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![Painting, Pleasure, Corinne Foucouin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1180398_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Floral Meadow, Katharina Husslein](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2231484_1_grid.jpg)
Floral Meadow
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 90 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
£1,492
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Blue Circles on Orange
Giorgio Lo Fermo
Painting - 100 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
£1,053 £842
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![Painting, You are full of Sunlight, Lilly Muth](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2230701_1_grid.jpg)
You are full of Sunlight
Lilly Muth
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
£1,492
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![Painting, Harmony in Flight, Armen Vahramyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2231041_1_grid.jpg)
Harmony in Flight
Armen Vahramyan
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,450
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![Painting, La Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, Marie France Garrigues](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2231360_1_grid.jpg)
La Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris
Marie France Garrigues
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
£570
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![Painting, But by choice, Poonam Choudhary](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2230486_1_grid.jpg)
But by choice
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1.5 inch
£1,209 £1,088
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![Painting, Untitled from transFormations cycle (dyptich), Klaudia Lata](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2231260_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled from transFormations cycle (dyptich)
Klaudia Lata
Painting - 200 x 160 cm Painting - 78.7 x 63 inch
£3,510 £3,159
![Painting, White Flowers in Glass, Zakhar Shevchuk](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2231085_1_grid.jpg)
White Flowers in Glass
Zakhar Shevchuk
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
£702 £562
![Painting, Nouveaux horizons, Pauline Bailly](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2231303_1_grid.jpg)
Nouveaux horizons
Pauline Bailly
Painting - 46 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 24 x 0.8 inch
£483 £434
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Urban Symphony
Marieta Martirosyan
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£805
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![Painting, Dance, Graciella Castellano-Saavedra](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2230329_1_grid.jpg)
Dance
Graciella Castellano-Saavedra
Painting - 65 x 48 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 18.9 x 0.8 inch
£570 £513
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Armenian Beauty
Hayk Miqayelyan
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£967 £822
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Olympic Energy Paris 2024 (L'Energie Olympique Paris 2024)
Bruno Cantais
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1 inch
£873
![Painting, Underwater / Orange And Blue, Simon Findlay](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2231480_1_grid.jpg)
Underwater / Orange And Blue
Simon Findlay
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,141
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![Painting, Blue Lilac and Purple, Paulo Gnecco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2230880_1_grid.jpg)
Blue Lilac and Purple
Paulo Gnecco
Painting - 95 x 190 x 4 cm Painting - 37.4 x 74.8 x 1.6 inch
£4,387
![Painting, Rhythmic Color Symphony, Marieta Martirosyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206122_1_grid.jpg)
Rhythmic Color Symphony
Marieta Martirosyan
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
£805
![Painting, Mystic Patterns, Artur Hakobjanyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2231515_1_grid.jpg)
Mystic Patterns
Artur Hakobjanyan
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,450
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The Last Rays of the Sun
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,289 £967
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![Painting, Du côté de Paimpol (Série), Charlotte Abecassis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2207357_1_grid.jpg)
Du côté de Paimpol (Série)
Charlotte Abecassis
Painting - 56 x 42 cm Painting - 22 x 16.5 inch
£1,141
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![Painting, Abstracted Landscape, Richard Szkutnik](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2227108_1_grid.jpg)
Abstracted Landscape
Richard Szkutnik
Painting - 45.7 x 45.7 x 0.5 cm Painting - 18 x 18 x 0.2 inch
£1,176
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1958 Le grand Bleu Blue (1)
Abdallah Benanteur
Painting - 24 x 18 x 1 cm Painting - 9.4 x 7.1 x 0.4 inch
£1,711 £855
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![Painting, Le relais des postes d'apres Pissarro, Pol Arago](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2227919_1_grid.jpg)
Le relais des postes d'apres Pissarro
Pol Arago
Painting - 38 x 46 x 3 cm Painting - 15 x 18.1 x 1.2 inch
£667
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Red Flowers à la fenêtre
Julien Cuny
Painting - 146 x 114 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 0.8 inch
£2,194
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![Painting, Abstract Still Life, Liana Ohanyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2231327_1_grid.jpg)
Abstract Still Life
Liana Ohanyan
Painting - 70 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,934
![Painting, Même pas peur - scène de vie figurative, Christiane Dumon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2230790_1_grid.jpg)
Même pas peur - scène de vie figurative
Christiane Dumon
Painting - 80 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
£1,206
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Animal Painting #018-1632
Les Thomas
Painting - 31 x 31 x 4 cm Painting - 12.2 x 12.2 x 1.6 inch
£1,193
![Painting, Embrace your strengths, Natalya Mougenot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2230365_1_grid.jpg)
Embrace your strengths
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 61 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
£746
![Painting, Riga Embankment (1), Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2231715_1_grid.jpg)
Riga Embankment (1)
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 40 x 118 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 46.5 x 0.8 inch
£702
![Painting, Elevations - Paysage imaginaire et architecture, Danièle Lemius](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2220686_1_grid.jpg)
Elevations - Paysage imaginaire et architecture
Danièle Lemius
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£1,378
![Painting, Flowers of hope, Tetiana Adamovich](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2218668_1_grid.jpg)
Flowers of hope
Tetiana Adamovich
Painting - 100 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 23.6 x 1 inch
£1,053
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![Painting, Apples 23, Rafal Gadowski](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2231226_1_grid.jpg)
Apples 23
Rafal Gadowski
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
£1,404 £1,263
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The Reluctance of September Leaves
Patricia Ariel
Painting - 61 x 48.3 x 0.5 cm Painting - 24 x 19 x 0.2 inch
£987
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Como Lake Italy
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£806 £645
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The Love Seat, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Robert LeMar
Painting - 38.1 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 15 x 20 x 1 inch
£854
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Murmur of tender leaves
Paulo Jimenez
Painting - 45.7 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 1 inch
£1,289
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Still Life With a Cat
Mateos Sargsyan
Painting - 65 x 48 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 18.9 x 0.8 inch
£1,209
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Packed Grey Heaven
Yrjö Edelmann
Painting - 65 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
£28,516
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Ying, Love Cures No.1
Xiao Ying Chen
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
£1,228
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Pond with water lilies
Schagen Vita
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£746
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Peinture D1-2024-07
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 120 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 2 inch
£1,053
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Mario is in Love
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
£2,808 £2,527
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Melody of Enchantment
Anahit Mirijanyan
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£483
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Tapestry of Anatolia
Sergey Khachatryan
Painting - 55 x 85 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 33.5 x 0.8 inch
£4,834
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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.