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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
Quiet Horizons, Oil Painting
Quiet Horizons, Oil Painting

Quiet Horizons, Oil Painting

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Aruna Rao captures the peaceful stillness of a sunlit dune path leading toward the open sea. Warm grasses glow in the gentle light, while a soft sky and ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Autumn Glow – original impressionist contemporary landscape painting
Autumn Glow – original impressionist contemporary landscape painting

Autumn Glow – original impressionist contemporary landscape painting

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...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Rain"
"Rain"

"Rain"

Located in Zofingen, AG

"It might seem strange to some that I called the painting ""Rain."" But imagine a window opening and a fresh breeze blowing into the house. It blows flower petals off and they rain d...

Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Venice Grand Canal Oil Painting L. Harland Signed Vintage Large Framed Art
Venice Grand Canal Oil Painting L. Harland Signed Vintage Large Framed Art

Venice Grand Canal Oil Painting L. Harland Signed Vintage Large Framed Art

Located in Palm Coast, FL

This impressive large-format Venetian view captures the iconic Grand Canal with the unmistakable silhouette of Santa Maria della Salute, rendered in bold palette-knife textures and l...

Category

Late 20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Woman with Red Flower oil on canvas painting
Woman with Red Flower oil on canvas painting

Woman with Red Flower oil on canvas painting

Located in Sitges, Barcelona

Francisco Sanchis Cortés – Woman with Red Flower Medium: Oil on canvas Canvas dimensions: 73 × 54 cm (28.7 × 21.3 in) Framed dimensions: 91 × 72 cm (35.8 × 28.3 in) Signature: Signe...

Category

1990s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Scandinavian Impressionist Landscape (1894)
Scandinavian Impressionist Landscape (1894)

Scandinavian Impressionist Landscape (1894)

Located in Stockholm, SE

This oil on canvas by Anton Genberg, signed and dated 1894, portrays a Scandinavian summer landscape bathed in gentle light. The composition features lush green meadows in the foregr...

Category

1890s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Edgar Degas, Dancer at the Barre, 1945 (after)
Edgar Degas, Dancer at the Barre, 1945 (after)

Edgar Degas, Dancer at the Barre, 1945 (after)

By Edgar Degas

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph after Edgar Degas (1834–1917), titled Danseur au bar (Dancer at the Barre), originates from the 1945 folio Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches. Published by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York, rendered and printed by Albert Carman, City Island, 1945, this work reflects Degas’s sensitive mastery of line, movement, and the intimate psychological nuances of the ballet studio. Executed as a lithograph and pochoir on velin paper, this work measures 13 x 17 inches (33.02 x 43.18 cm). Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued. Rendered and printed by Albert Carman, City Island. Artwork Details: Artist: After Edgar Degas (1834–1917) Title: Danseur au bar (Dancer at the Barre), from Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches, 1945 Medium: Lithograph and pochoir on velin paper Dimensions: 13 x 17 inches (33.02 x 43.18 cm) Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued Date: 1945 Publisher: The Studio Publications, Inc., New York Printer: Albert Carman, City Island Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium Provenance: From the 1945 folio Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches, published by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York Notes: Excerpted from the album, Born in Paris in 1834, Edgar Degas lived, and surely loved the life of that city during most of his years. These continued somewhat sadly beyond those of most of his friends— into the debacle of the first World War, during which he died in 1917. Judging by the frequency with which he used them as models, he must have had an especial admiration for the ballet girls who followed a profession that at the time brought none of the glory and prosperity which attend it today. New aspects of the human body, revealed in movement, fascinated him. But his occupation with the simply anatomical side of his subjects never resulted in a cold interpretation. On the contrary there is a warmth and sympathy that pervades all of his work. The drawings here represent the painter in one important phase of his multi-sensitive view of life; and permit an insight which a more ambitious work might not do-into the operation of the creative process, the artist's transformation of reality as it passes through the mesh of his sensibilities. The Edition of this Portfolio is limited to MMMD examples. Rendered by Albert Carman. About the Publication: Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches (1945) is one of the earliest and most significant American postwar fine art portfolios devoted to Edgar Degas’s intimate works on paper. Published by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York, and rendered and printed by Albert Carman at City Island, the album sought to faithfully reproduce a group of Degas’s ballet-related drawings through a combination of lithography and hand-applied pochoir coloring. This hybrid technique allowed the edition to preserve the immediacy, tonal subtlety, and gestural delicacy central to Degas’s draftsmanship. Conceived as a fine art publication rather than a commercial book, the portfolio provided American audiences unprecedented access to Degas’s private, spontaneous studies—images that reveal the artist’s fascination with movement, anatomy, and the psychological atmosphere of the rehearsal studio. The album exemplifies the mid-20th-century revival of pochoir as a means of recreating the texture and coloristic nuance of original works on paper, and it remains an important document of how Degas’s legacy was translated into high-quality printed form for collectors, museums, and connoisseurs. About the Artist: Edgar Degas (1834–1917) was a French painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor whose groundbreaking fusion of classical draftsmanship, modern experimentation, and psychological depth helped define the trajectory of Western art, positioning him as one of the most influential figures of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; renowned for his depictions of ballet dancers, racehorses, theater scenes, cafe life, domestic interiors, milliners, laundresses, and women at their toilette, Degas reimagined observational realism through radical compositional innovation—employing extreme cropping, asymmetrical framing, oblique viewpoints, and dramatic lighting that anticipated photographic and cinematic language long before these technologies shaped visual culture, and although associated with Impressionism, he rejected plein-air spontaneity in favor of studio-based discipline rooted in the linear precision of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, the expressive chromaticism of Eugene Delacroix, and the modernity of Edouard Manet while also drawing inspiration from Japanese ukiyo-e prints, classical sculpture, and early photography; his independent artistic philosophy resonated with and helped shape the innovations of Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, whose explorations of movement, form, dream logic, abstraction, and conceptualism all find antecedents in Degas’s investigations into seriality, temporality, and the fragmented figure, and his pioneering use of pastel, monotype, and wax sculpture fundamentally transformed each medium, influencing artists from Henri Matisse, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and Giacomo Manzu to Paula Rego, contemporary realists, experimental photographers, and choreographers; his works are held in nearly every major museum collection worldwide—including the Musee dOrsay, the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Courtauld Institute, and the National Gallery, London—affirming his central place in the history of art, and the highest auction record for Degas was achieved at Sothebys London on February 3, 2015, when Danseuses en Bleu sold for 37,033,000 GBP, cementing his status as one of the most sought-after and enduringly significant artists of the Western canon. Degas pochoir, Degas lithograph...

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1940s Impressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Sailing Boat and Rowing Boat Arriving at The Harbour French Oil Painting
Sailing Boat and Rowing Boat Arriving at The Harbour French Oil Painting

Sailing Boat and Rowing Boat Arriving at The Harbour French Oil Painting

By Fanch Lel

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Boats Arriving at the Harbour by Fanch Lel Size: 15 x 18 inches (height x width) Oil painting on board , unframed Condition: Good condition overall with minor surface handling marks ...

Category

20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Golden Sunset
Golden Sunset

Golden Sunset

Located in Zofingen, AG

Looking at this picture we see how beautiful the sunset is, even in winter. Although there is snow and cold all around, this is what makes the color palette special. The sunset is co...

Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

French Impressionist River and Park Landscape
French Impressionist River and Park Landscape

French Impressionist River and Park Landscape

Located in Cotignac, FR

A French Impressionist oil on canvas view of a river in parkland by the noted French artist Albert Uriet. The painting is signed and dated bottom right and is presented in a fine car...

Category

Early 20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Tidewalkers, Oil Painting
Tidewalkers, Oil Painting

Tidewalkers, Oil Painting

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Soft light glows across the shoreline in the calm of early evening. A person and their dog share a quiet moment in the surf, their bond gently framed by shimmer...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Roses √ 3
Roses √ 3

Roses √ 3

Located in Zofingen, AG

Roses and hydrangeas, gerberas and lilies. A wonderful autumn bouquet. It reminds me of childhood and pleasant memories of my grandmother's garden. Only the fashionable vase brings m...

Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Antique European Signed Impressionist Large Framed Woman Portrait Oil Painting
Antique European Signed Impressionist Large Framed Woman Portrait Oil Painting

Antique European Signed Impressionist Large Framed Woman Portrait Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Antique European impressionist oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Provenance from a Sag Harbor, NY collection. Handsomely framed in period giltwood molding. Excellent cond...

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1890s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Fonthill Castle Docent, Oil Painting
Fonthill Castle Docent, Oil Painting

Fonthill Castle Docent, Oil Painting

By Onelio Marrero

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
The painting shows a docent in the interior of Fonthill Castle in Pennsylvania. The entire castle features exquisite handmade tiles embedded in the concrete con...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

A Day of Discovery, Oil Painting
A Day of Discovery, Oil Painting

A Day of Discovery, Oil Painting

By Onelio Marrero

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Onelio Marrero captures a father and son discussing artwork in a gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He loves visiting museums as much for the pat...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Antique English Exhibited King Charles Cavalier Dog Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Antique English Exhibited King Charles Cavalier Dog Portrait Framed Oil Painting

Antique English Exhibited King Charles Cavalier Dog Portrait Framed Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Antique English impressionist dog portrait oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Exhibited. Framed. Measuring: 22 by 27 inches image alone. Handsomely framed in white wood molding....

Category

1910s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Vintage American Impressionist Framed Pansy Flower Still Life Oil Painting
Vintage American Impressionist Framed Pansy Flower Still Life Oil Painting

Vintage American Impressionist Framed Pansy Flower Still Life Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Vintage American impressionist oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Provenance from a Sag Harbor, NY collection. Handsomely framed in a giltwood molding. Excellent condition, ready...

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1940s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Vintage American Impressionist Florida Tropical Beach Scene Signed Oil Painting
Vintage American Impressionist Florida Tropical Beach Scene Signed Oil Painting

Vintage American Impressionist Florida Tropical Beach Scene Signed Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Vintage American impressionist tropical landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Provenance from a Sag Harbor, NY collection. Measuring: 20 by 24 inches painting alone....

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1940s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Different. Kindred.
Different. Kindred.

Different. Kindred.

Located in Zofingen, AG

A large contemporary figurative painting featuring three female figures set against a deep dark background. Their silhouettes are rendered with airy, luminous brushstrokes, as if for...

Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Johann Berthelsen, Times Sq, Period Oil Painting of New York City 1883-1972
Johann Berthelsen, Times Sq, Period Oil Painting of New York City 1883-1972

Johann Berthelsen, Times Sq, Period Oil Painting of New York City 1883-1972

By Johann Berthelsen, 1883-1972

Located in Chesterfield, NJ

Times Square in the Winter 12 x 9 approximately 16 x 12 signed LR An oil painting on panel by artist Johann Berthelsen that showcases a view of Times Square in the Winter in New Yor...

Category

Early 20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Roses and gerberas.
Roses and gerberas.

Roses and gerberas.

Located in Zofingen, AG

Flowers in a glass vase. Roses and gerberas intertwine with fresh greenery to create a vibrant bouquet. The blue and gray background creates contrast. This bouquet exudes the flavor ...

Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Antique American Tonalist Sunset Landscape Framed Impressionist Sunset Painting
Antique American Tonalist Sunset Landscape Framed Impressionist Sunset Painting

Antique American Tonalist Sunset Landscape Framed Impressionist Sunset Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Vintage American modernist oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Provenance from a Sag Harbor, NY collection. Handsomely framed in a giltwood molding. Excellent condition, ready to ...

Category

1920s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Seascape Original Oil Painting Tall Ship by Karon  Nautical Maritime Wall Art
Seascape Original Oil Painting Tall Ship by Karon  Nautical Maritime Wall Art

Seascape Original Oil Painting Tall Ship by Karon Nautical Maritime Wall Art

Located in Palm Coast, FL

This elegant maritime oil painting by Karon depicts a magnificent tall ship sailing across a rolling ocean under a brilliant blue sky. The artist’s expressive brushwork captures both...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Bathers, Oil on Canvas, 1914
Bathers, Oil on Canvas, 1914

Bathers, Oil on Canvas, 1914

By Roger Grillon

Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR

Oil on canvas by Roger GRILLON (1881-1938), France, 1914. "Bathers". With frame: 114x94 cm - 44.9x37 inches ; without frame: 92x73cm - 36.2x28.75 inches. 30F format. Signed lower lef...

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1910s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Reclining Nude oil on canvas painting woman
Reclining Nude oil on canvas painting woman

Reclining Nude oil on canvas painting woman

Located in Sitges, Barcelona

Title: Reclining Nude Artist: Roser Vinardell Tolrà (Cabrera de Mar, 1941) Technique: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 46 x 65 cm (18.1 x 25.6 in) Date: 1970s Signature: Signed in the lower...

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1970s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Abstract Pastel Regatta Scene with Sailboats on Calm Water
Abstract Pastel Regatta Scene with Sailboats on Calm Water

Abstract Pastel Regatta Scene with Sailboats on Calm Water

By Fanch Lel

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Title: Abstract Pastel Regatta Scene with Sailboats on Calm Water By Fanch Lel Signed: Yes Size: 13 x 16.25 inches (height x width) Oil painting on board, unframed Condition: The pa...

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20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Small Rural Village Village In The Summer Light French Oil Painting
Small Rural Village Village In The Summer Light French Oil Painting

Small Rural Village Village In The Summer Light French Oil Painting

By Fanch Lel

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Summer Light Landscape Signed by Fanch Lel Size: 13 x 16 inches (height x width) Oil painting on board, unframed Inscribed verso Condition: Good condition overall with minor surface ...

Category

20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Winter Café, Sloane Square- original impressionism oil painting-contemporary Art
Winter Café, Sloane Square- original impressionism oil painting-contemporary Art

Winter Café, Sloane Square- original impressionism oil painting-contemporary Art

By Michael Alford

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...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

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