Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
SURREALIST STYLE
In the wake of World War I’s ravaging of Europe, artists delved into the unconscious mind to confront and grapple with this reality. Poet and critic André Breton, a leader of the Surrealist movement who authored the 1924 Surrealist Manifesto, called this approach “a violent reaction against the impoverishment and sterility of thought processes that resulted from centuries of rationalism.” Surrealist art emerged in the 1920s with dreamlike and uncanny imagery guided by a variety of techniques such as automatic drawing, which can be likened to a stream of consciousness, to channel psychological experiences.
Although Surrealism was a groundbreaking approach for European art, its practitioners were inspired by Indigenous art and ancient mysticism for reenvisioning how sculptures, paintings, prints, performance art and more could respond to the unsettled world around them.
Surrealist artists were also informed by the Dada movement, which originated in 1916 Zurich and embraced absurdity over the logic that had propelled modernity into violence. Some of the Surrealists had witnessed this firsthand, such as Max Ernst, who served in the trenches during World War I, and Salvador Dalí, whose otherworldly paintings and other work responded to the dawning civil war in Spain.
Other key artists associated with the revolutionary art and literary movement included Man Ray, Joan Miró, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Frida Kahlo and Meret Oppenheim, all of whom had a distinct perspective on reimagining reality and freeing the unconscious mind from the conventions and restrictions of rational thought. Pablo Picasso showed some of his works in “La Peinture Surréaliste” — the first collective exhibition of Surrealist painting — which opened at Paris’s Galerie Pierre in November of 1925. (Although Magritte is best known as one of the visual Surrealist movement’s most talented practitioners, his famous 1943 painting, The Fifth Season, can be interpreted as a formal break from Surrealism.)
The outbreak of World War II led many in the movement to flee Europe for the Americas, further spreading Surrealism abroad. Generations of modern and contemporary artists were subsequently influenced by the richly symbolic and unearthly imagery of Surrealism, from Joseph Cornell to Arshile Gorky.
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Style: Surrealist
Skeletons - Polish Art Master, Contemporary Surreal Drawing, XXI Century
Located in Warsaw, PL
Drawing on paper, 1975
FRANCISZEK STAROWIEYSKI (b.1930- d.2009)
studied paitning at Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków and Warsaw (1949-1955). He specialized in poster, drawing, paintin...
Category
1970s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil
Cleopatra - 22-12-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Cleopatra - 22-12-18 When I saw the reference picture I was inspired to turn the model sitting in a bath with lots of foam around her, into a donkey milk bath with Cleopatra in it...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
11 bestial qualities - 09-02-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
11 bestial qualities - 09-02-19 One thing in another. I try to see it all the time. Sometimes I fail, another time I see more clearly. Hitting almost 50 I begin to realize that th...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Hold Your Horses – 04-01-22, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
A Bit of Extra Fun This graphite pencil drawing ‘Hold Your Horses – 04-01-22 was a done deal in my head already during the live session. That was the same one spawning ‘Julia...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
untitled, original
By Paul Colin
Located in Belgrade, MT
This piece is a limited edition, pencil signed by the artist on the print and in the plate. It is part of my private collection of artists from the School of Paris era. It is in very...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Engraving, Lithograph
$680 Sale Price
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Beach Houses - Original Watercolor Abstracted Colorful Red Cityscape
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Maria C. Bernhardsson is a colorful artist who lives and paints in Sweden. Most of her works are influenced by the architecture and geometry of houses. Bernhardsson travels the world...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Edward Burra original drawing 'The harbour at low time', British, 20th Century
By Edward Burra
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Edward Burra CBE (British, 1905 – 1976)
The harbour at low time
pencil on paper
signed with studio stamp ‘E.J. Burra’ (lower right)
21.3/4 x 30 in. (55.3 x 76 cm.)
Provenance: Sotheb...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
"The Famished Vampire" (2024) By Timothy Von Rueden, Original Graphite Drawing
Located in Denver, CO
"The Famished Vampire" (2024) by Timothy Von Rueden is an original handmade graphite drawing that depicts an imprisoned vampire, who's hands are bound and has a cage on his head.
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Plumb, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A towering stack of pancakes, topped with butter and dripping syrup, balances as a plumb line ensures its perfect level. The precise measurement keeps the foo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Wag the Dog – 26-09-21, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Art Deco Feel Wag the dog was the first title that came to mind when I saw this beautiful photo. It stems from the 1930s I think. It has this incredible art deco feel about it. Ho...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Untitled - Surrealist Scene - Drawing by Albert Debois - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled - Surrealist Scene is an original contemporary artwork realized by Albert Debois in 1973.
Mixed colored pastel on paper.
Hand signed and dated on the lower right margin.
...
Category
1970s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Pencil
The Proud Brothers – 04-01-21, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
The Proud Brothers – 04-01-21 The Bigger the Lie How can The Blues Brothers turn into The Proud Brothers? That is simple enough. Take a big country and turn it into a madhouse....
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
All We Need Is Flowers - Still Life Flowers in Vase Colorful Contemporary
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Maria C. Bernhardsson is a colorful artist who lives and paints in Sweden. Most of her works are influenced by the architecture and geometry of houses. Bernhardsson travels the world...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Surrealist Mermaid Orchestra Large Painting Royal College Art Women LGBTQ+ Blues
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative take...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Pen
New York, The Bridge - Abstract Colorful Urban Still Life Collage Art on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Maria C. Bernhardsson is a colorful artist who lives and paints in Sweden. Most of her works are influenced by the architecture and geometry of houses. Bernhardsson travels the world...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
La Langue Verte - 14-12-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
La Langue Verte - 14-12-18 I liked the triangular position of the model's body and put her in an Egyptian scenery, thinking of my roundism style relating to hieroglyphics and Egyptian arts in general. I always liked the intense need for styling and I consider the depictions of the human body by the old...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Oudaen - 26-11-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Oudaen - 26-11-18 Last year I was at Oudaen, a city castle at Utrecht, Netherlands which now is a crowdy hotspot for party people. I was dining near the window in the corner with ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
A 1940s, Modern Abstract Surrealist Drawing by Hananiah Harari, "Sky Traffic"
Located in Chicago, IL
A Striking, 1940s Modern Surrealist Abstract Drawing, "Sky Traffic", by Notable New York Avant Garde Artist, Hannah Harari (Am. 1912-2000). Graphite on paper, dating from 1947. Art...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Animal Painting Surrealist Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ artist Birds Circle Life
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative take...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Pen
"Divination" (2024) By Ashly Lovett, Original Chalk Pastel Portrait Illustration
Located in Denver, CO
"Divination" By Ashly Lovett is a beautiful chalk pastel illustration done on archival paper, which depicts a young witch in a moment of pause, surrounded by magical fire.
Artist Bi...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Pastel, Archival Paper
Geesje Kwak – 08-10-21, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Initial Boredom After my last graphite pencil drawing of Geesje Kwak -04-09-21 I felt one was missing in the series. It was alright but the style resembled that of Geesje Kwak –...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Red Sea - Contemporary, Drawing on Paper, Pink, Dreamlike, Figurative
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Red Sea, 2014
Collage, acrylic and colored fineliner on paper (Signed)
11.69 H x 16.53 W in
29.7 H x 42 W cm
Raluca Arnăutu creates a zoomorphic world,...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Untitled Nude. Figurative drawing on paper. Pencil and gold paint
Located in Miami Beach, FL
"Estrada-Duran combines realism and surrealism in his work, the artists paintings are often monochromatic pencil drawings with overlays of gold paint that depict goddess-like women ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gold
The Venus of The Hague - 09-07-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
The Venus of The Hague - 09-07-20 Animals kept crawling in so it was inevitable to incorporate them into these series. The first one I saw was a lioness in her thight and second t...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Hesitation Blues (Black Surrealist Artist)
By Roland Ayers
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Surrealist proto-Afropunk drawing by African-American artist, Roland Ayers (1932-2014). Hesitation Blues, 1968. Ink on paper, sheet measures 13 x 23 inches; 14 x 18 inches in archival pH-neutral matting. Signed and dated lower right. Excellent condition with no damage or restoration.
Provenance: Sheila Ayers-Whitelaw
Exhibition History: Roland Ayers: Calligraphy of Dreams, Woodmere Art Museum, 07/10/2021 - 10/24/2021
Artist and art educator, Roland Ayers was born on July 2, 1932, the only child of Alice and Lorenzo Ayers, and grew up in the Germantown district of Philadelphia. Ayers served in the US Army (stationed in Germany) before studying at the Philadelphia College of Art (currently University of the Arts). He graduated with a BFA in Art Education, 1954. He traveled Europe 1966-67, spending time in Amsterdam and Greece in particular. During this period, he drifted away from painting to focus on linear figurative drawings of a surreal nature. His return home inaugurated the artist’s most prolific and inspired period (1968-1975). Shorty before his second major trip abroad in 1971-72 to West Africa, Ayers began to focus on African themes, and African American figures populated his work almost exclusively.
In spite of Ayers’ travel and exploration of the world, he gravitated back to his beloved Germantown, a place he endowed with mythological qualities in his work and literature. His auto-biographical writing focuses on the importance of place during his childhood. Ayers’ journals meticulously document the ethnic and cultural make-up of Germantown, and tell a compelling story of class marginalization that brought together poor families despite racial differences. The distinctive look and design of Germantown inform Ayers’ visual vocabulary. It is a setting with distinctive Gothic Revival architecture and haunting natural beauty. These characteristics are translated and recur in the artist’s imagery.
During his childhood, one of the only books in the Ayers household was an illustrated Bible. The images within had a profound effect on the themes and subjects that would appear in his adult work. Figures in an Ayers’ drawing often seem trapped in a narrative of loss and redemption. Powerful women loom large in the drawings: they suggest the female role models his journals record in early life. The drawings can sometimes convey a strong sense of conflict, and at other times, harmony. Nature and architecture seem to have an antagonistic relationship that is, ironically, symbiotic.
A critical turning point in the artist’s career came in 1971 when he was included in the extremely controversial Whitney Museum show, Contemporary Black Artists in America. The exhibition gave Ayers an international audience and served as a calling card for introductions he would soon make in Europe.
Ayers is a particularly compelling figure in a period when black artists struggled with the idea of authenticity. A questioned often asked was “Is your work too black, or not black enough?” Abstractionists were considered by some peers to be sell-outs, frauds or worse. Figurative* work was accused of being either sentimental or politically radical depending on the critical source. Ayers made the choice early on to be a figurative artist, but considered his work devoid of political content.
Organizations such as Chicago’ s Afri-Cobra in the late 1960‘s asserted that the only true black art of any relevance must depict the black man and woman...
Category
1960s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
$3,000 Sale Price
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Surrealist Large Painting Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ Women artist Green Blue
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative take...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen, Woodcut
(For Grownups Only, Seriously!)
Located in San Francisco, CA
And what are you to look for? Not random swipes, as if cleaning one’s brush on the verso. Nor the whisps of cigarette smoke wafting upward from below. No. Do look again for an exquis...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Surrealist Large Painting Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ Female Artist Blue Pink
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative takes the audience on a journey into the imagination.
In October 2023 Isabel won the Evelyn Williams Drawing Award at the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. Known as the UK’s most prestigious annual open exhibition for drawing; part of the prize is a solo show at Hastings Contemporary, scheduled for 2024.
Whilst Isabel always has a tale to tell for each of her images, you may or may not choose to go on the journey with her or you may indeed have a different story, one of your own that jumps off the page at you, that that you decide to follow.
Artwork Details:
Porthole to Another Dimension, 168x153cm, woodblock print, acrylic ink, acrylic paint, 2020
* Please note this artwork is on two separate pieces of paper that have been joined together. The join is not obvious when looking at the work. At the time Isabel was desperate to make the piece but did not have a large enough piece of paper in the studio, so she joined two together.
Artwork Provenance: from the Artist Studio
photo credits, Isabel working, black and white shots, James Brown
In Isabels own words:
Porthole to Another Dimension
The legend said, that down by the river, beneath the purple hills, where the black iris...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen, Woodcut
Roundism - 27-04-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Roundism - 27-04-20 The next drawing in my solarized roundism series. It forms a transition from my previous abstracted cubist geometry towards a crossover to realism and surreali...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Carbon Pencil
Hungry Vampire Theaters
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Ink on paper, framed.
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
$406 Sale Price
35% Off
A 1959 Black & White, Mid-Century, Surrealist Abstraction by Desmond McLean
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1959 black and white, Mid-Century, Surrealist watercolor on paper by artist Desmond McLean in a cerused black frame. Image size: 12" x 30". Framed size: 19 3/4" x 25 3/4".
McL...
Category
1950s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Butterfly
Located in Los Angeles, CA
TOM PERKINSON
"BUTTERFLY"
MIXED MEDIA, SIGNED
AMERICAN, DATED 1974
21.5 X 21 INCHES
Tom Perkinson was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was raised in the country, and developed ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
$1,250 Sale Price
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Untitled Female Nude with Male, Original Drawing by Surrealist Painter
By Leon Kelly
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Untitled Female Nude and Male" is a 22 x 17 inches, ink on paper drawing by American Surrealist painter Leon Kelly. The drawing is signed and dated in the lower right, it is matted ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Cleopatra – 22-12-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Cleopatra – 22-12-18 When I saw the reference picture I was inspired to turn the model sitting in a bath with lots of foam around her, into a donkey milk bath with Cleopatra in ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Surrealist Painting Royal College Art LGBTQ+ Female Artist Banana Blue Heads
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative takes the audience on a journey into the imagination.
In October 2023 Isabel won the Evelyn Williams Drawing Award at the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. Known as the UK’s most prestigious annual open exhibition for drawing; part of the prize is a solo show at Hastings Contemporary, scheduled for 2024.
Whilst Isabel always has a tale to tell for each of her images, you may or may not choose to go on the journey with her or you may indeed have a different story, one of your own that jumps off the page at you, that that you decide to follow.
Artwork Details:
(A), 48x60cm, acrylic ink and acrylic paint on paper, 2011
Artwork Provenance: from the Artist Studio
photo credits, Isabel working, black and white shots, James Brown
In Isabel's own words:
Banana Boat...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Paint, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen
Surrealist Large Painting Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ Women artist Red Green
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative takes the audience on a journey into the imagination.
In October 2023 Isabel won the Evelyn Williams Drawing Award at the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. Known as the UK’s most prestigious annual open exhibition for drawing; part of the prize is a solo show at Hastings Contemporary, scheduled for 2024.
Whilst Isabel always has a tale to tell for each of her images, you may or may not choose to go on the journey with her or you may indeed have a different story, one of your own that jumps off the page at you, that that you decide to follow.
Artwork Details:
Isabel Rock , 'Maud' 200 x 107cm, collaged woodblock print and acrylic ink on 410gsm Somerset Satin paper.
*Please note we are happy to ship this work rolled in an art tube. Whilst the work is on heavy duty art paper and mixed media, the artist is happy that the painting will be fine rolled in a tube. This is a more cost effective and environmentally sound method of shipping. Shipping via this method is free
In Rock's own words,
Maud
'Maud was a legend in the city. A legend that walked the streets and lived and breathed in the minds of the townsfolk so strongly that no one was sure any more if she was real or not.
The tap...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen, Woodcut
Animal Painting Surrealist Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ artist Circle of Life
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative take...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Pen
Animal Painting Surrealist Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ artist Blue Birds
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative take...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Pen
Animal Surrealist Painting Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ artist Circle Life Birds
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative takes the audience on a journey into the imagination. Hugely inspired by Paula Rego, Isabel Rock is part of a formidable group of women artists (Leonora Carrington and Eileen Agar amongst others) working with Surrealism.
In October 2023 Isabel won the Evelyn Williams...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Ink, Archival Paper, Pen
Animal Painting Surrealist Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ artist Birds Circle Life
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative take...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Pen
Animal Painting Surrealist Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ artist Circle Life Orange
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative takes the audience on a journey into the imagination. Hugely inspired by Paula Rego, Isabel Rock is part of a formidable group of women artists (Leonora Carrington and Eileen Agar amongst others) working with Surrealism.
In October 2023 Isabel won the Evelyn Williams...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Pen
Victor
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Victor" 1974 is a 2 colors ink drawing on light green/brown Canson et Mogolfier paper by noted Polish artist Barbara Gawdzik Brzoz...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Falling To Pieces - Abstract Figurative Black & White Mixed Media Romantic Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Robert Lebsack creates artworks using mixed media with ink, acrylic, and charcoal on archival copies of newspapers, textbooks, and sheet music. As a visionary artist, Lebsack weaves ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Paper
The Riverside - Original Abstract Colorful Urban Still Life Collage Art on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Maria C. Bernhardsson is a colorful artist who lives and paints in Sweden. Most of her works are influenced by the architecture and geometry of houses. Bernhardsson travels the world...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
The Hills - Original Abstract Colorful Urban Still Life Collage Artwork Framed
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Maria C. Bernhardsson is a colorful artist who lives and paints in Sweden. Most of her works are influenced by the architecture and geometry of houses. Bernhardsson travels the world...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Sunrise, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A vintage mechanical desk light with a bright green shade symbolizes the sun in this modern landscape watercolor. Its light illuminates a solitary tree restin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Vulture, Surrealist Watercolor and Ink Drawing by Aubrey Schwartz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Aubrey Schwartz, American (1928 - 2019) - Vulture, Year: circa 1965, Medium: Watercolor and Ink on Georgian laid paper, signed in pen lower right, Image Size: 22 x 15 inches, Size:...
Category
1960s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Nude - Ink and Watercolor Drawing by Sergio Barletta - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original painting in watercolor and pen on paper applied on brown cardboard, realized by Sergio Barletta, hand-signed.
In excellent conditions.
Sheet dimension: 24 x17 ...
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1990s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Nights over Egypt – 13-11-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Nights over Egypt – 13-11-18 I found this picture of Jenna J. Ross on Instagram and I liked it a lot. It was dark and blue. I found it fit for my Egypt project and decided to tu...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
The Proud Brothers - 04-01-21, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
The Proud Brothers - 04-01-21 The Bigger the Lie How can The Blues Brothers turn into The Proud Brothers? That is simple enough. Take a big country and turn it into a madhouse. D...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Risque – 31-01-22, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Different Styles Another variation in the Risque Series. After my last graphite pencil drawing ‘Risque – 22-01-22’ I was searching for something new. I just don’t like to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Evolution of Man
By Marcel Dzama
Located in Toronto, Ontario
With his unmistakable version of contemporary Surrealism, as comical as it is otherworldly, Marcel Dzama is one of Canada's most internationally successful artists.
Dzama's works ar...
Category
1990s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media
Lalanne, ink drawing
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
François-Xavier Lalanne (1927-2008), original ink drawing, 2004
This unique work signed by François Xavier Lalanne is an original ink drawing depicting a bee on a beautiful flower. ...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
"Animal Illustrations" Allan Rohan Crite, 2 Ink Drawings African American Artist
Located in New York, NY
Allan Rohan Crite
Animal Illustrations
Signed lower left
Pen and ink on paper
23 1/2 x 16 inches
Brought up in Boston, Crite received his art training al the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at the Harvard University Extension School in 1968. He worked for most of his life as an illustrator in the Planning Department of the Boston Naval Shipyards, retiring in 1976, but continued to paint at the same time. His work has been widely exhibited and well received in Boston, where a square is named after him. Crite's early paintings depict the daily life of Boston's African-American community, a community that was to be transformed in the following decade by urban renewal and housing projects.
In his later paintings, magic-realist visions in which a black Virgin and Child ride on public transportation or float above the city streets, Crite used a bright palette rather than the more somber tones of his "neighborhood paintings...
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1930s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
The Venus of The Hague – 23-07-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
The Venus of The Hague – 23-07-20 Being a deep sea fish a coelacanth hardly ever come face to face with a white shark way up high but sometimes it does. If so, what would you ex...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Cacti, Surrealist Ink Drawing by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
In this intricately hand-drafted and drawn piece by Polish artist Wojtek Kowalczyk, a railroad track seems to stretch on into infinity. On the left, t...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Solarized Roundism – 01-07-22, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Back to Sketching This graphite pencil drawing ‘Solarized Roundism – 01-07-22’ is a welcome change from oil painting. After the completion of ‘Geesje Kwak and the Secret o...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
"Float" A gorgeous surreal landscape by Arminée Chahbazian
Located in Hollister, CA
"Float" is a luminous abstract work by Arminée Chahbazian that evokes the sensation of suspension—between thought and feeling, surface and depth. With her refined use of muted color,...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite, Other Medium
Third Rock from the Sun – 15-02-24, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
My Compliments This graphite pencil drawing ‘Third Rock from the Sun – 15-02-24’ I wanted to create for a long time. However, caught up in some projects in oil I had some ti...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Impossible Solutions at The Fountain of Youth
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Impossible Solutions at The Fountain of Youth
Collage on paper, 1987
Signed with the artist's initials and datedlower left
Condition: Good, with the ...
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1980s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
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