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
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
OIL PAINTING 19th Century By Robert E . Roe British old master Gold Gilt Frame
Located in Ferndown, GB
VERY RARE Oil PAINTING Antique 19th Century By Listed artist British old master
OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING BRITISH SCHOOL 19th Century Gold Frame
Description
Late 19th century
“Good...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Two Worlds - British Edwardian figurative interior oil painting religious art
Located in Hagley, England
This intriguing British Edwardian figurative interior oil painting is by noted artist Arthur Croft Mitchell. It is entitled Two Worlds verso and dated as c1910. The composition of th...
Category
1910s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Evening at the Lake, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Lush green palms border a lake, creating a serene afternoon scene. Lavender shades blend with coral and pink clouds, reflecting the warm glow of the setting sun...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Sunflowers and Stories - original surreal realism seascape floral oil painting
By Luis Fuentes
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
In "Sunflowers and Stories by the Sea," Luis Fuentes captures ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hyperreal Lemonade Yellow Glass Balloon Sculpture
Located in East Quogue, NY
Hyperreal lemonade yellow glass water balloon sculpture by Dylan Martinez.
Dylan Martinez’s hyperrealistic water balloons are made of solid sculpted glass sandblasted and acid-etc...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Glass, Blown Glass
Nude Series (Male Nude in Desert with Cacti), Lowell Nesbitt - Drawing
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993)
Title: Nude Series (Male Nude in Desert with Cacti)
Year: 1989
Medium: Colored pencil on Arches paper
Size: 50.25 x 35.5 inches
Inscription: Signed...
Category
1990s Realist Art
Materials
Color Pencil
$26,000 Sale Price
20% Off
First Of Winter’s Snowfall On A Kentish Farm Framed Kent Landscape Painting
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Rowland Hilder.
British ( b.1905 - d.1993 ).
The First Of Winter’s Snowfall On A Kentish Farm.
Watercolor On Paper.
Signed Lower Right.
Image size 14.8 inches x 21.3 inches ( 37.5c...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Carson Peak; Sierra Nevada
Located in Pasadena, CA
2024 Consigned to American Legacy Fine Arts, Pasadena, California; 2005 Private Collector Encino, California; 2005 Ota House, Marina Del Rey;...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shire Horse & Man by Woodland River in the English Countryside by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Shire Horse & Man by Woodland River in the English Countryside by British Artist, Peter J Greenhill
Art measures 24 x 18 inches
Frame measures 30 x...
Category
20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
British Chalk Pencil Sketch of a Horse with White Features Waiting at The Fence
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
John Rabone Harvey ( 1966 - 1922)
graphic and chalk deep green artist paper , unframed
artist paper : 5.5 x 7 inches
Provenance: private collection
Condition: very good condition
Dou...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Chalk, Graphite
Yellow Bird Watercolor on Paper Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
443
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2025
Style: Classic Art
Title: Yellow Bird
Size: 12 x 16 in...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
19. Spider conches
Located in Columbia, MO
Maria Sibylla Merian was born in Germany in 1647 and received early artistic training from her stepfather, an established still life painter. She was fascinated by insects and collec...
Category
18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Pigment
Kingfisher Bird Watercolor on Paper Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
415
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2025
Style: Classic Art
Title: Kingfisher
Size: 12 x 16 inc...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"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
Antique Oil Painting on canvas Still Life, books, candle, Signed Azuquita Framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This painting is a still-life composition featuring an arrangement of books and other objects on a table. The focal point is an open book, its pages splayed out as if it was recently...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Oil
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
Soft Light in the Woods, Forest Landscape, Blue Tones, Handmade Cyanotype Print
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition of a cyanotype print.
This beautiful image shows the subtle afternoon light going through the woods during the summer.
Details:
+ T...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor
Interior of the Temple Abu Simbel, Egypt: A 19th C. Lithograph by David Roberts
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century duotone lithograph entitled "Interior of the Temple of Aboo Simbel" by David Roberts, from his Egypt and Nubia volumes of the large folio edition, pu...
Category
1840s Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
FINE ORIGINAL ANTIQUE 18th CENTURY BRITISH OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING MAN O WAR
Located in Ferndown, GB
FINE ORIGINAL ANTIQUE 18th CENTURY BRITISH OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING MAN O WAR IN HARBOUR
Description
Good Condition canvas but very old with some browning in places (see picture).
C...
Category
Mid-18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Oil
20. Curious shells
Located in Columbia, MO
Maria Sibylla Merian was born in Germany in 1647 and received early artistic training from her stepfather, an established still life painter. She was fascinated by insects and collec...
Category
18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Pigment
Venice Seascape Gondola Oil Painting Michael Budden Beautiful Light Venice
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Beautiful Light, Venice
oil/panel
12 x 9 unframed, 17.5 x 14.5 framed
Beautiful Light, Venice is an oil painting on panel by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden that sho...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Oil
British Chalk Pencil Sketch of Small White Sheep Lying Down
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
John Rabone Harvey ( 1966 - 1922)
graphic and chalk deep green artist paper , unframed
artist paper : 5.5 x 7 inches
Provenance: private collection
Condition: very good condition
Ha...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Chalk, Graphite
"Babe Bows Out" Nat Fein, Baseball, Babe Ruth, Sports Photography, American
Located in New York, NY
Nat Fein
Babe Bows Out, 1948
Signed lower right
Gelatin silver print on paper
Image size: 16 x 20 inches
Mat size: 22 1/2 x 24 3/4 inches
Nat Fein (1914–2000) was a prominent Ameri...
Category
1940s Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Silver Gelatin
Sara MacCulloch "South Harbour" - Coastal scene oil painting on canvas
Located in New York, NY
Sara MacCulloch
South Harbour , 2021
oil on canvas
16 x 16 in.
(macc083)
This original oil painting on canvas by Sara MacCulloch depicts a serene and beautiful coastal beach scene i...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Meal, Charles Van Den Eycken, Brussels 1859 – 1923, Belgian Painter
Located in Knokke, BE
A Meal
Van Den Eycken Charles
Brussels 1859 – 1923
Belgian Painter
Signature: Attributed to Charles Van Den Eycken
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimens...
Category
19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
A Yorkshire terrier in a favourite blue bow
By Thomas Earl
Located in London, GB
Attributed to Thomas William Earl (fl.1836-1890)
A Yorkshire terrier in a favourite blue bow
unsigned
oil on card
7 ⅝ x 5 ⅝ in. (19.3 x 14.3 cm.)
with frame 15 x 13 in. (38 x 33 cm...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Windswept, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A loose expressionistic style brings this imaginary valley of red flowers to life. The dramatic sky pulses with energy, infusing the scene with movement and atm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Hawk Bird Watercolor on Paper Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
001
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2025
Style: Classic Art
Title: Hawk
Size: 12 x 16 inch, (3...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$120 Sale Price
20% Off
The Journey's End II (Hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 10 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
Unframed. 2023. Signed on the back. Narrower than "The Journey's End."
This photograph was taken a year after the artist's husband died, revisiting the same path but photographing ...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Photogram
Deer battle
By Thomas Francois-Cartier
Located in Riga, LV
Deer battle
France, bronze, marble, h 29.5 x 66.5 x 18 cm
base size 64x20 cm
Category
1940s Realist Art
Materials
Marble, Bronze
1940s Philippino Masterpiece
Located in San Francisco, CA
I believe this powerful painting is by the very talented Philippines artist Virgilio Daclan. He was born in 1920 in Cebu city. He studied art in 1951 a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Oil
"Under the Boughs, " Oil painting
By Judd Mercer
Located in Denver, CO
Judd Mercer's (US based) "Under the Boughs," is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a vast meadow of yellow grass spreading into the distant bl...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Sparrow hawk, Bird, Watercolor on Paper, Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
325
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2024
Style: Classic Art
Title: Sparrow Hawk
Size: 12 x 16 i...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Beautiful Light, A Good Sailing Day Oil painting by Michael Budden Seascape Boat
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
A Good Sailing Day
oil/panel
13.5 x 23.75 framed
An oil painting on canvas by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden that showcases a unique composition of life on the bac...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Oil
La Boule de Cristal . Hyperrealiste Trompe l'oeil
Located in CANNES, FR
Jacques Poirier ( 1928 -2002)
" La boule de cristal " . 1980' s
Jacques Poirier est un peintre du mouvement trompe l'oeil , Hyper-réaliste et un illust...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Goldfinch Bird Watercolor on Paper Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
446
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2025
Style: Classic Art
Title: Goldfinch
Size: 12 x 16 inc...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Cardinal Bird Watercolor on Paper Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
412
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2025
Style: Classic Art
Title: Cardinal
Size: 12 x 16 inch,...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Still life with pumpkin - Pieter Willem Romenij (1830-1898)
Located in Gent, VOV
This still life by Pieter Willem Romenij shows a detailed composition of fruit and vegetables. Central to the painting is a raw, green pumpkin surrounded by bunches of grapes, peache...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Oil
"Still Life with Fruit" - Large Contemporary Framed Painting
By Clinton Hobart
Located in New Orleans, LA
Clinton Hobart paints in a painstaking Renaissance style, and you can see his breathtaking skill clearly in this still life. I bought six paintings similar to this from him in one ba...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
$2,400 Sale Price
40% Off
Floral Still Life
Located in Storrs, CT
Oil painting measures 12 x 9; frame dimensions measure 19 3/8 x 16 3/8 x 3. Housed in an elegant gold-tone frame with decorative edges. Illegible signature, lower right.
Category
20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Oil
$750 Sale Price
40% Off
Mountain Landscape (Pyrenees) 1928
Located in Stockholm, SE
Fritz Lindström (1874–1962)
Mountain Landscape (Pyrenees), 1928
oil on panel
unframed 15.5 × 24 cm (6.1 × 9.4 in)
framed: 26 × 34 cm (10.2 × 13.4 in)
signed on the reverse
Frame by...
Category
1920s Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"RIDIN' HIGH" COWBOY HORSE WESTERN ACTION MOTION NICE!!!
Located in San Antonio, TX
E. Salazar
Texas Artist
Image Size: 15 x 13
Frame Size: 19 x 17
Medium: Oil on Canvas
"Riding High"
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
"Cymbidium Orchids" Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Narelle Zeller's "Cymbidium Orchids" is an oil painting that depicts four blush colored orchid flowers blossoming in contrast with the vivid orange back...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
$574 Sale Price
30% Off
"Across Hope" by Michael Magrin, Oil Painting, CO Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
Michael Magrin's ( US based) "Healing Promise" is an original, handmade oil painting of a tranquil sunrise. This piece is framed in a natural float fram...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Study of a Butterfly, Watercolour on Silk Applied to Handmade Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
One from a set of four watercolours of butterflies on silk, applied to handmade paper, with hand cut edges, by French artist La Roche Laffitte. Signed bottom right. (The other 3 items are available separately)
A beautifully observed and detailed study of a butterfly painted...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Silk, Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper, Carbon Pencil
Black Robin Bird Watercolor on Paper Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
467
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2025
Style: Classic Art
Title: Black Robin
Size: 12 x 16 in...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Futile, Original Contemporary Watercolor Painting, Roses, Flowers
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Watercolor Painting, Unique Work. Handmade artwork. Ready to Hang.
Medium : Watercolor on Archival paper
Artist : Deniz Bayav
Subject : Futile (Title)
Signature : T...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor
"Back View 11, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Mark Bradley Schwartz's (US based) "Back View 11" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts the nude back of a brunette woman sitting in a chair with white fabric delicately...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Linen
$1,120 Sale Price
20% Off
Winter Fireworks- Original impressionism seascape oil painting- modern art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
Experience the magic of the season with "Winter Fireworks," an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Silver
Monhegan Morning - Fog and Seagulls, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Mist lingers over the distant ocean, softening the horizon and capturing the mystic beauty of Monhegan Island in the early morning. Waves and currents weave thr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Ship Leaving the Bay at Sunrise French Seascape 18th century Rococo Oil Painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
Attributed Charles François Grenier de Lacroix or Charles - François Lacroix de Marseille (1700 - 1782) as signed lower left on the stone “Lacroix”. The scene of the departure of nobles on a ship, somewhere among the Mediterranean landscapes at sunrise. Lacroix's sense of color and attention to detail are particularly impressive: the sea is calm, the sun is rising and as a soft pink hue begins to emerge in the clouds, the morning haze has not yet cleared and the air is clear and clean, large ship...
Category
Late 18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
The ruines Undspunnen and the Jungfrau - Oil on cardboard 19th century
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on cardboard sold with frame. The total size with frame is 21x23 cm.
The work is unsigned but we can recognize the Ruine Undspunnen and the Jungfrau in Switzerland. Dated around...
Category
19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Oil
$496 Sale Price
38% Off
Weightlessness 2
Located in Zofingen, AG
From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
The Feast, from the suite les Bohemiens
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jacques Callot (French, 1592-1635)
Title: The Feast, from the suite, les Bohemiens
Year: 1620
Medium: Etching
Paper: Laid paper
Size of image: 4.65 x 9.15 inches
Signature: S...
Category
17th Century Realist Art
Materials
Etching
Study of a Butterfly, Watercolour on Silk Applied to Handmade Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
One from a set of four watercolours of butterflies on silk, applied to handmade paper, with hand cut edges, by French artist La Roche Laffitte. Signed bottom right. (The other 3 items are available separately)
A beautifully observed and detailed study of a butterfly painted...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor, Silk, Gouache, Handmade Paper, Carbon Pencil
$819 Sale Price
43% Off
Dancer, bronze, 40x46x12 cm
By Ferdinand Preiss
Located in Riga, LV
Ferdinand Preiss(1882-1943)
Category
Early 19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Shining Through, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A serene woodland bathes in dappled sunlight. Tall trees cast shadows across a winding road and the grass, while streaks of light add a sense of peace to the sc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor
Perugia, Italy Landscape
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Bobert Brown (British, b.1936). Perugia, Italy. Oil on canvas measures 14.5 x 22 inches; 19.5 x 27 inches framed. Signed lower left. One faint area of scratching on paint surface in ...
Category
1980s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$880 Sale Price
20% Off
Acrobats, Michele Zalopany. Black and white monotype painting landscape
Located in New York, NY
In this black and white monotype, Zalopany has captured a duo of tumblers atop a roof, as onlookers stare in wonder. The artist is able to cap...
Category
1980s Realist Art
Materials
Monotype
"Sagittarius Study (Jeanne D'Arc)" (2016) By Fred Wessel, Egg Tempera Painting
By Fred Wessel
Located in Denver, CO
Fred Wessel's "Sagittarius Study (Jeanne D'Arc)" is a stunning egg tempera painting on gold leaf. Created in 2018, this piece depicts a young woman, Joan of Arc, looking forward with...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
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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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