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
"Water Bottle", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dianne L. Massey Dunbar's (US based) "Water Bottle" is an oil painting that depicts a Aquafina Water Bottle with an open lid in an interior setting.
A...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
M. Doré - Chrysanthemums. Oil on cardboard, 76x70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
M. Doré - Chrysanthemums. Oil on cardboard, 76x70 cm
Realistic still life with white flowers in a vase and porcelain figure.
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
La Bandera Cubana
Located in New York, NY
Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) created this color lithograph entitled “LA BANDERA DE CUBA” in 1980. This impression is signed, titled, and inscribed “Seis” [six] in pencil. The printed ...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Cadaques, Costa Brava landscape. Blue, summer, seascape, Spain, acryl on canvas
Located in Oslo, NO
This painting presents famous Costa Brava view from Spain - Cadaques.
"A small cozy town with inspiring narrow streets, boats resting on a sea, smell of seafood and lots of sun." s...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Chekhov's Bay. 1976, canvas, oil, 90x100 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Chekhov's Bay. 1976, canvas, oil, 90x100 cm
Born 18 June 1925 in Saratov, Polyakov Vitaly Anatolyevich was a renowned master of socialist realism. Vitaly Anatolyevich graduated with...
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Teapot & Oranges, Still-life, Italian artist, Florence, Realism, Oil Painting.
Located in Houston, TX
Teapot and Oranges is an oil painting done in the style of Realism in the artist studio in Florence, Italy. It has a custom frame made in Florence by a master framer.
Barbara Castru...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Adrian Rigby, "Grace of a Champion", American Pharoah Horse Oil Painting
By Adrian Rigby
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Grace of a Champion", is a 24x24 equine oil painting on canvas by artist Adrian Rigby featuring a portrait of legendary Triple Crown winner, ...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Prevailing Winds, Leo Carrillo Park, Malibu
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Artist Statement
"Painted en plein air, this wind swept scene glides along the Malibu coast of Leo Carrillo State Beach. ...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Grace, 2011
Located in Greenwich, CT
Grace is an oil on Masonite painting, 32 x 25" panel size, signed ‘HOFMANN’ lower right and framed in a custom, closed-corner, baroque-style frame.
Douglas Hofmann’s works have been...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Clifford Ellis William Pug Dog II pencil sketch Mid Century Modern British Art
Located in London, GB
From a series of paintings by Clifford Ellis. To see them or our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - o...
Category
1950s Realist Art
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Ski Slope In St. Moritz, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiers (bottom) on a slope in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate
Co...
Category
1960s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
Dining In Sicily, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Count Giuseppe d'Almerita dining with guests in Sicily, Italy, in October 1984.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aa...
Category
1980s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
Bondage-Medusa, male figure, classical architecture details mythical realism
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Mythical realism, grey tones, semi- nude male, homo-erotic figure
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Skiers at Verbier, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Skiers relax in deckchairs on the slopes at Verbier in Switzerland. 1964.
This is an est...
Category
1960s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
Marble Sundae (Framed Super Realist Still Life Oil Painting)
Located in New Orleans, LA
A charming little realist painting of marbles in a sundae glass. Turned up in our inventory, new and never owned. Custom framed and ready to hang. Measu...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Antique American School Show Dog Portrait Framed 19th Century Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school dog portrait oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Image size, 9L x 9H.
Category
1870s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Japan – Two young geishas in flower garden, studio photograph, hand-colored
Located in Middletown, NY
Yokohama, Japan: c 1890.
Hand-tinted albumen print, 10 1/2 x 8 inches (266 x 203 mm), numbered B334 in negative, right side of image printed somewhat lighter than left, tiny in-nega...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor, Photographic Paper
French Contemporary Art by Claudine Picard - Kaki
Located in Paris, IDF
Claudine Picard is a French artist born in 1949 who lives & works in Sainte Marie, France. She is graduated from the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in 1973 (ENSAD).
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Morning Stroll' realist oil high realism animal signed by Cathryn Ruvalcaba
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Wisconsin artist, Cathryn Ruvalcaba creates images of classic midwestern farm scenes by zooming in on the animals that populate these fields. Her use of oil paint on gesso board offe...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Board
Avro Lancaster Bombers in Factory original 1942 silver gelatin press photograph
Located in London, GB
To see our other original vintage warbird aeroplane posters, photographs and paintings, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "...
Category
1940s Realist Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Landscape with mountains, south of France. Oil on cardboard on canvas, 38x53 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Landscape with mountains, south of France. Oil on cardboard on canvas, 38x53 cm
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
"Two Stacked Cups in Green, White and Gold on a Gray Ground"
Located in Wellesley, MA
Olga Antonova’s subject is compositions of extraordinarily elegant and beautiful cups, plates, teapots, and dishes, but there is something humorous and provocative about these painti...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Listen, Shell, oil painting on copper, Style of Realism, Florence, Sound of Sea
Located in Houston, TX
Listen is inspired by the moment you put your ear to a shell and hear the sound f the sea. If you are silent and close your eyes and believe, you may hear it. The Painting is experi...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Copper
DEEP INSIDE 46, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
God has no faces. It has colours and forms. And God is love. Tender love. Serie of tender artworks DEEP INSIDE is ready. Feel him in every artwork. DEEP INSIDE - it’s a series of a...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Cross Up
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original realist pastel drawing by American female artist Catherine Koenig.
Category
1990s Realist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Oil Pastel
Summer evening. 1982, oil on cardboard, 24, 5x33 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Summer evening. 1982, oil on cardboard, 24,5x33 cm
Summer landscape by the river
Edgars Vinters (1919-2014)
Edgars Vinters is working in oil, watercolor and monotype techniques. He ...
Category
1980s Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
The Confab
Located in Fort Washington, PA
This charming scene of four boys sitting on a bench having a conversation is typical of the sentimentalized portrayals of street urchins that John George Brown...
Category
1880s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Kate Verrion, Two Pears and a Satsuma, Original Realist Still Life Painting
By Kate Verrion
Located in Deddington, GB
Kate Verrion
Two Pears and a Satsuma
Original Still Life Painting
Oil Paint on Board
Image Size: H 15cm x W 20cm x D 2.5cm
Framed Size: H 21.5cm x W 26.5cm x D 5.5cm
Sold Framed in a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Grasshopper. Paper, mixed media, 21x30 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Grasshopper
Paper, mixed media, 21x30 cm
Juris Utāns (1959-2022)
was a Latvian painter. Worked in the field of critical realism, socially active and political art. Juris Utans' wo...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Wave (Framed Contemporary Seascape Painting)
Located in New Orleans, LA
It would be hard to think of a contemporary American painter better at painting the ocean than Deborah Newman. Looking at this, you almost feel like bac...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Jessica Leonard, "Indigo", 36x24 Equine Horse Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This equestrian piece, "Indigo", by artist Jessica Leonard is a 36x24 oil painting on canvas featuring a horse in black and white with cool tones th...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Song of the Cowboy
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original painting signed by the Artist lower left.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Rhode Island Surfer, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A surfer carrying his board at a Rhode Island beach, September 1965. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images)
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered an...
Category
1960s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
Large Oil Painting Titled: Prince
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
(Designers: Custom framing is available for this item)
Christina Major was born in Concord, New Hampshire in 1982. She has lived all over the world including Hawaii, France, New Yo...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Windmill and Shepherd Boy Landscape Collaboration Two Famous Norwegian Artists
Located in Stockholm, SE
Сollaboration work by two Norwegian artists: Morten Müller (1828 - 1911) and Olaf Christopher Dahl (1842 - 1895). Painted approximately in late 19th century (ca. 1870 - 1880). The collaboration of two renowned Norwegian artists in this landscape is an example of the fusion of their talent and skill. A very interesting compositional solution, where among the hills buried in vegetation, a lowland with a small pond is depicted, where a young shepherd has brought his cow to the watering hole. In the distance, on the hill, a windmill is visible, creating an emphasis on the perspective and depth of the composition. The nuanced interplay of light and shadow adds of complexity to the scene. The calmness of the pastoral setting below contrasts markedly with presence of gloomy clouds looming above. This juxtaposition creates a harmonious balance, presenting a duality inherent in nature. And this rare and awesome work of art should be considered for museum collection as well. Both painters presented in National Museum Oslo, Norway.
Size app.: 46 x 69 cm (roughly 18.1 x 27.2 in), with frame 60 x 84 cm cm (roughly 23.6 x 33.1 in). Good condition with wear, tiny losses to paint in minor areas and craquelure. So it needs minor care and conservation. Please study good resolution images for overall cosmetic condition. In person actual painting may appear darker or brighter than in our pictures, strictly depending on sufficient light in your environment. Weight of app. 4.4 kg is going to measure some 6 kg volume weight packed for shipment.
Morten Müller began his art studies with Adolph Tidemand and Hans Gude in Düsseldorf, Germany, from 1847 to 1848. From 1850 he was again a student at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, with Johann Wilhelm Schirmer as a teacher. From 1850 to 1851, Müller painted with the Swedish landscape painter Marcus...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
Rhode Island Surfers, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Surfers off Rhode Island, September 1965. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images)
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aaron...
Category
1960s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
PAULA BLACKMAN Seated Cat Bronze Sculpture Black Patina 2017 FEMALE ARTIST
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
“Bast” is A limited edition bronze sculpture of a seated black cat on a black marble base.
Black patin
From the limited edition of 8.
Signed 1/8
Paula Blackman has been a bronze scu...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Bronze
"A Wet Windy Day", Joe Rader Roberts, 30x40, Original Oil on Canvas, Western Art
By Joe Rader Roberts
Located in Dallas, TX
Cowboys trying to run out of the storm on this cold rainy day of cattle herding on the ranch. A cowboy in a wagon being pulled by four brown and black horses is herding the longhorns...
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Map of the Southern Oceans, South America and Africa
Located in New York, NY
Antique Map of the South Atlantic, c. 1800s
Engraving
20 x 28 in.
Framed: 25 3/4 x 33 3/4 in.
Category
19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Engraving
Vintage Mid Century Modernist Trompe L'Oeil Signed Interior Scene Realist Oil
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive 1970s modernist interior scene. Great palette and a sophisticated composition. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed and dated verso.
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In the heyday of summer. 1988, oil on canvas and cardboard, 50x63, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
In the heyday of summer. 1988, oil on canvas and cardboard, 50x63,5 cm
Summer landscape with blooming meadow
Alfejs Bromults (1913.3.IV - 1991.11.I)
His first professional educatio...
Category
1980s Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Cardboard, Canvas
Blue cloak. 2011. Cardboard, oil, 77x56.5 cm
By Igor Maikov
Located in Riga, LV
Igor Maikov (1966)
Education:
1981 - 1984 The Art Academy of Art
1973 - 1983 Salaspils Primary and Secondary School
Exhibitions:
1994 - Group Exhibition «Rol-Art», Latvia
199...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Small original oil painting nature golden hour
Located in San Francisco, CA
This original oil painting captures the enchanting beauty of trees and foliage bathed in the warm glow of golden hour. The composition invites viewers into a serene landscape where r...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Rural road. Cardboard, oil, 50x60 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Rural road. Cardboard, oil, 50x60 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Czech Painting of Rabbis
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fantastic realist painting of two Rabbis having a discussion. Great detailed painting signed Pavlik. There are several listed Pavlik's not sure which one th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Oil
The Essence of Life
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Hidden within the textured depths of this coffee bean are symbols that unfold like a visual narrative. On the left, a delicate leaf emerges, a symbol of growth and renewal. To the ri...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sunbathing in Bermuda, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sunbathing and swimming at a beach in Bermuda, June 1967. Bathers in colorful vintage swimsuits lounge on a white sandy beach and swim in turquoise w...
Category
1960s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
Austrian Judaica Portrait of Hasidic Rabbi Oil Painting
By M Wysocki
Located in Surfside, FL
Realistic portrait of an older rabbi by Polish Austrian artist M. Wysocki. Here the artist conveys a sense of quiet grandeur through the eyes of his subject and the way it's rendered. Part of a distinguished European lineage of Jewish genre artists who depicted judaic scenes sensitively and with a sense of quiet dignity. Lazar Krestin, Isidor Kaufmann...
Category
20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Sir Walter Scott’s Caretaker’s Cottage in Abbotsford, Scotland
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Artist Statement
"Painted en plein air, this quaint cottage was painted on the grounds of Abbortsford Castle in Scotland,...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Hotel Taormina Pool, Sicily
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The seaside swimming pool at the Hotel Taormina, Sicily, August 1975.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Chromogenic...
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
Adrian Rigby, "Hard Times" 16x20 Red Winter Fox Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas
By Adrian Rigby
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Hard Times" is a 16x20" oil painting on canvas by artist Adrian Rigby. Featured is the edge of a snow covered field where a red fox trails curiously through the deep snow, on the hunt. A shady tree line lays bare, casting cool shadows.
About the artist:
Adrian Rigby was born in Chorley, England in 1962. He demonstrated considerable artistic talent from an early age. Rigby is an internationally recognized, award winning artist. He studied at Blackpool Art...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Charles Francis Montresor 1825-98 British Victorian art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This lovely British Victorian portrait oil painting is by noted and well exhibited artist Alfred Fitzwalter Grace. Painted circa 1875 it is a seated profile portrait of Charles Franc...
Category
19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Oil
'Join The Regular Army: A Skilled Trade' 1950s British Army Recruitment Poster
Located in London, GB
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Anon.
Join the Regular Army...
Category
1950s Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Victor De Groux, Brussels 1895 – 1975, Belgian Painter, Landscape at the River
Located in Knokke, BE
De Groux Victor
Brussels 1895 – 1975
Belgian Painter
Landscape at the River
Signature: Signed bottom right
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Image size 80,50 x 100,50 cm, frame size ...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Píntame Angelitos Negros" – Figurative Oil Painting With Patterned Veil and Sur
Located in Denver, CO
Jessica Oliveras's "Píntame angelitos negros" is a striking, original figurative painting executed in oil, oil stick, and marker on linen. This richly layered work measures 21.65 x 1...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Linen
Russian Traveler Genre Portrait 19th Century Oil Painting Signed Framed
Located in Stockholm, SE
The short signature lower left a monogram of joined Cyrillic letters "V" and "P" with date 77, leads to the Russian painter Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov (1844 - 1927). Here we have pl...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Cotton Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Verbier Vacation, Estate Edition, Swiss Alps Mountain Snow Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Swiss Alps, 1964: This landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features holiday-makers taking in the sunset on a white snowy mountain top in Verbier, Swit...
Category
1960s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
Puissance, Horse Drawing, Charcoal and graphite on Fabriano paper, white frame
Located in Dallas, TX
Puissance is a beautiful and unique charcoal drawing on paper of a dynamic horse. The Fabriano paper is a high quality watercolor grade set in a custom white wood frame, all archival...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper, Graphite
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.