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![Painting, No Foreign Lands, Houda Terjuman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213090_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Countryside Encounter, Hrach Baghdasaryan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209894_1_grid.jpg)
Countryside Encounter
Hrach Baghdasaryan
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$450
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Still life with cherries
Simona Tsvetkova
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$984
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Sentier d'automne
Christine Desplanque
Painting - 41 x 27.2 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 10.7 x 0.8 inch
$442
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Cascade en forêt - série Paysage et nature
Michel Charlier-Haldorf
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,678
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View from Longmire Bridge II
Nancy Romanovsky
Painting - 40.6 x 50.8 x 1 cm Painting - 16 x 20 x 0.4 inch
$1,300
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Arch to the Sky
Isabel Emrich
Painting - 139.7 x 147.3 x 3.8 cm Painting - 55 x 58 x 1.5 inch
$7,000
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French Terrace Tranquility
Alexander Grinshpun
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,000
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The Rebirth of Wilhelm
Andrei Shchurok
Painting - 130 x 190 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 74.8 x 1.2 inch
$8,388
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Marchands de chevaux
Percival Pernet
Painting - 48 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 18.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,216
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Series ‘Morning Flowers’
Ramaz Chantladze
Painting - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,237
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The seagulls festival
Ricardo Fabián Bertona
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$1,350
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Pêcheur
Frederick Reginald Donat
Painting - 47.5 x 26 x 0.5 cm Painting - 18.7 x 10.2 x 0.2 inch
$1,676
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Un homme, sa porsche, ses oignons
Christian Lucas
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,796
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Femme au turban jaune
E. Rosselli
Painting - 55.4 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.8 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,606
![Painting, L'arrivée du Printemps, Antoine Lombardo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2194514_1_grid.jpg)
L'arrivée du Printemps
Antoine Lombardo
Painting - 50 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$895
![Painting, Compacte en vert, Christophe Vilar](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2186495_1_grid.jpg)
Compacte en vert
Christophe Vilar
Painting - 61 x 50 x 5 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 2 inch
$3,355 $3,020
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Père et enfant (Série par dessus les grillages)
Hélène Deghilage
Painting - 60 x 80 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 inch
$2,237
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Linen with Some Abstract n°552
Harry James Moody
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 5.1 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 2 inch
$1,980
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Il lago di Castreccioni (1)
Vassilij Levi
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,678
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Tropiques, oiseaux blancs
Bernard Marie Collet
Painting - 100 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$2,125
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Liquid Metal and Crushed Roses
Mary Brown
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$10,000
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Calanque d'En Vau
Chantal Buissart
Painting - 65 x 92 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 36.2 x 1 inch
$1,007
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Sea sunset swell n*8 - Italian painting
Bruno Di Giulio
Painting - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$363
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Flotter - série Paysage abstraite
Claire de Noinville
Painting - 20 x 20 x 0.3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
$157
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Bouquet et livres
Benjamin II Vautier
Painting - 46 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.8 inch
$1,172
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Boats at rest "nocturnal" - Italy painting & frame
Vittorio Colucci
Painting - 25 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 9.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$391
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Repos des pêcheurs dans le Golf de Saint-Tropez
Louis André Mourgues
Painting - 54.7 x 73.5 x 0.7 cm Painting - 21.5 x 28.9 x 0.3 inch
$1,641
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Mystery at the Bar
Ruslana Levandovska
Painting - 61 x 76.2 x 1.9 cm Painting - 24 x 30 x 0.75 inch
$12,000
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Red Wagon, New Things Series.
Alexander Lufer
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,188
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A la table (1)
Manuela Karin Knaut
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$7,717
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The essence of life
Ella Prakash
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$8,388
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Three horses on the sea - Italian painting
Romano Mussolini
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,790
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Oil Painting for Sale
Oil painting is a type of paint which involves mixing crushed color pigments usually with linseed oil, although poppy seed oil can also be used. The support on which it is painted must be covered with a primer beforehand so that the layer of paint can adhere to the support; an additional step which is crucial to the creative process and also means that it can be adapted to many types of surfaces.
It was during the Middle Ages that oil painting first appeared and began to be developed in the Western world. The discovery of oil painting is often attributed to the Flemish painter, Jan Van Eyck who had been experimenting with various mixtures. With this new painting technique, his works benefited from new transparency effects and a new type of aesthetic was born. His approach was copied and later shared more widely by other primitive Flemish painters. Oil painting replaced the tempera technique, which uses egg as a binder.
Similarly, the wood on which artists painted was replaced by linen canvas, installed on a frame from the 15th century onwards and later placed on an easel. Although it was well-liked by painters, this medium had its drawbacks; its components were toxic and its preparation required a great amount of artisan savoir-faire in the studio. Despite this, it became closely linked to the visual arts and and was hugely popularised during the Renaissance thanks to the Venetian painters such as Titian, followed closely by the Flemish, including Rubens, before it reached the Netherlands who made it their own, with Rembrandt leading the way.
The 19th and 20th centuries saw oil painting became the number one choice and the preferred medium for for modern times. The mixture no longer had to be prepared by artists in the studio; industrialization had made things easier and the paint came pre-prepared, packaged in tubes. The tin tube was commercialized in France in 1840 and revolutionised the history of art by encouraging the Impressionists to take their brushes and paints outside and paint en plein air. It would slowly be overtaken by acrylic paint a century later which simplified things even further as it was dried faster.
An oil painting canvas also implies that the painter must respect the fat-over-lean principle, meaning that a colors with high oil content (fat) should be applied over layers of paint with lower oil content (lean) to ensure that the painting will last longer and to prevent cracking. Oil painting remains a widely used method and numerous artworks are still made using this technique.
Contemporary artists still master oil painting but sometimes avoid working with it in the same traditional ways of the 20th century. The canvas is often not prepared so that its texture can be seen under the layer of paint, as certain abstract painters have done. Jackson Pollock for example used oil painting but did not glaze his works. He didn't even truly paint his canvases as he used a dripping technique; by shaking his brush he created splashes of paint over the canvas…
On Artsper, explore contemporary paintings by well-known artists including Arman, Salvador Dali and Robert Combas.
Oil painting allows for very efficient mixing of colors and tones. Due to its long drying time, it is possible to alter an oil painting days after the paint has been applied. Oil painting also allows for precision and a range of visual effects.
Oil paint and acrylic paint are produced using different materials. While oil painting consists of pigments suspended in drying oils, acrylic paint is water-based. The main difference between the two is that acrylic paints can be thinned down with water, and dry faster than oil paints.
It is easier to correct mistakes when working in oil paint as they are more opaque than watercolors and can be easily scraped off a surface.