Realist Figurative 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
The Windmill
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Windmill" 1641 is an etching on paper After Rembrandt Van Rijn, 1606-1669, plate engraved By French renown engraver Charles Armand Durand, 1831-1905. Signatu...
Category
17th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
From the Vargas Portfolio
Located in Missouri, MO
From the Vargas Portfolio **Portfolio Cover Not Included**
Lithograph Only
Alberto Vargas (1896-1982) was born in Arequipa, Peru, in 1896, the son of...
Category
20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Join The Regular Army: A Skilled Trade' 1950s British Army Recruitment Poster
Located in London, GB
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Anon.
Join the Regular Army...
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1950s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Winter Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Winter Landscape" c.1950, is a color etching on paper by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir, 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the ...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Homage to the Panthers, signed/n lithograph shown at Art Students League, Framed
Located in New York, NY
This exact work was exhibited at the Art Students League in an important show. (details below)
Elizabeth Catlett
Homage to the Panthers, 1993
Color Lithograph on wove paper with deck...
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1990s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Somme, Coucher de Soleil
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Roger Hebbelinck (Belgian, born 1912)
Title: Somme, Coucher De Soleil
Year: Circa 1965
Medium: Color Etching
Edition: Numbered 109/300 i...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Three Girls Playing Music - Stone Lithograph - 1928
Located in Paris, IDF
Marie LAURENCIN
Three Girls Playing Music (1928)
Stone Lithograph
Printed in Atelier Mourlot
Printed signature in the plate
On China paper 31 x 42 cm (c...
Category
1920s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Porte Saint Denis, Paris
By Hans Figura
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978)
Title: Porte Saint Denis Paris, Paris
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Color etching with aquatint on silk
Edition: ...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Bridge House
By Hans Figura
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978)
Title: The Bridge House
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Color etching with aquatint on silk
Edition: Unknown
Plate mark (Image) size: 10 ...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
YOUNG WOMAN BRAIDED HAIR Signed Stone Lithograph Realist Female Portrait Drawing
Located in Union City, NJ
YOUNG WOMAN BRAIDED HAIR is an original, hand drawn stone lithograph (not digitally or photo reproduced) limited edition print by the artist Raphael Soyer - Russian/American Social Realism Painter, 1899-1987. Printed in NYC 1976 by master printer Joseph Kleineman from a hand drawn lithography stone using traditional hand lithography techniques on archival Arches printmaking paper 100% acid-free rag.
YOUNG WOMAN BRAIDED HAIR is a sensitive, realist female portrait drawing depicting a moody girl with dark braided hair wearing a notch neck blouse; her facial expression appearing serious and contemplative as she looks slightly downward. Fine impression - has the feel of a graphite drawing.
Print size - 18 x 14 inches, unframed, very good condition, hand signed in pencil by Raphael Soyer, from the master printers private collection.
Year published - 1977
Edition size - 150, plus proofs
Printer - J K Fine Art Editions Co. NY
Raphael Soyer was a Russian-born painter. He was the twin to the artist Moses Soyer (1899-1974) and the older brother of the painter Isaac Soyer...
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1970s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Modern Marilyn - Original handsigned lithograph - 199ex
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean-Baptiste VALADIE
Modern Marilyn
Original lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
Limited /199copies
On vellum 76 x 56 cm (c. 30 x 22 in)
Excellent condition
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
High Quality Print of New York Rain III Painting by leading British Urban Artist
Located in Preston, GB
High Quality Print of New York Rain III Painting by leading British Urban Artist, Angela Wakefield. Part of her New York Series. Hand signed by the ...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Board, Color, Digital
Flowers Market
By Hans Figura
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978)
Title: Marche aux Fleurs
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Color etching with aquatint
Edition: Unknown
Plate mark (Image) size: 8.5 x 6.5...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
cat on the table - Original Handsigned Etching
By Mily Possoz
Located in Paris, IDF
Mily POSSOZ (1888-1967)
The cat on the table, 1930
Original etching
Handsigned in pencil by the artist
Blind stamp of the editor Marcel Guiot (Paris)
On vellum 46 x 32 cm (18.1 x 12...
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1930s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Montague
By Sarah Duncan
Located in Deddington, GB
Montagne by Sarah Duncan [2021]
limited_edition
Etching print on paper
Edition number 10
Image size: H:60 cm x W:60 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:70 cm x W:70 cm x D:0.2cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
Montagne is a limited edition signed etching print on paper by Sarah Duncan of a black and white mountain...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Busy Street, Vienna
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork Busy Street, Vienna" c. 1970 is a color etching by noted Austrian artist Robert Kasimir, 1914-2002. It is signed at the lower center in penci...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Vienna Concert Hall, Austria, large color etching
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Vienna Concert Hall, Austria" c.1930 is a color etching on watermarked Kasimir Vienna paper by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir, 1881-...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
"Orange Leaves" (2000) By Kate Breakey, Archival Pigment Print
By Kate Breakey
Located in Denver, CO
"Orange Leaves" (2000) by Kate Breakey is a limited-edition archival pigment print that is hand colored using pencil and pastel that depicts a vase of wilted plants with orange leave...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
GATHERING Signed Stone Lithograph, NYC Group Portrait Drawing, Brown
Located in Union City, NJ
GATHERING is an original hand drawn stone lithograph by Raphael Soyer, the renowned Russian-born American realist painter, draftsman, and printmaker. Hand proofed and printed in 1977...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Dreamer
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " The Dreamer" 1989 is a color offset lithograph on Artcote paper by Crow Indian artist Penni Anne Cross A.K.A. (Alawa-Sta-We- Ches) b...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Fieldman and Death / - Sowing and Harvest -
Located in Berlin, DE
Rudolf Nehmer (1912 Bobersberg - 1983 Dresden), The Fieldman and Death, around 1948. Woodcut on yellowish wove paper, 16.8 cm x 15.8 cm (depiction), 42 cm x 30 cm (sheet size), signe...
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1940s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Blessed are the spiritually poor / - The Abundance of Poverty -
Located in Berlin, DE
Rudolf Nehmer (1912 Bobersberg - 1983 Dresden), Blessed are the spiritually poor, 1948. Woodcut on yellowish wove paper, 20 cm x 15 cm (image), 45 cm x 30 cm (sheet size), signed “Ru...
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1940s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
The Zero Hour / - After the End of the World -
Located in Berlin, DE
Rudolf Nehmer (1912 Bobersberg - 1983 Dresden), The Zero Hour, 1948. Woodcut on yellowish wove paper, 20 cm x 14.8 cm (image), 43 cm x 30 cm (sheet size), signed “Rud.[olf] Nehmer” i...
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1940s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
La Vilaine, France
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Roger Hebbelinck (Belgian, born 1912)
Title: La Vilaine
Year: Circa 1965
Medium: Color etching with aquatint
Edition: Numbered 30/350 in p...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
What I discovered in Greenwich Park
Located in New York, NY
This large scale landscape monotype in black and brown features a scene from London’s Greenwich Park, a former hunting park established in the 15...
Category
1990s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Monoprint, Monotype
Landscape Campi Phlegraei - Plate XIII - View of Capri - By Hamilton-Fabris
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape Campi Phlegraei - Plate XIII - View of Capri is an original colored etching realized by Pietro Fabris between 1776 and 1779.
This beautiful ...
Category
18th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Roman Girls Return from the Harvest - Etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli - 1819
Located in Roma, IT
Romane ritornando dalla vendemmia is a precious hand-colored etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli. The inscriptions are at the bottom, inside the matrix, and just below the image. On the le...
Category
1810s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Cityscape
By Hans Figura
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978)
Title: cityscape
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Color etching with aquatint on silk
Edition: Unknown
Plate mark (Image) size: 11.25 x 8.2...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Customs of Civitacastellana - Etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli - 1819
Located in Roma, IT
Hand-watercolored Etching, 1819,
Image Dim: cm 28 x 20, Dim: cm 28x39.
Etching and Watercolor technique. In Good condition. Signed and dated on plate lower margin "Pinelli dis. e ...
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1810s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Ciociare Near Subiaco - Etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli - 1820
Located in Roma, IT
Ciociare, vicino a Subiaco; passato Tivoli is a precious hand-colored etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli. The inscriptions appear at the bottom of the artwork, inside the matrix, and just...
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1820s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Landscape with Pond
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Roger Hebbelinck (Belgian, born 1912)
Title: Landscape with Pond
Year: Circa 1960
Medium: Color etching with aquatint
Edition: Numbered 43/3...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Entre Deux Trains
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Theophile Alexandre Steinlen (Swiss, 1859-1923)
Title: Entre Deux Trains
Year: 1916
Medium: etching
Edition: Numbered 100/100 in pencil
Paper...
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Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
"Dam Construction" Rare large colors etching.
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Dam Construction" c.1920 is a very rare large original colors etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed and numbered 27/100 in pencil by the...
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Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Customs of Trastevere (Rome) - Etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli - 1819
Located in Roma, IT
Hand-watercolored Etching, 1819,
Image Dim: cm 28 x 20, Dim: cm 29x41.
Etching and Watercolor technique. In Good condition. Signed and dated on plate lower margin "Pinelli dis. e ...
Category
1810s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Costume of Felettino - Etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli - 1819
Located in Roma, IT
Hand-watercolored Etching, 1819,
Image Dim: cm 28 x 20, Dim: cm 29x40.
Etching and Watercolor tecnique. In Good condition, worn paper on the marginal line, left. Signed and dated ...
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1810s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
"Golddigger, " Isaac Friedlander, WPA, New York City, Social Realism, 1931
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Isaac Friedlander was born in 1890 in Mitau, Latvia. He studied painting and printmaking at the Academy of Rome—the only formal art training he would ever have. After the overthrow o...
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1930s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Good Memories, Home 1982
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Good Memories, Home 1982" 1982 is an color etching by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed, titled, dated and resigned a second time in pencil by the artist. The plate mark size is 10.25 x 7 inches, framed size is 18 x 14.10 inches. Custom framed in a wood and silver color frame, with green matting and brown filet. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist.
Josef Eidenberger was born in 1899 in the little town of Goisern, Austria,he began his artistic career as a landscape painter. In 1923 he enrolled in the famed Graphic Academy of Art in Vienna and studied under Professor Alfred Cossman.
His recognized talent brought him many commissions from city officials and members of the business communities throughout Europe, especially in Austria and Germany. In 1973 after visiting the United States for the first time he created a series of California etchings...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Antique Map of the Southern Oceans, South America and Africa
Located in New York, NY
Antique Map of the South Atlantic, c. 1800s
Engraving
20 x 28 in.
Framed: 25 3/4 x 33 3/4 in.
Category
19th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
YOUNG WOMAN RED VEST Signed Lithograph, Standing Woman Hair Up, Green Dress
Located in Union City, NJ
YOUNG WOMAN RED VEST is an original hand drawn (not digitally or photo reproduced) limited edition lithograph by the artist Raphael Soyer - Russian/American S...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original WW2 Poster Join QARANC – Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps
Located in London, GB
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Join QARANC – Queen Alexandra...
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1940s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Adrian Collaert 17th Century The Temptation of Christ Engraving Martin de Vos
Located in London, GB
We have the full series of 52 prints (including title page) from Vita Passio et Resurrectio Iesu Christi listed. To find the others scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below i...
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17th Century Realist Figurative Prints
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Engraving
Theodoor Galle Martin de Vos 17th Century Engraving Jesus on the Cross
Located in London, GB
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Theodoor Galle (1571 – 1633) after Maerten de Vos (1532 - 1603)
Jesus on the Cross...
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17th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Passing/Posing, Paintings & Faux Chapel (suite of 18 separate prints in box)
Located in New York, NY
Kehinde Wiley
Passing/Posing, Paintings & Faux Chapel (suite of 18 separate prints), 2004
Portfolio of 18 Separate Color offset lithographs in original black paste board portfolio bo...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Board, Laid Paper, Lithograph, Offset
Young Woman With Long Hair, Signed Lithograph, Girl Braiding Her Hair Blue Skirt
Located in Union City, NJ
Young Woman With Long Hair is an original hand drawn (not digitally or photo reproduced) limited edition lithograph by the artist Raphael Soyer - Russian/American Social Realism Painter, 1899-1987. Printed at JK Fine Art Editions Co. using traditional hand lithography techniques on archival Arches printmaking paper 100% acid-free rag.
Young Woman With Long Hair is a sensitive, realistically drawn portrait of a dark brown haired young woman wearing a white short sleeved blouse...
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1970s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Adrian Collaert 17th Century Engraving Wedding at Cana Martin de Vos
Located in London, GB
We have the full series of 52 prints (including title page) from Vita Passio et Resurrectio Iesu Christi listed. To find the others scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below i...
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17th Century Realist Figurative Prints
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Engraving
VENDEDORA Signed Lithograph, Portrait Seated Young Girl, Mexican Fruit Seller
Located in Union City, NJ
VENDEDORA, a limited edition lithograph by the renowned American-born Mexican sculptor and printmaker Elizabeth Catlett(b.1915–2012) depicts a sensitive black and white portrait of a...
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Early 2000s Realist Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Adrian Collaert Martin de Vos 17th Century Engraving: The Daemons and the Pigs
Located in London, GB
We have the full series of 52 prints (including title page) from Vita Passio et Resurrectio Iesu Christi listed. To find the others scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below i...
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17th Century Realist Figurative Prints
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Engraving
From the Vargas Portfolio
Located in Missouri, MO
From the Vargas Portfolio **Portfolio Cover Not Included**
Lithograph Only
Alberto Vargas (1896-1982) was born in Arequipa, Peru, in 1896, the son of...
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20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
German Aircraft, original vintage WW2 poster
Located in London, GB
German Aircraft
Original vintage poster
Lithograph
57 x 45 cm
This original vintage poster, published in 1941, depicts a series of German aircraft, including the fighter plane He...
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1940s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Children's Ward' — Socially-Conscious Realism
By Robert Riggs
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Riggs, 'Children's Ward', 2-color lithograph, c. 1940, edition c. 50, Beall 11, Bassham 76. Signed, titled, and numbered '14' in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower right. A su...
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1940s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Satirical French Illustration of Man and Woman
Located in Soquel, CA
Satirical French Illustration of Man and Woman
Comical illustration by Gaston Hoffmann (French, 1883-1967) titled "un bon tien vant amieux que deux tu l'auras" in French, "one real ...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
SEATED WOMAN BLUE JEANS Signed Lithograph, Female Portrait, Long Hair, Bare Feet
Located in Union City, NJ
SEATED WOMAN BLUE JEANS is an original hand drawn (not digitally or photo reproduced) limited edition lithograph by the artist Raphael Soyer - Russian/American Social Realism Painter...
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1970s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
G. Paterson "Dinner Party at a Mandarin's House" Engraving After T. Allom c.1840
Located in San Francisco, CA
G. Paterson "Dinner Party at a Mandarin's House" Original Engraving After T. Allom C.1840
Original engraving
Dimensions 8" wide x 5" high
The frame measures 20.5" wide x 18.5" hig...
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Mid-19th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Self-portrait, lithograph on wove paper, pencil signed 7/250, unframed realism
Located in New York, NY
Raphael Soyer
Self-portrait, 1980
Lithograph on wove paper
Hand-signed by artist, Pencil signed and numbered 7/250 on the front Titled "Self portrait" on the verso Bears publisher's ...
Category
1980s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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...
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1970s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Color, Etching, Aquatint
Victory Angel - Lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Niccolo dell'Abbate
Victory Angel, 1962
Lithograph after a drawing
On vellum 32 x 24 cm (c. 13 x 10 in)
Excellent condition
Category
1960s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
MOUNTAIN LION
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 Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
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Find a wide variety of authentic Realist figurative 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 figurative 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, orange, pink, green and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Luigi Kasimir, Peter Doig, Josef Eidenberger, and Adriaen Collaert. Frequently made by artists working with Etching, and Lithograph 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 figurative prints, so small editions measuring 3 inches across are also available. Prices for figurative 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 $100 and tops out at $72,120, while the average work sells for $650.