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
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...
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Board
"Skyraft, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Gregory Block's (US based) "Skyraft" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts wooden debris floating in an expansive skyscape.
Gregory was born in Kansas City, Missouri, ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Surrealist Mixed Media Artwork, "Beatrice"
By Cheryl Tall
Located in San Diego, CA
This is an original mixed media artwork by Southern California artist, Cheryl Tall. Its dimensions are 12" x 12" x .75". It is unframed. A certific...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
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...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled Surrealist Mythical Portrait
By Bob Camblin
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract Surrealist ink and gouache drawing of a human and deer hybrid head sitting within a jar. The work is signed by the artist in the bottom corner. The work is framed in a silve...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Scurrula, Mixed Media and Found Objects on Canvas by Mihail Sorin
By Mihail Sorin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mihail Sorin
Title: Scurrula
Year: 2000
Medium: Oil on Canvas with Wood Frame with Magnifying Glass
Size: 23.5 x 19.75 in. (59.69 x 50.17 cm)
Interior Frame Size: 54 x 42.5 x...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Found Objects, Oil
“Mssr. Violette” Pink, Purple, and Grey Abstract Aristocratic Figure Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Pink, purple, and grey surrealist figurative portrait painting by contemporary Houston artist Scott Woodard. The work features an abstract woman figure wearing an aristocratic dress ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Man in a wicker chair
Located in Cliffside Park, NJ
Natalya Nesterova has created her own enormous world and has found her own angle of vision in the reality that surrounds us. As an artist, she sees this world in a way that we cannot. The air of mystery permeates Nesterova's works; the surrealistic impulse is definitely present in her paintings. But neither it or any other terminologically defined influence predominates over the freedom and talent of the personality in choosing an independent style and organization of creative ideas. Natalya Nesterova is recognized as one of the most important and internationally acclaimed contemporary Russian artists.
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
View of a Village Square, Stefan Vukmanovic, Belgrade 1924 – 1995 Degernau
Located in Knokke, BE
View of a Village Square
Vukmanovic Stefan
Belgrade 1924 – 1995 Degernau
Serbian Painter
Signature: Signed bottom middle
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: Image size 45 x 60 cm
Biography: Vukmanovic (Vucmanovic) Stefan was born in 1924, in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia. He was a Serbian painter of landscapes and town scenes.
Vukmanovic studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts with the master teacher and artist Charles Crodel (1894 – 1973).
He was a member of the Munich Secession. In this statement of principles, the artists declared their intentions to move away from outmoded principles and a conservative conception of what art was.
Throughout the 1930s, many political ideologies (Marxism, Socialism, Capitalist Democracy, Communism and Fascism) were engaged in struggles for dominance, and epitomised the political atmosphere of the era.
Surrealism art...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Figurative Surrealist Oil Painting, "Dile Que No"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original oil and resin painting by San Diego artist, Julia San Roman. Its dimensions are 36" x 60" It is unframed. A certificate of authenticity will follow d...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Arabian Night, Stylised, Bright Colours, Oil Painting, Signed
By Kate Orr
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
Materials
Oil
Waves of Fish No.2, Surrealist Abstract Oil Painting, Signed
By Kate Orr
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...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Unzipped" Contemporary Pastel Blue Toned Risqué Surrealist Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Pastel blue-toned surrealist painting done by artist Henry David Potwin. This work features an enlarged unzipped zipper acting as a woman's genital parts. Signed at bottom left corner. Titled and dated on reverse. Currently unframed, but options are available.
Artist Biography: Born in Dallas, Texas David Potwin is the oldest of three children. He first started to paint at the age of 8 years old. As a young boy, Potwin's family would summer vacation in Taos, New Mexico. During the family vacations in 1965, he met artist Eric Gibberd...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Thread, Encaustic, Oil, Rice Paper
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...
Category
1950s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Circus Dreams" Large Surreal Black and Blue Toned Dancing Performers Painting
By Doug Whitfield
Located in Houston, TX
Surreal abstract painting by contemporary artist Doug Whitfield. The work features various dancing performers flanked by an elephant and a central sphin...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Mr. L (oil painting monochrome vintage old man beard portrait nostalgia flower)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil painting, earth tones, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary figurative painting, dreams, symbolic...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Solemn Morris Dancer
By Yosl Bergner
Located in London, GB
Oil on board
Image size: 5 3/4 x 7 inches (14.5 x 17.75 cm)
As can be seen in this painting, Surrealism served as a source of inspiration for Bergner, though he did not consider himself a surrealist but a lover of stories, and indeed narrative elements appear frequently in his work. He uses the “displacement” element, as the Surrealists did, and that is detaching the figures, objects or landscapes from the logical context and into a poetical-magical climate.
Nissim Aloni noted in 1983 He paints as though to install stabilizers against the turbulence of the dream, and perhaps these stabilizers serve him in time as a touchstone'.
The Artist
Yosl Bergner was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1920 and grew up in Warsaw, Poland.
With rampant anti-Semitism in Europe, the Freeland League for Jewish Territorial Colonization was formed in the United States in July 1935, to search for a potential Jewish homeland. Soon afterwards a pastoral firm in Australia offered the League about 16,500 square kilometres (6,400 sq mi) in the Kimberleys, stretching from the north of Western Australia into the Northern Territory. As history showed, the plans went nowhere. But for a time, the Australian idea was at least worth considering. Bergner's father, Melech Ravitch, became involved in a serious investigation of the Kimberley Plan.
In this way the Bergner family moved to Australia. Yosl emigrated to Australia in 1937 and studied in the National Gallery School in Melbourne. During World War II he served for four and a half years in the Australian Army, and later continued his studies at the Art School.
In Melbourne from 1937–48, Bergner befriended many of the local artists who now epitomize modern Australian art: Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
El Llano en Llamar, 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...
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor
Surrealist Woman Oil painting French-Moroccan Israeli Bezalel School Painter
Located in Surfside, FL
Two Women. Colorful Surrealist Portrait
Genre: Surrealism
Subject: woman
Medium: Oil
Surface: Canvas
Country: Israel
Simon Avissar, painter, born 1948, Morocco. Moved to U.S.A. Wo...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Life in a Bottle" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Sybiline's (CAN based) "Life in a Bottle" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts pink Peonies blooming in a green vase as a pink butterfly swirls around the petals dreami...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Pixel Interior
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
The artwork depicts the architecture of a temple using a warm monochrome palette, which intensifies the contrast with the colorful motif within. In the center of the composition, an ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Wood Panel
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...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Thread, Encaustic, Oil, Rice Paper
“Shakedown” Soft Hued Contemporary Surrealistic Figurative Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary painting by Henry David Potwin. Pastel toned surrealistic landscape depicting civil unrest. Signed by artist on bottom right corner; titled and dated at the back. Curren...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Astro Diver
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Jeni Stallings creates work that often draws from her dreams and personal experiences. She tends to render those moments in a muted, femininity-infused surrealism far from the hard-...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
Surrealist Figurative Painting, "Repair"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original surrealist figurative drawing by San Diego artist, Charlene Mosley.
Its dimensions are 24x72. It is unframed.
The a...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Surrealist Figurative Oil Painting, "Polymita Blue"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original oil figurative painting by San Diego artist, Julia San Roman. Its dimensions are 48x48. It is unframed. A certificate ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Skull Contemplating A Stone" Contemporary Pastel Surrealist Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful, pastel-toned painting by contemporary artist Henry David Potwin. This work features a pink and yellow-toned landscape scene with a skull sitting at the bottom of a tree, contemplating a stone nearby. Signed at bottom left corner. Titled and dated on reverse. Currently unframed, but options are available.
Artist Biography: Born in Dallas, Texas David Potwin is the oldest of three children. He first started to paint at the age of 8 years old. As a young boy, Potwin's family would summer vacation in Taos, New Mexico. During the family vacations in 1965, he met artist Eric Gibberd...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"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...
Category
1950s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Casein
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The ivy
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
In "The Ivy," the artist transports us to a world where nature and history converge in a captivating chromatic dance. On the left side of the composition, an obelisk rises, its figur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"The Thinker" Modern Tribal Surrealist Figure
Located in Houston, TX
This modern surrealist figure sits alone in the corner of an orange room. Evocative of tribal masks, this piece harkens back to the influence of such masks in the surrealist works of...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"The Divided Electorate" Contemporary Figurative Painting
Located in Houston, TX
"The Divided Electorate" is a surrealist oil painting on canvas completed in 2016 that is meant to be a social commentary on the political climate of its day by artist Henry David Potwin.
Artist Biography:
Born in Dallas, Texas, David Potwin is the oldest of three children. Potwin first put brush to canvas at 8 years old. As a young boy, Potwin's family would summer vacation in Taos, New Mexico. "During our vacation in 1965, I met my first true mentor, Taos artist Eric Gibberd. Eric was a fine impressionist artist who took a strong interest in me. Eric remained a vibrant and reverent influence in my life until his death" says Potwin.
After completing 12 years of Catholic school education and under Gibberd's mentorship, Potwin attended the University of Houston Fine Arts program from 1969-1974, studying under William Anzalone and Dr. Peter Gunther with classmate Julian Schnabel.
Potwin says: "To list all the great artists who’ve inspired me would be some list indeed. My inspiration and style are drawn from many quarters such as impressionism ,and the great German expressionists such as Otto Dix, and Max Beckman, as well as a nod to pop surrealism. Perhaps conceptual impressionism would be a more precise description. What I continually seek is to refine my vision and my craft. My goal is to create a body of work that is multi-layered and resonates with the public as well as the collector. My subjects range from landscapes, portraits, cityscapes; to those that are personal, idiosyncratic, humorous and socially aware. Many of my paintings, still lifes, landscapes and underwater scenes are meant to be eye candy. At times I feel that perhaps my style is too broad; but then I’m not a one trick pony!"
Potwin has experienced times of frenetic creative activity as well as periods when life interrupted his pursuits. In 1994 he was sentenced to federal prison...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Paint. Orlando
Located in Cuernavaca, Morelos
Acrylic on wood
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Surreal Collage: 'The Witness'
Located in New York, NY
Combining found elements with those fashioned by my own hand, my work encompasses two- and three-dimensional collage as well as sculptural objects. Infused with a rich sense of histo...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
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.
Category
1950s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Shaohua Nong Surrealist Original Oil Painting "Others"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Others
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 31 x 31 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Year: 2013
Artist: Shaohua Nong...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Shaohua Nong Surrealist Original Oil On Canvas "Untitled 44"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Untitled 44
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 11.5 x 8 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Year: 2014
Artist: Shaohua Nong...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
MusCATteer - Surreal Rural Scene, Hyper-realistic Original Oil Painting, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
Juxtaposing and altering unrelated natural objects with the machinations of man to create a scene of an impossible surreal world, the viewer enters the mind of artist Christopher Klein...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
The Sacrifice Of The Favorite Hen Cuban Surrealist
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
"El sacrificio de la gallina predilecta" The Sacrifice Of The Favorite Hen 2024
Oil on canvas artist signed and dated, will be frame before shipping.
Isa...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Oil
Visitor In My Studio 2021 colorful oil on canvas abstract Armenian Artist VATCHE
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
"Visitor In My Studio" is a colorful, abstract, surrealist painting by Armenian artist, Vatche Geuvdjelian painted in 2022.
Artist’s Statement
“𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱�...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Heli Hatchlings, Surreal Oil Painting - Giant Chameleons Crab Apples Helicopter
Located in Chicago, IL
The smiling figures in the helicopter, hatching from a frozen crab-apple, have false hopes that they are on a fun adventure, unaware of the imminent danger- they are about the chameleon’s prey. Fortune can turn on a dime. Such is the subject of Christopher Klein...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Waiting, 2025 - Ritchelly Oliveira
Located in Porto, 13
"The Waiting" by Ritchelly Oliveira, 2025
Charcoal and Acrylic on Canvas 120 x 90 cm (47.2 x 35 in)
A profound exploration of time, solitude, and introspection, "The Waiting" by Rit...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
The Past is Present
Located in Kingston, WA
In this artwork, I sought to blend the boundaries between the tangible and ethereal—a surreal vista that pulls the observer into a dialogue between past and present. The ethereal fac...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A plate of fish, Painting, Oil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
A surreal interior view. A male figure looks out of a window. Inside the room, a table with un unexpected plate full of fish. The painting is realized with oil colors on thick paper ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Happy Villagers IV, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Here is an acrylic painting of two friends deeply engaged in conversation over drinks in an African village within a jungle setting. The colors are so bright. :: Painting :: Surreali...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Carmelo Niño, Gran arlequín, 2019, 200 x 100 cm, 78.7 x 39.3 in.
By Carmelo Niño
Located in Miami, FL
Carmelo Niño
Gran arlequín, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
200 x 100 cm
78.7 x 39.3 in.
The work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the ar...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Osso Sonata, music and anatomy , violin, face,
Located in Brooklyn, NY
In this series, Audrey Anastasi has shifted her focus away from naturalistic domestic settings to a dark, enigmatic, and some might say, unsettling, place. These figures could be heros and heroines of Greek tragedy...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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...
Category
1950s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Wood Panel
"Deception, " Keith McIntyre, Surrealist Figure, Scottish Artist
By Keith McIntyre
Located in New York, NY
Keith McIntyre (Scottish, b. 1959)
Deception, 1996
Oil on canvas
30 x 28 inches
Signed and dated lower right
Scottish Artist Keith McIntyre was born ...
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
THE FIFTH ELEMENT II, Oil on Canvas
Located in Montreux, CH
Karen Shahverdyan „The fifth element II“ 160 X 190cm, oil on canvas
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surreal Collage: 'The Descendant'
Located in New York, NY
Combining found elements with those fashioned by my own hand, my work encompasses two- and three-dimensional collage as well as sculptural objects. Infused with a rich sense of histo...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
4224 The batlle, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Andres Vivo
Located in Yardley, PA
In the heat of the independence, locals fighting spanish colonizers. Uruguay first fought against Spain and later on against the brazilian. We also hat to get rid of british invador...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dagon Calapesce, Symbolic Male Warrior Figure Surrounded by Water, Acrylic/Panel
Located in Chicago, IL
Oliver Hazard Benson
Dagon Colapesce
acrylic on panel
11h x 14w in
27.94h x 35.56w cm
OB0106
Oliver Hazard’s paintings are produced directly from his imagination and deals with a mi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Surreal Collage: 'Mechanical Garden'
Located in New York, NY
Combining found elements with those fashioned by my own hand, my work encompasses two- and three-dimensional collage as well as sculptural objects. Infused with a rich sense of histo...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
4477 Brave horsemen heroes old, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Andres Vivo
Located in Yardley, PA
Many referencial heroes like Napoleon, Garibaldi,Don Quijote ...cowboys,explorers, etc who did on horseback. :: Painting :: Surrealism :: This piece comes with an official certifica...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Surrealist figurative paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Surrealist figurative paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add figurative paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Rudolf Kosow, Carlos Gamez De Francisco, Henry David Potwin, Ferjo, and Fernando de Jesus Oliveira. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Surrealist figurative paintings, so small editions measuring 2.13 inches across are also available. Prices for figurative paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1 and tops out at $400,000, while the average work sells for $3,770.