Realist 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
"Reclining Nude in Green" - Oil Painting of Seated Nude Woman, Realist Style
Located in Denver, CO
Diego Glazer’s “Reclining Nude in Green” (2022) is an original, handmade oil painting on canvas panel that presents a seated nude woman in a classical pos...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
The Blind Woman
Located in Dallas, TX
"The Blind Woman" by artist Miles Cleveland Goodwin is oil on canvas, and measures 72 5/8 x 44 5/8 inches. Including the artist-made frame, the overall dim...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Duke, a springer spaniel
Located in London, GB
Thomas Ivester Lloyd (1873-1942)
Duke, a springer spaniel
signed 'T IVESTER LLOYD' (lower right) and inscribed 'DUKE.' (lower left)
oil on board
7 ¾ x 9 ¼ in. (19.7 x 23.5 cm.)
frame...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Robert White "Modern Mythology" 2021 Oil with Anatomical Realism & Surreal Edge
Located in Miami, FL
ROBERT KENNETH WHITE – "MODERN MYTHOLOGY"
⚜ Oil on canvas ⚜ Hand signed lower right ⚜ Frameless display
SURREALISM MEETS CONTEMPORARY PORTRAITURE
In “Modern Mythology,” Robert Kenne...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
White peonies watercolor
Located in Zofingen, AG
When I start a new paintong, I go to my garden and try to find a new topic. Every day something unusual happens there, new flowers bloom, the seasons change. My garden is always a so...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Around the Bend; Laguna Canyon
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by American Legacy Fine Arts directly from the artist.
Artist Statement
"This is a view that is very familiar to me. I see this as I drive home from my studio in the late afternoons and evenings, the fading light on the walls of Laguna Canyon...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
"Sunset West" (2025) Oil Painting, Colorado Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
Michael Magrin's ( US based) "Sunset West" is an original, handmade oil painting of a sunset above Colorado plains. This piece is framed in a "barn wood" frame and is ready to hang. ...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Wood Panel
Study of a Butterfly, Watercolour on Silk Applied to Handmade Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
One from a set of four watercolours of butterflies on silk, applied to handmade paper, with hand cut edges, by French artist La Roche Laffitte. Signed bottom right. (The other 3 items are available separately)
A beautifully observed and detailed study of a butterfly painted...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Silk, Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper, Carbon Pencil
White Horse Tavern, Oil Painting
By Nick Savides
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
The painting features a tavern along 11th Street in West Village, New York City, on a late September afternoon. The sun bathes the pavement and outdoor dining...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Realist Still Life, "Unnamed Floral Still Life"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is an original George M. Walker floral still life painting. This painting has been previously owned. Its dimensions are 27.5" x 23.5" x 1". It is framed.
Walker was born in Oklahoma on Sept. 6, 1901. Walker was a resident of Bartlesville, Oklahoma. In 1930 he settled in San Diego, CA. He painted as a hobby and was a long-time pupil of Alfred Mitchell...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tranquil Australian Landscape with Eucalyptus Trees - Vintage 20th Century Art
Located in Preston, GB
Tranquil Australian Landscape with Eucalyptus Trees adjacent to a Lake - Vintage 20th Century Art. Original Painting, Signed Artwork.
Art measures 36 x 24 inches
Frame measures 40...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
$1,887 Sale Price
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Animal Series (Rottweiler Dog with Flowers), Lowell Nesbitt - Painting
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993)
Title: Animal Series (Rottweiler Dog with Flowers)
Year: 1986
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 30.25 x 22 inches
Inscription: Signed, dated by the artis...
Category
1980s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$13,200 Sale Price
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Rooted in Stone 1 - contemporary, realism, tree, landscape, oil on canvas
By Ciba Karisik
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary oil painting is a landscape by Ciba Karisik.
Reminiscent of the storied windswept evergreens by Canada’s famed Group of Seven artists, this is a portrait of a pine...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Emotional Pause
Located in Zofingen, AG
This meticulously crafted acrylic painting combines refined aesthetics with quiet emotional depth. The composition draws the viewer into a delicate narrative filled with subtle symbo...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Hungarian Rabbi Judaica Oil Painting Hasidic Rabbi with Shtreimel
Located in Surfside, FL
20th century Jewish Chassidic Rabbi with fur hat portrait, Judaica Oil Painting
Category
20th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Soldier on horseback"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Attributed to Antonio Calza ( Verona)
"Soldier on Horseback"
Oil on panel
Diameter: 26 cm
No signatured
This striking oil painting on panel, attributed to the renowned Italian Baroqu...
Category
16th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$4,775
Forbidden Fruit oil/canvas, 95x75 cm, 2009
By Igor Maikov
Located in Riga, LV
Igor Maikov (1966)
Education:
1981 - 1984 The Art Academy of Latvia
1973 - 1983 Salaspils Primary and Secondary School
Exhibitions:
1994 - Group Exhibition «Rol-Art», Latvia
...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A View from La Jolla
By Calvin Liang
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Description
Winner of the Impressionist Award of Excellence, Master Signature Category
Exhibited
Oil Painters of America...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil Painting of Derwent Water English Lake District by British Landscape Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Oil Painting of Derwent Water, Keswick, in the English Lake District by Modern British Landscape Artist, Arthur Terry Blamires (b. 1930)
Art...
Category
1980s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
LARGE OIL PAINTING by SALVATORE COLACICCO (NAVY ADMIRALTY 20th CENTURY PIECE
Located in Ferndown, GB
OIL PAINTING LARGE SALVATORE COLACICCO (NAVY ADMIRALTY 20th CENTURY
Very good condition for age , (see pictures)
FINE RARE MARTINE PAINTING ORIG...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"The Sunset Morpho on Shades of Slate & Umber" Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Lindsey Kustusch's "The Sunset Morpho on Shades of Slate & Umber" is an original oil on wood panel artwork, sized at 12 x 12 x 1.50 inches. This 2023 piece, crafted by the artist's h...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Orioles and Grapes
Located in Pasadena, CA
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
UNRAMED: 16.5" x 11.5" FRAMED: 11.5" x 16.5" x 1"
Exhibited
Spring into Art 2024, presented by the San Marino League at The Huntin...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Del Bourree Bach, "Summerhill", 12x24 Rural Red Country Barn Landscape Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Summerhill", is a 12x24 acrylic painting on board by artist Del Bourree Bach featuring quiet rural landscape. The moon slowly begins to r...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
A Boy and His Rooster
Located in San Francisco, CA
The boy with a grown man’s expression. The dignified rooster, unfazed by his situation. This may have been painted from a 19th-century photograph, given the sepia tones of this paint...
Category
1980s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cheerful Dog Painting-Terrier Jumping for Joy a Bright Summer Day at The Beach
Located in Charleston, US
"Joy", Karen Bendersky's cheerful dog painting of a Boston Terrier jumping for joy on a bright summer day at the beach. The large scale happy dog paint...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Greenaway Beach-original impressionism ocean seascape painting-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
"Greenaway Beach" by Lenny Cornforth is a captivating original...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A view of Sebastopol in the Crimea.
Located in Paris, FR
A view of Sebastopol in the Crimea.
Oil on canvas.
In a 19th century gild wood and plaster frame.
This painting can be dated around 1830/1840 given the dresses worn by the women i...
Category
1830s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Traveler Oil A Journey Florence Academy Oil Sunny or a Chaotic Storm
Located in Houston, TX
Samuel S.Hoskins Statement on The Traveler :
I hold a deep appreciation for the motif of the traveler. I prefer to perceive my life as a narrative in which I play the role of a traveler. Much like in life itself, this journey involves navigating through various elements and facing the challenges that life presents. At times, the journey may be characterized by sunny and pleasant moments, while at other times, it might resemble a chaotic storm. Nevertheless, there is a profound beauty woven in it all.
The Traveler by Samuel Hoskins...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen, Canvas
$3,280 Sale Price
20% Off
Beautiful Oil On Canvas, Female Nude By V Tsvetkov Sold without frame
Located in Gavere, BE
"Realistic Oil On Canvas, Female Nude By V Tsvetkov "
Original contemporary painting by Bulgarian artist V Tsvetkov, depicting a beautiful female nude
Signe...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Sailing West, " Portugal Ocean Waves Oil Painting by Sparky LeBold
Located in Denver, CO
"Sailing West" by Sparky LeBold (US and Portugal based) is a handmade oil painting that depicts a moody ocean in Portugal.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Sparky LeBold has made a name for himse...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Newport Sailboat
By Calvin Liang
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
FRAMED: 21.375" x 17.375" x 1.25"; UNFRAMED: 12" x 16"
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Reclining Nude Female Portrait - British 19th century Victorian art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This beautiful British mid 19th century oil on board painting is by Edward William Wyon. It was painted in 1843 when Wyon would have been in his early thirties. The composition is a ...
Category
1840s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Madaket Marsh
By Marla Korr
Located in Greenwich, CT
Madaket Marsh, Nantucket
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Vincent" Realist Cat Portrait in the Outdoors Oil Painting on Carved Wood Panel
By Chaval
Located in New York, NY
With the medium of traditional oil paint, this charming piece by Chaval is exceptionally detailed and thought-provoking. Following a realist approach, yet depicting some playful impe...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Road Trip VI, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Mandy Main presents an expansive, glowing landscape with an accentuated perspective that pulls the eye deep into the distance. "The impressive momentum...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Memory of a Sundown, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Shawn Krueger's "Memory of a Sundown" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a rocky shore of a cove where an orange and green sky stretches into the distance reflecting on the water's surface.
About the Artist:
Shawn Krueger, born 1973, is a contemporary landscape painter whose work sits comfortably in both the American Tonalist and Arts & Crafts traditions. Shawn received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Calvin College in 1998, studying under Chris Stoffel...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
St. Clements Lime - original realism still life painting contemporary art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
A vibrant symphony of color and abundance, St. Clements Lime C...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bird. Lake, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A yellow ibis wades in shallow water, its spread wings creating a sense of movement and lightness. The simplified and almost abstract depictions of sky and wate...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Portrait of Lillian Gardiner Mrs Jack Allen British Edwardian art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb British portrait oil painting is by noted artist George Spencer Watson and is dateable to 1913. The sitter is Lillian Gardiner ( Mrs ...
Category
1910s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Outskirts of town. 1959, oil on cardboard, 44x54 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Outskirts of town. 1959, oil on cardboard, 44x54 cm
Realistic sunny landscape
Alfejs Bromults (1913.3.IV - 1991.11.I)
His first professional education was a...
Category
1950s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$815 Sale Price
30% Off
The Sitting Room at Castle Ward Co Down. Northern Ireland
By Simon Kozhin
Located in Zofingen, AG
Living room in an Irish castle in the neo-Gothic style with a soaring ceiling as if striving to heaven. The interior itself is flooded with cold light pen...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Marbella beach Spain spanish seascape mediterranean art oil on canvas
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Playa de Marbella (Marbella Beach)
Artist: Isidoro Lázaro Ferré (Barcelona, 1949)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 60 × 73 cm (23.6 × 28.7 in)
Dimensions with frame: 71 × 84 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Mac', a favourite terrier
Located in London, GB
Signed and inscribed ‘Mac/WH Wheeler’ (lower right)
This striking portrait by Walter Herbert Wheeler presents a dignified black terrier in crisp profile, its wiry coat and alert ears...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Detail of the Young Horsewoman
Located in Columbia, MO
Herman Richir
Detail of the Young Horsewoman
c. 1980s
Fine color facsimile
28 x 22 inches, 32 x 26 (framed)
Category
1980s Realist Paintings
Materials
Archival Pigment
Serenity at Dawn - beautiful misty morning at a River in the English Countryside
Located in Preston, GB
Serenity at Dawn - a beautiful misty morning at a River in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist, Spencer Coleman. Unique Vintage Original, Oil on Canvas, Signed.
A...
Category
1990s Realist Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Cotton, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
Antique Figurative Oil Painting of Children Playing
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique figurative oil painting of children playing. Oil on board. Framed.
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$966 Sale Price
25% Off
19th Century British "On the Medway. Morning"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Masterfully executed 19th century British oil on canvas. This fabulous piece depicts a possible battle scene at Medway, which in the 1600s the Dutch had a huge victory against the Br...
Category
19th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Untitled, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Shana Levenson's "Untitled" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a close up portrait of a female model.
This is a secondary market work ...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$2,000 Sale Price
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Winnie the Pooh - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Realistic Girl Portrait
By Kamil Lisek
Located in Salzburg, AT
KAMIL LISEK (born in 1980) Studied under the guidance of prof. Maciej Świeszewski at the faculty of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. He graduated with distinction obta...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Family Hearth" - Turn of the Century Cozy Interior Figurative Scene
By Charles Everett Johnson
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming turn-of-20th Century interior painting that takes the viewer back to simpler times with grandmother, grandfather, mother sewing and a young girl playing with her greyhound a...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Still Life with Purple Plate / oil on canvas
Located in Burlingame, CA
purple, grey and blue still life composition from American realist painter, Willard Dixon, who says "the charm of Still Life painting for the artist lies in the ability to manipulate...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Steady Hand" (2024) by Sheri Farabaugh, Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Steady Hand" (2024) by Sheri Farabaugh (United States Based) is a beautiful handmade still life oil painting that depicts a father helping his son across river stones.
Sheri Farab...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Evening Nocturne Oil Painting New Hope Lambertville Bridge Michael Budden
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Evening Bridge to New Hope
oil/panel
6 x 8 image size
Evening Bridge to New Hope is an oil painting on canvas panel by Michael Budden that showcases a unique composition of the New H...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Sacred Heart, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Aixa Oliveras' (US based) "Sacred Heart" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a model's hands delicately holding pink flowers above her hea...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Original Portrait of Noir Crime Writer Cornell Woolrich
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage Portrait of 1940's Noir Writer Cornell Woolrich
Pencil portrait of famous 1930's 40's noir/crime writer Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich, circa 1980. Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich is one of America’s best crime and noir writers who sometimes wrote under the pseudonyms William Irish...
Category
1980s Realist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
$520 Sale Price
20% Off
"Mountain Sunlight" by Christopher Clark, Original Painting, Sunlit Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
Christopher Clark's "Mountain Sunlight" is an original, hand made oil and acrylic painting that depicts a mountain path bathed in warm sunlight with atmospheric mountains in the dist...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Cherry summer
Located in Zofingen, AG
Scattered cherry on the metal plate create a vivid contrast against the white tablecloth focusing the viewer's eye towards the center of the composition. The various shades of red a...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Beach & Ocean Impressionistic Seascape Oil Painting by Michael Budden
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Off the Coast Seascape Study is an oil painting on canvas panel by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden that showcases a beautiful beach scene created in an impressionist...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Cymbidium Orchids II" Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Narelle Zeller's "Cymbidium Orchids II" is an oil painting that depicts nine blush colored orchid flowers blossoming in contrast with the light grey bac...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$770 Sale Price
30% Off
Clocks and Peonies
Located in Pasadena, CA
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
UNFRAMED: 12" x 16" FRAMED: 18.125" x 22.125" x 1.75"
Artist Statement
“’Clocks and Peonies’ explores the intricate balance between the passage of time and the ephemeral beauty of nature. At the heart of the composition rests a delicate vase, cradling a lavish bouquet of peonies in full bloom. Their petals unfurl in a graceful display of pinks and creams. Beside the peonies, an array of antique clocks stands...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Realist paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Realist 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, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Michael Budden, Su Yu, Olga Antonova, and Mark Hunter. 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 paintings, so small editions measuring 0.5 inches across are also available.