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Anne Horlaville
Painting - 65 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,086
Hôtel Majestic 24
Frédéric Batard
Painting - 115.5 x 80.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.5 x 31.7 x 1 inch
$2,137
Bastide en Provence
Bernard Buffet
Painting - 50 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$110,827
De guerre lasse
Sylvie Julkowski-Egard
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,696
Pêcheur
Frederick Reginald Donat
Painting - 47.5 x 26 x 0.5 cm Painting - 18.7 x 10.2 x 0.2 inch
$1,636
Les ombres blanches
Anne Bachelier
Painting - 65 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
$7,690
A Long Way Home
Sebastian Picker
Painting - 150 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$13,571
Evening Serenade at the Jazz Café
Ruzanna Melqumyan
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
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Silly Yes
Artur Soletskyi
Painting - 110 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$4,524 $4,071
Jeune femme au châle et panier de fleures
L. Rubia
Painting - 44 x 33.5 x 1 cm Painting - 17.3 x 13.2 x 0.4 inch
$1,441
Rêver à la lune
Christine Desplanque
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$893
Chromatic Harmony
Sergey Khachatryan
Painting - 35 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
$900
Time for change
Ventzislav Dikov
Painting - 81 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,866 $1,587
III (Three) Imperfect Imperfections
Makama John
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
$2,299
Paysage de campagne avec vue sur le Jura Suisse
Arthur Morard
Painting - 60 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,121
Campagne genevoise
Charles Emile Brunner
Painting - 46 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$1,464
Anthurium avec orange
Duda Moraes
Painting - 195 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 76.8 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$8,142
In the eye of the beholder
Marco Riha
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$4,184 $3,975
Il lago di Castreccioni (1)
Vassilij Levi
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,696
Terrace with flowers - Amalfi painting Italy
Gianni Di Guida
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$368
Seine (The Self Romantic)
Ajegbomogun Damilola
Painting - 152.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 36 x 1 inch
$3,500
Majesty of the Cliffs
Hrach Baghdasaryan
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$600
Horror Vacui I, Doodle Eyes
Marie Julou (Tina McCallan)
Painting - 61 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,131
In the countryside - Tuscany landscape painting
Andrea Borella
Painting - 50 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$792
You are the Happiness that Flows Through Me
Slava Ilyayev
Painting - 76 x 76 x 3 cm Painting - 29.9 x 29.9 x 1.2 inch
$8,600
Paysage d'automne
Emile Patru
Painting - 21.5 x 26.5 x 1.5 cm Painting - 8.5 x 10.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,316
Femme au turban jaune
E. Rosselli
Painting - 55.4 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.8 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,567
Dîner sur Saint Sylvestre
Baptiste Laurent
Painting - 130 x 162 x 4 cm Painting - 51.2 x 63.8 x 1.6 inch
$3,619
Souvenirs d'enfance
Pierre Henry
Painting - 60 x 48.5 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.1 x 0.4 inch
$2,288
Chat et son compagnon
Christopher Lecoutre
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,527
Lemon yelow and violet
Luis Miguel Aparisi
Painting - 81.3 x 100.1 x 3 cm Painting - 32 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,020
French Terrace Tranquility
Alexander Grinshpun
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,000
La Fille au Coq ou Belarus
Svetlana Maksimenko
Painting - 80 x 60 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 inch
$2,799
Two Standing Figures
Vav Hakobyan
Painting - 140 x 190 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 74.8 x 1.2 inch
$33,927
A Domestic Still Life Composition
Arman Hayrapetyan
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$4,500
Jungle bleue a green hill valley
Christophe Ronel
Painting - 81 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$4,750
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
$1,602
Ravello sea pointview - Amalfitan Coast painting (Italy) + frame
Gio Sannino
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$413
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
The essence of life
Ella Prakash
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$8,482
Eternal (L'Eternel)
Alain Rigollier
Painting - 55 x 46 x 1 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.4 inch
$554
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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.