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Style: Surrealist
Period: 1950s
Family Portrait, Large Surrealist Oil Painting Mother, Children, Neo Surrealism
Located in Surfside, FL
Hank Laventhol (1927–2001) was an American painter and master print maker. He worked in painting, graphics, sculpture and photography. Associated with ...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
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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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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Paintings
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Gouache
Untitled
Located in Lawrence, NY
Gouache on sketchbook cover
Estate of Sam Esses
Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarlett more than on...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Paintings
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Gouache
Réalisme Fantastique, L'Etabli, The Work Bench, Mid Century Fantasy Surrealist
Located in Cotignac, FR
French, réalisme fantastique, Surrealist oil on board by Claude Verlinde. Signed and dated bottom left. Presented in plain wood frame with gilt filet.
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Paintings
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Panel, Oil
Latin American Modern Surreal Painting, 1950
Located in Washington, DC
Wonderful Surreal Latin American painting. Painting is oil on masonite board with original frame. Appears to be unsigned. Condition is excelle...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Paintings
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Masonite, Oil
Venus Retrieved from the Hands of Death, Surrealist, Nudes, 1959, Oil on Canvas
By Leon Kelly
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Venus Retrieved from the Hands of Death" by Philadelphia born modernist painter Leon Kelly, is a fantasy nude group scene of one female and two male figures. The 49" x 36" oil on ca...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Lunar Encounter with Child, Surrealist Portrait, Oil on Canvas, 1958, Framed
By Leon Kelly
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Lunar Encounter with Child" by Philadelphia born modernist painter Leon Kelly, is a large, brightly colored surrealist portrait of two figures. The 40" x 30" oil on canvas was paint...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Vertumnus, Oil Painting by William Skilling, After Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: William Skilling, After Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Title: Vertumnus
Year: circa 1950
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 42 in. x 36 in. (106...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Stoning of Saint Stephen (San Stefano)
Located in Kensington, MD
Tempura on wood panel mounted on wood stretcher
A difficult scene of the stoning of St. Stephen rendered by Aldo Pagliacci in a surreal manner. The bloodstained wall evokes the work of Cy Twombly, an abstract painting all its own, while the saint...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Tempera
'Surreal Cityscape', National Academy of Design, San Francisco Museum of Art
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'ZEV' for Daniel Albert Harris (American, 1914-1986) and dated "1952-1953".
A dramatic, Mid-century cityscape showing numerous figures, both concealed and partially-revealed, dispersed in a neo-classical townscape beneath a vibrant sunset.
Born Daniel Harris, and adopting the name of Zev, Harris studied at the Masters Institute of the Roerich Museum in Hungary and at the National Academy of Design...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Americana "For a horrible instant Carter thought the jet was going to crash
By Peter Helck
Located in Miami, FL
Mid Century Americana "For a horrible instant Carter thought the jet was going to crash in the street." Saturday Evening Post
Work is framed
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, India Ink
"The Long Road", Surreal Desert Landscape Painting
By Martin Dreyer
Located in Houston, TX
Surrealist style painting painted with casein paint. Titled and dated by the artist as well as signed. Painting was shown in many exhibits around Texas. Framed in a rustic wooden fra...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Casein
Surrealist Painting of Two Relaxing Harlequins
Located in Houston, TX
Surrealist painting from 1950 by artist Camilo of two relaxing harlequin performers by the seaside dressed in yellow and pink. Signed and dated by artist. Cleaned And Restored.
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Le Sommeil
By Jean-Pierre Alaux
Located in Miami, FL
Early Surrealist work from 1957 the heyday of Surrealism - where a young blond girl caught in a dream like state hugs a mountain that has a profile of a man's face. Work is framed in...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
Untitled
By Alton Pickens
Located in Concord, MA
ALTON PICKENS (1917-1991)
Untitled, 1955
Oil on canvas
44 ¼ x 33 ½ inches
Signed and dated at lower left: PICKENS / 55
Partial label on the verso: ACA Galleries, New York, New Y...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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Located in Surfside, FL
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