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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Style: Realist
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
The Four Seasons (Autumn)
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Michael Schofield created "The Four Seasons" .
This is a limited edition lithograph (Artist Proof) of the Summer Season. (282/800) It is also remarqued.
It may be purchased alone fo...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
"Sound Bound, " Framed Limited Edition Giclee Print, 9" x 12"
Located in Westport, CT
This traditional seascape Limited Edition print by Daniel Pollera captures a coastal summer scene with swaying grass in what appears to be a bay. Sailboats with white sails are visib...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Giclée, Digital
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
Materials
Engraving
27. Metallic beetle, Lunar-headed dung-beetle, Capricorn beetle, Harlequin beet
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
Some do not (A) R.B. Kitaj erotic nude drawing of nude blonde with man on bed
Located in New York, NY
An erotic dalliance between a nude blonde woman lying down, and nude man, on a bed with white sheets. Subtle shades of peach, tan, yellow, and grey and black shadow behind the couple...
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1970s Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
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
Materials
Lithograph
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...
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1970s Realist Prints and Multiples
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Little Branch, " Framed Limited Edition Giclee Print, 48" x 36"
Located in Westport, CT
This realistic limited edition print captures a highly detailed, cropped, close-up view of water lightly rippling over rocks. The water reflects light above it to add dimension and d...
Category
2010s Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Digital, Giclée
James Hart Festival of Britain 1951 London Transport map poster UK Mid Century
By James Hart
Located in London, GB
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1950s Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Thistles and Pines (Hand-printed cyanotype, 12 x 16 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
Scotch thistles bloom in the foreground while from the fog emerge towering Monterey pines behind them. These are the woods across the bay from San Francisco in early summer when this...
Category
2010s Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photogram
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
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 Prints and Multiples
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
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...
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17th Century Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
The Flight into Egypt 17th century engraving after Rubens by Lucas Vorsterman
By Peter Paul Rubens
Located in London, GB
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Lucas Vorsterman (1595 - 1675) after Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640)
The Fligh...
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1620s Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Monoprint, Monotype
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...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
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 ...
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18th Century Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
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
Materials
Paper, Ink
"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...
Category
2010s Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Giclée, Digital
Ruins of the Temple of Kom Ombo, Egypt: A 19th C. Lithograph by David Roberts
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century duotone lithograph entitled "Ruins of Kom Ombo" by David Roberts, from his Egypt and Nubia volumes of the large folio edition, published in London by...
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1840s Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Interior of the Temple Abu Simbel, Egypt: A 19th C. Lithograph by David Roberts
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century duotone lithograph entitled "Interior of the Temple of Aboo Simbel" by David Roberts, from his Egypt and Nubia volumes of the large folio edition, pu...
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1840s Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
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
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...
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1810s Realist Prints and Multiples
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 Prints and Multiples
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...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
DOMINO Signed Lithograph, Bucks County Landscape, Historic Stone Farmhouse, Cow
Located in Union City, NJ
DOMINO is an original hand drawn, limited edition lithograph(not a photo reproduction or digital print) by Peter Sculthorpe (b.1948 Ontario, Canada) printed using hand lithography te...
Category
1980s Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Dig for Victory over Want - World War II public information poster leaflet
Located in London, GB
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1940s Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Forest Sunrise (Hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 24 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
Unframed. New from 2023.
This is an original, hand-printed original cyanotype photograph on heavy cotton watercolor paper. Just one of 10 prints were made. Four have sold. Only six...
Category
2010s Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photogram
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 Prints and Multiples
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 Prints and Multiples
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 Prints and Multiples
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Etching
The Dancing Girls of Cairo, Egypt: Original 19th C. Lithograph by David Roberts
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century duotone lithograph entitled "The Ghawazees, or Dancing Girls of Cairo" by David Roberts, from his Egypt and Nubia volumes of the large folio edition,...
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1840s Realist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
The Letter-Writer, Cairo, Egypt: Original 19th C. Lithograph by David Roberts
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century duotone lithograph entitled "The Letter-Writer" by David Roberts, from his Egypt and Nubia volumes of the large folio edition, published in London by...
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1840s Realist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Colen Campbell: Althorp Hall - Althrop - Diana Princess of Wales engraving 1725
Located in London, GB
Colen Campbell (1676-1729)
Althrop Hall in Northamptonshire the Seat of the Rt Honourable The Earl of Sunderland & co.
35x50cm
Engraving (1715-1725) from 'Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British Architect...'
Althorp Hall - as it is now written, but still pronounced 'Althrop' - is the seat of the Earl Spencer and the location of the grave of Diana, Princess of Wales...
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Early 18th Century Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Westminster Abbey St Erasmus' Chapel 1812 print by John Bluck for Ackermann
Located in London, GB
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John Bluck after Frederick Mackenzie (1788 - 1854)
East Side of St Erasmus' Chapel, Westminster Abbey (1812)
Hand-coloured aquatint
28 x 19 cm
Published by Rudolph Ackermann...
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1810s Realist Prints and Multiples
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Aquatint
"Winter Barn" by artist named Berger
Located in Clinton Township, 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
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Lithograph
Coffee Shop of Cairo, Egypt: Original 19th C. Lithograph by David Roberts
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century duotone lithograph entitled "The Coffee-Shop of Cairo" by David Roberts, from his Egypt and Nubia volumes of the large folio edition, published in Lo...
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1840s Realist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Willi Kissmer - "The Victorian Scarf" - giclée print - signed and numbered
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Willi Kissmer - "The Victorian Scarf".
Giclée print on heavy handmade cotton paper.
Hand signed and numbered.
A beautiful artwork that looks good in every room and especially in t...
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20th Century Realist Prints and Multiples
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Handmade Paper, Giclée
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 ...
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1810s Realist Prints and Multiples
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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 Prints and Multiples
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Etching
19. Spider conches
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
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Pigment
Spring Surf on Lake Michigan
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Lake Michigan is famous for its landscape paintings.
This limited edition lithograph numbered 459/500 is entitled
"Spring Surf on Lake Michigan" and is signed and remarqued by the artist Leo Kuschel.
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Late 20th Century Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Guy Allen, Horse Study Blue, Bright Art, Etching Print, Contemporary Equine Art
By Guy Allen
Located in Deddington, GB
Guy Allen
Horse Study Blue
Limited Edition Etching with Screen Print Overlay
Edition of 45
Image Size: H 53.5cm x W 56.5cm
Sheet Size: H 80cm x W 77cm x D 0.1cm
Sold Unframed
Please ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Etching, Screen
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
Entrance to the Citadel of Cairo, Egypt: A 19th C. Lithograph by David Roberts
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century duotone lithograph entitled "The Entrance to the Citadel of Cairo" by David Roberts, from his Egypt and Nubia volumes of the large folio edition, pub...
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1840s Realist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Bazaar of Coppersmiths, Cairo, Egypt: Original 19th C. Lithograph by D. Roberts
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century duotone lithograph entitled "Bazaar of the Coppersmiths, Cairo" by David Roberts, from his Egypt and Nubia volumes of the large folio edition, publis...
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1840s 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
"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 Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Al Pacino in the Godfather
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Signed by the artist, this painting of Al Pacino from the film The Godfather is a great conversation piece for any "man cave". It is a lithograph signed by the artist.
Framing optio...
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Late 20th Century Realist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
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.
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19th Century Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
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
The Sheldonian and Clarendon, Broad Street, Oxford engraving by Basire
Located in London, GB
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James Basire II (1769 - 1822) after Edward Dayes...
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Early 1800s Realist Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Realist prints and multiples for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Realist prints and multiples 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 prints and multiples created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, orange, pink and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Daniel Pollera, Luigi Kasimir, Peter Doig, and John Harris (painter). 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 prints and multiples, so small editions measuring 0.5 inches across are also available. Prices for prints and multiples made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $50 and tops out at $72,120, while the average work sells for $793.