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
Olive Grove with Cypress Trees - Charcoal Drawing, Greece, Island Black & White
Located in New York, NY
This 22 x 31.5 inches black and white chalk painting on canvas represents a Greek landscape. Olive and cypress trees populate the landscape. Tzannes is an American painter of Greek origins. In his twenties, he visited Kythera, the Greek island of his father's birth. Since then, the island has become the primary reference of his creativity. Using black and white to represent this landscape gives the mighty hundred-year-old olive trees a monumental presence. The viewer is drawn into the timeless, spiritual quality of the Greek landscape. Despite the absence of color, Tzannes' mastery of drawing creates a tangible effect of the Greek light...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Chalk, Charcoal
Dune protection, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Plein air, Poland, 2022. As I searched between the dunes for protection from the sun and wind, I found this wonderful sheltered spot and painted it right away. Oil on cotton lamina...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil On Canvas " two ballerinas " By Maria Szantho with Frame
Located in Gavere, BE
"Two Ballerinas Oil On Canvas By Maria Szantho Frame"
Nice and large painting "two ballerinas", painted by the female artist Maria Szantho (1897 - 1998) Hungarian school.
Maria Szant...
Category
1960s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Сountryside landscape Well pole or Shadoof Acknowledged Polish-Russian master
Located in Stockholm, SE
Signed lower left: Iosif Evstafievich Krachkovsky (1854 - 1914), and dated lower right - 1910. Summer View Of Well pole or Shadoof / sweep somewhere in Ukraine (due the specific wicker fences design). A hot summer day that causes thirst, water quenches it. Water, a symbol of life at all times. The well depicted in this painting. source of water and hence the source of life. Symbolism and philosophical overtones in this painting is the main message of the artist to us... Oil painting on canvas pasted on cardboard, framed, early 20th century.
Size app.: 45 x 33 cm (roughly 17.7 x 12.99 in), framed by 56 x 44 cm (roughly 22.04 x 17.32 in). Very Good condition, age wear, canvas pasted on cardboard. Please study good resolution images for overall cosmetic condition. In person actual painting may appear darker than on our pictures, appearance also depends on sufficient light in your room.
I. E. Krachkovsky - Polish-Russian landscape painter...
Category
1910s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
Lava Flow Into Sea - Hawaii - Oil On Canvas - Abstract Painting By Dante Rondo
Located in Carmel, CA
Any novelist battling through writer’s block might be excited to encounter Dante Rondo, whose life has been a collage of free-spirited experiences that would satisfy the most vicario...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Armenian Contemporary Art by Kamsar Ohanyan - Bad Weather
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"SEVEN SISTERS, no. 1", Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
From the Sussex coastline of southeast England, there are dramatic, high limestone cliffs. I love the starkness of the blues and greens of sky and sea juxtaposed with the brilliant w...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
VOGUE Original Watercolor Fashion Illustration Pink Black
Located in Norwalk, CT
Original Watercolor art on paper.
The size of art is 11"X14" . Size with the white matt is 20″X16″.
Frame is not included.
Signed by artist.
Certificate of Authenticity is availabl...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Portrait of a woman" Oil on canvas
Located in Carmel, CA
Telopa, the father and son of artists, paints women in an elegant Mannerist style that combines classic beauty and mythological, symbolic allegory.
A San Francisco Bay Area native,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Cyclic Passage 1 - Oil On Canvas - Abstract Painting By Dante Rondo
Located in Carmel, CA
Any novelist battling through writer’s block might be excited to encounter Dante Rondo, whose life has been a collage of free-spirited experiences that would satisfy the most vicario...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Carmel Point Big Surf - Landscape Painting - Acrylic On Canvas By Dante Rondo
Located in Carmel, CA
Any novelist battling through writer’s block might be excited to encounter Dante Rondo, whose life has been a collage of free-spirited experiences that would satisfy the most vicario...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Swan Lake, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Painting Lake. Swans: a rich palette of green, white swans on the lake, the reflection of the sky in the water, clouds, evoke a feeling of love and gratitude to nature. The picture h...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tears for Life - Oil Acrylic Figurative Painting Colors Black Ivory White Brown
Located in Sofia, BG
"Tears for life " is a modern art line painting by Maestro Dimitar Voynov -Junior,
About the artwork:
TECHNIQUE: Acrylic, oil on canvas painting
STY...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape
By Richard Peterson
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape" 1991 is an oil on board by noted artist Richard Peterson, born 1947. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The board size is 24 x 3...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Calliope Hummingbird
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original painting signed by the Artist on lower right..
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Falaise d'aval, Blick vom Falaise
Located in Paris, IDF
Egg tempera on canvas, Shadow joint frame
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 Ge...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Egg Tempera
French Contemporary Art by Claudine Picard - Bicolore
Located in Paris, IDF
Claudine Picard is a French artist born in 1949 who lives & works in Sainte Marie, France. She is graduated from the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in 1973 (ENSAD).
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Market 2, Painting, Oil on Paper
By Asher Topel
Located in Yardley, PA
a visit to the market and its colors, full of products, noises and aromas :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Sag Harbor Cinema Under Construction" Oil painting rebuild of local landmark
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Oil painting of the Sag Harbor Cinema being rebuilt. Painted en plein air during the Summer of 2019, Tina Orsolic Dalessio found herself captivated b...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Impressionistic Seascape Painting Michael Budden Beach Sunrise
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Morning Drama
oil/panel
image 8 x 10 unframed, 14.5 x 16.5 framed is an oil painting on panel by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden that showcases a dramatic sunrise se...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Contemporary Art by Claudine Picard - Moules
Located in Paris, IDF
Claudine Picard is a French artist born in 1949 who lives & works in Sainte Marie, France. She is graduated from the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in 1973 (ENSAD).
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Elegant Still Life of Two Blue and White Stacked Cups with Blue Background"
Located in Wellesley, MA
Elegant Still Life of Two Blue and White Stacked Cups with Blue Background"
Olga Antonova’s subject is still lifes of elegant cups, plates, teapots, and dishes, singular for their f...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oscar de La Renta Fashion Illustration Watercolor Original Art Pink Glam Model
Located in Norwalk, CT
Original Watercolor art on paper.
The size of art is 11"X14" . Size with the white matt is 20″X16″.
Frame is not included.
Signed by artist.
Certificate of Authenticity is availabl...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Times Square at Night, Empire and Loews signed Oil & acrylic painting on canvas
By Richard Haas
Located in New York, NY
Richard Haas is the world's foremost architectural muralist. He was profile by CBS News Sunday Morning Arts program with Jane Pauley
Richard Haas
Times Square at Night (Empire and Lo...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Western Lands, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Sunset reveals the vast grandeur of the Grand Canyon. The rugged cliffs glow with deep amber and violet hues beneath a sky brushed with luminous pastel clouds. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Two Stacked Cups in Blue White and Gold" Elegant, sparkly patterned still life
Located in Wellesley, MA
Olga Antonova’s subject is compositions of extraordinarily elegant, beautiful and whimsical cups, plates, teapots, vases and dishes, but there is something playful about these paintings. Stacked teacups are also amusing, having a kind of jaunty and upbeat personality of their own and everyone responds to the bling and sparkle of gold and silver while marveling at Antonova’s seemingly effortless ability to paint these radiant details...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Snowy Mountains, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This painting is an imaginary landscape but inspired by the mountains in the Alps. * The artwork is signed on the back and includes a Certificate of Authenticity. * The painting is...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Highland Cattle in a Mountain Glen, original oil on canvas, 19thC British
Located in Naples, Florida
This is a stunning artwork entitled a ‘Landscape with Highland Cattle’. It is circa 20th Century and is an original oil on canvas painting by the English Artist William Perring Holly...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Point to the Sky
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Based on Chicago, Point to the Sky is the amalgamation of architectural genres that thrive in dense, urban environments, and present a human cliff on many a city b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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...
Category
1960s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Crocuses, Belgian Original Oil Painting with Flowers by Irina Trushkova
Located in Zofingen, AG
A vibrant blue and white crocuses vase is placed in a smooth, neutral space. I intended to keep the tenderness and preciousness of flowers, a quality I wanted to preserve. The work i...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Buttercup Valley, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A peaceful valley with billowing clouds overhead invites immersion in the calmness of nature. The scene calls with the song of solitude and simplicity. It is a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Andalusian garden in de house of Sorolla Painter, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Andalusian garden in de house of Sorolla Painter - Madrid :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Ha...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life of Fruit on Table, Gilt Wood Oval Frame with Convex, Hand Painted Oil
Located in Jacksonville, FL
A sumptuous still life unfolds in this exquisite oil painting, where a bounty of ripe peaches, pears, and grapes is artfully arranged beside an elegant vase. The fruits, rendered in ...
Category
20th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
IN THE BARN, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Bill Stone
Located in Yardley, PA
A warm morning light spills over the clutter in the barn. (Side-stapled canvas, should be framed.) :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authent...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Road Around Capri, Tyrrhenian Sea, Italian Landscape, Island, Campania Region
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Carlo Ciappa (Italian, 1890-1970)
Signed: A. Ciappa (Lower, Left)
" Road Around Capri ", circa 1960s
Oil on Canvas
23 1/2" x 34
Overall Size: 27" x 37"
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Saving Time, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By David Sipko
Located in Yardley, PA
I like to collect anything that is colorful and would be fun to paint in a still life. I had saved some watch boxes and arranged them into a still life in my studio with some bright...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil Painting, Large Still Life Oil Circle of Emillio Greco
By Emilio Greco
Located in Uppingham, GB
Large 20th Century Still Life Oil Painting (unsigned) circle of Emilio Greco (Italian, born 1932)
Very nice gilded frame with Arched panels.
72" x 40".
Very attractive wall filler.
Category
1990s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"The Flower" Oil on Board
Located in Carmel, CA
An original piece.
The painting comes with a certificate of authenticity and a letter of appraisal.
'The Flower', oil on board.
Category
1990s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Undaunted Approach
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original Acrylic on Board painting signed by the Artist on lower left corner.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Sean Farrell, "A Flurry of Dogwoods" 36x12 Realism White Floral Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
"A Flurry of Dogwood", is a 36x12 oil painting on canvas by artist Sean Farrell featuring a flourish of white aromatic dogwood blooms and branches. Strong...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Lünersee" (2022) Limited Edition Poster Print, Portrait of Woman
Located in Denver, CO
"Lünersee" is a limited edition poster print by the acclaimed UK artist Ed Fairburn. This captivating piece, released in 2022, is reproduced onto 100% 290gsm cotton rag premium Moab ...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
Winter Landscape with Stream - Scottish Edwardian art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This gorgeous Edwardian Scottish oil painting is by noted Scottish artist George Houston. Painted circa 1910 and in portrait orientation, the composition is a winter's snowy landscap...
Category
1910s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Two Worlds - British Edwardian figurative interior oil painting religious art
Located in London, GB
This intriguing British Edwardian figurative interior oil painting is by noted artist Arthur Croft Mitchell. It is entitled Two Worlds verso and dated as c1910. The composition of th...
Category
1910s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woolworths, Sutton, London - British figurative shop interior art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This fantastic British 1940's figurative interior oil painting is by noted artist Leonard Fuller. Painted circa 1940, the colourful composition is looking into a busy Woolworths stor...
Category
1940s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Inside and around the glass, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
« I try to express fascination with artistic form, triumph of phenomenon, beauty of textiles, and attraction to the boundless variability of human body shapes and psychological mean...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Venus coming out of the water" Oil on board by Lancelot Speed
Located in Carmel, CA
Speed was born in London on 13 June 1860, the youngest son of William Speed, a Queens Council of the Middle Temple.
Speed had no formal art training, bu...
Category
19th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Lake. 1965, paper, watercolor, 52x67 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Lake.
1965, paper, watercolor, 52x67 cm
The central focus of the artwork is on birches at the lake at early autumn
Janis Brekte (1920.15.VIII – 1985.27.XII)
Janis Brekte his first ...
Category
1960s Realist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
20th C. Parisian society Figuarative painting by Albert Guillaume 'Radio Sermon'
Located in White Plains, NY
'Radio Sermon,' 1920's by Parisian artist, Albert Guillaume. Oil on canvas, 21.5 x 26 in. / Frame: 30 x 35 in. This charming and humorous painting depicts a familial group of men, wo...
Category
1920s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Figures on the road to Dundrum Ireland in the Irish Mountain Landscape
Located in Preston, GB
Figures on the road to Dundrum Ireland in the Irish Mountain Landscape by William Yeaman. Original, Oil on Canvas presented in an ornate frame.
Art mea...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
When the World Was New, Original Gouache Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"When the World Was New" by Thane Gorek (United States) is a handmade landscape oil painting that is framed and ready to hang.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Dunham Massey National Trust Outbuildings painting, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Gav Banns
Located in Yardley, PA
Dunham Massey was acquired by the National Trust, and consists of a Georgian house, garden, deer park and a series of outbuildings, some of which are th...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Photorealistic Ocean Study Oil on gessoed paper, Hampton Surf by Todd Kenyon
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
Todd Kenyon
"Hampton Surf"
Oil Sketch on Gessoed 300lb Arches Watercolor paper
22 x 30 in.
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JoAnne Artman Gallery is pleased to present Endless Blue, a c...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Gesso, Oil
German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Stinfangblick, Hamburg
Located in Paris, IDF
Egg tempera on canvas, Shadow joint frame
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 Ge...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Egg Tempera
"A Wet Windy Day", Joe Rader Roberts, 30x40, Original Oil on Canvas, Western Art
By Joe Rader Roberts
Located in Dallas, TX
Cowboys trying to run out of the storm on this cold rainy day of cattle herding on the ranch. A cowboy in a wagon being pulled by four brown and black horses is herding the longhorns...
Category
1970s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Anne Wolff, "Quiet Time", Foggy Horse Racing Equine Oil Painting on Canvas
By Anne Wolff
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This equine racing painting "Quiet Time" by artist Anne Wolff is a 24x30 original oil painting on canvas. This painting depicts the morning workouts at the...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Market at the Tour de l'île in Geneva, circa 1890
Located in Genève, GE
Oil dimension : 39,5 x 58,5 cm
With Frame : 52,5 x 71 cm
This painting by Gustave Castan, depicting a market on Geneva's Place de l'Île around 1890, depicts an urban scene in the mi...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"After the rain 4"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
The work was created based on observing the changing landscape from the window of one's own home in Ukraine.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
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.