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
Natural Windows surreal painting oil on canvas- grey shadows
Located in Miami, FL
Professionally known as Vignoli, was a Brazilian painter and sculptor. He began his career in 1982 creating canvases in oil on canvas, where he applies his own technique, which, acco...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Surrealist Spray Paint Mixed Media The Web Mason Rader
Located in Surfside, FL
"The Web" 1995 by Mason Rader
A graduate of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at the George Eastman House in Rochester NY with a Bachelo...
Category
1990s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Tsunami II- surreal painting blue grey shades
Located in Miami, FL
Professionally known as Vignoli, was a Brazilian painter and sculptor. He began his career in 1982 creating canvases in oil on canvas, where he applies his own technique, which, according to him, allows a perfect balance in the distribution of the elements, leading the viewer to come across texture, plasticity and creation, in perfect harmony within the history of each painting. The style of Vignoli is a fusion between Surrealism and Expressionism, hence the declared influence by the Spanish master...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Symphony, Original Surrealist Painting, 2021
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
A sampling of the art motifs of Samuel Leopold.
Keywords: sampling, motifs, Samuel Leopold, moon, symphony
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Musicians At a Party 2022 colorful Abstract oil on canvas ARMENIAN Artist VATCHE
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Musicians At a Party is a colorful, abstract, surrealist painting by Armenian artist, Vatche Geuvdjelian painted in 2022.
Artist’s Statement
“𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰�...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Babel to Basel- surreal painting oil on canvas blue grey shades
Located in Miami, FL
Professionally known as Vignoli, was a Brazilian painter and sculptor. He began his career in 1982 creating canvases in oil on canvas, where he appli...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Going Steady, Surreal Oil Painting by Shirley Kaplan circa 1964
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Shirley Kaplan, American
Title: Going Steady
Year: circa 1964
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed lower right, titled verso
Size: 48 in. x 48 in. (121...
Category
1960s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bossa Nova, Surreal painting oil on canvas, sepia, brown and white shades
Located in Miami, FL
Professionally known as Vignoli, was a Brazilian painter and sculptor. He began his career in 1982 creating canvases in oil on canvas, where he applies his own technique, which, acco...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Butterfly, פַּרְפַּר, бабочка
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Butterflies and imagination are the ingredients to start a well-rounded life.
Keywords: Butterfly, aqueduct, beach, window
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mask of the Sun, Surrealist Oil Painting by Nina Usacheva-Green
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Nina Usacheva-Green, Russian XXth
Title: Mask of the Sun
Year: 1986
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed
Size: 50 in. x 42 in. (127 cm x 106.68 cm)
Category
1980s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fences Make Good Neighbours
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Exaggerated surreal landscape where a town is divided by fences. The left side is a town, the right side is 'other'.
Keywords: Twist, Braid, rolling hills, desert...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Preserving, Original Signed Contemporary Surrealist Gouache Painting on Panel
By Megan Frazer
Located in Boston, MA
Preserving, Original Contemporary Surrealist Painting, 2012
18" x 11.25" x 1.625" (HxWxD) Gouache on Wood Panel
Hand-signed by the artist.
This muted, dream-like surrealist painting by artist Megan Frazer features a small, pale girl sitting upon an oversized hand that is jutting out from the gray Earth. The child is licking a large red lollipop, staring out at the viewer, as she sits below a night sky that glows from the light of the full moon.
Artist Commentary:
Surrealistic image of a young girl with a lollipop conveyed above the night sea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Wood Panel
“Mme. Violette” Pink, Purple, and Grey Abstract Aristocratic Figure Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Pink, purple, and grey surrealist figurative portrait painting by contemporary Houston artist Scott Woodard. The work features an abstract male figure wearing an aristocratic suit wi...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
“Mssr. Violette” Pink, Purple, and Grey Abstract Aristocratic Figure Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Pink, purple, and grey surrealist figurative portrait painting by contemporary Houston artist Scott Woodard. The work features an abstract woman figure wearing an aristocratic dress ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Vanita. Abstract still life with scull. 2004, oil, collage on canvas, 100x120 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Vanita. 2004, oil, collage on canvas, 100x120 cm
In 1958 he graduated from the Riga Art School of J. Rosenthal, in 1964 Art Academy of Latvian State, paintin...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surrealist Mythical Creature's Head
Located in Houston, TX
Surrealist mythical creature of a bird like figure. Painted in red, gold, and other colors. The painting is not framed but is painted in a nice whit...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"10:00 Shadow" Minimal Abstract Surrealist Landscape
Located in Houston, TX
Purple structure in a grey sky with a single white cloud. Artist signed the work in the bottom right corner, as well as titled and dated the work on the back. Canvas is not framed.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"In Transit", Surreal Seashells and Maple Seeds
By Luis Eades
Located in Houston, TX
Surrealist painting of white maple seeds and seashells on a blue background by artist Luis Eades in 1977 titled "In Transit." Signed, dated, and titled on t...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Anoche
Located in New York, NY
Original piece by Moises Salazar Tlatenchi. Showing at The Queer Show Part II.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Yarn, Glitter, Oil
The Last Tree
Located in Palm Desert, CA
What would the last tree do? Would it come through a window, a door?
There are several of the works that I have generated that express the deep concern I hold for our home planet.
Th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Acrylic, Board
$400 Sale Price
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In Hale Liberation. Ex Hale Limitation.
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Abstract. Philosophical. Colorful.
This piece flew together. The brushstrokes nearly flew from my hand to the Board. The colors demanded to play. But a name just did not show up.
I...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paste, Gesso, Acrylic, Board
$1,360 Sale Price
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Visitor In My Studio 2021 colorful oil on canvas abstract Armenian Artist VATCHE
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
"Visitor In My Studio" is a colorful, abstract, surrealist painting by Armenian artist, Vatche Geuvdjelian painted in 2022.
Artist’s Statement
“𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱�...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
“Traveling Together” 2012 colorful Abstract oil on board Armenian Artist VATCHE
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
“Traveling Together” is a colorful, abstract, surrealist painting by Armenian artist, Vatche Geuvdjelian painted in 2012.
Artist’s Statement
“𝘛𝘩�...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Chalkboard Diaries, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Chalkboard Diaries, a mixed media painting filled with oils, pastel and chalkboard paint take a diaristic approach on domestic romance.. The flames ar...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Treasures In The Flames (colorful abstract surrealist painting) Armenian Artist
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Treasures In The Flames is a colorful, abstract, surrealist painting by Armenian artist, Vatche Geuvdjelian.
Artist’s Statement
“𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 �...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cotton Canvas
Organic Mechanism 2014 colorful large abstract oil Surrealist oc Armenian Artist
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
"Organic Mechanism"
Date: 2014-2015
Abstract oil painting on canvas (oc)
Vatche is an Armenian artist living in Mexico.
Artist’s Statement
“𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳�...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Lili Ocean Part II
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Lili Ocean Part 2 Pink Abstract.
Mixed media: acrylic, ink marker, pastel on paper, white frame under Plexiglas.
Malgosia Kiernozycka was born i...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Volcano Eruption - Explosive Fire Lava Flow from Hell
Located in Miami, FL
A Fiery Hell is depicted as a volcano that spews flames and lava dust into the air. According to the Peter and Harrison Ellenshaw Family Archive, this work was shown to Stanly Kubrick for a Paradise Lost, movie concept. Peter had created matte paintings for Kubrick's Spartacus in 1960 and they continued their professional friendship for years to come. Peter did some collaboration with TRON in 1982. Unfortunately, the movie concept for John Miltons, Paradise Lost, was not brought into production. An erupting volcano is also an powerful metaphor for many human conditions.
Ellenshaw (1913–2007) was a highly regarded matte painter and special-effects creator whose filmography includes Old Yeller (1957), Swiss Family Robinson...
Category
1980s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Toy Room, Gabriela Lukschal
Located in Porto, 13
76 x 72 cm without the frame
93 x 97 cm with the frame
Toy Room (2022) – Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 96.5 x 93 x 3 cm (38 x 36.6 x 1.2 in)
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Condition: Exc...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Organic Mechanism (colorful large abstract oil painting) Armenian Artist 2014
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Artist’s Statement
“𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘺 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨: 𝟷) 𝘔𝘺 “𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩” 𝘪𝘯 ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cotton Canvas
Origins 2015 Abstract Expressionist oil/canvas green blue Armenian Artist VATCHE
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Artist’s Statement
“𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘺 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨: 𝟷) 𝘔𝘺 “𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩” 𝘪𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨; 𝟸) 𝘚𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘺 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘭𝘦 𝘌𝘢𝘴𝘵; 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝟹) 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 "𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵", 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦.” 𝘝𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘦𝘶𝘷𝘥𝘫𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯
Provenance: The artist's private collection
"Origins" 2015
A colorful, abstract, surrealist oil painting by an Armenian Artist...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
New Canabis
By Isabel Pena
Located in New York, NY
Isabel Peña
New Canabis, 2015
Acrylic on canvas
70.80h x 35.40w in
179.83h x 89.92w cm
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$2,362 Sale Price
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Surrealist Collection Number 5. Contemporary Abstract Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Sax Berlin has embarked on a journey through Surrealism. This collection writhes & flows from his "Billion Dollar Hand" creating a complexity of interwoven rhythms. Berlin has been e...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Passed life
By Drew Tal
Located in New York, NY
With his works included in the permanent collection at the Norton and the New Britain Museum, Drew Tal’s successful career has been nothing but a soaring ascension into the global ar...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Price Upon Request
Starry, Starry, Starry
Located in New York, NY
Dionisios Fragias is a New York -based artist born on the Greek island of Kefalonia and raised in New York City. He is the protege of the artist Jeff Koons whose years-long mentorshi...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Price Upon Request
Figure in Gray, Abstract Oil Painting on Burlap by Benjamin Benno
Located in Long Island City, NY
Gray Area
Benjamin Benno, American (1901–1980)
Date: circa 1960
Oil on Burlap, signed
Size: 18 x 15 in. (45.72 x 38.1 cm)
Frame Size: 23.5 x 20 inches
Category
1960s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Burlap, Oil
"Season of the Brilliant Purple Sky, " Acrylic on Canvas - Abstract Surrealism
Located in Houston, TX
The burning of desire and the subsequent extinction of the flames leads to purification of the soul.
Artwork Details:
Tawatchai Somkong
"Season of the Brilliant Purple Sky"
1998
...
Category
1990s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Royal Palms
Located in Kansas City, MO
Heather Farrell
Title : Royal Palms
Materials : Acrylic on canvas
Date : 2019
Dimensions : 4' x 5'. (48 x 60 in.)
Signed,
COA provided
Heather Farrell wor...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Midlife
By Andy Golub
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Touched
By Andy Golub
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Porteuse - Léopold Survage, modern, abstract, portrait, french, bright, surreal
Located in London, GB
Léopold Survage (1879-1968)
Porteuse
1962
oil on canvas
100 x 81.3 cm
signed and dated ‘Survage. 48.’ (lower right)
Price:
$63,000 USD (inc. 5% UK imp...
Category
1960s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bang, Bang, Banjio
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
Self-Inflicted
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
1990s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Price Upon Request
Untitled - Oil on Canvas by Roberto Sebastian Matta - 1996
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is an original oil on canvas realized by Roberto Sébastian Matta in 1996.
It comes with a certificate of authenticity by Matta's son ...
Category
1990s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Creek Pea
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Price Upon Request
Ore-T-Ba
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Price Upon Request
Dinner in the Sky
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintings, prints and drawings, whose style defies convenient labels. Abstract, surreal, cartoonish, sci-fi fantastic, metaphysical, apocalyptic-Baroque - all of these fit but also fall short of fully describing his art." (Edward M. Gomez, "Futuristic Forms Frolic Under Eerie Texan Skies...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
La vigna di una foglia
Located in Malmo, SE
Technique: Terre colorée sur toile de jute.
Delivered with the certificate of authenticity from the archives of Roberto Matta.
Artwork size: 100 x 100 cm.
Frame size: 114 x 112 cm.
Free shipment worldwide.
Acquired directly from the artist.
“The heart is an eye,” writes Nobel laureate Octavio Paz in an essay on Matta’s paintings. Matta creates a world coloured both by a sunny faith in the future and by visions of impending doom.
Roberto Sebastian Echaurren Antonio Matta, who died aged 91 on 23 November 2002, was born in Santiago, Chile, on 11 November 1911 into a family with Spanish, French and Basque roots, and raised in an atmosphere of religiosity. By the age of 21 he had graduated and begun work as an architect, but his leisure time he devoted to sketching and painting. In 1933 he travelled to Europe for the first time, visiting Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy and other countries, and subsequently taking the initiative to collaborate with the architect, Le Corbusier. As time passed, however, Matta’s enthusiasm for a career in architecture waned, and he began to devote himself full-time to art, making early acquaintances with surrealists such as Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, André Breton and others.
Between 1939 and 1948 Matta, like many of his artistic contemporaries, lived in self-imposed exile in the USA, but, after almost 10 years’ absence from Europe, he returned to make first Rome and then, a few years later, Paris his home. Throughout most of the rest of his life Matta commuted between his studio in Paris and his creative refuge in the monastery outside Rome. And it is here, in Italy, that he produced his greatest paintings.
Matta’s first retrospective in Sweden was organised in 1956 when his works were exhibited in what was then Galerie Colibri – run by, among others, the artist C O Hultén at number 36 Södra Förstadsgatan in Malmö, Sweden. This was also the time when Matta began to collaborate with poets and other artists in Sweden. He produced the illustrations for Lasse Söderberg’s first anthology of poems, Akrobaterna (“The Acrobats”), published in 1955, and was also responsible for the cover of the Swedish art and literary magazine Salamander.
In 1959 the first museum exhibition of Matta’s work in Europe was arranged at the Museum of Modern Art (Moderna Museet) in Stockholm. Held under the aegis of Pontus Hultén, it was entitled “Fifteen Forms of Doubt” and included 15 or so gigantic paintings...
Category
1980s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Price Upon Request
Venus
By Edmond Vandercammen
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an exceptional and rare mixed media watercolor by Belgian artist Edmond Vandercammen.
Vandercammen was classically trained and well ...
Category
1920s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Price Upon Request
Portrait of the Genie
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Federico Castellón (1914-1971) was a Spanish-American painter, sculptor, printmaker and illustrator of children's books.
Portrait of a Genie, is an original pencil signed etching,...
Category
Surrealist Abstract Paintings
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Surrealist abstract paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Surrealist abstract paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add abstract paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, orange, pink and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Clarence Holbrook Carter, Michael William Eggleston, Sax Berlin, and Elvic Steele. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Acrylic Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Surrealist abstract paintings, so small editions measuring 2.25 inches across are also available. Prices for abstract paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $244 and tops out at $225,000, while the average work sells for $1,846.