What is photorealism?
Photorealism is a genre of art or artistic movement that involves drawing, painting, and other graphic media in which the artist carefully studies a photograph and attempts to reproduce it as realistically as possible in another medium. While the term can broadly describe any artwork created in this manner, it specifically refers to a group of painters and paintings in the U.S. art movement that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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ARTWORKS RELATED TO PHOTOREALISM
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Balloon, 1983
Limited Edition Print
Silkscreen
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Robert Longo
Untitled (Eric, from Men in the Cities), 2025
Limited Edition Print
Silkscreen
EUR 3,000
Robert Cottingham
L (from An American Alphabet), 2005
Limited Edition Print
Lithograph
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Vija Celmins
Comet, 1992
Limited Edition Print
Linocut
USD 32,500
Robert Longo
Men in the Cities, Tokyo, Seibu Department Stores, Ltd. V (Single Man) & IV (Single Woman), 1990
Limited Edition Print
Lithograph
USD 68,000 - 75,000
Chuck Close
Self-Portrait, 2012
Limited Edition Print
Silkscreen
USD 40,000 - 50,000
Vik Muniz
After Sonia Delaunay, 2025
Limited Edition Print
Pigment print
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Chuck Close
Marta/Fingerprint, 1986
Limited Edition Print
Etching
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Chuck Close
Leslie/Fingerprint, 1986
Limited Edition Print
Etching
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Chuck Close
Emily/Fingerprint, 1986
Limited Edition Print
Etching
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Robert Longo
Thunder Road, 2010
Limited Edition Print
Digital Print on paper
USD 21,200
Gerhard Richter
December 2020 C, 2020
Limited Edition Print
Giclée printing
GBP 17,000 - 20,000
Gerhard Richter
Frau Mit Kind / Mother With Child, 1965 / 2005
Limited Edition Print
Offset Print
GBP 3,500 - 5,000
Chuck Close
Kara, 2012
Limited Edition Print
Mixed Media
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Gerhard Richter
Abstraktes Bild (Werk 563-1), 1984/2024
Limited Edition Print
Mixed Media
EUR 1,880
Gerhard Richter
Abstraktes Bild (Werk 522-3), 1983/2024
Limited Edition Print
Mixed Media
EUR 1,880
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