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Signs I
Ekene Stanley Emecheta
Painting - 75 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 29.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
Price upon request
Dix chaises
Marius Pons de Vincent
Painting - 117 x 79 x 5 cm Painting - 46.1 x 31.1 x 2 inch
Price upon request
Catamurons
Simon Hantaï
Painting - 53 x 46 x 4 cm Painting - 20.9 x 18.1 x 1.6 inch
Price upon request
Depli-Color (1)
Jean Degottex
Painting - 162 x 162 x 4 cm Painting - 63.8 x 63.8 x 1.6 inch
Price upon request
Claudia
Sophie Westerlind
Painting - 110 x 85 x 4 cm Painting - 43.3 x 33.5 x 1.6 inch
Price upon request
Corpus Christi II
Thierry Bruet
Painting - 114 x 162 x 2 cm Painting - 44.9 x 63.8 x 0.8 inch
Price upon request
Schisme #2
Erwann Tirilly
Painting - 84 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 33.1 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
Price upon request
Stripes double
Jean Marie Drouet
Painting - 81 x 116 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 45.7 x 1.2 inch
Price upon request
Still Life
Arturo Tosi
Painting - 42 x 54 x 1.4 cm Painting - 16.5 x 21.3 x 0.6 inch
Price upon request
Le dos de ma sœur
Camille Brès
Painting - 40 x 32 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 12.6 x 1.2 inch
Price upon request
Softer Notes for Love
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
£1,348
Mirrored Dreams
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
£2,606
Harmony to the Horizon
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
£2,606
Evening time
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 60 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,012
Capture the essence
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
£759
Whispers of the Forest
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
£2,606
Home is where the Heart is
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
£2,606
Blue Bonnets calling me Home
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 90 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
£2,067
God gave me You
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 90 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
£2,067
Love without End
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 90 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
£2,067
Mystical Majestic Trees
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 90 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
£2,067
Big Thicket Mysteries
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 90 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
£2,067
A girl who loves the sea II
Serghei Ghetiu
Painting - 80 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,348
The red Carpet Treatment
Lilly Muth
Painting - 85 x 105 x 2 cm Painting - 33.5 x 41.3 x 0.8 inch
£1,348
Silence evening
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 35 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
£843
Plage de Bussaghlia
Karine Bartoli
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1 inch
£1,348
7 Personnages Skate Park
Karine Bartoli
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1 inch
£1,348
The beauty of dance XII
Serghei Ghetiu
Painting - 80 x 49 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 19.3 x 0.8 inch
£1,528
L'univers de l'artiste
Sophie Dumont
Painting - 54 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
£2,606
Minimal Forms 03
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 76.2 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 48 x 1.5 inch
£548
Les echos de la litterature
Sophie Dumont
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,519
Dream Big In New York City
Yasna Godovanik
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,123 £686
The ballet friends
Serghei Ghetiu
Painting - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,797
In Time series
Guy Ghazanchyan
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,348 £1,213
In Time series
Guy Ghazanchyan
Painting - 120 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
£1,438 £1,294
In Time series
Guy Ghazanchyan
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,348 £1,213
We All Live Under the Same Sky
Nick Vivian
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
£2,400
Lecture en bleu majeur
Sophie Dumont
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,788
Aiming High to the Sky
Lilly Muth
Painting - 120 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
£2,157
Peinture 02-2023-17
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1 inch
£809
Untitled
Lilit Soghomonyan
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,797 £1,617
Untitled
Lilit Soghomonyan
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,797 £1,617
The beauty of dance XIII
Serghei Ghetiu
Painting - 80 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,348
When the sun is shining
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 121.9 x 182.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 72 x 1.5 inch
£1,265
Peinture 06-2020-65
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
£764
Peinture 06-2023-45
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
£764
The Dawn of Perception
Zakhar Shevchuk
Painting - 80 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£2,246
A Break in Reality
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£1,617
Along the Back Roads
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,438
A Burst of Gold
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,438
Impossible architectures IV
Orlando Alandia
Painting - 80 x 80 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 inch
£1,168
Impossible architectures III
Orlando Alandia
Painting - 80 x 80 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 inch
£1,168
Impossible architectures II
Orlando Alandia
Painting - 80 x 80 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 inch
£1,168
Nature harmony
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 80 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,518
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Peinture 03-2023-18
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
£1,078
Autumn forest
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£843
The tree of life
Seyran Gasparyan
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,012
Mozarts in Vienna
Tinatin Chkhikvishvili
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
£1,258
Portrait #2. From the Portraits series
Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku
Painting - 30 x 20.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 8.2 x 0.1 inch
£1,012
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.
What is special about oil painting?
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.
What's the difference between oil painting and acrylic?
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.
Is oil painting easier than watercolor?
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.