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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
Item Ships From: USA
Hangyaku No
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerm...
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2010s Photorealist Art

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Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Pho...

David Bowie 1977 Heroes session – See No Evil
Located in Austin, TX
David Bowie, "See No Evil", 1977 by Masayoshi Sukita during the photoshoot that produced the album cover shot tor Bowie's Heroes album cover - Signed limit...
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Late 20th Century Photorealist Art

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C Print

Sorcerer Series: Beast Head, Spider Web
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Sorcerer Series: Beast Head, Spiderweb Year: February 1969 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 72 x 48 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Sign...
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1960s Photorealist Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

Boats Sailing At Sunset, Santa Cruz - Color Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Boats Sailing At Sunset, Santa Cruz - Color Photograph Color photograph of sailboats at sunset in front of the Breakwater Lighthouse in Santa Cruz, California by John F. Hunter (American). The viewer looks out towards the ocean as multiple colorful sailboats sail...
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Early 2000s Photorealist Art

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Ink, Photographic Paper

Song of Zephyrus, Variation II
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Song of Zephyrus, Variation II Year: 1979 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 71 x 45 inches Inscription: Signed, dated, and titled by the artist. P...
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1970s Photorealist Art

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Acrylic

David Bowie at The Dorchester Hotel 1972
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition print of David Bowie by Alec Byrne, taken at the Dorchester Hotel, July 1972 Alec Byrne signed limited edition prints are available ...
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Late 20th Century Photorealist Art

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Archival Pigment, Silver Gelatin

New York - Photorealistic Sign Painting with Oil and Enamel on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ross Tamlin's unique photorealistic compositions merge traditional painting methods with modern industrial techniques to create captivating works of art. Using layers of oil and enamel paint, Tamlin creates an illusion of corrugation that adds depth and texture to his pieces. His use of industrial imagery and found objects is a nod to contemporary art, while his bold color palette and incorporation of text is a nod to the Pop Art movement. Tamlin is a full-time artist living in Kyogle, New South Wales, Australia. He began a Fine Arts Certificate course at Meadowbank TAFE, and then in Brisbane, he completed a graphic arts course before returning to Sydney. His signature corrugated iron paintings combine traditional art genres including still-life and landscape along with graphic art. Influenced by the De Stijl movement, these paintings represent a synthesis of art and function. Tamlin created a one-of-a-kind, vibrant, and colorful painting that measures 42 inches high by 40 inches wide. The sides of the canvas are painted in a continuation of the front, and the artwork is signed and dated by the artist on the front. It does not require framing, and a certificate of authenticity issued by the gallery is included. Free local delivery is available in the Los Angeles area, and affordable shipping is also available throughout the U.S. and worldwide Tamlin's innovative compositions are a stunning exploration of industrial materials, as he reimagines their purpose and function to create a new relationship between object and viewer. Through the use of bright colors and primary hues, overlaid with text and glazing, Tamlin creates a landscape that is uniquely his own. His work challenges the traditional notion of landscape painting, as he incorporates familiar places' names and text into his pieces, offering a contemporary take on this classic genre. “My idea was to transmute traditional Australian corrugated iron into works of modern art. The corrugation in the painting is a visual illusion created by layers of paint. Most people can connect with these panels because corrugated iron is a familiar sight both in suburbia and the bush. However, the sense of seeing the traditional is contradicted by the contemporary signage.” Tamlin's works are represented by Artspace Warehouse Los Angeles and are held in private collections worldwide, including Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Singapore, the USA, Switzerland, and France. Corporate collections include ING Bank, Babcock & Brown, Barclays Bank, Saville Hotel Group, Savills Property Group, Minter Ellison, Hai Win Shipping, Allkotes Pty Ltd, Blue Scope Steel Pty Ltd, Sieper & Co., A. P. Moller Maersk Group, Grant Thomas Management, Maridan Pty Ltd, Esprit Changeware Pty Ltd, Maritime Transport Ltd, London. REPRESENTATION Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA EDUCATION 1979 – 1981 NZ Certificate of Town Planning (3 Years) 1982 Emigrated to Australia, 1989 Australian citizenship 1985 Fine Arts Certificate (Meadowbank) (not completed) 1987 Graphic Arts Certificate, Brisbane 1988 – 1997 Paint/Colour Laboratory Technician SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2014 Soho Galleries, Sydney, Australia 2013 Soho Galleries, Sydney, Australia 2012 Paintbox Fineart, Canberra, ACT, “Melange” 2011 Jackman Gallery, St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia 2010 Harrison Gallery, Paddington, Australia 2008 Rushcutters Bay Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2007 Paintbox Gallery, Braddon, Canberra, Australia 2007 Rushcutters Bay Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2006 Rushcutters Bay Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2005 Rushcutters Bay Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2005 Paintbox Gallery, Braddon, Canberra, Australia 2004 Rushcutters Bay Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2003 Rushcutters Bay Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2002 Rushcutters Bay Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2001 1+2 Artists Studio Gallery, Rozelle 2000 New Aesthetix Gallery, Camperdown, Sydney, Australia GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2024 Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY 2023 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA 2021 “Urban Thoughts”, Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA 2021 Affordable Art Fair New York 2019 Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong 2019 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA 2019 Affordable Art Fair New York 2019 Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, Palm Springs, CA 2018 AAF Hong Kong 2018 New York AAF, NY, USA 2018 Morris Art Prize; Gold Coast, Queensland 2018 Art Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, California 2017 SOHO Galleries, Sydney, group exhibitions 2017 Gallery Beneath, Moolloolaba, Queensland, group show 2017 Whistler Contemporary Gallery, Whistler, BC, Canada 2017 Artspace Warehouse Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 2017 AAF New York, NY, USA 2017 AAF Battersea, London, UK 2017 Palm Springs Art Fair, Palm Springs, California USA, represented by Artspace Warehouse 2016 Stockholm AAF 2016, Sweden, represented by Retrospect Planet 2016 Artspace Warehouse Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 2016 Kunstwarenhaus Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland 2016 SOHO Galleries, Sydney, NSW, Australia 2016 Art Hamptons, represented by Artspace Warehouse LA 2016 AAF Hong Kong 2016 New York AAF, USA, represented by Artspace Warehouse LA 2016 Asia Contemporary, Hong Kong 2016 Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, USA, represented by 2016 Artspace Warehouse 2016 Whistler Contemporary Gallery, Whistler, Canada 2016 Caldera Art Exhibition, Murwillumbah, Northern NSW 2015 AAF Singapore 2015 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, USA 2015 Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, USA, represented by 2015 Artspace Warehouse 2015 London AAF, Battersea, March, represented by 2015 Retrospect Planet 2015 Asian Contemporary, Hong Kong, March, represented by Retrospect Planet 2015 New York AAF, USA, represented by Artspace Warehouse LA 2015 Hong Kong AAF, May, represented by Retrospect Planet 2015 Kunstwarenhaus Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland 2015 Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, Brisbane 2015 Stockholm AAF 2015, Sweden represented by Retrospect Planet 2015 Group Show SOHO Galleries, “Realism” Sydney, NSW 2015 Singapore AAF 2015 Hamburg AAF, Germany 2015 Mosman Art Prize, Sydney, 2014 Brussels AAF, Belgium, represented by Retrospect Planet 2014 Milan AAF, Italy, represented by Retrospect Planet 2014 London AAF, UK, represented by Retrospect Planet 2014 Hong Kong AAF; represented by Retrospect Planet 2014 Asian Contemporary (Hong Kong) 2014 Singapore AAF (May) 2014 Stockholm AAF, Sweden (October) 2014 Amsterdam AAF, Netherlands 2014 Hamburg AAF, Germany 2014 Singapore AAF, Singapore 2014 Northern Rivers Kyogle Pop Up exhibition (November) 2014 Soho Galleries, Xmas group exhibition 2013 Brussels AAF, Belgium, represented by Retrospect Planet 2013 Milan AAF, Italy, represented by Retrospect Planet 2013 Hong Kong AAF, Hong Kong, represented by Retrospect Planet 2013 Asian Contemporary Art Show,JW Marriott Hotel, Hong Kong 2013 Melbourne Art Fair, represented by Manyung Gallery, 2013 A Book about Death (international travelling art show) Tweed Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW 2013 Hong Kong Contemporary Art Show, Marriott Hotel, Hong Kong 2013 Stockholm AAF, Stockholm, Sweden 2013 Amsterdam AAF, Amsterdam, Holland 2013 Hamburg AAF , Hamburg, Germany 2013 Singapore AAF, Singapore 2013 Seattle AAF, Seattle, USA, represented by Manyung Gallery 2013 Whistler Village Art Gallery, Whistler, BC, Canada 2012 Redsea Gallery,Group Exhibition, Brisbane 2012 Toowoomba Grammar School Art Show, Toowoomba, QLD 2012 Brussels AAF, Belgium, represented by Retrospect Gallery 2012 New York AAF, New York, USA 2012 Envie D’Art, Paris, France & London UK 2012 Art Melbourne AAF, Melbourne 2012 Hamptons Art Fair, July, New York, USA 2012 Wilson Art Prize, Lismore, Northern NSW 2012 Shanghai Art Fair, China, October 2012 Toronto International Art Fair, Canada 2012 Singapore Affordable Art Fair, represented by Retrospect Gallery 2012 Hamburg Affordable Art Fair, Germany 2012 Border Art...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

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Enamel

Straight Shot, Ron Kleemann
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ron Kleemann (1937-2014) Title: Straight Shot Year: 1980 Medium: Silkscreen on Somerset paper Edition: 225/250, plus proofs Size: 22 x 30 inches Condition: Good Inscription:...
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1980s Photorealist Art

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Lithograph

Tiled Lunch Counter, Photorealist Screenprint by Ralph Goings
Located in Long Island City, NY
Focusing on the three men seated at the countertop and the waitress with her back to them, Ralph Goings employs photorealism to share an idyllic image of a classic American diner. F...
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1980s Photorealist Art

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Screen

"1965 Ford Mustang Grill - Dynasty Green" by Shan Fannin, Acrylic Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"1965 Ford Mustang Grill - Dynasty Green" by Shan Fannin is an original acrylic painting depicting a close up view of a Mustang ornament cast in blue light. Born 1969 in California,...
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2010s Photorealist Art

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Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Blimpie, America's Best Dressed Sandwich Pop Art Photo Realist Silkscreen Litho
Located in Surfside, FL
Charles Ford, American Photo Realist Pop Artist Texas Artist Photorealism is a movement which began in the late 1960's, in which scenes are painted in a style closely resembling phot...
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20th Century Photorealist Art

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Screen

Mid Century Portrait of Raymond L. Hanson, Large-Scale Photo-Realist Figurative
By W.S. Bylityplis
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Portrait of Raymond L. Hanson, Large-Scale Photo-Realist Figurative Refined and austere large-scale by W.S. Bylityplis (American/France, 19th-20th Century), dated 1963 with California crest. This photo-realistic portrait depicts the subject, Raymond L. Hanson, with impressive realistic detail. Signed and dated lower right corner. Unframed. Measures: 48"H x 36"W. About the artist: W.S. Bylityplis (American/France, 19th-20th Century), was an illustration and portrait artist during the 19th and early 20th century. About the subject: Portrait subject Raymond Hanson, was a lawyer whom establish the Hanson...
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1960s Photorealist Art

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Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

"Windows IV" - Vertical photograph of New York in black and white.
Located in Miami, FL
Luc Dratwa is a Belgian photographer, born in 1958 and currently living in Brussels. Uncompromisingly self-taught, his rigorousness and perfectionism ally themselves with a graphic o...
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Early 2000s Photorealist Art

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Photographic Paper, Digital

"White Lilies", Oleg Turchin, Oil on Canvas, 30" x 24", Photorealism Painting
Located in Dallas, TX
"White Lilies" by Oleg Turchin is a 30x24 inch oil painting on canvas. Turchin brings these flowers to life with each stroke of his brush. The technique w...
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2010s Photorealist Art

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Canvas, Oil

"Beacon" Figurative Narrative
Located in San Antonio, TX
Samuel Wilson (Born 1986) San Antonio, TX Image Size: 24 x 60 Medium: Oil "Beacon" When you see them in person you will say UNBELIEVEABLE. From his series "Being Human" vs. "Human B...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

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Oil

"Mollie's Spoons", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Scott Fraser's "Mollie's Spoons" is an oil painting created in 2020 that depicts varying fine silver spoons scattered across a warm grey surface. About ...
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2010s Photorealist Art

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Oil, Board

Molten Neon
Located in Greenwich, CT
Frame: 15 3/8 x 35 3/8 in. Signed upper right Born in New York City in 1959, Max Ferguson started as a filmmaker, making award-winning animated films as a teenager. But it was whil...
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2010s Photorealist Art

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Oil, Panel

Pecan Pie (large signed giclee on canvas)
Located in Aventura, FL
Giclee on canvas. Hand signed lower right by Doug Bloodworth. Hand numbered 17/150 lower right. Canvas size 44 x 55 inches. Canvas is not stretched. Artwork is in excellent co...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

Original James Tormey Photo Realist Oil Painting Still Life Candy Bowl Pop Art
Located in Surfside, FL
James Tormey (American, 1938-2017) "Candyland (Mixed Bowl)" on table with white tablecloth cover. Oil Painting on Canvas. Hand signed lower right. Measures approx. - 32" high x 37" wide, total with frame - 37 1/2" high x 42 1/2" wide. James J Tormey, NYC artist, He was born in Brooklyn in 1938. As a young man he moved to Manhattan where he lived and worked for more than 60 years. James Tormey studied at the Pratt Institute, in Brooklyn, and at Columbia University and worked in advertising for several years while he painted part time. In the 1960s he supported himself as a photographer, covering openings and events for the Museum of Modern Art, in New York City. For many years he was represented by the Madison Avenue Gallery, in New York City, where he had numerous one-man shows. He has also exhibited in Japan and Germany. The artist makes his home in Manhattan and is represented by the Uptown Gallery, also in New York City. James Tormey paints still lifes of traditional subject matter: fruit, vegetables, or eggs appear in bowls or on surfaces illuminated by powerful directional light. Tormey builds stronger and more precise meaning into his work by exploring how the backgrounds and settings for his still lifes can convey particular ideas. In his recent work, for instance, he painted a series of images in which fruit—a traditional still-life subject—is placed in architectural settings or frames that we usually associate with religious imagery. In Icon, for instance, the artist painted a red cabbage and placed it inside a Renaissance-style frame that he built and decorated himself. Instead of being presented with a saint or a Madonna within such a context, we are given a fully realized, but quite ordinary, vegetable. Tormey’s painting technique involves great care from the beginning. He works in his apartment in Manhattan’s Upper West Side in a meticulously clean space equipped with a very solid easel and a large glass palette on a painting table. For reference he uses photographs he has taken of still-life setups in conjunction with pictures of architectural or other settings he has collected over the years. “I start with a careful graphite drawing right on the canvas,” he explains. These days he uses lightweight cotton duck, although much of his earlier work was done on smoother surfaces. Once the graphite line is established, the artist makes a thin monochrome version of the image with a dull green. “I don’t add anything to the paint other than turpentine,” he explains. “I don’t use oil or glazing mediums because I don’t like shine. The turpentine dulls the paint, which suits what I’m doing.” Once the green layer has dried, the artist applies a second thin layer in a warm brown using burnt sienna or burnt umber. “In all these stages I’m working from dark to light,” he says, “so that I’m always getting a rendered, three-dimensional image.” Tormey works on two or three paintings at a time to allow for sufficient drying time between layers. “I also like the way one painting seems to talk to another,” he says. “It makes for a richer process.” Once he starts working in full color on the image, he continues slowly, applying many thin layers and gradually achieving subtle tonal and color shifts until his forms burst with three-dimensional life. “I work with a very dry brush,” explains the artist. Many of Tormey’s paintings contain dark backgrounds, some of which are pure black—something that can present its own technical problems. “I don’t want those backgrounds to feel present,” he says. “I want them to simply drop out.” Because he doesn’t want any shine on his work he doesn’t use varnish. It’s not surprising that Tormey’s work, with its heavy contrasts and smooth tonal transitions, is strongly influenced by photography. Tormey worked as a photographer for some years, and when he began doing still lifes he often photographed them against black backgrounds. His work was also published as fine art cards, posters, and fine art Giclee prints. He pioneered the "larger-than-life" still-life with his work combining traditional subject matter with a contemporary interpretation that produces startling images of heroic proportions. Light reflected and transmitted lends the natural objects, which are the subjects, a quality which may evoke in the viewer clarity of vision and a delight in the forms of the natural world around them. His work conveys a powerful positive philosophy and he once said "I believe the only way we can come to terms with the world is if we look at it as it really is." He believed that artists should take responsibility for the meaning their works carry and stated that "there are definite ideas behind my paintings". He studied at Pratt Institute and Columbia University and worked in advertising and as a photographer before turning to full-time painting. His paintings were exhibited in dozens of galleries around the country, in Germany and Japan and are now seen in numerous public and private collections. While he was not officially part of the Photorealism art...
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20th Century Photorealist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Marc Sijan Hyperrealist Contemporary Plaster Sculpture Woman and Champagne Glass
Located in Surfside, FL
Marc Sijan (American, born 1946) Hyper realistic wall sculpture. titled and dated on verso "Champagne Glass" 1986 Limited edition number 14/95. Features a Art Deco style girl in ...
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1980s Photorealist Art

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Acrylic Polymer, Glass, Plaster

"Life is Not a Game, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Francisco Collado's "Life is Not a Game" is an original, handmade hyper realistic oil painting that depicts a still life of a skull with a magnifying glass and a small ball with push...
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2010s Photorealist Art

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Oil

"Blue Sprinkle" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Gregory Block's (US based) "Blue Sprinkle" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a donut covered with blue glaze and rainbow sprinkles. Gregory was born in Kansas City...
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2010s Photorealist Art

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Oil, Board

Antique American Southern School Signed Moonshine Corn Whiskey Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American realist still life of corn and a bottle of corn whiskey. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 5L x 7H.
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1890s Photorealist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Dark Mane - Photorealistic Painting of a Safari with a Lion and Land Rover
Located in Chicago, IL
A lion strolls in front of a Range Rover in this photorealistic painting entitled "Dark Mane" by Rick Pas. Though small in scale this painting delivers gr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

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Acrylic, Panel

The Chinese Screen, Photorealist Screenprint by Harry McCormick
Located in Long Island City, NY
Harry McCormick, American (1942 - ) - The Chinese Screen. Year: circa 1990, Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, Size: 26 in. x 30 in. (66.04 cm x 76.2 cm)
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Early 1900s Photorealist Art

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Screen

Olive Grove in Moonlight, Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Olive Grove in Moonlight Year: 1968 Edition: 200, plus proofs Medium: Etching on vélin de Rives paper Size: 22 x 30 inches Condition: Good Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: Published and printed by Ian Hornak, New York IAN HORNAK (January 9, 1944 – December 9, 2002) was an American draughtsman, painter and printmaker. Described by The New York Times as being, “right at the top of romantically descriptive painters today,” Hornak was one of the founding artists of the Hyperrealist and Photorealist fine art movements. Hornak's personal papers and effects entered into the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art in 2007. His artwork is owned by the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American Art; the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History; the Library of Congress; the Corcoran Gallery of Art; the Detroit Institute of Arts; the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art; the Allen Memorial Art Museum; the Austin Museum of Art; the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute; the Canton Museum of Art; the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College; the Detroit Historical Museum; the Flint Institute of Arts; the Forest Lawn Museum; Galleria Internazionale; The George Washington University Art Galleries; Guild Hall; the Children's Hospital Boston (Harvard Medical School affiliate); the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction; the Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages; the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library; the National Hellenic Museum; the Ringling College of Art and Design; the Rockford Art Museum; the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University; the Florida State Capital; St. Mary's University, Texas; The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland; the University of Texas at San Antonio; the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College; the Washington County...
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1960s Photorealist Art

Materials

Etching

Martin Heade’s Window, Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Martin Heade’s Window Year: 1980 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 48 x 36 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed recto; signed, dated, and titled by the artist, verso. Provenance: Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY; Private Collection, MI Notes: A seminal example of Hornak’s Photorealist multiple exposure landscape...
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1980s Photorealist Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

Fort Mott, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Landscape at sunset. Grassy field, hills, goldenrod. Abstracted realism. :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the a...
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2010s Photorealist Art

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Oil

American School Super Realist Still Life Surreal Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed verso.
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1970s Photorealist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Night Flight - underwater black & white nude photograph - print on paper 23x32"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater black and white nude photograph of a young woman in the pool. The photograph was taken with black backdrop. Original gallery quality print signed by the artist. Digit...
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2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Tulips 2, Photorealist Lithograph by Lowell Blair Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lowell Blair Nesbitt was an American painter and printmaker who’s work consists of unique and vivid depictions of flowers. Tulips 2 Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933–1993) Date: ...
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1970s Photorealist Art

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Lithograph

"Of Ships and Men" - Nautical Trompe l'Oeil Composition in Oil on Board
Located in Soquel, CA
"Of Ships and Men" - Nautical Trompe l'Oeil Composition in Oil on Board Maritime still life by Russell Tripp (American, 1942-2025). This hyper-realistic painting captures a collecti...
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1990s Photorealist Art

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Oil, Board

Childhood of Hephaestus, Variation V
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Childhood of Hephaestus, Variation V Year: 1985 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, with Artist Painted Frame Size: 47 x 59 in...
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1980s Photorealist Art

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Acrylic

Primeval Landscape, Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Primeval Landscape Year: 1985 Medium: Acrylic on double layered Masonite Size: 16 x 19 inches Condition: Good Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, ...
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1980s Photorealist Art

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Acrylic, Masonite

"Bowl of Pears, " Large Acrylic Painting on Canvas by Charles Wildbank
Located in Long Island City, NY
This acrylic painting was created in a photorealistic style by American artist Charles Wildbank. It measures 48 x 60 inches and is signed in the lower left hand corner. It is in exce...
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1990s Photorealist Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

Lowell Nesbitt, "Tulipa Hybrida, " Photorealist Painting, 1976
Located in Long Island City, NY
This painting was created by American artist Lowell Blair Nesbitt. His most well-known series, and perhaps his most beautiful and poetic, are the more than four hundred works he crea...
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1970s Photorealist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Peregrine City - Photorealist Painting of a Peregrine Falcon in an Urban Setting
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

Materials

Panel, Acrylic

Bridgehampton, Photorealist Screenprint by Arne Besser
Located in Long Island City, NY
Bridgehampton Arne Besser, American (1935–2012) Portfolio: Cityscapes Date: 1981 Screenprint, Signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 250, 30 AP Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm x 55....
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1980s Photorealist Art

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Screen

American School Modernist Trompe L'Oeil Still Life Realist Large Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist realist still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed verso.
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1970s Photorealist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Neighbors, Photorealist Lithograph by Harry McCormick
Located in Long Island City, NY
Harry McCormick, American (1942 - ) - Neighbors. Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 200, AP, Image Size: 12 x 23 inches, Size: 17 in. x 28 ...
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1970s Photorealist Art

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Lithograph

Tulips III, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
Original artwork by Carlos Bruscianelli, Venezuelan Realist painter based in USA. This painting is my fourth consecutive floral work, part of my new collection, something differen...
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2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Oil

Pomegranate, photorealist fruit still life drawing, colored pencil
Located in New York, NY
David Morrison’s new series of drawings are regal in their naturalism. Morrison uses his extreme attention to detail to give equal weight to both the fruit's delicate features and si...
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2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Paper, Color Pencil

"Ellen's Diner, NYC, " Photorealist Watercolor Painting signed by Bruce McCombs
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Ellen's Diner, NYC" is an original photorealist watercolor painting by Bruce McCombs. The artist signed the piece lower right. This piece features a city diner's neon sign and clock...
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Early 2000s Photorealist Art

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Watercolor

'L'Oreal No. 2, Troyes', French Village, Boise, National Watercolor Society
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'E. Brigeois' for Evelyne Brigeois (French, 1946-2016) and dated 1985; additionally signed, verso, dated and titled, 'Troyes #2'. Born in Troyes, France in 1946, Evelyne Brigeois grew up in the town of Nimes, east of Paris. She subsequently lived and painted in Germany, England and Spain before moving to the United States in her late twenties. Settling in Idaho, she began a forty-year career as a fine artist, exhibiting widely and with success including, regularly, at both Boise's Art in the Park and Art and Roses Festival. Evelyne Brigeois was also the recipient of numerous national and international awards including from the National Watercolor Society, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Michigan...
Category

1980s Photorealist Art

Materials

Watercolor, Laid Paper

Calls in the Manitou Passage - Photorealistic Painting of Bald Eagle Screeching
Located in Chicago, IL
A male bald eagle screeches to be heard above the stormy backdrop of Lake Michigan's Manitou Passage in Northern Michigan. Extraordinarily painted with such realistic detail, this majestic bird's feathers beg for the viewer to come in for a closer look at its plumage. The piece is framed in a simple black wooden frame measuring 31 x 51 inches. Rick Pas Calls in the Manitou Passage acrylic on panel 28h x 48w in 71.12h x 121.92w cm RPA022 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 realistic detail. Hopefully a viewer will feel they can run a hand over the feathers and moss, or grasp an object in the painting. This detail is usually composed in an abstract design. The design can occur naturally or be arranged by me. RESUME Rick Pas b. 1958, Flint, MI Education Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI - Bachelor of Fine Arts - Pearson Art Scholarship SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2022 Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL, Take Flight William Baczek Fine Arts, Animal Kingdom & Winter National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY, Western Visions Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa, OK, Braveheart 2021 William Baczek Fine Arts, 25th Anniversary Exhibition 2020 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Gallery Victor Armendariz, The Palette of Pride 2019 The James Museum, St. Petersburg, FL, Environmental Impact II Lovetts Gallery, Realism, Reveries, & Rhapsody Gallery Victor Armendariz, New Work 2018 Gallery Victor Armendariz, Front and Center Corporate Art Advisory, Chicago, IL, Portraits and Places: Redefining Realism William Baczek Fine Arts, Animal Kingdom Lovetts Gallery, Rear Window 2017 William Baczek Fine Arts, Winter, Animal Kingdom, Summer Lovetts Gallery, The Good, the Bad, and the WTF? & Red 2016 William Baczek Fine Arts, 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Summer, & Landscape Exhibition Monroe Community Church, Grand Rapids, MI, ArtPrize Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL, Group Exhibition Lovetts Gallery, Cauldron 2015 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer JW Marriott, Grand Rapids, MI, ArtPrize Handwright Gallery, New Canaan, CT, Small Works Ann Brierly Gallery, Winnetka, IL, Ann Nathan Gallery Satellite Exhibition RJD Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY, A Magical Menagerie 2014 William Baczek Fine Arts, Spring & Landscape Exhibition 2013 Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH, Environmental Impact Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI, Interspecies 2012 Alden B. Dow Museum of Science & Art, Midland, MI, The Nature of Art: An Invitational Exhibition William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Exhibition Ann Nathan Gallery, Group Exhibition Twisted Fish Gallery, Elk Rapids, MI, A Natural Selection Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, MI, Art and the Animal Gallery Project, Extremes & Umvelt 2010 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Group Exhibition Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey, MI, Juried Fine Arts Exhibition San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, CA, Art and the Animal 2009 West Michigan Center for Arts & Technology, Grand Rapids, MI, ArtPrize William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI, Michigan Fine Arts Competition Gallery Project, Shrines and Altars Ann Nathan Gallery, Fall Group Exhibition 2008 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Group Exhibition Gallery Project, Animal Intelligence Holland Area Arts Council, Holland, MI, The Natural Eye Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, WI, Art and the Animal 2007 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Group Exhibition 2006 WARD Gallery, Harbor Springs, MI, New Dimensions in the Natural World Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT, Art and the Animal Gallery Project, Nature Reperceived 2005 Light Street Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Animal House Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT, Art of the Animal Kingdom The Wildlife Experience, Parker, CO, AMERICAN BIRDS: A Flight Through Time WARD Gallery, Summer Celebration 2004 Fraser Gallery, Washington, DC, Contemporary Realism Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum, Oradell, NJ, Art and the Animal Washington Street Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI, Fifth Year Celebration 2003 Fraser Gallery, Georgetown International 2001 Sioux City...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

Looking out the Window - In Celebration of Pride Month
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community. A signed Certificate of Authority will be included with all photographs. A young ...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Digital

Apriel - underwater black & white nude photograph - archival pigment 29x35"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
"Apriel" captures a serene underwater moment in striking black and white. This fine art underwater photograph showcases delicate interplay between light, shadow, and movement as hair...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Santa Monica Harley, Tom Blackwell
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Tom Blackwell (1938-2020) Title: Santa Monica Harley Year: 1977 Medium: Silkscreen on Masonite Edition: 56/60, plus proofs Size: 23 x 37.5 inches Condition: Good Inscription:...
Category

1970s Photorealist Art

Materials

Screen

The Angel Concert, Variation II
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: The Angel Concert, Variation II Year: 1979 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 36 x 48 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed, dated, and t...
Category

1970s Photorealist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Tutu Skirt - underwater black & white nude photograph - print on paper 43" x 70"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater black and white nude photograph of a young female dancer in the pool. The dancer is putting on her tut skirt. The photograph depicts her beautiful naked butt about to hid...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Willie Nelson by Jim Herrington
Located in Austin, TX
Willie Nelson on his bus, Beverly Hills, CA 2004. 17x22" Archival pigment print on baryta 315 gsm, acid-free, 100% cotton-fiber paper. Edition 75 Signed on recto by photographer Ji...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

"Sky 54" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
James Van Fossan's "Sky 54" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a skyscape of grey and white clouds arching through a blue sky.
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

Rare Silver Gelatin Photograph "Jewish Deli, Poland" c.1930
Located in San Francisco, CA
Silver Gelatin Photograph "Jewish Deli, Poland" c.1930 Rare photograph of a group of men standing in the doorway of a Jewish Deli in Poland in the 1930s....
Category

Early 20th Century Photorealist Art

Materials

Photographic Film

1960's Hollywood Photography by Lawrence Schiller 'Marilyn Monroe'
Located in White Plains, NY
'Marilyn Monroe, 1962' by American photographer, Lawrence Schiller. Digital pigment, AP 2/10. Image: 15.75 x 22.25 in. / Paper: 20 x 24 in. From the set of the film 'Something's Got to Give', this colored photograph features Marilyn Monroe naked in front of a pool. Photograph taken in 1962 and printed in 2023. In 1962, Schiller received an assignment from Paris Match...
Category

1960s Photorealist Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Ora Sorensen "Bird and Grapes" Photorealistic Floral Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This hyperrealist floral "Birds and Grapes" by artist Ora Sorensen is a 40x30 original oil painting on canvas. Depicted is a pink protea flower and white...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Engine 101" Dalmatian NYFD Super realism Oil on Canvas, 2020 Fantasy painting
Located in Southampton, NY
When viewing a painting by Matthew Grabelsky you can immediately see the great technical skill required, the sense of humor and the concept of the pa...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Stephanie Serpick, A New Fall 1, 2017, Oil On Panel, 16 x 20 inches, Realism
Located in Darien, CT
Intimate paintings represented by unmade beds and tossed sheets, absent of any human evidence, on intentionally blank, somewhat rough backgrounds. The empty bed in these paintings represents a place for grief, isolation or healing. As such, the work speaks to our shared feeling of grief, with the understanding that while we all suffer in our individual ways, suffering is universal. Source material for this work are photographs the artist has both taken and found, and the intimate size of the paintings references the intimate nature of the subject matter. The backgrounds of the paintings are repeatedly painted and sanded, to create a frame and backdrop for the bedding that is flat, yet rough with work and time. The bedding itself is seen from different perspectives, but still indicates a scene of desolation and despair. While the series began in the fall of 2016, recent events—including the pandemic—have provided a new dimension to the work and have compelled Serpick to consider the themes in light of these events. Our forced isolation and the challenges it has brought to our physical and mental health provides an additional shared experience from which to consider grief and eventual healing. Biography Stephanie Serpick is a painter whose work explores themes of isolation, grief, and healing. Her work has been shown in various exhibitions in the U.S. and internationally, and she is a fellow at several residencies, most notably at the Florence Trust Studios in London, MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts, and the Vermont Studio Center, where she was awarded a full fellowship and stipend to attend. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Sweet Lorraine Gallery in Brooklyn, the College of Southern Nevada, and a two-person exhibition at The Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute at the Museum of Art at Pratt in Utica NY...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

Steve Martin, “Let’s Get Small Sequence” 1974 by Norman Seeff
Located in Austin, TX
As a renowned graphic designer (with 5 Grammy nominations), Norman Seeff has designed a number of large-scale composites and sequences. Signed limited edition sequence print of comed...
Category

Late 20th Century Photorealist Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

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