on the calendar photo, a bright red pomagranate an...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
First of the Day from Calais, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Tony Munns
Located in Yardley, PA
A medium sized unframed original acrylic painting that is a personal tribute to the incredible Mountbatten Class SRN4 hovercraft and to Hoverlloyd, who operated four of this type bet...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
THE CREEK, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
My Godson was always in love with the water and definitely scared of it. This Spring with a trip to Miami he finally conquer his fear and learned to swim. "The Elixir of Life" The bo...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Show (8 o'clock news), Painting, Acrylic on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
One night I was watching the 8 o'clock news with Noraly Beijer on Dutch television and wondered what I was actually watching. I decided to take a picture of my television screen ...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Product, Painting, Acrylic on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
One day I visited the Ikea store in Groningen, The Netherlands where I saw these people leaving the store by escalator with all the stuff they just bought. Somehow I thought the scen...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Players in the balls, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Igor Shulman
Located in Yardley, PA
These guys really like playing balls. They even invited the photographer so that he captures them in their favorite game. :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This piece comes with an offi...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nerium oleander with pink ribbon, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
I picked up these Nerium Oleander leaves from the ground. They were dry but still proud with that well defined shape and golden colour. :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This piece com...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
SAN GIOVANNI, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Oil on canvas, size 28x40x1.5 in This painting is very important for me because this plate was made by a very special chef in Asti. His speciality is the typical plates from Piedmon...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Work Shoes, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Adapted from a piece of old advertisement for early computer technology. :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Steinway Hall
By Max Ferguson
Located in Greenwich, CT
Born in New York City in 1959, Max Ferguson started as a filmmaker, making
award-winning animated films as a teenager. But it was while he was a visiting
student at an art school in ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Wave", Oleg Turchin, Oil on Canvas, 30x47, Photorealism Original Oil Seascape
By Oleg Turchin
Located in Dallas, TX
Oleg Turchin's "Waves" is an oil on canvas that measures 30" x 47". The painting is a beautiful photorealistic seascape of the blue and white ocean waves crashing in on a brown sandy beach on a stormy day. The artist's attention to detail, perspective, and refinement of the scene brings together a painting true to the scenery. The painting is not stretched at the moment but can be stretched and shipped within 3 days.
Blending photorealism and surrealism, Oleg achieves a signature style of his own. The beauty of nature bursts off the canvas with vibrant life. Oleg Turchin is a Moldovan artist, born in 1964. He studied at the Sciusev children’s art...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
BEYOND THE PALE - Photorealism / Still Life / Glass and Light
By Steve Smulka
Located in New York, NY
Steve Smulka creates hyperrealistic and photorealistic still life paintings that capture glass bottles in natural light and interprets the illumination in dramatic compositions.
Ori...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Crushed
Located in Austin, TX
"Crushed" by Gaylon Dingler
Acrylic on board
24.75 x 18.5 inches
Framed: 30 x 25 inches
A larger-than-life, photorealistic composition that captures ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
$2,700
"Hotel Negresco, Nice", Oleg Turchin, Oil on Canvas, 30" x 47", Realism
By Oleg Turchin
Located in Dallas, TX
"Hotel Negresco, Nice" by Oleg Turchin is 30x47 inches and oil on canvas. This realist depiction of the famous Hotel Negresco located on the Promenade des Anglais on the Baie de Anges...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hello, My Name Is: Crab Apple - miniature pictograph painting on paper
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Anthony Mastromatteo re-introduced himself to the Grenning Gallery with his 2023 exhibition "Hello, My Name Is: Anthony Mastromatteo." The works included in the show were incredibly ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Paper, Found Objects, Oil
Hello, My Name Is: Rose - miniature pictograph painting on paper
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Anthony Mastromatteo re-introduced himself to the Grenning Gallery with his 2023 exhibition "Hello, My Name Is: Anthony Mastromatteo." The works included in the show were incredibly intricate trompe l'oeil oil paintings ranging in size from 7 x 5 inches to 48 x 36 inches. In supplement to the exhibition, Mastromatteo painted 10 pictographs on "Hello My Name Is" nametags and put them in plastic sleeves one would clip on their person for any kind of large function. There is always a bit of tongue and cheek...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Paper, Found Objects, Oil
Hello, My Name Is: Shrimp - miniature pictograph painting on paper
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Anthony Mastromatteo re-introduced himself to the Grenning Gallery with his 2023 exhibition "Hello, My Name Is: Anthony Mastromatteo." The works included in the show were incredibly intricate trompe l'oeil oil paintings ranging in size from 7 x 5 inches to 48 x 36 inches. In supplement to the exhibition, Mastromatteo painted 10 pictographs on the recognizable "Hello My Name Is" nametags and put them in plastic sleeves one would clip on their person for any kind of large function. There is always a bit of tongue and...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Paper, Found Objects, Oil
Hello, My Name Is: Nike - miniature pictograph painting on paper
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Anthony Mastromatteo re-introduced himself to the Grenning Gallery with his 2023 exhibition "Hello, My Name Is: Anthony Mastromatteo." The works included in the show were incredibly ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Paper, Found Objects, Oil
"Sea", Oleg Turchin, Oil on Canvas, 30x47, Photorealism Original Oil Seascape
By Oleg Turchin
Located in Dallas, TX
Oleg Turchin's "Sea" is an oil on canvas that measures 30" x 47". The painting is a beautiful photorealistic seascape of the blue and white ocean waves crashing in on a brown sandy beach on a stormy day. The artist's attention to detail, perspective, and refinement of the scene brings together a painting true to the scenery. The painting is not stretched at the moment but can be stretched and shipped within 3 days.
Blending photorealism and surrealism, Oleg achieves a signature style of his own. The beauty of nature bursts off the canvas with vibrant life. Oleg Turchin is a Moldovan artist, born in 1964. He studied at the Sciusev children’s art...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Tower Bridge", Oleg Turchin, Oil/Canvas, 37x60, Photorealism Landscape Original
By Oleg Turchin
Located in Dallas, TX
Oleg Turchin's "Tower Bridge" is an oil on canvas that measures 37" x 60". The painting is a beautiful photorealistic depiction of Tower Bridge. Built bet...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Polychrome Gel #15
By Ben Weiner
Located in Greenwich, CT
Polychrome Gel #15 is an oil painting on canvas with a canvas size of 24 x 18 inches, signed, titled and dated on the overlap verso, 'Ben Weiner Polychrome Gel #15 2020'' and framed in a contemporary white frame.
Connecting two opposing styles—abstraction and photorealism—Ben Weiner creates hyper-detailed, lush paintings and videos of extremely magnified consumer products, including hair gel, chemical food additives, and deodorant. In his work, he presents such meticulously rendered, close-up views of his subjects that they read as pure abstractions. A through-line in Weiner’s various bodies of work is contemporary culture’s obsession with bodily enhancement through chemical products—whether by using hair products or taking illegal drugs.
"The Gel Series presents a virtual environment that is in flux. Based on hair gel, a material that is physically malleable and visually enticing, it has the ability to change one’s physical appearance. In an abstract manner, the painting reflects our current global environment, subject to constant, dramatic change and rapid development- on the one hand through humanity’s ability to alter the face of the earth according to its ideas; on the other through changing environmental conditions and natural disasters". - Ben Weiner
Ben Charles Weiner (b. 1980) is a New York based contemporary artist. His work bridges the seemingly opposite styles of hyperrealism, and process-based abstraction. Mr. Weiner has exhibited his work widely in the US and internationally, at institutions including The Carnegie Art Museum, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Boca Raton Museum of Art, and The Tarble Art Center. His work is in public collections including Microsoft, Sammlung/Collection, Progressive Insurance, and The Frederick R. Weisman Collection...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Polychrome Gel #11
By Ben Weiner
Located in Greenwich, CT
Polychrome Gel #11 is an oil painting on canvas with a canvas size of 18 x 24 inches, signed, titled and dated on the overlap verso, 'Ben Weiner Polychrome Gel #11 2019'' and framed in a contemporary white frame.
Connecting two opposing styles—abstraction and photorealism—Ben Weiner creates hyper-detailed, lush paintings and videos of extremely magnified consumer products, including hair gel, chemical food additives, and deodorant. In his work, he presents such meticulously rendered, close-up views of his subjects that they read as pure abstractions. A through-line in Weiner’s various bodies of work is contemporary culture’s obsession with bodily enhancement through chemical products—whether by using hair products or taking illegal drugs.
"The Gel Series presents a virtual environment that is in flux. Based on hair gel, a material that is physically malleable and visually enticing, it has the ability to change one’s physical appearance. In an abstract manner, the painting reflects our current global environment, subject to constant, dramatic change and rapid development- on the one hand through humanity’s ability to alter the face of the earth according to its ideas; on the other through changing environmental conditions and natural disasters". - Ben Weiner
Ben Charles Weiner (b. 1980) is a New York based contemporary artist. His work bridges the seemingly opposite styles of hyperrealism, and process-based abstraction. Mr. Weiner has exhibited his work widely in the US and internationally, at institutions including The Carnegie Art Museum, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Boca Raton Museum of Art, and The Tarble Art Center. His work is in public collections including Microsoft, Sammlung/Collection, Progressive Insurance, and The Frederick R. Weisman Collection...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (The Avenue of Stones)
By Colin Hunt
Located in New York, NY
Colin Hunt (b. 1973) is a Brooklyn, NY-based artist working primarily in egg tempera and watercolor. His recent series of landscapes of the Avebury stone circle outside of London are...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Egg Tempera
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Find a wide variety of authentic Photorealist 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 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, green, pink and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Gregory Block, James Zamora, Ian Hornak, and Kathleen Keifer. 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 paintings, so small editions measuring 3.5 inches across are also available. Prices for 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 $125 and tops out at $585,000, while the average work sells for $3,772.