Realist Prints and Multiples
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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"Dollar Tree" – Oil on Wood Panel, Contemporary Realism Retail Scene
By Brad Davis
Located in Denver, CO
Brad Davis’s "Dollar Tree" is an oil on wood panel painting measuring 20 x 27 inches, framed to 22 x 29 inches, and presented ready to hang. This contemporary realist artwork vividly...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
At the sauna. 1960s, paper, lithography, 38x49 cm
Located in Riga, LV
At the sauna
1960s, paper, lithography, 38x49 cm
Dzidra Bauma (1930)
Dzidra Bauma works in watercolor technique. She paint figural compositions, portraits, landscapes, flowers and still life. She is one of the most productive watercolors artists, in first post-war generation - the number of jobs estimated in the thousands. Especially popular paintings with floral motifs.
The artist about herself says: "I was born in Jelgava in 1930 in family of teachers. As a child, together with brother we loved to draw and made figures of clay or plasticine. In Riga elementary school №8 was a great art teacher, artist Alphonse Mihaylovskis, he also gave the first direction in art. Father let us buy a good brushes, watercolors, art books and publications related to the Latvian art. We also visited the exhibition. Enthusiastically I absorb all that read, studied the basic concepts...
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1960s Realist Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Lithograph
$461 Sale Price
20% Off
Wings For Victory, original vintage Second World War poster
Located in London, GB
Wings for Victory -- The Sky's the Limit for Wartime Saving
Original vintage Second World War poster
Lithograph
50 x 37 cm
Dated to 1943
This 'Wings for Victory' poster was a prop...
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1940s Realist Prints and Multiples
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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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Early 18th Century Globe Terrestre Engraving
By Francois Halma
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderfully detailed steel engraving of the earth, locations labeled in French: Afrique, Grande Tartarie, La Chine, etc., by By Francois Halma (Dutch, 1653-1722), 1705. Interesting f...
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Early 1700s Realist Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Ink
Multicolor Iris, Framed Photorealist Floral Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993)
Title: Multicolor Iris
Year: 1981
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200, AP 35/40
Size: 36 x 25 in. (9...
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1970s Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
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...
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1810s Realist Prints and Multiples
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Etching
European Village
By Hans Figura
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978)
Title: European Village
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Color etching with aquatint
Edition: Unknown
Paper: ...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Homeless. 19th Century Etching
By Charles-Jean-Louis Courtry
Located in Brecon, Powys
A very poignant depiction. A H Marsh is one of the English artists who devoted themselves to the representation of pathetic subjects. The gravity of this painter's idea is always to ...
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Late 19th Century Realist Prints and Multiples
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Etching
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 Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Red Breasted Merganser from Illustrations of British Ornithology Pl.58 by Selby
Located in Paonia, CO
Red Breasted Merganser PL 58 from a rare black and white edition of Prideaux John Selby’s two volume set of 222 engravings “Illustrations of British Ornithology”. These original...
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Mid-19th Century Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
35. Common hyacinth, Common tiger, moth
Located in Columbia, MO
Maria Sibylla Merian was born in Germany in 1647 and received early artistic training from her stepfather, an established still life painter. She was fascinated by insects and collec...
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18th Century Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Pigment
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
THE FOUR SEASONS 4 Lithographs on Arches paper, American Illustration, Americana
Located in Union City, NJ
Artist: Norman Rockwell, American (1894 - 1978)
Title: The Four Seasons: SPRING, SUMMER, AUTUMN, WINTER
Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper, 100% acid free
Paper Size: 20.5 x 19.25 in...
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1970s Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Southwark Cathedral engraving c. 1753 for Stow's Survey of London
Located in London, GB
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1750s Realist Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
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...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Night Eyes I
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Night Eyes I" c1980 is a color screen print on Wove paper by Indian artist Penni Anne Cross A.K.A. (Alawa-Sta-We- Ches) 1939-2016. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 215/275 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 10 x 8 inches, sheet size is 17 x 14 inches. It is in excellent condition, has never been framed.
About the artist:
Crow Indian artist Penni Anne Cross, (Alawa-sta-we-ches) was born in Washington state in 1939. She first studied with her portrait-painter mother, before beginning more formal studies in 1968.
Her work is commercially oriented, sentimentalizing her paintings of Native Americans...
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Late 20th Century Realist Prints and Multiples
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Screen
The Thames, 1894 - Victorian aquatint etching of London by Joseph Pennell
Located in London, GB
JOSEPH PENNELL
(1857-1926)
The Thames, 1894
Signed
Aquatint
Plate size 20.5 by 26.5 cm., 8 by 10 ½ in.
(frame size 42 by 46 cm., 16 ½ by 18 in.)
Pennell was born in Philadelphia where he studied at School of Industrial Art and the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1884 he was commissioned by the Century Magazine to supply a series of drawings of London...
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1890s Realist Prints and Multiples
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Aquatint
"L'Hiver a Paris" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and drypoint with aquatint and roulette. "L’Hiver a Paris" is also known as "La Neige a Paris". Executed in 1879 and published in Paris in 1881 for L'Art; t...
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1880s Realist Prints and Multiples
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Etching
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
University Church of St Mary, Oxford by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan
Located in London, GB
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
The University Church of St Mary the Virgin, University of Oxford
Engraving
12 x 16 cm
An eighteenth-century view of the University Church, engraved by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan, the noted engraver, draughtsman, and painter. St Mary's was the first building of the University of Oxford and its parish consists almost exclusively of university and college buildings. Its eccentric Baroque porch, designed by Nicholas Stone, faces the High Street, and it boasts a spire which is claimed by some church historians to be one of the most beautiful in England. Radcliffe Square lies to the north and to the east is Catte Street. The 13th-century tower is open to the public and provides magnificent views across the heart of the historic university city, especially Radcliffe Square, the Radcliffe Camera...
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Early 18th Century Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Willi Kissmer - "Gray and White" - giclée print - signed/numbered - edition: 50
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Willi Kissmer - "Gray and White".
Giclée print on heavy handmade cotton paper.
Edition: 50.
Hand signed and numbered.
A beautiful artwork that looks good in every room and especi...
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20th Century Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Handmade Paper, Giclée
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Adelboden original vintage Swiss skiing poster
Located in London, GB
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Adelboden
Original vintage poster
104 x 63 cm
A fantastic original vintage poster advertising the Swiss ski...
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20th Century Realist Prints and Multiples
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Color
40. Fennel flower, Iron Prominent
Located in Columbia, MO
Maria Sibylla Merian was born in Germany in 1647 and received early artistic training from her stepfather, an established still life painter. She was fascinated by insects and collec...
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18th Century Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Pigment
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 Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Illusie
Located in Middletown, NY
Circa 1960. Etching and engraving on cream laid paper, 5 3/4 x 4 inches (141 x 102 mm), margins. Scattered light areas of spotty discoloration in the margins, minor mat tone. Four mi...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Prints and Multiples
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Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching
Hunting Dog speaking to a bunny "Be Quiet", lithograph signed by aris
Located in Chesterfield, MI
Hunting dog speaking to the rabbit: "Be Quiet".
Humor in art is rare! Titled and pencil signed by the artist Paul Wood.
Published in France by Paris Etching Society.
"Made in Fra...
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20th Century Realist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
$112 Sale Price
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Law of The Flaming Frontier - 1920s Western Interior with Guns and Rifle
By Harold Edgar Wenck
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful print with artist's title and description (written in pen and ink) "'Law of the Flaming Frontier' Interior of Pioneer Cabin with a gun and a rifle in Tombstone AZ when the West was young." By Harold Edgar Wenck (American, 1886-1958), circa 1920s. Signed within print and hand-signed below title/description (in pen and ink). Presented in a giltwood period frame.
H. E. Wenck (also known as Joe) was born in Fort Assiniboine, Montana in 1896. According to an article in Arizona Kitty Kat...
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1920s Realist Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Ink
Philip Pearlstein 'View Over Soho, Lower Manhattan' NYC signed, print
Located in San Rafael, CA
Philip Pearlstein (1924-2022)
View Over Soho, Lower Manhattan, 1977
Aquatint in colors on wove paper
Edition 7/41
Signed, editioned and titled in pencil lower left
Printed by the Orl...
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1970s Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
Boy at the source / - Elixir of Life -
Located in Berlin, DE
Hans Thoma (1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe), Boy at the source, 1897. Algraph on strong wove paper after a drawing from 1897, published by Breitkopf und Härtel in Leipzig as ‘Zeitgenös...
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1890s Realist Prints and Multiples
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Paper
Untitled (Male Nude)
Located in New York, NY
Realized in the manner of Thomas Eakins, this sophisticated figurative print presents a nude male model with his back to the viewer. Showcasing both the technical faculty of the arti...
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20th Century Realist Prints and Multiples
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Digital
Minimal Triptych of Calm Costa Rica Shore, Handmade Cyanotype on Paper, Blue
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This series of cyanotype triptychs showcases the beauty of nature scenes, including stunning beaches and oceans, as well as the intricate textures of water, forests, and skies. These...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Monotype
La Bandera Cubana
Located in New York, NY
Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) created this color lithograph entitled “LA BANDERA DE CUBA” in 1980. This impression is signed, titled, and inscribed “Seis” [six] in pencil. The printed ...
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Late 20th Century Realist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
The Bodleian Library, Oxford University by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan
Located in London, GB
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
The Bodleian Library, Oxford
Engraving
12 x 16 cm
An eighteenth-century view of the bea...
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Early 18th Century Realist Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
"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...
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20th Century Realist Prints and Multiples
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Archival Pigment
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...
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1970s Realist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Gran vía
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Antonio López
"Gran vía"
2025
Lithography and etching
100 copies (62/100)
published by Taller del Prado
Certified by Taller Del Prado
76.5 x 70.5 cm
Category
2010s Realist Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Lithograph
18th Century Native Floridians Etching
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid 18th century etching of native Floridians probably used for a book. Very good condition for its age. Etching measures 7 1/2 inches high by 5 3/4 inches wide. The beautiful custom...
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1750s Realist Prints and Multiples
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Etching
STILL LIFE WITH GRAPES AND PEAR Signed Lithograph, Geometric Pattern, Fruit
Located in Union City, NJ
STILL LIFE WITH GRAPES is an original hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the American artist Lowell Nesbitt (b.1933-1993). Printed on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free using hand lithography techniques. STILL LIFE WITH GRAPES is a modern fruit still life depicting two bunches of plump green and red grapes, and green pear displayed on an Southwest style geometric Aztec patterned textile as a background. STILL LIFE WITH GRAPES is an eye-appealing composition using vivid colors including warm red, black, gray, yellow gold, light green, purple, burgundy and white.
Print size - 21.5 x 28.25 inches, unframed, excellent condition, very fine impression, pencil signed by Lowell Nesbitt
Edition size - 175, plus proofs
Year published - 1978
Lowell Blair Nesbitt (October 4, 1933 - July 8, 1993) was an American painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor. He studied at Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia and at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Nesbitt worked in abstraction until Robert Indiana suggested in the early 1960s that he explore realism in his paintings. As subjects for his work he favored studio interiors, articles of clothing, piles of shoes, his Rottweiler, the Neo-Classical facades of 19th century cast iron buildings, and Manhattan's bridges. He was also famous for his enormous paintings and prints of roses, lilies, irises, and other flowers. He served as the official artist for the NASA Apollo 9, and Apollo 13 space missions; in 1976 the United States Navy commissioned him to paint a mural in the administration building on Treasure Island spanning 26 feet x 251 feet, then the largest mural in the United States; and in 1980 the United States Postal Service honored Lowell Nesbitt by issuing four postage stamps depicting his paintings.
His first solo exhibition was mounted at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1958 and during his lifetime he had more than 130 solo exhibitions of his work at various galleries, museums, and universities, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Kent State University, the McNay Art Museum, the Butler Institute of American Art, the Burpee Art Museum, and the Tyler Gallery...
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1970s Realist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
David Loggan Botanic Gardens Oxford Engraving 1675
By David Loggan
Located in London, GB
David Loggan (1634-1692)
Botanic Gardens, Oxford
Engraving, later colouring
41x50cm
Loggan was born to English and Scottish parents, and was baptised in Danzig in 1634. After studyi...
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1670s Realist Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
SALVO, Nocturne, Color aquatint
Located in Torino, IT
SALVO (SALVATORE MANGIONE), Leonforte 1947 - Turin 2015
Nocturne 1991
Original aquatint and aquatint signed by hand by the artist.. (mm. 590x470).
Perfect specimen, imprinted on Hahn...
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1990s Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
Dylan Lloyd, Island Path VIII, Bright Contemporary Painting, Original Landscape
By Dylan Lloyd
Located in Deddington, GB
Dylan Lloyd
Island Path VIII
Original Oil Painting on Canvas
Oil Paint on Canvas
Framed in a White Box Frame
Image size: H 30cm x W 24cm x D 0.5cm
Framed S...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Oil, Board
"Winter Barn" by artist named Berger
Located in Chesterfield, MI
Winter--in all its delicate beauty-- in this lithograph by artist named Berger who pencil signed it and titled it also.
It is beautifully framed in a gold wooden frame.
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$96 Sale Price
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David Roberts “Approach of the Simoon - Desert of Geezah” “
Located in San Francisco, CA
David Roberts: 1796-1864. Very important and well Listed 19th century Scottish artist. He has had Auction results for paintings in excess of $1 million. Nevertheless, he is most reco...
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1850s Realist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
White Irises on Blue, Photorealist Screenprint by Lowell Blair Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993)
Title: White Irises on Blue
Year: 1980
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200, AP 30
Image Size: 41 x 23...
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1980s Realist Prints and Multiples
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Screen
"Just the Two of Us, " Framed Limited Edition Giclee Print, 36" x 48"
Located in Westport, CT
This coastal seascape limited edition print captures a scene from the porch of a beachfront property along the coast. A setting sun casts sharp light and cool blue-grey shadows across the porch, where two sets of shoes and two boat paddles...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples
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Digital, Giclée
'Portrait of James Caulfield' by William Hogarth, Etching
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 21" x 18" etching was produced by William Hogarth in the mid-18th century. The work has been newly matted and framed with archival materials. The subject, identified as James Caulfield, 4th Viscount, 1st Earl of Charlemont (1728-1799), became commander in chief of the Irish Volunteers...
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1780s Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
FHK Henrion 1940s What Comes from Coal original poster for HMSO Ministry of Fuel
Located in London, GB
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FHK Henrion (1914 - 1990)
What Comes from Coal (circa 1945)
Original vintage poster
51 x 76 cm
Signed in plate.
Issued by the Ministry of Fuel and Power; printed for HM Stationery Office by Field Sons & Co Ltd, Bradford.
We have been unable to identify any other copy of this poster by this renowned designer in any public collection - it is possibly the only remaining copy.
A Ministry of Fuel poster...
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1940s Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
'Psychopathic Ward' — Socially-Conscious Realism
By Robert Riggs
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Riggs, 'Psychopathic Ward', 2-color lithograph, c. 1940, edition c. 50, Beall 60, Bassham 78. Signed, titled, and numbered '14' in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower right. A ...
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1940s Realist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Lincoln College, Oxford engraving by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan
Located in London, GB
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
Lincoln College, Oxford
Engraving
12 x 16 cm
An eighteenth-century view of Lincoln, engr...
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Early 18th Century Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
CAY RUNNER Signed Lithograph, Realistic Runner Boat on Calm Water, Marine Art
By John Lutes
Located in Union City, NJ
Artist - John Lutes (1926-2001)
Title - Cay Runner
Year Published - 1980
Print Size - 29" x 22"
Printer - JK Fine Art Editions Co., NY
Cay Runner is an original hand drawn, limited edition lithograph, (not a photographically reproduced or digital print) by the American artist John D. Lutes created using traditional hand lithography techniques, proofed and printed in multiple colors on archival Arches paper 100% acid free.
Cay Runner depicts a very detailed realistic rendition of a runner boat in still water, a solid light khaki grey sky serving as the backdrop for this quiet marine boat portrait. This is a rare limited edition lithograph by Mr. Lutes not often seen on the marketplace. Cay Runner is in excellent condition, unframed, pencil signed by John Lutes.
Print size - 30 x 22 inches, unframed, excellent condition, pencil signed by John Lutes
Edition size - 300, plus proofs
Year published - 1980
Printer - JK Fine Art Editions Co. NY
John D. Lutes, born 1926 in Chicago, died 2001...
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1980s Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Schubert's Birthplace, Vienna, Austria
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Schubert's Birthplace, Vienna, Austria" c.1925 is a color etching on Wove paper by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir, 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the a...
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Early 20th Century Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Leo Vernon West Africa poster map 1948 Nigeria, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, Gambia
By Leo Vernon
Located in London, GB
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1940s Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Bob’s Used Auto Parts" – Oil on Wood Panel, Vintage Car Scene
By Brad Davis
Located in Denver, CO
Brad Davis’s "Bob’s Used Auto Parts" is an oil painting on wood panel measuring 18 x 14 inches, presented in a contemporary frame with overall dimensions of 20 x 16 inches. Framed an...
Category
2010s Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Agony - The architecture of decay -
Located in Berlin, DE
Jörg Olberg (*1956 Dresden), Agony, 1987. etching, E.A. (edition of 30), 24 x 17 cm (image), 46 x 37 cm (sheet), each signed in pencil lower right "Olberg" and dated "IX [19]87", inscribed lower left "E.A. [Epreuve d'Artiste]".
- minimal crease and dust stains in the broad margin
- The architecture of decay -
About the artwork
Jörg Olberg draws here the sum of his artistic study of the Berlin ruins, which were still present in the cityscape well into the 80s. With his work "Agony" he creates an allegory of decay. Positioned in the landscape of ruins, a ruined house grows before the viewer, rising like the Tower of Babel into the sky, its roof and gable brightly illuminated by the sun. But already the roof shows mostly only the rafters, and as the gaze is drawn further down, the building visibly disintegrates, the beams protruding in all directions looking like splintered bones. Slowly but inexorably - in agony - the house will collapse in on itself and become nothing more than the burial mound of itself. At the same time, the small-scale stone composition and the plaster form a pattern-like ornamentation of decay.
The tension in the picture is fed by the counter-movement of growth and collapse, which is heightened by the dramatic formation of clouds. The swirls of clouds are reminiscent of a world landscape...
Category
1980s Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Paper
$269 Sale Price
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Oxford from the East engraving by Pieter van der Aa after David Loggan
Located in London, GB
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634–1692)
Oxford from the East
Engraving
12 x 16 cm
An eighteenth-century view of Oxford from the east, engraved by Pieter van de...
Category
Early 18th Century Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
"Rehab" – Oil on Wood Panel, Construction Site Scene
By Brad Davis
Located in Denver, CO
Brad Davis presents "Rehab," a 2025 oil on wood panel measuring 18 x 18.50 inches, framed to 20 x 20.50 inches and ready to hang. This compelling contemporary work captures a moment ...
Category
2010s Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
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