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Surrealist Figurative 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
Leaf and couple (yellow oil painting vintage black and white Picture couple)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
LEAF AND COUPLE is a superbe and vivid original painting on canvas depicting a still life of a fall leaf next to a vintage black and white photograph of a couple in a tender brace. ...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting Classical Figures in Robes, Chilean Artist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Miguel Anibal (Chile, b. 1935), signed Miguel Anibal is a painter, fresco artist and engraver born in 1935 in Chile. He lived in Mexico between 1960 and 1972, where he exhibited in numerous galleries. With the arrival of Pinochet in power in 1973, he left South America for Europe, where he participated in various exhibitions, both personal and in groups. Laura Allende, widow of the Chilean president who was in power during the coup, asked the artist to send her two large paintings...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Stepping In
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: De Es Schwertberger (Dieter), Austrian (1942 - ) Title Stepping In Year: circa 1980 Medium: Oil on Masonite Size: 55 x 76 inches
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Mr. L (oil painting monochrome vintage old man beard portrait nostalgia flower)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil painting, earth tones, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary figurative painting, dreams, symbolic...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Tricky (ballerina porcelain trinket vintage hat men surrealist oil painting grey
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Superbe original painting on canvas depicting a young ballerina performing a trick while onlookers contemplate perplexed to her prowess. keywords; americana, surrealism, ballerina, ...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Flying Saucers
By Vladimir Ovchinnikov
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Russian (1941 - 2015) Title: Flying Saucers Year: 1985 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed Size: 52 x 23.75 in. (132.08 x ...
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Surreal Landscape W/ Figures by Rachid Kamoun C.1959
Located in San Francisco, CA
Surreal Landscape w/ Figures by Rachid Kamoun c.1959 Style of Gertrude Abercorombie Fine oil on masonite signed "Rachid" in the lower right corner. This surreal-like painting was p...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Wonderers (coyote, ukulele, man, nature, animal portrait, surrealist painting)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Wanderers" by Rudolf Kosow is an evocative painting that captures the kindred spirit of the traveler and the wild. A coyote, poised and attentive, gazes upward, its fur rendered with fine, delicate brushstrokes that give it a soft, ethereal quality against the blue canvas. The wolf's eyes, alight with a sense of knowing, seem to look beyond the confines of the canvas, into a distance only it can see. Below, a human figure with a ukulele, lost in the music, embodies the essence of a wanderer, his song rising to mingle with the untamed essence of the wolf. Both figures, though disparate in their nature, share a moment of connection through their mutual embrace of freedom and exploration. Kosow's "Wanderers" speaks to the universal call of the wild that resonates within us all, a call to seek, to explore, and to express. It's a celebration of the souls that roam with a song in their heart, finding harmony with the wilderness around them. This piece invites us to reflect on our inner wanderer and the paths we tread, both in the physical world and in the vast landscapes of our imagination. keywords; painting on canvas, surrealist painting, animal vs human, americana, nature, man, man vs nature, surrealism, giant animal...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Large Modernist Italian Oil Painting Surrealist Abstract Figures
Located in Surfside, FL
Marco Cingolani was born in Como in 1961 and moved to Milan at a very young age, in 1978. He began to frequent the underground creative environment, where art was mixed with fashion and punk music. In those years a new artistic sensibility was being formalized in Milan, whose roots no longer sank in the history of art and in the citation but practiced the critical manipulation of reality and its communication through the mass media. The image was taken out of context, subtracted from the use of common sense, radically distorted, almost mocked. The work of Marco Cingolani, from the beginning, has always tried to cancel the regulatory power of media images, subjecting them to the radical care of the artist, certain that art offers a decisive point of view for the interpretation of the world. In this context the interviews of the Interviews were born, where celebrities for their privacy were submerged by the microphones and the famous series dedicated to the attack on the Pope and to the tragic story of Aldo Moro. After having participated in numerous group exhibitions including An emerging scene (1991, Museo Pecci, Prato) and Two or three things that I know of them (1998, PAC, Milan), he is dedicated to major anthological exhibitions at prestigious public institutions such as Palazzo Strozzi in Florence and Promoter of Fine Arts in Turin. In November 2006 he took part in the collective exhibition "Senza famiglia", in the Palace of the Promoter of Fine Arts in Turin. In 2007 Cingolani received a further consecration: the Galleria Emilio Mazzoli hosts the exhibition entitled "What color are they?" in which the pictorial reflections on the color of Power and its disguises are presented. The art of Cingolani has always been fascinated by the passage from news to history and vice versa; also in this case the UN blue helmets, the red urn containing the electoral ballots, the multicolored segments of the Wall Street charts, the military uniforms and the party flags are contextualized in highly symbolic scenarios. In 2009 a return to the origins for Marco Cingolani, often the author of works expressly inspired by the religious theme. In particular, for this exhibition entitled " Percorsi della Fede", the artist focused his attention on the Marian apparitions that have marked the last two centuries: Lourdes and Fatima . In the same year an exhibition in Lucca at the National Museum of Villa Guinigi, joins him to some of the leading Italian artists of the last two generations; by the universally recognized and celebrated masters, present in the main international museums such as Mimmo Paladino, Sandro Chia, Salvo, passing through some of the protagonists of the 52nd Venice Biennale as Gian Marco Montesano, Daniele Galliano, Nicola Bolla, Bertozzi & Casoni who exhibited in 2009 in contemporary at the Lucca exhibition and at the Italian Pavilion of the Venetian event, to get to the young artists of the last generation already present in important national and international artistic events. Giacinto di Pietrantonio invites him the following year, 2010 to PAC, Pavilion of contemporary art in Milan, for the collective exhibition "Hybrid", alongside Jan Fabre, Gilbert & George, Charles Avery, Damien Hirst, Piotr Uklanski, Patrick Tuttofuoco and other great ones on the international scene. 2012 is the year of "Il Belpaese dell'arte", at Gamec di Bergamo, always curated by Pietrantonio and Maria Cristina Rodeschini, in the company of Elmgreen...
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, 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...
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1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Gerard Tunney, Onstage Ballet Rehearsal, Original Bright Figurative Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Gerard Tunney Onstage Ballet Rehearsal Original Figurative Painting Acrylic Paint on Canvas Canvas Size: H 40cm x W 60cm x D 2cm Sold Unframed Please ...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Modern Figurative Surrealism Watercolor Painting, Drawing 'The Fire of my Soul'
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

It's just like that (fly blue sky vintage men americana surrealist oil painting)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Superbe original painting on canvas depicting an oversized fly as an enigma in a clear bue sky above a perplexed group of men. keywords; americana, surrealism, fly, vintage, oil painting, men figurative painting...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Hourglass
By Bernhard Martin
Located in Long Island City, NY
A surrealist painting by Bernhard Martin from 2007. A dark, surrealist scene of a figure inside an hourglass set against an abstract, shadowed background. ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Stranger (black kitten woman nostalgia vintage photograph enigma earth tones)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
We love Rudolf's latest series. The artist says about “Stranger”; "Normally one would hardly take notes of an inconspicuous, black kitten in everyday life...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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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1950s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Flower Reflection by Gerard Tunney, Portraiture, Contemporary art, original
Located in Deddington, GB
Flower reflection [2022] original and hand signed by the artist acrylic on canvas Image size: H:30 cm x W:40 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:30 cm x W:40 cm x D:3cm Sold Un...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Yemaya Desembarcar, colorful mythic woman in ocean seascape at beach
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Large mythic seascape painting of woman in blue evening gown at the beach Mr. Basso's work is known for ironic, fantastic, and clever narrative elem...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Aurea
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
"Aurea: A Tribute to the Golden Dot." In the fabric of the universe, mathematics reveals patterns that transcend time and space. In the fabric of art, these patterns intertwine with ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Magic Realistic Painting, "Calme and Luxe"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is an original mixed media work on wood by Southern California artist, Cheryl Tall. Its dimensions are 40" x 30" x 1.5". It is unframed. A certificate of authenticity will follo...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media

4570 Transformaciones 2, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
A study of human social behaviour. Inspired by the artworks of the famous spanish master Francisco Goya :: Painting :: Surrealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Emancipation Mixed media on paper, 19.5x33 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Emancipation Mixed media on paper, 19,5x33 cm "Emancipation" is a surreal and figurative mixed media artwork created on paper. The surreal nature of the composition invites viewers...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

BENGAL TIGER
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed on front by Ferjo. Canvas is not stretched. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable offers...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

GENEVIEVE ZONDERVAN (1922-2013) 1940's FRENCH OIL PAINTING - ELDERLY LADY SEWING
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Sewing" by Geneviève Zondervan (French 1922-2013) oil painting on board, dated 1944 board: 19.5 x 10.5 inches Superb mid-century oil painting on board by the French artist, Genevi...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Colorful Oil Painting, "Tell Your Secrets to The Bees"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind oil on canvas figurative painting by San Diego artist, Charlene Mosley. It is unframed. Its dimensions are 12" x 10.5"x 1.7". It is framed. A certificate of a...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

The Spanish Goalkeeper Gets Ready Again
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
"El arquero Spanol se apresta de nuevo" The Spanish goalkeeper gets ready again, 2010 With signed certificate of autenticity. Oil on canvas signed and dated, will be frame before shi...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Ink, Canvas, Acrylic

French Surrealist Oil Painting Figurative Scene Family with Horse Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figurative Abstract French School oil painting on board painting: 22.5 x 22.5 inches condition: overall very good and pleasing provenance: from a private collection of this artists w...
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20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Gerard Tunney, Theatre Dressing Room, Original figurative painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Gerard Tunney Theatre Dressing Room Original Figurative Painting Acrylic Paint on Canvas Canvas Size: H 30cm x W 60cm x D 2cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely ...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Magic Realistic Painting, "Sudden Eclipse"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is an original mixed media work on wood by Southern California artist, Cheryl Tall. Its dimensions are 45" x 25" x 1.5". It is unframed. A certificate of authenticity will follo...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media

Playing Tennis
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Woman playing tennis, heavy oil impasto on canvas framed. Elisabeth Sabala Abelló (Barcelona, 1956). She studied industrial design at the School of Arts and Crafts in Barcelona ​and has a degree in Fine Arts, a specialty in painting, from the Central University of the same city. Sabala is a convinced figurative who has given all the prominence of her work to the representation of the human being in its most trivial aspects. At a time when the artistic landscape extols abstract and conceptual art focused on the great universal themes, Sabala continues to focus on the small defects that bring us closer to the collective and the human. The artistic progression of Sabala takes place, at first, from a bleak period to another vitalist and, later, from the representation of isolated characters (In the super, Reading the stories of​ the paintings) to the recreation of great concentrations of its peculiar individuals characterized in an endless number of situations (The Great Dance, The Girls of the Choir). Sabala's work is vital and touching, as well as scathing and satirical: it confronts its characters in the most varied situations, capturing, at the same time, the viewer's attention with an unusual juxtaposition of colors that do not seek chromatic harmony, but expression and movement through matter. In 1980 she won the first prize of a painting of the City of Castelldefels, and the following year she debuted individually in the Caixa Catalunya room, in Barcelona. In 1984, she was selected for the XXIII Joan Miró Drawing Prize, taking part in a traveling exhibition in Japan. He won the first prize of the International Painting Competition of Pollença (Mallorca) in 1985, and the following year he took part in a collective held at the Martano gallery in Turin. That same year of 1986 she obtained the Scholarship of Plastic Arts of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Sabala continues to hold personal shows in Barcelona, ​​Mallorca, Madrid, and Italy, and in 1989 she debuted in New York with an individual exhibition held at the Scott Alan Gallery. Since then she will reiterate his presence both in that city and in Paris, Berlin, Monaco, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Hong Kong, etc. His works have been present at Interactive, ARCO, Art Forum, Art Jonction and New Art, as well as in various Spanish museums. • Studies: Fine Arts, University of Barcelona • Industrial Design, School of Arts and Crafts, Barcelona Main exhibitions Spain: • Barcelona: ◦ Arcs & Cracks​, 1990, 1992, Anna Benach 1993, Helena Ramos 1993 ◦ Maria Jose Castellvi 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001 “a wedding is a wedding” + Performance “Ella” ◦ 2004, 2006 “Fashion satisfaction” + Performance ◦ 2008 “Women's weapons” • Girona: ◦ Helena Ramos 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995 ◦ Cyprus Art...
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Oil

"Phantom Assembly" (2024) By David Cheifetz, Oil on Aluminum Panel Painting
Located in Denver, CO
David Cheifetz's "Phantom Assembly" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an old fashioned coffee pitcher resting on a counter with a vase filled with yellow flowers, an...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Contra and bass, oil on canvas, 77x57 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Contra and bass, oil on canvas, 77x57 cm Vsevolod Salishchev is a St. Petersburg erotic artist, painter, graphic artist and poet - one of the few contemporary artists demonstrating ...
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1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Busy (vintage ladies woman lingerie 3D oil painting paper branches surrealist)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Busy is a tridimensional original painting on paper on branches depicting tailor ladies working taking body measurements along a path in a dark night. keywords; vintage tailor ladi...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Driftwood, Oil, Laid Paper

Abstract Figurative Impasto Surrealist Work
By Robert Del Rio
Located in Houston, TX
Textured abstract painting of what appears to be a serpent or venus fly traps. The painting is signed by the artist on the back of the canvas with the date. Canvas is not framed. Artist Biography: Robert Del Rio is a Mexican artist who has a very distinct abstract style. His solo exhibits include: 2019 Art Palm beach by Marcel Katz 2018 The art plug...
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Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Megalith" (2024) By David Cheifetz, Oil on Aluminum Panel Painting
Located in Denver, CO
David Cheifetz's "Megalith" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts apples, vases, and cups wrapped in tinfoil resting on an abstract colorful background. About the Arti...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

French Surrealist Trompe L'oeil Apples OIl Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
size uncludes frame. Lucien Mathelin, born in 1905 in Binche, A province of Hainaut, in Wallonia, Belgium, and died in 1981 in Paris. French painter. His work was influenced by surrealism andtinged with irony. Lucien Mathelin was born in a family of artists and has benefited from artistic training since childhood. He made his first oil on canvas at the age of 15 in 1920. In 1924, he exhibited at the Salon d'Automne which he became a member. He did not study plastic arts, but traveled to Morocco (1925-1926) and Greece (1933-1934), where he enriched his palette. In 1937, Mathelin worked for a while for Raoul Dufy to realize the gigantic painting...
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20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

European Polish Stage Designer Vibrant Surrealist Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Contemporary Subject: Abstract Medium: Mixed Media Surface: Canvas Country: United States commissions for movie advertisements, stage sets, and murals in New Hampshire. Arm...
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20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media

Gerard Tunney, Ten Myths Eros and lovers, Original figurative painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Eros the traditional symbols of love hovers over two lovers as they embrace at night. The painting is meant to suggest the idealised bliss of being in love “Most of my work is influe...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Universal Force, Surrealist Pop Art Painting by Michael Knigin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Michael Knigin, American (1942 - 2011) Title: Universal Force Year: 1990 Medium: Acrylic on canvas on board, signed and dated in pencil Size: 3...
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1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Board

Summer I. 1972, cardboard, mixed media, silk screen printing, 80x100 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Summer I. 1972, cardboard, mixed media, silk screen printing, 80x100 cm Atis Ievins (1946) The exhibition by artist Atis Ieviņš reminds the very origins of serigraphy technique in L...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Cardboard, Screen

Hermits (blue butterfly Woman vintage lingerie surrealist oil painting sculpture
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Hermits is a tridimensional original painting on paper on branches depicting a woman next to a giant butterfly along a path in a dark night. keywords; butterfly, woman, lingerie, americana...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Driftwood, Laid Paper

Gerard Tunney, Night Dreamer, Original figurative painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Gerard Tunney Night Dreamer Original Painting Sold Unframed A ballet figure suggested by a ballet suite of “A midsummer night’s dream” The figure rests d...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Surrealist Figurative Encaustic Painting, "Shell Game"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original surrealist figurative encaustic wax painting by San Diego artist, Tiffany Bociek. It's dimensions are 11"x11"x1.25. It ...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Thread, Encaustic, Oil, Rice Paper

Gerard Tunney, Dancers on Tour, Original impressionistic painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Gerard Tunney.Dancers on tour. Dancers on tour- two dancers enter a celestial dream world as they travel together on the ballet company’s’ world tour...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Surrealist Encaustic Painting, "Les Enfant D’Espoir Résilient"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original surrealist figurative encaustic wax painting by San Diego artist, Tiffany Bociek. It's dimensions are 9"x9"x1.75". It comes framed. A certificate of authenticity will follow delivery. Artist Statement: In this piece, I wanted to create an environment that on the surface looks lovely: the colors are pretty, and the shapes feel inviting. This piece should give the viewer a sense of peace or hope. But I was also looking to explore an unarticulated sense of fear. The children head to a horizon of nothing. There are no trees, buildings, or any recognizable object. In fact, they are heading to unknown. The unknown can be our greatest fear. The fear of not knowing what is ahead of us can be debilitating, this type of fear can pull you back, keep you where you are. This type of fear can say to you: “It’s a scary world out there, better just stay where you are”. Instead of listening to the fear, these children represent the hope that it takes to continue to move forward relentlessly and resiliently. They are the part of us that represents the courage it takes to do thing in spite of pain, suffering, shame, or guilt. It takes courage...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Thread, Encaustic, Oil, Rice Paper

Dream in Pink Modern Cuban Art Hyperrealism Mixed Media Surreal
Located in Houston, TX
LOOK FOR FREE SHIPPING AT CHECKOUT. Dreams in Pink was recently painted by the Cuban artist Brian Sanchez in 2023. It is oil and mixed media on linen .Dreams in Pink by Brian Sanchez shows the hyperrealism of modern Cuban art...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, 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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Canvas, Oil

Entrance to the Forest, Surrealist Oil Painting on Canvas by Michael Tice
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Michael Tice, American (1953 - ) Title: Entrance to the Forest Year: 1997 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated recto, signed, titled and dated verso Size: 48 x 60 in. (121...
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1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Modern Figurative Surrealism Watercolor Painting, Drawing California Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
"The Sadness of Mr. lapin After the Artist Left" 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

Light Sleep, Surrealist Impressionist Oil Painting, Signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Light Sleep, Surrealist Impressionist Oil Painting, Signed By British artist, Kate Orr, late 20th Century Inscribed into the paint by the artist on the lower right hand corner Oil pa...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Arabian Night, Stylised, Bright Colours, Oil Painting, Signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Arabian Night, Stylised, Bright Colours, Oil Painting, Signed By British artist, Kate Orr, 20th Century Signed by the artist verso Oil painting on board, framed Framed size: 23 x 31 ...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Waves of Fish No.2, Surrealist Abstract Oil Painting, Signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Waves of Fish No.2, Surrealist Abstract Oil Painting, Signed By British artist, Kate Orr, 20th Century Signed by the artist on the lower right hand corner Signed and titled by the ar...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

El Llano en Llamar, Folk Art Acrylic and Watercolor Painting by J. Benito Zamora
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: J. Benito Zamora, Mexican (1951 - ) Title: El Llano en Llamar Year: 1986 Medium: Acrylic and Watercolor on paper, signed l.r. Size: 22 in. x 30 i...
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Watercolor

Surrealist Crucifixion
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Crucifixion by Kate Orr (British 20th century) signed lower corner, circa 1990's oil painting on canvas, framed framed: 31 x 25 inches Superbly painted, Modern British oil pain...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Alti-Thronus, Surrealist Found Objects and Oil Paint Sculpture by Mihail Sorin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mihail Sorin Title: Alti-Thronus Year: 2000 Medium: Oil on Canvas with Wood Frame with Compass Tools Size: 27.5 x 19.75 in. (69.85 x 50.17 cm) Frame Size: 54 x 42.5 x 3 inches
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Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Wood, Found Objects, Oil

Last Leaves (young girl yellow shirt fall leave portrait figurative oil painting
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Rudolf Kosow’s Last Leaves is a hauntingly poetic oil painting that blends contemporary figurative painting with surrealism and symbolic composition. A young girl, her face rendered ...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Scrappy (car wreck girl yellow dress toy surrealism scale nostalgia vintage)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; surrealism, humour, uncanny, yellow dress, little girl, car wreck, car incident, earth tones, oil painting, figurative painting, strangeness, conte...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Stadium
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
This large-scale painting presents an architectural interpretation of a football stadium tower, specifically from Real Madrid. The square composition focuses on a fragment that often...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

I just don't understand
Located in Kingston, WA
This painting was much simpler originally but I was never satisfied with it so I reworked it considerably. Adding an element of history or memory made more sense to the title which I...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Kyle Andrew Szpyrka - Honesty, Drawing 2014
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Paths series was born out of a trip I took one summer to LA. The trip itself was more of an escape from my life in New York. At the time I was at a crossroads. Having just gone t...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Graphite

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