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Impressionist Art

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
“Sur la Plage, a Bernival”
“Sur la Plage, a Bernival”

“Sur la Plage, a Bernival”

By Pierre Auguste Renoir

Located in Southampton, NY

One of the founders of Impressionism and certainly one of its greatest masters, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841 - 1919) was not a prolific printmaker, but he explored several different m...

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1890s Impressionist Art

Materials

Etching, Archival Paper, Drypoint

Pierre Montezin large French Impressionist painting, Apple Blossom on the Seine
Pierre Montezin large French Impressionist painting, Apple Blossom on the Seine

Pierre Montezin large French Impressionist painting, Apple Blossom on the Seine

By PIERRE EUGÈNE MONTEZIN, 1874 - 1946

Located in Harkstead, GB

This enchanting scene of blossoming apple trees by the banks of the Seine dates to the turn of the 19th Century. We see Montezin at his absolute best with wonderful brushwork and the...

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Early 20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Tall Ship Seascape Oil Painting on canvas Clipper Ship Nautical Art Framed
Tall Ship Seascape Oil Painting on canvas Clipper Ship Nautical Art Framed

Tall Ship Seascape Oil Painting on canvas Clipper Ship Nautical Art Framed

Located in Palm Coast, FL

This expressive contemporary seascape oil painting depicts a majestic tall ship cutting through rolling ocean waves under a luminous, pastel-toned sky. The composition captures the p...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Joy of a Rose, unframed oil on board, 21x14"

Joy of a Rose, unframed oil on board, 21x14"

By Lu Haskew

Located in Loveland, CO

Joy of a Rose, by Lu Haskew Oil 21x14" image size Still Life Painting in Pinks and Reds This painting is unframed, canvas on gator board, the price reflects that it is unframed. Sh...

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Early 2000s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

"Water lilies"
"Water lilies"

"Water lilies"

By Evgeny Chernyakovsky

Located in Edinburgh, GB

Original Oil painting by Ukrainian artist Evgeny Chernyakovsky "Water lilies" 70.0 X 90.0 CM / 27.5 X 35.4 IN HIGH QUALITY oil on canvas Signed on the front and back Dated 2023 Good...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"River with water lilies"
"River with water lilies"

"River with water lilies"

By Evgeny Chernyakovsky

Located in Edinburgh, GB

The painting evokes a sense of peace, a dissolution of form and light. The viewer seems to be looking at the surface of a quiet pond, reflecting the sky, trees, and clouds. Water lil...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Private Sale
Private Sale

Private Sale

By Henri Edmond Cross

Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire

Signed divisionist style oil on panel landscape circa 1906-1907 by French Neo-Impressionist painter Henri Edmond Cross. This brightly painted piece depicts a view Saint Tropez. This...

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Early 1900s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

Cala Lillies in Asian Vase
Cala Lillies in Asian Vase

Cala Lillies in Asian Vase

Located in North Clarendon, VT

Well painted American School impressionist still life. Oil on Canvas, signed and dated upper left. Can you solve the mystery. Housed in a nice frame, 16" x 14", 30.5" x 18.5" frame...

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1920s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

1900's French Impressionist Watercolor Portrait Lady Overlooking Balcony Garden
1900's French Impressionist Watercolor Portrait Lady Overlooking Balcony Garden

1900's French Impressionist Watercolor Portrait Lady Overlooking Balcony Garden

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

The Garden View French School, early 20th century signed with initials lower corner watercolour painting on artist paper, framed Glass covering framed: 13 x 10.5 inches board: 10 x 8...

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Early 20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

American Impressionist Sunset Sailboat Seascape Framed Original Oil Painting
American Impressionist Sunset Sailboat Seascape Framed Original Oil Painting

American Impressionist Sunset Sailboat Seascape Framed Original Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Antique American seascape oil painting . Oil on canvas. Framed. Measuring: 19 by 16 inches overall, and 16 by 12 painting alone. Signed verso. Excellent condition, ready to hang and...

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1950s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

"Pink morning." Collection "Green"
"Pink morning." Collection "Green"

"Pink morning." Collection "Green"

By Liudmila Shabazova

Located in Zofingen, AG

Sometimes at dawn the sky is soft pink and the azure sea is incredibly beautiful. Green hills and cypress trees, olive groves and mountains, all this is a typical Spanish landscape. ...

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2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Lacquer, Acrylic

Signed Impressionist Scenic Landscape by Gaston Balande
Signed Impressionist Scenic Landscape by Gaston Balande

Signed Impressionist Scenic Landscape by Gaston Balande

By Gaston Balande

Located in St. Albans, GB

Gaston Balande (1880-1971) Antique Oil on Canvas Painting. Picture Size 20 X 26", 51 X 66 cm Frame Size 28 x 34", 71 x 86.5 cm Gaston BALANDE (1880-1971) Gaston Balande was born in...

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Early 20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

In grandma's garden.
In grandma's garden.

In grandma's garden.

By Liudmila Shabazova

Located in Zofingen, AG

A green garden, a light summer dress, a sun hat - all these are childhood memories. My memories, but for some it’s just the beginning. Childhood and adolescence are full of impressio...

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2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Lacquer

Edgar Degas, Three Dancers, 1945 (after)
Edgar Degas, Three Dancers, 1945 (after)

Edgar Degas, Three Dancers, 1945 (after)

By Edgar Degas

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph after Edgar Degas (1834–1917), titled Trois danseurs (Three Dancers), 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: Trois danseurs (Three Dancers), 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

Yellow pears - Fruit Still Life OIl Painting
Yellow pears - Fruit Still Life OIl Painting

Yellow pears - Fruit Still Life OIl Painting

Located in Zofingen, AG

“Yellow Pears” painting is a refined example of classical still life, where beauty comes from balance, simplicity, and careful use of color. The composition is built on the contrast ...

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2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Where Sheep May Safely Graze
Where Sheep May Safely Graze

Where Sheep May Safely Graze

By Karl Dempwolf

Located in Pasadena, CA

Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist UNFRAMED: 10" x 20" FRAMED: 14.5" x 24.5" x 1.5" Signed " K Dempwolf" on lower left Artist Statement "I have painted cattle into ...

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2010s Impressionist Art

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Linen, Oil, Wood Panel

Impressionist Print of Boats in Antibes Harbour, France, 1955

Impressionist Print of Boats in Antibes Harbour, France, 1955

By Nicolas de Stael (after)

Located in Brooklyn, NY

This 1986 reproduction presents Nicolas de Staël’s Boats in the Harbour, a composition originally painted in 1955 during the artist’s celebrated Antibes period. In this late body of ...

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1950s Impressionist Art

Materials

Offset

Horizon Coastal Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Horizon Coastal Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang

Horizon Coastal Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang

By Vahe Yeremyan

Located in Granada Hills, CA

Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Title: Horizon Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2026 Style: Contemporary Art Dimensions: 25" x 26.5" x 0.8" inch (64 x 67 x 2cm) Presentation: Unframed, Gallery Wrap...

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2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Roses and sea."
"Roses and sea."

"Roses and sea."

By Liudmila Shabazova

Located in Zofingen, AG

Miniature painting is like a little pearl in a collection of paintings. It was created specifically so that you can decorate your room and harmoniously place it in combination with p...

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2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

A Quiet Presence
A Quiet Presence

A Quiet Presence

By Natalia Yangalycheva

Located in Zofingen, AG

A Quiet Presence is part of the Modern Muses series, where everyday gestures and intimate moments become spaces of quiet reflection. The faceless figure sits relaxed in a chair, hold...

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2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Pistachio roses."
"Pistachio roses."

"Pistachio roses."

By Liudmila Shabazova

Located in Zofingen, AG

A branch of fresh roses in a glass vase, the rays of the sun fill the room with warm shades. All these sensations are reflected in the picture. Light green shades on white roses seem...

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2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"In the morning."
"In the morning."

"In the morning."

By Liudmila Shabazova

Located in Zofingen, AG

The picture was painted under the impression of vacation. It's just a dream when you wake up in the morning in a small provincial town. The house is filled with the smell of coffee a...

Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

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