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Our selection of Oil Paintings

Oil painting is still one of the most widely used techniques, offering many KAZoART artists the opportunity to express themselves in oil paintings on canvas, as original as they are varied, whether abstract or figurative. The history of this technique goes back a long way, yet the infinite possibilities offered by oil paintings on canvas are yet to be fully explored. Discover our outstanding selection of oil on canvas or knife oil paintings!

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Carole Melmoux - Chécy, la loire
Carole Melmoux
Oil painting
55 x 46 cm
$2,169
Aykaz Arzumanyan - Rose - 554
Aykaz Arzumanyan
Oil painting
40 x 40 x 2 cm
$889
Clotilde Nadel - Un petit coin de jardin
Clotilde Nadel
Oil painting
80 x 80 cm
$2,169
Benoît Montet - Pin 'up iron
Benoît Montet
Oil painting
60 x 40 cm
$2,277
James Earley - Bo jo the clown
James Earley
Oil painting
76 x 52 cm
$3,693
Jean-Noël Le Junter - Le Vieux Mas
Jean-Noël Le Junter
Oil painting
33 x 41 x 2 cm
$803
Maria Esmar - A lifetime of memories
Maria Esmar
Oil painting
120 x 120 cm
$4,121
Pierre Dessein - Streetscape
Pierre Dessein
Oil painting
50 x 70 cm
$868
Aude Mouillot - Passiflore 2
Oil painting
60 x 73 cm
$542
Olivier Payeur - Autoportrait expressionniste
Olivier Payeur
Oil painting
50 x 50 cm
$976
Siri Knoepffler - Winterdays
Siri Knoepffler
Oil painting
120 x 120 cm
$2,494
Marta Grassi - Reflets
Oil painting
80 x 80 cm
$1,627
Pierre Richir - Wind in my heart
Pierre Richir
Oil painting
65 x 50 cm
$976
Christelle Zacchero - Father tree
Christelle Zacchero
Oil painting
100 x 70 x 1 cm
$1,952
Sally Lancaster - Glance
Sally Lancaster
Oil painting
40 x 60 cm
$1,942
François Pagé - C'était à la saint Martin, vous m'attendiez prés de Candes, le soir épicé d'or déposait sur nos corps quelques traces d'
François Pagé
Oil painting
73 x 92 cm
$2,169
Isabelle Mispelon - Norikura
Oil painting
50 x 70 cm
$781
Jean Christophe Tramblay - A l'aube du jardin
Jean Christophe Tramblay
Oil painting
74 x 92 cm
$2,603
Pierre Wuillaume - Bateaux à honfleur
Pierre Wuillaume
Oil painting
100 x 81 cm
$2,169
LABB - ENGLISH RED
LABB
Oil painting
100 x 100 x 2 cm
$3,254
Jenna Delattre - Pavlova
Oil painting
80 x 80 x 4 cm
$2,711
Chantal Parise - En Drôme provençale
Chantal Parise
Oil painting
80 x 80 x 3 cm
$1,952
Jacques KÉDOCHIM - Le marcheur
Jacques KÉDOCHIM
Oil painting
73 x 92 cm
$4,013
Marie-Astrid Grivet - En équilibre
Marie-Astrid Grivet
Oil painting
116 x 89 x 2 cm
$3,362
Clara Crespin - Chaque instant est toute une vie !!
Clara Crespin
Oil painting
60 x 80 cm
$2,169
Eva Gohier - Marée montante
Eva Gohier
Oil painting
60 x 30 cm
$651
Brigitte Di Scala - Un certain matin
Brigitte Di Scala
Oil painting
100 x 100 cm
$2,711
Berta Sesé - N7 vik
Berta Sesé
Oil painting
30 x 24 cm
$596
Franck Le Boulicaut - Saint-tropez
Franck Le Boulicaut
Oil painting
92 x 73 cm
$3,470
Alain Rolland - La Muse
Oil painting
92 x 73 x 2 cm
$1,681
N.L. - Jeune fille allongée
Oil painting
73 x 100 cm
$2,169
Nadine Pillon - S'égoutter le ciel pluvieux...
Nadine Pillon
Oil painting
70 x 150 x 2 cm
$2,115
Bernard Fièvre - L'abîme est bordé de hautes demeures
Bernard Fièvre
Oil painting
80 x 80 cm
$4,230
Malcolm Macdonald - Le cep d'or
Malcolm Macdonald
Oil painting
50 x 61 x 2 cm
$2,711
Emilie Pannier (Mia) - Passage n°3
Emilie Pannier (Mia)
Oil painting
90 x 90 cm
$2,061
Olivier Boissinot - Calanque de Sugiton II
Olivier Boissinot
Oil painting
100 x 73 cm
$2,494
Claire Hur de Sacy - Langueur cubaine
Oil painting
60 x 73 cm
$2,169
Barbara Piatti - No name street
Barbara Piatti
Oil painting
92 x 60 x 2 cm
$3,796
Agnès Guillon - New York at night II
Agnès Guillon
Oil painting
54 x 73 cm
$2,169
Nathalie Maquet - Entrelacée 18
Nathalie Maquet
Oil painting
81 x 100 cm
$1,681
Nathalie Dumontier - La houle
Nathalie Dumontier
Oil painting
60 x 73 cm
$1,410
Barbara Petit Lisy - Vue sur les ruines du château gaillard
Barbara Petit Lisy
Oil painting
80 x 40 cm
$1,925
Didier Goessens - Augurios - 01
Didier Goessens
Oil painting
65 x 92 cm
$1,898
Boris Davy - En attendant II
Boris Davy
Oil painting
100 x 100 cm
$2,494
Ho My An - Liberté chérie 2
Ho My An
Oil painting
24 x 30 cm
$596
Nathalie Leverger - Le plongeoir
Nathalie Leverger
Oil painting
100 x 100 cm
$2,115
Laurent Botella - Au pied de la porte
Laurent Botella
Oil painting
120 x 100 cm
$3,254
Boris Garanger - Line up 3
Boris Garanger
Oil painting
150 x 50 cm
$4,338
Val Escoubet - Hémisphère sud
Val Escoubet
Oil painting
61 x 46 cm
$748
sophie DUMONT - litterature
Oil painting
46 x 55 x 2 cm
$1,627
Sandrine Lemoigne - Acqua frizzante 2
Sandrine Lemoigne
Oil painting
40 x 80 cm
$1,193
Antoine Baer - Clôture, voiture, toiture
Antoine Baer
Oil painting
41 x 62 cm
$759
Hélène Courtois-Redouté - Roses jaunes
Hélène Courtois-Redouté
Oil painting
38 x 46 cm
$596
Morgan Bisoux - Afterparty IV
Oil painting
70 x 80 x 1 cm
$1,627
Maryse Garel - Presqu'île du Gaou
Maryse Garel
Oil painting
60 x 60 cm
$1,627

Oil Paintings For Sale: How They Came To Be

The beginning of oil painting is traditionally associated with Flemish artists. The Van Eyck brothers, Flemish primitives, are best known for their technical and artistic achievements: The Arnolfini Portrait (1434) is one of the first known oil paintings in Europe. The paintings were often commissions of individuals of notoriety or of elevated social status. However, many oil paintings also evoked a historical, biblical or mythological narrative. Therefore, portraits or famous scenes from myths, legends and stories were often set in fictive environments with a light source and layers of texture. This can be seen in famous oil paintings such as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa (1503-1506) or Rembrandt's The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633).

Oil paintings quickly became the artistic norm and many were realized on wood due to a lack of suitable media. Skipping ahead a few centuries, from the 19th century onwards, artists began to leave the comfort of their studios and their works became increasingly inspired by nature. With this shift in environment, oil paintings changed in composition and became slightly less detailed. Take for example, Paul Cézanne's The Hanged Man’s House, Auvers-sur-Oise (1873), Van Gogh's Sunflowers (1888) and Claude Monet's Water Lilies. These oil paintings famously illustrate this change in mentality. Realism was considered less important than emotion, and colors became the main focus of many studies.

Oil paintings were not always figurative. From the beginning of the 20th century, Vasily Kandinsky ushered in a modern shift towards abstraction through his Color Study, Squares with Concentric Circles (1913). The study of pure shapes and colors then became a recurring theme for many artists, including Kasimir Malevitch with Painterly Realism of a Football Player (1915), and Mark Rothko in 1953 with Color-Block n°61 (Rust and Blue). These artists, whose oil paintings can be seen in museums and galleries across the world today, broke the world of art by using this centuries-old material without pairing it with Figurism.

Oil Paintings Techniques and Oil Paintings For Sale

During the Renaissance, artists prepared their own oil paints using natural pigments. Each artist had their own personal formulas, which were often complicated, meticulous and time-consuming.The pigments were found in nature and could be temperamental when mixed together. With the exception of the artists who choose to create oil paintings using the techniques of the Old Masters, very few know the difficulty of making your own paints.

At the time in which oil paints began to be used by artists of the Renaissance, there were no drying additives (e. g. white lead). It therefore took weeks and weeks for the works to fully dry. This was exponentiated by the fact that most of the portraits produced during this time were painted on wooden boards. These boards were heavy and not particularly absorbant. They were difficult to handle and of limited size. When oil paints became more and more commonly used, they begged for a different medium. It was at this time that the canvas, or fabric medium, rather was introduced. This constituted two major advances in art, giving way to all oil paintings eventually being done on canvas.

And then came the 19th century that saw the arrival of a technical revolution. Artists now had the opportunity to buy paint that had already been mixed and packaged in tubes. Impressionist artists immediately seized the opportunity to get out in nature and paint what they saw thanks to the facility of pre-packaged oil paints. It was thanks to this technical intervention that landscape and the latter became a central subject in their works. Because artists did not have to mix their primary oil paint colors, they were now faced with the new challenge of painting quickly in order to capture the moment "in real time".

Oil painting on canvas remains a widely used technique, as its slow drying time and the possibility of mixing pigments make it an infinite source of inspiration for many contemporary artists today. Artists who put their oil paintings for sale now have specific processes to follow before putting their oil paintings for sale in galleries. They leave enough time for the paint to dry before handing it over to the gallery where it will meet its new owner.