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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
Untitled (Angel, Gabriel)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Untitled (Angel, Gabriel) Year: 1973 Medium: Ink on heavy archival paper Size: 22 x 30 inches Condition: Good Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, ...
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1970s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

Modern Figurative Surrealism Watercolor Painting, Drawing - Women On The Beach
Located in Surfside, FL
Gary Hansmann (1947-2008) was active/lived in California. He is known for abstract, Surrealism figure painting. Gary William Hansmann was born Dec. 4, 1940, in San Diego to Ethel May Williams and Lester Hughes Hansmann. He grew up in Encinitas and served in the Army in the early 1960s. Gary Hansmann, San Diego artist, teacher and gallery owner, was known for his Surrealist nude and animal drawings and graphics. He spent time working in Paris and exhibiting his art throughout Europe, but San Diego was home until he moved to Washington state. His life partner was fellow artist, Jill Hosmer. Mr. Hansmann, a respected printmaker and prolific artist, created thousands of drawings, prints and paintings as well as hundreds of poems. His interest in bullfighting led to a book of poetry and illustrations on the subject, “La Corrida, The Run”, a collection of poetry & artwork written as he was preparing for his first bullfight. Prologue written by famous Mexican Matador Antonio Lomelin. The book is written in English and translated into Spanish on opposing pages and was published in 1983. Mr. Hansmann taught intaglio and monotype at the Academy of Fine Arts in San Diego from 1977 to 1980 and at the San Diego Museum of Art in 1980. He also gave lectures and demonstrations throughout the art community, including at the San Diego Art Guild in Del Mar and Artist Equity in San Diego. Although he attended Palomar College in San Marcos and studied lithography at the San Diego Academy of Fine Arts, Mr. Hansmann was mostly self-taught and self-educated. Mr. Hansmann had shows in several art-world capitals, including Paris; Lisbon, Portugal; Cologne, Germany; Brussels, Belgium; and New York. he had one-person exhibits at the Loft Gallery in Clarkston, the Lewis-Clark State College Center of Arts & History, the Carnegie Art Center in Walla Walla and the Valley Art Center in Clarkston. During his long, distinguished career as an artist he had numerous one-person exhibits all over the world and the United States. His group shows are too numerous to mention, but his one-person exhibits were in Koln, Germany; Bruxelles, Belgium; Paris, France; Viana do Castelo, Portugal; Lisbon, Portugal; Tecate, Mexico; and British Columbia, Canada; and many states at home. Palomar College, San Marcos, Calif. San Diego Academy of Fine Arts Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y. University of Southern California, Idyllwild (ISOMATA) University of San Diego San Diego Museum of Art James Copley Library, La Jolla, Calif. Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice, Italy Centre de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal Museo Taurino de la Communidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Atelier Lacouriere et Frelaut, Paris, France Gordon Gilkey...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, India Ink, Watercolor

Vintage Surreal Landscape Original Watercolor C.1970
Located in San Francisco, CA
Vintage Surreal Landscape Original Watercolor C.1970 Remarkable original surreal landscape Notes on the back indicate "Robert Uala" is the artist The signature in the lower right ...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Modern Figurative Surrealism Watercolor, Drawing - "You Must Die For Yours"
Located in Surfside, FL
On heavy Arches deckle edged paper. This combines text or poetry in calligraphy on the side. Gary Hansmann (1947-2008) was active/lived in California. He is known for abstract, Surrealism figure painting. Gary William Hansmann was born Dec. 4, 1940, in San Diego to Ethel May Williams and Lester Hughes Hansmann. He grew up in Encinitas and served in the Army in the early 1960s. Gary Hansmann, San Diego artist, teacher and gallery owner, was known for his Surrealist nude and animal drawings and graphics. He spent time working in Paris and exhibiting his art throughout Europe, but San Diego was home until he moved to Washington state. His life partner was fellow artist, Jill Hosmer. Mr. Hansmann, a respected printmaker and prolific artist, created thousands of drawings, prints and paintings as well as hundreds of poems. His interest in bullfighting led to a book of poetry and illustrations on the subject, “La Corrida, The Run”, a collection of poetry & artwork written as he was preparing for his first bullfight. Prologue written by famous Mexican Matador Antonio Lomelin. The book is written in English and translated into Spanish on opposing pages and was published in 1983. Mr. Hansmann taught intaglio and monotype at the Academy of Fine Arts in San Diego from 1977 to 1980 and at the San Diego Museum of Art in 1980. He also gave lectures and demonstrations throughout the art community, including at the San Diego Art Guild in Del Mar and Artist Equity in San Diego. Although he attended Palomar College in San Marcos and studied lithography at the San Diego Academy of Fine Arts, Mr. Hansmann was mostly self-taught and self-educated. Mr. Hansmann had shows in several art-world capitals, including Paris; Lisbon, Portugal; Cologne, Germany; Brussels, Belgium; and New York. he had one-person exhibits at the Loft Gallery in Clarkston, the Lewis-Clark State College Center of Arts & History, the Carnegie Art Center in Walla Walla and the Valley Art Center in Clarkston. During his long, distinguished career as an artist he had numerous one-person exhibits all over the world and the United States. His group shows are too numerous to mention, but his one-person exhibits were in Koln, Germany; Bruxelles, Belgium; Paris, France; Viana do Castelo, Portugal; Lisbon, Portugal; Tecate, Mexico; and British Columbia, Canada; and many states at home. Palomar College, San Marcos, Calif. San Diego Academy of Fine Arts Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y. University of Southern California, Idyllwild (ISOMATA) University of San Diego San Diego Museum of Art James Copley Library, La Jolla, Calif. Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice, Italy Centre de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal Museo Taurino de la Communidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Atelier Lacouriere et Frelaut, Paris, France Gordon Gilkey...
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1980s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, India Ink, Watercolor

Abstract Figures and Landscape, Surreal Line Drawing Composition
Located in Soquel, CA
Dynamic surrealist line drawing of figures in an abstracted landscape by David Rosen (Canadian, 1912-2004). Signed "Rosen" in the lower right corner. Presented in a new tan mat with ...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, India Ink

The Killers, black and white city scape, surrealistic, narrative
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Dramatic imagery from FILM NOIR series of black and white monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism About Tom Bennett: With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett crea...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Monotype, Archival Paper

(Scottish Rockscape) Untitled
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Untitled (Scottish Rockscape) Year: 1973 Medium: Ink on heavy archival paper Size: 22 x 30 inches Condition: Good Provenance: Estate of Ian Horn...
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1970s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

"After Rene Magritte with Lips, " Watercolor & Ink signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"After Rene Magritte With Lips" is an original watercolor and ink drawing by David Barnett. The artist signed, titled, and dated the piece in the lower right. This artwork depicts a ...
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1990s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Ink

"Beyond Reach" Surrealist Still Life Painting of books with ladders
Located in New York, NY
Hardbound books in black, orange and yellow are stacked with magazines and soft cover books. In a surreal shift of scale bright orange construction ladders are leaned against the b...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Archival Paper, Watercolor

Abstract Composition - Penmarker on Paper by Michel Cadoret
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract composition is an original artwork realized by Michel Cadoret. Penmarker on paper. The monogram of the artist is on the lower right corner. ...
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1950s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Permanent Marker

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

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Mixed Media

Royal Dreams - 21st Century, Drawing on Paper, Tree, Crown, Blue, Fantasy
Located in Berlin, DE
Royal Dreams, 2013 Black and colored fine liner on paper 16.53 H x 11.69 W in 42 H x 29.7 W cm Raluca Arnăutu creates a zoomorphic world, where animals...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Color Pencil

UNTITLED
Located in Portland, ME
Drawing, Ink and colored pencil or Watercolor and color pencil, 2013-2020. 6 x 7 5/8 or 7 5/8 x 6 inches. Signed and inscribed, verso. One of a series of untitled drawings on various...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Color Pencil, Watercolor

UNTITLED
Located in Portland, ME
Drawing, Ink and colored pencil or Watercolor and color pencil, 2013-2020. 6 x 7 5/8 or 7 5/8 x 6 inches. Signed and inscribed, verso. One of a series of untitled drawings on various...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Color Pencil, Watercolor

UNTITLED
Located in Portland, ME
Drawing, Ink and colored pencil or Watercolor and color pencil, 2013-2020. 6 x 7 5/8 or 7 5/8 x 6 inches. Signed and inscribed, verso. One of a series of untitled drawings on various...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Color Pencil, Watercolor

Surrealist Latin American Mixed Media Watercolor & Ink - Woman Holding Purse
Located in Surfside, FL
Armando Villagran lived from 1945 to 1995 in Mexico. He was a self-taught artist, painter, draftsman and illustrator with a neo-figurative style. He has been considered by Mexican ar...
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1970s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor

Karolina - XX century, Mixed media Lithography Print, Surrealistic, Colorful
Located in Warsaw, PL
WALDEMAR MARSZAŁEK (born in 1960) Polish painter. He received his diploma in graphic design in 1985. He is a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts i...
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1990s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media, Color Pencil

UNTITLED
Located in Portland, ME
Drawing, Ink and colored pencil or Watercolor and color pencil, 2013-2020. 6 x 7 5/8 or 7 5/8 x 6 inches. Signed and inscribed, verso. One of a series of untitled drawings on various...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Color Pencil, Watercolor

The Chrysler Townhouse
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor

New York No. 1968
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor

UNTITLED
Located in Portland, ME
Drawing, Ink and colored pencil or Watercolor and color pencil, 2013-2020. 6 x 7 5/8 or 7 5/8 x 6 inches. Signed and inscribed, verso. One of a series of untitled drawings on various...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Color Pencil, Watercolor

The New York Townhouse
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor

The Verdure Killer Stalemate
Located in Kansas City, MO
Due to the current situation related to the Novel Coronavirus pandemic, our gallery will donate 10% of our commission from this sale to the Kansas City Artists Coalition, which has b...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Color Pencil, Pencil, Archival Paper, Chalk

UNTITLED
Located in Portland, ME
Drawing, Ink and colored pencil or Watercolor and color pencil, 2013-2020. 6 x 7 5/8 or 7 5/8 x 6 inches. Signed and inscribed, verso. One of a series of untitled drawings on various...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Color Pencil, Watercolor

UNTITLED
Located in Portland, ME
Drawing, Ink and colored pencil or Watercolor and color pencil, 2013-2020. 6 x 7 5/8 or 7 5/8 x 6 inches. Signed and inscribed, verso. One of a series of untitled drawings on various...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Color Pencil, Watercolor

UNTITLED
Located in Portland, ME
Drawing, Ink and colored pencil or Watercolor and color pencil, 2013-2020. 6 x 7 5/8 or 7 5/8 x 6 inches. Signed and inscribed, verso. One of a series of untitled drawings on various...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Color Pencil, Watercolor

UNTITLED
Located in Portland, ME
Drawing, Ink and colored pencil or Watercolor and color pencil, dated between 2013 and 2020. 6 x 7 5/8 or 7 5/8 x 6 inches. Signed and inscribed, verso. One of a series of untitled ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Color Pencil, Watercolor

UNTITLED
Located in Portland, ME
Drawing, Ink and colored pencil or Watercolor and color pencil, 2013-2020. 6 x 7 5/8 or 7 5/8 x 6 inches. Signed and inscribed, verso. One of a series of untitled drawings on various...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Color Pencil, Watercolor

UNTITLED
Located in Portland, ME
Drawing, Ink and colored pencil or Watercolor and color pencil, 2013-2020. 6 x 7 5/8 or 7 5/8 x 6 inches. Signed and inscribed, verso. One of a series of untitled drawings on various...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Color Pencil, Watercolor

The Dream of Palm Springs
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor

Le Supplice du Ballon - Ink and Pencil on Cardboard - L. Vallet - 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Aerostatic Ball is beautiful artwork in China ink and pencil applied on cardboard realized by the artist Luis Vallet (1856-1940) Hand-signed on the lower right. Titled in French" Le...
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Early 20th Century Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Cardboard, Pencil

The Queen
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media

"Gehl Dairy Farm, " Original Mixed Media Surrealist signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Gehl Dairy Farm" is an original mixed media piece by David Barnett and his daughter, Sarah Barnett, signed and dated in the lower right. Begun in 1997 and ...
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Early 2000s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

Celestial Night, dark colors, astronomy, black female nude, stars, maps, collage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
These collages were created first in the presence of a model, working quickly, in charcoal and pastel, and again, later, alone, furiously tearing and pasting images from magazines, v...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

Quicksand (Small) #18
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Titled and described by the artist verso Colored pencil on raw sienna laid rag paper
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1980s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Color Pencil

The night tree - Mixed Media Figurative Drawing, Fantasy, Surreal, Colorful
Located in Warsaw, PL
Mixed media surrealistic, fantasy drawing by Polish artist Małgorzata Kwiecińska PROVENANCE Exhibited at Katarzyna Napiorkowska Gallery. The Gallery is a primary representative fo...
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1990s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel, Color Pencil

My King Lear
Located in Kansas City, MO
Due to the current situation related to the Novel Coronavirus pandemic, our gallery will donate 10% of our commission from this sale to the Kansas City Artists Coalition, which has been supporting local Kansas City Artists for the past 40 years. The Kansas City Artists Coalition (KCAC), is a non-profit, artist-centered, artist-run alternative space, supporting artists at every level in their career through exhibitions, continuing education and artist studios. Artist: Joseph Broghammer Title: “My King...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Chalk, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Pencil

"Poppy Winged Hybrid Butterfly and Giant Gold Lily, " Mixed Media, David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Poppy Winged Hybrid Butterfly and Giant Gold Lily" is an original mixed media piece by David Barnett, signed in the lower right. It incorporates giclee printing, watercolor, iridesc...
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Early 2000s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor, Foam Board, Giclée

lot of four surrealist inks - ink on paper, 10.5x30.5 cm., framed
Located in Nice, FR
Lot of four ink drawings by the german surrealist painter Sven Hauptmann. all signed. framed
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1970s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

Untitled Surrealist Mythical Portrait
By Bob Camblin
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract Surrealist ink and gouache drawing of a human and deer hybrid head sitting within a jar. The work is signed by the artist in the bottom corner. The work is framed in a silve...
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20th Century Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache, Ink

New York No. 14
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor

Kiss Me Deadly 2, night, sea, boat, black and white, surrealist noir
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Dramatic imagery from FILM NOIR series of black and white monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism About Tom Bennett: With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett crea...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Monotype, Archival Paper

Untitled - Early Surrealist Pencil Drawing by Roberto Matta - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Surrealist Drawing is an exceptional pencil drawing by the artist Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren, who signed on the lower right of the paper “Matta”. The artwork is in ver...
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1950s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Mythical Creature with Foliage Painted on Handmade Paper
Located in Houston, TX
Deer and owl hybrid creature that is similar to a mythological creature painted with foliage on handmade paper. The piece is not signed. It is not framed.
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20th Century Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

New York No. 50
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor

Scarecrow with Nesting Birds
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Aiwa' and dated 1996. A substantial, pen and ink and watercolor figural study of a scarecrow dressed in cap, ragged jacket and vest with a pair of birds perche...
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1990s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

"Your New Home, " Abstract Surrealist Landscape Oil Pastel by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Your New Home" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right. It features abstract, surreal, and biomorphic obj...
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1990s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil Pastel, Illustration Board

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...
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1970s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Carbon Pencil

Journey #27 (monochrome red pen drawing wood detailed oriental dansaekhwa)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Cheoluy Kim’s practice examines the blurred frontier between perceived reality and fantasy. His work is informed by a childhood growing up on the border of North and South Korea in Gosung. There, he grew fascinated by all the fauna and flora he observed from his village surrounded by mountains, as well as the air balloons carrying political propaganda. He witnessed everything in the sky. This instilled a deeply rooted reflex to imagine a fantastical world beyond the physical frontiers he was bound by. Cheolyu Kim studied and obtained his master in sculpture, although, his current practice is entirely devoted to pen drawing on either paper or wood. Either bicolored or monochrome, the artist's typically limited chromatic palette gives room for an intense focus on detailed compositions, tonal gradients, and multiple perspectives. Kim’s background in sculpture is evident in the carved-like volumes of the elements in his drawings. Fine moire and cross-hatching are used for textures and shading in the drawn sections while the paper or wood is left fully exposed in other areas. Imaginary fauna and flora abound which contributes to a rather biomorphic aura to his work. All the while, indigenous, modern and futuristic architectural structures are erected and confuse any sense of fixed temporality. Rather, it projects us into a phantasmagorical universe where past, present and future collapse into one. Some perspectives are even skewed disrupting our contemplation. Totemic poles, origami-shaped creatures, and aquatic vegetation coexist fluidly in Kim’s oniric visions. His fine-detailed patterned dreamscapes engage the viewer actively; we are called upon to discover how do all the various entities interact over the multiple receding planes building up to Cheolyu's surrealist ecosystems. keywords; pencil, rings, circles, moire, highly detailed, geometric abstraction, intentionally exposed support, line form and color, monochrome, drawing on paper, curvilinear forms, Korean art, dynamism, contemporary minimalism, graphism, repetition, engaged with traditional Korean art...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pen

Journey #54 (monochrome grey pen drawing wood detailed oriental dansaekhwa)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Cheoluy Kim’s practice examines the blurred frontier between perceived reality and fantasy. His work is informed by a childhood growing up on the border of North and South Korea in Gosung. There, he grew fascinated by all the fauna and flora he observed from his village surrounded by mountains, as well as the air balloons carrying political propaganda. He witnessed everything in the sky. This instilled a deeply rooted reflex to imagine a fantastical world beyond the physical frontiers he was bound by. Cheolyu Kim studied and obtained his master in sculpture, although, his current practice is entirely devoted to pen drawing on either paper or wood. Either bicolored or monochrome, the artist's typically limited chromatic palette gives room for an intense focus on detailed compositions, tonal gradients, and multiple perspectives. Kim’s background in sculpture is evident in the carved-like volumes of the elements in his drawings. Fine moire and cross-hatching are used for textures and shading in the drawn sections while the paper or wood is left fully exposed in other areas. Imaginary fauna and flora abound which contributes to a rather biomorphic aura to his work. All the while, indigenous, modern and futuristic architectural structures are erected and confuse any sense of fixed temporality. Rather, it projects us into a phantasmagorical universe where past, present and future collapse into one. Some perspectives are even skewed disrupting our contemplation. Totemic poles, origami-shaped creatures, and aquatic vegetation coexist fluidly in Kim’s oniric visions. His fine-detailed patterned dreamscapes engage the viewer actively; we are called upon to discover how do all the various entities interact over the multiple receding planes building up to Cheolyu's surrealist ecosystems. keywords; wood, pencil, rings, circles, moire, highly detailed, geometric abstraction, intentionally exposed support, line form and color, monochrome, curvilinear forms, Korean art, dynamism, contemporary minimalism, graphism, repetition, engaged with traditional Korean art...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Birch, Wood Panel, Pen

Windows of Perception, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
This pencil drawing was created on acid free paper. It received the Honorable Mention Award at the Third Annual Juried Exhibition, Archway Gallery, July 9, 2011, Houston TX It obta...
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Early 2000s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Journey #28 (monochrome red pen drawing wood detailed oriental dansaekhwa korea)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Cheoluy Kim’s practice examines the blurred frontier between perceived reality and fantasy. His work is informed by a childhood growing up on the border of North and South Korea in Gosung. There, he grew fascinated by all the fauna and flora he observed from his village surrounded by mountains, as well as the air balloons carrying political propaganda. He witnessed everything in the sky. This instilled a deeply rooted reflex to imagine a fantastical world beyond the physical frontiers he was bound by. Cheolyu Kim studied and obtained his master in sculpture, although, his current practice is entirely devoted to pen drawing on either paper or wood. Either bicolored or monochrome, the artist's typically limited chromatic palette gives room for an intense focus on detailed compositions, tonal gradients, and multiple perspectives. Kim’s background in sculpture is evident in the carved-like volumes of the elements in his drawings. Fine moire and cross-hatching are used for textures and shading in the drawn sections while the paper or wood is left fully exposed in other areas. Imaginary fauna and flora abound which contributes to a rather biomorphic aura to his work. All the while, indigenous, modern and futuristic architectural structures are erected and confuse any sense of fixed temporality. Rather, it projects us into a phantasmagorical universe where past, present and future collapse into one. Some perspectives are even skewed disrupting our contemplation. Totemic poles, origami-shaped creatures, and aquatic vegetation coexist fluidly in Kim’s oniric visions. His fine-detailed patterned dreamscapes engage the viewer actively; we are called upon to discover how do all the various entities interact over the multiple receding planes building up to Cheolyu's surrealist ecosystems. keywords; pencil, rings, circles, moire, highly detailed, geometric abstraction, intentionally exposed support, line form and color, monochrome, drawing on paper, curvilinear forms, Korean art, dynamism, contemporary minimalism, graphism, repetition, engaged with traditional Korean art...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pen

Surrealist Drawing of a Broom in the Style of Avigdor Arikha
Located in Houston, TX
Surrealist drawing of an old fashion straw broom. The work is similar to the known artist Avigdor Arikna's etching after real-life objects. The work is not...
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20th Century Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

Untitled Nude. Pencil and gold paint nude figurative drawing on paper.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled 39 x 26 1/2 inches This piece is a one of a kind pencil and gold paint drawing on paper. 2015 ___________ Juan C. Estrada combines realism and surrealism in his work. Born i...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gold

"Bamboo, Lobster, & Cherries, " Original Ink Drawing signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Bamboo, Lobster, & Cherries," is an original surrealist ink drawing by David Barnett, signed in upper right. In the work, a lobster transforms into a stalk of bamboo in three stages...
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1960s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

Journey #39 (monochrome grey pen drawing wood detailed oriental dansaekhwa)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; wood, pencil drawing, monochrome, highly detailed, Korean art, dansaekhwa, oriental art, circles, moire, geometric abstraction, intentionally exposed support, line form and color, curvilinear forms, dynamism, contemporary drawing, graphism, repetition, engaged with traditional Korean art...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Birch, Wood Panel, Pen

Oedipus And The Sphinx
Located in Miami, FL
Initialed in cartouche bottom center Provenance: Robert L. B. Tobin Foundation Matted but Unframed
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1960s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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India Ink, Gouache

Veillee Sepulchrale; Verso: Study of two figures in a landscape
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Veillee Sepulchrale Verso: Study of two figures in a landscape Pen and ink on rose colored Canson watermark paper, 1944 Signed in ink with the artist's initials lower center (see photo) Dated 1944 lower center; Titled in ink upper left corner (see photo) Provenance: Swann Galleries, 2010, realized $900. John Popplestone (1928-2013), Akron, OH collector, noted psychologist and author Berman brothers (painters) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search This article is about the painters. For the American songwriters/producers, see Berman Brothers (producers). Eugene Berman in Italy in the 1960s Eugène Berman (Russian: Евгений Густавович Берман; 4 November 1899, Saint Petersburg, Russia – 14 December 1972, Rome) and his brother Leonid Berman (1896 – 1976[1]) were Russian Neo-romantic painters and theater and opera designers. Contents 1 Early years 2 Later years and death 2.1 Works 3 Legacy 4 See also 5 References Early years Born in Russia, the Bermans fled the Russian revolution in 1918. In Paris the Bermans exhibited at the Galerie Pierre where their work earned them the name "Neo-Romantics" for its melancholy and introspective qualities, having taken inspiration from the Blue Period paintings of Pablo Picasso. Other Neo-Romantic painters were Christian Bérard, Pavel Tchelitchev, Kristians...
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1940s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pen, Ink

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