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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Style: Surrealist
Style: Post-War
Huge French Surrealist Oil Painting Wrestling Nude Men Floating in Sky, 1970's
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, signed lower front, dated 1970's
Title: La Moto Verte, a surrealist composition of nude/ semi nude male figures in a wrestling pose floating in the sk...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Surreal Figures - figurative painting, surreal painting
Located in New York, NY
This early surreal figurative work by Jacob El Hanani was done in 1971. It is ink on paper. Measurements of the paper are 35X25 cm. It is dated and hand signed in Hebrew in the botto...
Category
1970s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink
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...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
untitled
Located in Spetses, GR
Original artwork by Sofia Fotiadou, ready to hang. Signed by the artist at the bottom left corner.
Certificate of authenticity is provided by the gallery.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Diaphanous, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Alexandra Manukyan's " Silent Melody" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a female model with white feathers on her dark hair, as she...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Surrealist Portrait in Found Frame Titled, "Lennie"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind surrealist acrylic painting in a found frame by San Diego artist, Christopher Polentz. Its dimensions are 15.5x12x3. A sign...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Surreal Portrait, Oil Painting by Richard Kirk
By Richard Kirk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Richard Kirk, American XXth
Title: Surreal Portrait
Year: circa 1960
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed
Size: 36 x 24 in. (91.44 x 60.96 cm)
Frame:...
Category
1960s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Yellow Wallpaper
Located in Nashville, TN
"The Yellow Wallpaper" is an acrylic-on-canvas painting from a small series by Cuban artist Carlos Gamez de Francisco. Done at the beginning of the Co...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
"Era of Elegance", Oleg Turchin, Surrealism, Sophisticated, Elaborate, Hat
By Oleg Turchin
Located in Dallas, TX
"Era of Elegance" by Oleg Turchin is an original oil on canvas that measures 58x30 inches. This surrealistic painting is of a woman with an elaborate hat ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"With Kindness" Intertwined Nature and Humanity Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"With Kindness" by Victoria Novak, completed in 2017, is a provocative oil on canvas that delves into the fusion of human and natural forms. The painting measures 39.40 x 23.60 inche...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fantasy. 2010. Mixed media, collage on canvas, 100x70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Fantasy. Mixed media, collage on canvas, 100x70 cm
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Golden Age I
Located in Tulsa, OK
Carlos Gamez de Francisco
GOLDEN AGE I
acrylic on canvas
51.00 X 26.00 in
$7,600.00
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Secundo Congreso Feminino, Large Canvas Surrealist Female Group Portrait, 1969
By Leon Kelly
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Secundo Congreso Feminino " by Philadelphia born modernist painter Leon Kelly, is a large scale, surrealist painting of a group gathering showing women in the nude. The 60" x 42" oi...
Category
1960s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Wrinkled Sea Beneath Her Crawls, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Alexandra Manukyan's "The Wrinkled Sea Beneath Her Crawls" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a female figure balancing on one foot as blue waves swirl behind her in ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Waiting for a Train II
Located in Nashville, TN
"Waiting for a Train II" is an acrylic on canvas painting by Cuban artist Carlos Gamez de Francisco from his "Home Decor I" series. Like the rest of the pieces...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
"I Know Not How to Find the Spring, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Alexandra Manukyan's "I Know Not How to Find the Spring" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a female model with white feathers in he...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Home Fire
Located in Los Angeles, CA
YURI MARTINEZ RAMOS
"HOME FIRE
OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED
CUBAN-AMERICAN, C.2006
20 X 16 INCHES
Home Fire" brings me back to my childhood home when my grandpa visited us every day smoking his pipe and conversing good moments.
Yuri Martinez Ramos was born in Havana, Cuba on November 24, 1964.
He studied at the Elemental School of Plastic Arts from 1975 – 1979 and the National School of the Arts from 1979 – 1983.
Martinez’ figurative paintings have been compared to Botero because of his satirical social commentary. His style, however, is uniquely his own with typically vibrant Latin colors and use of expressive magical realism. His paintings tell his story and the story of the Cuban dilemma.
Martinez was granted permission by the US Justice Department after much effort with Cuban authorities to come to the US with his family and pursue his career outside Cuba. He now lives and works in Texas.
Papillon Gallery...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The sun. Portrait. 1973. Cardboard, oil, 33x46.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
The sun. 1973. Cardboard, oil, 33x46.5 cm
Woman portrait in orange colors
Vladimir Borisovich Glushenkov (May 21, 1948, Riga - December 26, 2009, Riga.) - painter, graphic artist, poet, translator.
Born in Riga in a Russian-Polish-German family.
Vladimir Glushenkov...
Category
1970s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Missing Pieces (oil painting surrealist birthday cake dessert couple cherry red)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
At first glance, simple, banal things are visible but something is clearly strange here, what is going
on here? And where did a piece of cake disappear?
keywords; surrealism, food, ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flirt. 1970. Cardboard, mixed media, 50x40 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Flirt. Cardboard, mixed media, 50x40 cm
Abstract/Surrealist composition with two fasec
Vladimir Borisovich Glushenkov (May 21, 1948, Riga - December 26, 2009, Riga.) - painter, grap...
Category
1970s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Cardboard
GENEVIEVE ZONDERVAN (1922-2013) FRENCH OIL PAINTING - MOTHER AND CHILD PORTRAIT
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Mother & Child"
by Geneviève Zondervan (French 1922-2013)
signed with initials
oil painting on board
board: 18 x 14.75 inches
Mid 20th century oil painting on board by the French ...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
GENEVIEVE ZONDERVAN (1922-2013) FRENCH OIL PAINTING - MID CENTURY PORTRAIT LADY
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Portrait of a Lady"
by Geneviève Zondervan (French 1922-2013)
monogrammed
oil painting on board
board: 14 x 10.5 inches
Mid 20th century oil painting on board by the French artist...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
GENEVIEVE ZONDERVAN (1922-2013) FRENCH OIL PAINTING - PORTRAIT OF SEATED MAN
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Seated Man"
by Geneviève Zondervan (French 1922-2013)
oil painting on board
board: 18 x 14.75 inches
Very fine 20th century oil painting on board by the French artist, Geneviève Z...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Animal Kingdom, Zebra, Buffalo, Lion, Giraffe, Elephant, Monkey, Tiger, Gorilla
By Richard Hess
Located in Miami, FL
Peaceable Kingdom features more than 60 aminal portraits by famous illustrator Richard C. Hess.
Impeccably rendered and designed. Signed lower center left. R. Hess.
His illustrati...
Category
1980s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Vessel" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Alpay Efe's "Vessel" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts three hands gently overlapping on each other in an almost tender embrace.
About th...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"EYE CHECK", surrealist oil painting, nude woman, optical lens, machine, mask
By Tslil Tsemet
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"EYE CHECK, 2008, is a surrealist oil painting on canvas by artist Tslil Tsemet, and measures 66x47". At once vulnerable and defiant – a nude woman sits u...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surrealist Portrait Titled, "Shine"
Located in San Diego, CA
One of a kind original oil on canvas painting by local San Diego artist, Charlene Mosley.
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lapis Lazuli II
Located in Tulsa, OK
Carlos Gamez de Francisco
LAPIS LAZULI II
acrylic on canvas
29.00 X 19.00 in
$5,600.00
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"NATALIE", surrealist oil painting, nude woman, portrait, classic pose, tattoos
By Tslil Tsemet
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"NATALIE", 2015, is an oil painting on canvas by artist Tslil Tsemet, and measures 47x62". One of a series of portraits by the artist of her friends. "Nat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mixed Media Painting on Masonite -- Portrait by Mario Martin del Campo
Located in Troy, NY
This mixed media painting on masonite is a portrait of a Renaissance figure. The background is a light taupe color with a delineated profile of the face. The signature is on the front, bordering the figure's cape. The work is sold framed. Although the painting itself is in marvelous condition, the original wood frame has some slight imperfections on the top and sides, as pictured.
Mario Martin del...
Category
1970s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paint, Masonite, Mixed Media
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 Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Coral Angel. Oil on wood, 70X70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Coral Angel. Oil on wood, 70X70 cm
The artist Vadim Kovalev was born in 1968 in the capital of Latvia, Riga, where he is also presently living and creating his works.
When Vadim wa...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
GENEVIEVE ZONDERVAN (1922-2013) FRENCH OIL PAINTING - MAN LOOKING OUT OF WINDOW
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"A Room with a View"
by Geneviève Zondervan (French 1922-2013)
oil painting on board, stamped verso
board: 8.5 x 10.5 inches
Original oil painting on board by the French artist, Ge...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rabbi Reading, Oil Painting by Abraham Straski
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Abraham Straski, Polish (1903 - 1987)
Title: Untitled - Polish Rabbi F
Year: 1952
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Image Size: 10 x 7.5 inches
Frame Size: 17.5 x 15 inches
Category
1950s Post-War Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Nurturing" Pastel on Paper Painting 13" x 19" inch (1964) by Ragheb Ayad
By Ragheb Ayad
Located in Culver City, CA
"Nurturing" Pastel on Paper Painting 13" x 19" inch (1964) by Ragheb Ayad
signed & dated
Ragheb Ayad was born in Cairo on the 10th of March 1892 and insc...
Category
20th Century Post-War Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"India" (The Birth of the Universe), Oleg Turchin, Surrealism, Figurative, 58x30
By Oleg Turchin
Located in Dallas, TX
"India" (The Birth of the Universe) by Oleg Turchin is a Figurative Surrealism original oil on canvas painting measuring 58x30 in. This surrealist painting has a beautiful woman from...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Ladies at Tea, " Mixed Media Tile, 2007
Located in Chicago, IL
Liverpool-based artist Pauline Hughes takes a fluid approach to her ceramic practice, combining aspects of painting, collage, and printmaking into her w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ceramic, Paper, Acrylic
"Artist Aunt" Portrait Oil Painting 20" x 19" inch (1930) by Shaaban Zaki
By Shaaban Zaki
Located in Culver City, CA
"Artist Aunt" Portrait Oil Painting 20" x 19" inch (1930) by Shaaban Zaki
Signed and dated 1930
Shaaban Zaki came from a lower-middle-class family who was mostly government employees, but he was distinguished from them by being involved in the art and culture circles. He could not afford to study in art schools, so he studied at an art institute in Chicago by correspondence. A self-taught and self-made man, he became involved in the art scene and was able to distinguish himself during the early ’20s and ’40s among his colleagues. He contributed to the cultural life by writing articles and essays on the early education of art in primary schools. S. Zaki was able to leave for us a wide collection portraying the landscapes of Egypt whether it be Upper Egypt...
Category
20th Century Post-War Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Large Italian Modernist Surrealist Lady Mod Oil Painting "La Ragazza Ungherese"
Located in Surfside, FL
Lazzaro Donati (Italian, 1926-1977), Framed oil painting "La Ragazza Ungherese" The Hungarian Girl. Dated 1961.
Framed: 36.25 x 28.5 inches. In good condition.
Lazzaro Donati was born in Florence and attended the Academy of Fine Arts. He began to paint in 1953, and in 1955 held his first exhibition at the Indiano Gallery in Florence. Within three years eleven exhibitions followed in Italy, and as his reputation grew he was invited to give major exhibitions in London, Paris, New York, Chicago, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo. He is considered one of the foremost contemporary Italian painters and his paintings hang in museums and private collections throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. His work i faucist recalling the works of the french Raoul Dufy, Dunoyer de Segonzac, Francois Gall and jean Jansem.
Donati lived and worked at 24 Piazza Donatello in Florence, the square where generations of artists have created works worthy of the great Florentine tradition. As you entered the narrow hallway to his studio, a gilded life-size Venetian angel beckoned you to his door. Once inside, the present faded away and you found yourself in an atelier where early masters might have worked during the Renaissance. Within, luxurious Persian rugs set off the innumerable objects d’art and antique furnishings. Light poured in through the sloping glass wall on the north side. A dramatic stairway led to an overhanging balcony which served as a private gallery where the artist hung some of his favorite early works. To the left of the entrance was a smaller studio where Donati sculpted, with a window overlooking the famous old English cemetery where tourists laid flowers on the grave of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
In the main studio itself, where Donati received his clients in an atmosphere as polished as an office of a top executive, one hardly realized that it was here that the artist actually painted. His easel was covered with Persian blue velvet, the painting on the easel was already framed, his chair was upholstered in red velvet and on his palette the colors were arranged with the precision of a Byzantine mosaic. In a corner stand were his latest works, framed and ready to be sent off to his next exhibition in Europe or America. He spoke fluent French and English as well as some Spanish and German. “After all”, he said, “you've got to know how to sell...
Category
1960s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Italian Modernist Surrealist Lady With a Hat Oil Painting, Signora dal Cappello
Located in Surfside, FL
Lazzaro Donati (Italian, 1926-1977), "Signora dal Cappello," oil on panel, signed lower left, signed, titled and dated verso, overall (with frame): 22.5"h x 24.5"w
Lazzaro Donati was born in Florence and attended the Academy of Fine Arts. He began to paint in 1953, and in 1955 held his first exhibition at the Indiano Gallery in Florence. Within three years eleven exhibitions followed in Italy, and as his reputation grew he was invited to give major exhibitions in London, Paris, New York, Chicago, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo. He is considered one of the foremost contemporary Italian painters and his paintings hang in museums and private collections throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. His work i faucist recalling the works of the french Raoul Dufy, Dunoyer de Segonzac, Francois Gall and jean Jansem.
Donati lived and worked at 24 Piazza Donatello in Florence, the square where generations of artists have created works worthy of the great Florentine tradition. As you entered the narrow hallway to his studio, a gilded life-size Venetian angel beckoned you to his door. Once inside, the present faded away and you found yourself in an atelier where early masters might have worked during the Renaissance. Within, luxurious Persian rugs set off the innumerable objects d’art and antique furnishings. Light poured in through the sloping glass wall on the north side. A dramatic stairway led to an overhanging balcony which served as a private gallery where the artist hung some of his favorite early works. To the left of the entrance was a smaller studio where Donati sculpted, with a window overlooking the famous old English cemetery where tourists laid flowers on the grave of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
In the main studio itself, where Donati received his clients in an atmosphere as polished as an office of a top executive, one hardly realized that it was here that the artist actually painted. His easel was covered with Persian blue velvet, the painting on the easel was already framed, his chair was upholstered in red velvet and on his palette the colors were arranged with the precision of a Byzantine mosaic. In a corner stand were his latest works, framed and ready to be sent off to his next exhibition in Europe or America. He spoke fluent French and English as well as some Spanish and German. “After all”, he said, “you've got to know how to sell a painting...
Category
1960s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Couple (oil painting flesh tones vintage couple sleeping beauty nostalgia)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
The significant size difference plays with the perception of the viewer, perhaps confused, one asks
oneself the question, if what is shown much larger, is also much more important .....
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Moderato, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Sybiline's (CAN based) "Moderato" is an original, handmade oil and alkyd painting that depicts a portrait of a woman juxtaposed with white and blue patterning.
About the Artist:
Sy...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Alkyd
Antique American Large Surreal Masterpiece Landscape Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique surrealist oil painting of a landscape with a sculpture. Oil on board, circa 1949. Signed. Displayed in a period frame. Image, 35"L x 22"H.
Category
1940s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"YOU ALWAYS HURT THE ONE YOU LOVE", surrealist oil painting, skeleton, family
By Tslil Tsemet
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"YOU ALWAYS HURT THE ONE YOU LOVE, 2019, is an oil painting on canvas by artist Tslil Tsemet, and measures 62x55". At once provocative and serene, the wel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"MIDDLE POINT", surrealist oil painting, woman, cat, blood ritual, cosmos, saint
By Tslil Tsemet
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"MIDDLE POINT", 2016, is a surrealist oil painting on canvas by artist Tslil Tsemet, and measures 37x32". It's a mysterious canvas. A woman of a certain a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled. 2002, oil on wood, 57x17, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Untitled. 2002, oil on wood, 57x17,5 cm
Man face on red background with flower
Kaspars Perskis (1975)
was born in Riga, Latvia. This is where he stud...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
"Urbane Profile, " Mixed-Media Tile, 2007
Located in Chicago, IL
Liverpool-based artist Pauline Hughes takes a fluid approach to her ceramic practice, integrating techniques of painting, collage, and printmaking into ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ceramic, Paper, Acrylic
Childhood, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2019
Style: Portrait Art,
Subject: Childhood
Size: 36" x 24" x 1'' inch, 92x61x3 cm,
Unframed, Stretched on Wooden Bar, Gallery Wrapped, Ready to Hang.
Tigran Hovoumyan was born on November 8, 1969, in American Armenia...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Silver Cord, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Amanda Seckington's "Silver Cord" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a vibrant purple and red eye and face.
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Meeting, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2019
Style: Figurative Art,
Subject: Meeting
Size: 24" x 20" x 1'' inch, 61x51x3 cm,
Unframed, Stretched on Wooden Bar, Gallery Wrapped, Ready to Hang.
Tigran Hovoumyan was born on November 8, 1969 in American Armenia...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Together (oil painting vintage couple figurative nostalgia sleeping beauty flesh
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Mental closeness connects two dissimilar beings, despite great differences.
keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil painting, earth tones, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"CHILDREN OF THE SUN", oil painting, axis politics, garden, fantasy, allegory
By Tslil Tsemet
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"CHILDREN OF THE SUN", 2019, is an oil painting on canvas by artist Tslil Tsemet, and measures 47x62". Characteristic of the artist's best work, it features a group of four contemporary strong-man heads of state portrayed in a child's garden of dangerous toys – from plastic ray-guns to nuclear warheads. Putin, barechested on his black unicorn, is blowing bubbles that float throughout this fascist paradise. Trump and Netanyahu appear at the end of a rainbow looking both grumpy and sinister. And Kim Jong...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Violinist, Oil Painting by Abraham Straski
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Abraham Straski, Polish (1903 - 1987)
Title: Violinist
Year: 1958
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Image Size: 12 x 15 inches
Frame Size: 20 x 22.5 inches
Category
1950s Post-War Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"CONTROL", surrealist oil painting, breast feeding mother, Jerusalem, cats, baby
By Tslil Tsemet
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"CONTROL, 2014, is a surrealist oil painting on canvas by artist Tslil Tsemet, and measures 70x47". At once provocative and serene – a woman on a carved w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Pink Moon, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Sara Scribner's (US based) "Pink Moon" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a realistic portrait of a feminine form cradling a small moon i...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Self-Portrait in Paris
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert-Louis Nicoidski, Swiss (1931 - 2001)
Title: Self-Portrait in Paris
Year: circa 1978
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r..
Size: 57 x 44.5 in. (144.78 x 113.03 cm)
Frame...
Category
1970s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Traveler, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Tigran Hovumyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2019
Style: Portrait Art,
Subject: Tra...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Reading Rabbi, Oil Painting by Abraham Straski
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Abraham Straski, Polish (1903 - 1987)
Title: Untitled - Polish Rabbi 12F
Year: circa 1957
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Image Size: 10.5 x 7 inches
Frame Size: 20 x 15 i...
Category
1950s Post-War Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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Vintage Wheel Of Fortune
Jean Baptiste Greuze
Circle Of Sir Godfrey Kneller
Donal Judd
Young Lady With Cat
Edward Francis Wells
Queen Elizabeth 2 Portrait
Tiffany Background Images
Abe Lincoln
Gentleman In Armor
Hollis Dunlap
Rubens Circle
Charles Edward Stuart
Shannon Wood Paintings
Pilgrim Portraits
Dali Travel Poster
Crime And Punishment
18th C French Lady Paintings