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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
Period: 20th Century
Night Canal Grande in Venice - contemporary black white landscape by F. Galli
Located in Milan, IT
Venezia, Canal Grande ref. 549 Etching inches 23,19 x 31,26 - mm 589x794 A prominent figure of the art of engraving in Italy, Federica Galli was born in 1932 in Soresina – a vill...
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1980s Realist Art

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Etching

Roofs in Venice, S. Marco place, etching by Italian F. Galli. Limited edition
Located in Milan, IT
Venezia, I Tetti (roofs), platemark mm 593 x 392. Rif. 541 Original etching, signed and numbered. Limited edition of 90. The etching was exhibited last year in the critical retrosp...
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1980s Realist Art

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Etching

Cathedral Group and Grand Teton Mountains Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful painting of mist at the base of Grand Teton Peak in the Grand Tetons titled "Morning Mist" by Keith Fay (American, 1920 - 2008), circa 1980), C. 19...
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1980s Realist Art

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Laid Paper, Watercolor

Seaside
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left. Born in San Francisco, CA on July 7, 1875, Gordon Grant grew up in San Francisco and at age 12 sailed around the Horn to London, England to study art at the Heath...
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1940s Realist Art

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Watercolor

Cape Buffalo in Savannah, original oil on canvas, contemporary British artist
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
This oil on canvas painting of buffalo in a savannah landscape is a contemporary artwork by the artist Tony Forrest, (b.1961). Forr...
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Late 20th Century Realist Art

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Oil, Canvas

"1940 - New Mexico Farmers" Orig. Mixed Media on Board by Tom Perkinson, Framed
Located in Encino, CA
"1940 - New Mexico Farmers" is an original mixed media on board by Tom Perkinson. His use of saturated violets, vivid yellows, and resplendent oranges pushes color to almost-otherwor...
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1970s Realist Art

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Pastel, Color Pencil, Watercolor, Mixed Media, Ink

Contemporary water landscape of Venice, Rimedio bridge, print by Federica Galli
Located in Milan, IT
Ponte del Rimedio, Venezia, 1986 platemark mm 79.3 x 34.4 Original etching, signed and numbered. Limited edition of 90. The etching was exhibited last year in the critical retrospe...
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1980s Realist Art

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Etching

Italian landscape of typical lombard architecture by master italian etcher
Located in Milan, IT
Cascina (Farmhouse) Santo Stefano, rif. 490 Original etching, signed and numbered. Limited edition of 90. Federica Galli was one of Italy's leading contemporary etchers. She achi...
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1980s Realist Art

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Etching

Portrait of a little girl with a ball of thread. Oil on cardboard, 46x40 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait of a little girl with a ball of thread. Oil on cardboard, 46x40 cm
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1950s Realist Art

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Oil, Cardboard

Spring. Oil on cardboard, 40x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Spring. Oil on cardboard, 40x50 cm Alfejs Bromults (1913.3.IV - 1991.11.I) His first professional education was at National University at studies to...
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1980s Realist Art

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Cardboard, Oil

Romantic Venice, Italian, corner. Black white print on paper. Nowaday grand Tour
Located in Milan, IT
Venezia, part of the portfolio of the 39 venice views. Calle delle Terese, 1984, rif. 546 Platemark mm 48.9x34.6. Original etching, signed and numbered. Limited edition of 90. The e...
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1980s Realist Art

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Laid Paper, Etching

Waimea Bay, Hawaii 1964 Vintage Surfing Poster Mike Doyle champion surfer
Located in London, GB
To see our other original vintage posters, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller." Waimea Bay, Hawaii Surfing Poster 1964 Poster 67 x 53 cm Printed by Looart Press, Colorado Springs, Colorado Waimea Bay Hawaii vintage 1964 surfing poster, with photograph of legendary surfer Mike Doyle...
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1970s Realist Art

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Lithograph

Rialto bridge in Venice, contemporary romantic print, etched by Federica Galli
Located in Milan, IT
Venezia, Ponte di Rialto, 1987 Platemark mm 489 x 488 Original etching, signed and numbered. Limited edition of 90. The etching was exhibited last year in the critical retrospectiv...
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1980s Realist Art

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Etching

Garden, Silkscreen by Jack Beal
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jack Beal, American (1931 - 2013) Title: Garden Year: circa 1975 Medium: Silkscreen, Signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 74 Image: 18 x 24 inches Sheet Size: 24.5 in. x 30...
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1970s Realist Art

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Screen

London Stock Exchange Waiter - 1960s British drawing by Francis Watt
By Frances Watt
Located in London, GB
FRANCES WATT (1923-2009) London Stock Exchange Waiter Pen and ink and watercolour wash, unframed, in mount only 17 by 13 cm., 6 ½ by 5 in. Edith Frances Watt was born in Falkirk in 1923. In 1926 the family moved to Switzerland when her father, the Rev Thomas Meikle Watt, was appointed permanent chaplain to the Church of Scotland in Geneva. Her father died in 1938 and the family returned to Scotland where Frances continued her schooling at Aberdeen High School for Girls. Her mother moved the family to London in about 1940 and they settled in Southwood Lawn Road, Highgate. Frances attended the Hornsey School of Art were she gained a National Diploma in Design before going on to study at the Byam Shaw School in London, where she later taught. In Highgate she was a member of the Highgate Artists Group, which included Sir Kyffin Williams among its exhibiting members, and she was also an active member of the Highgate Choral Society, designing many programmes and posters for its productions in the 1950s. In the early 1960s she was commissioned by the Council of the Stock Exchange to record the daily life in the Square Mile. Over the next 20 years she was brilliantly placed to observe the enormous changes taking place in the great institutions of the Stock Exchange and Lloyd’s of London...
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1960s Realist Art

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Ink

Poetic Venice corner, limited edition print by Federica Galli. Prominent italian
Located in Milan, IT
Venezia, Calle dei Preti, 1984, rif. 540 Platemark mm 64.2x24.4 Original etching, signed and numbered. Limited edition of 90. The etching was exhibited last year in the critical ret...
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1980s Realist Art

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Etching

"African Elephant Walking, " Spencer Hodge, Safari Wildlife Animals, Realism
Located in New York, NY
Spencer Hodge (British, b. 1943) African Elephant Walking Oil on canvas 38 x 50 1/2 inches Signed lower right Spencer Hodge attended the Hastings School...
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Late 20th Century Realist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Kings of Hollywood (Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, James Stewart, Van Heflin)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This iconic photograph is finally available again, for the first time in over a year. In this classic black and white photograph, film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 - 1960), Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), Gary Cooper...
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1950s Realist Art

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Lambda

"Collecting Cattails" Original Mixed Media on Board by Tom Perkinson, Framed
Located in Encino, CA
"Collecting Cattails" is an original mixed media on board by Tom Perkinson. His use of saturated violets, vivid yellows, and resplendent oranges pushes color to almost-otherworldly r...
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1970s Realist Art

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Pastel, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Color Pencil

Typical venice architecture landscape by master italian etcher
Located in Milan, IT
ref. 516 A prominent figure of the art of engraving in Italy, Federica Galli was born in 1932 in Soresina – a village just outside Cremona. Straight after the war, in 1946, she conv...
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1980s Realist Art

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Etching

Watercolour of a European Piazza by James Kerr-Lawson, circa 1900
Located in London, GB
JAMES KERR-LAWSON (1864-1939) The Piazza Signed l.l.: J Kerr Lawson Watercolour over traces of pencil Unframed, in conservation mount only 13.5 by 20 cm....
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Early 20th Century Realist Art

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Watercolor

Romantic snowy landscape of Italy 's countryside vertical view, limited print
Located in Milan, IT
Cascina Bellaria, Milan's countryside, catalogue rif. 497 Original etching, signed and numbered. Limited edition of 90. Federica Galli was one of Italy's leading contemporary etch...
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1980s Realist Art

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Etching

Mid Century Meadow Wildflowers Still-Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Exquisite floral still life of wild meadow flowers by Anna Westphal (Denmark, 1858-1950). Signed "A. Westphal" and dated "1937" lower right. Presented in...
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1930s Realist Art

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Canvas, Oil

French Tempera on Canvas Four Panels Folding Screen with Seascape View
Located in Firenze, IT
This French early 20th Century folding screen is made up of four canvases entirely painted with textured tempera featuring a marine l...
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Early 20th Century Realist Art

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Canvas, Tempera

Schallaburg Castle
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Luigi Kasimir Austrian (1881-1962) Title: Schallaburg Castle, Austria Year: circa 1930 Medium: Color Etching Sight size: 17 x 22.25 inches Sheet Size: 20 x 25 inches Framed Size:26.5 x 31.5 inches Signature: Signed lower right by the artist Edition: unknown Condition: See below This artwork titled "Schallaburg Castle c.1930 is a color etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil at the lower right. The plate mark (image) size is 17 x 22.25 inches, paper size is 20 x 25 inches, matted size is 24 x 29 inches, framed size is 26.5 x 31.5 inches. It is custom matted with a brown inner mat, gold liner and cream-colored outer mat. The wood frame is black with a faint gold inner edge. The print is in fair-to-good condition. It is attached to the mat with archival tape. It bears the residue of a previous backing on the reverse, but that does not at all show on the front of the print. The surface of the print is in very good condition with strong colors. There are small losses to the corners of the print, far from the image. The mat is in good condition. The frame is in fair condition with some pits, mostly on the lower and upper bars. I have included pictures of the reverse of the print as well as the flaws on the frame. I can ship the print with the frame or without the frame. Luigi Kasimir was born in 1881 at Pettau, today Ptuj, Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He inherited his talent from his ancestors; his grandfather was a painter and a poet, and his father an officer in the Habsburg army, who later became a professional painter. Kasimir attended the Vienna Academy of Art where he studied under Wilhelm Unger, who introduced him to the technique of the coloured etching, and also to his future wife, the artist Tanna Hoernes.[1] He died in 1962 in Grinzing, a suburb of Vienna.Kasimir was among the first to develop the technique of the coloured etching. Before this, prints were usually hand-coloured with the colour being applied in a casual, haphazard manner. Kasimir would first create a sketch usually in pastel, he then transferred the design on as many as four to six plates, printing one after the other and applying the colour on the plate, all done by hand. Kasimir is mainly famous for his etchings, but he also produced some oil painting, as well as some pastels. One of his favourite genres was the landscape, or veduta. He demonstrated a predisposition street scenes, and tourist landmarks. He depicted places from all over Europe, mainly Italy, Austria, and Germany. He also travelled to the United States to do a series of etchings of famous sights ranging from urban landmarks such as New York City skyscrapers, to natural wonders like Yosemite Valley. Luigi Kasimir’s etchings...
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1930s Realist Art

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Paper, Etching

'Indonesian Landscape', Mooi Indië, Javanese, Djakarta, RMS Otranto
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Soekardji' for Raden Soekardji (Indonesian, 1880-1950), painted circa 1950 and bearing shipping label from RMS. Otranto. An elegant and lyrical oil by this noted...
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1950s Realist Art

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Oil, Board

Goat Herder's Wife
Located in New York, NY
George Biddle (1885-1973), Goat Herder’s Wife, 1928, lithograph, signed in pencil lower right and titled and numbered (64/100) in pencil lower left margin [with the inscription ”Bidd...
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1920s Realist Art

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Lithograph

Venezia, contemporary black white print, Campo Abazia, by Federica Galli
Located in Milan, IT
Venezia, Campo de l' Abazia, 1984 plate mm 491 x 243 Original etching, signed and numbered. Limited edition of 90. The etching was exhibited last year in the critical retrospective...
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1980s Realist Art

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Etching

Dimitris Kritsas at the Temple to Poseidon, Sounion, Greece, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Dimitris Kritsas, a fashionable young couturier, poses among the gleaming white Doric columns of the temple to Poseidon at Sounion, Greece, 1967. Posing with him, four models show off colorful dresses of red, salmon, turquoise, and pastel yellow. This iconic photo depicts a scene of vintage glamour set against a classic Greek blue sky. Slim Aarons Dmitris Kritsas at the Temple to Poseidon, Sounion, Greece Estate Edition of 150 1967, Printed Later 48 x 48 inches $4500 40 x 40 inches $3950 30 x 30 inches $3350 20 x 20 inches $2500 Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. 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. Site Details: The Temple of Poseidon is an ancient Greek temple on Cape Sounion, Greece, dedicated to the god Poseidon. There is evidence of the establishment of sanctuaries on the cape from as early as the 11th century B.C. Sounion’s most prominent temples, the Temple of Athena and the Temple of Poseidon, are however not believed to have been built until about 700 B.C., and their kouroi (freestanding Greek statues of young men) date from about one hundred years later. The material and size of the offerings at the Temple of Poseidon indicate that it was likely frequented by members of the elite and the aristocratic class Approximately 13 kilometers south of Thorikos in the southern most region of Attica, the deme of Sounion is most well known for its sanctuaries of Poseidon and Athena. Its placement at the foot of Attica allowed it to function as a border deme as it could easily been seen by ships nearing Attica. The temple of Poseidon at Sounion was constructed from 444 to 440 BC. This was during the ascendancy of the Athenian statesman Pericles, who also rebuilt the Parthenon in Athens. The temple of Poseidon was built on the ruins of a temple dating from the Archaic period, about which the Greek geographer Strabo noted: "Geraistos [in Euboia] . . . is conveniently situated for those who are sailing across from Asia to Attica since it is near Sounion. It has a sanctuary (hieron) of Poseidon, the most notable of those in that part of the world, and also a noteworthy settlement. The main temple we see today is mainly made out of marble with an intricate taenia (the fancy borders on the ceiling). The marble is an Agrileza marble. The marble used on the Temple of Poseidon at Sounion came from the marble quarries, a place where marble is removed from the earth, in the Agrileza mines. This type of marble was 'coarsed grained' meaning that it had a rougher texture than smooth, shiny marble. As indicated by literary and archaeological evidence, the "leveled summit" on the coast of Cape Sounion was likely a cult site from as early as the end of the eighth century BC. Two cult centers dedicated to Athena and Poseidon respectively are believed to have been established by 700 BC. Subject: The name of Greek fashion designer...
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1960s Realist Art

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Lambda

Venice canal view with classical renaissance architecture by italian etcher
Located in Milan, IT
ref. 549 A prominent figure of the art of engraving in Italy, Federica Galli was born in 1932 in Soresina – a village just outside Cremona. Straight after the war, in 1946, she conv...
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1980s Realist Art

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Etching

Catch Up By the Pool, Estate Edition. From the Poolside Series, Palm Springs
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1970: A desert house in Palm Springs designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar Kaufman. Lita Baron approaches Nelda Linsk, right, wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk who is talking to a frien...
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1970s Realist Art

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Lambda

Slim Aarons 'Joan Collins Relaxes'
Located in New York, NY
Film star Joan Collins relaxes with her pink poodle on her pink bed. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity fro...
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1950s Realist Art

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Lambda

Figure of a Boy Walking, Ancel Nunn, Egg Tempera Realism
Located in New York, NY
Ancel E. Nunn (1928 - 1999) Figure of a Boy Walking, 1970 Egg tempera on board 20 x 16 inches Signed and dated lower right Provenance: Private Collection, Long Island, New York, circa 1970s Born in Seymour, Texas, Ancel Nunn began drawing at age 12. He added to his early art education through summer workshops under noted artists such as Dong Kingman and Alexander Hogue. In 1944 his dry point etching, The Domino Players, won Honorable Mention in the prestigious Ingersoll Competition. The following year his watercolor, The Cockfight, was awarded first place. Nunn graduated from high school in Abilene in 1946. He entered the U.S. Army in 1947, spending several different active duty periods and attaining the rank of Major. During this period he did little or no painting...
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1970s Realist Art

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Egg Tempera, Board

Fog, Gloucester vintage photography
Located in Greenwich, CT
A haunting and unusual photograph by one of America's earlier female photographers - First Lady of Pictorialism - Eleanor Parke Custis. Probably taken in the Gloucester, Mass environ...
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1930s Realist Art

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Bromoil

Sleeping Nude Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Drawing of a sleeping nude woman by S. LeDrew (20th Century). Signed "S. LeDREW" in the lower right corner. Presented in a double mat of dark red and whi...
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Late 20th Century Realist Art

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Paper, Conté

Harry Morley - The Romany Camp - 20th Century British watercolour
Located in London, GB
HARRY MORLEY, ARA, RWS (1881-1943) The Romany Camp Signed and dated 1927 Watercolour and bodycolour, framed 36.5 by 52cm., 14 ¼ by 20 ½ in. (frame size 60.5 by 75 cm., 23 ¾ by 29...
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Early 20th Century Realist Art

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Watercolor

Double Dutch #3: Black girls playing jump rope games in Philadelphia urban city
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This black and white photograph depicts a Black girls' team in the urban city of Philadelphia practicing the art of Double-Dutch jump rope. This series of images provide a snapshot o...
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1980s Realist Art

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Archival Pigment

The old granary. Oil on cardboard, 24, 5x45 cm
Located in Riga, LV
The old granary. Oil on cardboard, 24,5x45 cm
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Early 20th Century Realist Art

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Cardboard, Oil

Oil Painting of River Landscape in Ireland Countryside by Modern Irish Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Oil Painting of River Landscape in Ireland Countryside by Modern Irish Artist. This original oil painting is an early example of the more traditional...
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1980s Realist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Bruno Bruni - "Delle Primavera" - color offset lithograph
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Bruni, Bruno, "Delle Primavera", "In Spring": Color offset lithograph, signed by hand. Tender allegory in pastel nuances. Fantastic Realism, Surrealism: Bruni processes subjective im...
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20th Century Realist Art

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Paper, Lithograph

'A Black Cat Jumps to an Empty Tune, ' by Mark Gilmore, Oil Painting on Paper
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This framed 42" x 34" landscape painting by Mark Gilmore features a rural scene of a hillside field and an emerging tornado hidden behind a moving rainsto...
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Late 20th Century Realist Art

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Oil, Color Pencil

Monocled Miss, Estate Edition (German model Renata Boeck in 1960s New York)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
German fashion model Renata Boeck (wearing a monocle) enjoying breakfast in bed at the Regency Hotel in New York, 1964. She is wearing a black monocle and a fur-lined turquoise robe as she reads the morning paper, propped up against sumptuous yellow pillows. Morning light pours through the sheer curtains...
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1960s Realist Art

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Lambda

Still life of roses with insects, original oil on board, late 20thC, German
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
This beautiful depiction of delicate roses and intricate insects is a unique and original oil-on-board painting that is circa late 20th Century, by the artist Hildegard Schwammberger...
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Late 20th Century Realist Art

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Board, Oil

View of Munich (Szoke, 80)
Located in New York, NY
Richard Haas View of Munich (Szoke, 80), 1978 Offset Lithograph with Graphite Stencil on BFK Rives Paper 17 1/2 × 43 1/2 inches Edition 52/150 Signed, titled and numbered 52/150 in graphite pencil on the front Published by Brooke Alexander, New York and Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany; Printer: Deli Sacilotto...
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1970s Realist Art

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Offset, Stencil

Pomegranates and Sunflowers, British 20th Century oil painting
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Valerie Wilson (British, 1950 - 2004) Pomegranates and Sunflowers Signed ‘Valerie Knight’ (on the reverse) Oil on canvas 21 x 45 in. (53.3 x 114.3 cm.) A lovely wide still-life of o...
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20th Century Realist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Blue mountain. 1975. Watercolor on paper, 14x19 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Blue mountain. 1975. Watercolor on paper, 14x19 cm Herberts Mangolds (1901-1978) Graphic, army officer. In 1920 he graduated from the Artillery Cadet School of Latvian and many mili...
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1970s Realist Art

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Paper, Watercolor

Poolside Pairs, Estate Edition. From the Poolside series, Palm Springs
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This coveted Slim Aarons photograph encapsulates the essence of vintage 1970s glamour, displayed in vibrant hues of yellow, white, and striking turquoise synonymous with the classic ...
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1970s Realist Art

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Lambda

By the footbridge. Canvas, oil, 42.5x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
By the footbridge. Canvas, oil, 42.5x50 cm Bruno Celmins (1927 19 IV – 1992 31 I) – painter. Education: - Riga’s Craft school; - Art School of J. Rozenthals 1947 – 1948; - Art Academy of Latvia...
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1980s Realist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Purple Iris Still Life
By (after) Georgia O'Keeffe
Located in Houston, TX
Gorgeous still life lithograph of a a vibrant purple Iris made in the 1930's by artist unknown in the style of Georgia O'Keeffe.
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1930s Realist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Contemporary Realist Still-Life 'Pear & Antique Glass' by Barbara Vanhove
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
'Pear & Antique Glass' by Barbara Vanhove is an incredible Contemporary Realist Still-Life painting. Barbara was born in Watermael-Boisfort in Belgium in 1974. She showed an incre...
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20th Century Realist Art

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Panel, Oil

Reginald Hallward Design for celebratory flag with cross
Located in London, GB
To see our other Architectural Drawings, Stained Glass designs and 20th Century British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below ...
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20th Century Realist Art

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Watercolor

English Oil Painting Yorkshire Terrier Dogs in Landscape
By Heather Budgett
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Superb signed English oil painting on canvas, depicting these two characterful Yorkshire Terrier dogs in a woodland landscape. The painting is by the...
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Late 20th Century Realist Art

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Oil

Water Hyacinth - Early 20th Century Botanical watercolour of by Arthur Wardle
Located in London, GB
ARTHUR WARDLE (1864-1949) Study of a Water Hyacinth Signed Watercolour and bodycolour on linen, framed 33.5 by 23 cm., 13 ½ by 9 in. (frame size 52.5 by 43 cm., 21 ¾ by 17 in.) A...
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Early 20th Century Realist Art

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Watercolor

Double Dutch #37: Black girls playing jump rope games in Philadelphia urban city
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This black and white photograph depicts a Black girls' team in the urban city of Philadelphia practicing the art of Double-Dutch jump rope. This series of images provide a snapshot o...
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1980s Realist Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Saint-Tropez Beach, Estate Edition, French Riviera
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons' Saint-Tropez Beach, an Estate Edition photograph, is a vintage scene of sunbathers on the French Riviera, August 1971. Colorful coral red and mint green umbrellas shelte...
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1970s Realist Art

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Lambda

"Texas Prairie Rose" Blooming Prickly Pear Cactus Helen Hunter (1920-2003)
Located in San Antonio, TX
Helen Hunter One of the two Texas Queens of Cactus (1920-2003) Pleasanton Texas Artist Image Size: 20 x 40 Frame Size: 27 x 47 Medium: Oil Dated 1969 "...
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1960s Realist Art

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Oil

HARBINGER OF SPRING Signed Lithograph, Farm House Landscape Blue Sky White Barn
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...
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1970s Realist Art

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Lithograph

Commedia dell'arte – Four Character Studies in Watercolor, 1920s
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Unidentified artist, 'Commedia dell’arte' – four character studies (Arlecchino, Pantalone, Pantalone giovane, Tartaglia), watercolor and pencil, c. 192...
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1920s Realist Art

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Pencil, Watercolor

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.

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