Photorealist Art
PHOTOREALISM
A direct challenge to Abstract Expressionism’s subjectivity and gestural vigor, Photorealism was informed by the Pop predilection for representational imagery, popular iconography and tools, like projectors and airbrushes, borrowed from the worlds of commercial art and design.
Whether gritty or gleaming, the subject matter favored by Photorealists is instantly, if vaguely, familiar. It’s the stuff of yellowing snapshots and fugitive memories. The bland and the garish alike flicker between crystal-clear reality and dreamy illusion, inviting the viewer to contemplate a single moment rather than igniting a story.
The virtues of the “photo” in Photorealist art — infused as they are with dazzling qualities that are easily blurred in reproduction — are as elusive as they are allusive. “Much Photorealist painting has the vacuity of proportion and intent of an idiot-savant, long on look and short on personal timbre,” John Arthur wrote (rather admiringly) in the catalogue essay for Realism/Photorealism, a 1980 exhibition at the Philbrook Museum of Art, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At its best, Photorealism is a perpetually paused tug-of-war between the sacred and the profane, the general and the specific, the record and the object.
“Robert Bechtle invented Photorealism, in 1963,” says veteran art dealer Louis Meisel. “He took a picture of himself in the mirror with the car outside and then painted it. That was the first one.”
The meaning of the term, which began for Meisel as “a superficial way of defining and promoting a group of painters,” evolved with time, and the core group of Photorealists slowly expanded to include younger artists who traded Rolleiflexes for 60-megapixel cameras, using advanced digital technology to create paintings that transcend the detail of conventional photographs.
On 1stDibs, the collection of Photorealist art includes work by Richard Estes, Ralph Goings, Chuck Close, Audrey Flack, Charles Bell and others.
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Style: Photorealist
Greek Key
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edition of 50
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Regal Moth and Aspen - Highly Detailed Photorealist Close-Up Nature Painting
By Rick Pas
Located in Chicago, IL
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Creating is an addiction. With all the highs and lows you would expect.
I am interested in the surface textures and creating paintings that portray them in realis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Calumet Vista - Iron and Steel Girder Bridge, Contemporary Photorealist Painting
By Roland Kulla
Located in Chicago, IL
This painting captures a spiderweb like red iron girder beam steel bridge. Roland has always been fascinated by the built environment. Reflecting on what the structures tell about t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
“Scompte”, 12 pieces, Canvas, Painting
Located in San Jose, CR
Argentine artist Viviana Zargón shows us these empty, uninhabited spaces. Their enormous skeletons put into sharp relief the economic and social collapse of the modernist dream. From...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Gas Line, Photorealist Silkscreen by Ron Kleemann
By Ron Kleemann
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ron Kleemann, American (1937 - )
Title: Gas Line from the CityScapes Portfolio
Year: 1981
Medium: Serigraph on Somerset Paper, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 250
P...
Category
1970s Photorealist Art
Materials
Screen
Grove Hardware (Superrealism)
Located in New Orleans, LA
A feat of superrealism masterfully done using watercolor, a notoriously difficult medium. (I apologize for the reflections on the glass - I took a couple of shots at a slight angle t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Watercolor
Peregrine City - Photorealist Painting of a Peregrine Falcon in an Urban Setting
By Rick Pas
Located in Chicago, IL
Every detail in this extraordinary painting is rendered with exacting care. It is not unusual to find these majestic predatory birds amongst the skyscrapers and bridges of our cites...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Rocks in the Current - Original Photorealist Painting of Dragonflies Atop Stones
By Rick Pas
Located in Chicago, IL
Painted with extraordinary detail, this moment in nature is captured in Rick Pas' unique style. Four brightly colored green dragonflies sit atop river stones as water gently moves b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
"Yellow Ferrari", Oleg Turchin, Oil on Canvas, 36" x 54", Photorealism Painting
By Oleg Turchin
Located in Dallas, TX
Oleg Turchin's "Yellow Ferrari" is an oil on canvas that measures 36" x 54". The painting is a beautiful photorealistic depiction of Ferrari 599 GTO outside the Casino Monte-Carlo in...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"S is for Shelter," Pastel Drawing
Located in Denver, CO
Irene Georgopoulou's (EL based) "S is for Shelter" is a hyperrealist pastel drawing of a paper house folded from comics and two marbles sitting with a "S" wooden letter block.
Iren...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Pastel
STACKS 714 - quiet light blue painting
Located in Seattle, WA
Quiet Seascape Painting - Landscape - Light Blue - White - Sky
"Jack Flynn conjures weightless scenes in oil with a deep attention paid to both the mute stillness of his chosen sett...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Grappa Flask Run
Located in Boca Raton, FL
A pioneer of the Photorealist movement, Ben Schonzeit has been recognized by the legendary art dealer Louis Meisel—who himself named the movement—as one of the 13 original Photoreali...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
"Notre Dame de Paris at Night", Sorin, Photorealism, French, Landscape
Located in Dallas, TX
"Notre Dame de Paris at Night" by Sorin is a 30x40 inch original oil on canvas. The painting captures a photorealistic night view of the medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Red Tug (Nautical Photorealist Oil Painting on Canvas of a Red Boat)
Located in Hudson, NY
Nautical themed photo-realist oil painting on canvas of a red tug boat with yellow rope and green siding against a bright blue sky
oil on canvas, thin wood stripping, 51 x 49 x 2 inc...
Category
1990s Photorealist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
First of the Day from Calais, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Tony Munns
Located in Yardley, PA
A medium sized unframed original acrylic painting that is a personal tribute to the incredible Mountbatten Class SRN4 hovercraft and to Hoverlloyd, who operated four of this type bet...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Colorite Spice Rack -- Original Oil Painting -- Please watch attached video
By Mark Schiff
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This painting would look amazing in a modern kitchen. Please see accompanying video. One cannot appreciate this painting on a computer screen; in real life, it is absolutely amazin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Alone Together
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original oil on canvas, signed verso.
2020
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Oil
Marbles in Candyland -- Original Oil Painting
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This huge oil painting is one of a series of two paintings painted on this theme by the photorealist Ralph Stearns. The other painting hangs in the corporate headquarters of Bankhea...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Oil
Switzerland (Valais, Church of Rarogne) Photographic Travel Poster Mountains
By Philipp Giegel
Located in London, GB
To see our other original vintage travel posters, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find th...
Category
1960s Photorealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Jimi Hendrix by Baron Wolman rare signed platinum print
By Baron Wolman
Located in Austin, US
JIMI HENDRIX ON STAGE AT THE WINTERLAND BALLROOM IN SAN FRANCISCO, FEBRUARY 1968.
One copy available
Signed limited edition #7/150
Rare signed platinum print with deckled bottom edge
Category
1960s Photorealist Art
Materials
Platinum
Eric Clapton "Shangri La"
By Ed Caraeff
Located in Austin, US
Eric Clapton taking a break from recording his album ‘No Reason To Cry’ at Shangri La recording studio in Malibu, CA, US, November 21, 1975. Limited edition number 2/50
This stunnin...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dolly Parton "Here You Come Again"
By Ed Caraeff
Located in Austin, US
Signed limited edition print by Ed Caraeff of Dolly Parton taken during the cover session for her album ‘Here You Come Again’ in Los Angeles, CA, US, July 7, 1977. Limited edition nu...
Category
1970s Photorealist Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Whoppers No. 2
By James Zamora
Located in Los Angeles, CA
James Zamora's realistic “aisle paintings” are well-known throughout the US. Using different spatial compositions the artist translates common marketplace imagery into a stylized, el...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Realist Leopard Portrait Wild Cat Painting from British Wildlife Tiger Artist
By Pip McGarry
Located in Preston, GB
The vivid realism of the hairs & whiskers coupled with the intensity of the leopard's eyes make this painting a compelling portrait. McGarry specialises in big cats such as Tigers, a...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Paint, Cotton Canvas
Mick Jagger with camera by Baron Wolman signed 11x14" limited edition print
By Baron Wolman
Located in Austin, US
Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones by the legendary late photographer, Baron Wolman, Taken on the set of "Performance" in London, September 1968.
One copy available
Signed limited e...
Category
1960s Photorealist Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
10 Lemons, Limited Edition Silkscreen, Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Mount Clemens, MI
LOWELL NESBITT (1933-1993) One of the most celebrated and most noted for his floral works of art. An artist with a highly personal style, Nesbitt made realistic studies of many theme...
Category
1970s Photorealist Art
Materials
Screen
Medlar
Located in Deddington, GB
Medlar by Dani Humberstone [2021]
original
Oil paint on board
Image size: H:9.5 cm x W:9.5 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:9.5 cm x W:9.5 cm x D:0.3cm
Frame Size: H:25.5 cm x W...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Jimi Hendrix by Baron Wolman signed limited edition 16x20" print
By Baron Wolman
Located in Austin, US
Jimi Hendrix by iconic photographer, Baron Wolman. Taken at the Travelodge Motel, San Francisco, February 1968
One copy available
Signed limited edition #30/175
20x16” hand printed ...
Category
1960s Photorealist Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Marina Di Massa, plexiglass photgraph, Italy beach scene
Located in Miami, FL
Massimo Vitali (b. Como, Italy in 1944) is an Italian photographer based in Lucca.
Vitali studied photography at the London College of Printing. He initially worked as a photojournal...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Inside Out, Haiti - Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition
By JR artist
Located in Zug, CH
JR, Inside Out, Haiti
Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition
20 colors lithograph on white paper BFK Rives - 300 grams
Edition of 180
70 x 100 cm
Signed on the bott...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Coastal Palms Mixed Media Painting on Canvas 60h x 40"w
By Irena Orlov
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
Coastal Palms
One of a kind Mixed Medium on Canvas
Collector's Edition
Mixed Media: Acrylic, Ink, Stucco, Glass Beads, Crackle Paste
SPECIFICATIONS:
- Fine art canvas
- Profession...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Digital
Hot and Strong
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kathleen Keifer is a California-based internationally collected artist. She is a leading force of the New California Realism. Keifer brings a fresh perspective to her hyper realistic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
"Sugar High," Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Patrick Nevins' (US based) "Sugar High" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a blue and red gummy worm and cast shadow being carried off for dinner by a blue and yellow...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Stilton And Grapes, Kate Verrion, Food Still Life, Original Painting, Affordable
By Kate Verrion
Located in Deddington, GB
Stilton and Grapes [2021]
original
Oil on Oil paper
Image size: H:12 cm x W:12 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:12 cm x W:12 cm x D:4cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Oil, Paper
Rt. 30 - Caledonia, PA
Located in New Orleans, LA
An astonishing work of photorealism. I think it speaks for itself, right? In fact, it's probably hard to tell from the pics that it's not a photograph. The artist, Jim Thomson, has p...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Art
Materials
Oil
Covered - hyper-realism face close up finger closed eye lashes detail oil canvas
By Anne Moses
Located in London, GB
Anne Moses is a British artist living and working in the UK. Since leaving the University of Manchester with a B.A Honours Degree in Fine Art she has been developing and producing wo...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sketch for a jewel set - necklace and earrings - Van Cleef Bulgari Cartier 1985
Located in Antwerp, BE
Very rare preparatory drawing for a high jewellery parure in gold; diamonds, sapphires and emeralds. Gouache on tracing paper, signed. It is annotated on the back of the frame "2 for...
Category
1980s Photorealist Art
Materials
Paper
June Twilight
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kathleen Keifer is a California-based internationally collected artist. She is a leading force of the New California Realism. Kathleen brings a fresh, clean perspective to her colorf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Faye Dunaway Oscar outtake by Terry O'Neill signed Lifetime Edition
Located in Austin, US
Lifetime prints are the last remaining prints available, signed by Terry O’Neill and obtained from the Terry O’Neill Archive in London.
American actress Faye Dunaway takes breakfast...
Category
1970s Photorealist Art
Materials
C Print
Bill Murray
By Jake Chessum
Located in Austin, US
Signed limited edition print of Bill Murray by Jake Chessum, an outtake from a 2004 Esquire Magazine cover story, shot at Pier 59 Studios one Sunday morning.
Available in the follow...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
C Print
FLORA ROYAL 3
Located in Deddington, GB
Allan Forsyth
FLORA ROYAL 3
Limited Edition Archival Chromagenic Photographic Print
Edition 12
Size: H 100cm x W 100cm x D 2cm
Diasec Framed
Size: H:100 cm x W:100 cm
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Photogram, Archival Pigment
Studio 54 Logo/Crowds
Located in Scarsdale, NY
Studio 54 Logo/Crowds, 1978 by famed American photographer, Allan Tannenbaum. Archival pigment print. 10 x 15 inch photo on 17 x 22 inch on the finest satin photo paper, Ed. of 50. T...
Category
1970s Photorealist Art
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Pigment
The Bee Gees 20th Anniversary Party, 1975
Located in Scarsdale, NY
'The Bee Gees 20th Anniversary Party,' 1975 by famed American photographer, Allan Tannenbaum. Archival pigment print, 10 x 15 inch photo on 17 x 22 inch on the finest satin photo pap...
Category
1970s Photorealist Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Green Jacket
By Alberto Magnani
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Alberto Magnani continues the long art historical tradition of the still-life in his photorealistic paintings of men’s suits, colorful ties, pocket squares, piles of denim, and shirt...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pocket Blackberry
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Blackberry by Dani Humberstone [2021]
original
Oil paint on canvas
Image size: H:5.5 cm x W:5.5 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:1 cm x W:5.5 cm x D:5.5cm
Frame Size: H:1...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Royal Diner, Photorealist Silkscreen by John Baeder
By John Baeder
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Baeder, American (1938 - )
Title: Royal Diner
Year: 1980
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 250
Image Size: 15.5 x 25.5 inches
Size: 22 x 30 in...
Category
1980s Photorealist Art
Materials
Screen
Dani Humberstone, Plum, Original Contemporary Still Life Painting, Oil Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Dani Humberstone
Plum
Original oil painting, still life, fruit
Oil paint on canvas
Sheet/Canvas Size: 13 cm x 13 cm x 1 cm
Framed Size: 24 cm x 24 cm x 4 cm
Sold Framed (Dark texture...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Jack Nicholson on the sofa in his room at the Carlyle Hotel in 1981
Located in Scarsdale, NY
'Jack Nicholson on the sofa in his room at the Carlyle Hotel,' 1981 by famed American photographer, Allan Tannenbaum. Archival pigment print. 10 x 15 inch photo on 17 x 22 inch on th...
Category
1980s Photorealist Art
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Pigment
"Tied Up", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Heather Neill's (US based) "Tied Up" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a wood paneled rustic fishing boat with all its gear and fittings as it floats peacefully in t...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Oil
Ken Orton "Select", Photorealistic Bottles Still Life Oil Painting on Canvas
By Ken Orton
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Ken Orton's "Select" is a 36x54 original oil painting on canvas. This painting depicts a still life setting featuring multiple antique bottles. The bottles range in size, color and s...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Baroque Cauliflower, Artichokes and Radishes
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Still Life with Baroque Cauliflower, Artichokes and Radishes
Year: 2002
Medium: Oil on Panel with artist painted frame
Size: 42 x 31.5 inches
Co...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Acrylic
Honey Pot II - underwater nude photograph - print on paper 18" x 24"
By Alex Sher
Located in Santa Monica, CA
An underwater nude photograph of a girl relaxing in the pool. The photograph was taken with terra-cotta background and with green trees and bright blue sky visible thorough the water...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Hampshire Summer Garden, Dylan Lloyd, Original Floral Garden Landscape Painting
By Dylan Lloyd
Located in Deddington, GB
Hampshire Summer Garden by Dylan Lloyd [2021]
original
Oil paint on canvas
Image size: H:50 cm x W:40 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:50 cm x W:40 cm x D:2.5cm
Framed Size: ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Trap Door / Swimming / Dive / Pool / Summer / Photography
By Eric Zener
Located in Greenwich, CT
"Trap Door"
12 x 41 inches
Unique
Photo transparency with resin, paint and silver or gold leaf, on a wood panel.
Eric Zener (b. 1966) is a self-taught photorealist artist recogni...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Silver, Foil
Pocket Conference Pear
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Conference Pear by Dani Humberstone [2021]
original
Oil paint on Canvas
Image size: H:7 cm x W:5 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:0.5 cm x W:5 cm x D:1cm
Frame Size: H:18...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Serie Saguas 5“, Canvas, Painting
Located in San Jose, CR
Argentine artist Viviana Zargón shows us these empty, uninhabited spaces. Their enormous skeletons put into sharp relief the economic and social collapse of the modernist dream. From...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Extra Large Botanical Cyanotype of Marrakesh Majorelle Palm, Blue Tree on Paper
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype.
This cyanotype shows a palm tree from the Majorelle Gardens in Marrakesh.
Details:
+ Title: Marrakesh Majorelle Palm
+ Y...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Photographic Film, Emulsion, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Photographic Pa...
Waiting, Miami Beach (Blue)
By Alberto Coto
Located in San Juan, PR
Waiting, Miami Beach, 2012
Blue photograph.
Available Sizes: (New Piece)
48 x 36 cm, 36 x 24 cm, 36 x 36 cm. Ed. 10 each
Alberto Coto is a photographer who shoots commercial and ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Color, Digital, Photographic Paper
