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Portrait de femme au foulard vert
Georges Dessouslavy
Painting - 41 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 13 x 0.8 inch
CHF 520
Nature morte à l'arrosoir et aux cactus
William Goliasch
Painting - 46 x 60 x 0.5 cm Painting - 18.1 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
CHF 1,030
Abstract pattern II
José Luis Ceña
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
CHF 4,082
Mon mouchoir est tombé
James Guitet
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
CHF 6,123
Les bâches bleues
Célestin Messaggio
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
CHF 3,674
Reedines potentieel ratio
Wiegen Den Uyl
Painting - 90 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
CHF 5,001
Lubéron bastide fleurie
Francis Riehl
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
CHF 597
Memorie e vecchi ori (heroes)
Alberto La Tassa
Painting - 160 x 230 x 3 cm Painting - 63 x 90.6 x 1.2 inch
CHF 24,492
Sleeping Beauty
Cathrine Ockernahl
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
CHF 4,745
Old woman living near sea
Vu Nhu Hai
Painting - 88.9 x 94 x 5.1 cm Painting - 35 x 37 x 2 inch
CHF 5,203
The rooster, the shadow and you
Paco Simón
Painting - 195 x 250 x 6 cm Painting - 76.8 x 98.4 x 2.4 inch
CHF 30,616
Mester de Juglaria
Carlos Velilla
Painting - 195 x 250 x 4 cm Painting - 76.8 x 98.4 x 1.6 inch
CHF 30,616
1866058
Alain Patrick Korenberg
Painting - 84 x 126 x 0.2 cm Painting - 33.1 x 49.6 x 0.1 inch
CHF 3,266
Number 13
Parkhomenko Vladimir Leonidovich
Painting - 122 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 48 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
CHF 3,674
Sur le chemin pour aller au champs
Raimundo Bida
Painting - 130 x 190 x 4 cm Painting - 51.2 x 74.8 x 1.6 inch
CHF 6,123
Smoky Election Promises
Simon Richard Halimi
Painting - 162 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 63.8 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
CHF 36,739
Silk sunlight
Sonja roosenhart
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
CHF 4,031
03 Diptych
Helen Carricaburu
Painting - 130 x 300 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 118.1 x 0.8 inch
CHF 8,674
Arbre en automne avec vue sur le lac
Daniel Klein
Painting - 46.5 x 33 x 2.5 cm Painting - 18.3 x 13 x 1 inch
CHF 520
Cactus en fleurs
Arne Siegfried
Painting - 61.5 x 46.5 x 1 cm Painting - 24.2 x 18.3 x 0.4 inch
CHF 590
Backlit dogwood
Jeffrey Vaughn
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 3.81 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 1.5 inch
CHF 1,781
Kuraszewo. Garden at Night
Andrzej Fogtt
Painting - 70 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
CHF 6,633
Atelier bleu rouge
Jean-Claude Libert
Painting - 46 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 13 x 0.8 inch
CHF 3,317
Régate série mer et voiliers
Bernard Relecom
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
CHF 163
Symphonie lumineuse
François Faucher
Painting - 51 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 20.1 x 24 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,990
Ugomma, The bride of the prince
Theophilus Chima
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
CHF 3,784
Television Antenna
Domenico Purificato
Painting - 35.6 x 25.3 x 0.1 cm Painting - 14 x 10 x 0 inch
CHF 510
Les blés de Puplinge, Genève
Jules Gaillepand
Painting - 42 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 16.5 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
CHF 570
Coming Home
James Austin Murray
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 10.2 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 4 inch
CHF 14,664
Paysage de campagne et paysans fauchant du foin
Albert Silvestre
Painting - 43 x 60.5 x 2 cm Painting - 16.9 x 23.8 x 0.8 inch
CHF 580
Village de pêcheurs et réparation des bateaux - côte amalfitaine
Giuseppe Iannicella
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
CHF 530
Coca Cola Empire War
Luc Duina
Painting - 97 x 74 x 0.5 cm Painting - 38.2 x 29.1 x 0.2 inch
CHF 1,276
Early Evening
Natalia Tretyakova
Painting - 45 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
CHF 2,082
What If
Obiora Anamaleze
Painting - 119.4 x 114.3 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47 x 45 x 1 inch
CHF 2,223 CHF 2,001
Mégalodon - Interprétation abstraite du requin
Jocelyne Texier dite Joce
Painting - 30 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
CHF 372
Wild Thoughts
Rafal Mielniczek
Painting - 121 x 91 x 3 cm Painting - 47.6 x 35.8 x 1.2 inch
CHF 3,164
Pandemic Play
Oladeinde Aralola Eniola
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 inch
CHF 3,027
Free Red Transformed
Nel ten Wolde
Painting - 102 x 137 x 3 cm Painting - 40.2 x 53.9 x 1.2 inch
CHF 5,975
Fractal Figure Red Flower
Anya Rubin
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
CHF 7,095
Paysage lac et montagne
Anna Beyer
Painting - 38 x 48 x 1 cm Painting - 15 x 18.9 x 0.4 inch
CHF 550
Nature morte aux pommes, poires et raisin
K. Haeuser
Painting - 50 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
CHF 700
Paysage au vieux pont
Marcelle Ducret
Painting - 36 x 44.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 14.2 x 17.5 x 0.2 inch
CHF 500
Sul prato a primavera
Renato Bertoloni
Painting - 60 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
CHF 750
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Landscape
Areg Vahramyan
Painting - 110 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,939 CHF 1,551
Abstract Energy (Energie Abstraite)
Bruno Cantais
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1 inch
CHF 1,526
The tree of life
Seyran Gasparyan
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,135
Evening time
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 60 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,135 CHF 908
Peinture 03-2023-18
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
CHF 1,225
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
CHF 1,327
Nine Faces
Christiaan van Hedel
Painting - 120 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
CHF 3,725
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.