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
YE PIPE AND BOWL Signed Lithograph Colonial Sign Painter, American Illustration
Located in Union City, NJ
Artist: Norman Rockwell, American (1894 - 1978)
Title: Ye Pipe and Bowl
Year: 1976
Medium: Hand Drawn Lithograph on Arches paper, 100% acid free, hand signed in pencil by Norman Rock...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Agnjnauq Amguut; Iniupiaq (Woman with Her Wolves)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Agnjnauq Amguut; Iniupiaq (Woman with Her Wolves)" 1988 is a color offset lithograph on Artcote paper by Crow Indian artist Penni Anne Cross A.K.A. (Alawa-Sta-We...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Navajo Women, state #2
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Two Native American Women" 1980 Is an original lithograph on creme Arches paper by renown Navajo artist Rudolph Carl Gorman, 1932-2005. It is signed, dated and numbere...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Keswick" By Ed Fairburn, Limited Edition Poster Print, Nude Portrait of Woman
Located in Denver, CO
"Keswick" is a limited edition poster print by the acclaimed UK artist Ed Fairburn. This captivating piece is reproduced onto 100% 290gsm cotton rag premium archival Moab paper with ...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Archival Pigment
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
Death as a servant / - Concise congeniality -
Located in Berlin, DE
Alfred Rethel after (1816 Diepenbenden - 1859 Düsseldorf), Death as a servant, around 1920. Color woodcut by Oskar Bangemann after a drawing by Rethel created around 1845 on handmade...
Category
1910s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
"Tilted Tree, Mendocino, California" (2000) By Kate Breakey, Original Print
By Kate Breakey
Located in Denver, CO
"Tilted Tree, Mendocino, California" (2000) by Kate Breakey is a limited-edition archival pigment print that is hand colored using pencil and pastel.
About the artist:
Kate Breakey...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
Explorator
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Giovanni Domenico Campiglia, 'Explorator', engraving, 1734, edition unknown, scarce. Signed 'Dom. Campiglia del.' in the matrix, lower left. A fine impression, on handmade antique, l...
Category
1730s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Little Chinese Girl
By Ming Wai
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Little Chinese Girl" 1982 in a color off set lithograph by renown Chinese/American artist Wai Ming A.K.A Lo Hing Kwok, b.1938. It is hand signed an inscribed A.C (Hors Commerce) in pencil by the artist. The image size is 24.5 x 22 inches, sheet size is 28 x 24.5 inches. It is in excellent condition, has never been framed.
About the artist:
Wai Ming, was born in Canton, South China on November 11, 1938, the son of a school master with nine children. Extremely poor as a child, he was raised in Hong Kong enduring many hardships amidst a chaotic environment of war and refugee settlements. Wai Ming's love for art flourished and he developed his drawing techniques without any art education, just painting what he saw. In the 1960s, Ming found representation in Hong Kong and also took the unusual step of opening his own gallery to display his work in. His primary interest being to capture images of life in fishing villages, or 'fish-folk', who have retained traditional Chinese culture, his work was at home with the sensibilities of many art buyers in Hong Kong. Crossing the ocean in his mid-30s, Wai Ming arrived in San Francisco from Hong Kong in 1974. There, he experienced initial resistance from galleries and the official art world for a variety of reasons, but was ultimately embraced by dealer Jack Swanson...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
George Brookshaw's Black Frontiniac Wine Grape Aquatint from "Pomona Brittanica"
Located in Alamo, CA
George Brookshaw's (1751-1823) beautiful Black Frontiniac Wine Grape hand-colored aquatint engraving, plate XVII from his "Pomona Brittanica", considered to be the finest British botanical large format treatise of the 19th-century. His engravings were unique for their rich tones and colors, elegant compositions with the fruit seeming to float on a rich mottled background.
The print is presented in a gold and burgundy-colored wood frame and a light gray mat. The print is in very good condition.
Another Brookshaw engraving from his series of fruit illustrations is available on 1stdibs. It is framed and matted identically to this one. It can be viewed on our 1stdibs storefront by typing Timeless Intaglio...
Category
Early 19th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Burgtheater, Vienna
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Burgtheater, Vienna" c. 1970 is an original color etching by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. The p...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Beobachtung
Located in Kansas City, MO
Hans Juergen Diehl
Beobachtung
Year: 1973
Medium: Color Etching
Edition: 100
Size: 33.5 x 25.5 in.
Publisher: Ketterer, Germany
Signed, numbered and/or titled
COA provided
Hans-Jürg...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$298 Sale Price
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The Red Capote
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " The Red Capote" 1986 is a color offset lithograph on Artcote paper by Crow Indian artist Penni Anne Cross A.K.A. (Alawa-Sta-We- ...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
College Fun at the University of Cambridge, engraving by William Bunbury
Located in London, GB
William Bunbury, engraved by James Bretherton
College Fun or Quizzing the Proctor
Hand coloured engraving
27 x 34 cm
c.1790
In this playful scene, a proctor--garnering a powdered wig and academic dress--is reading a public proclamation regarding a 'general fast.' Unbeknownst to him, a mischievous student is pinning a satirical note on his back. The note mocks the proctor's authority, reading, "From all Pride, Vanity, Glory and Hypocrisy, Good Lord Deliver us." Meanwhile, two other students, dressed in academic gowns and mortarboards, stand to the left, laughing and gesturing at the proctor, clearly enjoying the other student's prank.
This caricatural scene dates from the late 18th century, a period when William Bunbury, alongside James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson, and Isaac Cruikshank...
Category
1790s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Whitney (Marcel Breuer Building)
By Richard Haas
Located in New York, NY
Richard Haas
The Whitney (Marcel Breuer Building), 1979
Woodcut engraving
Signed, titled, dated and numbered by the artist on the back. This is a rare Artist Proof 9/10, aside from the regular edition of 60.
22 3/4 × 18 1/4 inches
Unframed
This vintage 1979 woodcut engraving by the world's top architectural muralist and trompe d'oeil artist, Richard Haas, depicts the building New Yorkers nostalgically call the "Old Whitney". Long before the Whitney moved to Manhattan's trendy meatpacking district...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Children in a Boat
By Ming Wai
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork, "Children in a boat" 1976 in a color off set lithograph by renown Chinese/American artist Wai Ming A.K.A Lo Hing Kwok, b.1938. It is hand signed and inscribed A.P (Artist Proof) in pencil by the artist. The image size is 21.5 x 28.75 inches, sheet size is 32.5 x 39.5 inches. Custom framed in wood dark brown rustic frame and beige matting. It is in excellent condition
About the artist:
Wai Ming, was born in Canton, South China on November 11, 1938, the son of a school master with nine children. Extremely poor as a child, he was raised in Hong Kong enduring many hardships amidst a chaotic environment of war and refugee settlements. Wai Ming's love for art flourished and he developed his drawing techniques without any art education, just painting what he saw. In the 1960s, Ming found representation in Hong Kong and also took the unusual step of opening his own gallery to display his work in. His primary interest being to capture images of life in fishing villages, or 'fish-folk', who have retained traditional Chinese culture, his work was at home with the sensibilities of many art buyers in Hong Kong. Crossing the ocean in his mid-30s, Wai Ming arrived in San Francisco from Hong Kong in 1974. There, he experienced initial resistance from galleries and the official art world for a variety of reasons, but was ultimately embraced by dealer Jack Swanson...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
ERMINE
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 Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
$150 Sale Price
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April : Back to the Fields - Original handsigned etching - Exceptional n° 1/100
Located in Paris, IDF
Albert DECARIS
April : Back to the Fields
Original etching
Signed in pencil
Exceptional copy bearing n° 1/100
Titled Janvier (January)
On vellum 66 x 50 cm (c. 26 x 20in)
Excellent...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Frankfurt, Germany
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Frankfurt, Germany" c.1930 is an original color etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil at the lower center. The plate mark (ima...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Classe 17
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Theophile Alexandre Steinlen (Swiss, 1859-1923)
Title: Classe 17
Year: 1917
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: Numbered 61/100 in pencil
Paper: Wove
Image size: 10.5 x 14.25 inches
...
Category
Early 19th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
SHOWER PROFILE (GOLD)
Located in Aventura, FL
Silkscreen on canvas with diamond dust. Hand signed, dated, and numbered on verso by Carole A Feuerman. Edition of 25.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be considered.
About the Artist: Carole A. Feuerman (American, born 1945) is a Hyper-Realist sculptor. Along with artists like Duane Hanson...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Canvas, Screen
$7,125 Sale Price
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"King of the Friendly Islands" (Tonga); Engraving from Captain Cook's 3rd Voyage
By John Webber
Located in Alamo, CA
"Poulaho, King of the Friendly Islands, Drinking Kava" is an engraving created by William Sharp (1749-1824), from a drawing by John Webber (1752-1793), who was the artist on Captain James Cook's 3rd and final voyage of discovery. It was published in the atlas of "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean Undertaken by the Command of His Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere", the official British Admirality sanctioned journal published upon completion of the voyage in London in 1784 by Strahan & Cadell.
Captain Cook visited Tonga on his 3rd voyage, which he named The Friendly Islands because of the warm welcome he and his crew received, unlike some of the other more hostile Pacific islands. The engraving depicts Cook and his men observed a kava ceremony at the village of Mu’a on Tongatapu. King Paulaho sits in the centre foreground, his back to the spectator with a man kneeling before him. The ceremonial mat depicted behind Paulaho indicates that nobody was allowed to sit behind him. The figure in the centre holds a single cup, referring to the Tongan custom of offering the cup to the king first. Kava is native to the islands of the South Pacific and was first described for English readers in 1768 by Captain James Cook. The kava root has been used for centuries as a central feature of ceremonies and celebrations because it was able to bring about a calming and pleasant social atmosphere. The root was crushed and processed into coconut milk to become the focal ceremonial beverage, simply referred to as kava.
This engraving is presented in a Koa wood frame and a white mat. Koa wood is legendary in Hawaii. There are occasional faint spots, but the print is otherwise in very good condition. This amazing Koa wood is native to Hawaii and it is known for the deep rich colors and varied grain pattern. Koa has an honored heritage in Hawaii and is highly revered and sacred. The word “koa” means “warrior” in Hawaiian. The warriors of King Kamehameha the Great, created canoes and weapons from a wood plentiful on the Big Island of Hawaii. This wood became synonymous with the warriors themselves, and it became known as koa.
There are three other engravings listed from the official journal of Captain Cook's 3rd voyage available that are presented in identical Koa wood frames and mats (LU117324682422, LU117324684052, LU117324684032). They would make a wonderful grouping for a display of 2, 3 or 4 prints. A discount is available for a grouping depending on the number of items included.
Captain Cook is remembered as one of the greatest explorers and navigators in history. His explorations included Australia, New Zealand and islands of the South Pacific and the northwest coast of North America. Hawaii was discovered by Captain Cook during this voyage. Hawaii was originally called The Sandwich Islands in honor of The Earl of Sandwich...
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1780s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Miss Parkett for Parkett 71
Located in New York, NY
Richard Phillips
Miss Parkett for Parkett 71, 2004
5 Color Lithograph on Somerset White paper
Hand signed, numbered 37/70 and dated on lower front
25 4/5 × 20 inches
Unframed
This 5-...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Biachee-Itdah Bah Achbeb
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " Biachee-Itdah Bah Achbeb" 1990 is a color offset lithograph on Artcote paper by Crow Indian artist Penni Anne Cross A.K.A. (Alaw...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mother and daughter - Original lithograph - 1964 (Buisson #64.287)
Located in Paris, IDF
Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita
Mother and daughter
Original lithograph
Printed signature in the plate
Edited by La Guilde internationale de la gravure (Geneva) and printed in Atelier Ré...
Category
1960s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
February : Carnival time - Original handsigned etching - Exceptional n° 1/100
Located in Paris, IDF
Albert DECARIS
February : Carnival time
Original etching
Signed in pencil
Exceptional copy bearing n° 1/100
Titled Janvier (January)
On vellum 66 x 50 cm (c. 26 x 20in)
Excellent c...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Cheh-Ayeh: Prey
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " Cheh-Ayeh: Prey" 1989 is a color offset lithograph on Artcote paper by Crow Indian artist Penni Anne Cross A.K.A. (Alawa-Sta-We-...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Communicants - Original lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Maurice DENIS (1870 - 1943)
The Communicants
Original lithograph with charcoal enhancement
Printed signature in the plate
On light vellum 48 x 28 cm (c. 19 x 11 inch)
Excellent con...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$358 Sale Price
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Pecheur de Sawara, Japon (Fisherman of Sawara, Japan)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Pecheur de Sawara, Japon" (Fisherman of Sawara, Japan) 1936 is an original color woodcut by French artist Paul Jacoulet, 1896-1960. It is hand signed in pencil b...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Benita
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Benita" first state, 1981 Is an original lithograph on Wove paper by renown Navajo artist Rudolph Carl Gorman, 1932-2005. It is signed, dated and numbered 122/180 in pencil by the artist. With the blind stamp of the artist and printer. The image size is 22 x 30 inches, the sheet size is 24 x 31.75 inches. It is in excellent condition, has never been framed, the colors are fresh bright.
About the artist:
Born in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona and raised in a hogan on the Navajo Reservation, R.C. Gorman became one of the Southwest's best known late 20th-century artists. His signature works were Navajo women in a variety of poses. Many persons have been fascinated by the fact that he, an Indian artist, became famous in the white man's world with some calling him the "Picasso of Indian artists". Of this kind of attention, he said: "I wish people would quit pushing my being Indian. The only time I was interviewed as If I were a normal person was by the Jewish Press in Tucson. It was the first time I felt international and almost white". (Samuels 222)
His parents were Carl Nelson...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Capitol, The Williamsburg Series
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Capitol, Williamsburg Series" 1940 is an original etching on paper by noted American artist Samuel V. Chamberlain, 1895-1975 It is...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Chelsea Hotel, Sunset
By Richard Haas
Located in New York, NY
Richard Haas
Chelsea Hotel, Sunset, 1980
Offset Lithograph poster on paper
Pencil signed on the front
23 1/4 × 21 1/2 inches
Unframed
This striking offset lithograph poster by the world's top architectural muralist Richard Haas presents a detailed portrait of the historic New York City landmark - the legendary Chelsea Hotel. Many famous people stayed at this storied hotel. Nancy Spungen...
Category
1980s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Cap. Cerimonia, Sig. Lauinia
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jacques Callot (French, 1592-1635)
Title: Cap. Cerimonia, Sig. Lauinia
Year: 1622
Medium: Etching
Paper: Laid paper
Size of paper: 3.15 x 3.85 inches
Condition: Very good con...
Category
17th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
SERENA SUITE
Located in Aventura, FL
Suite of 4 prints. Each hand signed, dated, and numbered by the artist. Each print measures 33.5 x 24 inches. Hand numbered TP 3/5 (there was a manin edition of 30 plus 10 artist'...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Screen
$13,875 Sale Price
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RIOT POLICE Hand Pulled Lithograph, Black White Drawing, Law Enforcement, Police
Located in Union City, NJ
RIOT POLICE - artist unknown
Print Size - 23" x 30", full bleed image, no margins, unframed, unsigned proof, excellent condition
Year - c. 1973
RIOT POLICE is an original hand draw...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$370 Sale Price
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STANDING NUDE Signed Lithograph, Realist Portrait Young Woman, Figure Drawing
Located in Union City, NJ
STANDING NUDE an original hand drawn lithograph by Raphael Soyer, the renowned Russian-born American realist painter, draftsman, and printmaker. Printed on archival Arches paper 100%...
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1970s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Robert Bonfils French Market
Located in San Francisco, CA
Robert Bonfils: 1886-1972. Well listed French artist with auction results for posters and prints over $8000. This fabulously busy etching measures 12 1/2 inches wide by 9 high. It is...
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1950s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Brazilian signed limited edition original art print photoengraving n6
Located in Miami, FL
Regina Silveira (Brazil, 1939)
'Huella from Portfolio ""Eclipses""', 2005
photoengraving on paper Velin Arches 300 g.
27.6 x 19.7 in. (70 x 50 cm.)
Edition of 99
ID: SIL1692-002-106_...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Fang Fang -- The Artist's Daughter Portrait
By Zhang Biao
Located in Soquel, CA
Exceptional aquatint etching on paper by master print maker Zhang Biao. His daughter Fang Fang was published on a full page in the official catalog of the exhibition. This print rece...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint, Archival Paper
$4,700 Sale Price
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Portrait of a Young Girl (the artist's daughter).
By Joseph Floch
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Joseph Floch (1894-1977). Young Girl, c.1930s. Lithograph on paper, plate measures 9 1/8 x 13 3/4 inches. Measures 17 x 21 inches framed. Excellent condition with no damage or conser...
Category
1930s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Launch Wash, Saint Michele Venice
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
Donald Hamilton Fraser (1929 – 2009)
Launch Wash, Saint Michele Venice
signed limited edition, no. 112/225, lithograph,
Image: 50.5cm x 37.5 cm,
mounted and framed,
Frame: 81.7 x ...
Category
1890s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$882 Sale Price
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Mount Ankogel, Austria
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Mount Ankogel, Austria" c.1940 is a color etching on watermarked Kasimir Vienna paper by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir, 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
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
Candle, Etching Gravure, Butterfly, Interior Space
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Medium : Hand Coloured Photopolymer Gravure with Chine Colle, on archival Fine Art paper.
Artist : Suzanne Moxhay
Subject / Title : Candle (Title). A photographic process of complex...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Mixed Media
New York City Skyline Modern Print Chrysler State Building Framed Unique Etching
By Katherine Gallagher
Located in Buffalo, NY
Limited edition aquatint etching of the New York City skyline by Katherine E. Gallagher. This piece features the famous Chrysler Building prominently in the background along with a M...
Category
1980s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Ceramics II
By Richard Thomas Davis
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Ceramics II" 1981 is an original colors screen print by Canadian artist Richard Thomas Davis, b.1947. It is hand signed, titled, date...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
July : Rise of Nature - Original handsigned etching - Exceptional n° 1/100
Located in Paris, IDF
Albert DECARIS
July : Rise of Nature
Original etching
Signed in pencil
Exceptional copy bearing n° 1/100
Titled Janvier (January)
On vellum 66 x 50 cm (c. 26 x 20in)
Excellent cond...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
May : Blossom Spring - Original handsigned etching - Exceptional n° 1/100
Located in Paris, IDF
Albert DECARIS
May : Blossom Spring
Original etching
Signed in pencil
Exceptional copy bearing n° 1/100
Titled Janvier (January)
On vellum 66 x 50 cm (c. 26 x 20in)
Excellent condi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
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...
Category
1940s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Marche aux Fleurs, Quai de l'Horloge, Paris
By Hans Figura
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978)
Title: Marche aux Fleurs, Quai de l'Horloge, Paris
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Color etching with aquatint on silk
Edition: Unknown
Pl...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Cap'n A.B. Dick (B) Pale pink and raspberry sailor's portrait drawing R.B. Kitaj
By R.B. Kitaj
Located in New York, NY
Kitaj’s drawing on pink paper is of a man in profile, wearing a sou’wester: a fisherman’s collapsible rain hat. The image is a wry portrait, ostensibly of Albert Blake...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The completely naked prostration
Located in Berlin, DE
Willibrord Haas (*1936 Schramberg), The completely naked prostration, 1999. Etching, 32.5 cm x 23.5 cm (plate size), 54 cm x 37.5 cm (sheet size). Signed “Willibrord Haas” in lead by...
Category
1990s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Cologne (Koln) Promenade, Germany
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Cologne (Koln) Promenade, Germany" c.1950 is a color etching by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed n pencil by the artist, ins...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Adrian Collaert Martin de Vos 17th Century Engraving Annunciation of Our Lady
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
Materials
Engraving
Orchid, gorgeous signed/n silkscreen by renowned 1970s realist artist
Located in New York, NY
Lowell Nesbitt
Orchid, 1979
Silkscreen on wove paper
Pencil signed, dated and numbered 144/175 by Lowell Nesbitt on the front
Published by Charles Cardinale Fine Creations, Inc., with blind stamp on the front
25 × 25 inches
Unframed
This work is pencil signed, dated and numbered 144/175 by Lowell Nesbitt on the front.
About Lowell Nesbitt.
Lowell Nesbitt, who was born in Baltimore on Oct. 4, 1933, was a graduate of the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia and also attended the Royal College of Art in London, where he worked in stained glass & etching. In 1964, the Corcoran Gallery or Art in Washington gave him one of his first museum exhibitions, and by the mid 1970's he had decided to leave the museum a bequest of more than $1 million. But in 1989, he publicly revoked the bequest after the Corcoran canceled a disputed exhibition of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, who was an old friend. Mr. Nesbitt named the Phillips Collection as a beneficiary instead. He was frequently grouped with the Photo Realists, but his images were more interpretively distorted, somewhat loosely painted and boldly abbreviated. He had many subjects: studio interiors, articles of clothing, piles of shoes and groupings of fruits and vegetables. He also painted his dog, a Rottweiler named Echo, the Neoclassical facades of SoHo's 19th century cast-iron buildings and several of Manhattan's major bridges. Despite such variety, Lowell Nesbitt was best known for gargantuan images or irises, roses, lilies and other flowers, which he often depicted in close up so that their petals seemed to fill the canvas. Dramatic, implicitly sexual and a little ominous, they earned the artist a popularity with the general public that tended to overshadow his reputation within the art world. In 1980, the United States Postal Service issued four stamps based on Mr. Nesbitt's floral paintings. He also served as the official artist for the space flights of Apollo 9...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen, Pencil, Graphite
$1,000 Sale Price
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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 ...
Category
1810s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$208 Sale Price
30% Off
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 Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork is an etching on wove paper by Samuel Donovan aka Don Swann (American, 1889-1954) created circa 1940. It is hand signed, titled, and numbered B....
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
August Lake, Memorial Sloan Kettering Art Collection signed landscape silkscreen
Located in New York, NY
William Waitzman
August Lake (from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Art Collection), 2016
Hand printed color silkscreen on wove paper
Pencil signed and numbered 4/14 on the front
Frame i...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
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