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Art For Sale
Style: Surrealist
“Has Found Out Thy Bed” (FRAMED) Photography 20x30 inch Ed. of 5 by Brian Ziff
By Brian Ziff
Located in Culver City, CA
“Has Found Out Thy Bed” (FRAMED) Photography 20x30 inch Ed. of 5 by Brian Ziff
“Has Found Out Thy Bed” (2016)
Giclee (Archival Ink) Print on Canson Platine Fibre Rag
20” X 30” inch ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Bum Glasses by Laure Prouvost, Murano Glass, Contemporary Art
Located in Zug, CH
Prouvost's work is as whimsical as it is penetrating: it addresses miscommunication and ideas becoming lost in translation. The Bum Glass(es) were created on the occasion of her marr...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Glass
Buamdong Honey House
Located in Seoul, SO
Lim Jin Sil
Lim Jin Sil expresses the coexistence of self and others and the sense of heterogeneity resulting from the differences between different worlds through old media such a...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil
"Ver voces II" yellow contemporary surrealist serigraphy w/silver leaf
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Nature is a central theme in Alejandra's work, and with this surreal vibrant landscape, we can notice her profound curiosity about the cycles that occur in the natural world that tur...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Screen
"Dragones musicales I" contemporary surrealist dragons piano black and white
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
The repetition of patterns and rhythm is present in almost every piece of Pedro´s work.
The hybrid topographies that Pedro Friedeberg´s unclassifiable practice recreates we must rec...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Inkjet, Digital
Snail
Located in Miami, FL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) "Snail" 1979, Rosenthal plate in glass with polychrome painting, diameter 14.25 in (36.5 cm) Nr. 1886/3000, with certificate.
Provenance: Daniel Meyer, Germ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Glass
Haitian Couple in Bed Simultaneously Adjusting their Radios, Surrealism
Located in Miami, FL
Wilson Bigaud is an idea artist in who showcases visual ideas in many of his paintings. In this work, a married Haitian couple tunes their radios in sync as they lie in bed. Bigaud was greatly interested in radios, which appeared in many of his works. This work rises to the level of Surrealism in that Bigaud is doing more than just depicting a normal bedroom moment. There is something very strange and bizarre in the couple's synchronized actions. Also of note, it looks like the woman is swallowing the edge of the radio. Signed lower right in a handmade and hand-painted frame.
Wear to the edges of board, including delamination in the corners, some dents and losses. Frame rubbing with associated wear. Areas of white discoloration to the bed and headboard...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Fifth Avenue at Rush Hour with Extreme Intense Light, Neutral Palette
Located in Miami, FL
Occupying the lower third of the picture plane, a herd of humans stride down Fifth Avenue. They form an overall pattern. The top of the picture is also comprised of a simple pat...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Untitled #6-1995-22
Located in New Orleans, LA
This work was part of "Body Politics", the August/September 2022 exhibition marked the debut of this work in the region (New Orleans), and the first time any of these works have been...
Category
1990s Surrealist Art
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
The Choices
Located in Singapore, SG
Smart people learn from their own mistakes while wise people learn from the mistakes of others. Options have always existed throughout the history of human life. Sometimes the choice...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bum Glasses by Laure Prouvost, Murano Glass, Contemporary Art
Located in Zug, CH
Prouvost's work is as whimsical as it is penetrating: it addresses miscommunication and ideas becoming lost in translation. The Bum Glass(es) were created on the occasion of her marr...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Glass
Guardian of the Ancestral Land
Located in Singapore, SG
We believe in life after death, where the spirits of our ancestors reside. In Javanese tradition, they believe that ancestral spirits are always with us and take care of us even thou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sky Garden - New Surrealism Painting, 2022
Located in Porto, 13
Sky Garden is an original work of art by the Brazilian artist Gabriela Lukschal.
This painting titled "Sky Garden" is an hommage to surrealism artists.
Acr...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Tamansari Swara
Located in Singapore, SG
Tamansariswara is a fun learning concept as taught by the father of Indonesian education, KH Dewantara. He called the school a 'taman' which means a park, a place to play and learn i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Terre des nébuleuses" by Max Ernst, Blue, Fog, Surrealism
By Max Ernst
Located in Köln, DE
Etching and aquatint in colours (colour variation) by Max Ernst.
"Terre des nébuleuses", 1965
38 x 27,5 cm
Copy essai 1/1
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Nachtgespenst / Night ghost
Located in Wien, 9
Franz Rogler (1921 -1994) studied wood and stone sculpture with Wilhelm Gösser at the Graz School of Applied Arts and attended the master class for painting with Rudolf Szyszkowitz. During his studies he was drafted for military service and, together with fellow artist Hans Fronius, was deployed as a war painter in Austria, Germany, Italy, the former Yugoslavia, Greece and Russia. During this time he completed studies at the Academy in Zagreb and organised exhibitions in Austria. In 1944 he deserted and managed to escape to Switzerland, where he settled in Basel after his internment and came into contact with the Swiss Surrealists of "Group 33" and with the artists Hans Arp, Max Ernst and Meret Oppenheim through his friend Regula Weilenmann. After the end of the war, he studied at the Basel Art School with Walter Bodmer and Heinrich Müller, which introduced him to Constructivist art. In 1947 Rogler returned to Graz and became a member of the Graz Secession. From 1948 to 1950 he studied at the Vienna Academy with Albert Paris Gütersloh, before returning to Graz as a freelance artist in 1950. In 1953 he received the Art Prize of the City of Graz and his works were published in the first issue of the "Surrealist Publications" edited by Edgar Jené and Paul Celan...
Category
1940s Surrealist Art
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Exotic Story
Located in Singapore, SG
This painting illustrates the story of the worldly desires of humans who never feel that they have enough, always wanting more in terms of fashion, position, wealth and so on. It is human nature to always desire to pursue something they consider beautiful and exotic.
About the Artist
Saepul Bahri is an established painter from Indonesia with a distinctive surrealist style with flexible and twisted human body figures. He has an interest in body anatomy and started painting human bodies with their bones when he was in middle school. Saepul also likes the imagination of the sea and waves, this is what then gives the shapes of flexibility and twists to the figures in his works. There are number of artists who inspired him such as Rene Magritte, HR Giger...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Art Deco Paris - Eiffel tower Place du Trocadéro Statues " Slave to Love" Gold
Located in Miami, FL
Reminiscent of the dreamy elegance of a bygone era, Mitchell Funk transforms a tourist location into the quintessence of timeless Paris chic. To achieve this the photographer had to rid the Trocadero of toursits. Next came choosing the right camera angle and lighting the scene dramatically. The photo recalls Brian Ferry...
Category
1990s Surrealist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
L'incubo, 2010
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Gigino Falconi was born in Giulianova (Teramo) in 1933. He began painting at the age of sixteen, and in 1954 he obtained a Liceo Artistico of Pescara. During the early years of his c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Siren
Located in Nashville, TN
Alison Underwood's work evokes various emotions of desires as her artwork proves to display the ideas of temptation and anticipation. These profound feelings are demonstrated in the ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Oil Crayon
Sir Henry
Located in Wien, 9
Ludwig Schwarzer formulates a highly independent work, bizarre in content and marked by perfection in craftsmanship. After realistic and later expressionist attempts, he found his ow...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Hours of the Day series, 10pm
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Roberto Matta
Hours of the Day Series, 10pm
1975
Etching with aquatint
25 x 36 in.
Edition of 9
Pencil signed and numbered
Condition: This work is in excellent condition. It has never been framed and always stored flat for its protection
Frame: Unframed
The first true flowering of Matta's own art came in 1938, when he moved from drawing to the oil painting for which he is best known. This period coincided with his emigration to the United States, where he lived until 1948. His early paintings, give an indication of the work he would continue, with diffuse light patterns and bold lines on a featureless background.
As Matta’s work evolved, his key ambition to represent and evoke the human psyche in visual form was filtered through the writings of Freud and the psychoanalytic view of the mind as a three-dimensional space. These paintins "are visual analogies for the artist's psyche".
During the 1940's and 1950's, the disturbing state of world politics found reflection in Matta's work, with the canvases becoming busy with images of electrical machinery and distressed figures.
In his art Matta creates new dimensions in a blend of organic and cosmic lifeforms, known as biomorphism. He was one of the first Surrealists to take this abstract leap, successfully combining the political and the semi-abstract in epic surreal canvases.
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
AUTUMN BALANCE, Oil on Canvas
Located in Montreux, CH
Karen Shahverdyan „Autumn balance“ 90 X 110cm, oil on canvas
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Before / After (diptych)
Located in Nashville, TN
Alison Underwood's work evokes various emotions of desires as her artwork proves to display the ideas of temptation and anticipation. These profound feelings are demonstrated in the ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Oil Crayon
Dreamers, 2020
Located in ATLANTA, GA
"Alexei Ravski unites landscape painting with the art of the surreal in his dramatic, large-format compositions. Meticulous in technique, they are marked by a striking use of perspe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil
Acecho
By Gonzalo Morales
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Oil on Canvas, Signed
Dated 2013
14 x 18 Inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Lithograph V - Volume III
By Joan Miró
Located in Austin, TX
Lithgraph V - Volume III
This original color lithograph printed in 1969 measures 12.50" x 9.75"
Joan Miró one of the leading artists of the 20th century,...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Ed's at Rockefeller Center, Sci-Fi Surreal
Located in Miami, FL
An unexpected marquee at the base of upscale 30 Rockefeller Center beams neon into the night. The 1930's art deco monolith is lit up like a silver spaceship as it thrusts into an ink...
Category
1990s Surrealist Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Bougrelas and his Mother II, from: Series for King Ubu
By Joan Miró
Located in London, GB
JOAN MIRÓ 1893-1983
Montroig 1893-1983 Mallorca (Spanish)
Title: Bougrelas and his Mother II, from: Series for King Ubu Bougrelas et sa Mère II, from: Suites pour Ubu Roi, 1966
Technique: Original Hand Numbered Lithograph in Colours on Arches Wove Paper
Paper size: 54 x 75 cm. / 21.3 x 29.5 in.
Image size: 41 x 63 cm. / 16.1 x 24.8 in.
Additional Information: This original lithograph in colours is hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 75, at the lower left corner. There were also 25 hors commerce [out of trade] impressions.
This composition was published unsigned and exists only in this form.
The work was part of a portfolio entitled "Roi Ubu" [King Ubu] realised by the artist in 1966.
It was printed by Atelier Mourlot, Paris and published by Tériade Éditeur, Paris.
The paper bears the Arches watermark along the lower margin.
Note: Ubu Roi (Ubu the King) is a play by Alfred Jarry...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Strana luce Sul Porto, 2006
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Gigino Falconi was born in Giulianova (Teramo) in 1933. He began painting at the age of sixteen, and in 1954 he obtained a Liceo Artistico of Pescara. During the early years of his c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Double
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edition of 7
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Esui Libae
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edition of 7
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Golden Reflections off Manhattan Skyscrapers
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto 3/15,
Unframed, other sizes available, printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Mitchell Funk is a "Color Photographer Pioneer...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Tristan Et Iseult - The Giant Beliagog
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Salvador Dali
Tristan Et Iseult - The Giant Beliagog
1970
Etching Aquatint
18 x 12 1/2 in.
Edition of 125
Pencil signed &...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Archer, from Transports
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Roberto Matta
Archer, from Transports
1976
Etching aquatint
18 x 23 in.
Edition of 100
Pencil signed and numbered
Condition: This work is in excellent condition. It has never been framed and always stored flat for its protection
Frame: Unframed
ABOUT THE ARTIST
The first true flowering of Matta's own art came in 1938, when he moved from drawing to the oil painting for which he is best known. This period coincided with his emigration to the United States, where he lived until 1948. His early paintings, give an indication of the work he would continue, with diffuse light patterns and bold lines on a featureless background.
As Matta’s work evolved, his key ambition to represent and evoke the human psyche in visual form was filtered through the writings of Freud and the psychoanalytic view of the mind as a three-dimensional space. These paintins "are visual analogies for the artist's psyche".
During the 1940's and 1950's, the disturbing state of world politics found reflection in Matta's work, with the canvases becoming busy with images of electrical machinery and distressed figures.
In his art Matta creates new dimensions in a blend of organic and cosmic lifeforms, known as biomorphism. He was one of the first Surrealists to take this abstract leap, successfully combining the political and the semi-abstract in epic surreal canvases.
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Dante purifié - Engraving - 150 copies
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador Dali
Dante purifié (1960)
Heliogravure reworked with drypoint
Signature printed in the plate
On BFK Rives Vellum paper
Size 32.8 x 26.4 cm (c. 13 x 10")
References:
- Fie...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Etching
Untitled (Surrealist rendering of Pyramids at Giza with alligator)
By Beni E. Kosh
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Surrealist rendering of Pyramids at Giza with alligator)
watecolor and gouache on paper, 1960
Unsigned
Beni Kosh estate stamp No. 717 verso, unsigned.
(see photo)
Co...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Como Seria - figurative painting, landscape painting
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful surrealist painting by Mauricio comes rolled in a tube and needs to be stretched when received.
In his pieces, Mauricio combines his figurative expertise along with su...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Hope : Between Earth and Heaven" Surrealist Acrylic on Canvas by Eugene Hawkins
Located in Pasadena, CA
In the "Fantasy/Metaphysical" series by American artist Eugene Hawkins, the convergence of surrealism and metaphysics unfolds as an exploration of existential themes common to all. C...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surrealist acrylic on board painting surrealism picasso style
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Gustavo Úbeda (1930-1994) - Surrealism - Acrylic panel
Acrylic measurements 80x100 cm.
Frameless.
The painting by Gustavo Úbeda Romero (Herencia, 1930 – Sao Paulo, 1994) comes from ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Acrylic, Board
The Eggs
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. Etching and aquatint. Artist's Proof. Edition of 90 prints.
Image Dimensions : 48 x 62 cm
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
"I Love You Anna" Photography 24" x 16" inch Edition of 15 by Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"I Love You Anna" Photography 24" x 16" inch Edition of 15 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Not framed. Ships in a tube.
A...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Place for People" Photography 27.5" x 24" inch Edition 5/15 by Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Place for People" Photography 27.5" x 24" inch Edition 4/15 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Aerial 2" Photography 24" x 24" inch Edition of 15 by Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Aerial 2" Photography 24" x 24" inch Edition of 15 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Not framed. Ships in a tube.
Availabl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Aerial 3" Photography 31" x 31" inch Edition of 7 by Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Aerial 3" Photography 31" x 31" inch Edition of 7 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Not framed. Ships in a tube.
Available...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Original Dora Maar, (Picasso's muse) fine ink drawing of flowers, 1998
By Dora Maar
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
This is a beautiful and fine avant-garde finished drawing of flowers by the French female artist, Dora Maar. Dora Maar was a distinctive artist in her own right marked by striking p...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
Rubus in Combustus - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Rubus in combustus is an artwork realized in 1964.
It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ editionis published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 and 196...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Ladybugs" Photography 39" x 39" inch Edition of 3 by Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Ladybugs" Photography 39" x 39" inch Edition of 3 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Not framed. Ships in a tube.
Available...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
'Story Time', Paris, Salon d'Automne, New York, ASL, Corcoran, PAFA, Art Deco
By Nura Ulreich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left 'Nura' for Nura Woodson Ulreich (American, 1899–1950). Additionally signed, verso, dated March 1928 with artist's New York City ...
Category
1920s Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
“What a Drag” Photography 24" x 36" inch Edition 1/7 by Brian Ziff
By Brian Ziff
Located in Culver City, CA
“What a Drag” Photography 24" x 36" inch Edition 1/7 by Brian Ziff
Giclee (Archival Ink) Print on Canson Platine Fibre Rag
American Dreams - From "Park Drive" series
The notion ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Joan Miró, Animal Composition (Framed)
By Joan Miró
Located in Manchester, GB
Joan Miró, Animal Composition (Framed)
Lithograph
47 x 61 cm
Framed in a sustainably sourced black box frame with gallery acrylic glazing.
'Ladders cross the blue sky in a wh...
Category
1950s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
“Al Andalus 2” Photography 30" x 24" inch Edition of 12 by Brian Ziff
By Brian Ziff
Located in Culver City, CA
“Al Andalus 2” Photography 30" x 24" inch Edition of 12 by Brian Ziff
Giclee (Archival Ink) Print on Canson Platine Fibre Rag
American Dreams - From "Pla...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Original Dora Maar, (Picasso's muse) fine ink drawing of a tree, 1998
By Dora Maar
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
This is a beautiful and fine avant-garde finished drawing of a tree by the French female artist, Dora Maar. Dora Maar was a distinctive artist in her own right marked by striking ph...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Art
Materials
Ink
"I am" Photography 24" x 24" in Edition of 15 by Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"I am" Photography 24" x 24" in Edition of 15 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Not framed. Ships in a tube.
Available size...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Ballet" Photography 31" x 31" in Edition of 7 by Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Ballet" Photography 31" x 31" in Edition of 7 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Not framed. Ships in a tube.
Available siz...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Geometry 2" Photography 31" x 31" inch Edition of 7 by Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Geometry 2" Photography 31" x 31" inch Edition of 7 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Not framed. Ships in a tube.
Availa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
L'Ange du 7e ciel - Etching - 150 copies
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador Dali
L'Ange du 7e ciel (1960)
Heliogravure reworked with drypoint
Printed signature in the plate
On BFK Rives Vellum paper
Size 32.8 x 26.4 cm (c. 13 x 10")
References:
- ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Etching
"Ladybugs" Photography 31" x 31" inch Edition of 7 by Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Ladybugs" Photography 31" x 31" inch Edition of 7 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Not framed. Ships in a tube.
Available...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
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