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
The Walk - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Sea, Beach View, Realism, Woman
Located in Salzburg, AT
Artodyssey
"Julita Malinowska's paintings belong to those, which once seen - are never forgotten. The open spaces, sometimes cool and bright, at other times heavily saturated with co...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Alexander The Great's Siege Tent, Halicarnassus, ca. 333 BC, Miniature Room
Located in Chicago, IL
Halicarnassus was an ancient Greek city in Caria, in Anatolia. It was located in southwest Caria, on an advantageous site on the Gulf of Gökova, which is now in Bodrum, Turkey. The city was famous for the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, ranked as one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Halicarnassus was loyal to the Persians and formed part of the Persian Empire until Alexander the Great captured it at the siege of Halicarnassus in 333 BC. Here, the Kupjack Studios have meticulously researched the era and have gone to painstaking detail to present this miniature version of Alexander's Tent. Based on a scale of one foot equals one inch, each piece of furniture, rug, decoration is fabricated with exacting detail.
Kupjack Miniatures
Alexander's Siege Tent, Halicarnassus, ca. 333 BC, circa 2003
mixed media
24.50h x 22.75w x 18.50d in
62.23h x 57.78w x 46.99d cm
KJK004
Eugene Kupjack and his sons Hank and Jay created museum quality miniature rooms...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Sweet Satisfaction
By Mike Dargas
Located in Dallas, TX
The works of Mike Dargas elude a clear temporal distinction. Even if the representations can stand as indications of a contemporary Western zeitgeist, the images lose their temporal ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Greta, John Kacere
By John Kacere
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Saunders Waterford, St Cuthberts Mill paper. Paper size: 18.5 x 24.25 inches. Inscription: Hand signed and unnumbered A.P., as issued. Notes: Published and printed by C...
Category
1980s Photorealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Illeana II, John Kacere
By John Kacere
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper size: 23.5 x 31.5 inches. Inscription: Hand signed and unnumbered A.P., as issued. Notes: Published and printed by Galerie La Vigne, Paris, in an edi...
Category
1990s Photorealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Diane, John Kacere
By John Kacere
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Saunders Waterford, St Cuthberts Mill paper. Paper size: 19 x 28 inches. Inscription: Hand signed and unnumbered A.P., as issued. Notes: Published and printed by Circle...
Category
1970s Photorealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Candy Crush
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery setting.
Jesús Navarro was born in Jerez, (Cadiz), located in southern Spain, in 1952. By the age of tw...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bob Dylan 1966 by Art Kane
By Art Kane
Located in Austin, TX
Bob Dylan, taken in 1966 by Art Kane
Art Kane, a huge Bob Dylan fan, cornered an uncooperative Dylan on the rooftop of the CBS records building in Los Angeles to get his shot for Mc...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Art
Materials
C Print
1870's Antique Italian Hunting Scene trompe l’oeil Oil Painting Birds Game Gold
Located in Buffalo, NY
This striking 19th-century painting signed "A. Malevolti 1877 Florence" is a fine example of the trompe l’oeil tradition, in which artists skillfully render imagery that "tricks the ...
Category
1870s Photorealist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Apriel - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment 18 x 24"
By Alex Sher
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
The Rolling Stones
By Art Kane
Located in Austin, TX
The Rolling Stones, taken in 1966 by Art Kane
Originally photographed in London by Art Kane for McCall’s Magazine’s 1966 photo essay‘ Teen Idols’, Kane lay on his back and had the b...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Art
Materials
C Print
Love Somebody Like You - Colorful Hyperrealist Floral Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Inspired by paintings created by old masters and the immersive nature she experienced in the Black Forest, German artist Katharina Husslein paints in a representational hyperrealisti...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still life with citrus-original realism oil painting for sale- contemporary art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
Step into a moment frozen in time with "Still Life with Citrus...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ripples - underwater black & white nude photograph - archival pigment print
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater nude black and white photograph of a perfect female torso wrapped in sunlight.
Original gallery quality archival pigment print on archival paper signed by the artist, fur...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Mick Jagger Parka by Terry O'Neill signed limited edition artist proof print
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition photographic print of The Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger posing in a fur parka, with a fur trimmed hood, 1964, by Terry O'Neill
Signed limited edition "Lif...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Mum II - Modern Figurative Oil Painting, Realism, City Scape, Women, Street Art
Located in Salzburg, AT
Artodyssey
"Julita Malinowska's paintings belong to those, which once seen - are never forgotten. The open spaces, sometimes cool and bright, at other times heavily saturated with co...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Time to Save
By Audrey Flack
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Time to Save
From: 12 Photographs: 1973-1983,
Plate 8 of 12
Dye transfer photograph, 1979
Signed in ink
Edition: 50, this example an Artist's Proof (7/10)
Printer: Guy Stricherz
Pu...
Category
1970s Photorealist Art
Materials
Dye Transfer
Henry Miller And Eve Miller On Partington Ridge - 1954 Original Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
"Henry And Eve Miller On Partington Ridge" - 1954 Original Photograph
1954 original black and white silver gelatin photograph of Henry and Eve Miller at their house on Partington Ridge in Big Sur, California by California photographer Jim Healy (American, 20th C.). Eve Miller sits behind a desk while Henry Miller leans against a bookshelf in their home office in Big Sur. Eve holds a cigarette in her hand, with Henry next to her, leaning his elbow against the bookshelf.
Titled, stamped and dated on verso.
"Henry and Eve Miller on Partington Ridge 1954 photo by Jim Healy"
Stamped "Henry Miller Memorial Library, Big Sur California"
Presented in a white mat.
Mat: 20"H x 16"W
Photo: 14"H x 11"W
Image: 13 1/8"H x 10 5/8"W
Henry Miller was born December 26, 1891 in New York, New York. In 1920 Miller began working for Western Union Telegraph service where his interest in writing began. He soon left for Europe in 1928 where he resided in Paris in 1930. He continued full time with his long and lucrative career as a writer of more than 36 creative and analytical works. Miller's entrance into the writer's circle began with Tropic of Cancer, which still proves to be Miller's most famous work. Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn chronicle Miller's lives and loves as an expatriate in Paris. They were both originally published in France by Jack Kahane at Obelisk Press in the mid-thirties. Soon after the publishing of Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, Miller's other works to date were published in the United States. During this time it was said that "Miller became a legendary character, a kind of folk hero, the Paul Bunyan of literature, larger than life as exile, bohemian, and rebel, the great champion of freedom of expression and other lost causes...
Category
1950s Photorealist Art
Materials
Ink, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Harlem 1958 by Art Kane
By Art Kane
Located in Austin, TX
The most famous photograph in Jazz?
Entirely possible, and considered as such by jazz and photography fans and scholars alike. Shot for Esquire Magazine in August 1958 , it was Art Kane’s first major assignment as a photographer. Kane pitched the idea of a huge group portrait to be shot on location in Harlem. No one knew, with the early call hour of 10:00 am whether anyone would show up, but they did. 58 legendary giants of jazz including Lester Young...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Art
Materials
C Print
Illeana, John Kacere
By John Kacere
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper size: 22 x 31 inches. Inscription: Hand signed and unnumbered A.P., as issued. Notes: Published and printed by Galerie La Vigne, Paris, in an edition...
Category
1990s Photorealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
A man and his boat Spain oil on canvas painting seascape beach
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Signed Adolfo Perez
Frame size 75x66 cm.
Category
1980s Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
MAN RAY (1890-1976), MRS ROWELL, 1930 Photogravure, FIRST EDITION
By Man Ray
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Man Ray (American born, 1890 - 1976)
Title: MRS ROWELL
Date Of Negative: 1930
Type Of Print: Authentic Vintage Sheet Fed Photogravure/Heliogravure.
Date Of Print: 1934 1st Ed...
Category
1920s Photorealist Art
Materials
Photogravure
Original Marilyn Monroe Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Marilyn Monroe Photograph
Original photograph of Marilyn Monroe posing in her dressing room on the film of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" by photographer Milton Gold (American,...
Category
1950s Photorealist Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Happy, Nude, Contemporary art, Figurative, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Varvarov Anatoly Viktorovich
Title: Happy,
Sise: 53x43.5 inches, (135x110 cm)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Hand painted, original, one of a kind.
Looking at the "Happy" oil paintin...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Janis Joplin, 1969
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Francesco Scavullo (after)
Title: Janis Joplin, 1969
Portfolio: A Photographic Retrospective, Volume I: Song
Medium: Gelatin Silver Print
Year: 2004
Edition: 106/150
Signed: ...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Night Flight - underwater black & white nude photograph - print on paper 17"x23"
By Alex Sher
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 archival pigment print on archival...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Blue Rolling Waves off Sidney, Seascape Diptych Cyanotype, Australian Coast Surf
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype.
"Rolling Waves off Sidney" is a gorgeous original cyanotype diptych showing energetic waves embracing the Australian coas...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Emulsion, Watercolor, Lithograph, Monotype, Rag Paper
The Walk - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Sea, Beach View, Realism, Woman
Located in Salzburg, AT
Artodyssey
"Julita Malinowska's paintings belong to those, which once seen - are never forgotten. The open spaces, sometimes cool and bright, at other times heavily saturated with co...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Apriel - underwater black & white nude photograph - archival pigment 29x35"
By Alex Sher
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
Time ², 1989, NYC Vintage New York City, Time Square Painting, Photorealism
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Don Jacot (American, 1949 - 2021)
Signed: DJacot ' 89 (Lower, Right)
" Time ² ", 1989 (Titled, In Pencil, Center)
(Time Squared)
Gouache on Paper
Painti...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Art
Materials
Gouache
St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna - Hand Colored Cityscape Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Detailed and dramatic hand-colored etching by Luigi Kasimir (Austrian, 1881-1962). St. Stephen's cathedral towers above the streets of Vienna, with people going about their daily bus...
Category
1920s Photorealist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Lithograph
Garden Sounds, Oil Painting on Linen, Interior With Landscape View, Bird
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Oil Painting, Handmade artwork, Unique Work. Framed in Solid wood floater frame with oak wood stain finish. Ready to Hang.
Medium : Oil painting on stretched Linen.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
Tradizioni scomparse, Hong Kong 1958 - Full Framed Black & White Fine Art Print
Located in Brussels, BE
Artwork # 1 on 5 sold in limited edition in perfect condition
Tradizioni scomparse, Hong Kong
This photo was made in 1958, the negative was digitized during the artist's lifetime an...
Category
1950s Photorealist Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Morning Glories, Photorealist Screenprint on Paper by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
A series of ghostly Morning Glory blooms set against a rich black background. These moon-toned flowers are rendered as a screenprint by Lowell Blair Nesbitt. This print is signed and...
Category
1970s Photorealist Art
Materials
Screen
Apriel - underwater black & white nude photograph - archival pigment 35 x 43"
By Alex Sher
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 cascades weightlessly around the topless subject's contemplative profile. The monochromatic palette enhances the dreamlike quality, creating an ethereal atmosphere that transcends conventional portraiture. This evocative image continues the tradition of underwater fine art photography that explores themes of transformation and liminality. The composition's intimate perspective invites viewers to experience the boundary between worlds—a visual poetry of submersion and emergence that resonates within contemporary underwater portraiture.
Original gallery quality archival pigment print on archival paper signed by the artist, furnished with certificate of authenticity.
Limited edition of 24
Paper size: 36x44...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
David Bowie Smoking Clown from Scary Monsters by Duffy
By Brian Duffy
Located in Austin, TX
Museum quality fine art print of David Bowie smoking a cigarette in the Scary Monsters Clown costume from the official Duffy Archive.
Taken from the original negatives, these offici...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Art
Materials
C Print
Everybody's Bookshop, Everybody's Books, Color photorealist lithograph Signed/N
Located in New York, NY
Robert Cottingham
Everybody's Bookshop, Everybody's Books, 1975
Color Lithograph
23 × 18 inches
Signed and numbered from the edition of 200 in pencil on the front; Bears Artist's cop...
Category
1970s Photorealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
David Bowie Smoking Clown by Duffy
By Brian Duffy
Located in Austin, TX
Museum quality fine art print of David Bowie smoking a cigarette in the Scary Monsters Clown costume from the official Duffy Archive.
Taken from the original negatives, these offici...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Art
Materials
C Print
The Gourd Tree
By Jamie Wyeth
Located in New York, NY
In 2002, Jamie Wyeth created a richly detailed image titled, The Gourd Tree. Known for his realistic style, Wyeth’s work consists largely of landscapes-- like this unusual tree-- and portraiture. Although closely associated with the rural landscape of Chadds Ford Pennsylvania and the rugged coast of Maine, Jamie Wyeth spent part of his early career in New York City, where he was mentored by New York City Ballet founder Lincoln Kirstein...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Art
Materials
Screen
Double Trouble - underwater black & white nude photograph - paper print 24 x 35"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater black and white photograph of two naked young women in the pool.
Original gallery quality archival pigment print on archival paper signed by the artist.
Limited editio...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Floating Between Wars - Contemporary, Cityscape, Skate, Woman, Winter, White
By Mihai Florea
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Floating Between Wars, 2021
Oil on canvas
23 5/8 H x 19 11/16 W in.
60 H x 50 W cm
The painting imagines a city in a continuous present in which elements of the past intertwine with...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Diversity" by Karina Rodríguez, Contemporary Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Diversity" is an exquisitely detailed contemporary still life by Karina Rodríguez, rendered in oil on panel in 2023 and depicts a ball of colorful rubber bands. This artwork, within...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
David Bowie Aladdin Sane contact sheet by Brian Duffy with gold frame
By Brian Duffy
Located in Austin, TX
David Bowie Aladdin Sane contact sheet print from Brian Duffy, taken during the phot shoot for the Aladdin Sane album cover. The print features the Aladdin Sane album cover in color ...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Art
Materials
C Print
Artem (5071)
Located in New Orleans, LA
This impression is printed on Hahnemuhle archival paper. Hahnemühle FineArt, Inc. is a paper manufacturing company in the Relliehausen district of Dassel, Germany. It is a significa...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Digital, Photographic Paper
Fiesta Photography Mexico Stamped Karol Kállay
By Karol Kallay
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Photography done for the publication Mexico/Volk und Welt Berlin 1968/stamped on the back with authors stamp.
Category
1960s Photorealist Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Filled with Light
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
The picture belongs to. a set of photographs, done by Kallay in NYC in 1965 for a German book publisher.
Category
1960s Photorealist Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
End December, Oil painting on Canvas, Leafs, Forest, Realistic Nature, Botanical
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Oil Painting, Unique Work. Handmade artwork. Ready to Hang.
Medium : Oil and Acrylic painting on Canvas.
Artist : Deniz Bayav
Subject : Fin de décembre (Title / FR) ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Hard Winter's Journey
By John Nicholas Pace
Located in Soquel, CA
Somber depiction of Native Americans in winter by John Pace (American, 1930-2006). Acrylic on canvas. Signed "John Pace" in the lower right corner. Presented in a wood slat frame with the edges painted black. Canvas size: 30"H x 40"W. Framed, 30.5"H x 40.5"W. 2"D. A study of a work by Howard Terpning.
John Pace (American, 1930-2006) was an artist from California, known for paintings of Western scenes and Native Americans.
Christal Pace had this to say about her Grandfather: "My Grandfather John Pace was a distinguished, passionate man with a variety of skills. My dad and Uncle Nick are both great artists, but Grandfather ran the show. My Grandfather was incredibley charismatic and smart. The Grand-father, as we call him, dabled in many things throughout his life. He served in the war, drove racecars, had a knack for gambling, poker and black jack, and painted occasionally.
His first wife was Native American, my dad's mom. She passed when my dad was only 14. When my dad met my mom he was excited to learn she too was California Indian...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
A Course in Miracles
By Audrey Flack
Located in Fairlawn, OH
A Course in Miracles
Dye transfer photograph, 1978
From: 12 Photographs: 1973-1983, Plate 7 of 12
Signed in ink
Edition: 50, this example an Artist's Proof (7/10)
Printer: Guy Stri...
Category
1970s Photorealist Art
Materials
Dye Transfer
Double Trouble - underwater black & white nude photograph - paper print 35"x 50"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater black and white photograph of two naked young women in the pool.
Original gallery quality archival pigment print on archival paper signed by the artist.
Limited editio...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The Rolling Stones "Mick Feeding Goat"
Located in Austin, TX
The Rolling Stones "Mick Feeding Goat" - Outtake from the famous photo shoot of The Rolling Stones for their Beggars Banquet album at Sarum Chase mansion, ...
Category
1960s Photorealist Art
Materials
C Print
Everyday
By Karol Kallay
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
The photography belongs to a cycle of photographies of NY, published in the book "New York", Verlag und Volk, Berlin 1967. Signed by the author on the back, certificate will be inclu...
Category
1960s Photorealist Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Ripples - underwater black & white nude photograph - archival pigment print
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater nude black and white photograph of a perfect female torso wrapped in sunlight.
Original gallery quality archival pigment print on archival paper signed by the artist, fur...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
NORMAN ROCKWELL 'Star Struck' Signed & numbered, 1976 Original Color Lithograph
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
"Starstruck"
by
Norman Rockwell
Media: Lithograph on Paper
Image Dimensions: 30" x 24"
Year Produced: 1976
Edition Size: 200 Numbered (1-200), 60 Artist proof
Edition Number: 140/200
Signed and Numbered in pencil by the artist
Condition: In excellent
Norman Rockwell was an American painter and illustrator known for his iconic depictions of American culture created for The Saturday Evening Post. With a range of favorite subjects that included nuclear families, mischievous children, and small-town life, his work has achieved an iconic status: the 1943 painting of a Thanksgiving dinner, Freedom from Want, has been reproduced and parodied countless times in contemporary culture. As an artist, Rockwell has had a lasting effect on US society beyond any singular work, with his paintings seen as indelible images that went on to inspire American directors such as George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and particularly Robert Zemeckis, whose 1994 film Forrest Gump recreates several of Rockwell’s paintings as scenes throughout the film. Though he enjoyed success throughout his career, Rockwell’s idyllic and sentimental outlook on American society was not necessarily embraced by art critics, though his later politically activist work garnered praise for its tackling of controversial subjects. Born on February 3, 1894 in New York, NY, he went on to study at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League. Rockwell notably had a longstanding relationship with the Boy Scouts of America...
Category
1970s Photorealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Joni Mitchell 1983 vintage 8x10" Print by Norman Seeff
By Norman Seeff
Located in Austin, TX
Original vintage 8x10” work print from Norman Seeff of Joni Mitchell. Hand printed in 1983 at the time of the photoshoot, signed on the back by Norman Seeff and also featuring his studio stamp.
In excellent condition having been stored flat in a climate controlled room
These Norman Seeff vintage...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jill, John Kacere
By John Kacere
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Saunders Waterford, St Cuthberts Mill paper. Paper size: 29.75 x 22.25 inches. Inscription: Hand signed and numbered 166/300, as issued. Notes: Published and printed by...
Category
1970s Photorealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Traditional English Farm with Horses, Figures, Trees & Lake by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
English Farmhouse with Horses, Figures, Fields, Trees & Lake entitled 'Winters Morn' by 20th Century British Artist.
Art measures 36 x 24 inches
Frame measures 41 x 30 inches
Ch...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Co-signed Raquel Welch on the cross by Terry O'Neill
Located in Austin, TX
Co-signed by both Raquel Welch and photographer Terry O'Neill, 20x24" silver gelatin print.
Actress Raquel Welch in a photo conceived by photographer Terry O'Neill after Welch noted that she was afraid that the press would "crucify" her for her film choices, taken on the Fox Lot in the late 1960s. Originally deemed too scandalous for promotional use at the time, the photo wasn't published until 30 years later, on the cover of The Sunday Times...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
No Way - black & white nude photograph - archival pigment print 43 x 68"
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 print signed by the artist.
Digital archival pigment p...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Greta Garbo "Her Rise And Fall #2" - 1931 Photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull
Located in Soquel, CA
Greta Garbo "Her Rise And Fall #2" - 1931 Photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull
A black and white photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull (American, 1896-1979), matte finish, double-weight paper, depicting a 1931 shot of Swedish/American actress Greta Garbo (Swedish, 1905-1990) on the set of the film Susan Lenox (Her Fall And Rise) directed by Robert Z. Leonard. Greta Garbo poses in a hat, her hand resting on her face, while gazing into the camera. Printed decades later from the original negative, penciled in the lower left corner "A.P.," Estate stamped and blind embossed in the lower right corner "Clarence Sinclair Bull," further blind embossed in same corner "The Kobal / Collection," on verso with the photographer's black ink credit stamp and with "Edward Weston" black ink credit stamps dated "1981" and "1992," originally from the John Kobal Collection.
Greta Garbo was a Swedish-American actress. Regarded as one of the greatest screen actresses of all time, she was known for her melancholic, somber persona, her film portrayals of tragic characters, and her subtle and understated performances. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on its list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema.
Clarence Sinclair Bull was born in Sun River, Montana, in 1896. His career began when Samuel Goldwyn hired him in 1920 to photograph publicity stills of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio's stars. He is most famous for his photographs of Greta Garbo, taken between 1926 and 1941. Bull's first portrait of Garbo was a costume study for the silent romantic drama film Flesh and the Devil in September 1926.
Bull was able to study with the great Western painter...
Category
1930s Photorealist Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Sketch for a jewel set - necklace and earrings - Van Cleef Bulgari Cartier 1985
Located in Aartselaar, BE
Very rare preparatory drawing for a high jewellery parure in gold; diamonds, sapphires and emeralds. Gouache on tracing paper, signed. It is annotated ...
Category
1980s Photorealist Art
Materials
Paper
Kiss - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Love, Joyful, Realism, Minimalism
Located in Salzburg, AT
Artodyssey:
"Julita Malinowska's paintings belong to those, which once seen - are never forgotten. The open spaces, sometimes cool and bright, at other times heavily saturated with c...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sweet Bliss (AP)
By Mike Dargas
Located in Dallas, TX
Archival ink on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag
29x40" (print size)
Individually numbered and Hand signed
Limited Edition of 25
Artist Proof Edition
Inspired by artists such as Dali, Caravaggi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper
Billboard Series. New York Soho. NYC. [Caustic Equal Spiral Curve]
Located in Henderson, NV
Clifford Singer is a well know photographer who has set aside Photorealism where he has incorporated his abstract geometric work in a billboard in New York's Soho.
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Archival Pigment
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"Goddess of Mercy, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
David Cheifetz's "Goddess of Mercy" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a nude woman floating above several burning boats at sea.
About the Artist:
David is an inter...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Oil
Autumn Gift - Seasonal Harvest Still Life with Flowers
Located in Soquel, CA
Autumn Gift - Seasonal Harvest Still Life with Flowers by Albin Kern.
This still life by Austrian-American painter Albin Kern (b. 1884, d. 1975) depicts a seasonal spread of gourds...
Category
1950s Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hard Winter's Journey
By John Nicholas Pace
Located in Soquel, CA
Somber depiction of Native Americans in winter by John Pace (American, 1930-2006). Acrylic on canvas. Signed "John Pace" in the lower right corner. Presented in a wood slat frame with the edges painted black. Canvas size: 30"H x 40"W. Framed, 30.5"H x 40.5"W. 2"D. A study of a work by Howard Terpning.
John Pace (American, 1930-2006) was an artist from California, known for paintings of Western scenes and Native Americans.
Christal Pace had this to say about her Grandfather: "My Grandfather John Pace was a distinguished, passionate man with a variety of skills. My dad and Uncle Nick are both great artists, but Grandfather ran the show. My Grandfather was incredibley charismatic and smart. The Grand-father, as we call him, dabled in many things throughout his life. He served in the war, drove racecars, had a knack for gambling, poker and black jack, and painted occasionally.
His first wife was Native American, my dad's mom. She passed when my dad was only 14. When my dad met my mom he was excited to learn she too was California Indian...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Lion’s Head Rock (East Hampton, New York)
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Lion’s Head Rock (East Hampton, NY)
Year: January 1971
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 42 x 66 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed, ...
Category
1970s Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Young Man Rising up out of the Sea
Located in New Orleans, LA
A signed Certificate of Authority will be included with all photographs. A nude young man is seen rising from the sea after his swim.
This impression is printed on Hahnemuhle archi...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Digital, Photographic Paper
"1959 Cadillac El Dorado" (2021) By Shan Fannin, Limited Edition Giclée Print
By Shan Fannin
Located in Denver, CO
Shan Fannin's (US based) "1959 Cadillac El Dorado" is an limited edition giclée print that depicts a close up view of the baby blue fins and taillights o...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Giclée
You Are My Home - Colorful Textural Floral Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
With a contemporary perspective on still-life painting and inspired by paintings created by old masters, German artist Katharina Husslein paints in a representational manner to captu...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Last" Citrus Elegance Still Life Oil Canvas
Located in Denver, CO
"The Last," a 2013 oil on canvas by Victoria Novak, is a testament to the timeless beauty and elegance of still life painting. Measuring 19.70 x 39.40 i...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Boats in the lake oil on canvas painting seascape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Signed Adolfo Perez
Frame size 50x42 cm.
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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