Surrealist Abstract 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
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - "UFO"
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - "UFO"
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 6 height x 4.75 width
Condition: Good
Provenance: all the paintings we have by this artist...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Blooming Wildflowers in Spring Abstract
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Blooming Wildflowers in Spring Abstract
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 6 height x 4.5 width
Condition: Good
Provenance: all the...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Winter Tree in Bloom
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Winter Tree in Bloom
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 4.75 height x 6 width
Condition: Good
Provenance: all the paintings we have...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
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Oil
Surreal Landscape With a Man Walking Between Constantine and Cattelan’s Hands
By Gozo
Located in FISTERRA, ES
"Walk Between Constantine’s Hand and Cattelan’s Gesture" is an original surreal landscape painting by Gozo Collective, crafted with acrylic on uniquely shaped paper mounted onto a fl...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Board
$644 Sale Price
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Looking at the Swallow Birds - Large Original Painting on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mohamad Khayata’s original figurative artworks are the result of five years of displacement and deal with themes of migration, memory, and identity. Mohamad’s paintings exhibit an array of emotions, ranging from bliss and comfort to tension and uncertainty. Many of his artworks portray a sense of transience, which is all the more palpable when considering that Khayata's intimate work is a tribute to displaced people and to their daily life stories that, far from familiar surroundings, are filled with effort and hope.
Khayata created this original painting with acrylic paint on canvas. It measures 46 inches high by 39 inches wide. This artwork was created in the artist's new studio after his previous studio was destroyed in the 2020 blast in Beirut. It is signed by the artist on the back of the canvas. This painting is stretched, wired, and ready to hang. Free local Los Angeles area delivery. Affordable Continental U.S. and worldwide shipping. A certificate of authenticity issued by the art gallery is included with this original work.
This artwork is part of a new series of imagery by the artist, in which Khayata's illustrative paintings are strategically placed to mingle with people and the environment. These paintings amass a memorial narrative; connecting the artist and the viewer to the rich cultural heritage of Syria and the larger narrative of what it means to be home.
Born in Damascus, Syria, artist Mohamad Khayata was forced to flee his home country due to ongoing political conflict. Khayata has been living in Beirut, Lebanon since 2012. His work is a resounding call for transformation and unity within his home country. His photography project "Stitching my Syria back" was chosen to be part of Journeys Festival International 2016 as a landmark for the “Look up” project in Leicester, where his photographs were installed on ten buildings. During this public exhibition coordinated with the Royal Institute of British Architects, his photographs were installed on ten buildings, fostering a deeper connection between art and the public, highlighting empowerment and enriching a younger generation’s aspirations for the future.
In the last few years, Khayata has participated in an increasing number of collective exhibitions across Europe and the Middle East, where his distinctive style and original approach have captivated audiences, leading to sold-out exhibitions each time, cementing his status as a sought-after artist in the global art scene. Holding his BA in Fine Arts obtained at Damascus University, Khayata is a bastion of Syrian legacy, memory, home, and happiness.
REPRESENTATION
Artplex Gallery Los Angeles, California, USA
EXHIBITIONS
2020-23 Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles
2019 “Nota Bene,” Artplex Gallery Los Angeles, California
2018 “Takhalli,” 4th edition of the Laboratory of Arts Programme, partnership with The Goethe Institute, City of Beirut, Lebanon
Beirut Art Fair, 392RMEIL393 Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
“Umm Al-Zuluf,” 392RMEIL393 Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
“Aegean Sea,” 392RMEIL393 Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
2017 “Umm Al-Zuluf,” 392RMEIL393 Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
Beirut Art Fair, Beirut, Lebanon
Sharjah Art Bienalle, SAFIR
“Stitching My Syria Back Together,” The Alexandria Library, Manchester, UK
2016 “Revealing,” Beirut Art Fair, Gallery One Palestine, Beirut, Lebanon
Journeys Festival International 2016
TA’AROF workshop, Sharjah Art Bienalle, SAFIR
“Look Up,” Project in Leicester
Inside Beirut, The Gallerist, Beirut, Lebanon
“The Third Space,” British Council in London and Brussels, UK
2015 “Walking on Thread...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Cascade. Contemporary Surrealist Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Once again Berlin gifts us a different aspect of his art. Within Cascade he is able to echo and reference simultaneously several of the Great Masters and also include his own unique ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Surrealist Large Painting Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ Female Shoe Race
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 Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Floating 1': Cosmic Orbs and Energy
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Floating 1': Cosmic Orbs and Energy
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 4 height x 6 width
Condition: Good
Provenance: all the pain...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Abstract Green Weeds
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Stunning original oil painting by Elvic Steele depicting this surrealist fantasy abstract painting.
Elvic Steele is a fascinating English painter. Her works entrance the observer, d...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
British Surrealist Oil Painting - Three Dimensions Abstract Geometric Study
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: British Surrealist Oil Painting - Three Dimensions Abstract Geometric Study
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 4 height x 6 width
Condition: Good
Provenance: All the painti...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Bright & Colourful Abstract Design
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Stunning original oil painting by Elvic Steele depicting this surrealist fantasy abstract painting.
Elvic Steele is a fascinating English painter. Her works entrance the observer, d...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Blossoming Foliage and Earth Roots
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Blossoming Foliage and Earth Roots
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 4 height x 6 width
Condition: Good
Provenance: all the painti...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Spring Bloom Under Blue Skies
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Spring Bloom Under Blue Skies
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 3.5 height x 4.5 width
Condition: Good
Provenance: all the paintin...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - "Flower Thoinasina"
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - "Flower Thoinasina"
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 6 height x 4.5 width
Condition: Good
Provenance: all the paintings we have b...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Beginnings' Abstract
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Beginnings' Abstract
Artist: Elvic Steele
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 4.5 height x 6 width
Condition: Good
Provenance: all ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - "Rhythms with Central Point"
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - "Rhythms with Central Point"
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 5.25 height x 4.5 width
Condition: Good
Provenance: all the paintin...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Sunlit Blossoms
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Sunlit Blossoms
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 4.5 height x 3 width
Condition: Good
Provenance: all the paintings we have by th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - "Ties of Relationship"
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - "Ties of Relationship"
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 5 height x 3.5 width
Condition: Good
Provenance: all the paintings we hav...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - "Leading Lights"
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - "Break Out"
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 3.25 height x 4.5 width
Condition: Good
Provenance: all the paintings we have by thi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Hidden Currents Abstract
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Hidden Currents Abstract
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 4.5 height x 6.25 width
Condition: Good
Provenance: all the paintings w...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - "Radiance + Gloom"
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - "Radiance + Gloom"
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 4 height x 5.25 width
Condition: Good
Provenance: all the paintings we have b...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Meeting' Abstract Study
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Meeting' Abstract Study
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 6 height x 4.5 width
Condition: Good
Provenance: all the paintings we h...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - "Metamorphosis"
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - "Metamorphosis"
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 4.5 height x 6 width
Condition: Good
Provenance: all the paintings we have by th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Adding Colour Numbers' Abstract Study
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Adding Colour Numbers' Abstract Study
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 5.75 height x 4 width
Condition: Good
Provenance: all the...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Floating 2' Abstract Study
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Floating 2' Abstract Study
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 4 height x 6 width
Condition: Good
Provenance: all the paintings we ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Golden Blooms in Verdant Growth
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Golden Blooms in Verdant Growth
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 6.25 height x 4.25 width
Condition: Good
Provenance: all the pai...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Growth, Spiring, Expanding, Dispersing
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - "Growth, Spiring, Expanding, Dispersing"
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 4.5 height x 6 width
Condition: Good
Provenance: all th...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Logic + Fantasy' Abstract
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Logic + Fantasy' Abstract
Artist: Elvic Steele
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 4.25 height x 6 width
Condition: Good
Provenance...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Whimsy Floral Abstract with Birds
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Whimsy Floral Abstract with Birds
Artist: Elvic Steele
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 6 height x 4.75 width
Condition: Good
Pro...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Revival' Abstract
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Revival'' Abstract
Artist: Elvic Steele
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 6 height x 4.5 width
Condition: Good
Provenance: all th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Colour Energies' Abstract
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Colour Energies' Abstract
Artist: Elvic Steele
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 4.5 height x 6 width
Condition: Good
Provenance:...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Festival Time' Abstract
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Festival Time' Abstract
Artist: Elvic Steele
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 6 height x 4.5 width
Condition: Good
Provenance: a...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Emerging Form' Abstract
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Emerging Form' Abstract
Artist: Elvic Steele
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 5.25 height x 4.5 width
Condition: Good
Provenance...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Screams for Peace
Located in Zofingen, AG
Sometimes I like to let my paintings do the talking for me when we switch on the news at the moment, it's full of horror when the world is crying out for peace
To say that Ta is a v...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Caceria, Surrealist Mixed Media Painting by Geandy Pavon
By Geandy Pavon
Located in Long Island City, NY
Geandy Pavon, Cuban (1974 - ) - Caceria, Year: 2000, Medium: Oil and Tempera on canvas, signed, titled and dated in ink on verso, Size: 42 x 60 in. (106.68 x 152.4 cm)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Tempera
1970 Mod Surrealist Painting Collage David Hare Abstract Landscape Summer Land
By David Hare
Located in Surfside, FL
David Hare
Summer Land, 1970
Acrylic or oil paint and collage on board
Dimensions: 26 X 36 inches. Framed measuring 29 x 38 inches.
Hand signed, dated and titled on tape to verso 'Summer Land 1970 Hare'.
Provenance: Hamilton Gallery of Contemporary Art, New York
David Hare (1917 – 1992) was an American artist, associated with the Surrealist movement. He is primarily known for his sculpture, though he also worked extensively in photography and oil painting. The VVV Surrealism Magazine was first published and edited by Hare in 1942.
Born March 10, 1917 in New York City, New York to father Meredith Hare, a lawyer and mother Elizabeth Sage Goodwin, an art collector. In the 1920s the family moved first to Santa Fe, New Mexico and later to Colorado Springs, Colorado, in hope that the fresh air would help heal Meredith Hare's tuberculosis. His mother founded the Fountain Valley School, where David attended high school. After high school Hare married and moved to Roxbury, Connecticut where he worked as a color photographer. He attended Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson from 1936 to 1937, studying biology and chemistry.
In the late 1930s, with no previous artistic training, he began to experiment with color photography. Using his previous education in chemistry Hare developed an automatist technique called "heatage" in which he heated the unfixed negative from an 8 by 10-inch plate, causing the image to ripple and distort.
Hare's Surrealist experiments in photography were only one of his many projects. In 1938 he met Susanna Winslow Wilson and the couple soon married. Both David and Susanna pursued their interests in Surrealism and regularly attended Surrealist gatherings in New York Larre French restaurant on 56th street and at Breton's Greenwich Village apartment. In 1940 he received a commission from the American Museum of Natural History to document the Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest, for which he eventually produced 20 prints developed using Eastman Kodak's then-new dye transfer process (a time-consuming and complicated technique). In the same year, he also opened his own commercial photography studio in New York City and exhibited his photographs in a solo show at the Julien Levy Gallery.
In the next few years, through his cousin the painter Kay Sage, he came into contact with a number of Surrealist artists who had fled their native Europe because of World War II. Hare became closely involved with the émigré Surrealist movement and collaborated closely with them on projects such as the Surrealist journal VVV, which he co founded and edited from 1941 to 1944 with André Breton, Max Ernst, and Marcel Duchamp. With numerous illustrations by Breton, Leonora Carrington, Marc Chagall, Roberto Matta, Giorgio de Chirico, MarcelDuchamp, Max Ernst, Andre Masson, Joan Miro, Enrico Donati, Dorothea Tanning, and others.
Published in only four issues between 1942-44, VVV was an experimental New York-based magazine devoted to the dissemination of Surrealism. Edited by David Hare, the short-lived magazine featured contributions from some of the leading avant-garde artists of the period.
David and Susanna divorce in 1945 and Breton’s wife Jacqueline Lamba...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
20th Century French Surrealist Portrait of Woman with Landscape Hair signed oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Surrealist Portrait
French, mid 20th century
signed oil on board, framed
Framed: 14 x 16 inches
Board : 9 x 11 inches
Provenance: private collection
Condition: the board has a convex...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Crimson and Violet Surreal Landscape. Acrylic on Fabriano Paper, Framed Painting
By Gozo
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This surreal landscape painting by Gozo presents an evocative acrylic composition on Fabriano paper, measuring 50 x 70 cm. The piece unfolds in a dreamlike terrain of crimson and vio...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Surrealist Large Painting Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ Female Pink Woods
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 Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Fantasy Abstract Pink Bird
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Stunning original oil painting by Elvic Steele depicting this surrealist fantasy abstract painting.
Elvic Steele is a fascinating English painter. Her works entrance the observer, d...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Deep Colour ' Fantasy Abstract
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Stunning original oil painting by Elvic Steele depicting this surrealist fantasy abstract painting.
Elvic Steele is a fascinating English painter. Her works entrance the observer, d...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Found Objects, surrealist composition c.1940
Located in London, GB
Found Objects
Gouache
55 x 38 cm
Provenance: The family of A. E. Halliwell.
Little is known about the artist other than the fact that he studied under the celebrated artist A. E. H...
Category
1940s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Nightgale" Surreal Still Life in a Blue Landscape style of Yves Tanguy and Dali
Located in Soquel, CA
"Nightgale" Birds Fly in a Surreal Still Life in a Blue Landscape
Surreal landscape by Kennard M. Harris (American, b-1930). A table is set with a broken glass and surreal objects, becoming a landscape; roiling clouds lurk nearby as a flock of Nightingales fly in the distance.
Kennard Studied art at the Art Center School in Los Angeles
Signed with his Monogam lower left
The Hammer Galleries ink stamp on paper backing and title "Nightgale #62,
a label 14. Nightgale on board. Possibly indication of a number of paintings exhibited at the Hammer Galleries.
Image, 24.5"H x 20"W
Frame, 27.5"H x 23"W x 1.5"D
EXHIBITED:
Hammer Galleries, New York, 1962
First: San Diego, Orr's Gallery, Kennard Harris...
Category
1960s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Stretcher Bars
If I Had A Friend, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Scottish terrier wishes for a friend to play with :: Painting :: Surrealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Y...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Alegoría al Fútbol club Barcelona - Óleo sobre tela
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
La obra va firmada en la parte inferior y fechada del año 1981
Se presenta enmarcada (leves signos de uso en la enmarcación)
Medidas de la obra: 92 x 73 cm.
Medidas del marco: 103...
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1980s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Huge French Surrealist Fantasy Oil Painting Floating Figure Reaching for Moon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, signed and dated 1986
Title: Surrealist composition
Medium: signed oil painting on board, unframed and inscribed verso.
painting: 25.5 x 21.25 inc...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
1980’s French Surrealist Oil Painting Abstract Figurative Composition
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Tristan Fabris 1989, French Surrealist artist
Abstract Surrealist Figurative study
oil on canvas, unframed
inscribed verso
dated 1989
painting: 32 x 25.5 inches
private collection, F...
Category
1980s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fish and Loaves, Surrealist Abstract Oil Painting, Signed
By Kate Orr
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Fish and Loaves, Surrealist Abstract Oil Painting, Signed
By British artist, Kate Orr, late 20th Century
Signed by the artist on the lower right hand corner
Signed and titled by the artist verso
Oil painting on canvas, unframed
Canvas size: 24 x 30 inches
Vibrant surrealist painting of a figure offering copious amounts of bread and fish.
As with all abstract...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Fantasy Clematis Floral Abstract
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Stunning original oil painting by Elvic Steele depicting this surrealist fantasy abstract painting.
Elvic Steele is a fascinating English painter. Her works entrance the observer, d...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
me and my lovers oil on canvas painting surrealist abstract
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Felix Ferreras - Me and my lovers - Oil on canvas
Oil measurements 73x100 cm.
Frameless.
Félix Ferreras is a visual artist with numerous national and international awards and distin...
Category
1990s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,074 Sale Price
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Dream Of The Inca. Contemporary Abstract Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Something of a departure for Berlin, this highly figurative painting use motifs from ancient central American cultures to create a piece that writhes and turns on the canvas. Beautif...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Acrylic
"Au Debut dele Printemps" - "Early Spring" Surreal Figurative Tree Man
Located in Soquel, CA
Surreal figurative abstract depicting a half man, half tree figure on a pedestal in a dream-like, abstracted white and blue space by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary French Surrealist Oil Painting Evolving Shapes and Movement
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Composition
signed by Jack Penouel (French 1936-2018)
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 18.5 x 15.5 inches
canvas : 18 x 15 inches
provenance: the ar...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Plutonium Messenger" Symbolic Visionary Art in Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
"Plutonium Messenger" Symbolic Visionary Art in Acrylic on Canvas
Detailed symbolic work by Dana Lynn Andersen (American, b. 1962). This piece is a styl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Glitter, Acrylic
$1,800 Sale Price
20% Off
French Surrealist Oil Painting Evolving Shapes and Movement Grey Ochre Soft tone
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Composition
signed by Jack Penouel (French 1936-2018)
dated 01'
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 16 x 16 inches
canvas : 15.75 x 15.75 inches
proven...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Candido Ballester surreal. black. face. acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Personaje original surrealist acrylic painting
Cándido Ballester is a contemporary Mallorcan painter who was born in 1926. As a child he had to emigrate to Argentina. In the 60's he ...
Category
1980s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Cardboard
Visionary Surrealist Totem Abstract -- Fragment Under Grey Sky
Located in Soquel, CA
Geometric surrealist composition depicting a totem-like form, composed of colorful surrealist three dimensional interlocking shapes, by Clayton Anderson (American, b. 1943). Signed "Clayton Anderson" and titled "Landscape #10 (Fragment Under Grey Sky)" on verso. Signature embossed into lower left edge of paper. Presented in a custom deep box frame with plexiglass. Image size: 20.75"H x 16"W
Clayton Anderson (American, b. 1943) studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and worked with Ben Kimihira, Walter...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
$2,047 Sale Price
35% Off
Huge French Surrealist Oil Painting Calm Orange and Grey Colors 20th Century
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Composition
by Jack Penouel (French 1936-2018)
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 32 x 26 inches
canvas : 31 x 25 inches
provenance: the artists esta...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Wheatfield With Crows, after Vincent". Contemporary Surrealist Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
The Billion Dollar Hand has created this richly shaded painting as something of an homage to Van Gogh, channeling and expanding the style in a unique way. However, not satisfied with...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Large French Surrealist Fantasy Figures Painting Very Unusual and Decorative
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French surrealist artist, late 20th/ early 21st century
acrylic and pen painting on board, unframed
board: 29.5 x 41.5 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: very g...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Pen
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