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
Original Vienna Austria Photographic Travel Poster Eglise des Freres Mineurs
Located in London, GB
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Anton Tusch (photographer)
Eglise des Freres...
Category
1950s Photorealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Iceland 2", photography by Mikael Lafontan (47x59in), 2014
Located in Paris, France
"Iceland 2", colour photograph of a mountainous landscape (Iceland) by Mikael Lafontan.
Mikael Lafontan is a French-Swedish artist, born in 1968. He has been living and working in P...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Lambda
"Luminalia" Oil Painting
By Mia Bergeron
Located in Denver, CO
Mia Bergeron's (US based) "Luminalia" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a candle with a dusky evening sky.
Mia Bergeron's interest in art was cultivated early on, b...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wax
Martin Heade’s Window, Ian Hornak
By 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...
Category
1980s Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$70,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Scarlet Blue Macaw, Ian Hornak
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Scarlet Blue Macaw
Year: 1992
Medium: Acrylic on Panel with artist painted frame
Size: 58.5 x 42.2 inches
Condition: E...
Category
1990s Photorealist Art
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
$70,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Bird paradise, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Flower arrangement of tropical plants. Made on canvas gallery stretch, professional paints. Before sending, the painting will be covered with a protective varnish :: Painting :: Phot...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Oil
Vintage Large American Modernist Trompe L'Oeil Rose Flower Still Life Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American super realist oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Possibly signed verso.
Category
1980s Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,996 Sale Price
20% Off
Downtown Houston, Signed Photorealist Screenprint by CJ Yao
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: C.J. Yao
Title: Downtown Houston
Year: 1982
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 250
Paper Size: 22 x 30 inches
Category
1980s Photorealist Art
Materials
Screen
Bubble Dance- underwater photograph - print on paper 18” x 24”
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This striking underwater fine art photograph captures a naked figure partially draped in vivid red fabric, surrounded by a constellation of air bubbles. The predominantly monochromat...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Kelp Nymph - underwater ocean black & white photograph print on paper 18" x 24"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater black and white photograph of a beautiful young woman diving in kelp forest. The picture is taken in Pacific Ocean near Palos Verdes, Califor...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Equestrian rider
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
In this oil painting with a landscape format, a young girl rides a horse, though her figure is partially cropped, giving full prominence to the animal. The horse moves slowly along a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Board
Slains Castle with North Sea 2, stone ruins, seascape, Scotland
By Agnes Murray
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on canvas, high detail, realistic, Scotland
This original oil on canvas is a signature painting of Slains Castle, in Northeast Scotland by Agnes Murray, who is notable for captu...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Oil
Foggy Ocean
Located in Greenwich, CT
Chris Armstrong’s hypnotic, masterly and often photographic renderings and paintings of the sea, waves, light and the ocean in general are highly acclaimed by the art community. This...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Oil
Fly Away With Me, Painting, Acrylic on Metal
Located in Yardley, PA
In this painting, I explored the serenity and depth of oceanic expanses. Using acrylics and resin, I harnessed a blend of minimalism and semi-abstract styles to capture the dynamic u...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Spider Web
By Vija Celmins
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Vija Celmins (b. 1938) is one of the most accomplished and revered living American artists. Born in Riga, Latvia, her dynamic oeuvre resists merging with any art-historical "ism" or ...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Art
Materials
Paper, Screen
$7,000
SPIDER WEB, Vija Celmins (screen print of spiderweb)
By Vija Celmins
Located in New York, NY
This screen print depicts one of Celmins' signature subjects, the spider web, which she has represented in various media, including charcoal, oil paint, and multiple printmaking tech...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Art
Materials
Screen
Downtown Houston, Photorealist Screenprint by CJ Yao
Located in Long Island City, NY
Liquor Store Reflection by C.J. (Ching-Jang) Yao, Taiwanese (1941–2001)
Date: 1981
Screenprint, Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 250
Size: 22 in. x 30 in. (55.88 cm x 76.2 cm)
Category
1980s Photorealist Art
Materials
Screen
Snowy season
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
This artwork captures the stillness and serenity at a train station after a snowfall, presenting itself as a window to a world of winter beauty. The artist transports us to a place w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Oil
Milano Palazzo Reale
Located in Milano, MI
Photo taken inside the Royal Palace of Milan.
Marcelo Soulé (Buenos Aires, 1958) trained at the Artistic Lyceum and the Brera Academy in Milan. He lives...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Black and White, Inkjet, Pigment
Striking Metal Landscape Photo Prints, "Torrey Pines Winter" 2014
Located in San Diego, CA
These are photographic prints done on sheets of metal by the Southern California artist Roy Kerckhoffs. There are two available sizes, 16" x 24", 24" x 36". They are 1 of 30.
Roy Ke...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Color
"Aerial Sun Through Clouds" Medium Sized Landscape of Fields and Sky at Sunset
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Aerial Sun Through Clouds," Oil on Canvas, 44 x 40 Inches is a highly realistic landscape in blues, grays, pinks, lavender and white which depicts a sunset over water and a burst ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Oil
"Iceland 1", photography by Mikael Lafontan (47x59in), 2014
Located in Paris, France
"Iceland 1" colour photograph of a mountainous landscape (Iceland) by Mikael Lafontan.
Mikael Lafontan is a French-Swedish artist, born in 1968. He has been living and working in Pa...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Lambda
Yellow and Blue Iris, Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993)
Title: Yellow and Blue Iris
Year: 1981
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200, AP 40
Image Size: 24 inches...
Category
1980s Photorealist Art
Materials
Screen
BLUE PLATE OBSESSION
Located in Fairfield, CT
As a painter, I am attracted to subjects that have a history to them; everyday objects from the past that have a story behind them, even if that story is not fully told, they have ex...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,640 Sale Price
20% Off
Peaceful beach, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Unique ocean and beach paintings with gold sand and frothy splashing waves, inspired by the Turks And Caicos Islands Ocean Seascape Painting with gold sand beach and frothy white sp...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Red Poppies, Photorealist Flower Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993)
Title: Red Poppies
Year: 1979
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 175
Image Size: 37.5 x 29.5 inches
Paper Size...
Category
1970s Photorealist Art
Materials
Screen
Raquel Welch
By Eva Sereny
Located in Austin, TX
Modern edition, C-Type print estate stamped and authenticated on reverse by a representative of the Eva Sereny archive.
American film star and sex symbol Raquel Welch...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Art
Materials
C Print
Seashells 5, photorealist black and white graphite drawing
By Mary Reilly
Located in New York, NY
Mary Reilly’s laborious method of toning her paper serves as the starting point for her intricate compositions. She begins by covering the entire sheet with up to eight smooth, unmod...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Sorcerer Series: Beast Head, Spider Web
By Ian Hornak
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...
Category
1960s Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$70,400 Sale Price
20% Off
The Rose of the World by K Husslein Botanical Hyperrealistic Still life
Located in DE
This is a beautiful oil painting of an array of flowers in a vase in front of a colour gradient in the background.
Reminding us of old master paintings, this is a brand new painting ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
White Rabbit Yellow
By Paul Urzica
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Born in Transylvania, Romania and of Hungarian origin, Paula Urzica lives and works in London, England. She is known for her hyperrealist paintings depicting large-scale macaroons.
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$840 Sale Price
30% Off
"Study of Someone" Portrait Oil Painting 16" x 14" in by Casey Baugh
By Casey Baugh
Located in Culver City, CA
"Study of Someone" Portrait Oil Painting 16" x 14" in by Casey Baugh
Medium: oil and ash on linen panel
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Baugh's work can be described as narrative impressionisti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Oil, Linen
Square Java-Photograph
Located in Chesterfield, MI
Coffee in a square mug.
Measures 8 x 10 inches and is Unframed. Also available: 5 x 7 inches.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
$80 Sale Price
20% Off
Peach Lily on Beige, Photorealist Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993)
Title: Peach Lily on Beige
Year: 1980
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200
Image Size: 40 x 29 inches
Si...
Category
1980s Photorealist Art
Materials
Screen
Camellia Branch, colorful, still life, superealsim
By Doug Newton
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Painted directly from live observation, Doug Newton’s hyper-real paintings explore translucency, reflections and luminosity, and dazzle the viewer with ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Oil
Tomatoes - Still Life, Fruit & Vegetables, South Africa, Realistic
By Mark Midgley
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Tomatoes by Mark Midgley. Original Oil on Canvas.
The Cape Town artist, Mark Midgley, is originally from Leeds in the UK. He moved to South Africa in 1979, where he started a silk...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
"Baker's Dozen", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dianne L. Massey Dunbar's (US based) "Baker's Dozen" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts twelve glazed donuts in a white pastry box.
About the artist:
When Dianne Massey...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,250 Sale Price
56% Off
Molten Neon
By Max Ferguson
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...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
"French Breakfast Radish", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Heather Neill's (US based) "French Breakfast Radish" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a radish rising from an open tea kettle with a Fr...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Oil
Roanheads Scotland 2, oil on birch panel, rural arcitecture
By Agnes Murray
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This original oil on birch-wood panel is a signature work of Roanheads, Scotland by painter and master print-maker Agnes Murray. Ms. Murray is notable for capturing the crystalline ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Ferrari Enzo", Oleg Turchin, Oil on Canvas, 36" x 54", Photorealism Painting
By Oleg Turchin
Located in Dallas, TX
Oleg Turchin's "Ferrari Enzo" is an oil on canvas that measures 36" x 54".
Get ready to immerse yourself in the world of Italian car culture with Oleg T...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ocean harmony, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
White Sand Seascape Painting - ocean painting Original, one-of-a-kind, hand painted, inspired by there view The Bahamas and Turks And Caicos...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Acrylic
"Lineage Without Names" Oil Painting 47.5" x 47.5" inch by Casey Baugh
By Casey Baugh
Located in Culver City, CA
"Lineage Without Names" Oil Painting 47.5" x 47.5" inch by Casey Baugh
Medium: oil and ash on linen
ABOUT THE PAINTING:
I'm forever fascinated with the idea of what is passed to u...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
PALM BEACH American PHOTOREALIST Rolls Royce Hyper Realist Painting
Located in New York, NY
Up for sale, I have a large Photorealist painting by Contemporary artist Clarence Measelle
The painting is very large and depicts a Palm Beach street view through a Rolls Royce sid...
Category
1970s Photorealist Art
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Ken Otsuka "Edge of Silence", Realistic Rocky Shore Oil Painting on Canvas
By Ken Otsuka
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This photorealistic nature scene "Autumn Pond" by artist Ken Otsuka is a 38x28 original oil painting on canvas. It depicts a pond on a bright sunny day, su...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$5,560 Sale Price
20% Off
"Ancient Breeds" Oil Painting 48" x 60" inch by Casey Baugh
By Casey Baugh
Located in Culver City, CA
"Ancient Breeds" Oil Painting 48" x 60" inch by Casey Baugh
Medium: oil on linen
Signed by the artist on the front.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Baugh's work can be described as narrative ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Immersed, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Abi Whitlock
Located in Yardley, PA
Light is shattered into thousands of twinkling points by the swirling currents. It seems to illuminate the drifting form of the swimmer from both above and below. This work is pai...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Malaysia Beef Jerky, 16x19.5, acrylic on masonite
By Charles Ford
Located in Southampton, NY
Charles Ford's work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of the City of New York. Another wonderful painting by Charles Ford that captures the great lighting and shadows of ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Claudio Bravo (1936-2011) is a renowned Chilean artist, best known for his meticulous hyperrealist artworks. Bravo is celebrated for his intricate precision which captures his distin...
Category
1970s Photorealist Art
Materials
Pencil
$87,000
Dancing Flowers - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment 35" x 26"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This ethereal underwater photograph captures a topless female figure draped in flowing turquoise tulle, suspended against a dramatic black backdrop. Vibrant magenta flowers float at ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Superchip (large signed giclee on canvas)
Located in Aventura, FL
Giclee on canvas. Hand signed lower right by Doug Bloodworth. Hand numbered 39/150 lower right. Canvas size 38 x 50 inches. Canvas is not stretched.
Artwork is in excellent co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$840 Sale Price
30% Off
The Kiss you left - K.Husslein Hyperrealistic flower Still life
Located in DE
This is a beautiful oil painting of an array of flowers in a vase in front of dark background.
Reminding us of old master paintings, this is a brand new painting full elegance and ti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Stripes & Fruits, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
"Stripes & Fruits" by Carlos Bruscianelli, a Venezuelan realist painter based in Miami Beach, FL. Oil Painting on Oil Primed Linen - fine texture (Claessenses). 2021. THE ARTWORK ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Oil
Silver of the ocean 2., Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Silver of the ocean 2. Power of nature. The ocean ... deep, mysterious. He beckons you to unravel his secrets. ... Silver water, ocean, sun glare on the water, clear sky create an...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Chlorine Dreams, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Abi Whitlock
Located in Yardley, PA
Shattered light, rainbows and bubbles give this piece an dream like feel. The water almost looks like glass made liquid. I wanted to capture the same feeling one gets when submerged ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Full Bowl of Cherries
Located in Indianapolis, IN
Fine 22K gold gilt frame.
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Oil
Pearls, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Hand holding a pearl necklace on a light grey background :: Painting :: Photorealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Oil
No Way - black & white nude photograph - print on paper 15" x 23"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A black and white photograph of a perfect woman's buttocks and her handcuffed hands giving a finger.
Original gallery quality archival pigment print on archival paper signed by the ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment, Archival Paper
Photorealist art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Photorealist art available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, red, purple, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Alex Sher, Gregory Block, Lowell Nesbitt, and Ian Hornak. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Photorealist art, so small editions measuring 0.79 inches across are also available. Prices for art made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $11 and tops out at $585,000, while the average work sells for $2,404.