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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Style: Surrealist
Style: Rococo
“Rear View Portrait” Contemporary Abstract Figurative Magazine Collage of a Man
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract surrealist collage of a man by contemporary Houston artist Scott Woodard. The work features a portrait of a man from behind assembled out of magazine cuttings. Currently hun...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Magazine Paper
Not Quite the Winner
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joseph Broghammer
Not Quite the Winner
Oil on Canvas
Year: 2020
Size: 36 x 36 in
Signed by hand
COA provided
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Each...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Sailing Ship, Surrealist Painting by Gonzalo Endara Crow
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gonzalo Endara Crow, Ecuador (1936 - 1996)
Title: The Sailing Ship
Date: 1982
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed verso
Size: 27 x 35 in. (68.58 x 88.9 cm)
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Effect-6 , " Acrylic on Canvas - Surrealist
Located in Houston, TX
In his "Effect" series, we see how Plusch gives location - places and spaces resembling the world around us - the same treatment once reserved for his abstract human forms. Effective...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Room 6, " Acrylic on Canvas - Surrealist
Located in Houston, TX
In Plusch’s "Room" series, we see the impression of a human figure against a background composed of imagery suggesting the assembly of an ordinary room. The treatment of the backgrou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Effect-1 , " Acrylic on Canvas - Surrealist
Located in Houston, TX
In his "Effect" series, we see how Plusch gives location - places and spaces resembling the world around us - the same treatment once reserved for his abstract human forms. Effective...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Effect-5 , " Acrylic on Canvas - Surrealist
Located in Houston, TX
In his "Effect" series, we see how Plusch gives location - places and spaces resembling the world around us - the same treatment once reserved for his abstract human forms. Effective...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Immortality #1 , " Acrylic on Canvas - Surrealist
Located in Houston, TX
In this work, the horizontal flowing of paint alongside material possessions seems to insinuate some connection with notions of ownership. Household objects before morbid symbolism d...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Immortality #3, " Acrylic on Canvas - Surrealist
Located in Houston, TX
In his "Immortality" series, Plusch explores how notions of beauty and deformity, eternal and momentary, and life and death intermingle and blur together. This work expresses how all...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Immortality #4, " Acrylic on Canvas - Surrealist
Located in Houston, TX
In his "Immortality" series, Plusch explores how notions of beauty and deformity, eternal and momentary, and life and death intermingle and blur together. This work expresses how all...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Room #1, " Acrylic and Varnish on Canvas - Surrealist
Located in Houston, TX
In Ivan’s "Room" series, we see the impression of a human figure against a background composed of imagery suggesting the dressings of an interior space. The treatment of the backgrou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Room #4, " Acrylic and Varnish on Canvas - Surrealist
Located in Houston, TX
In Ivan’s "Room" series, we see the impression of a human figure against a background composed of imagery suggesting the dressings of an interior space. The treatment of the backgrou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Room #7" Acrylic and Varnish on Canvas - Surrealist
Located in Houston, TX
In Ivan’s "Room" series, we see the impression of a human figure against a background composed of imagery suggesting the dressings of an interior space. The treatment of the backgrou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"4 Red Balls, " Acrylic on Canvas - Surrealist
Located in Houston, TX
In this work, the horizontal flowing of paint seems to insinuate some connection with the illusion of our material world. Although the scene appears precise in its rendering, there r...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Into the Light
By Fidan Kim
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a just completed original oil painting by Azerbaijani artist Fidan Kim.
Into the Light, depicts a man rediating his own light, while the women above floating over his umbrella would all like to bask in his light. Only one canb join him as his true love, and she bears the read heart.
Directions, is an original oil on canvas, signed, 2021 with an image dimension of 48 x 24 inches, just completed by the artist, the painting is currently unframed.
Please contact the gallery for additional information, pricing and availability.
About Artist Fidan Kim:
Fidan Kim was born in Baku, Azerbaijan on the 21th of August 1997.
2014-2018 – BA FINE ARTS AZERBAIJAN STATE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS
2018-2020 – MA FINE ARTS AZERBAIJAN STATE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS August 2009 – “Young Talents Exploring Visual Arts” summer art courses at the Edinborough Art College
August 2010 – “Art al Sole” summer art courses in Italy August
2011 - “Art al Sole” summer art courses in Italy October
2013 – a solo exhibition “The last day of the childhood” November 2014 – a solo exhibition “”Paradoxes”
March 2015 – participation at a master class given by a renowned artist, Professor Inge H. Schmidt from the Berlin University of the Arts, Germany organized by ADRA June
2015 – VI International Art Festival
June 2016 – an art exhibition “Futurismo Ora” at the “Lamborghini” salon
October 2016 – participation at the Shopping festival Carrousel du Louvre Art in Paris December
2016 – art courses at the Georgian State Academy of Art within the exchange program Art)
February 2017 – Gave art classes at Yarat contemporary art space April 2017 – an art exhibition “Live Life” in Moscow
May 2017 – an art exhibition at the Embassy of Turkey in Azerbaijan
May 2017 – an art exhibition Live Life organized in Geogria by Idea community June 2017 – Master Class given by Fidan Kim at Yarat Contemporary Art Centre Member of the Union of Artists
May 2018 – solo exhibition in Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Beijing, China November 2018 – Participation in Shanghai art...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Alabaster
Studio Fidan
By Fidan Kim
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a just arrived original oil painting by Azerbaijani artist Fidan Kim.
Studio Fidan, is an original oil on canvas, signed, 2020 with an image dimension of 43 x 35 inches,...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Occam's Razor
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Oil and 3 mirrors on 9 canvases
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mirror, Oil
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 Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Hot Coals
By Andy Golub
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Crazy Talk
By Andy Golub
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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 Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Belts
Located in Kensington, MD
Certificate of authenticity from the Agustin Fernandez Foundation is included.
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Metamorphosis of a Persecuted Star
Located in Long Island City, NY
A monumental oil painting by Benjamin Benno, American (1901 - 1980) measuring 80 x 67 inches, framed to 84 x 71 inches. Signed and dated 1938. By the early 1930s Benno had establis...
Category
1930s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Knight in Armor
Located in Long Island City, NY
Born in 1946 Alfredo Sasso trained at the Carrara Academy of Fine Arts. From 1971 to 1973 he worked as an assistant to Jacques Lipchitz for the construction of three major monuments...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gaia and the Birth of a New King
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Nathan Cartwright is a Los Angeles-based, mixed media artist and acclaimed founder/curator for The Hive Gallery and Studios, in downtown Los Angeles (founded in 2005). As an artist, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Marquis of Sourches and family, Large Oil Painting on Canvas by Louvre Copyist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Marquis of Sourches and his family at the Country Concert"
After Hubert DROUAIS (1699-1767)
oil painting on canvas, late 20th century
from the studio of Dagher, Paris (read notes below), stamped verso
canvas: 61 x 50 cm (24 x 19.75 inches) unframed.
provenance: the atelier Dagher, Paris
Very fine quality large scale oil painting after the 17th century Renaissance painting by Hubert DROUAIS (1699-1767), "Marquis of Sourches and family at the Country Concert".
The painting itself dates to the late 20th century and is an original work by the world famous studio in Paris, the "Atelier Dagher". The Atelier Dagher have for 35 years been faithfully painting Old Masters copies and are one of the few artists to be authorised by the Louvre and Orsay Museums in Paris to paint in situ.
Mr Amal Dagher...
Category
18th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Renaud and Armide, Large Oil Painting on Canvas by Louvre Copyist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Renaud and Arminde"
After François BOUCHER (1703-1770)
oil painting on canvas, late 20th century
from the studio of Dagher, Paris (read notes below), stamped verso
canvas: 92 x 73 cm (36.25 x 28.75 inches) unframed.
provenance: the atelier Dagher, Paris
Very fine quality large scale oil painting after the 18th century Renaissance painting by François BOUCHER (1703-1770) , "Renaud and Armide".
The painting itself dates to the late 20th century and is an original work by the world famous studio in Paris, the "Atelier Dagher". The Atelier Dagher have for 35 years been faithfully painting Old Masters copies and are one of the few artists to be authorised by the Louvre and Orsay Museums in Paris to paint in situ.
Mr Amal Dagher, the senior member of the family of painters, is often present in front of his easel in the Louvre Museum to paint in the way of a genuine Great Master painting...
Category
16th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Power" Compelling, Authoritative Painting of Three Figures
By Claudio Pinto
Located in Baltimore, MD
Born in 1954 in São Paulo, Brazil, Claudio began his artistic life early. At 4 years old, he already began to model small clay animals with great ease and that was when his uncle Ber...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Creatures of Prometheus, Surrealist Oil Painting by Barooshian 1957
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Martin Barooshian, American (1929 - )
Title: Creatures of Prometheus
Year: 1957
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed, titled and dated
Size: 31 x 41 in. (78.74 x 104.14 cm)
Frame Si...
Category
1950s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
White Mantilla
By Richard Kirk
Located in Los Angeles, CA
RICHARD KIRK
"WHITE MANTILLA"
OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED, TITLED
AMERICAN, C.1960
36 X 23 INCHES
Original Frame
Richard Kirk
Born 1932
Kirk was born in West Virginia in 1932.
He ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Baltic Angst
By Mark Kostabi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mark Kostabi, American (1960 - )
Title: Baltic Angst
Year: 1989
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated l.r. and signed, titled and dated verso
Size: 70 in. x 48 in. (177.8 ...
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Time Bond
By Mark Kostabi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mark Kostabi, American (1960 - )
Title: Time Bond
Year: 1988
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed verso
Size: 84 x 48 in. (213.36 x 121.92 cm)
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Balancing the Budget
By Mark Kostabi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mark Kostabi, American (1960 - )
Title: Balancing the Budget
Year: 1988
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l. and verso
Size: 60 x 84 in. (152.4 x 213.36 cm)
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ruins
By Mark Kostabi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mark Kostabi, American (1960 - )
Title: Ruins
Year: 1989
Medium: Oil on canvas, signed verso
Size: 62 x 68 inches (157.5 x 172.7 cm)
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Many-Headed Man
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alejandro Colunga, Mexican (1948 - )
Title: Many-Headed Man
Year: circa 1980
Medium: Acrylic and Mixed Media on Paper Mounted to Masonite, signed l.r.
Size: 56 x 42 inches
Fr...
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
'Security Checked' Conceptual Nude Portrait
By Dinh Y Nhi
Located in Rye, NY
‘Security Checked’ is a large vertical contemporary surrealist figurative oil on canvas painting created by Vietnamese artist Dinh Y Nhi in 2008. Featuring a vivid palette made of red, orange, pink and black tones, the painting depicts a frontal view of an angular nude figure, bending her knees down. The pink tones of her skin stand out dramatically on the red painted background made of large strokes contrasted with black fields that seem to frame the subject. This piece exemplifies Y Nhi's style of paintings as her success with two-colors; red, blue or black and white, addresses modern themes and issues devoid of gender. Her figurative surrealism style of stick figures is warped and elongated, stretched out of proportion. Each figure tilts and twists at painful angles. They bring to mind the famous harrowing faces in Edward Munch's ‘The Scream’, or the difficult distorted ones from the portraits of Francis Bacon. But most of the faces Y Nhi paints are miniature ones devoid of details, deceptively random and simple brush strokes. There is a playfulness that reflects the outer images the painter projects of herself. Her style also allows her to convey complex textures, and emotions, in her images. Dinh Y Nhi is a graduate of Hanoi's School of Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited in many shows in Vietnam. She is receiving much notice among the Vietnamese press and art patrons in the United States, Australia and Asian countries. With its strong presence and large proportions, this surrealist oil on canvas painting will be a definite conversation piece in any home, whether placed above a sofa, console table or enfilade.
Exhibitions
2011: Group Exhibition Art Asia Miami, Florida, AiBo Fine Asia Art
2011: Portrait, Dinh Y Nhi & Le Thiet Cuong...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Security' Conceptual Nude Portrait
By Dinh Y Nhi
Located in Rye, NY
‘Security’ is a large framed contemporary surrealist figurative oil on canvas painting of vertical format, created by Vietnamese artist Dinh Y Nhi in 2010. Featuring a cold palette mostly made of grey and black tones, accented with blue and beige touches, the painting depicts a frontal view of a nude figure. This piece exemplifies Y Nhi's style of paintings as her success with two-colors; red, blue or black and white, addresses modern themes and issues devoid of gender. Her figurative surrealism style of stick figures is warped and elongated, stretched out of proportion. Each figure tilts and twists at painful angles. They bring to mind the famous harrowing faces in Edward Munch's ‘The Scream’, or the difficult distorted ones from the portraits of Francis Bacon. But most of the faces Y Nhi paints are miniature ones devoid of details, deceptively random and simple brush strokes. There is a playfulness that reflects the outer images the painter projects of herself. Her style also allows her to convey complex textures, and emotions, in her images. Dinh Y Nhi is a graduate of Hanoi's School of Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited in many shows in Vietnam. She is receiving much notice among the Vietnamese press and art patrons in the United States, Australia and Asian countries. With its powerful presence and great proportions, this surrealist oil on canvas painting will be a definite conversation piece in any home, whether placed above a sofa, console table or enfilade. Set inside a frame, the painting is titled in the lower section.
1967: Born in Hanoi, Vietnam
1989: Graduated from Hanoi Fine Art University
Exhibitions:
2011: Group Exhibition Art Asia Miami, Florida, AiBo Fine Asia Art
2011: Portrait, Dinh Y Nhi & Le Thiet Cuong...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surreal Portrait of a Young Girl and Doll
Located in Buffalo, NY
Surrealist American oil painting depicting a young girl and her doll. Oil on canvas, circa 1970. Image size 16"L x 20"H.
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Woman Dancing', Spanish Surrealist Figural, Geneva, Museum of Paris, Benezit
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'A. Úbeda' for Augustin Úbeda (Spanish, 1925-2007) and painted circa 1965.
Formerly in the collection of Jean Negulesco, the artist and Hollywood Film Director....
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Anxiety
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler: Visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painting...
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Equanimity: Pusher Love Girl
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an original oil on canvas by American artist Darren LeGallo.
"Equanimity: Pusher Love Girl", is one of the lifetime masterpieces by American artist Darren LeGallo, and it has just been released for sale, This painting was conceived and executed in the studio while the song, "Pusher Love Girl", was being recorded for, the 20/20 Experience album by Justin Timberlake..
“Equanimity: Pusher Love Girl”, was exhibited at the premiere solo exhibition of American artist Darren LeGallo, “Darren LeGallo: Nothing You Don’t Know”, a retrospective of original oil paintings and drawings, February/March 2013. The exhibition was produced by Trigg Ison...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Oil
The Wish
By Karen Kiefer
Located in West Hollywood, CA
An exceptional early oil on canvas by American artist Karen Kiefer.
Karen Kiefer continues to paint and teach fine art in Hawaii, the focus of her paintings continues to emerge as...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La Carpa
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a monumental early oil painting by Cuban artist Yuri Martinez Ramos.
"La Carpa", The Tent, is an original oil on canvas, signed, dated 1997, ...
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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 Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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 Figurative Paintings
Figurative Paintings for Sale
Figurative art, as opposed to abstract art, retains features from the observable world in its representational depictions of subject matter. Most commonly, figurative paintings reference and explore the human body, but they can also include landscapes, architecture, plants and animals — all portrayed with realism.
While the oldest figurative art dates back tens of thousands of years to cave wall paintings, figurative works made from observation became especially prominent in the early Renaissance. Artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and other Renaissance masters created naturalistic representations of their subjects.
Pablo Picasso is lauded for laying the foundation for modern figurative art in the 1920s. Although abstracted, this work held a strong connection to representing people and other subjects. Other famous figurative artists include Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. Figurative art in the 20th century would span such diverse genres as Expressionism, Pop art and Surrealism.
Today, a number of figural artists — such as Sedrick Huckaby, Daisy Patton and Eileen Cooper — are making art that uses the human body as its subject.
Because figurative art represents subjects from the real world, natural colors are common in these paintings. A piece of figurative art can be an exciting starting point for setting a tone and creating a color palette in a room.
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