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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
Period: 21st Century and Contemporary
Nocturnes à Giverny by Elger Esser, Water Lily Lake at Sunset, Contemporary Art
Located in Zug, CH
Esser’s Giverny series revisits Monet’s famous garden from an unexpected angle, whereby the common visual memory of this iconic art destination is deconstructed and recreated in an a...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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C Print

1 etching and 1 aquatint of skating youngsters (2010)
Located in Oostende, BE
1 etching and 1 aquatint of skating youngsters, made by illustrator and animator Frederic Marschall. The aquatint is a negative of the etching. Both were put in a new aluminum fram...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Paper

LE Hand Embellished Giclee on Canvas : Transcendent Achievement Through Transfor
Located in Charelston, SC
Noland Anderson is a self taught portrait artist who strives to create works of art that are a celebration of people of color. He is known for his detailed compositions in oils applied with loose brush strokes. He often features images of Black women and men engaging in everyday life in urban settings. Born in Newport News, Virginia with roots in Sumpter, SC, Noland's passion for figure drawing was formed at an early age. Noland attended the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale where he received an Associate Degree in Advertising. Upon graduating, he went on to work as a freelance illustrator, designing Judaic art throughout the mid 1990s through early 2000s. During this period, Noland's freelance work extended into television where he worked as one of three court artists for the ABC affiliate in South Florida and as an illustrator for Univision (an American media company serving the Latin Market worldwide). Noland is represented by Neema Fine Art Gallery. Neema Fine Art Gallery will donate 15% of the subtotal of each purchase of "Transcendent Achievement Through Transformational Leadership" to the Beta Nu Foundation in an effort to support the Beta Nu Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha in their efforts to support the needs of the FAMU student body, the needs of the surrounding community, and promote scholarship among Alpha Phi Alpha members and beyond. All limited edition giclees (reproductions) are made to order so please anticipate your artwork to arrive within 14-21 days of your order. All open editions will be shipped within 7 business days.  Orders are shipped via UPS or Fedex; please check your email for all tracking information. Thank you for your support. Keywords: black art Black artist Black art gallery African american art African american artist African american painting African-american art African-american painting African-american artist Ethnic art Ethnic painting Ethnic artist Southern art Southern artist Southern painting African american art gallery African-american art gallery Charleston Charleston gallery Charleston art gallery Atlanta Atlanta gallery Atlanta art gallery Serenbe Serenbe art gallery Chattahoochee hills Georgia Georgia art Atlanta art Neema gallery Neema fine art gallery Giclee Giclee on canvas Harlem Renaissance Library 20's African American male Gentlemann HBCU FAMU Black History...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Prints and Multiples

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Acrylic Polymer, Acrylic, Giclée, Canvas

Pare poster for Peter Doig Exhibition at Foundation Beyeler
Located in New York, NY
Peter Doig Poster for Peter Doig Exhibition at Foundation Beyeler, 2015 Offset lithograph poster 14 3/4 × 11 1/2 inches Publisher: Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland; Print...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Offset

Ralph Lauren Illustration Watercolor Fashion Painting Illustration Drawing on
Located in Norwalk, CT
Limited Edition Geclee Print of 50 Edition, on Watercolor Paper , hand-embellished by watercolor. The size of geclee print is 11"X14" . Size with the white matt is 20″X16″. Frame i...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Watercolor

Audrey Hepburn Watercolor Fashion Painting Illustration Drawing on Paper
Located in Norwalk, CT
Limited Edition Geclee Print of 50 Edition, on Watercolor Paper , hand-embellished by watercolor. The size of geclee print is 11"X14" . Size with the white matt is 20″X16″. Frame i...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Watercolor

Wreath Ukrainian Watercolor Fashion Painting Illustration Drawing on Paper Red
Located in Norwalk, CT
Limited Edition Geclee Print of 50 Edition, on Watercolor Paper , hand-embellished by watercolor. The size of geclee print is 11"X14" . Size with the white matt is 20″X16″. Frame i...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Watercolor

Naomi Campbell Fashion Art Watercolor Painting Illustration Drawing on Paper
Located in Norwalk, CT
Limited Edition Geclee Print of 50 Edition, on Watercolor Paper , hand-embellished by watercolor. The size of geclee print is 11"X14" . Size with the white matt is 20″X16″. Frame i...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Watercolor

Mode Vie. Fashion Watercolor Painting Illustration Drawing on Paper
Located in Norwalk, CT
Limited Edition Geclee Print of 50 Edition, on Watercolor Paper , hand-embellished by watercolor. The size of geclee print is 11"X14" . Size with the white matt is 20″X16″. Frame i...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Watercolor

Blu on Red, limited edition print by world renowned female portrait artist
Located in New York, NY
Brenda Zlamany Blu on Red, 2013 Limited Edition special giclee print. Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 100 19 1/2 × 19 1/2 inches Unframed Gorgeous giclee print based upon an o...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Pencil, Giclée

Contemporary printed portrait "In the FIeld among the Flowers"
Located in Sempach, LU
In this giclée print, I have merged the grace of figurative art with symbolic elements. The serene subject, juxtaposed with vibrant florals, expresses a harmonious balance between hu...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Foil

Natura Morte 4 - By Evangelos Koukouwitakis
Located in Winterswijk, NL
From the series "Natura Morte" still life The photographic image of the withered flowers, rotten fruit, animal bones and broken glasses seems to preserve the objects, keep them aliv...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Prints and Multiples

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Giclée, Lithograph

Contemporary print "Seven Black Cats"
Located in Sempach, LU
In my creation, I blend feline grace with human poise, evoking a deep, mysterious bond. The gold-hued backdrop and floral whispers balance solemn black cats, symbolizing unity amid d...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Foil

Natura Morte 7 - By Evangelos Koukouwitakis
Located in Winterswijk, NL
From the series "Natura Morte" still life The photographic image of the withered flowers, rotten fruit, animal bones and broken glasses seems to preserve the objects, keep them alive...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Prints and Multiples

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Giclée, Lithograph

Memento Mori 2 - By Evangelos Koukouwitakis
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Memento mori is a Latin saying that starts with Remember that you are dying! or in general with a memory of death! translates. The saying is considered a vanitas symbol. Vanitas desc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Natura Morte 6 - By Evangelos Koukouwitakis
Located in Winterswijk, NL
From the series "Natura Morte" still life The photographic image of the withered flowers, rotten fruit, animal bones and broken glasses seems to preserve the objects, keep them alive...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Prints and Multiples

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Giclée, Lithograph

Natura Morte 5 - By Evangelos Koukouwitakis
Located in Winterswijk, NL
From the series "Natura Morte" still life The photographic image of the withered flowers, rotten fruit, animal bones and broken glasses seems to preserve the objects, keep them alive...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Prints and Multiples

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Giclée, Lithograph

Nature Monte 1 - By Evangelos Koukouwitakis
Located in Winterswijk, NL
From the series "Natura Morte" still life The photographic image of the withered flowers, rotten fruit, animal bones and broken glasses seems to preserve the objects, keep them alive...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Prints and Multiples

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Giclée, Lithograph

Natura Morte 2 - by Evangelos Koukouwitakis
Located in Winterswijk, NL
From the series "Natura Morte" still life The photographic image of the withered flowers, rotten fruit, animal bones and broken glasses seems to preserve the objects, keep them alive...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Giclée

Natura Morte - By Evangelos Koukouwitakis
Located in Winterswijk, NL
From the series "Natura Morte" still life: The photographic image of the withered flowers, rotten fruit, animal bones and broken glasses seems to preserve the objects, keep them aliv...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Prints and Multiples

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Offset, Lithograph, Giclée

Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf by Candida Höfer, C-Print, Photography
Located in Zug, CH
This artwork is part of a project called "In Portugal", which consists of a selection of photographs taken in public sites throughout the Iberian country. Typical of Candida Höfer, t...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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C Print

Soft Light in the Woods, Forest Landscape, Blue Tones, Handmade Cyanotype Print
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition of a cyanotype print. This beautiful image shows the subtle afternoon light going through the woods during the summer. Details: + T...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Film, Emulsion, Ink, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, C Prin...

City Service Building (70 Pine Street, Manhattan)
Located in New York, NY
Richard Haas City Service Building (70 Pine Street, Manhattan), 2005 Etching Signed, titled, dated and numbered 7/20 in pencil on the front 20 × 16 inches Unframed Rare print by Rich...
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Early 2000s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Pencil

"Rocky River 8" Framed Limited Edition Giclee Print, 30" x 60"
Located in Westport, CT
This limited edition print by John Harris captures a close up view of river rocks beneath lightly-rippling water in a horizontal format. It features a cool blue and earth-toned palet...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Digital, Giclée

Parisian Café Eiffel Tower Paris France Limited Edition Print by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Parisian Café Eiffel Tower Paris France Limited Edition Print by British Artist. A high quality limited edition print of Angela's European Series, incorporating the Eiffel Tower - on...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Digital, Giclée, Archival Paper, Printer's Ink, Paper

New York Sunshine Figurative Cityscape Limited Edition Print by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
New York Sunshine Figurative Cityscape Limited Edition Print of 'New York Woman' - Cityscape Painting by Leading British Urban Landscape Artist. 'New...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Archival Paper, Color, Digital, Giclée

JAZZ STORIES: MAMA CAN SING PAPA CAN BLOW #7: LOVE ME
Located in New York, NY
Faith Ringgold JAZZ STORIES: MAMA CAN SING PAPA CAN BLOW #7: LOVE ME, 2020 13-colour silkscreen print on Coventry Rag 335 gsm paper, accompanied by official COA 29 3/4 × 22 3/4 inche...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Permanent Marker, Screen

LARGE Andries Stilte oversized beach towel (limited edition sold out) 70" x 60"
Located in New York, NY
Kehinde Wiley Andries Stilte oversized beach towel, 2008 Silkscreen on 100% Cotton Large Beach Towel or hanging tapestry 70 × 60 inches (folded measurements included). Edition of 200...
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Early 2000s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Cotton, Mixed Media, Screen

Serene Cloudy Sky Triptych in Blue, Relaxing Skyscape, Multi Panel Blueprint
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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Photogram, Photographic Film, Monotype, Lithograph, Color, C Print, Phot...

Limited Edition Print of Chrysler Building New York City NYC by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Limited Edition Print of Chrysler Building New York City NYC by Contemporary British Artist, Angela Wakefield. This is a striking, colourful and vibrant depiction of the Chrysler Bui...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Archival Paper, Color, Digital, Giclée

Limited Edition Print of Trafalgar Square, Big Ben in Westminster City of London
Located in Preston, GB
Limited Edition Print of Westminster from Trafalgar Square with Big Ben, London, by leading British urban landscape artist, Angela Wakefield. Print measures 12.5 x 10.5 inches Pape...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Color, Digital, Giclée

Set of Six (Six) Scout Series Embroidered textile Patches brand new and sealed
Located in New York, NY
KERRY JAMES MARSHALL Set of Six (Six) Scout Series Embroidered Patches, 2017 Rayon thread on poly twill backed embroidered patches, set of six. Brand new in original packaging. Large...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Textile, Mixed Media

VENDEDORA Signed Lithograph, Portrait Seated Young Girl, Mexican Fruit Seller
Located in Union City, NJ
VENDEDORA, a limited edition lithograph by the renowned American-born Mexican sculptor and printmaker Elizabeth Catlett(b.1915–2012) depicts a sensitive black and white portrait of a...
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Early 2000s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Barcelona Beach Night Horizon, Nocturnal Seascape Cyanotype on Watercolor Paper
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype. Outstanding "Barcelona Beach Night Horizon" shows a nocturnal seascape, taken on the Barcelona beach. Details: + Title: B...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Emulsion, Printer's Ink, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, Color, Photogram

Mediterranean Seascape Cyanotype, Nautical Print of Sea Waves in Blue, Feng Shui
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype. "Mediterranean Blue Sea Waves" is a handmade cyanotype print of the subtle tidal flow moving in on the Mediterranean Sea. ...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Emulsion, Ink, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color

Fourteen Cameras
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery. This print is the framed size. Stott’s work is almost object portraiture, applying traditional still life compositions and lighting but ve...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Giclée, Archival Paper

Valentino Couture Fashion Illustration Figurative Watercolor Geclee Print
Located in Norwalk, CT
Limited Edition Geclee Print 1 of 50 Edition, on Watercolor Paper , hand-embellished by watercolor. The size of geclee print is 11"X14" . Size with the white matt is 20″X16″. Frame ...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Watercolor

Glamour. Fashion Illustration Figurative Watercolor Geclee Print
Located in Norwalk, CT
Limited Edition Geclee Print 1 of 50 Edition, on Watercolor Paper , hand-embellished by watercolor. The size of geclee print is 11"X14" . Size with the white matt is 20″X16″. Framed...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Watercolor

Roses Crown. Fashion Illustration Female D&G Figurative Watercolor Geclee Print
Located in Norwalk, CT
Limited Edition Geclee Print Edition of 50 on watercolor paper, hand-embellished by watercolor, crown , earrring is hand-embellished by gold leaf. The print is meticulously created ...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Gold Leaf

D&G Yellow Dress Fashion Illustration Figurative Watercolor Geclee Print
Located in Norwalk, CT
Limited Edition Geclee Print of 50 Edition, on Watercolor Paper , hand-embellished by watercolor. The size of geclee print is 11"X14" . Size with the white matt is 20″X16″. Frame i...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Watercolor

Marc Jacobs. Fashion Illustration Figurative Watercolor Geclee Print
Located in Norwalk, CT
Limited Edition Geclee Print 1 of 50 Edition, on Watercolor Paper , hand-embellished by watercolor. The size of geclee print is 11"X14" . Size with the white matt is 20″X16″. Frame ...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Watercolor

STRENGTH. REBIRTH. PURIFY. Lotuses. Interior floral print by Maria Matveyeva
Located in Sempach, LU
Print on canvas with lotuses “STRENGTH. REBIRTH. PURIFY” in realism, which was painted by the artist Maria Matveyeva. The print size is 50x50cm plus ...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Canvas, Digital

Merry Merry: Limited Edition Large Christmas Stickers
Located in New York, NY
Marilyn Minter Merry Merry: Limited Edition Large Christmas Stickers, 2007 One oversized sheet of die-cut vinyl stickers The full size of the sheet when opened is: 48 inches x 72 inc...
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Early 2000s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Plaster, Screen

Peter Handel - "Vera 2" - giclée print - nude - signed
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Peter Handel - "Vera 2". Giclée on Hahnemühle Velvet, handsigned. High-quality art print after the original painting: Peter Handel transforms nude photographs painterly into highl...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Giclée

Peter Handel - "Judith On Stairs" - giclée print - nude - signed
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Peter Handel - "Judith On Stairs". Giclée on Hahnemühle Velvet, handsigned. High-quality art print after the original painting: Peter Handel transforms nude photographs painterly ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Giclée

Peter Handel - "Ute 1" - giclée print - nude - signed
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Peter Handel - "Ute 1". Giclée on Hahnemühle Velvet, handsigned. High-quality art print after the original painting: Peter Handel transforms nude photographs painterly into highly...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Giclée

Dark Beach Sunrise, Blue Nautical Cyanotype, Watercolor Paper, Vertical Seascape
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype. "Dark Beach Sunrise" is a handmade cyanotype print portraying beautiful sunrise reflection on the beach. Details: + Titl...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Marble

Peter Handel - "On Staircase" - giclée print - nude - signed
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Peter Handel - "On Staircase". Giclée on Hahnemühle Velvet, handsigned. High-quality art print after the original painting: Peter Handel transforms nude photographs painterly into...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Giclée

Peter Handel - "Karina In Front Of Porsche" - giclée print - nude - signed
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Peter Handel - "Karina In Front Of Porsche". Giclée on Hahnemühle Velvet, handsigned. High-quality art print after the original painting: Peter Handel transforms nude photographs painterly into highly realistic, subjective images. Light and shadow, plasticity and form are modulated with several layers as well as glazing application: The compositions refer to the person depicted and give her an individual presence, so that the person and not the object is accentuated here. A beautiful artwork that looks good in every room and especially in the living room or bedroom. About Peter Handel: Peter Handel is an artist of international format and was born in 1949 in Anklam, East Germany. 1968 - 1971 studied art and sports, 1977 - 1982 teaching position at the GHS Duisburg, since 1979 freelance artist. Handels' art developed out of the American photorealism movement of the 1970s, in which the visual reality of everyday life is depicted realistically, without the intervention of emotion. He transforms his nude photographs into hyper-realistic paintings and graphics that play with the mutual conditionality of reality-representing or reality-simulating images and media art. Through meticulous imitation, Handel thus reflects on the photographic image and its sign-like quality, often on an additional level of reality when there are apparently pasted or hung photographs next to the painted level. The encounter with the painter Peter Handel reveals an old-masterly skill. In the creative process of the highly realistic nudes, light and shadow, plasticity and form are modulated with several layers as well as by glazing application. Handel slowly approaches his painting and in a subjective way arrives at an independent result. Fascinated by the possibilities of painting, Handel confronts and discusses different levels of reality - realistic and idealistic - leaving behind the objective level of pure depiction. Peter Handel's works are represented in numerous exhibitions: 1972 - 1975 Wilhelm Lehmbruck...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Giclée

Peter Handel - "Stefanie 2" - giclée print - nude - signed
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Peter Handel - "Stefanie 2". Giclée on Hahnemühle Velvet, handsigned. High-quality art print after the original painting: Peter Handel transforms nude photographs painterly into h...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Giclée

Portrait de Priscilla Le Petit Chien
Located in New York, NY
Mickalene Thomas Portrait de Priscilla Le Petit Chien, 2012 Pigment print on 100% cotton rag paper Edition 148/150 Frame included with official COA affixed to the back Hand numbered from the edition of only 150 with plate signed official Certificate of Authenticity on the verso of the frame. This exquisite print, published in 2012, is based on an original collage made by the artist of her long-haired miniature dachshund (a gift from fellow artist Kehinde Wiley), Priscilla. Highly acclaimed contemporary art star Mickalene Thomas created this collage specifically for children- though adults will appreciate it as well - as will pet lovers! Portrait de Priscilla Petit Chien features Priscilla, Thomas' own dog who frequently attends the artist's photoshoots. This limited edition archival pigment print is printed on cotton rag paper and accompanied by a plate (facsimile) signed and uniquely hand numbered certificate of authenticity. It is matted and comes in a 1"-deep wooden frame with Plexiglas®. Wired for hanging. Edition of 150. This professionally framed limited edition pigment print on 100% cotton rag paper is based on an original collage made by the artist of her long-haired miniature dachshund (a gift from fellow artist Kehinde Wiley), Priscilla. The print is matted and comes in a white wooden frame (16" x 19" x 1") with Plexiglas, wired for hanging. Dimensions: 11" x 14" sheet, 9-1/4" x 12" image. Mickalene Thomas Biography: Mickalene Thomas (b. 1971, Camden, NJ; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) makes paintings, collages, photography, video, and installations that draw on art history and popular culture to create a contemporary vision of female sexuality, beauty, and power. Blurring the distinction between object and subject, concrete and abstract, real and imaginary, Thomas constructs complex portraits, landscapes, and interiors in order to examine how identity, gender, and sense of self are informed by the ways women are represented in art and popular culture. Rhinestones—the artist’s signature material and a symbol of femininity—serve as an added layer of meaning and a metaphor of artifice. Thomas uses rhinestones to shade and accentuate specific elements of each painting, while subtly confronting our assumptions about what is feminine and what defines women. Thomas has drawn inspiration from multiple artistic periods and cultural influences throughout Western art history, particularly the early modernists such as Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Edouard Manet, and Romare Bearden. She models her figures on the classic poses and abstract settings popularized by these modern masters as a way to reclaim agency for women who have been presented as objects to be desired or subjugated. Though Thomas draws from a number of time periods and genres, her use of pattern and domestic spaces often references various periods throughout the 1960s to the 1980s. This was a time of immense social and political conflict, change, and transformation—the civil rights movement, the black is beautiful movement, and the second wave of feminism—during which many women, particularly African-Americans, rejected and redefined traditional standards of beauty. Thomas received a BFA from the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, in 2000 and an MFA from Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, in 2002. Solo exhibitions of her work have been organized at The Dayton Art Institute, OH (forthcoming, 2018); Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA (forthcoming, 2018); Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA (forthcoming, 2018); Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA (forthcoming, 2017); Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (2017); Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA (2017); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2016); Aspen Art Museum, CO (2016); Aperture Foundation, New York (2016); George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY (2014); Brooklyn Museum, New York (2012-13); Santa Monica Museum of Art (2012); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2012); Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2011); and La Conservera Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Ceuti, Spain (2009). Select group exhibitions featuring her work include Third Space / Shifting Conversations About Contemporary Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, AL (2017); Constructing Identity: Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African-American Art, Portland Art Museum, ME (2017); The Color Line: African American Artists and the Civil Rights in the United States, Musée du quai Branly, Paris (2016); SHE: International Women Artists, Long Museum, Shanghai (2016); No Man’s Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, traveled to the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC (2015); 30 Americans, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (2011), which has traveled extensively around the United States (2011-2017, ongoing); and Americans Now, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC (2010). Thomas’ work is in numerous international public and private collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Art Institute of Chicago; MoMA PS1, New York; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Yale University Art Collection, New Haven, CT; and Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. Thomas has been awarded multiple prizes and grants, including the USA Francie Bishop Good & David Horvitz...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Digital Pigment, Permanent Marker, Laid Paper

Olga Hirshhorn is 90, by world top realist artist, the late Philip Pearlstein
Located in New York, NY
Philip Pearlstein Olga Hirshhorn is 90, 2010 Lithograph on Aquarelle Arches Paper Pencil signed, dated and numbered 158/185 by the artist on the front 31 1/2 × 24 inches Unframed Thi...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Etching by Curtis C Harmon Fishing Boats at Gloucester Mass
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Curtis C. Harmon (American, 20th century) Fishing Boats at Gloucester, Massachusetts etching signed Curtis C. Harmon (lower right) and titled (lower left) 10 x 12 inches. Discolorat...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Still life with Stefanie - Nude
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Giclee on heavy Handmade cotton paper Signed and inscribed with archive In great condition
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Prints and Multiples

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Handmade Paper, Giclée

Faberge Pansies Egg with Unique Swarovski Crystals Mosaic Art
Located in Norwalk, CT
Faberge Pansy Egg 24″X18″ Oil and Swarovski® crystals mosaic on Canvas. Stretched and Framed. 2013 This piece is a Limited Edition Geclee reproduction of original art by Oksana Tanasiv painted in 2008. The uniqueness of this piece is that the art is hand-embellished by oil and mosaic of Swarovski crystals, each crystal installed individually by hand representing the exact design of original Faberge Egg. The interesting story behind this art is that artist, Oksana Tanasiv, was inspired by Faberge Eggs while she worked in the Faberge Inc company in Stamford, CT, during 2005-2009 years. She met Faberge's granddaughter Tatiana Faberge...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Canvas, Mosaic, Acrylic

The World Stage: Israel (Hand Signed by Kehinde Wiley)
Located in New York, NY
Kehinde Wiley The World Stage: Israel (Hand Signed by Kehinde Wiley), 2012 Illustrated hardback monograph with dust jacket. Hand Signed by Kehinde Wiley Boldly signed in black marker...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

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Mixed Media, Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset

Meeting Plaza, Signed/N 25-color silkscreen, Rockefeller Ctr NY & United Nations
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel Meeting Plaza, 2018 25 Color Silkscreen on 320 Gram Coventry paper with full margins and deckled edges. Accompanied by ARTIST SIGNED, gallery issued Certificate of Authenticity (COA) - hand signed by BOTH the artist and gallery director 23.5" (vertical) x 29.25" (horizontal) Hand signed, titled, annotated & dated on the lower right front - a rare Artists Proof, aside from the limited edition of 75 Unframed This magnificent silkscreen, Meeting Plaza is signed, dated and numbered in graphite pencil on the front from the limited edition of 75. Other examples of this work were exhibited in the 2021 show "New York and No Place Else: Art that Celebrates New York" at the Chashama Foundation, New York, and it was also featured in the invitational exhibition "Women on Paper" in April, 2021 at the Sager Reeves Gallery in Columbia, Missouri. "Meeting Plaza" is a place where people from all over the world are always welcome to meet in peace and enjoyment; an exquisite 25-color limited edition silkscreen done in collaboration with master printer Gary Lichtenstein. The work is evocative of New York's Rockefeller Center and the United Nations, but the flags are abstracted, to emphasize international unity, rather than single out any individual country. The artist explained: "I wanted to convey a city that welcomed all nationalities and all people… The flags for me are a counterpoint to the city’s geometric architecture, and their suggested movement and irregular shapes echo the organic morphology of the people below. I painted an evening sky. It is dusk. Nobody is rushing. People are conversing with each other, walking slowly or gathering in small groups enjoying a calm evening in the New York City…I, too, am one of the people converging at the 'Meeting Plaza' ...” Other examples of "Meeting Plaza" were exhibited in the 2021 show "New York and No Place Else: Art that Celebrates New York" at the Chashama Foundation, New York, and the print was featured in the invitational exhibition "Women on Paper" in April, 2021 at the Sager Reeves Gallery in Columbia, Missouri. Thelma Appel biography A co-founder of the Bennington College Summer Painting Workshop, Thelma Appel is a representational and abstract painter who has been working and teaching for more than six decades. Most recently, she was subject of a 50-year career survey (October, 2019 -February 2020) at the Brattleboro Museum in Vermont, entitled Thelma Appel: Abstract/Observed curated by Mara Williams, and she exhibited at the Mattatuck Museum in Connecticut which acquired one of her fabric collages for their permanent collection. Thelma Appel was raised in Darjeeling, India and educated in London, England, at St. Martin's School of Art (now Central St. Martins) and Hornsey College of Art before emigrating to the United States in the 1960s. Her work has been exhibited in numerous venues, including the Bennington Museum, the Berkshire Museum in North Adams, Mass., the Children's Museum of the Arts in New York City, the Mattatuck Museum, the Brattleboro Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Robert Hull Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont and the University of Pennsylvania Fine Arts Gallery. In 1974 she was awarded a YADDO Fellowship, and in 1975, Thelma Appel, along with the painter Carol Haerer, co-founded the Bennington College Summer Painting Workshop, where many distinguished painters of the day, both abstract and representational, conducted master classes. Among them were Neil Welliver, John Button, Alice Neel, Larry Poons, Friedel Dzubas, Stanley Boxer, Elizabeth Murray and Doug Ohlson – a program that continued until 1980. She has also taught drawing at Parsons School of Design, painting at Southern Vermont College and at the University of Connecticut. Appel’s work has been presented at Art on Paper, Texas Contemporary, Market Art & Design and Art New York art fairs and has been exhibited at Alpha 137...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Screen, Pencil, Color

"Little Branch, " Framed Limited Edition Giclee Print, 24" x 18"
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...
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2010s Realist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Digital, Giclée

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.

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