Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
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
Coral dreams Watercolor rose boutique
Located in Zofingen, AG
The watercolor painting with roses is a delicate, refined watercolor, made in a charismatic technique without the use of clear graphic lines. Sophisticated roses and peonies in water...
Category
2010s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Historic English Chapel Interior, ' by Unknown, Watercolor Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This framed and matted 16" x 19" watercolor painting by an Unknown artist depicts an historic English chapel interior. The interior of the church features the large stained glass window pane...
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19th Century Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape. Paper, watercolor, 42x30 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Landscape. Paper, watercolor, 42x30 cm
Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013)
Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In 1947...
Category
1970s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Church Interior
By Ray Quigley
Located in Buffalo, NY
A modern illustration by American artist Ray Quigley depicting two men inside of a church.
Category
1950s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Illustration Board, Gouache, Ink
Watching Over the Fire, pencil drawing by Hillary Hennes
Located in London, GB
Hillary Hennes (1919-1993)
Watching Over the Fire
Pencil drawing
43 x 28 cm
Hillary Hennes was a British artist and illustrator. Her father was a curator at the South London Art G...
Category
20th Century Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Spring day Watercolor painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
A watercolor painting with flowers of apple tree.
A bright, juicy watercolor painting filled with the warmth of the spring sun. The lush petals of a blooming apple tree grow against ...
Category
2010s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Summer light Watercolor painting with Roses
Located in Zofingen, AG
Watercolor painting with roses in bright red and juicy green tones. A whole bush of delicate scarlet roses - how not to paint such beauty! This painting is light, sonorous, dynamic. ...
Category
2010s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Biscuit Before Harvest, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A white farmhouse sits quietly beneath a gray sky, its brick chimneys contrasting against the muted backdrop. A red tractor rests in the golden field. Artist ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Fenêtre sur lac. Colorful Vintage Interior, Lake, Armchair
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Subject : Fenêtre sur lac - Variation VII (Title - FR)
This work features a warm, welcoming interior, with an immaculate white sofa embellished with cushions. A red and white stripe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Crayon
The Open Window - 19th Century British Children's Book illustration by Sowerby
Located in London, GB
JOHN GEORGE SOWERBY
(1849-1914)
Phoebe - The Open Window
Watercolour heightened with white
Unframed, in mount only
8 by 7 cm., 3 by 2 ¼ in.
(mount size 25.5 by 20 cm., 10 by 8 in.)
Reproduced:
J G Sowerby & Thomas Crane, At Home, Marcus Ward & Co, 1881, p.42.
The current work was reproduced in Sowerby and Crane’s 1881 children’s book, At Home, where is accompanied by the following verse:
All the morning, all the morning,
Sat she till her tasks were done;
While without were birds and blossoms,
And the pleasant sun.
And the leaves in ev’ry rustle,
And the birds in ev’ry song:-
“Phoebe, Phoebe, are you coming?
Phoebe, don’t be long!”
Whispered thro’ the open window
Gentle breezes, passing by:-
“Phoebe, are you coming, Phoebe?
Come before we die!”
Till the clock, with joyful measure,
Struck the hour when work is o’er;
Crying “Ponto’” Phoebe vanished
Through the open door.
Whither sped out nimble Phoebe?
She is in the study now;
Ponto heard her with she called him, -
Answered back “Bow-wow!’
“Ponto, tho’ the birds and garden,
Called me all the morning thro’
I had first to do my lessons –
So I think should you.”
Poor old Ponto! He is longing,
Longing for his game of play,
And the garden – ah: but Phoebe
Has a word to say.
“Beg then – beg, sir – do you hear me?
No, no, Ponto, that is wrong;
Paws up! Steady! Ah, that’s better!
Good dog, come along!”
John George Sowerby was born into a prosperous Gateshead family of glass manufactures and artists. He inherited the family business, the Ellison Glass Works, one of the world’s largest producers of pressed glass, where he introduced designs inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement. Initially he combined his energies at the glass works with his work as an illustrator and painter of landscapes and floral subjects with a Pre-Raphaelite intensity, strong colours and rich detail. He exhibited many of these paintings at the Royal Academy. In the 1880s he collaborated with Newcastle artist, Henry Hetherington Emmerson, on illustrations for the children’s books Afternoon Tea (1880) and The May Blossom (1881). Although were critically very well received but the publications were attacked by Kate Greenaway who considered them too close to her own work. Sowerby then went on to produce highly aesthetic illustrated books At Home (1881) and At Home Again (1883), with decorations by Thomas Crane. Gleeson White, editor of The Studio magazine stated that in Afternoon Tea Sowerby “set a new fashion for ‘aesthetic’ little quartos’ (The Studio, 1897). Roger Dixon in Belfast Publishing (Oxford University Press, 2011, p.79) considered these At Home and At Home Again to be “among the loveliest books ever produced.” Never very wise as a business man, in the early 1880s he left Ellison Glass Works being declared bankrupt in 1884. He returned to the works again as a paid employee.
Sowerby’s daughter, Millicent Sowerby...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Prince's Room
By Willy Pogany
Located in Buffalo, NY
Born in Szeged, Hungary, he became one of the better known and successful illustrators of the Golden Age of Illustration, completing over 100 books. Among them are "A Treasury of Verse for Little Children," "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam," and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." He is probably best known for pen and ink drawings of mythology subjects geared towards children.
He studied at Budapest Technical University and attended art schools in Munich and Paris before moving to London at age 23. In 1907, he began illustrating children's books and did a series of annual gift books...
Category
1940s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Watercolor, Pen, Gouache
Brown teapot surrounded by red onions on Yellow background
By Glenora Richards
Located in New Orleans, LA
Glenny created beautiful miniature watercolors, mostly still life. This image of a bronze teapot with red onions is a unique work of art.
Glenora Rich...
Category
1990s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Rural landscape. Paper, watercolor, 30 x 41. 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Rural landscape. Paper, watercolor, 30x41.5 cm
Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013)
Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In 1947, she began her studies ...
Category
1970s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Still Life with Sculpture', Hague School Oil, Dutch Artist, Liu Haichan, Daoism
By Cornelius Anton Bartels
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'C.A. Bartels' for Cornelius Anton Bartels (Dutch, born 1890) and painted circa 1945.
A still-life with a sculpture of the Daoist immortal, Liu Haichan...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Graphite, Gouache
Alley. 1961. Paper, watercolor, 42x29.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Alley. 1961. Paper, watercolor, 42x29.5 cm
Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013)
Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In ...
Category
1960s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Spring at Window" 18th Century Antique realism Watercolor painting on Paper
Located in Jacksonville, FL
The painting is signed and dated 1858
Felix Schlesinger (1833-1910) was a German painter known for his charming and detailed portrayals of domestic ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Spring memories Watercolor painting with Tulips
Located in Zofingen, AG
Watercolor painting with tulips for the interior of the living room, bedroom - emotional painting about spring memories. This painting is distinguished by an interesting composition,...
Category
2010s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Christ's College Chapel, Cambridge, 1842, watercolour by R.A.E Little
Located in London, GB
R.A.E Little
Christ's College Chapel, Cambridge, 1842
Watercolour
20 x 26 cm
Charming watercolour depicting a view of Christ's College Chapel in the mid nineteenth century. In thi...
Category
1840s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Moved Out, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A ghostly white, weathered house stands in contrast against the dark, looming trees. The worn texture and faded paint of its exterior capture a sense of aband...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
'Neptune', Woman Artist, Berkeley Art Museum, California College of the Arts
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Created by Carole Doyle Peel (American, 1934-2016) circa 1985 and accompanied by first edition volume, 'Carole Doyle Peel: The Delight of Drawing', 2...
Category
1980s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
For the Prodigal, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Barns stand as a sanctuary for many farms across America. In this painting, a lit lantern in a high window of the structure acts as a guiding light under the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"The Newcomes, Chapter XI" - Early 20th Century Figurative Watercolor with Piano
Located in Soquel, CA
An fine period watercolor, dated 1910, an illustration by Charles Edmund Brock (English, 1870-1938). This, from a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, "The Newcomes, Memoirs of the Most Respectable Family." The novel was published in 1855. Below this image are two characters from "The Newcomes, Chapter XI". Presented in a rustic giltwood frame. Signed "C.E. Brock" and dated "1910" lower left. Image size, 10"H x 7.5"W.
Charles Edmund Brock was a widely published English painter, line artist and book illustrator, who signed most of his work C. E. Brock. He received his first book commission at the age of 20. He became very successful, and illustrated books for authors such as Jonathan Swift, William Thackeray, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot. Brock also contributed pieces to several magazines such as The Quiver, The Strand, and Pearsons...
Category
1910s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Interior Series, Book - contemporary, realist, still-life, pastel on paper
By Ciba Karisik
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary, realist, still-life, pastel on paper is by artist Ciba Karisik.
A moment in time is faithfully captured in a charming series of oil paintings featuring interior s...
Category
2010s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
'Cafe', Woman Artist, École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Berkeley
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Marie Pascal' (French-American, 20th century) and painted circa 1990.
Exhibited: Gallery Concord, December 1991.
Marie Pascal studied at the École Nationale Sup...
Category
1990s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
John Blundell - After the Riot - 20th Century British Watercolour
Located in London, GB
JOHN BLUNDELL
(1927-2016)
After the Riot
Signed and dated l.r.: J Blundell 1973
Watercolour and bodycolour
Framed
52.5 by 36 cm., 20 ¾ by 14 ¼ in.
(frame size 67.5 by 51 cm., 26 ½...
Category
1970s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Great Western Staircase, New York State Capitol Building Albany (View II) Unique
By Richard Haas
Located in New York, NY
Richard Haas
Great Western Staircase, New York State Capitol Building, Albany (View II), 1980
Pastel drawing on paper
Hand-signed by artist, Signed and dated 1980; bears RDA (Readers Digest...
Category
1980s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
John Dronsfield - 1930s British Theatre Set Design - watercolour
Located in London, GB
JOHN DRONSFIELD
(1900-1951)
Stage Set Design with Shields
Signed l.r.: Dronsfield
Watercolour and pencil
Unframed, in mount only
38 by 36 cm., 15 by 14 in.
(mount size 51 by 49 cm...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Masha's fairy tales" watercolor cm. 17 x 22 1970
Located in Torino, IT
Children, illustrations, tales
Marina Evgenevna USPENSKAYA (Moscow, 1925 – 2007)
Marina Evgenevna Uspenskaya was born in Moscow. She graduated from the 1905 Art College, where she ...
Category
1970s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Fortuny Rose drawing
Located in Burlingame, CA
Fortuny Rose, original drawing created with Conté & Pastel on Fabriano watermarked, handmade paper, by Susan Manchester. Museum quality frame included...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Graphite
Treasured Gift
Located in Burlingame, CA
Treasured Gift - a single feather, original drawing created with gouache and pastel on handmade paper by Susan Manchester. 21 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches. Pro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Gouache, Archival Paper
'The Splendid Outcast', stage designs by Rosemary Anne Sisson
Located in London, GB
Rosemary Anne Sisson (1923-2017)
'The Splendid Outcast', stage design
20 x 28 cm
Watercolour (set of three)
Cesar Borgia has ambitious plans and one of them is to take over the K...
Category
1960s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
High Society American Interior Painting Jeremiah Goodman Parlor Ballroom Crest
By Jeremiah Goodman
Located in New York, NY
An important American 20tg century painter, Jeremiah Goodman 1922-2017, was known for his high society interior Genre/ballroom scenes of the weatlhy upper class
The attached waterco...
Category
1930s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Louis Tinayre (1861-1942) An encampment of journalists, signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Louis Tinayre (1861-1942)
An encampment of journalists in Chambéry,
signed and titled lower left "Campement de journalistes à Chambéry"
Ink on paper
In quite good condition, a a visible vertical fold in the centre, some stains and foxings
21 x 29 cm
Framed : 33.7 x 45.5 cm
Louis Tinayre's background and adventurous life obviously shed light on this humorous and detailed scene. He shows a remarkable sense of observation, capturing as a journalistic illustrator this scene of extraordianarian life.
We don't know for the moment why these journalists had to improvise a camp, probably in a hotel room. No doubt it was to cover a trial or a sensational news item that had filled all the hotels in the city with journalists who had flocked for the occasion. In any case, what interests Tinayre as an almost ethnographic observer is this camp of journalists, of which he makes a tender and comical scene.
One understands him better when one knows how he could be fascinated in the same way by the territories of Madagascar, the North Pole or the Far West that he painted and drew.
Louis Tinayre was born on 14 March 1861 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. His mother, Victoire Tinayre, was a teacher and a member of the International Workers' Association.
Louis was the son of a Communard couple. His father, Jean Joseph, known as Jules Tinayre (Issoire 1821 - Paris 1871) was shot during the Bloody Week. His mother, Victoire Tinayre, fled with her children. Louis was the first to be sent to Hungary, and the rest of the family (including his brother Julien) joined him there later. He studied Fine Arts at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest.
Returning to Paris in 1880 (after the amnesty), Louis Tinayre assiduously frequented Le Chat noir, where he met the positivists and Adèle Jacomet (Buenos Aires 1867-1946), whom he married in 1888.
He became an animal painter and press illustrator and was sent by Le Monde Illustré to cover the second expedition to Madagascar (then under French protectorate) in 1895.
He stayed there, fascinated, for six months and produced numerous drawings and photographs. Back in France, he created eight 5 x 4 meters dioramas presented at the National and Colonial Exhibition in Rouen in 1896.
He returned to Madagascar in 1898 to prepare the creation of a giant panorama representing the surrender of Antananarivo in 1895. The Malagasy pavilion at the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris allowed him to admire the dioramas (on the ground floor) and the panorama (on the first floor).
On his second trip, Tinayre took a Lumière cinematograph with him to document the daily life of the Malagasy people, no doubt to facilitate the design of the vast panorama. These short films were donated to the Cinémathèque française in 2009 by his grandson, Alain Tinayre.
One of the admirers of Tinayre's drawings, watercolours, paintings and photographs at the Universal Exhibition was Prince Albert I of Monaco: from 1901 onwards, Tinayre accompanied him on his hunts, painting scenes in North Africa, Russia, the Far West (Wyoming) and the North Pole. Tinayre, the official painter of the Prince's scientific expeditions, left his name to a glacier.
Together with the painter Alexandre Jean-Baptiste Brun, he painted the four murals in the large amphitheatre of the Oceanographic Institute in Paris. Louis Tinayre painted the figures while Alexandre Brun...
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1890s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Sailboats I. Watercolor on paper, 18x24 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Sailboats I. Watercolor on paper, 18x24 cm
Zigmunds Šņore was born in 1942 in Latvia. His works has been exhibited since 1969 and are held in private collections in Latvia, USA, Sw...
Category
2010s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Hubert Hennes New College Oxford Cloisters watercolour
Located in London, GB
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Hubert Hennes (b.1907)
New College...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
John Anderson Bell King’s College Cambridge Chapel Interior c. 1840 watercolour
By John Anderson Bell
Located in London, GB
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John Anderson Bell (1809-1865)
King’s College Cambridge Chapel Interior
Signed and indistinctly dated
Watercolour c. 1840
53x39cm
Bell was born in Glasgow; his father was James Bell, advocate and his sister Jane...
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1830s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
In the park. Paper, watercolor, 42x29.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
In the park. Paper, watercolor, 42x29.5 cm
Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013)
Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In ...
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1970s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Sails. Watercolor, paper, 18, 5 x 23 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Sails. Watercolor, paper, 18,5 x 23 cm
Zigmunds Šņore was born in 1942 in Latvia. His works has been exhibited since 1969 and are held in private collections in Latvia, USA, Sweden...
Category
2010s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Episode of the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, a cantonment of soldiers, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French School 19th Century
Episode of the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, a cantonment of soldiers during the siege of Paris
Pen and brown ink on paper
15 x 23 cm
Annotated on the lower...
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1870s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
"In the Artist's Studio, " Late 19th Century Scottish Realist Watercolor Interior
Located in Wiscasset, ME
"In the Artist's Studio" was painted in the realistic style in the late 19th century by the Scottish artist, George Clark Stanton. Stanton was a painter, watercolorist, goldsmith and...
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Late 19th Century Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Hubert Hennes New College Oxford University Cloisters sketch
Located in London, GB
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Hubert Hennes (1907 - 1986)
New College...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
At the Bar, Restaurant Interior Painting by Harry McCormick
Located in Long Island City, NY
A large drawing by Harry McCormick from 1990's. An interior scene of a young woman in a low-lit bar.
Artist: Harry McCormick, American (1942 - )
Title: At th...
Category
1990s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Watercolor
Draught Players Large Interior Genre Scene 19 century Irish Watercolor Painting
By Erskine Nicol RSA ARA
Located in Stockholm, SE
Painting is titled “Paddy’s Dilemma" by Erskine Nicol (Erskine Nicol RSA ARA, 1825 – 1904), Irishman. Detailed and richly decorated in objects picture of a cozy interior takes us str...
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Late 19th Century Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wood, Paper, Watercolor
Claude Shepperson - Petrushka - Watercolour scene from the Ballets Russes
By Claude Allin Shepperson
Located in London, GB
CLAUDE ALLIN SHEPPERSON, ARA, ARWS
(1867-1921)
Petrushka – Scene from the Ballets Russes
Signed l.l.: Shepperson
Watercolour over traces of pencil
Framed
30.5 by 45.5 cm., 12 by 18 in.
(frame size 52.5 by 66 cm., 20 ¾ by 26 in.)
Provenance:
Richard C Davis...
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1910s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Harry Carleton Attwood - The Resurrection - 1930s Mural Design for Eltham Hall
Located in London, GB
HARRY CARLETON ATTWOOD
(1907-1985)
Resurrection – Mural Design for Eltham Hall
Signed with initials, dated and inscribed l.c.: Designs for Eltham Hall / 17/4/36 / HCA
Watercolour ...
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1930s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Man sitting in the studio - Thinking about art -
Located in Berlin, DE
Adolph Eduard Otto von Faber du Faur (1828 Ludwigsburg - 1901 Munich). Man sitting in the studio. Watercolour painting, 43 x 27 cm (visible size), 73 x 53 cm (frame), monogrammed at lower right, estate stamp.
Upper right corner neatly repaired, small tear in the wall to the left of the sitter.
- Thinking about art -
About the artwork
The sitter, an elderly man, is seated in a studio on a pedestal reminiscent of an academy hall. The earthy, dark tones give the scene a weighty quality. The lightest tones are found in the incarnate parts of the figure, which do not stand out from the other colours of the picture, but are linked to them. As a result, the sitter's face is both part of and the highlight of the colour references in the picture. The colour of the sitter's skin is reflected in his pink coat, while his white-grey hair matches the colour of the wall next to him. This almost monochrome wall surface, in turn, is connected across the portrait to the framed picture standing on the floor, which seems to have been erased by this correspondence with the empty wall surface. Through the palette, which is positioned directly behind the sitter's head, the reference to painting, which is already given by the studio space, is explicitly linked to the sitter, who thus seems to be contemplating the question of the meaning of art.
This raises the question of whether Faber Du Faur, who had become lonely in his old age, might have painted a self-portrait here in his later years. In addition to the studio setting, the sitter's explicit reference to the palette and the fact that the picture was part of his estate, the only summary elaboration of the body suggests a self-portrait, while the representation of the face is concretised with the wide-open eyes typical of a self-portrait. This concentration on the face gives the impression of the artist's melancholy introspection, captured by the palette and related to the meaning of painting, whose dark character is reinforced by the concealment of the palette hanging on the right of the picture in the light tones so characteristic of Faber Du Faur. In the course of this resignation, Faber du Faur advises his son Hans, who has also become a painter: "Promise me one thing: never move to Munich, they'll kill you here!"
Whoever the sitter may be, the references to painting make the portrait a resigned self-contemplation by Faber Du Faur, focused on art.
About the artist
After leaving school, Otto Faber du Faur entered the service of the Württemberg army, at the same time cultivating his artistic talent. In 1851, on the recommendation of his father Christian Wilhelm, who was himself a battle painter, he spent six months in Munich as an apprentice to Alexander von Kotzebue. In 1852 he was granted a year's leave of absence from military service to study battle painting in the studio of Adolphe Yvon...
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1890s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Garden Views #3, Tulip with Butterfly
Located in Burlingame, CA
Susan Manchester’s drawings of feathers and flora are meditations on the ephemeral nature of life, and they reflect the artist’s fascination with beau...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Graphite, Crayon, Pastel, Handmade Paper
French Fashion: Lady and her Maid, a Drawing by Horace Vernet, 1814
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Horace Vernet
(French, 1789-1863)
Lady and Her Maid with a Dress, 1814
Watercolor on paper, 8 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches
Framed: 15 x 13 inches (approx.)
Signed and dated at lower right: "H...
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1810s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Self-portrait - Homo nudus -
Located in Berlin, DE
Bruno Paul (1874 Seifhennersdorf - 1968 Berlin). Self-portrait, c. 1895. Pencil on paper, mounted on cardboard, 53.5 x 35 cm, signed 'Paul' at upper left.
- Homo nudus -
About the artwork
In a mirrored situation, Bruno Paul looks at himself in the picture. While his body, which is the size of the format, is shown in profile parallel to the picture, he turns his head into the picture in order to become aware of himself there, whereby the lighter use...
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1890s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Still-life with Loaf of Bread
Located in New York, NY
Untitled, Still-life, 2014
Graphite on paper
76 x 50 cm
Nikos Kanarelis was born in Athens, Greece in 1975 where he now lives and works. Βetween 1999 and 2004 he studied at the pai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Still Life with Skull
Located in New York, NY
Untitled
Graphite on paper
18 1/2 × 27 3/5 in / 47 × 70 cm
Nikos Kanarelis was born in Athens, Greece in 1975 where he now lives and works. Βetween 1999 and 2004 he studied at t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
French Fashion: Two Ladies, a drawing by Horace Vernet, 1814
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Horace Vernet
(French, 1789-1863)
Two Ladies Standing, 1814
Watercolor on paper, 8 x 6 1/4 inches
Framed: 15 x 13 inches (approx.)
Signed and dated at lower right: "H.Vernet--1814."...
Category
1810s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Antique 19th Century Realism Orientalist Watercolor Paper on Board
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Arabian Charger Seller" by Antonio Rivas (Spanish, 1845-1911) stands as an exquisite example of Orientalism, a 19th-century artistic movement that sought to depict the rich and diverse cultures of the East. Rivas, a master of his craft, delves into this genre with a keen eye for detail and a dedication to authenticity that brings the scene to life.
In this antique watercolor on paper...
Category
19th Century Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Board, Laid Paper
St John’s College, Oxford Canterbury Quad drawing by Bryan de Grineau
Located in London, GB
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1950s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
St John’s College, Oxford dining hall drawing by Bryan de Grineau
Located in London, GB
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1950s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Scarlet sunset. Bilateral. Paper, watercolor, 26.5x35 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Scarlet sunset. Bilateral. 1966. Paper, watercolor, 26.5x35 cm
Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013)
Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In 1947, she be...
Category
1960s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Realist interior drawings and watercolors for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Realist interior drawings and watercolors 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 interior drawings and watercolors created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Bryan De Grineau, Hubert Hennes, Nikos Kanarelis, and Antonio Rivas. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Watercolor 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 interior drawings and watercolors, so small editions measuring 2.5 inches across are also available. Prices for interior drawings and watercolors made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $76 and tops out at $32,000, while the average work sells for $1,775.