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 - 'Patterns and Growth ' 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...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
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Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Big Fish Eat Little Fish' 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...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
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Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Early Growth' 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...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
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Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Flaming Sea' 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...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
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Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Fish Discovering ' 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...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
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Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Flower Top' 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...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
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Oil
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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...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
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Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Awaiting Dawn' 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...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
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Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Abstract Fantasy Butterfly Landscape
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...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
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Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Yellow and Orange Leafs' 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...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
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Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Colorful Fantasy Abstract 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...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
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Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - ''Mystery Of Personality'
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...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
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Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Abstract Purple Shapes
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...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
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Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Colorful Fantasy Plant 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
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Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Sunset Colours 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...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
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Oil
Jin Liu Surrealist Original Oil Painting "Production Plan-2"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Production Plan-2
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 12 x 12 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This paintin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$720 Sale Price
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Vintage Surreal Oil Painting on Canvas c.1940s to 1950s.
Located in San Francisco, CA
Vintage Surreal Oil Painting on Canvas c.1940s to 1950s.
Classic Surrealism brought to life on canvas by a very talented artist. The painting has no visible signature.
Canvas dimen...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Red, Blue, and Brown Abstract Surrealistic Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Red, pink, blue, and brown abstract surrealist painting by Soviet-American artist Vladimir Ryklin. The painting depicts what appears to be a rehabilitating village after a chaotic ti...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Male Bikers in Desert - Huge French Surrealist Oil Painting Figurative Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figurative Abstract
French School, signed 'Andres'
dated 1972
oil painting on board
overall size: 36.5 X 36.75 inches
condition: overall very good and pleasing
provenance: from a pri...
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20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$2,432 Sale Price
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French Surrealist Oil Painting Abstract Figurative Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figurative Abstract
French School, signed and dated 1972
small frame
oil painting on board
painting: 19.75 x 25.5 inches
overall size: 21.5 x 27 inches
condition: overall very good a...
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20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$924 Sale Price
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Surrealist Large Painting Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ Female Blue Water Sea
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:
Call of the Sea, 122 x 152cm, Collaged woodblock print, acrylic inks on Somerset satin paper, 2023
Artwork Provenance: from the Artist Studio
photo credits, Isabel working, black and white shots, James Brown
In Isabel's own words:
Call of the Sea:
The sea was calling, calling its sirens song. It threw tempting little waves flirtatiously on the shore. 'Come,' it said, 'come.' The sea glittered with promise, it whispered sweet nothings as it rolled the tiny gem pebbles on the beach. 'Come to me,' it said, 'I will show you the world, the true meaning of life.'
The people felt the pull, the blood pumping in their veins, like a magnet they were drawn towards the sea. Mesmerised, bewitched, they stripped of their clothes, leaving them in molehills on the beach. The breeze caressed bare bottoms, free from the constraints of life. They stepped cautiously at first but as excitement overwhelmed them they broke into a run as they neared the water. The sea tickled their toes and beckoned them in, making sweet promises of delightful pleasures.
*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 rolled. This is a more cost effective and environmentally sound method of shipping. Shipping via this method is free.
About Isabel Rock and her work:
Taking inspiration from Japanese woodblock prints and Indian miniature painting Rock has developed a unique collage technique that combines bold structures with large-scale woodblock prints and intricate detailing. The subject is a grand mixture of humour, drama, hidden morals, fanciful characters, modern culture, mythical beings and fantastical situations.
Rock creates a world that pulls you in and demands your attention. Quality of line is paramount, the drawings are created using a dipping pen and acrylic ink. An essential tool is a squirrel...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen
Zhan Yang Contemporary Art Original Mixed Media "Rootless Tree 3"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Rootless Tree 3
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 19.5 x 15.5 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This painting is unstretched
Year: 2016
Artist: Zhan Yang...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,040 Sale Price
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Jianping Chen Surrealist Original Oil On Canvas "The Word In My Mind No.24"
Located in New York, NY
Title: The Word In My Mind No.24
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 19 x 23 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Ye...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,200 Sale Price
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"Fungo Atomico" (Atomic Mushroom) Surrealist Landscape
By Luigi Pretin
Located in Houston, TX
Surrealist painting of a white structure in a barren desert titled "Fungo Atomico" by Italian surrealist painter Luigi Pretin, circa 1976. Signed and dated in lower right corner as w...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Plaques of Egypt
By Kate Orr
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Plagues of Egypt
by Kate Orr (British 20th century)
signed lower corner, circa 1990's
oil painting on board, unframed
painting: 31 x 25 inches
Superbly painted, Modern British oil ...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,167 Sale Price
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Colorful Surreal Abstract Expressionist Painting of a Macabre Group of Clowns
Located in Houston, TX
Surreal abstract expressionist painting of a group of clowns in the style of Belgian painter James Ensor. Combining the macabre with the playful, the work features distorted clowns a...
Category
1990s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera
"The Water" (2024) By David Cheifetz, Oil on Aluminum Panel Painting
Located in Denver, CO
David Cheifetz's "The Water" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an odd and richly colorful assortment of objects, with green and blue raindrops cascading down on the ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Salvador Dalí"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
A series of experimental paintings. I like to look for new horizons in art, colors, shapes, objects. Fine paintings for the interior. The paintings are painted on cardboard glued ont...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Jianping Chen Surrealist Original Oil Painting "The Word In My Mind No.26"
Located in New York, NY
Title: The Word In My Mind No.26
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 19 x 23 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Ye...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Siren's Song
Located in Kansas City, MO
Katherine Bello
Title: Siren's Song
Medium: oil and charcoal on canvas
Year: 2021
Size: 22" x 46" x 1.5"
Signed, dated and inscribed by hand
COA provided (issued by representing gallery)
Katherine Bello's aim as an artist is to capture a sense of place, a moment of time, or a feeling - to evoke a sense of wonder. Bello loves paint and paint brushes; bold, gestural mark-making and the interplay of color. She is influenced by light and landscape, poetry, history and science. Formerly educated in Chemical Engineering and Interior Design, Bello is drawn to the process of creating Something out of Nothing.
Abstract, sbstract art...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mirage (ex Reader's Digest Art Collection) Op Art Surreal renowned female artist
Located in New York, NY
Edna Andrade
Mirage (de-accessioned from the Reader's Digest Art Collection), 1988
Original Collage painting on board
Signed, titled & dated on the front; the back bears labels from Marian Locks Gallery & Readers Digest Association with inventory (RDA) number
Original frame included with collection and gallery labels verso
This is a unique work
Exquisite 1980s collage on board painting (framed) titled "Mirage" by renowned female Op artist Edna Andrade...
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1980s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Board
Modern British mid century gouache painting by Neo Romantic artist Latimer Sayer
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Derrick Latimer Sayer (British, 1917 – 1992)
Caterpillar
Signed, inscribed and dated ‘CATERPILLAR’ (lower left), ‘Derrick Sayer 55’ (lower right)
Gouache
7.7/8 x 9.1/4 in. (20 x 23.5 cm.)
Derrick Latimer Sayer (1912–1992) has been described as a Neo-Romantic and pop artist, with a career that spanned from the spiritualism of postwar English landscapes, to the bright, optical playfulness of 1960s Pop art. Sayer had a distinguished start to his career, having studied at the Chelsea School of Art in the early 1930s under Graham Sutherland and Henry Moore.
In 1936 he founded the Mousehole Group Art School in Cornwall with fellow painters George Lamborn and Guy Allen, and for the next few years he exhibited at a number of small local galleries, while also executing commercial advertising work for major companies such as Shell Oil. The 1940s and 50s were a period of widespread travelling, teaching and experimentation for Sayer, as he founded the Army Art Centre in 1945, worked in the South of France in 1949 and displayed works at the Leicester, Redfern and Winton Galleries across the 1950s. In 1966, he took up the helm as the Head of Art at the Chelsea Westminster Adult Education Institute, a position he held until his retirement in 1982. Ten of Derricks works can be found at the Chelsea Westminster Hospital Arts Project, hung alongside a permanent collection that includes Patrick Heron, Howard Hodgkin, and Sian Tucker.
Sayer was known for his studies of female nudes, particularly the examination of the nude in...
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20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Unzipped" Contemporary Pastel Blue Toned Risqué Surrealist Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Pastel blue-toned surrealist painting done by artist Henry David Potwin. This work features an enlarged unzipped zipper acting as a woman's genital parts. Signed at bottom left corner. Titled and dated on reverse. Currently unframed, but options are available.
Artist Biography: Born in Dallas, Texas David Potwin is the oldest of three children. He first started to paint at the age of 8 years old. As a young boy, Potwin's family would summer vacation in Taos, New Mexico. During the family vacations in 1965, he met artist Eric Gibberd...
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Probity in the Quiet of Fear (surrealism, hard edge, colorful art, color field)
Located in Kansas City, MO
JB Nearsy
Probity in the Quiet of Fear
2016
Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 18x29in
Framed: 27.5x38x2in
Signed by hand
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-1775
*Framed and matted with a white wood fra...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Surrealist Large Painting Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ Female Blue Green Bust Cat
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:
Best Day Ever, 152x122cm, Collaged woodblock print, acrylic ink on Somerset satin paper, 2023
Artwork Provenance: from the Artist Studio
photo credits, Isabel working, black and white shots, James Brown
In Isabel's own words:
Best Day Ever;
It was the best day ever. Just one of those days when everything goes right and the world is an exciting place. The very pavements seemed to be alive with magical stories to tell of the many feet that had trampled upon them. Everything seemed right with the world because I was going to meet my friend for a glass of wine. You know that friend who just gets you? Who you don't have to explain everything too, and they laugh in all the right places. I was going to meet that friend and have a glass of wine and everything else could wait. It really was the best day ever.
*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.
About Isabel Rock and her work:
Taking inspiration from Japanese woodblock prints and Indian miniature painting Rock has developed a unique collage technique that combines bold structures with large-scale woodblock prints and intricate detailing. The subject is a grand mixture of humour, drama, hidden morals, fanciful characters, modern culture, mythical beings and fantastical situations.
Rock creates a world that pulls you in and demands your attention. Quality of line is paramount, the drawings are created using a dipping pen and acrylic ink. An essential tool is a squirrel...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen
"THE FUNNY SIDE OF ME"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
YURI MARTINEZ RAMOS
"THE FUNNY SIDE OF ME"
OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED
CUBAN-AMERICAN, C.2005
20 X 16 INCHES
This piece is a type of self-portrait where I try to show the ones around me, I also have a funny side.
Yuri Martinez Ramos was born in Havana, Cuba on November 24, 1964.
He studied at the Elemental School of Plastic Arts from 1975 – 1979 and the National School of the Arts from 1979 – 1983.
Martinez’ figurative paintings have been compared to Botero because of his satirical social commentary. His style, however, is uniquely his own with typically vibrant Latin colors and use of expressive magical realism. His paintings tell his story and the story of the Cuban dilemma.
Martinez was granted permission by the US Justice Department after much effort with Cuban authorities to come to the US with his family and pursue his career outside Cuba. He now lives and works in Texas.
Papillon Gallery...
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Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Notation (surrealism, hard edge, colorful art, color field, contemporary art)
Located in Kansas City, MO
JB Nearsy
Notation
2017
Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 30x30x1.5in
Signed by hand
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-1776
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Tags: surrealism, hard edge, colorful art, contemporary art...
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
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Canvas, Acrylic
Bottom of Summer Oceans, Abstract Surrealist Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Sebastian Matta-Clark was born in 1943, twin of Gordon Matta-Clark. Son Of Chilean Surrealist Roberto Matta
Sebastian, known as Batan died in 1976.
He showed 3 exhibitions in his sho...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Surrealist Colorful Futurist Abstract Painting Composition I
Located in Surfside, FL
actual image measures 11.25x7.5, titled Composition V on French Arches Mould made paper.
Georges DUSSAU est né le 14 Mars 1947, à Chalon-sur-Saône (France)
Il vit et travaille a...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Handmade Paper
Lovers and Others (unique mid century modern painting) - double sided artwork
Located in New York, NY
Nahum Tschacbasov
Lovers and Others (Two Unique Works), 1978-1979
Gouache on Two-sided Paper (Two Signed Works)
Hand signed twice: once on each side
11 × 15 inches (each side)
A rare...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Satyricon, Surrealist Acrylic Painting on Board by Richard R. Benda
By Richard R. Benda
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Richard R. Benda (1934 - )
Title: Satyricon - Triptych
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Acrylic on Board, signed l.r.
Frame Size: 40 in. x 63 in. (101.6 cm x 160.02 cm)
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Cells - Painting by Frida & Raul -2020
Located in Roma, IT
Cells is a beauty painting by the Italian artists Frida & Raul in 2020. It is realized by mixed technique pixel with acrylic, iron.
The further we g...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$613 Sale Price
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Untitled - Surrealist Unique painting on paper/board - Max Walter Svanberg, 1957
Located in New York, NY
Max Walter Svanberg (1912-1994)
Untitled, 1957
Gouache on paper
Paper: 36 x 29 cm l 14 1/8 x 11 in.
Frame: 57 x 49 cm l 22 1/2 x 19 1/3 in
Signed and dated
Exhibition history: Nord...
Category
1950s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Gouache, Laid Paper
Ritual. 2022. oil on cardboard, 40x30 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Ritual. 2022. oil on cardboard,, 40x30 cm
Juris Dimiters (1947)
Education:
1958-1965 Janis Rozentals Art High School of Riga
1965-1973 Art Academy of Latvia, Painting Department, specialism in scenography.
Solo shows:
1981- Baiba & Leo Benias Gallery, West Berlin (as part of the Skulme family exhibition)
1984- Museum of Foreign Art , Riga; Cēsis Exhibition Hall;
1986- Firebird Gallery, Alexandra; International Images, Pittsburgh, USA.
1987- Exhibition Hall, Jurmala.
1987- Exhibition Hall, Stockholm, Sweden (as part of the Skulme family exhibition)
1989- Delta Art Gallery, Nijmegen (The Netherlands).
1992- Maya Polsky Gallery, Chicago, USA.
2000- State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow and State Museum of Art , Riga.
2004- Riga Museum of History and Navigation.
2007- Imagine Gallery, Riga.
2007- Art gallery Laipa, Valmiera.
2007- Moscow house, Riga.
2009- Zurab Tsereteli...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Swan. 2014 oil on canvas, 100x73 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Swan. 2014 oil on canvas, 100x73 cm
The artist Vadim Kovalev was born in 1968 in the capital of Latvia, Riga, where he is also presently living and crea...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,041 Sale Price
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1970's Mod Surrealist Day Glo Fluorescent Acrylic Painting J. James Akston
Located in Surfside, FL
J. James Akston
Surrealism, Village scene (Mexico)
Acrylic on Board
Frame: 15 X 18
Image: 9 X 12
Joseph James Akston was a Polish American sculptor, painter, known for surrealist abstract painting and Aubusson (for Les Ateliers Pinton Frères, tapisserie, Aubusson) tapestry artist. Born in Warsaw, Poland in 1898 he died in Palm Beach Florida in 1983. During the 1960s and '70s the entrepreneur-artist James Joseph Akston adopted a unique Surreal Expressionist style in order to present his private primordial universe and lampoon its denizens, a ribald cast of animal creatures with human foibles. A successful industrialist, he began his career with General Motors foreign operations and then started his own business.
Intermittently he studied painting, first with Jerry Farnsworth in North Truro (Mass.) and then with Jose Clemente Orozco in Mexico. In the early 1960s Akston became publisher-editor of a group of art publications which included The Magazine Arts. Initially an abstract expressionist, Akston had one-man exhibitions at the New York Convention Center and the Corcoran Museum in Washington. Since 2015 the record price for this artist at auction is $12,575 USD for Spheres Aux Triangles Aubusson Tapestry, sold at Bonhams New York in 2019.
He was a Graduate of Georgetown University. He sat on the board of the Norton Museum.
Exhibitions
1976 Hokin Gallery
1966 Gallery 63 NYC
1960 Gallery 63 Rome , Italy
Select Public Collections
National Museum, Wshington DC
Boca Museum of Art
Whitney Museum of Art, NYC
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Museum of African Art Washington DC (Now part of Smithsonian Museum)
Bibliography: 1962 Art...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Flirt. 1970. Cardboard, mixed media, 50x40 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Flirt. Cardboard, mixed media, 50x40 cm
Abstract/Surrealist composition with two fasec
Vladimir Borisovich Glushenkov (May 21, 1948, Riga - December 26, 2009, Riga.) - painter, grap...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Cardboard
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
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Acrylic, Board
French Surrealist Colorful Futurist Abstract Painting Composition III
Located in Surfside, FL
actual image measures 7.5X11.25, titled Composition III on French Arches Mould made paper.
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Autumn - Tempera Painting by Antoine Mayo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Autumn is an original tempera painting on paper, realized by the artist Antoine Mayo, art name of Malliarakis (1905-1990)
Hand-Signed on the lower right margin
In very good condition.
Antoine Mayo (Port Said, Egypt 1905 - Seine Port1990). Greek painter naturalized French citizen, active from 1924 in France, was a Surrealist artist and a polyhedric artist: painter, decorator, costume, designer, illustrator and much more. His father was Greek and his mother French, friend of Prévert and Desnos, he is also known for his work as a decorator and costume designer of masterpieces such as Les Enfants du Paradis, Golden helmet or Hiroshima my love.
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
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Tempera
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By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - "Accord"
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 4 height x 3 width
Condition: Good
Provenance: all the paintings we have by this artist...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
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Oil
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By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - "Kingpin"
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 3.5 height x 4 width
Condition: Good
Provenance: all the paintings we have by this artist have come from the artists estate
Description: "Kingpin" centers on a dynamic, jagged black star-like form bursting outward, encased within layers of fluid blues, greens, and golden hues. The rich, saturated blues suggest depth and water-like motion, contrasting sharply with the angular black centerpiece...
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By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - "Beginnings"
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 3.5 height x 4.5 width
Condition: Good
Provenance: all the paintings we have by thi...
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Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - "Leading In + Out 4 Roundabout"
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 4 height x 3.5 width
Condition: Good
Provenance: all the paintin...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
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Oil
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By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - "Truth Hidden in a Web of Words"
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 3.75 height x 4 width
Condition: Good
Provenance: all the paint...
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By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Radiant Bloom in Orbit
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 6 height x 4.5 width
Condition: Good
Provenance: all the paintings we hav...
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Oil
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By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - "Yellow Shine + Red Glow"
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 6 height x 4 width
Condition: Good
Provenance: all the paintings we ha...
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By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Dynamic Energy Circles
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 4.5 height x 6 width
Condition: Good
Provenance: all the paintings we hav...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
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By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Blossoming Tree with Wildflowers
Medium: Oil on board, unframed
Size: 5.75 height x 3.5 width
Condition: Good
Provenance: all the pai...
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Oil
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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...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
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