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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Style: Surrealist
Style: Street Art
"It's Only the Wind" Acrylic Painting
By Mary Carroll
Located in Denver, CO
Mary Carroll's (US based) "It's Only the Wind" is an original, handmade acrylic painting that depicts a lone house at night with a few lights illuminating its windows.
Artist Biogr...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Woman and rose window oil on canvas painting surrealist
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Ramón Llovet (1917-1987) - Woman and rose window - Oil on canvas
Canvas measures 61x50 cm.
Frameless.
Ramon Llovet Miserol (Barcelona, August 7, 1917 - Barcelona, August 2, 1987...
Category
1970s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
What is Behind, Oil, Mixed Media, Hyperrealism, Modern Cuban Art, Surreal
Located in Houston, TX
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What is Behind (Lo que esta atras) shows the hyperrealism of modern Cuban art that is now available to the world art market. What is Behind is one of many of the hyperrealism paintings by the artist. Brian Sanchez...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
"Roses Are Not Only Red, " Mixed Media Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Ifeoluwa Alade ( Nigeria based) "Roses Are Not Only Red" is an original, handmade acrylic painting that depicts a female model with a rose and butterfly cast in a deep red glow.
Ar...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Self Portrait, Street Art, Pop Art, Basquiat, red
By Jay-C
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5
Self Portrait of Jay-C
JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar figures and symbols. Using a distinct and fine British sense of humour,
he addresses stereotypes of modern society and his work, both playful and profound, stimulates us to question conventional social conceptions. JAY-C is a barometer responding to the world around us.
Having had his first solo exhibition in 2018, in the same year he did a collaboration with BoConcept on their iconic Imola chair...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Mermaid by José Gerson - Ink on paper 46x64 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper to frame
Category
1980s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink
"Painted For Life" The Tattooed Robot 36x24 acrylic on Canvas
By Chris RWK
Located in Southampton, NY
We are please to present the larger works on canvas of Chris RWK. Chris RWK’s robots are a fixture of New York street art. Known for his iconic Robot images that can be seen around ...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
“Driot dams Les Yeux - Right in the Eyes" Abstract Portrait Street Art on Canvas
By J.M. Robert
Located in New York, NY
This particular piece depicts an anonymous portrait of a beautiful woman. Inspired by the every day, JM Robert strives to create paintings that mimic the fla...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Hinges, " Mixed Media Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Ifeoluwa Alade ( Nigeria based) "Hinges" is an original, handmade acrylic painting that depicts a female model and a male model with colorful butterflies and flowers ebbing between t...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Mixed Media
Official Like A Referee Whistle - Original Sports Artwork Soccer Painting
By Danny Brown
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Danny Brown’s artworks allocate an intrinsic connection between himself and the diverse communities occupying Los Angeles. Brown combines art history, streetwear trends, and pop art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil Pastel, Canvas
"Fragrance, " Mixed Media Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Ifeoluwa Alade ( Nigeria based) "Fragrance" is an original, handmade acrylic painting that depicts a female model and a male model with colorful butterflies and flowers ebbing betwee...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Portrait de Femme ( Self Portrait ? )
By Leonor Fini
Located in Miami, FL
This is a possible self portrait by the famed female surrealist artist. It is also strikingly similar in style with it's exaggerated eyes to her portrait of Jean Genet, ( Leonor F...
Category
1940s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Top Songbirds
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The figurative surrealistic paintings of Carlos Gamez de Francisco are heavily influenced by his Cuban upbringing in a Russian governed academia setting. This presence exposed Franci...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Pension Fund
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
The picture "Pension Fund" is included in the series of artworks "Pathos of the Bureaucracy".
100x100cm / oil on canvas/ 2019
The picture is ready t...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1960's/ 70's French Surrealist Signed Oil Colorful Girl over Orange City
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, circa 1960's-1970's, signed lower left.
Title: Surrealist view of a colorful lady standing before a classical city (Milan?) hazed in orange.
Medium...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Surrealist Portrait, "Hothead"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original surrealist portrait painting by San Diego artist, Christopher Polentz. It's dimensions are 9.25"x17.5"x1". It is m...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Vellum, Acrylic
LOVE AT FIRST PIPE
Located in Los Angeles, CA
YURI MARTINEZ RAMOS
"LOVE FIRST PIPE"
OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED
CUBAN-AMERICAN, C.2006
20 X 16 INCHES
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
Oil, Canvas
"Opulence 6" Mixed Media Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Aiden Kringen's (US based) "Opulence 6" is an original handmade oil painting that depicts a figure with her face in profile view surrounded with gold hued shapes and patterns
About the Artist:
A kaleidoscopic fantasia—crystalline planes floating in space, nestling together like immaculate puzzle pieces—abstract nebulae, human figures and faces enveloped in swirling fields or particles of energy—these number among the images evoked by the hauntingly enigmatic paintings of artist Aiden Kringen. Within this worldview a mysterious network of interlocking planes becomes visible to the beholder: mystical fields of unknown substance revealed as the building blocks of our bodies and semblances, surrounding, cocooning, perhaps even protecting us. It is a vision verging on the mystical, which Kringen portrays through a distinctive style: a fractured, cubistic mode of conscious- ness in which multiple dimensions or perspectives assimilate into an ecstatic whole. The artist deploys this style in opulent and seductive portraits as well as abstract tableaux whose optical signature is magnified by compositional dynamism and deeply layered surfaces.
Born in Los Angeles in 1992, Kringen lived variously in the American West and Mexico—Sebastopol, Jalisco, Portland, Flagstaff—before settling in the hill- and vineyard-dotted environs of Sonoma, County, where he is now based. In these very different environments, each of which possesses a uniquely picturesque natural beauty, the artist began from an early age to develop his aesthetic approach. He has always had a keen eye for detail, grounded in a gift for looking closely at the human experience. “I’ve always been interested in observing people,” he recalls, “and in the details of how we interact with one another.” He put this natural ability to task when he began working on illustration and graphic-design projects while in high school. From his mother, an artist and graphic designer, he learned the fundamentals of composition and typography, the nuances of positive and negative space and the relationships between them. Using sheets of Letracet—a system for transfer- ring typeface—proved particularly instrumental in developing a methodology for layering and collage, which continue to inform his works on canvas and paper. He learned old-school tech- niques, hands-on and mechanical, in keeping with a Bauhaus-like appreciation for perfectionism, integrity, and hard work.
Kringen began painting at 14. Then as now, drawing was central to his approach. He studied vintage anatomy...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
Surrealist Ocean Painting, "Jellyfish Dreams"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original oil on panel surrealist painting by San Diego artist, Kelley Sutphin. Its dimensions are 16"x20"x.75. It is unframed. A...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Bats the Matter" Large 36x24" Acrylic and spray paint on canvas 2022
By Chris RWK
Located in Southampton, NY
We are please to present the larger works on canvas of Chris RWK. While his street art painted on buildings around New York City and Brooklyn are very large, most of his fine art pa...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic
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
untitled
Located in Spetses, GR
Fotiadou depicts a surreal image of a skull-headed lady wearing Elizabethan attire, holding in one hand a flower, and the other an hourglass. Queen Elizabeth was the last of the Tudor monarchs...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
DRIP REMOVER
By Kunstrasen
Located in Aventura, FL
Three color screen printed figure & varnish on 300 somerset paper. Hand signed and numbered by Kunstrasen. Form the edition of 125. Frame size approx 26 x 26 inches.
Artwork is...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Varnish, Screen
Surrealist Oil Painting on Photograph, "Queen of Rain"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a surrealist figurative painting on an original photographic print by local San Diego artist, Evgeniya Golik. Its dimensions are 15.5"x19x2". It comes framed. A certificate o...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"Light After Dark" Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Austin Howlett's "Light After Dark" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a larger than life woman reclining in a landscape of mountains.
...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Mirada à la Tierra (2018) by LNY, oil painting portrait of youth, horse, earth
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Mirada à la Tierra" (2018) by LNY (aka Layqa Nuna Yawar, formerly Lunar New Year), oil painting, portrait of youth with horse, earth landscape
Oil painting on canvas, figurative, indigenous healer portrait with succulent aloe plant with flowers
24.25 × 20 × .75 in
Oil Painting / Graffiti and Street Art / Figurative Art / Portrait / Human Figure / Landscape / Flora / Fauna / Animal / Pastel Colors / Earth Tones / Surrealistic / Cosmic art...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood, Canvas
SOAK UP ART WHEN YOU CAN
By Kunstrasen
Located in Aventura, FL
6-color screen print on 300gsm Somerset fine art paper. Hand signed and numbered by Kunstrasen. From the edition of 100.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenti...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Screen, Paper
Maravillosa (2020) by LNY, oil painting, figurative, indigenous healer portrait
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Maravillosa" (2020) by LNY (aka Layqa Nuna Yawar, formerly Lunar New Year)
Oil painting on canvas, figurative, indigenous healer portrait with succulent aloe plant with flowers
18 × 14 × .75 in
Oil Painting / Graffiti and Street Art / Figurative Art / Portrait / Human Figure / Landscape / Flora / Pastel Colors / Surrealistic / Cosmic art...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
GENEVIEVE ZONDERVAN (1922-2013) FRENCH OIL PAINTING -
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
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by Geneviève Zondervan (French 1922-2013)
oil painting on board
board: 20 x 10.5 inches
Mid 20th century oil painting on board by the French a...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Send the Jackal (2020) by street artist Ekundayo, surrealist watercolor painting
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Send the Jackal" (2020) by Ekundayo (aka Sorrow Becomes Joy)
Surrealist portrait, expressive, figurative, watercolor painting, illustrative, street art, muralist, Hawaiian street ar...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Ink, Watercolor
UNTITLED (PORTRAIT)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original acrylic painting on wood. Hand signed and dated on front by Derek Aylward.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity inc...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood
"Effulgent, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Alexandra Manukyan's "Effulgent" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a female model covered with glittering gold clothing, jewelry and hea...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Wood Panel
"Silent Melody, " 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, her fa...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Linen, Oil
"Sower of Seeds" Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Austin Howlett's "Sower of Seeds" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a larger than life man reclining in a landscape of mountains and pi...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
"Citadel" Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Austin Howlett's "Citadel" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a larger than life woman reclining in a seaside landscape.
Artist Autobi...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
"Resplendent, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Alexandra Manukyan's "Resplendent" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a female model holding her hand to her cheek as glittering gol...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
"Transcendent, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Alexandra Manukyan's "Transcendent" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a female figure holding her arms in a dancing pose as glittering gold covers her body.
About ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Surrealist Mexican Painting on Paper -- Sin Titulo
Located in Troy, NY
This is a remarkable work by successful artist, Armando Villagran, purchased directly from him in Mexico City in the 1960s. This represents an opportunity for collectors to buy one o...
Category
1960s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Paper
"One Hundred Years" Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Austin Howlett's "One Hundred Years" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a larger than life woman reclining in a landscape of mountains. ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Surreal Portrait, "This Is All That Is Me"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind surrealist oil painting on canvas by San Diego artist, Charlene Mosley. Its dimensions are 24"x48". It is framed. A certificate of authenticity will follow its delivery.
Mosley’s current work discusses the 21st century media-driven society and its relationship to technology and nature. Her work depicts people surrounded by plants and animals, with an interplay of expressive brushwork. In this painting the artists has depicted a woman staring at the viewer against a dark background. Mosley incorporates a sphinx cat...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surrealist Portrait, "A Light Within, Amongst The Danger of Skin"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original surrealist oil painting by San Diego artist, Charlene Mosley. Its dimensions are 40"x60". It comes in a thin black frame. A certificate of authentici...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Rome", Oleg Turchin, Surrealism, Figurative, 58x63 in, Baroque Hat Series, Oil
By Oleg Turchin
Located in Dallas, TX
"Rome" by Oleg Turchin is a Figurative Surrealism original oil on canvas painting measuring 58x63 in. This surrealist painting has a beautiful strong woman from Rome in silver armor ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Self Portrait, Street Art, Pop Art,
By Jay-C
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5
Self Portrait of Jay-C
JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar figures and symbols. Using a distinct and fine British...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment
"Victorian Soiree, " 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
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
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 illustrations appeared on the covers of Time, TV Guide, New York, and Esquire magazines...
Category
1980s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Judith & Donald
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is my adaptation of Gustav Klimt’s "Judith and the Head of Holofernes.” Klimt’s painting depicts the biblical character of Judit...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Blue III
Located in Nashville, TN
"Blue III" is an an-acrylic-on-canvas painting by Cuban artist Carlos Gamez de Francisco from his series "Oh Dear." As in his other portrait series, the artis...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Surrealist Portrait, "Réveille Mon Amour"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind surrealist oil painting on canvas by San Diego artist, Charlene Mosley. Its dimensions are 16"x 16" x1.5". It is unframed. A ce...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Couple of man and woman oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Ramón Llovet (1917-1987) - Couple - Oil on canvas
Canvas measures 50x61 cm.
Frameless.
Ramon Llovet Miserol (Barcelona, August 7, 1917 - Barcelona, August 2, 1987) was a painter...
Category
1970s 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
Oil, Linen
"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
"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
Oil, Linen
"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
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
Oil, Canvas
Leanna's Dream
Located in Brooklyn, NY
In my appropriation of Henri Rousseau's painting "The Dream," I replaced his nude reclining on the couch with my sister Leanna.
I envisioned her magically transported into a lush ju...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
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
Modern Times V
Located in Nashville, TN
"Modern Times V" is an acrylic-on-canvas painting from a small series by Cuban artist Carlos Gamez de Francisco. Done at the beginning of the Covid-19 pan...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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