Realist Portrait 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
YOUNG WOMAN, STRIPED TEE SHIRT Signed Lithograph, Realist Portrait, Rust, Peach
Located in Union City, NJ
YOUNG WOMAN, STRIPED TEE SHIRT is an original hand drawn (not digitally or photo reproduced) limited edition lithograph by the artist Raphael Soyer - Russian/American Social Realism ...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Desnudo de espalda
Located in New York, NY
Brown and black chalks and pencil on cream wove paper. Signed and dated in pencil, lower left recto.
Category
1960s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Chalk, Pencil
SEATED WOMAN NEAR A BED Signed Lithograph, Seated Female Portrait Interior Scene
Located in Union City, NJ
SEATED WOMAN NEAR A BED is an original hand drawn (not digitally or photo reproduced) limited edition lithograph by the artist Raphael Soyer - Russian/American Social Realism Painter...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
SEATED WOMAN ON BED, KNEE SOCKS Signed Lithograph, Female Portrait Drawing
Located in Union City, NJ
SEATED WOMAN PINK SOCKS is an original hand drawn (not digitally or photo reproduced) limited edition lithograph by the artist Raphael Soyer - Russian/American Social Realism...
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1970s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
WOMAN LONG DARK HAIR Signed Lithograph, Serious Young Woman, Pink V-Neck
Located in Union City, NJ
WOMAN LONG DARK HAIR is an original hand drawn (not digitally or photo reproduced) limited edition lithograph by the artist Raphael Soyer - Russian/American Social Realism Painter, 1...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
General Wilhelm von Blume - Visionary retrospective -
Located in Berlin, DE
Bernhard Pankok (1872 Münster - 1943 Baierbrunn), General Wilhelm von Blume, 1915, aquatint etching, 34 x 29.5 cm (sheet size), 26 x 22 cm (plate size), signed in the plate at upper left, in pencil at lower right and dated in pencil at lower left.
- At lower left old collection stamp, at the right broad margin with a small spot, otherwise very good condition.
About the artwork
The 1915 aquatint etching of General Wilhelm von Blume is based on a 1912 oil painting in the LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur in Münster. A second oil portrait of the general by Pankok is in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. When Pankok painted the first oil portrait in 1912, the general had already been retired for 16 years. It is therefore a retrospective portrait. Accordingly, the orientation of his head is such that he is looking back in both the oil painting and the etching. Without fixing on anything in particular, he looks thoughtfully inwards and reflects on his life. Uniformed and highly endowed, it is his military activities in particular that he is reviewing attentively and, as his gaze reveals, quite critically.
Pankok has literally written the sum of his experiences on Wilhelm von Blume's face: The physiognomy is a veritable landscape of folds, furrows, ridges and gullies, all the more striking against the flat background. It is clear that each of the medals was also won through suffering. However, by breaking the boundaries of the picture, his bust appears as an unshakable massif, which gives the general a stoic quality.
The fact that the design of the portrait was important to Pankok can be seen from the different versions, the present sheet being the third and probably final revision, which Pankok dates precisely to 18 February 1915. Compared with the previous state, the light background now has a dark area against which the sitter's face stands out, the dark background in turn combining with the uniform to create a new tension in the picture.
Pankok's taking up of the portrait of the high-ranking military veteran and its graphic reproduction can also be seen in relation to the First World War, which had broken out in the meantime. In the face of modern weapons of mass destruction, Wilhelm von Blume's warfare and military writings were relics of a bygone, more value-oriented era.
About the artist
After studying at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1889 to 1891 under Heinrich Lauenstein, Adolf Schill, Hugo Crola, and Peter Janssen the Elder, Bernhard Pankok went to Munich in 1892, where he worked primarily as a graphic artist for the two major Jugendstil magazines "Pan" and "Jugend," which established his artistic success. Through this work he met Emil Orlik, with whom he had a lifelong friendship.
In 1897, he exhibited his first furniture, and in 1898, together with Richard Riemerschmid, Bruno Paul and Hermann Obrist...
Category
1910s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
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 Portrait Prints
Materials
Giclée
WOMAN LONG DARK HAIR Signed Lithograph, Female Portrait, V-Neck Top, Realism
Located in Union City, NJ
WOMAN LONG DARK HAIR is an original hand drawn (not digitally or photo reproduced) limited edition lithograph by the artist Raphael Soyer - Russian/American Social Realism...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Portrait)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Portrait)
Drypoint printed in blue-black graphite mixed with silver, 1974
Signed and dated lower ight (see photo)
From: Series entitled Six Drypoints
Edition: 23 (4/23)
Numbered lower left (see photo)
Print Shop: Crown Point Press
Printer: Jeannie Fine
Publisher: Parasol Press, New York
Note: A portfolio is in the collection of the National Gallery, Australia, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco- de Young/Legion of Honor, Davis Museum at Wellesley College and the Yale University Art Gallery.
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate size: 6 3/8 x 5 3/8 inches
Sheet size: 24 x 20 inches
From a portfolio of six drypoints, printed with unqiue combination of blue-black graphite shavings combined with silver to create the appearence of an original drawing. I know of no other artist to use a similar printing technique.
William Bailey studied art at the University of Kansas, Yale University and Yale School of Art where he studied with Josef Albers receiving his MFA in 1957.
Mr. Bailey’s first exhibition in New York was at Robert Schoelkopf Gallery in 1968, where he showed regularly until its closing in 1990. During the 90’s he exhibited at the Andre Emmerich Gallery and on its closing, exhibited at the Robert Miller Gallery. In 2004 Bailey moved to the Betty Cuningham Gallery where his most recent exhibition was held from April 30 - June 11, 2016.
Mr. Bailey’s work has been exhibited extensively in both America and Europe. He is represented in the collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among others. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in painting in 1965. Mr. Bailey was elected to The National Academy of Design in 1983 and to The American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1986.
Mr. Bailey taught at The Yale School of Art from 1958 to 1962 and from 1969 to 1995. He has also taught at The Cooper Union, University of Pennsylvania and Indiana University. He maintains studios in New Haven and in Umbertide, Italy.
Courtesy Betty Cunningham Gallery
Tribute to William Bailey
THE NEW YORK TIMES
William Bailey, whose pristine, idealized still lifes and female nudes made him one of the leading figures in the return of figurative art in the 1980s, died on April 13 at his home in Branford, Conn. He was 89.
His death was confirmed by his daughter, Alix Bailey.
Beyond his painting, Mr. Bailey influenced generations of students in his many years as a teacher at the Yale School of Art.
In some of his best-known work, Mr. Bailey arranged simple objects — the eggs, bowls, bottles and vases that he once called “my repertory company” — along a severe horizontal shelf, or on a plain table, swathing them in a breathless, deceptively serene atmosphere heavy with mystery.
William Bailey, Modernist Figurative Painter, Dies at 89
He swathed his nudes and still lifes of eggs, vases, bottles and bowls in a breathless, deceptively serene atmosphere heavy with mystery.
The painter William Bailey in 2009. He was never given a career survey in a major museum, but his influence, particulary on students at Yale, was deep.
Ford Bailey
By William Grimes for the New York Times
April 18, 2020
William Bailey, whose pristine, idealized still lifes and female nudes made him one of the leading figures in the return of figurative art in the 1980s, died on April 13 at his home in Branford, Conn. He was 89.
His death was confirmed by his daughter, Alix Bailey.
Beyond his painting, Mr. Bailey influenced generations of students in his many years as a teacher at the Yale School of Art.
In some of his best-known work, Mr. Bailey arranged simple objects — the eggs, bowls, bottles and vases that he once called “my repertory company” — along a severe horizontal shelf, or on a plain table, swathing them in a breathless, deceptively serene atmosphere heavy with mystery.
His muted ochres, grays and powdery blues conjured up a still, timeless world inhabited by Platonic forms, recognizable but uncanny, in part because he painted from imagination rather than life.
“They are at once vividly real and objects in dream, and it is the poetry of this double life that elevates all this humble crockery to the realm of pictorial romance,” Hilton Kramer wrote in The New York Times in 1979.
Mr. Bailey’s female figures, some clothed in a simple shift or robe and others partly or entirely nude, are disconcertingly impassive, implacable and unreadable, fleshly presences breathing an otherworldly air.
The critic Mark Stevens, writing in Newsweek in 1982, credited Mr. Bailey with helping to “restore representational art to a position of consequence in modern painting.”
But his version of representation was entirely idiosyncratic, seemingly traditional but in fact “a modernism so contrarian,” the artist Alexi Worth wrote in a catalog essay for the
William Harrison Bailey...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Drypoint
YOUNG WOMAN WITH LONG HAIR Signed Lithograph, Realist Portrait Drawing
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 Pain...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
STANDING SEAMSTRESS Signed Color Lithograph, Standing Woman, Dress Form, Sewing
Located in Union City, NJ
STANDING SEAMSTRESS is an original hand drawn (not digitally or photo reproduced) limited edition lithograph by the artist Raphael Soyer - Russian/American Social Realism Painter, 18...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
STANDING SEAMSTRESS, Signed Lithograph Female Portrait Sewing Machine Dress Form
Located in Union City, NJ
STANDING SEAMSTRESS is an original hand drawn (not digitally or photo reproduced) limited edition lithograph by the artist Raphael Soyer - Russian/American Social Realism Painter, 18...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ballroom Dancing
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Couples Ballroom Dancing is a very attractive print that is VERY nicely framed-- A wonderful accent to a living room or bedroom!
16 x 16 in size and it is wired and ready to hang.
Category
20th Century Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Dup...
Located in New York, NY
Honore Daumier (1808-1879), “Dup…”, lithograph, 1832, from the series Celebrites de la Caricature, plate 171. Reference: Delteil 45, Daumier Register 45, only state. In generally goo...
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1830s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
A Galway Peasant (also, An Irish Peasant)
Located in New York, NY
Gerald Brockhurst (1890-1978), A Galway Peasant (also, An Irish Peasant), etching, 1920, signed in pencil lower right. Reference: Fletcher 10, from the edition of 55, third state (of...
Category
1920s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Ballroom Dancing
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Couples Ballroom Dancing is a very attractive print that is VERY nicely framed-- A wonderful accent to a living room or bedroom!
16 x 16 in size an...
Category
20th Century Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Una (Portrait of a Creole Lady)
Located in New York, NY
Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (1891-1978), Una (Portrait of a Creole Lady), etching, 1929, signed in pencil lower right, and also inscribed by the artist: “2nd State, GB”. Reference: Flet...
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1920s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Balaclava - The target in sight -
Located in Berlin, DE
Heinrich Haberl (1869 Passau to 1934 Munich), Sturmhaube, c. 1900. drypoint, 14 x 10 cm (platemark), 28 x 21 cm (sheet size), 39 x 29 cm (passe-partout), titled "Sturmhaube" in lead at lower left and inscribed "Kaltnadelradierung", signed and locally inscribed "Heinrich Haberl Mchn. [Munich]" at lower right, inscribed again in lead on verso and with old collection stamp.
- slightly darkened, fixed and mounted
- The target in sight -
About the artwork
The theatrical "role-portrait" is to be seen against the background of the Rembrandt cult, which reached its climax at the end of the 19th century. The soldier seems to have stepped straight out of Rembrandt's Night Watch (1642) to fix something outside the picture with an alert and ready gaze. The steeply rising brim of the morion frames the gaze and thus perspectivises it as the actual 'pictorial action'. The gaze represents both the vigilant defence and the visionary goal of the battle.
Not only the subject, but also the style of the etching needle reflect Rembrandt's understanding of the times. Strong contrasts of light and dark are created in a virtuoso free stroke, without losing the effect of the reflections on the helmet and in the eyes. This shows a kinship with the early prints of Lovis Corinth, who also saw himself as an artist in the role of the knight. Against this background, Haberl's picture can also be seen as a representation of his artistic self-image.
About the artist
Heinrich Haberl first attended the art school in Nuremberg and from 1892 studied at the Munich Academy. There he was a master student of Johann Leonhard von Raab, Rudolf von Seitz, Franz von Defregger...
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Early 19th Century Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Charles Lee Esq.
Located in Boston, MA
Chaloner Smith (Engraver not ascertained, Class III) 9. Published by C. Shepherd, Oct. 31, 1775 London. Inscribed in plate lower center: "Charles Lee, Efq. / Major General of the Continental Army in America. / Published as the Act directs 31 Octr. 1775 by C. Shepherd". Inscribed in plate lower left: "Thomlinson pinxt". Flag inscribed in plate: "An Appeal to Heaven...
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Late 18th Century Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Similitudes
Located in New York, NY
Jean- Louis Forain (1852-1931), Similitudes, etching and drypoint, not signed [signed in the plate upper right], 1880, from the total edition of 545, on wove paper, in generally good...
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1880s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Drypoint
YOUNG WOMAN, STRIPED TEE SHIRT Signed Lithograph, Realist Portrait, Casual
Located in Union City, NJ
YOUNG WOMAN, STRIPED TEE SHIRT is an original hand drawn (not digitally or photo reproduced) limited edition lithograph by the artist Raphael Soyer - Russian/American Social Realism...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Portrait of Slevogt
By Emil Orlik
Located in New York, NY
Emil Orlik (1870-1932), Portrait of Slevogt, etching, 1921, signed in pencil and numbered (27/100) [also signed and dated in the plate], from the presumed edition of 100. In very goo...
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1920s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
SHOWER PORTRAIT (GOLD)
Located in Aventura, FL
Silkscreen on canvas with diamond dust. Hand signed, dated, and numbered on verso by the artist. Edition of 25. Canvas is not stretched.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certific...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Canvas, Screen
"Girl With Flowers, " Lithograph signed by an unknown artist (WJR)
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Girl With Flowers" is a lithograph printed in brown, signed and dated in stone upper left WJR. It depicts the head of a girl with short hair surrounded by floating flowers.
14.5" ...
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1920s Realist Portrait Prints
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Lithograph
SERENA WITH BLUE CAP
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed, dated, and numbered by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. Edition: PP of 5, aside from edition of 30 plus 10 artist's p...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Screen
SERENA WITH RED CAP
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed, dated, and numbered by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. Edition: PP of 5, aside from edition of 30 plus 10 artist's p...
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2010s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Screen
SHOWER PROFILE (PINK)
Located in Aventura, FL
Silkscreen on canvas with diamond dust. Hand signed, dated, and numbered on verso by the artist. Edition of 25. Canvas is stretched.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Canvas, Screen
James McBey
Located in New York, NY
Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (1890-1978), James McBey, etching, 1931, signed in pencil lower right [also signed in the plate, in reverse, lower right just under the borderline, and title...
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1930s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
SHOWER PROFILE (SILVER)
Located in Aventura, FL
Silkscreen on canvas with diamond dust. Hand signed, dated, and numbered on verso by the artist. Edition of 25. Canvas is not stretched.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certific...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Prints
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Canvas, Screen
Judy
Located in West Hollywood, CA
A magnificent original lithograph by American artist Beth van Hoesen.
Noted as a master printmaker, van Hoesen exhibited at the de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; Achenbach ...
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1970s Realist Portrait Prints
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Lithograph
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Find a wide variety of authentic Realist portrait 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 portrait prints created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of pink, orange, yellow and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Raphael Soyer, Carole Feuerman, Ronald Brooks Kitaj, and (after) David Hockney. Frequently made by artists working with Lithograph, and Etching 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 portrait prints, so small editions measuring 3.75 inches across are also available. Prices for portrait 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 $125 and tops out at $14,500, while the average work sells for $809.