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IMPRESSIONIST STYLE

Emerging in 19th-century France, Impressionist art embraced loose brushwork and plein-air painting to respond to the movement of daily life. Although the pioneers of the Impressionist movement — Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir — are now household names, their work was a radical break with an art scene led and shaped by academic traditions for around two centuries. These academies had oversight of a curriculum that emphasized formal drawing, painting and sculpting techniques and historical themes.

The French Impressionists were influenced by a group of artists known as the Barbizon School, who painted what they witnessed in nature. The rejection of pieces by these artists and the later Impressionists from the salons culminated in a watershed 1874 exhibition in Paris that was staged outside of the juried systems. After a work of Monet’s was derided by a critic as an unfinished “impression,” the term was taken as a celebration of their shared interest in capturing fleeting moments as subject matter, whether the shifting weather on rural landscapes or the frenzy of an urban crowd. Rather than the exacting realism of the academic tradition, Impressionist paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings represented how an artist saw a world in motion.

Many Impressionist painters were inspired by the perspectives in imported Japanese prints alongside these shifts in European painting — Édouard Manet drew on ukiyo-e woodblock prints and depicted Japanese design in his Portrait of Émile Zola, for example. American artists such as Mary Cassatt and William Merritt Chase, who studied abroad, were impacted by the work of the French artists, and by the late 19th century American Impressionism had its own distinct aesthetics with painters responding to the rapid modernization of cities through quickly created works that were vivid with color and light.

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Style: Impressionist
Dancing of Love
Dancing of Love

Dancing of Love

Located in Zofingen, AG

In this oil canvas, I've melded expressionism and impressionism to capture the sheer vibrancy of emotion. Through a kaleidoscope of color and texture, I invite viewers on a sensory j...

Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Dramatic Dorset Coast Cliffs and Sea 1990 Watercolour by John Steane
Dramatic Dorset Coast Cliffs and Sea 1990 Watercolour by John Steane

Dramatic Dorset Coast Cliffs and Sea 1990 Watercolour by John Steane

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Title: Dramatic Dorset Coast Cliffs and Sea 1990 Watercolour by John Steane by John Steane (b.1931) Size: 15.75 inches (height) x 20 inches (width) watercolor painting on paper, unfr...

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Late 20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

Red Ribbon Portrait Painting, Impressionist, Oil on Canvas, 2010+
Red Ribbon Portrait Painting, Impressionist, Oil on Canvas, 2010+

Red Ribbon Portrait Painting, Impressionist, Oil on Canvas, 2010+

Located in Oslo, NO

This artwork is a mesmerizing portrait that showcases a delicate interplay of color and texture. The profile of a young woman is captured in serene contemplation, her features render...

Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

"View of Arizona Desert near Wickenberg" Will Foote, Impressionist Western Scene
"View of Arizona Desert near Wickenberg" Will Foote, Impressionist Western Scene

"View of Arizona Desert near Wickenberg" Will Foote, Impressionist Western Scene

Located in New York, NY

Will Foote View of Arizona Desert near Wickenberg, circa 1927 Signed lower center; titled and dated on the reverse Oil on artist's board 12 x 16 inches Foote was born on June 29, 1874 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and died on January 27, 1965, in Sarasota, Florida. He was in Old Lyme, 1901-65; and in Cos Cob, 1903. Will Howe Foote was one of the earliest artists at Old Lyme and one who adopted the town as home. He first went there the summer of 1901 with his uncle, William H. Howe, a painter of cattle, who had been told about the beauties of the countryside by Henry Ward Ranger. Foote had himself heard of Old Lyme when he had met Clark Voorhees in France. He and his uncle were both from Grand Rapids, Michigan, where Foote's father was an executive in the furniture industry that made the city famous. Encouraged to be an artist by his father, he began his professional training at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1894. He became friends there with a fellow Michigan student, Frederick Frieseke, who would study with him again at the Art Students League in New York, where Foote worked in 1895-96 under H. Siddons Mowbray and Kenyon Cox. In 1897 he and Frieseke went to the Academic Julian in Paris, where Foote studied under Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant. He was at Julian's until 1900, except for an Italian trip, summers at Laren, Holland, or Etaples, France, and a short period at Whistler's school in Paris. He exhibited twice at the Old Salon, and when he returned to the United States in 1900, he had a one-man exhibition in his hometown. Will Howe Foote's paintings were well received on his return from abroad. He exhibited frequently at the National Academy of Design and became an associate member in 1910. His awards included a bronze medal at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904 and a silver medal at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. Once he visited Old Lyme, Foote returned every summer. In 1902 he was hired as assistant to Frank DuMond at the Lyme Summer School of Art, which was sponsored by the Art Students League of New York. Sometime in 1903 he also taught a session in Cos Cob. After 1906, when the League moved its Lyme classes to Woodstock, New York, Foote continued in Old Lyme as a private instructor. In 1907 he was married to Helen Kirtland Freeman, whom he had met a year or two earlier when she had come to the Lyme art colony as a student of Henry Rankin Poore. Fellow artist William Chadwick was best man at the wedding. The Footes began building a house on Sill Lane in Old Lyme and upon its completion in 1909 spent every spring, summer and fall there, where Foote devoted full time to painting. The Gregory Smiths, old friends from Grand Rapids, arrived in Old Lyme in 1910 and became neighbors. Foote's early works in Connecticut, such as A Summer's Night reflect the artist's interest in soft, atmospheric scenes dominated by a single, overriding tone. The arrival of Childe Hassam and Walter Griffin...

Category

1920s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Autumn Evening, Art Deco Acrylic Painting by Erik Freyman
Autumn Evening, Art Deco Acrylic Painting by Erik Freyman

Autumn Evening, Art Deco Acrylic Painting by Erik Freyman

By Erik Freyman

Located in Long Island City, NY

A fashionable couple takes a walk with their dogs down a path in a colorful fall landscape by Erik Freyman. Autumn Evening Erik Freyman, Russian (1932–2018) Date: circa 2000 Acrylic...

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Early 2000s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Moorish Palace Gardens - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Lucien Levy-Dhurmer
Moorish Palace Gardens - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Lucien Levy-Dhurmer

Moorish Palace Gardens - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Lucien Levy-Dhurmer

By Lucien Levy-Dhurmer

Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire

Signed post impressionist oil on canvas landscape by French painter Lucien Levy-Dhurmer. The piece depicts the gardens of a Moorish Palace at evening. Painted in largely blues, there are some flowering trees in the front of the work below a much larger bare tree. Beyond that the palace sits below a starry sky. Mr. Jumeau-Lafond believes the work was likely painted in Morocco but he also stated that Dhurmer often used imagination to construct settings for his ideas. Signature: Signed lower left Dimensions: Framed: 39"x31" Unframed: 32"x24" Provenance: Private collection - France The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Jean-David Jumeau-Lafond A certificate of authenticity from Mr. Jumeau-Lafond is available upon request Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer did not follow the conventional route for education in fine arts but was nevertheless a pupil of the painters Raphaël Collin, Vio and Wallet. He was an ornamental painter in an earthenware factory in Golfe-Juan from 1887 to 1895, which influenced his use of pastel. He travelled to Italy in 1895. Around 1902 he painted the portraits of Rodenbach, Pierre Loti and Marguerite Moreno. Although he had not been instructed by Puvis de Chavannes or Gustave Moreau, he seemed to have much in common with those visionary 'painters of the soul' who had been exhibiting at the Salon de la Rose-Croix for several years: Edmond Aman-Jean, Louis Welden Hawkins, Henri Martin, Charles Maurin and Alphonse Osbert. Following the example of some of these artists, Lévy-Dhurmer admired Italian Renaissance art, evidence of which can be seen in pastels such as Woman with a Medal, Medusa, Circes and Florence. His translation of the Symbolist themes in the scores of Beethoven ( Appassionata), Fauré or Debussy into different hues made him seem like a visionary, but his aesthetic seems to have changed to some extent after 1900, when his landscape painting became more prominent. In fact, only his presentation and style changed. He continued to suggest feelings, interpretations and emotions but without relying on any traditional allegories. He became involved in the Intimist movement, along with Ernest Laurent, Charles Cottet, Henri le Sidaner and René Ménard, whose pastels presaged the Classicism of the 1930s. He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris from 1882. From 1906 he was associated with the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. He showed his works in individual exhibitions, notably in 1896 at the Galerie Georges Petit in Paris, which was a very successful exhibition and earned him admiration in artistic and literary circles alike. Several decades later the exhibition Around Lévy-Dhurmer ( Autour de Lévy-Dhurmer) at the Galeries du Grand Palais in Paris in 1973 revealed a tendency in art which had been largely unknown until then and which remained on the margins of the great innovative movements of the 20th century, but which was nonetheless of a quality which could not be ignored. Lévy-Dhurmer obtained a distinction from the Salon des Artistes Français in 1896 and a bronze medal at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris. He became a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur in 1902. Museum and Gallery Holdings Bayonne (Mus. Basque): Portrait of Pierre Loti (1896, pastel) Brest (MBA): Circes Detroit (AI): Vase with Dragonflies (1890, earthenware with iridescent glaze) Mulhouse: Harvest New York (Metropolitan Mus. of Art): Flower Pot (c. 1893, earthenware with metallic glaze) Paris (Mus. d'Orsay): Portrait of Georges Rodenbach (c. 1895, pastel on paper); The Woman with a Medal (1896, pastel on paper on card); The Lost Explorer...

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1910s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

British Impressionist Watercolor of a  Rural Village Scene with Thatched Cottage
British Impressionist Watercolor of a  Rural Village Scene with Thatched Cottage

British Impressionist Watercolor of a Rural Village Scene with Thatched Cottage

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Title: British Impressionist Watercolor of a Rural Village Scene with Thatched Cottage By Anthony Avery (British 1946-2023) Original watercolor on artists paper, unframed Dimensions...

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Early 2000s Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

Giovanni Boldini drawing of a lady, Italian 19th Century
Giovanni Boldini drawing of a lady, Italian 19th Century

Giovanni Boldini drawing of a lady, Italian 19th Century

By Giovanni Boldini

Located in Petworth, West Sussex

Giovanni Boldini (Italian, 1842-1931) Etude de femme au ruban noir Signed with atelier stamp (lower left), further inscribed, signed and dated by Emilia Boldini (the artist’s wife) `no 77 le_ atelier Boldini. Emilia Boldini Carbona 1931’ (on the reverse) Black crayon on paper 11.7/8 x 8.7/8 in. (30 x 22.5 cm.) Emilia’s inscription on the reverse from the year of his death. Giovanni Boldini was an Italian genre and portrait painter who lived and worked in Paris for most of his career. According to Time magazine, he was known as the "Master of Swish" because of his flowing style, exemplified by the confident strokes in this fine example. Boldini was born in Ferrara, the son of a painter of religious subjects, and in 1862 went to Florence for six years to study and pursue painting. He only infrequently attended classes at the Academy of Fine Arts, but in Florence, met other realist painters known as the Macchiaioli, who were Italian precursors to Impressionism. Their influence is seen in Boldini's landscapes which show his spontaneous response to nature, although it is for his portraits that he became best known. Moving to London, Boldini attained success as a portraitist, painting notable members of society including Lady Holland and the Duchess of Westminster...

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Early 20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Paper, Crayon

"Risen Moon"  Frederick Judd Waugh, Coastal Landscape, Rocky Coast Marine Scene
"Risen Moon"  Frederick Judd Waugh, Coastal Landscape, Rocky Coast Marine Scene

"Risen Moon" Frederick Judd Waugh, Coastal Landscape, Rocky Coast Marine Scene

By Frederick Judd Waugh

Located in New York, NY

Frederick Judd Waugh Risen Moon Signed lower right, Grand Central Art Galleries Inc. label on verso Oil on board 25 x 30 inches Mainly known as a marine painter. Waugh's sea paintings were enthusiastically received; for five consecutive years, he was awarded the Popular Prize at the Carnegie International Exhibition. Waugh was the son of a well-known Philadelphia portrait painter, Samuel Waugh...

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1920s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

“Portrait of a Seated Lady in Wicker Chair”
“Portrait of a Seated Lady in Wicker Chair”

“Portrait of a Seated Lady in Wicker Chair”

Located in San Francisco, CA

A picture of calm refined beauty, the sitter epitomizes elegant and casual repose propped up against pillow in her spacious wicker armchair. Captured by master American portraitist ...

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Early 20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Board

"Four Peonies", Oil painting
"Four Peonies", Oil painting

"Four Peonies", Oil painting

Located in Denver, CO

Yana Beylinson's (US based) "Four Peonies" is an oil painting that depicts impressionistic pink flowers with vivid green leaves. Artist Bio: Yana is driven by a deep r...

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2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Board

French Impressionist Oil Painting of a Coastal Lighthouse
French Impressionist Oil Painting of a Coastal Lighthouse

French Impressionist Oil Painting of a Coastal Lighthouse

By Fanch Lel

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of a Coastal Lighthouse By Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 7.5 x 9.5 inches (height x width) Oil painting on board, unframed Condition: The ...

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20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Moonlight in Savoie France signed Cachoud
Moonlight in Savoie France signed Cachoud

Moonlight in Savoie France signed Cachoud

Located in Pasadena, CA

Oil on canvas by François Charles Cachoud (born in 1866 in Chambéry, Savoy and died in 1943) is a painter known today for his night effects and his chiaroscuro. Its artistic criteria...

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Late 19th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

View from Chelsea - original cityscape oil painting - contemporary impressionist
View from Chelsea - original cityscape oil painting - contemporary impressionist

View from Chelsea - original cityscape oil painting - contemporary impressionist

By Juan del Pozo

Located in London, Chelsea

We offer complimentary worldwide shipping and cover all tariffs and import taxes for this artwork. This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet C...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Fanasy with Flowers 167
Fanasy with Flowers 167

Fanasy with Flowers 167

Located in Zofingen, AG

"Fantasy with Flowers" (series of 300+ pictures) paper 59x42cm  On the paper acrylic, oil pastel, felt-tip pen, ink, gold leaf, pencils, silver,mixed media. Sold and sent unframed -V...

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2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Archival Paper

October. Chamzinka
October. Chamzinka

October. Chamzinka

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

I fell in love with this motif as soon as I saw it walking along the road in the village of Chamzinka on an autumn evening after painting the Church of Archangel Michael. October is ...

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2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

American Impressionist Artist Oil Painting John J Enneking
American Impressionist Artist Oil Painting John J Enneking

American Impressionist Artist Oil Painting John J Enneking

Located in Chesterfield, NJ

JOHN JOSEPH ENNEKING American (1841-1916) Raining Pasture oil on canvas, signed "Enneking" lower right Framed dimensions - 15 x 18 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches 11 x 14 1/2 inches Provenance:...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

20th Century French Oil Painting Rocky Coastline
20th Century French Oil Painting Rocky Coastline

20th Century French Oil Painting Rocky Coastline

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Rocky Coastline French School, mid-late 20th century unsigned oil painting on canvas textured paper (reverse side is smooth, the painted side looks and feels as canvas), unframed ove...

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Late 20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

French Impressionist Oil Painting of Honfleur Harbor Scene
French Impressionist Oil Painting of Honfleur Harbor Scene

French Impressionist Oil Painting of Honfleur Harbor Scene

By Fanch Lel

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of Honfleur Harbor Scene By Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 5.75 x 7.75 inches (height x width) Signed: Yes Oil painting on board, unframed ...

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20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

British Impressionist Watercolor of a Countryside Hamlet Beneath Rolling Hills
British Impressionist Watercolor of a Countryside Hamlet Beneath Rolling Hills

British Impressionist Watercolor of a Countryside Hamlet Beneath Rolling Hills

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Title: British Impressionist Watercolor of a Countryside Hamlet Beneath Rolling Hills By Anthony Avery (British 1946-2023) Original watercolor on artists paper, unframed Dimensions: ...

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Early 2000s Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

La Parisienne - Impressionist Portrait Oil Painting by Jean Beraud
La Parisienne - Impressionist Portrait Oil Painting by Jean Beraud

La Parisienne - Impressionist Portrait Oil Painting by Jean Beraud

Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire

Signed full length portrait circa 1890 by French impressionist painter Jean Beraud. The work depicts a Parisian lady in a green tuile skirt, a blue jacket with fur and black lace up ...

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1890s Impressionist Art

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Oil, Panel

Le Cafe Briard - Paris - Impressionist Figures in Landscape Oil - Edouard Cortes
Le Cafe Briard - Paris - Impressionist Figures in Landscape Oil - Edouard Cortes

Le Cafe Briard - Paris - Impressionist Figures in Landscape Oil - Edouard Cortes

By Édouard Leon Cortès

Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire

Signed impressionist oil on canvas figures in cityscape circa 1930 by sought after French painter Edouard Cortes. The work depicts a bustling evening street scene outside the Cafe Br...

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1930s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Miss Kim in Bloom" - Original Floral Still-Life Oil Painting
"Miss Kim in Bloom" - Original Floral Still-Life Oil Painting

"Miss Kim in Bloom" - Original Floral Still-Life Oil Painting

Located in Denver, CO

About the Artist: Sheri Farabaugh began painting after successful careers in tax accounting and biochemistry. A love of drawing and painting as a child stayed with Farabaugh until t...

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2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Board

In the Rough, Original Painting
In the Rough, Original Painting

In the Rough, Original Painting

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Whether hiking, golfing, or going for a walk, seeing the warm grasses beyond the forest trees is always a treat. The underbrush snaps at your ankles, making hea...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

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Acrylic

“Lilies and Prairie Gentian” impressionist oil painting floral still life framed
“Lilies and Prairie Gentian” impressionist oil painting floral still life framed

“Lilies and Prairie Gentian” impressionist oil painting floral still life framed

By Amy Florence

Located in Sag Harbor, NY

An oil painting by Amy Florence (b. 1989, London). This simple still life of a floral arrangement in a glass vase demonstrates Florence's romantic and impressionist approach to oil ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

Trees and Low Mountains - Vibrant Impressionistic California Landscape in Oil
Trees and Low Mountains - Vibrant Impressionistic California Landscape in Oil

Trees and Low Mountains - Vibrant Impressionistic California Landscape in Oil

By Louise Grossett Cunningham

Located in Soquel, CA

Trees and Low Mountains - Vibrant Impressionistic California Landscape in Oil Colorful landscape painting of a path in the coastal mountains by Santa Cruz, California painter Louise...

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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Still Life with Roses
Still Life with Roses

Still Life with Roses

By Georges d'Espagnat

Located in Sheffield, MA

Georges D’Espagnat French, 1870-1950 Still Life with Roses Oil on canvas 25 ¾ by 32 in, w/ frame 33 ¾ by 40 in Signed lower right Inventory Number: 01547 Born at Melun on 14th Aug...

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Early 20th Century Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

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