Realist Paintings
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
Pocket Autumn Collection Autumn leaf #3 [2024], Baroque Still Life, Small art
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Autumn Leaf Collection (Pinky Ochre) is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with ...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
![Pocket Autumn Collection Autumn leaf #3 [2024], Baroque Still Life, Small art](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/dani-humberstone-paintings-pocket-autumn-collection-autumn-leaf-3-2024-baroque-still-life-small-art-for-sale/a_6323/a_138501721706352583092/b7a5276f4faa1c0e2af42ba27b6a9f96_1_master.jpg?width=240 "Dani Humberstone - Pocket Autumn Collection Autumn leaf #3 [2024], Baroque Still Life, Small art")
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Pocket White Anemone, Original Painting, Baroque style, Realism, Floral, Flowers
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket White Anemone 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 Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Thoroughbred in Profile
Located in Charleston, US
Valarie Wolf's horse painting, an elegant profile of a Thoroughbred is a beautiful the statement. The details of the handsome Bay Thoroughbred horse's profile are more outstanding w...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"The Necklace" Oil on board by Telopa
Located in Carmel, CA
Telopa, the father and son of artists, paints women in an elegant Mannerist style that combines classic beauty and mythological, symbolic allegory.
A...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
"The snake's gaze. Hypnosis" Original Oil Painting by Liliya Volskaya
Located in Zofingen, AG
The paintings are drawn with acrylic on the hardboard (back side made of the double cardboard).
Acrylic paints are used to create the painting on canvas animals and ecology. A cruci...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Lacquer
Pocket Very Ripe Strawberry, Original Painting, Baroque still life, Fruit, Food
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Very Ripe Strawberry 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...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Chien" by Marina Dieul, Original Oil Painting, French Bulldog Trompe L'oeil
By Marina Dieul
Located in Denver, CO
Marina Dieul's "Chien," created in 2024, is a charming oil on panel painting measuring 6 x 6 x 1 inches (15.24 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm) with framed dimensions of 11 x 11 inches. This origi...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
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 Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil Painting, Large Still Life Oil Circle of Emillio Greco
By Emilio Greco
Located in Uppingham, GB
Large 20th Century Still Life Oil Painting (unsigned) circle of Emilio Greco (Italian, born 1932)
Very nice gilded frame with Arched panels.
72" x 40".
Very attractive wall filler.
Category
1990s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape with a willow. 1964, oil on cardboard, 48x67 cm
Located in Riga, LV
A. Zviedris was a member of the Latvian Artists’ Union since 1945 and had more than 50 solo exhibitions in Latvia. He travelled extensively by yacht around Scandinavia and Western Eu...
Category
1960s Realist Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
Pocket Blue Tit's Egg, Original Painting, Egg , Nature, Still life
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Blue Tit's Egg 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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Sitting" figuratif nude acrylic on linen canvas 60x60cm 2010
Located in Roscoff, FR
figuratif "Sitting" acrylic on linen canvas 60x60cm nude 2010
the beauty of the body in opposition to violence.
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Gerberas - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Realistic Little Girl Portrait
By Kamil Lisek
Located in Salzburg, AT
KAMIL LISEK (born in 1980) Studied under the guidance of prof. Maciej Świeszewski at the faculty of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. He graduated with distinction obta...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen, Canvas
Landscape
Located in Geneva, CH
Unknown artist of the 19th century.
Landscape painted on canvas.
Gilded wood frame
73 x 91 x 5,5 cm
Category
1950s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
pocket dark blue sloes, Baroque Still Life Painting, Small Art, Fruit Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Dark Blue Sloes is an original still-life painting by artist Dani Humberstone. This painting is a small scale renaissance inspired still life in a photorealistic style and sol...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Yawning Dachshund - Animal 1915 art oil painting
Located in London, GB
Is there anything more cute than a dog yawning? Especially a gorgeous little Dachshund? I think not. Painted in 1915 and signed G A C, this super little painting is a profile view of a seated conker brown Dachshund. He is caught in the middle of a great big yawn, eyes blissfully closed, ready for a nap on someone's lap. The light from the right is highlighting the dog's head, ear, pink tongue and fore legs, beautifully accentuating its features and anatomy. The palette and brushwork are superb. The background fades downwards from dark to light, making the dog stand out perfectly. This is a superb 1915 oil painting of a lovely little yawning dachshund needing its forever home and perfect for all the dog lovers out there.
Signed with initials lower right G.A.C 1915.
Provenance. Barnwell Manor, Northamptonshire, Windsor House Antiques...
Category
1910s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Treeing Walker Coonhounds and Bear - Figurative Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Dramatic western figurative landscape oil painting of three Treeing Walker Coonhounds (aka: Tennessee Lead) "treeing" a bear in a tree by western artist Kim L Powers (American, 20/21st Century). Signed "Powers 1993" lower right corner. Image, 29.5"H x 23.5"W.
Long years on the Navajo reservation as a working cowboy/bull rider...
Category
1990s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Holy Family with St Elizabeth and Young John Baptist 19th century Oil Painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
This tender depiction of the Holy Family represents a subject which was central to Raphael's oeuvre. The painting is based on the famous panel by Giulio Romano, called Madonna della ...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Boris in Bomber Jacket
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Signed in red, u.l.
12 x 9 inches, canvas size
15.75 x 12.75 inches in distressed silver leaf frame
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
“B...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
![[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Boris in Bomber Jacket](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/mark-beard-paintings-bruce-sargeant-1898-1938-boris-in-bomber-jacket-for-sale/a_9323/a_28836311527269472035/Sargeant_Boris_in_Bomber_Jacket_980_master.jpg?width=240 "mark boris")
Racing Horses
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Kentucky Derby lovers---this is for you! Horse racing whether it the the Belmont or the Preakness--decorate for your home party with this moving oil painting rendition of racing ho...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Right" Oil Painting
By Mia Bergeron
Located in Denver, CO
Mia Bergeron's (US based) "Right" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a close up realistic human nipple.
Mia Bergeron's interest in art was cultivated early on, begi...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pocket Ripe Red Pomegranate, Baroque Still Life, fruit
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Ripe Red Pomegranate 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...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pocket Autumn Collection Autumn leaf #2 [2024], Baroque Still Life, Small art
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Autumn Leaf Collection #2 (Naples Yellow) is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, ...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
![Pocket Autumn Collection Autumn leaf #2 [2024], Baroque Still Life, Small art](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/dani-humberstone-paintings-pocket-autumn-collection-autumn-leaf-2-2024-baroque-still-life-small-art-for-sale/a_6323/a_138723921706700990439/6b9ef88af48dfbca1ecfede627db0124_1_master.jpg?width=240 "Dani Humberstone - Pocket Autumn Collection Autumn leaf #2 [2024], Baroque Still Life, Small art")
Pocket Full Moon 6 Original Painting, Moon, Nature, Still life
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Full Moon 6 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 li...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Quiet sea
Located in Vienna, AT
Was born in 1993 in the city of Marganets, Ukraine.
Artist Gorbachenko Multiple participants of group and solo exhibitions and Art Fair Vilnius.
The artist's works are in private col...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache
"The Sunset Morpho on Shades of Slate & Umber" Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Lindsey Kustusch's "The Sunset Morpho on Shades of Slate & Umber" is an original oil on wood panel artwork, sized at 12 x 12 x 1.50 inches. This 2023 piece, crafted by the artist's h...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Lauren in Portugal, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Lynne Atwood
Located in Yardley, PA
A young woman in a gorgeous red orange dress celebrates life as she stands on a cliff and takes in the beautiful Portuguese coastline. :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes wit...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Moonlight Sonata
Located in Colorado Springs, US
One of a kind, original oil painting on canvas by Zhaoming Wu.
Signed lower left.
Framed Dimensions: 32.5 X 38.5
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Moment
Located in Colorado Springs, US
One of a kind, original oil painting on canvas by Zhaoming Wu.
Signed lower left.
Framed Dimensions: 41.5 X 17.5
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nocturne
Located in Colorado Springs, US
One of a kind, original oil painting on linen by Zhaoming Wu.
Signed lower right.
Framed Dimensions: 20.5 X 24.5
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Moderato Cantabile
Located in Colorado Springs, US
One of a kind, original oil painting on linen by Zhaoming Wu.
Signed lower right.
Framed Dimensions: 17.75 X 21.75
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Wildwood Regional Parks, Thousand Oaks", Plein Air Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Alexander Chistov's "Wildwood Regional Parks, Thousand Oaks" is an original, handmade, plein air oil painting depicting the landscape in southern California, located in Ventura Count...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Duck Family, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Lynne Atwood
Located in Yardley, PA
A mama duck and her three ducklings float among the water plants on a gorgeous sunny day. The coloring of the ducks and the greens and yellows of the pond harmonize to make a beautif...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Message
Located in Colorado Springs, US
One of a kind, original oil painting on panel by Zhaoming Wu.
Signed lower right.
Framed Dimensions: 15.5 X 13.5
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nervous Mama Gorilla, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Lynne Atwood
Located in Yardley, PA
My daughter in law snapped this picture while on a Silverback Gorilla photo shoot in Rwanda, Africa. I call the painting "Nervous Mama Gorilla" because right near her, the baby is t...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Three-masted Ship
Located in Jacksonville, FL
"The Three-Masted Ship" by John Tudgay stands out as a remarkable piece of marine art for several compelling reasons. At first glance, the painting captures the viewer with its intri...
Category
1860s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Waterlilies, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Lynne Atwood
Located in Yardley, PA
On a recent trip to Florida, these beautiful lilies caught my eye. The brilliant blue against the green leaves and pink flowers were irresistible. :: Painting :: Realism :: This p...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Chorister and the Roisterers
Located in Madrid, ES
VICENTE MARCH
Spanish, 1859 - 1927
THE CHORISTER AND THE ROISTERERS
signed and located "V. MARCH / Roma." (lower right)
oil on canvas
21 x 30-1/2 inches (53 x 77.5 cm.)
framed: 26-3/...
Category
1890s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Table Top Debris II : Oil painting on canvas
Located in New York, NY
"Table Top Debris II" by Iona Fromboluti depicting flowers scattered on a table with a broken vase on the right.
Fromboluti is a New York artist, whose works are often composed of u...
Category
1990s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Carson Peak; Sierra Nevada
By Frank Serrano
Located in Pasadena, CA
2024 Consigned to American Legacy Fine Arts, Pasadena, California; 2005 Private Collector Encino, California; 2005 Ota House, Marina Del Rey; 2005 the artist
FRAMED: 26.5" x 30.5" x...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Eyes: Laugh, Be amazed, Be wary " 3 works oil cm. 10 x 10
By Luisa Albert
Located in Torino, IT
three separate works sold together
Funny composition with eye expression,laughing,amazing,distrust
Luisa Albert was born in Turin, Italy where she currently lives and works.
In 1989...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Billie Waters - Still Life, October - Early 20th Century British oil on paper
By Billie Waters
Located in London, GB
BILLIE WATERS (1896-1979)
Still Life - October
Signed l.r.: Billie Waters; signed and inscribed with title and the artist’s address on a label on the backboard
Oil over traces of p...
Category
1930s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
REFLECTIVE MOMENTS . 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 Spain. The family moved back to Madri...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Giant Refreshed, 1953. BOAC Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, Canopus.Airliner Aviation.
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
David Shepherd.
English ( b.1931 – d.2017 ).
Giant Refreshed, 1953. BOAC Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, Canopus.
Oil on Canvas.
Signed & dated 1953 lower right.
Image size 19.7 inches x 2...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Erabadu Flower" Oil Painting D 39" inch by Sasha Sokolova
Located in Culver City, CA
"Erabadu Flower" Oil Painting D 39" inch by Sasha Sokolova
Bio
Born in Moscow into a family of artists, Sasha Sokolova is an award winning contemporary realist painter, working acr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The fall
Located in Vienna, AT
Was born in 1993 in the city of Marganets, Ukraine.
Artist Gorbachenko Multiple participants of group and solo exhibitions and Art Fair Vilnius.
The artist's works are in private col...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache
Porter Creek Falls, 2, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
In western Washington, between Mt. Rainier and the Pacific Ocean, Porter Creek flows under a high canopy of conifers, winding through hills and ferns. This quin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Corgi
Located in Charleston, US
Karen Bendersky's charming and romantic dog painting features a Corgi proudly posing and gazing lovingly at its owner, adding beauty and personality to any home. This tribute to belo...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
G. Teixidó. Costa Brava. Oil painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Gaieta TEIXIDO. 1930-2022. Realist landscape painter with an impressionist touch.
Category
1990s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
G. Teixidó. Costa Brava. Oil painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Gaieta TEIXIDO. 1930-2022. Realist landscape painter with an impressionist touch.
Category
1990s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Man - 19th Century Spanish Antique Oil on Panel Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A fine signed and dated 1880 Spanish oil on panel portrait of a man wearing a white shirt and waistcoat by Manuel Pla y Valor. The work is superbly painted in the realist style and i...
Category
1880s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Mystique n.1" Oil Painting 28" x 28 "inch by Dmitriy Krestniy
Located in Culver City, CA
"Mystique n.1" Oil Painting 28" x 28 "inch by Dmitriy Krestniy
ATTENTION: Painting ships rolled in a tube.
A look through Dmitriy’s designs reveals a glamorous, feminine, provocat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Une Consultation de Sigmund Freud' by Hubert - Denis Etcheverry (1867 – 1950)
Located in Bruges, BE
Hubert-Denis Etcheverry
Bayonne 1867 – 1950 Paris
French Painter
'Une Consultation de Sigmund Freud'
Signature: signed lower right and dated ‘D. Etcheverry / Paris 1900’
Medium: oi...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pocket Gooseberry (Hairy) 2, Orig. Oil Painting, Still Life, Gooseberry, Frui
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Green Gooseberry (Hairy) 2 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 b...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Carousel" by Morgan Cameron, Oil painting Featuring Carousel Horse
Located in Denver, CO
Morgan Cameron’s (US based) “Carousel” is an oil painting on panel that depicts a white carousel horse with bridle and saddle with gilded gold accents.
This painting is framed and ...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Contemporary Realist Still-Life of Lemons. Acrylic on Board.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Contemporary realist still-life of lemons in a ceramic bowl. Acrylic on board by Dutch artist Bernadette Van Baarsen. Signed and dated 21 to the bottom right and presented in a deco...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
"Dust Storm" by Morgan Cameron, Oil painting Featuring Galloping Horse
Located in Denver, CO
Morgan Cameron’s (US based) “Dust Storm” is an oil painting on panel that depicts a red and white horse galloping with it's mane flowing.
This painting is framed and ready to hang. ...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Cabane boats Landscape . figurative. lake.mountains. blue
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
cabane. Landscape . figurative.
Original watercolor by the Spanish artist
Joaquin Cabane. 1922/1993
Painter and watercolorist, Joaquim Cabané traveled in search of inspiration diff...
Category
1990s Realist Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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