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
VALTON Charles. The Griffin Marco. Patinated bronze. Marble base. Signed.
Located in Paris, FR
The Griffin Marco. Patinated bronze. Marble base. Signed and titled.
Charles Valton was a French sculptor known for his works created in the animalier style, a 19th-century movement ...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Bronze
Cheval Libre (Free Horse)
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: After Pierre Jules Mene (French, 1810-1879)
Title: Cheval Libre (Free Horse)
Year: 1868
Medium: Cast bronze sculpture with dark brown patina
Edition: Unknown
Size: Inclu...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Bronze
Hôtel du Cap Eden-Roc, Estate Edition Photograph, Poolside in Antibes
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons' 1976 photograph of bathers at the Hôtel du Cap Eden-Roc in Antibes, France, is a masterful capture of vintage glamour and the epitome of Mediterranean elegance. This ico...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
Gentle Waters-original seascape ocean impressionism painting-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
"Gentle Waters" by Lenny Cornforth is a mesmerizing original s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Weightlessness
Located in Zofingen, AG
In the embrace of water, weightlessness becomes our faithful companion, allowing us to temporarily free ourselves from the burden of everyday life and experience the lightness of bei...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Idyllic Cottage by River with Sheep in the English Countryside by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Idyllic Cottage by River with Sheep in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist, Jason Threlfall
Art measures 14 x 10 inches
Frame measures 22 x 18 inches
Signed Vin...
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
"Lemons - Abstracted" (2025) By Quang Ho, Original Oil Still Life Painting
By Quang Ho
Located in Denver, CO
Quang Ho's "Lemons - Abstracted" (2025) is an oil on board painting that depicts a vibrant lemon tree.
About the artist:
Quang Ho was born on April 30, 1963, in Hue, Vietnam. He Imm...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
English 20th century portrait of an English Frigate in full sail at sea in oils.
Located in Woodbury, CT
English 20th century portrait of an English Frigate in full sail at sea in oils.
A very well painted oil on canvas with great detail of a ship cutting through the sea at I'm sure great speed.
The piece is an oil on canvas with I think gouache added to the waves to make them a brighter white.
The piece is signed Mason and with some investigation, we are attributing this painting to the talented English painter Barry Mason...
Category
1980s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,360 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century Oil on Wood Panel British Coastal Landscape Fisherman Distant Sails
Located in Stockholm, SE
This captivating 19th century oil painting on wood panel depicts a serene coastal landscape featuring a solitary fisherman walking along a rough hillside path. The composition showca...
Category
Early 19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
Whopper
Located in Zofingen, AG
Original oil painting on canvas, still life painting made under natural light. This artwork is painted using high-quality fine linen canvas. Signed on the front and back of artwork. ...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Musicians"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Unidentified Artist, Neapolitan School, 17th Century
"Musicians"
Oil on canvas
Framed: 107 x 140 cm Flat: 92 x 124 cm
No signature
This evocative 17th-century painting, attribute...
Category
17th Century Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of John Tattos (male nude)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Roy Blakey (b.1930). Portrait of John Tattos, 1974. Original photographic print on paper, image measures 8.75 x 13 inches, sheet measures 12 x 16 inches. Me...
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
$700 Sale Price
22% Off
Zapata, Modern Lithograph by David Siqueiros
Located in Long Island City, NY
Zapata
David Alfaro Siqueiros (After), Mexican (1896–1974)
Date: Printed 1966 of original: 1913
Lithograph, signed in the plate
Image Size: 18 x 13.5 inches
Size: 23 x 17 in. (58.42...
Category
1960s Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Vintage Oil Painting of River Sunset in the Woods of the English Countryside
Located in Preston, GB
Vintage Oil Painting of River Sunset in the Woods of the English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist. Painted using warm orange and green colours creating a unique atmosphere....
Category
20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"L'Hiver a Paris" original etching on japon paper
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and drypoint with aquatint and roulette. This is an exquisite impression on japon paper, of what is arguably the most famous Felix Buhot etching. Executed in...
Category
1880s Realist Art
Materials
Etching
"Business District" – Framed Oil Painting of Woman on Phone in City Night Scene
By Brad Davis
Located in Denver, CO
Brad Davis’s Business District is a luminous oil painting on wood panel, framed and ready to hang, measuring 36 x 36 inches (framed to 38 x 38 inches). Executed in 2025, this work ca...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Swedish Hamlet in a Snowy Winter Landscape with Birch Trees by Danish Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Swedish Hamlet in a Snowy Winter Landscape with Birch Trees by Danish Artist, Jens Christian Bennedsen (1893-1967).
Art measures 38 x 26 inches
Frame measures 44 x 32 inches
An oi...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Moody Dawn Mist with Winter Trees in a Rural Village in the English Countryside
Located in Preston, GB
Moody Dawn Mist with Winter Trees in a Rural Village in the English Countryside by British Artist, Kevin Curtis (1958-2009)
Art measures 24 x 18 inches
F...
Category
1980s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fine Quality English late 20th century Still life of wild flowers in a vase
Located in Woodbury, CT
Bennett Oates,
Fine Quality English late 20th century Still life of wild flowers in a vase.
Oates was an English painter of flower subjects during the last half of the 20th centur...
Category
1990s Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
PSFS Building (Philadelphia Cityscape Architecture)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Naomi Charles Limont (1929-2010). PFSF Building, Philadelphia, ca. 1990. This piece is a restrike of the following Earl Horter image, using the exact plate created by Horter nearly 6...
Category
20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Etching
$450 Sale Price
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The Great Hall at Karnak, Luxor, Egypt: A 19th C. Lithograph by David Roberts
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century duotone lithograph entitled "Great Hall at Karnac, Thebes" by David Roberts, from his Egypt and Nubia volumes of the larg...
Category
1840s Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
"The Long Walk Home". Orientalist Gouache and Watercolor on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th century orientalist watercolour on paper by Aiveill, signed bottom right.
In art history, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction ...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Some do not (A) R.B. Kitaj erotic nude drawing of nude blonde with man on bed
Located in New York, NY
An erotic dalliance between a nude blonde woman lying down, and nude man, on a bed with white sheets. Subtle shades of peach, tan, yellow, and grey and black shadow behind the couple...
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Cat Therapy
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this painting, we see a minimalist room with a huge window, beyond which stretches a sky filled with fluffy white clouds. Muted colors dominate—the blue of the sky contrasts beaut...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
'Historic Sailing Ship, ' by Unknown, Oil on Linen Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 19th c. classically realistic oil on canvas painting depicts the majesty of a large sailing vessel on the sea against a light blue sky filled with white cumulus clouds. A gentle...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
$4,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Looking Back; The Arroyo Seco, Pasadena, California
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist.
FRAMED: 28.125" x 32.125" x 1.25" UNFRAMED:20" x 24"
Artist Statement
"I am always looking for different ways to capture the beauty of the San Gabriel Mountains as they loom above Pasadena. I found this view while scouting and exploring the Arroyo Seco...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Une Ballerine - Realist Figurative Oil Painting by Auguste Leroux
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas figure in interior circa 1930 by French realist painter Jules Marie Auguste Leroux. The work depicts a brunette ballerina wearing a pink tutu and pointe shoes st...
Category
1930s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Loch Eilt in the Scottish Highlands Realist Landscape Vintage Oil Painting
Located in Preston, GB
Loch Eilt in the Scottish Highlands Landscape Vintage Painting. A beautiful realist oil painting of the Scottish Highlands from a highly respected British Artist.
Art measures 33 x...
Category
20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
"“Orientalist Scene"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Unidentified Artist
Orientalist Scene
Oil on canvas
Framed: 162 x 221 cm Canvas: 144 x 200 cm
No signatured
This striking large-scale oil painting presents a dramatic Orientalist co...
Category
19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Peaks of Europe Spain oil on canvas painting spanish landscape
By Carlos Sempere
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frameless.
Carlos Sempere, although born in Valencia, settled in Asturias in 1978, eclipsed by the beauty of its natural landscape. After years of training in his youth and working...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,866 Sale Price
40% Off
Penthouse Pool, Estate Edition, Poolside Landscape with Acropolis, Athens Greece
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons’s Penthouse Pool captures a sunlit moment of casual glamour at the Canellopoulos penthouse pool in Athens, Greece. Taken in July 1961, the photograph shows a group of you...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
Farm Lane at Winter in Suffolk in the English Countryside by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Farm Lane at Winter in Suffolk in the English Countryside by British Artist, Kevin Curtis (1958-2009)
Art measures 30 x 20 inches
Frame measures 35 x 25 ...
Category
1980s Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique American School 19th Century Signed Young Girl Portrait Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American portrait of a young girl by Edward S Annison. Oil on board. Framed. Measuring 11.5H x 8.25L.
Category
Early 1900s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, silkscreen on aluminum, signed/N, Framed
By Richard Haas
Located in New York, NY
Incised signature in aluminum, annotated "Artists Proof" and titled; ink on top smudged
If you've ever visited the Guggenheim Bilbao, you should get this stunning mixed media on alum...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Art
Materials
Metal
Antique American Super Realist Trompe L'Oeil Framed Signed Still Life Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Early American super realist trompe l'oeil still life oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas, lain to board. Signed. Image size, 14H by 10L.
Category
1890s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sitges beach Barcelona Spain charcoal drawing
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Francesc Ferret Farreras ”Bruno” (1921-2000) - Sitges Beach - charcoal
Measurements drawing 44x59 cm.
Frame measures 65x79 cm.
Category
1950s Realist Art
Materials
Charcoal
$668 Sale Price
30% Off
Codependent love
Located in Zofingen, AG
This piece speaks of love that loses its freedom and becomes a cage. Of a bond in which a person dissolves, forgetting themselves, living through another’s needs, pain, and fears. It...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Carbon Pencil
Allusions, Bay of Naples (from the collection of Donald Baechler) Signed/N print
By Cy Twombly
Located in New York, NY
Cy Twombly
Allusions, Bay of Naples (from the collection of Donald Baechler), 1975
Color offset lithograph and photo lithograph on wove paper
Signed and numbered 56/80 in ink on the ...
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Pocket Blueberries c, Original Painting, Still Life, Fruit Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Blueberries c is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a nod to baroque still ...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Taking Care of Business, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Taking Care of Business" by Clyde Steadman (United States) is a handmade landscape painting that is unframed, but ready to hang.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Oil
The Watercarrier, Orientalist Gouache and Watercolor on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th century orientalist watercolour on paper by Aiveill, signed bottom right.
In art history, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction ...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
A well-trained cocker spaniel
Located in London, GB
Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe, R.A. (1901-1979)
A well-trained cocker spaniel
signed ‘C.F. Tunnicliffe’ (lower left)
charcoal and white heightening
11 ¾ x 8 ⅝ in. (29.8 x 21.9 cm.)...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Charcoal, Gouache
Magnolia. Original oil painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
These stunning magnolia placed in a transparent vase. A dark background helps to reveal delicate forms of flowers and capture the reactions of light with glass. The medium used is oi...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
New York City Flags Winter Cityscape Urban Oil Painting by Michael Budden
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Flags Above the Avenue
The image measures 12 x 9 unframed, 18.5 x 15.5 framed
An oil painting on canvas panel by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden that showcases the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Oil
19th Century Antique Scandinavian Moonlit Night Landscape Fisherman Hut Windmill
Located in Stockholm, SE
Original antique oil on canvas nocturne depicting a moonlit Scandinavian seaside landscape. The moon breaks through drifting clouds, casting silvery light across the calm waters wher...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil, Wood Panel
"Florence Ponte " by Christopher Clark, Original Oil Painting, Italian Bridge
Located in Denver, CO
Christopher Clark's "Florence Ponte Vecchio" is an original, hand made oil and acrylic painting that depicts a bridge in Florence, Italy.
Chri...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Large Realist STILL LIFE AT NIGHT Oil Painting by English painter Michael Exall
Located in Cirencester, GB
Artist: Michael Exall (1950-1996) British
Title: "Still Life Of Fruit Stand In The Window At Night"
Medium: oil on board
Size: 102cm x 74cm inc frame
Condition: very good
Notes: Pai...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Oil
"Subtle Glory" (2025) Original Oil painting with Black Horse
Located in Denver, CO
"Subtle Glory" is an original oil painting by Brian Keith Stephens depicting a black horse with bridle and saddle in profile. It is unframed, but ready-to-hang.
Artist Statement
Ho...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Cotton, Oil
Rooster . original painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
This artwork stands out remarkably and captures attention.
It is a nostalgic tribute to my childhood memories at the summer house. Those early mornings when the sun rose and I intend...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pocket White Anemone 5 c, Original Painting, Realist, Autumnal art
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket White Anemone 5 c is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a nod to baroque st...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'The Shepherd with his Flock' by Cornelis Van Leemputten ( 1841 – 1902 )
By Cornelis van Leemputten
Located in Knokke, BE
Cornelis Van Leemputten
Werchter 1841 – 1902 Schaerbeek
Belgian Painter
'The Shepherd with his Flock – Le berger et son troupeau'
Signature: signed lower right 'Corn. Van Leemputte...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Snowmass Picnic, Colorado, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Snowmass Picnic, Colorado, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
This late 1960s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a stand-up fondue...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
HARBINGER OF SPRING Signed Lithograph, Farm House Landscape Blue Sky White Barn
By Mel Hunter
Located in Union City, NJ
HARBINGER OF SPRING is an original limited edition, hand drawn lithograph(not a photo reproduction or digital print) by the American artist/illustrator Mel Hunter, printed using hand...
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
THE NEW MODEL . Vicente Romero Redon Spanish contemporary artist
Located in Pollenca, Illes Baleares
Vicente Romero Redondo was born in Madrid as the eldest of four sons. Due to the work of his father, he grew up in many different towns all over...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Pastel
Painting of the Irish Sea Coastline by British Post-War & Contemporary Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Painting of the Irish Sea Coastline by British Post-War & Contemporary Artist, David Long UWS. The location is Fairhead in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
19th-Century Portrait of A Woman in A Lace Bonnet
Located in San Francisco, CA
The label on the back has faded with time, but it appears to read “His Great Grandmother’s Portrait presented to George Michael Beauridge on his 18th birthday by his Aunt (?) July 10...
Category
19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
BLUE RIBBON COLIN FRASER CONTEMPORARY SCOTTISH ARTIST
By Colin Fraser
Located in Pollenca, Illes Baleares
Colin Fraser's remarkable tempera still-life and landscapes have a luminosity that seems to irradiate from them. It’s an effect that conjures a remembering of the timeless moment or mood they seem to captureColin Fraser was born in Glasgow in 1956, studied art in Brighton and currently lives and works in Sweden. Fraser is represented by Mira Godard Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Egg Tempera
Fish with garlic
Located in Zofingen, AG
Original oil painting on canvas, still life painting made under natural light. This artwork is painted using high-quality fine linen canvas. Signed on the front and back of artwork. ...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pocket Pale Blue Sloes 2, Original Painting, Still Life, Sloes Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Pale Blue Sloes 2 is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil pai...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dog Portrait of a Grand Vendéen Hunting Dog Jules Chardigny (1849-1892) ca 1870s
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Dog Portrait of a Grand Vendéen Hunting Dog
Jules Chardigny (1849-1892)
Signed lower right
Circa 1870
Oil on wood panel
Housed within its beautiful and original ornate original gil...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Realist art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Realist 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, purple, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Slim Aarons, Michael Budden, Daniel Pollera, and Su Yu. 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 Realist art, so small editions measuring 0.1 inches across are also available.