2024
Richard Combes creates remarkably lifelike oil paintings that explore the relationship between vacant spaces and the solitary people who fleetingly occupy them.
Decaying inner-city building interiors, rain-soaked streets and solemn storefronts are the subjects of choice for the British artist’s award-winning realist work. Combes’s carefully rendered depictions are a love letter to disused spaces that time and the elements have left bedraggled and dilapidated. He has cited Impressionist and Surrealist art as having been influential for him, and his background as an architect provides him with a keen insight into the themes he explores in his work.
Combes was born in Manchester. He graduated from the architecture program at the University of Liverpool and immediately secured work in his field of study. Combes eventually felt dissatisfied with his career choice, as he began to notice that he was more interested in sketching the neglected and largely vacant spaces than finishing his architectural renderings that would form their replacement. Combes made a change — he moved to New York City and earned his MFA at the New York Academy of Art.
Combes was elected as a full member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in 2004. His work has earned international acclaim and a lengthy list of prizes and awards. Combes’s paintings have been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, and his work is in the private collections of many celebrities and prominent figures.
On 1stDibs, find original Richard Combes landscape paintings, still-life paintings and other art.
NIGHT REFLECTION - Realism / New York Cityscape / Dark Scene
By Richard Combes
Located in New York, NY
Original Oil Painting by Richard Combes Richard Combes (b. 1963, Manchester, England) trained as an architect in the UK before moving to New York City. In 1995, he completed his MA ...
Canvas, Oil
LUMINOUS DUSK - Realism / Cityscape / Contemporary
By Alexandra Pacula
Located in New York, NY
Original Oil Painting by Alexandra Pacula Alexandra Pacula (b. 1979, Poland) is a cityscape and landscape artist, focusing on realism through oil painting. She received her BFA fro...
Linen, Oil
FALL REFLECTION CENTRAL PARK - Realism / Cityscape / Autumn
By Richard Combes
Located in New York, NY
Original oil painting by Richard Combes
Canvas, Oil
6TH AVENUE REFLECTION - New York City / Rainy Street Scene / Photorealism
By Richard Combes
Located in New York, NY
Original Oil painting by Richard Combes.
Canvas, Oil
DUMBO WALL - Contemporary Realism / City Architecture / Brooklyn / Red
By Richard Combes
Located in New York, NY
A British-born, American based painter, Richard Combes focuses his subjects on the forgotten corners of New York City, subway stations, the cobblestone streets with puddles in Tribec...
Canvas, Oil
Sunday Morning West 4th Street Oil Painting, NYC Subway Scene, 36x62
By Richard Combes
Located in New York, NY
Original oil painting by Richard Combes
Canvas, Oil
Manhattan Sunset, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
By Mark Hunter
Located in Yardley, PA
A view of the Manhattan Sky Line from the Jersey City side of the Hudson River at sunset. :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity sign...
Oil
Tribeca Sunset
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting. An impressionistic view of a street in Tribeca. The setting sun illuminates the skyscraper in the distance. Artist Bio: Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los ...
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Midtown Manhattan Sunset, Original Cityscape Photography
By William Mackie
Located in Boston, MA
Midtown Manhattan Sunset, Original Cityscape Photography, 2017 8" x 17" (HxW) Photographic Print The city skyline encompasses the horizon with the skyscrapers glowing a yellow orange from the light of the sunset. Clouds float over New York as the day transitions into night. This urban setting never fails to impress as it is juxtaposed between sky and water. Images with frames are examples only; this work comes unframed. Artist Commentary: Sunset of Midtown Manhattan from Hoboken, New Jersey Artist Biography: William brings many years of creative experience to the table. He possesses an MFA in Cinematography from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. His studies have taken him around the world. In the summer of 2008 he studied at the prestigious Film and Television School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, the fifth oldest film school in the world. In 2011, while completing his masters, Will traveled to Dublin, to work on the Academy Award nominated film Albert Nobbs starring Glenn Close...
Photographic Paper
West 14th Street at Sunset, Oil Painting
By Nick Savides
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"This painting was inspired by the dramatic lighting and shadows receding into West 14th Street at sunset," says artist Nick Savid...
Oil
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New York (Golden Hour) [Hand Embellished]
By Kristin Moore
Located in New Orleans, LA
Giclee print on archival cold press cotton rag. Every print is uniquely hand embellished by the artist with gold acrylic paint. Edition 5 of 10 with 5 APs. In this new series of pai...
Rag Paper, Giclée
Downtown Manhattan Skyline At Sunset, Fine Art Color Print
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Downtown New York skyline framed by silhouetted tree and vintage street lamp. The work is signed, dated, and numbered 3/15 in the lower right recto corner, with other sizes availabl...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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