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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Full Moon Landscape Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Garry Nalbandyan Title: Full Moon Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2026 Style: Impressionism Dimensions: 11" x 17.5" x 0.8" inch (28 x 44x 2cm) Presentation: Unframed, Gallery Wra...
Canvas, Oil
Rolling Surf; Leo Carillo Beach, CA
By Ray Roberts
Located in Pasadena, CA
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist. UNFRAMED: 24" x 30" FRAMED: 30.5" x 36.5" x 1.75" Signed "Ray Roberts" on lower left Artists Statement "Rolling Surf, Leo Carril...
Linen, Oil, Panel
French Village Stone Bridge Watercolour Impressionist Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Village Stone Bridge Watercolour Painting by Maurice Mazeilie (French) watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed painting: 8.25 x 11.75 inches An atmospheric original wa...
Watercolor
$6,000Sale Price|20% Off
Early 20th Century Palo Alto Foothills Landscape Oil Painting
By Bruce Nelson
Located in Soquel, CA
Robert Azensky Fine Art is proud to present Early 20th Century Oil Painting Palo Alto, California Foothills Landscape Painting circle of Bruce ...
Masonite, Oil, Canvas
" Summer Evening Southwest Texas " 1909 Texas Hill Country Julian Onderdonk
Located in San Antonio, TX
Julian Onderdonk "Summer Evening S. W. Texas" Texas Hill Country (1882 - 1922) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 9 x 12 Frame Size: 15 x 18 Medium: Oil on panel Dated 1909 "Summer Evening S. W. Texas" "A Texas Painter Worked Under the Radar in New York," By Eve M. Kahn, March 6, 2014, The New York Times Onderdonk, a San Antonio native who died of an intestinal ailment in 1922, at 40, is best known for painting swaths of Texas bluebonnets. Those canvases can bring more than $500,000 each, while his New York scenes usually end up in the five-figure range. Onderdonk’s parents were painters in San Antonio, and in 1901, when he was a teenager, they sent him to New York for training. Through 1909, he lived in various Manhattan apartments and Staten Island houses. He then returned to Texas, but continued to spend months at a time in New York. In 1902 he had married a Manhattan teenage neighbor, Gertrude Shipman. While she focused on raising their daughter, Adrienne, and worrying about their strained finances, “he created more than 600 works of art, often producing a painting or two a day,” Eyewitnesses recorded his prolific pace in New York, but Onderdonk works bearing those dates rarely turn up. The puzzling gap in his productivity is explained in family correspondence that the Bakers uncovered: The artist admits that he was signing pieces with pseudonyms. He mostly used Chas. Turner and Chase Turner and occasionally resorted to Elbert H. Turner and Roberto Vasquez. Julian Onderdonk was the son of the important Texas landscapist, Robert Onderdonk. He was the father's pupil at age 16. Sponsored by a Texas patron, he studied at the Art Students League in New York when he was 19, the pupil of Kenyon Cox, Frank DuMond, and Robert Henri. He also studied with William Merritt Chase on Long Island. In 1902, having lost his Texas patron because he married, he asked $18 for 12 paintings at a Fifth Avenue dealer in New...
Oil
Mountain Landscape - Sierra Nevada, c. 1927
By Jack Wilkinson Smith
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Consigned to the gallery by private collectors Signed "Jack Wilkinson Smith" lower left Description Jack Wilkinson Smith was a New York-based illustrator before moving o...
Oil, Panel
Charming drawing trees with buildings with a church beyond, Eugene Boudin
Located in GB
This delicate drawing, attributed to Eugène Boudin, carries the quiet immediacy and observational sensitivity that define the artist’s approach to landscape. Executed in a soft, econ...
Archival Paper, Carbon Pencil
Sisters
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Sisters" 1989, is an oil painting on canvas by noted Polish/American artist Miriam Briks, b.1957. It is signed and dated at the lower left corner by the artist. ...
Oil
"Sitting on Top of the World" - Original Oil Painting on Panel
Located in Denver, CO
I listen to a lot of "blues" music, I was listening to the song "Sitting on Top of the World", and this image popped into my head. I quickly grabbed whatever paper I had handy and ma...
Oil, Panel
The White Boat, Edgartown
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
The White Boat, Edgartown, c. 1916 Watercolor and gouache on board 18 x 24 inches (45.7 x 61 cm) Framed dims: 24 x 29 1/2 inches Signed at lower right: JANE PETERSON Inscribed on ver...
Watercolor, Gouache, Board
Old Farm Landscape Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Garry Nalbandyan Title: Old Farm Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2026 Style: Impressionism Dimensions: 11" x 19" x 0.8" inch (28 x 50 x 2cm) Presentation: Unframed, Gallery Wrapp...
Canvas, Oil
$1,527Sale Price|20% Off
Fine French Impressionist Signed Oil Figures on Mediterranean Beach Boats at Sea
By Guy Benard
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Guy Benard (French b.1928) signed lower corner. Painter from Rouen, Normandy, exhibited throughout France. Title: 'Mediterranee' Medium: ...
Oil
"Couple with Cat" Charles Roswell Bacon, American Interior Scene, Animals
Located in New York, NY
Charles Roswell Bacon Couple with Cat Signed lower right Oil on canvas 22 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches American painter Charles Roswell Bacon (1868–1913) was known for his depictions of the...
Canvas, Oil
$1,100
Among the Wildflowers Nude Women Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Nude Women Figurative Art Artist: Ashot Muradyan Work: Original Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Linen Year: 2025 Style: Impressionism, Title: Among the Wil...
Canvas, Oil
$7,000
"When Is Happy Hour" (2024) Expressionist Landscape, Oil and Wax Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Artist Statement This work focuses on atmosphere rather than place, allowing the image to hover between land, water, and sky. Broad, layered passages of blue are interrupted by a so...
Cotton, Oil
"Still life with lilac" Square Large oil painting for interior
Located in Oslo, NO
Imbued with vivacity, each stroke in this oil painting captures the essence of life's evanescent beauty. The lush lilac bursts forth, a symphony of colors speaking to the heart's dee...
Canvas, Oil
$3,600Sale Price|20% Off
La Sortie du Chenil, Michel Delacroix
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Michel Delacroix (1933) Title: La Sortie du Chenil Year: 1988 Edition: LXXVII/CL; 150 Arabic Numerals on Rives paper, 150 Roman Numerals on Japon pap...
Lithograph
$9,200Sale Price|20% Off
'Rivière de Mon Paix', A Pair of French Impressionist Landscapes, Musée d'Orsay
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'Rivière de Mon Paix' by Raoul André Ulmann. Pair of Fine French Impressionist Oils, Musée d'Orsay, Luxembourg Museum. Sold as a pair. --- Raoul André Ulmann (French, 1867-1941) Ea...
Oil, Panel
$799
Mediterranean Church Landscape Catalan Post-Impressionist Mountain Scene Oil
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Mediterranean Church Landscape Catalan Post-Impressionist Mountain Scene Oil Artist: Joan Joseph Garí (Granollers, 1922) Title: Landscape with Bell Tower Year: 1977 Medium: Oil on c...
Oil, Cardboard
$1,600Sale Price|20% Off
"Terrazza" - 20th Century Impressionist Italy Village Painting
Located in New Orleans, LA
A superb oil-on-wood Impressionistic scene of a Mediterranian country house, with the sun slanting in on the patio from overhead. One of those scenes that can’t help but make you hap...
Oil
Upside down
Located in Zofingen, AG
One of the easiest ways to see the picture with a fresh look, when you doubt in something - turn it upside down. If there are errors, they will immediately become noticeable. But if...
Canvas, Oil
Pacific Bay, Impressionism Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2024 Style: Impressionism, Title: Pacific Bay Size: 29.5" x 44" x 1'...
Canvas, Oil
Seascape Oil Painting Award Winning Artist Michael Budden Glorious Light
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Glorious Light Image is 8 x 10 unframed, 13.5 x 15.5 framed signed LR Glorious Light is a seascape oil painting on panel by award winning Chesterfield, NJ artist, Michael Budden the...
Oil
$294Sale Price|20% Off
Early 1900's French Impressionist Signed Flower Watercolour by Marie Carreau
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Flowers" by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century) signed bottom right watercolour on paper, unframed painting: 10 x 15 inches Delightful early 20th century Fre...
Watercolor
$2,619Sale Price|20% Off
American Impressionist Original Oil Painting The Valley in Spring, framed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Valley in Spring by Charles E. Buckler (American 1869-1953), signed lower corner titled verso oil painting on canvas: 16 x 20 inches framed: 21.5 x 25.5 inches condition: very go...
Canvas, Oil
Les Baigneuses, Impressionist Nude Lithograph by Raoul Dufy
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Long Island City, NY
Raoul Dufy, French (1877 - 1953) - Les Baigneuses, Year: circa 1920, Medium: Lithograph on Japon, signed in the plate, Size: 10.75 x 14.25 in. (27.31 ...
Lithograph
Landscape Oil Painting, Impressionist Style, Signed, 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
Oil on Canvas Signed Bottom Right Bernard Cathelin was born in Paris and used his art to project the love for his country he maintained throughout his life. As a student of the École...
Canvas, Oil
$32,740
The Rendezvous - Scottish 1908 art portrait oil painting Elsie Viola Robinson
Located in Hagley, England
This stunning romantic exhibited Scottish Edwardian Impressionist portrait oil painting is by noted Scottish artist James Wallace. Painted in 1908 with excellent provenance, the brus...
Oil
$2,360Sale Price|20% Off
French Impressionist landscape the South of France, with children playing
Located in Woodbury, CT
A wonderful French impressionist landscape of children playing in a playground somewhere in the South of France. The earliest work by the artist is from the late 1960s and this piece...
Oil
$1,700
"Observatory Overhaul" - Impressionist Cityscape and Skyscape, Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Jennifer McChristian's "Observatory Overhaul" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a cityscape with cars driving down the road next ...
Oil
Forest, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Original Oil painting by Ukrainian artist Evgeny Chernyakovsky "Forest " 60.0 X 80.0 CM / 23.6 X 31.4 IN HIGH QUALITY oil on canvas Signed on the front and back Dated 2022 Go...
Oil
$750
"Brunch at Fanelli" Impressionistic Plein Air Oil Painting of Figures Soho NYC
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
This painting depicts an impressionistic Plein Air scene of Brunch at Fanelli n Soho Manhattan. The thick brush strokes and fun marks creates an atmosphere reminiscent of city life. ...
Oil, Board
$709Sale Price|20% Off
The English Village Kings Somborne, River Ford Hampshire - Oil Painting
By Deidre Henty-Creer
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Kings Somborne by Deidre Henty-Creer (British 1918-2012) signed lower corner oil painting on board, unframed Medium sized impressionist oil painting, measuring W24 x H19.5 inches. Exquisite detailed oil painting of a busy English country village. Each part of this delightful painting has it's own story to tell, from what the local shop has in the window, to the children playing in the stream. A very traditional country look with thatched cottages, and fox gloves...
Oil
Impressionist Land/Riverscape Painting. Framed and Signed.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Impressionist land/riverscape painting in oil on canvas board by Italian artist Dino Rossi. Signed bottom left and presented in a gold wood frame under glass. This artwork depicts ...
Canvas, Oil, Board
Tropical Haute Couture Floral Zebra Dress Female Silhouette
Located in Zofingen, AG
2026 Acrylic on matte heavyweight paper 16 × 12 × 0.4 inches (41 × 31 × 1 cm) Unframed One-of-a-kind original artwork Tropical Haute Couture Floral Zebra Dress Female Silhouette Ori...
Paper, Acrylic
Sphere Definition 4 Abstract Art Original Painting Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Title: Sphere Definition 4 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Year: 2025 Style: Abstract Art Dimensions: 36.5" x 69.5" x 2" inch (93 x 175 x 5cm) 4 Presentation: Framed,...
Canvas, Acrylic
Ranchos Winter Robert Daughters serigraph
Located in Paonia, CO
Ranchos Winter by American impressionist Robert Daughter shows two women approaching the pueblo with the sun reflecting off the sides of the buildin...
Screen
Supermoon Seascape Original Oil Painting on Linen, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karen Darbinyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Linen, Year: 2025 Style: Impressionism Title: Supermoon Size: 15.5" x 21" x 0.8'' ...
Canvas, Linen, Oil
$1,290Sale Price|40% Off
Two Early Massachusetts Paintings Boy fishing "Beaver Pool" - "The Conway" 1897
Located in Soquel, CA
Two Early Massachusetts Paintings Boy fishing "Beaver Pool" - "The Conway" 1897 Pair of early Massachusetts paintings on walnut wood panels by GEK 1897. Fine detail and painting styl...
Oil, Wood Panel
20th century Impressionist City scene of Paris from the Seine
Located in Woodbury, CT
M. Verani Paris Scene, circa 1950–60 Oil on canvas Signed lower left This charming mid-century oil painting by Italian artist M. Verani captures a vibrant scene from Paris, rendere...
Canvas, Oil
Sunset, Rockport Harbor
Located in Milford, NH
A colorful Cape Ann, Massachusetts marine harbor scene with boats docked by American artist Emile Albert Gruppé (1896-1978). Gruppé was born in Rochester, NY, and is renowned for his New England landscapes and vigorous portrayals of the harbors and houses of Gloucester, Massachusetts. The son of landscape artist Charles P. Gruppé (1860-1940), Emile enjoyed a long and successful career that spanned over six decades.In 1925, Gruppé began spending summers in Gloucester. He established a studio on Rocky Neck in East Gloucester where he taught plein-air classes. In 1942 —along with Bridgman, Carlson, Miller and Chapman—he established the Gruppé Summer School, which he continued to operate until 1970.Gruppé’s works hang in many colleges and museums: Smith College, Silberman College in Montreal, the University of Idaho, the Los Angeles Museum, the San Antonio Museum and the de Cordova Museum. His paintings are also at the White House in Washington, D.C. and the Gruppe Summer School in Gloucester. Oil on canvas, signed lower right, title inscribed on verso stretcher “Sunset, Rockport Harbor...
Canvas, Oil
Planting (Spring Plowing) - Watercolor Landscape Painting with Figures, c. 1939
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Planting (Spring Plowing)", a vibrant watercolor and graphite on paper by Thomas Hart Benton, circa 1939-40, embodies the artist's signature Regionalist style. The work depicts a ru...
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
$1,582Sale Price|20% Off
French Village Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting, Signed, 21.5x18
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Village, Impressionist Landscape, Oil Painting, Signed By French artist Caroline de Piedoue, 21st Century Signed by the artist on the lower right hand corner Oil painting on c...
Oil
Harbor Abstract Contemporary art Original oil Painting Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Title: Harbor Medium: Oil on Linen Year: 2025 Style: Contemporary Art Dimensions: 38" x 62.5" x 1" inch (97 x 159 x 3cm) Presentation: Unframed, Gallery Wrapped...
Canvas, Oil
Cityscape, Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ashot Muradyan Work: Original Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Linen Year: 2024 Style: Impressionism, Subject: Sity scape Size: 18.5" x 25.5" x 0.8...
Canvas, Oil
$2,477Sale Price|32% Off
Impressionist Oil on Canvas, The Salmon Pool, Canonbie, Scotland
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th Century oil on canvas view of a salmon river by Miss D L Murray. The painting is signed bottom left and there is an artist's label with title to th...
Canvas, Oil
Visiting Landscape Impressionism Original Oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Alexander Shandor Title: Visiting Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2024 Style: Impressionism Dimensions: 23.5" x 31.5" x 1" inch (60 x 80 x 2cm) Presentation: Unframed, Gallery W...
Canvas, Oil
$491Sale Price|20% Off
French Impressionist Seascape with Red Sailed Boats and Lighthouse
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Seascape with Red Sailed Boats and Lighthouse By Fanch Lel Signed: Yes Size: 8.5 x 10.75 inches (height x width) Oil painting on board, unframed Condition...
Oil
Abstraction, Contemporary Art, Original Acrylic Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Voskan Galstian Work: Original Acrylic Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Year: 2022 Style: Abstract Art, Title: Abstraction, Size: 24" x...
Canvas, Oil
$431Sale Price|20% Off
1950s French Post Impressionist Oil Painting Portrait of a Man Double Sided Work
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Double sided portrait Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
Oil
Grandma’s Veranda Smells Like Pears
Located in Edinburgh, GB
The sweet aroma of ripe pears mingles with the scent of flowers and warm wood. There’s no bustle here—only silence, comfort, and the feeling that what’s most precious has always been...
Oil
Early 20th Century Mountains and Desert Palm Springs Landscape in Oil
By Beatrice Gildersleeve
Located in Soquel, CA
Early 20th Century Mountains and Desert Palm Springs Landscape in Oil Serene early 20th Century palm springs desert landscape with mountains in the background by Beatrice Gilderslee...
Oil, Fiberboard
$905Sale Price|20% Off
The Road to the Ocean. Coastal landscape, ocean view, plein air, textured
Located in Oslo, NO
his painting was created en plein air on Oahu’s North Shore in early summer. "I was struck by the vivid green grass pushing through volcanic rock—bright circles of life set against...
Canvas, Oil
Montecito View Landscape Impressionism Original oil Painting Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Title: Montecito View Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2025 Style: Impressionism Dimensions: 34" x 34" x 1" inch (87 x 87 x 3cm) Presentation: Unframed, Gallery Wrap...
Canvas, Oil
$4,068Sale Price|20% Off
Summer delight. Oil on canvas, 90x69.5 cm. Signed
Located in Riga, LV
Summer delight. Oil on canvas, 90 x 69, 5 cm Bright still life with flowers in vases on the window at sunny summer day Nina Sergeeva / Нина Алексеевна Сергеева (1921-2018) 1921, ...
Oil, Canvas
Provence Landscape With Mountain View
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Provence Landscape With Mountain View Artist signed lower right corner, Oil on canvas, late 1920's, size:23"25x 28"25 framed 30" x 35" GALE TURNBULL wa...
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Emerald Silence
Located in Zofingen, AG
Emerald Silence captures the quiet beauty of a winter forest where a clear stream flows between snow-covered banks. Inspired by Impressionism, the painting focuses on light, atmosphe...
Oil
$3,656
Blue tractor at the sawmill. Rodnya Landscape Painting, Oil on Canvas, Signed
By Simon Kozhin
Located in Zofingen, AG
The artist painted the picture en plein air in the alla prima style during a single session in the village of Rodnya, Tver Region, in 2024. A rustic countryside scene unfolds with ra...
Canvas, Oil
$200Sale Price|20% Off
Matisse Blue Nude IV Serigraph, Late 20th Century, 30x22\"
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This second edition of Henri Matisse’s Blue Nude IV is an authorized open-edition print, recreated with the permission of the Estate of Henri Matisse. Measuring 30 x 22 inches, the q...
Screen
Sunset Over Wildflowers Field - summer landscape painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
A summer landscape with sunset and meadow flowers is a great decoration for any interior. Evening is a momentary state of nature, but it's amazing at the same time. Dawns and sunsets...
Oil, Canvas