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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Style: Surrealist
Style: Rococo
I Am Not Alone 2
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"I Am Not Alone" by Joshua Salami is a captivating artwork that delves into the profound bond between a woman and her cherished pet, transcending the conventional role of a companion...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Figurative mythological painting Emilian school of the eighteenth century oil on canvas
Located in Florence, IT
Mythological-themed painting (unframed 35.5 x 28 cm) depicting the episode of Diana and Actaeon from Ovid's Metamorphoses. The goddess is depicted sitting in discreet attire, the bow...
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1780s Rococo Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled, 2013, Acrylic on canvas, African Art, Surrealism
Located in Milano, IT
David Ochieng Untitled 2013 Acrylic on Canvas Canvas measurements: 73 x 118 cm Frame size: 75 x 120 x 3 cm Signed lower right "Ochieng Malindi Kenya ...And god created a woman.......
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Antique Chinese painter - 18th century figure painting - Landscape Pagoda
Located in Varmo, IT
Chinese painter (18th century) - Oriental scene with pagoda. 42 x 73 cm without frame, 52 x 80 cm with frame. Oil on canvas, in wooden frame. Condition report: Lined canvas. Good ...
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Mid-18th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Death of the Young Men 1938 - British art figurative Surrealist oil painting
By Jack Sassoon
Located in London, GB
An oil on canvas painted by Jack Sassoon which was certainly a premonition of what was to come. Entitled Death of the Young Men and dated 1938, it depicts men in gas masks and a woma...
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1930s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Savage Garden
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Timothy Berry (b.1948). Savage Garden, 1996. Oil on canvas, 34 x 32 inches. Sigh on verso. Original gallery label affixed on verso. Canvas stretched over...
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1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Musicians At a Party 2022 colorful oil/canvas abstract surreal Armenian Artist
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�...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Oil

Heavy Weather, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A group of friends sail in a small ship that wallows atop rolling seas. Some engage in various activities to keep their spirits high while the lookouts have an ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Egg flowers
Located in Sempach, LU
“The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.” Lucian Freud My hero, Vincent Van Gogh, painted his sunflowers in Arles, in the Sou...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

François Lemoyne follower - 19th century figure painting - Mythological scene
By François Lemoyne
Located in Varmo, IT
Follower of François Lemoyne (19th century) - Mythological scene with two putti and greyhounds. 60 x 50 cm without frame, 90 x 80 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on canvas, in ...
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Early 19th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Visitor In My Studio" 2021 colorful oil on canvas abstract Armenian Artist
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�...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Oil

Trumpet Player
Located in Sempach, LU
I love painting people. I love to capture their movement, their emotions, the dramas and the theatrics of life. I paint people to express their personality, their lightness and darkn...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Conversation With Myself
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Conversation With Myself" delves into the realms of self-discovery and introspection. The young man's introspective pose invites viewers to reflect on their inner dialogue and explo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

“Traveling Together” 2012 colorful oil/board abstract surrealist Armenian Artist
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�...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Liberation, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A woman character is shown floating near an open window, where a giant bluebird is waiting as a spirit animal guide. The bird serves as a reminder to not give u...

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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

18th century French figure painting - Portrait lady - Oil on canvas Rococò
Located in Varmo, IT
French painter (18th century) - Portrait of a lady. 43 x 35 cm without frame, 69 x 59 cm with frame. Oil on canvas, in carved and gilded wooden frame. - Inscription on the back. ...
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Mid-18th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Illusión
Located in Natchez, MS
Cuban artist Ernesto Capdevila insists his paintings are rather more like drawings, in technique, than paintings. I'm not sure I completely agree, though I do see his point. In this ...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media

Surreal harlequin oil on board painting expressionism Ubeda
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Gustavo Úbeda (1930-1994) - Surrealist Harlequin - Oil panel Oil measurements 41x50 cm. Frame measurements 44x53 cm. The painting by Gustavo Úbeda Romer...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Sweet Shelter
Located in Seoul, SO
Oil on canvas, Unique work Korean artist, Ji Hee Lee has been narrating about the subject of 'a shelter' expressing it in a surrealistic way through every...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

ShaoHua Nong Surrealist Original Oil On Canvas "Together"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Together Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 12 x 12 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This painting is unstretched Year: 2013 Artist: ShaoHua Nong...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Religious Venetian painter - 18th century figure painting - Baptism Christ
Located in Varmo, IT
Venetian painter (18th century) - Baptism of Christ. 58.5 x 75.5 cm without frame, 65 x 82 cm with frame. Oil on canvas, in a wooden frame. - Bears...
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Early 18th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1700's Venetian Old Master Ink Drawing St. Marks Lion Angelic Figures Flowers
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Lion of St. Mark Venetian Old Master, mid 18th century circle of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venetian, 1696-1770) ink and watercolour drawing on paper mounted on a card frame, unf...
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Mid-18th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor

Princess and Prince, Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina Fairy Tales
Located in Miami, FL
Italian illustrator Gianni Benvenuti paints a charming fantasy scene. It's of an extreme closeup of a tiny crowned and winged Prince and Princess They are standing upright in a dand...
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1950s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

Confident Figure - Original Figurative Abstract Man in Purple Suit on Blue Wall
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Iqi Qoror's surreal figurative paintings are arresting in their earthy palettes offset by pops of fluorescent textile embroidery. His artworks revolve around questions of trust, inte...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Wool, Thread, Mixed Media, Acrylic

ShaoHua Nong Surrealist Original Oil On Canvas "Staircase"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Staircase Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 12 x 16 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This painting is unstretched Year: 2015 Artist: ShaoHua Nong...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Bon Voyage (Paper Planes)
Located in Greenwich, CT
Bon Voyage (Paper Planes) is a mixed media painting (acrylic, gold enamel, charcoal, pencil and ink on archival cotton paper, signed 'afn' lower right and framed in a contemporary black moulding. Anne...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Enamel

Poetry of the bird, surrealist drawing, 1948
Located in PARIS, FR
Joséphine Beaudouin (1909-2005) Poetry of the Bird, surrealist painting, 1948 Oil on canvas Signed "Joséphine Beaudouin" and dated "1948" lower left 13,7 x 10,6 inch Born in Albi in 1909, Josephine Beaudouin (née Cals) showed an early interest in drawing. At the age of twelve, she moved to Paris where her mother, Jeanne Ramel-Cals, ran a literary salon that was frequented by art world figures such as Ambroise Vollard. In 1925, while her first drawings appeared in the magazine Crapouillot, the young artist entered the School of Decorative Arts where she studied fresco painting. She married the architect Eugène Beaudouin in 1928, with whom she traveled throughout Europe. Beaudouin, a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, designed a series of buildings that were precursors of modern architecture in France (Clichy, Maison du Peuple; Antony, Résidence universitaire Jean Zay). Josephine Beaudouin exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants, the Salon des Tuileries, the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs. The work of the one that Jean Cocteau described as "bewitching" is full of mystery. Her work bears the stamp of an extraordinary personality. Indeed, Josephine Beaudouin developed a penchant for dreams at a very early age and took refuge in the works illustrated by Gustave Doré. Her technical virtuosity and overflowing imagination were praised by the critics of her time who unanimously greeted her Marmorées (ill.1). Named by René Barotte, these are paintings made on marble slabs from 1955. The artist exploits the infinite resources of the veins of this support which inspires him poetic compositions with unusual subjects. Marked by surrealism, she returns to the fantastic by delivering a prodigious creation of the mind made of dreamed cities and trompe-l'oeil. The 1948 painting that we propose probably represents a red-billed chough. The bird is a recurring theme in the work of Josephine Beaudouin, as in her life. An avid ornithologist, she kept an aviary in her Parisian home where many island birds were kept. She also built up a collection of stuffed birds. Still on this theme, the writer Claude Aveline (1901-1992), author of the poem L'Oiseau-Qui-N'Existe-Pas, invited several visual artists to freely interpret what this bird could be. The first series of works was produced between 1956 and 1963. In 1957, Joséphine Beaudouin delivered a work with a pen of great finesse, now preserved at the Centre Pompidou (ill.2). Several renowned artists also responded to the invitation of the poet such as Jean Cocteau and Ossip Zadkine. The precision of the graphics of our painting testifies to an attentive observation of the anatomy of the birds. The artist paints with great delicacy: the technique is impeccable, the drawing is careful, the material is smooth, the details are represented with great finesse and mastery. Bibliography : Fernand Pouillon...
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1940s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Felice Boscarati (Venice) - 18th century figure painting - Paesan portrait Italy
Located in Varmo, IT
Felice Boscarati (Verona 1721 - Venice 1807) - The noble weaver. 71 x 52 cm without frame, 80 x 62 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on canvas, in a carved wooden frame. Conditi...
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Late 18th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Seeds of Doubt - Original Figurative Woman Charcoal on Sheet Music
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Robert Lebsack creates artworks using mixed media with ink, acrylic, and charcoal on archival copies of newspapers, textbooks, and sheet music. As a visionary artist, Lebsack weaves ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Charcoal, Mixed Media, Ink, Paper

Surrealist Female Nude in Industrial Landscape Oil Painting, 1930s Modern
By Virginia True
Located in Denver, CO
Oil on board. Surrealist/Modernist painting with a female nude reaching into a wood burning stove, hilly landscape with barn, houses, still life with a bowl of fruit, stormy sky and a small male figure. Presented in a custom frame, outer dimensions measure 29 ¼ x 35 x ¾ inches. Image size is 24 ¼ x 30 inches. Provenance: Private Collection, Colorado About the Artist: The daughter of a classically-trained pianist mother and a concert violinist father, she had an intellectually stimulating upbringing enhanced by Christian Science values. After graduation from high school in Hannibal, Missouri, she enrolled in the College of Education at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1919. Soon, however, she gave up the idea of becoming a teacher and entered at the John Herron Art Institute (whose collections are now part of the Indianapolis Museum of Art). The Institute’s early faculty included artists from the Hoosier Group trained at the Royal Academy in Munich, Germany, who educated artists in the realist tradition. True’s teacher and mentor, William Forsyth, gave her an excellent foundation in drawing and the technical aspects of painting and composition. When the failure of her father’s business in the early 1920s forced her to start earning a living, the Herron Institute hired her as an instructor for its art school, allowing her to support herself while she finished her studies. Following graduation from the Institute in 1925, she received a one-year scholarship to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Her former teacher William Forsyth wrote in his recommendation: "I can say without exaggeration that she was one of the best pupils I ever had during the twenty-five years I was a teacher at the John Herron Art School." At the Academy, she studied with Daniel Garber, an impressionist landscape painter associated with the New Hope art colony, and Hugh Breckenridge noted for his bold palette and expressionistic use of color, as well as the abstract work he started doing by 1922. She also studied briefly in the art department at Columbia University, perhaps in1928 when she produced some of her New York street scenes. From Pennsylvania, she returned to Indiana teaching for several years at Shortridge High School in Indianapolis. She also began showing her work at several area venues, including the Herron Institute, the Artists of Indiana, and the Hoosier Salon held early on in Chicago. Among the Salon’s exhibitors were Gustave Baumann, Victor Higgins, and Olive Rush, who either were Indiana natives or whose careers included connections with the state. By the 1920s all three of them had become associated with the Santa Fe and Taos art colonies. In the summer of 1928 True experienced both New Mexico communities and Southwest culture firsthand with Francis Hoar and her husband Clement Trucksess, her friends from the Herron Institute. They had relocated to Boulder in 1927 and were teaching at the University of Colorado. She recorded in her journal her initial reaction to the New Mexico landscape: "Might I preserve on canvas my thrill and deep feeling of the grand things of nature I have beheld today….There’s a wideness in God’s country that expresses peace to me." Inspired by her trip, True created a group of watercolors for her solo exhibition in 1928 at the Lieber Gallery in Indianapolis. They marked a transition from the realist style she learned at the Herron Institute to the more modernist, semi-abstract one she soon adopted. In the summer of 1929, she accepted an instructor’s position on the faculty of the Fine Arts Department at the University of Colorado (CU) in Boulder. She after that joined the Art Association of Boulder founded in 1923 by Mrs. Jean Sherwood, an art patron and club woman who relocated from Chicago to teach at the Boulder Chautauqua. Sherwood helped convince Dean Fred B...
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1930s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Conspiracy
Located in Sempach, LU
Unlike many surrealists, who present their dreams, the central subjects of Ta’s work are people and bold colours. Her work opens up new art dimensions to explore. Her Blue Valentine ...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Go With The Flow" Fantasy and Surreal Oil on Canvas by acclaimed British artist
Located in Southampton, NY
In continuing with representing fine artists that are connected to the music industry we are please to announce that we are the only gallery in the United States representing the wor...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

ShaoHua Nong Surrealist Original Oil Painting "Room"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Room Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 16 x 12 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This painting is unstretched Year: 2014 Artist: ShaoHua Nong...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

The Order of the Heart in the Hand
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Order of the Heart in the Hand is a mixed media painting (acrylic and gold enamel on hand-aged canvas) with a canvas size of 48 x 48 inches, signed 'afn' lower center and framed in a contemporary black moulding. Anne Faith...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Enamel

Baroque style painter (Italian school) - 18th-19th century figure painting
Located in Varmo, IT
Neapolitan painter (18th-19th century) - Penitent Magdalene with two cherubs. 100 x 80 cm without frame, 129.5 x 109.5 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on canvas, in a carved wo...
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Late 18th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Like to Walk
Located in Seoul, SO
Lim Jin Sil expresses the coexistence of self and others and the sense of heterogeneity resulting from the differences between different worlds through old media such as old houses a...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Strange Botanica
Located in Greenwich, CT
Strange Botanica is an acrylic on canvas painting, with an image size of 30 x 24 inches, signed 'afn' lower right and framed in a contemporary black moulding. Anne Faith...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

The Crying Seer
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Crying Seer is an acrylic on canvas painting with a canvas size of 60 x 48 inches, signed 'afn' lower center and framed in a contemporary black moulding. Anne Faith...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

ShaoHua Nong Surrealist Original Oil Painting "Separate"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Separate Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 11.5 x 8 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This painting is unstretched Year: 2015 Artist: ShaoHua Nong...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Bon Voyage
Located in Greenwich, CT
Bon Voyage is a mixed media painting (acrylic, gold enamel, charcoal, pencil and ink on archival cotton paper), with an image size of 14 x 10.5 inches, signed 'afn' lower right and framed in a contemporary black moulding. Anne Faith...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Enamel

Glass Houses (Right)
Located in Greenwich, CT
Glass Houses (Right) is an acrylic on canvas painting, with a canvas size of 30 x 48 inches, signed 'afn' lower right and framed in a contemporary black moulding. Anne Faith...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Glass Houses (Left)
Located in Greenwich, CT
Glass Houses (Left) is an acrylic on canvas painting, with a canvas size of 30 x 48 inches, signed 'afn' lower right and framed in a contemporary black moulding. Anne Faith...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Looking Out From Within: Buffalo
Located in Greenwich, CT
Looking Out from Within: Buffalo is a mixed media painting (acrylic and gold enamel on canvas) with a canvas size of 60 x 48 inches, signed 'afn' lower right, and framed in a contemporary white moulding. Anne Faith...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Enamel

Picassian surreal scene oil on board painting surrealism Picasso Ubeda
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Gustavo Úbeda (1930-1994) - Picasian scene - Oil panel Oil measurements 41x50 cm. Frameless. The painting by Gustavo Úbeda Romero (Herencia, 1930 – Sao ...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Picassian surreal scene oil on board painting surrealism Picasso Ubeda
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Gustavo Úbeda (1930-1994) - Picasian scene - Oil panel Oil measurements 50x41 cm. Frameless. The painting by Gustavo Úbeda Romero (Herencia, 1930 – Sao ...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Enemonalisa
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Enemonalisa" is a thought-provoking artwork by the talented artist Daniel Oguche Junior, which brings a unique and powerful reinterpretation of the iconic Mona Lisa portrait. In thi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Charcoal

United and Fate Challenge I
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Mental closeness connects two dissimilar beings, despite great differences. keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil painting, earth tones, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Screams for Peace
Located in Sempach, LU
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...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Conflab" Oil on Canvas 18x22"
Located in Southampton, NY
In continuing with representing fine artists that are connected to the music industry we are please to announce that we are the only gallery in the United States representing the wor...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

ShaoHua Nong Surrealist Original Oil Painting "Embrace"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Embrace Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 16 x 12 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This painting is unstretched Year: 2015 Artist: ShaoHua Nong...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Egg girl
Located in Sempach, LU
02 / 10 / 2023 I signed a book contract for Egg Island; it will now go through the publishing process and will be in print next year. I was overwhelmed by the editorial board's fee...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Release Jealousy (Hummingbird, Portrait, Storytelling, Oil Painting)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joseph Broghammer Release Jealousy (Hummingbird, Portrait, Storytelling, Oil Painting) Oil on Canvas Year: 2022 Size: 44x34in Signed by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1892 *on stret...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Yoni (Hummingbird, Portrait, Storytelling, Oil Painting)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joseph Broghammer Yoni (Hummingbird, Portrait, Storytelling, Oil Painting) Oil on Canvas Year: 2023 Size: 40x30in Signed by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1890 *on stretcher frame -...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Untitled Micro-Gestalt H4
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic and ink on canvas
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Ink, Acrylic

Luck Memory (Hummingbird, Portrait, Storytelling, Oil Painting)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joseph Broghammer Luck Memory (Hummingbird, Portrait, Storytelling, Oil Painting) Oil on Canvas Year: 2023 Size: 21x17in Signed by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1897 *Framed - read...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

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

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Paper, India Ink, Watercolor

Monumental Surrealist Pastel, Of Course We Evolve But Does Anything Ever Change?
Located in Cotignac, FR
Surrealist, figurative large scale pastel of a deconstructed head and other elements by Gordon Muir. With original exhibition title label. Presented in fine silvered wood and fabric custom frame, under glass. A magnificent and truly monumental work of a 'deconstructed' head and three other triptych elements. Influenced by the paintings of Francis Bacon and Salvador Dali the work is intriguing and arresting at the same time. We can see how Muir gained such success later for his sculptural pieces as he is even in this work thinking in three dimensions. On closer inspection the details reveal themselves, the eyeball reminiscent of the shell of a horse chestnut, the furry surface to the tongue all in soft pastel shades. The three upper elements, in monochrome revealing the development of man. A really intriguing and strong painting that would grace any interior and be the talking point of any collection. It is very unusual to find a pastel of these proportions. The medium itself gives the work a softness creating an intriguing juxtaposition to the subject itself. Sculptor, born in Hawick, Gordon Muir was educated at art colleges in London, Scotland and the University of New Mexico, after which he spent time working with woodblock artists in Japan. He has more recently concentrated his artistic endeavours on sculpture, much of this in collaboration with the Paul Hogarth...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

Boss getting a hair cut
Located in Sempach, LU
Welcome to my world of Monkeys and Lions smoking cigars, the Egg family, my Lovers Jazz Conspirators and Ladies in Red. Someone once said of my work. 'I often wonder why people worl...
Category

2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

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.

Browse an extensive collection of figurative paintings on 1stDibs.

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