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Night by the lake
Marzena Skupien
Painting - 60 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,111
No Regrets (Narcisse)
Vanessa Dakinsky
Painting - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,017
Champs aux fleurs jaune
Didier Chrétien
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$954
Jeune fille espagnole au foulard
Edouard Morerod
Painting - 47.5 x 34.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 18.7 x 13.6 x 0.2 inch
$873
Personnage assis " Gong Hill Frontière du Tanganyika - Kenya"
Alois Wittlin
Painting - 65 x 53.7 x 0.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.1 x 0.2 inch
$1,092
0 Dark Thirty
Agnès de la Roncière
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,132
Paysage de campagne
Michel Terrapon
Painting - 33 x 46 x 0.3 cm Painting - 13 x 18.1 x 0.1 inch
$1,034
Eglise San Giovanni degli Eremiti
Antonio Ferrigno
Painting - 39.5 x 19.5 x 2 cm Painting - 15.6 x 7.7 x 0.8 inch
$987
Abstraction & courbes 1
Gisèle Desmarais
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$168
Ariel View, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Howard Danelowitz
Painting - 101.6 x 152.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 40 x 60 x 2 inch
$22,000
Place and Time do not Matter
Tadas Dromantas
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,244
Uomo con bastone e cappello
Mario Poggiali
Painting - 100 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$561
Fillette aux boucles rousse
Lucien-Philippe Moretti
Painting - 27 x 22 x 2 cm Painting - 10.6 x 8.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,103
Berger des Alpes et sa pipe
G. Baur
Painting - 39.5 x 30 x 0.5 cm Painting - 15.6 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$1,000
Mer 1990 Deep Sea
Ana Maria Lorenzen
Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$2,188
Port 1983 Harbour
Sung Soo KWAK
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$2,188
Jeune femme hongroise avec un miroir
Gyula Kovács
Painting - 60 x 51 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 20.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,379
1980 ROI ANTHROPOS KING
Antoine Boroffe
Painting - 99 x 69 x 1 cm Painting - 39 x 27.2 x 0.4 inch
$1,290
Gondoles sur la lagune et vue sur Venise
Carlo Vason
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
$690
Nature morte à la pomme
Fernand Blondin
Painting - 26.5 x 34.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 10.4 x 13.6 x 0.1 inch
$667
A scent of evening for You
Joanna Sierko-Filipowska
Painting - 87 x 127 x 5 cm Painting - 34.3 x 50 x 2 inch
$25,804
Bouquet de fleurs
Hans Gartmeier
Painting - 51 x 39.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 20.1 x 15.6 x 0.2 inch
$575
Rue animée à Montmartre, Paris
Simon Kramer
Painting - 48 x 38 x 0.5 cm Painting - 18.9 x 15 x 0.2 inch
$690
Bakken (Parc d'attractions près de Copenhague)
Wilhelm Wils
Painting - 70 x 90 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$2,019
What a bliss the wind twisted again
Izabela Apananska
Painting - 90 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,263
Sailboat Painting Alaska
Tetiana Teresh
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,122
Cityscape with figures...
John Haanstra
Painting - 25.7 x 20.5 x 1 cm Painting - 10.1 x 8.1 x 0.4 inch
$1,963
The Dreamplanter
Judith Christine Riemer
Painting - 95 x 115 x 2 cm Painting - 37.4 x 45.3 x 0.8 inch
$3,758
Kuluso (Ant-Lion Larvae)
Adegbenro Adeola
Painting - 147.3 x 116.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 58 x 46 x 1 inch
$5,000
La Drize à Troinex, Genève
Jules Robert Chatelain
Painting - 42.5 x 55.5 x 2 cm Painting - 16.7 x 21.9 x 0.8 inch
$747
Enfants jouant en bord de rivière
Baldo Gulberti
Painting - 46 x 54 x 0.5 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.3 x 0.2 inch
$609
Mont Saint Michel 1963 Saint Michael Mount
Gilbert L'Héritier
Painting - 12 x 16 cm Painting - 4.7 x 6.3 inch
$1,178
Barques et voiliers à la Belotte, lac Léman Genève
Paul Delapoterie
Painting - 46 x 61.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 18.1 x 24.2 x 0.2 inch
$690
North and South Korea War 82, situation
Oh KYUNG HWAN
Painting - 120 x 90 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$2,233
Artiste et modèle à l'atelier
Franz Wanger
Painting - 73 x 58 x 1 cm Painting - 28.7 x 22.8 x 0.4 inch
$1,448
Jeune compositeur
Jenny-Marguerite Zillhardt
Painting - 70 x 52 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 20.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,379
Paysage et Village Sud Coréen 1974 South Korean Village and landscape
Jun Myung Ja
Painting - 32.5 x 42 cm Painting - 12.8 x 16.5 inch
$1,963
Jeune femme en costume oriental et bouquet de fleurs
Blanche Pierron
Painting - 85 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 33.5 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,034
Paysage d'un village enneigé
Albert Joseph Januarius Di Décarli
Painting - 37.5 x 45 x 1 cm Painting - 14.8 x 17.7 x 0.4 inch
$713
Dame au parapet
Giuseppe De Santis
Painting - 80 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,815
Château de cartes
François Xavier Bricard
Painting - 68.5 x 55.5 x 2 cm Painting - 27 x 21.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,034
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The tree of life
Seyran Gasparyan
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,200 $1,020
Autumn forest
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,000
Walk in the sky - blue pink geometry abstraction
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 60 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,458
Peinture 03-2023-18
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$1,346
Minimal Forms 03
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 76.2 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$650
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.