Realist Abstract Prints
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
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, silkscreen on aluminum, signed/N, Framed
By Richard Haas
Located in New York, NY
Incised signature in aluminum, annotated "Artists Proof" and titled; ink on top smudged
If you've ever visited the Guggenheim Bilbao, you should get this stunning mixed media on alum...
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Early 2000s Realist Abstract Prints
Materials
Metal
Mujer fumando
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Fernando Botero
''Mujer fumando"
1985
lithograph, signed in lower right corner
Numbered in Roman numerals in lower left corner num. XLVI/L,
40 x 33 cm.
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1980s Realist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Australian Rolling Waves, Nautical Triptych of Vigorous Coast, Large Seascape
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This series of cyanotype triptychs showcases the beauty of nature scenes, including stunning beaches and oceans, as well as the intricate textures of water, forests, and skies. These...
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2010s Realist Abstract Prints
Materials
Emulsion, Lithograph, Paper
1984 Olympic Runner Print, Hand Signed by April Greiman AND Jayme Odgers w/ COA
Located in New York, NY
Renowned artists and designers
April Greiman and Jayme Odgers
1984 Olympic Games Print (Hand Signed by both April Greiman and Jayme Odgers), 1982
Offset Lithograph Poster - art in sports -
Signed in graphite pencil on the front. Accompanied by a letter of authenticity from the publisher
Also accompanied by Certificate of Guarantee issued by Alpha 137 Gallery
36 x 24 inches
Unframed
Accompanied by a letter of authenticity from the publisher on Olympic letterhead. This is one of 750 hand signed lithographic posters (though fewer than 200 said to be extant), published in 1982 to celebrate the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics .
April Greiman is an American designer widely recognized as one of the first designers to embrace computer technology as a design tool. Greiman is also credited, along with early collaborator, the late artist Jayme Odgers, with helping to import the European New Wave design style to the US during the late 70s and early 80s."
The Olympic Committee commissioned 15 nationally known artists, including April Greiman and Jayme Odgers to create unique designs to promote the event. The complete list of artists is: Sam Francis, David Hockney, Richard Diebenkorn, Carlos Almaraz, Robert Rauschenberg, Jennifer Bartlett, Jonathon Borofsky, Roy LIchtenstein, April Gornik, Raymond Saunders, Martin Puryear, John Baldessari, Lynda Benglis, Billy Al Bengston and Garry Winogrand. This was Greiman and Odger's contribution to the portfolio. In 2017, the Olympic Museum in Lausanne Switzerland...
Category
1980s Realist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset, Pencil
Flammes Interieures
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marcel Gromaire
Medium: Lithograph
Title: Flammes Intérieures
Portfolio: Verve Vol VII No. 27-28
Year: 1952
Edition: 6000
Signed: Signed in the plate
Framed Size: 22" x 18 1/...
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1950s Realist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
La Bandera Cubana
Located in New York, NY
Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) created this color lithograph entitled “LA BANDERA DE CUBA” in 1980. This impression is signed, titled, and inscribed “Seis” [six] in pencil. The printed ...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
La Penitenciaria
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this early woodcut. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 145/300 in pencil by Siqueiros.
Category
1930s Realist Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Young Lady in Yellow Dress
Located in New York, NY
Color etching and aquatint on wove paper. Signed, titled and numbered 56/100 in pencil.
This etching is made after the painting of the same subject "Woman in Yellow Dress...
Category
1970s Realist Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Etching, Aquatint
ABSTRACT ARCTIC LANDSCAPE Original Hand Drawn Lithograph Blue, Green, Tan, Black
Located in Union City, NJ
OLD STONE BRIDGE II is an original, hand drawn stone lithograph printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper 100% acid free paper, by the artist Ido Ben-Porat. ...
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1970s Realist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
colorful landscape abstract Landschaftsszene
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Belgrade, MT
Pawel Kontny was born in Poland, he began with sketching wartime scenes combining abstract with realism. He exhibited throughout Europe. This piece is a part of my private collection...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$450 Sale Price
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John Muench at Joan Whitney Payson Gallery of Art (Signed by John Muench)
Located in New York, NY
John Muench at Joan Whitney Payson Gallery of Art (Signed by John Muench), ca. 1982
Offset lithograph poster (Hand signed by John Muench)
Hand-signed by artist, Pencil signed by John...
Category
1980s Realist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset, Pencil
Violin - By Fernandez Arman
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Fine serigraphy on plexiglass 1973, hand signed and numbered (edition of 600), in good condition.
After Arman's so-called "allures d'objets", in which objects are inked and stamped o...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Abstract Prints
Materials
Plexiglass
Ansel Adams and the West
By Ansel Adams
Located in New York, NY
Ansel Adams and the West, 1979
Offset Lithograph Poster
23 × 36 inches
Unframed
This offset lithograph poster was created on the occasion of the Ansel Adams exhibition, Ansel Adams and the West, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from September 8 - October 28, 1979. The photograph featured in this poster is Old Faithful...
Category
1970s Realist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Gran vía
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Antonio López
Gran Vía
2023?
Etching and lithography
Print run of 20 copies (17/100)
78 x 72cm
Category
2010s Realist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Lithograph
"Finest Hope" original lithograph signed pop art abstract hyperrealism collage
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Finest Hope" is an original color lithograph by Michael Knigin. The artist signed the piece in the lower right and wrote the edition number, 182/300, in the lower left with graphite...
Category
1980s Realist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Ink
Reflejos II
By Jaume Plensa
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Jaume Plensa
2024
"Reflections II"
Etching on polymer plate
65 x 71
Category
2010s Realist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
César - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
César - Original Lithograph
1961
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
From the art review XXe siècle
Unsigned and unnumbered as issued
Category
1980s Realist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
César - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
César - Original Lithograph
1963
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
From the art review XXe siècle
Unsigned and unnumbered as issued
Category
1980s Realist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Square with Shadow, from: Nine Objects - German Realism
Located in London, GB
This offset lithograph is hand signed and dated in pencil by the artist "Richter, 1969" at the lower right margins.
It is hand numbered from the edition of 80 at the lower right marg...
Category
1960s Realist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Cube on Lawn Chair, from: Nine Objects - German Realism
Located in London, GB
This offset Lithograph is hand signed and dated in pencil by the artist "Richter, 1969" at the lower right margins.
It was printed by Hoppe & Werry, Mulheim an der Ruhr. and was co-...
Category
1960s Realist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Object on Cloth, from: Nine Objects
Located in London, GB
This offset lithograph is hand signed and dated in pencil by the artist "Richter, 1969" at the lower right margins.
It was printed by Hoppe & Werry, Mulheim an der Ruhr. and was co-...
Category
1960s Realist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Object on a Table, from Nine Objects - German Realism
Located in London, GB
This Offset Lithographs is Hand Signed and Dated by the artist "Richter, 1969" in pencil at the lower right margins.
It was co-published by Galerie Heiner Friedrich and Verlag G. v....
Category
1960s Realist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Table Legs, from: Nine Objects - German Realism
Located in London, GB
This offset lithograph is hand signed and dated in pencil by the artist "Richter, 1969" at the lower right margins.
It was printed by Hoppe & Werry, Mulheim an der Ruhr. and was co-...
Category
1960s Realist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Cube with Cups, from Nine Objects - German Realism
Located in London, GB
This Offset Lithographs is Hand Signed and Dated by the artist "Richter, 1969" in pencil at the lower right margins.
It was co-published by Galerie Heiner Friedrich and Verlag G. v....
Category
1960s Realist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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Realist abstract prints for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Realist abstract prints 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 abstract prints 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 and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Gerhard Richter, César Baldaccini, Ansel Adams, and Elizabeth Catlett. Frequently made by artists working with Lithograph, and Offset Print 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 abstract prints, so small editions measuring 3.25 inches across are also available. Prices for abstract prints made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $295 and tops out at $20,000, while the average work sells for $2,400.