Realist Art
REALIST STYLE
Realist art attempts to portray its subject matter without artifice. Similar to naturalism, authentic realist paintings and prints see an integration of true-to-life colors, meticulous detail and linear perspectives for accurate portrayals of the world.
Work that involves illusionistic techniques of realism dates back to the classical world, such as the deceptive trompe l’oeil used since ancient Greece. Art like this became especially popular in the 17th century when Dutch artists like Evert Collier painted objects that appeared real enough to touch. Realism as an artistic movement, however, usually refers to 19th-century French realist artists such as Honoré Daumier exploring social and political issues in biting lithographic prints, while the likes of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet painting people — particularly the working class — with all their imperfections, navigating everyday urban life. This was a response to the dominant academic art tradition that favored grand paintings of myth and history.
By the turn of the 20th century, European artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, were experimenting with nearly photographic realism in their work, as seen in the attention to every botanical attribute of the flowers surrounding the drowned Ophelia painted by English artist John Everett Millais.
Although abstraction was the guiding style of 20th-century art, the realism trend in American modern art endured in Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and other artists’ depictions of the complexities of the human experience. In the late 1960s, Photorealism emerged with artists like Chuck Close and Richard Estes giving their paintings the precision of a frame of film.
Contemporary artists such as Jordan Casteel, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Aliza Nisenbaum are now using the unvarnished realist approach for honest representations of people and their worlds. Alongside traditional mediums, technology such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence and immersive installations are helping artists create new sensations of realism in art.
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Style: Realist
Color: Beige
Advantage of Exile tropical ocean mountain landscape blue water unique monotype
Located in New York, NY
This large-scale, colorful ocean landscape monotype gives the viewer a hidden vantage point: through the dark silhouette of tangled vines can be seen a placid, turquoise sea lapping ...
Category
1990s Realist Art
Materials
Monotype
Donut - Unique 3 foot Large Frosted Donut with Sprinkles sculpture/sign
Located in New York, NY
Donut with Sprinkles - Large three foot Unique Colored Donut with Sprinkles sculpture. This donut has a mounting point ready for a wall or floor mount. This donut was originally ma...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Steel
Serenidad. Oil/cutting board Trompe-l'oeil. Cups, jars, Heinz ketchup still-life
By Angela F. Ayensa
Located in Segovia, ES
"Serenidad", oil on wood, 80 cm H x 42 cm W
This piece of art in the shape of a cutting board is ideal for a kitchen.
It is made with the use of the technique "Trompe l'oeil", that...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Gate of Honour Gonville and Caius College Cambridge Philip Pimlott etching 1912
Located in London, GB
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Philip Pimlott
Gate of Honour Gonville and Caius...
Category
1910s Realist Art
Materials
Etching
'Still Life with Sculpture', Hague School Oil, Dutch Artist, Liu Haichan, Daoism
By Cornelius Anton Bartels
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'C.A. Bartels' for Cornelius Anton Bartels (Dutch, born 1890) and painted circa 1945.
A still-life with a sculpture of the Daoist immortal, Liu Haichan...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Laid Paper, Watercolor, Graphite, Gouache
Architectura Curiosa Nova, Sunburst Garden Fountain
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
George Andreas Böckler, 'SunBurst Garden Fountain', antique copperplate engraving, 1664, from the book 'Architectura Curiosa Nova'. A fine, richly inked...
Category
1660s Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
'The Enduring Attractions of the Open Market', Capitalism Satire
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'A. Manganaro' for 'Antonio Manganaro (Italian, 20th Century), and titled lower center, 'The Enduring Attractions of the Open Market'.
Matted Dimensions: 16 x 20
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Gouache, Pen, Graphite, Paper, Ink
Costume of Felettino - Etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli - 1819
Located in Roma, IT
Hand-watercolored Etching, 1819,
Image Dim: cm 28 x 20, Dim: cm 29x40.
Etching and Watercolor tecnique. In Good condition, worn paper on the marginal line, left. Signed and dated ...
Category
1810s Realist Art
Materials
Etching
"Leaving the Shop, 1929, " Kenneth Hayes Miller, etching, two women in the city
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Kenneth Hayes Miller was born in Oneida, New York, in 1876. He studied at the Art Students League and the Parsons School of Design (formerly the New York School of Art and the Chase...
Category
1920s Realist Art
Materials
Etching
Blue Flag Irises
By David Wang
Located in Soquel, CA
Clean and detailed watercolor of blue flag irises by David Wang (Chinese-American, 20th Century). Signed in the lower right corner by the artist. Presented in a double mat of cream and light purple, and a wood frame with plexiglass. Image size: 20.5"H x 28"W
David Wang is a native of Beijing, China. He gained his education from the Beijing Education College of China in 1984, where he learned various techniques in drawing, watercolor, oil painting, sculpture, graphic design, and Chinese watercolor. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts Degree, he became a fine arts teacher. During his eight years of teaching, he has taught hundreds of quality students, some becoming professional artists and cinematographers. Wang has also accomplished several major art and design projects, such as designing and creating an exhibit of the Terra-Cotta army warriors in the Forbidden City and interior designs for shopping plazas in Beijing.
In 1988, David came to the U.S as a visitor scholar and studied at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. After his studies in 1992, he continued his profession as a full-time artist. For twelve years, he had a successful career creating visual art for the Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida Studio. He worked as a senior background artist doing work from concept development to production final work. His work has achieved him credits on: "Pocahontas," "Mulan," "Tarzan," "Lilo & Stitch," "Brother Bear," and "The Princess and the Frog...
Category
1990s Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled Still Life, Chocolate Cupcakes/White Icing, Colored Sprinkles on Pink
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Three Chocolate Cupcakes with White Icing and Colored Sprinkles" Oil on Canvas, 6 x 6 x 1.5 inches. This painting is unframed.
Beautifully painted in a luscious style reminisce...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Le Ferveur
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), Le Ferveur, etching, engraving, roulette, drypoint, 1928, signed in pencil lower left, numbered lower right, and annotated “imp.” Reference: Laboure...
Category
1920s Realist Art
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Slim Aarons 'Saint-Tropez Boucherie' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A boucherie on Rue des Commercants in Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, August 1971.
Slim Aarons
St-Tropez Boucherie
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Chromogenic Lambda print from the original transparency
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
Photograph is unframed
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
* We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons *
Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Getty Images. All photographs are printed and authorized by the Getty Images Gallery, London. Photographs are printed utilizing the original transparency held at the archive source.
Internal: Vintage Saint-Tropez, Vintage French Riviera photography...
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
Framed Pair of Architectural Engravings made After Giocondo Albertolli
Located in Hallowell, ME
Framed Pair of Architectural Engravings made After Giocondo Albertolli in Italy during the Neoclassical period of the 18th Century.
This pair of engravings measure 28.5 inches by 23 inches in nice Roma molding picture frames.
Priced for the pair.
Albertolli is well listed as an engraver in Benezit. page 89, volume 1.
Susquehanna Antiques...
Category
18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Engraving
Slim Aarons Penthouse Pool, Acropolis (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Young women by the Canellopoulos penthouse pool, Athens, July 1961.
Slim Aarons
Penthouse Pool
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Chromogenic Lambda print
Stamped and hand numbered by the S...
Category
1960s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
Untitled (Man in Blue Tank Top)
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Pastel and conté crayon with partial foil star on Rives BFK paper
Signed and dated, l.r.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in ...
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Foil
Red Hat and Pink Hat with mandolin. East Village New York City
Located in Miami, FL
Colorful street life is capture with a color photograph, In 1970, very few photographers we actually shooting in color. This image celebrates color with its eye-popping red and magenta hats compliments by a pink door with graffiti. One of the give-a-ways to the date is the New York City street sign...
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Inkjet
Customs of Civitacastellana - Etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli - 1819
Located in Roma, IT
Hand-watercolored Etching, 1819,
Image Dim: cm 28 x 20, Dim: cm 28x39.
Etching and Watercolor technique. In Good condition. Signed and dated on plate lower margin "Pinelli dis. e ...
Category
1810s Realist Art
Materials
Etching
Architectura Curiosa Nova, Dragon Fish Garden Fountain
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
George Andreas Böckler, 'Dragon Fish Garden Fountain', antique copperplate engraving, 1664, from the book 'Architectura Curiosa Nova'. A fine, richly in...
Category
1660s Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
Kittery Point Remembered
Located in Milford, NH
This wonderful coastal Maine landscape of Kittery Point, Maine was painted by contemporary American artist Erick Ingraham (1950-). Ingraham was born in Philadelphia, PA and became a ...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
What I discovered in Greenwich Park
Located in New York, NY
This large scale landscape monotype in black and brown features a scene from London’s Greenwich Park, a former hunting park established in the 15...
Category
1990s Realist Art
Materials
Monoprint, Monotype
Architectural Engraving of the House of Conseequa, Canton, China by Thomas Allom
By Thomas Allom
Located in Alamo, CA
"House of Conseequa, A Chinese Merchant in the Suburbs of Canton, From a Drawing in the possession of Sir Geo. Staunton, Bart." a hand colored engraving by Samuel Bradshaw (1810-1888...
Category
1840s Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
Mickey's Dining Car HAND SIGNED
By John Baeder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Mezzotint, hand signed and numbered in pencil out of 200 by John Baeder.
Artwork may be viewed at our warehouse in Brooklyn. Additional images and information are available upon req...
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Etching
The Santa Maria - Christopher Columbus's ship, signed oil painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Santa Maria, 1490
by Louis Letouche (French 1924-2015)
oil painting on linen canvas, stretched over board
framed
Framed size: 16 x 19 inches
Superb oil painting by the well li...
Category
1990s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Sir Alfred Munnings Watercolour Titled 'The Hunt'
Located in Uppingham, GB
Sir Alfred James Munnings, P.R.A., R.W.S. (1878-1959)
'The hunt'
Signed and dated 'A.J. Munnings. 1913.' (lower right)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour on a prepared sheet of paper...
Category
1910s Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor
Apprehensive
Located in Denver, CO
Grouping of brown horses
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
King's College Chapel Cambridge 1844 watercolour Joseph Murray Ince
Located in London, GB
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Category
1830s Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor
Synthesis
By Frank Hill
Located in New York, NY
Frank Hill (English 1881 - 1981 ) "Synthesis", Figurative/Academic/Realist Original Etching signed in Pencil on Paper (No Edition Specified), 11 x 14, Early 20th Century, 1920
Colo...
Category
1920s Realist Art
Materials
Etching
BY THE DOCKS
By Carl Arlen
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 350. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity is included. All reasonable off...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
New York (from Ports of America)
By Louis Orr
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Louis Orr, 'New York' (from the portfolio 'Ports of America', published by Yale University Press, 1928), etching, 1925, edition not stated. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed in the...
Category
1920s Realist Art
Materials
Etching
Prayers - Lithograph by Bartolomeo Pinelli - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Prayers is a beautiful original lithograph on paper, realized by the Italian artist Bartolomeo Pinelli.
In very good conditions, published by Engelmann.
Sheet dimension:30 x 46
Th...
Category
19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
English 20th century study of a Finch bird seated on a snow covered branch
Located in Woodbury, CT
James Williamson-Bell was a respected wildlife artist based in Newcastle and won several medals at the Paris Salon for his bird paintings. He was stro...
Category
1990s Realist Art
Materials
Gouache
Seated Woman Oil Painting
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Fascinating figurative painting by Norbert Schlaus (German 1927-2009) depicting a seated woman wearing a hat with fruit. Schlaus was born in Oberhausen, Germany but moved to Californ...
Category
20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Oil
The Watchers, Dakota Indians
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
Nick Eggenhofer was one of the most popular illustrators of western story magazines and books in America from the 1920s to 1940s.
...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Explorator
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Giovanni Domenico Campiglia, 'Explorator', engraving, 1734, edition unknown, scarce. Signed 'Dom. Campiglia del.' in the matrix, lower left. A fine impression, on handmade antique, l...
Category
1730s Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
Somme, Coucher de Soleil
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Roger Hebbelinck (Belgian, born 1912)
Title: Somme, Coucher De Soleil
Year: Circa 1965
Medium: Color Etching
Edition: Numbered 109/300 i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Aquatint
Study of a peasant woman.
Located in Paris, FR
Study of an peasant woman. Red pastel. Signed.
This work will be recorded in the catalogue raisonné of the work of the artist currently in preparation.
...
Category
1930s Realist Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Law of The Flaming Frontier - 1920s Western Interior with Guns and Rifle
By Harold Edgar Wenck
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful print with artist's title and description (written in pen and ink) "'Law of the Flaming Frontier' Interior of Pioneer Cabin with a gun and a rifle in Tombstone AZ when the West was young." By Harold Edgar Wenck (American, 1886-1958), circa 1920s. Signed within print and hand-signed below title/description (in pen and ink). Presented in a giltwood period frame.
H. E. Wenck (also known as Joe) was born in Fort Assiniboine, Montana in 1896. According to an article in Arizona Kitty Kat...
Category
1920s Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
"Collection of Curiosities" - Cornelis Le Mair, Classic Style Oil Painting
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Cornelis le Mair (Eindhoven, July 3rd 1944) is a Dutch painter. As a child, Le Mair already developed a talent for drawing. After completing high scho...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
TAA Trans-Australia Airlines original vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original TAA Trans Australia Airlines vintage travel poster. Linen-backed and ready to frame. TAA Airlines was started in 1946 and was renamed Australian Airlines in 1986. In 1...
Category
20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Offset
The Horsemen, original 40x30 realistic equestrian landscape
By Barry DeBaun
Located in Spring Lake, NJ
As the opaque mist begins to dissipate the horsemen ride on undeterred. The motion captured in this 40x30 equestrian landscape will not be overshadowed by the accuracy of the horses themselves! A multiple award winning artist, including both from the renowned Salmagundi Club and the Hudson Valley Art Association, Barry DeBaun...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Oil
1930s Original Gouache Design for Moss Bros Horses Riding Formal Outfit
Located in London, GB
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Anonymous
Moss
...
Category
1930s Realist Art
Materials
Gouache
Pottery Shop, Austria
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Pottery Shop, Austria" c. 1975 is an etching by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed n pencil by the artist. Printed by Graphic...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Etching
Landscape "Campi Phlegraei - Plate XXXIII" Naples - By Hamilton-Fabris
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 21.5x39 cm.
Beautiful plate from the volume "Campi Flegrei" by William Hamilton including 59 plates by Pietro Fabris. This particular plate illustrates the eruptio...
Category
18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Etching
Shell Can and Nautilus
Located in Woodbury, CT
Oil on canvas, signed and dated 2010. French handmade wooden Delf frame, pale cream patina with silver leaf inset and medallions. Unframed size: 27.5 inches high x 25.75 inches wide....
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
John Collingham Moore "Children of Henry and Elizabeth Young" Watercolor c.1860
By John Collingham Moore
Located in San Francisco, CA
John Collingham Moore (England, 1829-1880) four children, circa 1860s
Rare pencil, watercolor and white wash by listed artist John Collingham Moore, 19th century.
Here we have the children of Henry and Elizabeth Young...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Nous Voila Pas de Braves., from the suite les Bohemiens
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jacques Callot (French, 1592-1635)
Title: Nous Voila Pas de Braves., from the suite les Bohemiens
Year: 1620
Medium: Etching
Paper: Laid paper
Size of paper: 4.85 x 9 inches
...
Category
17th Century Realist Art
Materials
Etching
Otylia, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Maria Iciak
Located in Yardley, PA
acrylic on unprimed canvas :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes :: Si...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Train Engine, Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Train Engine" is an oil painting created in 2020 by Dianne L. Massey Dunbar depicting a lego train.
About the artist:
When Dianne Massey Dunbar was ver...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Takeoff, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
Oil on wood panel. Meditation on beauty, passage of time, luminosity, space and escapism. :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Hans Baluschek Lithograph "Wochenende" ( Weekend )
Located in Berlin, DE
Lithograph on firm wove paper by Hans Baluschek, Germany, 1927. The three-part cycle "Volk" is one of the most important print series of the first third of the 20th century. Signed l...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
GATHERING Signed Stone Lithograph, NYC Group Portrait Drawing, Light Brown
Located in Union City, NJ
GATHERING is an original hand drawn stone lithograph by Raphael Soyer, the renowned Russian-born American realist painter, draftsman, and printmaker. Hand proofed and printed in 1977...
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Eggplant Etc.
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original tempera painting by American female artist Catherine Koenig. This work is currently featured in the Draw Near exhibition at Benjaman Gallery.
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Board, Egg Tempera
Spoon, Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Gregory Block's "Spoon" is an oil on board created in 2020 depicting a fancy spoon floating above a city.
About the artist:
Gregory was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1986 and...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Sleeping - 20th Century British pen and ink drawing by John Sergeant
Located in London, GB
JOHN SERGEANT
(1937-2010)
Sleeping
Signed and dated 1963
Pen and ink, unframed
28 by 21.5 cm., 11 by 8 ½ in.
(mount size 44.5 by 37 cm., 17 ½ by 14 ½ in.)
Sergeant was born in Lo...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Ink
"Paola I", Nude Drawing by Franco Fusari
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Franco Fusari, Italian (1945 - )
Title: Paola I
Year: 2009
Medium: Conte Pastel on Paper, signed
Size: 14 in. x 19.3 in. (35.56 cm x 49.02 cm)
Frame Size: 22.5 x 30 inches
Category
Early 2000s Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Silvia", Nude Drawing by Gianfranco Fusari
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Franco Fusari, Italian
Title: Silvia
Year: 2009
Medium: Conte Pastel on Paper, signed
Size: 19.7 in. x 10.2 in. (50.04 cm x 25.91 cm)
Frame Size: 31.5 x 17.5 inches
Category
Early 2000s Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Pastel
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