Realist Animal 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.
Find authentic realist paintings, sculptures, prints and more art on 1stDibs.
to
44
27
42
24
8
1
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
1,967
1,821
403
269
219
146
116
73
42
38
31
12
12
4
6
6
6
5
5
6
17
72
9
4
4
3
5
12
11
5
58
39
4
59
31
22
20
17
10
10
10
10
9
9
8
7
6
6
5
5
4
4
4
49
41
19
15
7
16
14
84
19
Style: Realist
Black Geese
By Winifred Austen
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Black Geese" 1934 is an original color aquatint by noted British artist Winifred Marie Louise Austen, 1876-1964. It is hand signed and titled in pencil by the artist. The image (plate mark) is 9 x 13.75 inches, sheet size is 10.30 x 16.5 inches. Published by Arthur Greatorax LTD, Grafton street, London. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Born at Ramsgate, Kent on 12 July 1876, Winifred Austen only daughter of Josiah Austin, a Cornish naval surgeon, and his wife Fanny, née Mann. She amended the spelling of her surname from Austin to Austen from the time that she began to exhibit.
In 1892 the family moved to Hornsey, London from where Austin attended the London County Council School of Arts and Crafts, studying under Cuthbert Swan, an animal painter. I n 1899 Austen exhibited a picture of a lion at the Royal Academy and in all exhibited more than seventy pictures at the Academy, the last in 1961.
She worked in both oils and watercolor but Austen is most highly regarded as an etcher. In all she made some two hundred etched plates, beginning in 1906 with a series entitled The White Heron. She had particular feeling for birds and small mammals, and the naturalist Sir Peter...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Gazelle - Lithograph by A. Mastroianni - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. Edition of 150 prints in Arabic numbers plus 30 prints in roman numbers.
Excellent conditions.
Category
1970s Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Lone Star Beer Wild Game Print, TEXAS White Tail Deer, Mule Deer, Hogs Hunting
Located in San Antonio, TX
Lone Star Beer Wild Game Print This print is new old stock. In mint condition and freshly framed. Hunting
Dated 1994
San Antonio Texas
Image Size: 2...
Category
1990s Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Color
Two Oxen
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Two Oxen" c.1960 is an original linocut on thin fiber paper by noted Turkish artist Nevzat Akoral, 1926-2016 It is signed in the plate as issue. The image is 11.15 x 9....
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Linocut
Giraffe
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. Edition of 150 prints.
Category
1970s Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"INDIAN ON HORSE" WESTERN NATIVE AMERICAN
Located in San Antonio, TX
Olaf Wieghorst
(1899 - 1988)
California, New York, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas Artist
Image Size: 11 x 8.5
Frame Size: 18.5 x 14.5
Medium: Print
"Indian on Horse...
Category
20th Century Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Latvian folk songs, volume VII, 1994. Paper, linocut, 23, 5x33 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Latvian folk songs, volume VII, 1994. Paper, linocut, 23,5x33 cm
imprint size 9x26 cm total page size 23,5x33cm
Dainis Rozkalns (1928 - 2018)
Artist, graphic artist, illustrator of...
Category
1990s Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Linocut
Gazelle - Lithograph by A. Mastroianni - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. Edition of 150 prints in Arabic numbers plus 30 prints in roman numbers.
Excellent conditions.
Category
1970s Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Fine and well-preserved lithograph with ornithological subject by John Gould
By John Gould
Located in Milan, IT
Original hand-watercoloured lithograph also signed in plate by publisher C. Hallmandel; C. E. Jackson, "Dictionary of Bird artists of the world", Woodbridge, Suffolk 1999, pp. 259-26...
Category
1830s Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Tiger 1, David Hunt, Limited Edition Print, Animal Artwork, Black And White Art
By David Hunt
Located in Deddington, GB
David Hunt
Tiger 1
Limited Edition Giclee Print
Edition of 10
Framed Size: H 84cm x W 84cm x D 3.5cm
Sold Framed
Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how a piece may look.
Tiger 1 is an original work on paper by artist, David Hunt.
David Hunt comments "after a career that has ranged from working on oil rigs in Africa and Central Asia to running my own business building shepherd's huts for private clients I have now returned to my first loves of drawing and draftsmanship. I am mostly self taught and have studied intaglio etching techniques with john Howard R.E. and Melvyn...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Giclée
SWIFT FOX - GREAT PLAINS WINTER
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 350.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity is included. All reasonable offers will be considered.
About the artist: A wildlife painter whose work often has sparrows, Michael Dumas...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Rosemary Ellis Surreal Snail Linocut Modern British Art Wildlife Mid Century
Located in London, GB
From a series of paintings by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis. To see them or our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from thi...
Category
1950s Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Linocut
Great White Shark, Lithograph by Richard Ellis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Great White Shark
Richard Ellis, American (1938)
Date: circa 1979
Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 500
Image Size: 18 x 25 inches
Size:...
Category
1970s Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rosemary Ellis Snail on Leaf Linocut Modern British Art Wildlife Mid Century
Located in London, GB
From a series of paintings by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis. To see them or our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from thi...
Category
1950s Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Linocut
Goat Herder's Wife
Located in New York, NY
George Biddle (1885-1973), Goat Herder’s Wife, 1928, lithograph, signed in pencil lower right and titled and numbered (64/100) in pencil lower left margin [with the inscription ”Bidd...
Category
1920s Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Three Sheep
By Alex Colville
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Alex Colville (1920-2013) is one of the titans of Canadian art. Working across mediums, Colville is a revered painter, draughtsman, engraver, and muralist. He is one of the few Canad...
Category
1950s Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Dad's Estuary View, Mark A Pearce, Limited Edition Print, Rural Art, Happy Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Mark A Pearce
Dad’s Estuary View
Limited Edition Reduction Linocut
Edition of 58
Size: H 66cm x W 66cm x D 0.1cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that in situ images are purely an indicatio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Linocut
Everlasting and The End
By Tammy Mackay
Located in Deddington, GB
Everlasting and The End by Tammy Mackay [2021/22]
limited_edition
Photopolymer Plate and Chine Colle
Edition number 30
Image size: H:43.5 cm x W:59 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Mixed Media
Henry Moore, "Dromedary", original etching, signed
By Henry Moore
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original etching, aquatint and roulette by Henry Moore, created in 1981. It is from Moore's album of 15 original etchings, entitled "Animals in the Zoo". Henry Moore...
Category
1980s Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Le Canard a Longue Queue (The Long Tailed Duck) /// Ornithology Martinet Bird
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: François-Nicolas Martinet (French, 1731-1800)
Title: "Le Canard a Longue Queue (The Long Tailed Duck)" (Plate 954)
Portfolio: Histoire Naturelle Des...
Category
1770s Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor, Laid Paper, Intaglio
Le Harle Femell (The Female Merganser) /// Ornithology Martinet Bird Animal Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: François-Nicolas Martinet (French, 1731-1800)
Title: "Le Harle Femell (The Female Merganser)" (Plate 953)
Portfolio: Histoire Naturelle Des Oiseaux
*Signed by Martinet in the...
Category
1770s Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor, Laid Paper, Intaglio
Three Herons - At the flaming lake -
Located in Berlin, DE
Rudolf Hayder (active in the 1st half of the 20th century), Heron. Color woodcut on thin Japanese paper, 24 x 29 cm (image), 29 x 36 cm (sheet size), signed by hand at lower right "R. Hayder" and titled by hand as "Reiher". Lower left inscribed by hand "Orig.[inal] woodcut, hand print".
- A little bit stained in the margins and very occasionally in the image, minimal hole above the signature, traces of creasing. At the back side's margins with remnants of an old mounting.
About the artwork
In the context of French Japonism, the color woodblock print, which was widespread in the Asian region, was rediscovered for Western art. The artists of the time, such as Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh, were inspired not only by the cultural influence, but also by the two-dimensionality of the pictorial spaces. Thus, color woodcuts became an important moment in the development of the modern pictorial concept founded by Impressionism.
In Rudolf Hayder's "Herons", too, the two-dimensionality of the pictorial space is decisive for the pictorial effect. The herons, surrounded by reeds, are framed by the yellow background of the lake, followed by the dark blue-greenish stripe of the opposite shore and, above it, the sky in a lighter blue-green. Formally, it is a sequence of planes, but the two-dimensionality of the motif creates a spatial effect. This spatiality in the surface creates an intense pictorial effect. Hayder intensifies this effect with the blazing lake. In terms of color, the water becomes a sunset. The yellow turns reddish brown toward the shore, then fades to brownish red, while the shore is a watery turquoise...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Color
Le Millouinan /// Ornithology Martinet Bird Animal Art Duck Natural History
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: François-Nicolas Martinet (French, 1731-1800)
Title: "Le Millouinan" (Plate 1002)
Portfolio: Histoire Naturelle Des Oiseaux
*Signed by Martinet in the plate (printed signatur...
Category
1770s Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor, Laid Paper, Intaglio
Blu on Red
Located in New York, NY
Brenda Zlamany
Blu on Red, 2013
Limited Edition special giclee print.
Hand signed and dated by the artist on the front
19 1/2 × 19 1/2 inches
Unframed
Gorgeous giclee print based up...
Category
2010s Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Giclée
A Jersey Vraic Cart
Located in New York, NY
Edmund Blampied (1886-1966), A Jersey Vraic Cart. 1939, etching, signed in ink lower margin [also signed and dated in the plate]. Reference: Appleby 183, the full sheet, on a J. Wh...
Category
1930s Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Canard de Miclon (Old Squaw) /// Ornithology Martinet Bird Animal Art Duck
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: François-Nicolas Martinet (French, 1731-1800)
Title: "Canard de Miclon (Old Squaw)" (1008)
Portfolio: Histoire Naturelle Des Oiseaux
*Signed by Martinet in the plate (printed...
Category
1770s Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor, Laid Paper, Intaglio
Ostend Horse
Located in New York, NY
Edmund Blampied (1886-1966), Ostend Horse, drypoint, 1926, signed in pencil lower margin [also signed and dated in the plate lower left], from the edition of 100, printed on ivory laid paper with full margins with deckle edges, 7 x 9, the sheet 9 1/4 x 12 1/2 inches, still in the original SFA Museum mat with extensive annotations.
Provenance: Kennedy Galleries (with their stock number A49359)
Ex Collection: Albert M...
Category
1920s Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint
BROAD WINGED HAWK
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 350.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity is included. All reasonable o...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
César - Centaur - Picasso's Homage - Original Signed Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
César Baldaccini
Original Etching
Dimensions: 56.5 x 40 cm
Signed and Numbered
Edition of 99
It is the only original etching ever made by César.
César Baldaccini was born in Marseille in 1921. At the age of 12, he left the school to help his father, cooper. At 15 years old, he studied at the Art college of Marseille. He took evening drawing teachings, and then was interested in sculpture until 1939.
In 1942, César received a scholarship and went to Paris. He studied ten years at the School of Beaux-Arts; he worked in the studios of Gaumont and Alfred Jeanniot and was named “Grand Massier” (teacher) of this school. At that time, he was living in the same house as Alberto Giacometti.
In 1944, short of resources, he went to Marseille, then return to Paris, next year. With the 50s, he made discovered his work through his first exhibitions. One of its works (« The fish ») obtained a place in the Museum of Modern Art in Paris (1955). Henceforth, he exhibited ceaselessly, participating in numerous “Salons” in France and abroad. César received numerous prices there. He got personal exhibitions everywhere (Japan, the United States, Holland, France, Italy, etc.). Important retrospectives came, later. In 1970, he was named professor a foreman to the School of Beaux-Arts in Paris.
During his all life, Caesar was stimulated by « the love of the profession » and by an extraordinary will to innovate. The humor of the man did not miss and was noticed through his work. Pablo Picasso was his major reference, also Alberto Giacometti, Germaine Richier, Pablo Gargallo and Julio Gonzales...
Category
1980s Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
PEREGRINE
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 350.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity is included. All reasonable o...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
PEREGRINE FALCON
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 350.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity is included. All reasonable o...
Category
1990s Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
MOOSE
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 350.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity is included. All reasonable o...
Category
1980s Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
MALE POLAR BEAR
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 350.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity is included. All reasonable o...
Category
1990s Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
LONE SENTRY
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 350.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity is included. All reasonable o...
Category
1990s Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
SNUGGLY BEAR FAMILY
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 350.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity is included. All reasonable o...
Category
1990s Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
BLACK BEAR IN THE CHICKCHOCS
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 350.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity is included. All reasonable o...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
A FINE SPRING DAY
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 350.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity is included. All reasonable o...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
DEER IN A CLEAR CUT
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 350.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity is included. All reasonable o...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
GULLS
By Carl Arlen
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 350. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity is included. All reasonable off...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
CARIBOU, MOUNT JACQUES CARTIER
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 350.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity is included. All reasonable o...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
MARTEN AND GRAY JAYS
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 350.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity is included. All reasonable o...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
MAJESTY
By Carl Arlen
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 350. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity is included. All reasonable off...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
BLUE BIRD
By Carl Arlen
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 350. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity is included. All reasonable off...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
BY THE DOCKS
By Carl Arlen
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 350. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity is included. All reasonable off...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
ONE OF A KIND
By Carl Arlen
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 350. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity is included. All reasonable off...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
HAWK'S COUNTRY
By Carl Arlen
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 350. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity is included. All reasonable off...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Realist animal prints for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Realist animal 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 animal prints created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of green and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Carl Arlen, Peter Sculthorpe, Francois Nicolas Martinet, and Mari Kloppel. Frequently made by artists working with Lithograph, and Paper 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 animal prints, so small editions measuring 0.5 inches across are also available. Prices for animal 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 $50 and tops out at $10,150, while the average work sells for $410.