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Art For Sale
Style: Surrealist
Style: Expressionist
Untitled Ohne Titel - German French Surrealism
By Max Ernst
Located in London, GB
This original etching and aquatint is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Max Ernst" at the lower right margin.
It is hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 99, at the lower le...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
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
"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
Running Man 1 by Katya Tsareva - Triptych painting, acrylic on canvas, 2017
Located in Basel, BS
Running Man 1 is a vertical triptych, formed of 3 paintings, 40 x 50 cm each.
The triptych can be seen as a follow-up on Katya Tsareva's 2016 project "S...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"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
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
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
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
Trois femmes
Located in Belgrade, MT
Walter Becker was born in 1893 in Essen, Ruhr, Germany. Considered an important graphic artist of the "lost generation", Becker is well known for his depictions of figures and portraits in a style that combined elements of German Expressionism, Dada, and French modernism. He worked in a variety of print media, including color lincut, lithography, woodcut and etching. After a short military service, Becker studied under the German Sculptor Karl Albiker at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. He moved to southern France where he lived and worked from 1924-1935, and was in contact with George Braque, Thomas...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Art
Materials
Lithograph
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
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
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
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
Untitled #26-0000-22
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
Late 20th Century Surrealist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Ink
Contemporary Art, Expressionist, Portrait - WE IV
Located in Coquitlam, BC
Artist: Gao, Renjie
The member of the Hudson Artists Society, New York
Agent of BRUNO MASSA Gallery, France
Six Worldwide well-known art sales website agent
KOONESS/1STDIBS/ARTPRICE/...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Seated nude with Face in Profile - Pencil Drawing - female Nude
By Alexej Jawlensky
Located in London, GB
ALEXEJ VON JAWLENSKY 1864-1941
Torzhok 1864 - 1941 Wiesbaden (Russian/German)
Title: Seated nude with Face in Profile Sitzender Akt mit Gesicht im Profil, 1912
Technique: Signed Pencil Drawing on Wove Paper
Paper size: 50 x 40 cm. / 19.7 x 15.7 in.
Additional Information: This drawing is signed in pencil by the artist “A v Jawlensky” at the lower right image.
It is dated in pencil “1912”, at the lower left image.
Provenance: Galerie Rosenbach, Hanover
Sotheby's London, 28 June 1978. Lot 176.
Jacqueline Kohler-Krotoschin, Zurich
Beurret & Bailly, Basel, 20 June 2018. Lot 107.
Exhibited: “Zwischen Tradition und Moderne”. Galerie Rosenbach, Hanover. 1975. Recorded as no. 222, cat. 14 (Illustrated).
Literature: 1. Weiler,C. (1970) Alexej Jawlensky...
Category
1910s Expressionist Art
Materials
Pencil
Contemporary Art, Expressionist, Portrait - Walk
Located in Coquitlam, BC
Artist: Gao, Renjie
The member of the Hudson Artists Society, New York
Agent of BRUNO MASSA Gallery, France
Six Worldwide well-known art sales website agent
KOONESS/1STDIBS/ARTPRICE/...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"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
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
Devotion
By Erich Waske
Located in Wien, 9
Deling with the work of Erich Waske today, one encounters first of all a number of reasons why this outstanding artist has fallen into such undeserved oblivion. In addition to the de...
Category
1960s Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Gaukler Familie mit Instrumenten (Family of Jesters with Instruments)
Located in Washington, DC
German Modernist
Category
1960s Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Expressionist Figurative water color painting- Series The Horse Whisper No.2-25
Located in Beijing, CN
Expressionist Figurative water color painting by Zhang Chunyang
Series The Horse Whisper No.2-25
Dimension: 29 x 36 cm
Material: Gouache, Watercolor on Paper
Date: 2013
Artist B...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
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
Expressionist Figurative water color painting- Luckiness
Located in Beijing, CN
Expressionist Figurative water color painting by Zhang Chunyang
Title: Luckiness
Dimension: 29 x 36 cm
Material: Gouache, Watercolor on Paper
D...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
Self Portrait in Rheinland-Pfalz
Located in Wien, 9
The painter was born in Austrian, but grew up in Munich and died in 2006 at the age of 77. He was an outstanding personality, atypical in the German art landscape. He started on the ...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mixed Media abstract painting- by contemporary artist Zhang Chunyang
Located in Beijing, CN
Mixed Media Painting
Title: Series Beasts of Burden No. 9
Dimension: 82 x 61 cm
Material: Mixed Media
Date: 2022
Artist Biography
Zhang Chunyang was...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Mixed Media
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
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
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
Die Benno Kirche - Benno Church
Located in Wien, 9
The painter was born in Austrian, but grew up in Munich and died in 2006 at the age of 77. He was an outstanding personality, atypical in the German art landscape. He started on the ...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
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
Canvas, Oil
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
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
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
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
Manhattanhenge Phenomenon, Mystical Light Setting Sun, Manhattan Solstice
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk has been chronicling lighting effects in New York for over 50 years. This recent photography captures the magical moment of golden light pouring into 42nd street while...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
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
Mixed Media abstract painting- by contemporary artist Zhang Chunyang
Located in Beijing, CN
Mixed Media Painting
Title: Series Beasts of Burden No. 1
Dimension: 82 x 61 cm
Material: Mixed Media
Date: 2022
Artist Biography
Zhang Chunyang was...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Nude Dancer Burlesque Stripper with Purple Gloves - The Bump -
By Jack Levine
Located in Miami, FL
A gritty Burlesque Stripper with long purple gloves bumps and grinds with a hard-driving beat. American Social Realist artist Jack Levine paints this se...
Category
1970s Expressionist Art
Materials
Charcoal, Oil, Board
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
Ensemble
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Jean-Louis Mendrisse is a self-taught painter born in 1955 in Clermont-Ferrand.
Art, family affairs
Jean-Louis Mendrisse studied the deal with his famous sculptor father, Jean Mos...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Flowers Cannes, 2000s
Located in Quogue, NY
Watercolor on paper
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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
Etching, Aquatint
Untitled 516, 1980s
Located in Quogue, NY
Watercolor on paper
Category
1980s Expressionist Art
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Nudes and Horses
By Bela Kadar
Located in London, GB
BELA KADAR 1877-1956
Budapest 1877-1956 (Hungarian)
Title: Nudes and Horses, 1911
Technique: Original Hand Signed Pastel on paper
size: 63 x 94.5 cm / 24.8 x 37.2 in
Additional I...
Category
1910s Expressionist Art
Materials
Pastel
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
Serie "Eye(s)" Bleu
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edition of 6
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
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
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
Etching, Aquatint
Masturbating Woman Surrounded by Black
Located in Chicago, IL
Published anonymously c. 1920, Vienna, in an edition of 100, after the original gouache, watercolor and pencil on paper, signed and dated in the plate by the artist in middle right: ...
Category
1920s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
'Red Roses and a Lemon', California, Post-Impressionist, Esalen Institute
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed, verso, 'Ant McNaught' for Anthony McNaught (American, born 1952), titled 'Still Life with Lemon', dated 2018 and inscribed, 'After Pablo Picasso'.
This California Post-Impressionist and Abstract Expressionist studied at Big Sur's Esalen Institute with Erin Gafill...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
drawing Andre
Located in London, GB
Several Anastasia Kurakina's artworks have been included into the Vatican Museums collection since 2017
She has exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London at bp portrait aw...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Watercolor, Tempera, Paper
Untitled (Hands)
By Louisa Chase
Located in New York, NY
Louisa Chase was born in Panama City, Panama. Seven years later, her family moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She studied painting and sculpture at Syracuse University and at the Ya...
Category
1980s Expressionist Art
Materials
Etching
“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
Salvador Dali Zodiac Surrealist Celestial Astrology Astral Spiritual Cool Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac Full Portfolio of 13 Original Lithographs" created by Salvador Dali. In 1967, famed surrealist artist Salvador Dali illustrated a portfolio depicting ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Ink, Lithograph
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