Surrealist Interior 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
"Nightfall, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Sara Scribner's (US based) "Nightfall" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a realistic portrait of a feminine form in blue cradling a smal...
Category
2010s Surrealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Ferjo - Surrealist Interior - Signed Oil on Canvas
By Ferjo
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
FERJO
Intérieur surréaliste
Signed Oil on Canvas
51 x 61 cm
Ferjo, Brazilian (1946 - )
Ferjo
Technical achievements in art not only in painting...
Category
1990s Surrealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Gleaning, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Part of artist Michael Wedge's series exploring the contrasts between various periods with urban scenes and rural environments. This piece shows two figures g...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Transplanting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
I used the activity of transplanting tree saplings as a way to connect the city and the country in this painting. I'm interested in surreal scenes where peopl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Story Time', Paris, Salon d'Automne, New York, ASL, Corcoran, PAFA, Art Deco
By Nura Ulreich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left 'Nura' for Nura Woodson Ulreich (American, 1899–1950). Additionally signed, verso, dated March 1928 with artist's New York City ...
Category
1920s Surrealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
A source - XXI Century, Contemporary Acrylic Architecture Painting, Colorful
Located in Warsaw, PL
Marta Rynkiewicz is a young Polish artist born in 1983.
She studied painting with Professor Henryk Czenik and graphic arts with Professor Jerzy Krechowicz, at the Faculty of Paintin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Château Pichon-Longueville. 1994. Canvas, oil, 80x40 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Château Pichon-Longueville. 1994. Canvas, oil, 80x40 cm
Vladimirs Pavlovs (1950) Born May 6, 1950 in Riga. In 1981 he graduated from the department of artistic construction of the A...
Category
1990s Surrealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,714 Sale Price
20% Off
Israeli Kibbutz Artist Judaica Shul Torah Ark Surrealist Gouache Painting
By Leo Roth
Located in Surfside, FL
Leo Roth (1914–2002), also known as Lior Roth, was an Israeli painter, born in 1914 in Austria-Hungary. (later Poland)
In 1920, Roth moved to Germany and, in 1933, immigrated to Palestine. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and completed frescoes in Italy and France in the 1950s. Roth first settled in Tel Aviv, then moved to Kvutzat Kinneret, then finally to Kibbutz Afikim where he remained until his death. He served as Director of the Art Academy of the Kibbutzim. In 1959, he was awarded the Jordan Valley Prize for Painting. Roth exhibited in the United States, Israel, Mexico, Spain, Holland, Sweden, and Denmark. He died in 2002.
Education:
1930 School of Art, Duisberg-Hamborn, Germany, under Josef Doppelfeld
Academy of Fine Arts, Hamburg, Germany
1951 Fresco and mural painting, Ecole nationale superiere des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
1951 fresco in Italy
Teaching:
Director of Art Academy of the Kibbutzim
Roth's work was influenced by Cubism and bears much in common with the work of compatriot painter Naftali Bezem. His colourful canvases contain biblical imagery and references to early Israeli pioneer culture.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015 Home, Montefiore Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2009 Kibbutz Machanayim Art Gallery
2000 Retrospective, Museum of Art, Kibbutz Ein Harod
1997 Oil paintings, Kibbutz Machanayim Art Gallery
1993 Solo Exhibition, Beit Yad Lebanim, Tiberias
1983 Oil paintings, ''Bet-Emanuel'', Ramat Gan
1980 Wilfrid Israel Museum, Oriental Art and Studies, Kibbutz Hazorea
1977 Tiroche Gallery, Old Jaffa
1976 Hatzrif Art Gallery, Be'er Sheva
1957 Oil paintings, Tel Aviv Art Museum
1950 Katz Gallery, Tel AvivSelected exhibitions
2000: Chaim Atar Art Museum, Ein Harod, Israel: The Works of Leo Roth: An Exhibition
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 Revelations, Jerusalem Print Workshop
2013 Group Exhibition, Yair Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2008 The First Decade: Hegemony and Plurality, Ein Harod Art Museum
2000 Group...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Dessert - Still Life Table Setting with Fruit, Wine and Flowers, Oil on Panel
By John Hrehov
Located in Chicago, IL
The artist is a master at storytelling. He sets the stage for the viewer to bring the events to a particular scene. Here, the artist has set two wine glasses, napkins and a small plate of desserts on a geometrically patterned table cloth, draping so it almost appears to be falling over the frame. The viewer is required to ask the questions about the scene but the answers may only lie in their own imagination. The painting, which is painted on canvas then mounted to a panel, is framed in a simple wooden frame measuring 21 x 30 inches.
John Hrehov
Dessert, 2022
oil on canvas on panel
20h x 29w in
50.80h x 73.66w cm
JHR008
John Hrehov
Education
1985 MFA-Painting, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1981 BFA-Painting, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH.
Solo Exhibitions
2017 John Hrehov, Paintings and Drawings. Tom Thomas Gallery, Indiana University East, Richmond, IN.
2012 Shades from White to Black, New Drawings. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY.
2011 John Hrehov: Charcoal. Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne.
2009 John Hrehov: A Survey 1999-2009 Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY.
Paintings and Drawings. Seerveld Gallery, Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL.
2004 John Hrehov: Drawings and Paintings. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY.
2002 Paintings. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY.
2001 Charcoal. Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne.
John Hrehov, Paintings and Drawings. Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2000 The Picture Proper. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY.
Fearful Symmetry. Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN.
Allegories in Contemporary Life. Yvonne Rapp Gallery, Louisville, KY.
1999 Paintings and Working Drawings. Adams Hall Gallery, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL.
1998 John Hrehov. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY.
John Hrehov: Paintings and Drawings. Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL.
1997 Object Lesson, Paintings, and Drawings by John Hrehov. Yvonne Rapp Gallery, Louisville, KY.
1995 John Hrehov. Trinity Art Gallery, Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL.
1993 John Hrehov: Selected Works 1980-1992 Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne.
Group Exhibitions
2019 2019 Alumni Exhibition. Reinberger Gallery at The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH.
Out Of The Closet. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY.
1026 West Berry Street: The Fort Wayne Art School. Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN.
2018 Artlink Regional Exhibition. Artlink Contemporary Art Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN.
2017 Sola Grace-Faith-Scripture: An Exhibition of Sacred Visual Art. Good Shepherd Institute at Concordia Theological
Seminary, Fort Wayne, IN.
Norman Bradley...
Category
2010s Surrealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Trojan Cat surreal dreamlike image of small boy inside a large black cat
Located in Brooklyn, NY
*ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagina...
Category
1980s Surrealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Origin: How God and I Created the World
By Tony Smith
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
"Origin: How God And I Created The World" acrylic on canvas, 45.5 x 61.5 inches (unframed), $9,500
Tony Smith’s paintings are works in motion. They are tho...
Category
1990s Surrealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Museum of Symbols
Located in Zofingen, AG
With textured strokes of oil, my canvas dances with the raw intensity of expressionism, mingled with the dream-like quality of surrealism. Each symbol here breathes life into a narra...
Category
2010s Surrealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blue Corner, Surrealist Oil Painting on Canvas by Richard Hagerty
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Richard Hagerty, American (1950 - )
Title: Blue Corner
Year: circa 1980
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 40 x 55 in. (101.6 x 139.7 cm)
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Knight. 1993. Canvas, oil, 75x42 cm
Located in Riga, LV
The Knight. 1993. Canvas, oil, 75x42 cm
Vladimirs Pavlovs (1950) Born May 6, 1950 in Riga. In 1981 he graduated from the department of artistic construction of the Academy of Arts.
...
Category
1990s Surrealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,714 Sale Price
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Disk Shelf II, Magritte-like Surreal Painting by Backstrom aka Beck & Jung
Located in Long Island City, NY
An oil painting by Holger Bäckström from 1979. A mixed media painting produced by Beck & Jung, a collaborative duo between Holger Bäckström and Bo Ljungberg in the 1960's-70's. Their...
Category
1970s Surrealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
HOMAGE TO THE CLASSICS
Located in Aventura, FL
Original oil painting on canvas. Hand signed on front by the artist. Canvas is stretched.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,600 Sale Price / item
40% Off
la sala de la bruja (sorcerer's parlor), surrealist interior, green, bird, nude
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Narrative, colorful and surreal fantasy of a room interior. The image incorporates many of the recurring symbols in the artist's work such as hearts fe...
Category
1990s Surrealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
POP!
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed on front by Ferjo. Canvas is stretched.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable offers wil...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,600 Sale Price
40% Off
Bed, Original Contemporary Surrealist Gouache Painting on Wood Panel
By Megan Frazer
Located in Boston, MA
Bed, Original Contemporary Surrealist Painting, 2012
18" x 11.25" x 1.625" (HxWxD)
This muted, dream-like surrealist painting by artist Megan Frazer can be compared to both the subject matter and painterly style of the work of Leonara Carrington...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Wood Panel
Watching, Original Contemporary Surrealist Gouache Painting on Wood Panel
By Megan Frazer
Located in Boston, MA
Watching, Original Contemporary Surrealist Painting, 2014
11.25" x 18" x 1.625" (HxWxD) Gouache on Wood Panel
This surreal gouache painting features a woman laying on top of her bed...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Wood Panel
DISNEY COLLECTION (MICKEY MINNIE DONALD)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed on front by Ferjo. Canvas is stretched.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable offers wil...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,000 Sale Price
40% Off
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$6,000 Sale Price
40% Off
Pixelated span
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
Pixelated Vain emerges as a fascinating exploration of the intersection between the classical and the digital. In this canvas, the viewer finds themselves immersed in a scene where c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Studio Fidan
By Fidan Kim
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a just arrived original oil painting by Azerbaijani artist Fidan Kim.
Studio Fidan, is an original oil on canvas, signed, 2020 with an image dimension of 43 x 35 inches,...
Category
2010s Surrealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Price Upon Request
Surrealist interior paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Surrealist interior 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 interior 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, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including and Marta Rynkiewicz. Frequently made by artists working with Acrylic Paint, and Canvas 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 interior paintings, so small editions measuring 9.45 inches across are also available. Prices for interior 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 $190 and tops out at $76,500, while the average work sells for $3,600.