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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Style: Surrealist
Style: Street Art
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
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
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
Oil, Canvas
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
"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
"Beak" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Joshua Lawyer's (US based) "Beak" is an oil painting that depicts a figure with her face in profile with a yellow triangle that resembles a beak.
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
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
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
"Gills" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Joshua Lawyer's (US based) "Gills" is an oil painting that depicts a figure with her face in profile with an air bubble escaping the gills on her neck
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
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
“Le Grandiose" The Grandiose, Colorful Street Art Pop Abstract 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
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
"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
"Judy Travels" Pop Art Colorful Original by Gary John
By Gary John
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene during the Art Basel Miami art fair in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Newsprint
"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
Oil, Canvas
Time for Walkies. Jeffrey! Street Art, Pop Art, Richie Rich
By Jay-C
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5
Richie Rich is walking his Jeff Koons dog.
JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar figures and symbols. Using a dist...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment
"THE DARK SIDE", surrealist oil painting, duality, myth, battle, war, beast, sun
By Tslil Tsemet
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"THE DARK SIDE", 2017, is a surrealist oil painting on canvas by artist Tslil Tsemet, and measures 36x59". Duality and the conflict it creates rush to col...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
“Comme un Rayon de Lumière” Like a Ray of Light, Colorful, Abstract Street Art
By J.M. Robert
Located in New York, NY
JM Robert's portraits start with a bright a bold background done with spray paint. As JM started his career as a graffiti artist, he is now able to bridge fi...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Big bad Wolf, Street Art, Pop Art, Wolf, Wall Street
By Jay-C
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5
Big bad Wolf
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...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Bigger Guns, Street Art, Pop Art, Wolf, Wall Street
By Jay-C
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5
2 guns in street art style
JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar figures and symbols. Using a distinct and fine Br...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment
"The Helpful Sail" Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Nathan Durfee's "The Helpful Sail" is an oil painting that depicts a mystical giant rising from the river with a sailboat in hand as other sail boats pass by.
Artist bio:
Nathan D...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cash rules everything around me, Street Art, Pop Art, Richie Rich
By Jay-C
Located in Munich, DE
Unique piece i
Richi Rich on a ladder is spraying money
JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar figures and symbols. Using a d...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment
"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
"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
The Good the Bad and Ugly (oil painting monochrome man cowboy western hat)
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 Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"CHILDHOOD MEMORIES I", oil painting, memory, cat lactation, fantasy, innocence
By Tslil Tsemet
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"CHILDHOOD MEMORIES I", 2014, is an oil painting on canvas by artist Tslil Tsemet, and measures 47x62". Characteristic of the artist's best work, it featu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
ALBERTO BLANCHART - Your Ending . Darth Vader
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Title: Your ending...
Technique: Graffiti
Material: Acrylic paint on canvas mounted on a wooden rack
Size: 100 cm x 70 cm x 5 cm
Philosophy of the artist:
Graffiti from the wall...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Biting Dog, Street Art, Pop Art, Pink Panther
By Jay-C
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5
Pink panther with dog
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
"Salvation", Gold Street Art, Modern Portrait Art, 2020
Located in Delaware , OH
"Salvation", Gold Street Art, Modern Portrait Art, 2020
A B O U T T H I S P I E C E :
“Salvation” is modern portrait art/ gold street art by Addison Jon...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Ink, Acrylic
"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
The King is dead long live the King I, Street Art, Pop Art, Pink Panther
By Jay-C
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5
Pink panther is painting a self portrait
JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar figures and symbols. Using a distin...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Opus Magnus, Street Art, Pop Art, Scrooge McDuck
By Jay-C
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5
Portrait of Scrooge McDuck
JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar figures and symbols...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment
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 Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Happy Easter, Street Art, Pop Art, Bugs Bunny
By Jay-C
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5
Bugs Bunny is doing a selfportrait painting
JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar figures and symbols. Using a dis...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Archival Pigment, Mixed Media, Pigment
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
The brooch (oil painting sleeping beauty surrealism man tennis figurative hair)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
A scene in the middle of nowhere: a young man with a tennis racket unexpectedly sees a huge
figure of a young lady who apparently sleeps or simply dreams in front of him.
keywords; ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Astro, Street Art, Pop Art, banksy
By Jay-C
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5
Banksy with dog
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...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Street Art, Portrait Painting, Cowboy Art, Mixed Media Art-Marlbaro Man
Located in Delaware , OH
Street Art, Portrait Painting, Cowboy Art, Mixed Media Art-Marlbaro Man
A B O U T T H I S P I E C E :
"Marlbaro Man" is a mixed media portrait painting by ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Ink, Acrylic
Extra instagram fame, Street Art, Pop Art, Balenciaga
By Jay-C
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5
A girl is riding on a sneaker
JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar figures and symbols. Using a distinct and fine...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment
“Lorsque la Nuit Paraî” When the Night Comes, Colorful, Abstract Street Art
By J.M. Robert
Located in New York, NY
JM Robert's portraits start with a bright a bold background done with spray paint. JM started his career as a graffiti artist, painting his signature portraits on the walls of Paris ...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
You’re such a F@&kin‘ Bear! I love it, Painting, Pop Art, Street Art, pooh bear
By Jay-C
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5
Pink Painting of Pooh the bear
JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar figures and symbols. Using a distinct and fin...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Smells like Bacon, Street Art, Pop Art,
By Jay-C
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5
Mickey Mouse is sitting on a chair
JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar figures and symbols. Using a distinct and...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Nature Girl, colorful surrealist bird woman painting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
colorful surrealist image of bird woman
*ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoki...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Portrait of a Man" Grey Cubist Portrait
Located in Houston, TX
Surrealist portrait of a man with multiple shades of black, grey, and white. The painting is signed and dated in the bottom right corner. The painting is framed in a black frame with...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
White Line - Original Abstract Gestural Figurative Portrait Painting
By Sally K
Located in Los Angeles, CA
As your gaze lingers on one of Sally K’s paintings, you notice how Sally’s brush strokes add playfulness and life to the canvas, incorporating unexpected images and shapes of flowers...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
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
DINO DISPENSER! Street Art, Pop Art,
By Jay-C
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5
Flintsone Dino in Basquiat Style.
JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar figures and symbols. Using a distinct and...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Street Smart: Contemporary Surrealist Portrait
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
His time in New York City has ingrained Berlin with the whole vibe of the culture that existed in the city at that time. He is so passionate when talking about it and the lasting eff...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Alice in Wonderland Manga Cartoon Urban Street Art by British Graffiti Artist
By Chris Pegg
Located in Preston, GB
Urban Manga Graffiti Art entitled 'Wonderland Police Department' by British Street Artist Chris Pegg.
Chris Pegg is a self-taught artist from Lancas...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Felt Pen, Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media
Black and Silver Painting, Mixed Media Art, Street Art-The Girl in the Silver
Located in Delaware , OH
Black and Silver Painting, Mixed Media Art, Street Art-The Girl in the Silver
A B O U T T H I S P I E C E :
"The Girl in the Silver (Bethyie-A3)" is portrait painting mixed media st...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Flight II. Amy Johnson. Surrealistic portrait of pioneering British aviator
By Tom Adams
Located in Segovia, ES
Amy Johnson CBE: Ordre de l'Empire britannique (1903-1941) was one of the most influential and inspirational woman of the twentieth century. She was the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia in 1930 and set a string of other records throughout her career. Even The Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, had been sufficiently impressed by Amy's achievement in flying solo to Australia. Althought Christie didn't name her directly, it was clearly Amy that her character was referring to in the novel « Peril at End House ». The book features Christie's famous character Hercule Poirot.
In this painting Tom Adams use the technique of collage.
Dimension with frame 89 cm H x 102 cm W x 7 cm D
Dimension without frame 64 cm H x 87 cm W
About the artist:
Thomas Barclay Adams was born in Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A. to a family of distinguished architects and planners. He was trained at the Chelsea School of Art and Goldsmith's College between 1946-1950. In 1949 he received a National Diploma of Painting. Between 1953-60 Adams illustrated natural and Regimental history pages for Eagle and natural history features for Eagle, Girl and Swift. In 1958 he founded Adams Design Associates with Anna and Andy Garnett, where he produced large murals in the then-new medium of laminated plastic for various firms such as The Royal Bank of Scotland, Chartered Bank, Aspro Nicholas and Airscrew Jiewood.
In 1960 Adams Design Associates became DANAD Designs with a group of architects and designers. In 1965 Adams joined his father, the late James W.R. Adams OBE, eminent town planner and landscape architect, who was planning and design consultant to the Poster Advertising Planning Committee, for whom he helped produce a book: "Posters Look to the Future". He mounted an exhibition at the Tea Center in Regent Street opened by Sir Hugh Casson in 1966. During this period, Adams met Virgil Pomfret and joined his artists' agency. Apart from a few gaps when pursuing other activities (like running art galleries), Adams has been with Pomfret ever since. With Virgil's representation, Adams began a career as a book cover illustrator, most notably for the early John Fowles' novels The Collector, The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman (Cape) and the now famous paperpack covers for Agatha Christie (Collins UK and Simon & Schuster USA). This period covered 1963-1975. A book on these cover paintings, with commentary by Julian Symons and an introduction by John Fowles was published in 1981 by Dragons World.
Adams has won various awards for illustration, notably the American Society of Illustrators, The American Art Directors Association, and The Design and Art Directors Association, UK.
In 1967 Adams opened the Fulham Gallery, which not only gave first exhibitions of some now famous artists, but was for several years the center of the late '60's phenomenon - the poetry print. With C.Day-Lewis (the Poet Laureate) and artist Joseph Herman and John Piper, Adams produced the investiture print for the Prince of Wales.
Adams also designed posters for Mark Boyle's light shows (The Sensual Laboratory), going on tour with The Jimmy Hendrix Experience and The Soft Machine. His connection with the modern world of rock music continued when he met Lou Reed, an admirer of his Christie and Raymond Chandler covers. Reed asked Adams to design the cover for his first UK solo album. As a result of this friendship with Lou Reed, Andy Warhol offered to sponsor an exhibition of Tom's work in New York. Adams did eventually work in the States in the early 70's where he was asked by Marshall Arisman to teach at the New York Central School of Art.
Around this time, having completed a private commission to paint a portrait of Benjamin Britten...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Nancy Sliwa, Guardian Of The Animals
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
His time in New York City has ingrained Berlin with the whole vibe of the culture that existed in the city at that time. He is so passionate when talking about it and the lasting eff...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Curtis Sliwa, Guardian Of The City
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
His time in New York City has ingrained Berlin with the whole vibe of the culture that existed in the city at that time. He is so passionate when talking about it and the lasting eff...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
“Elle Prit son Courage” She Took her Courage, Colorful, Abstract Street Art
By J.M. Robert
Located in New York, NY
JM Robert's portraits start with a bright a bold background done with spray paint. JM started his career as a graffiti artist, painting his signature portraits on the walls of Paris ...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Ink, Canvas, Mixed Media
Couple (oil painting surrealist red hair woman man portrait figurative flesh
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
Portrait Paintings, Black Mixed Media Art, Street Art-Era, You There?
Located in Delaware , OH
Portrait Paintings, Black Mixed Media Art, Street Art-Era, You There?
A B O U T T H I S P I E C E :
“Era, You There?” is mixed media street art by Addison Jones featuring her own po...
Category
2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Paint, Paper, Adhesive, Coating, Ink, Arch...
"Iris" Surrealistc Beautiful Woman´s Body emerging from a flower. Large format.
By Lluis Rizzo Rey
Located in Segovia, ES
"Iris" oil on panel, mixed technique by Lluis Rizzo.
Hyperrealist painting.
Measurements: (H) 114 x (W) 146 cm.
Framed: (H) 144 x (W) 176 x (D) 5 cm.
« Iris »
Here we have a rare species of Iris that will not be found in botanical books but in art catalogs...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Color Pencil, Wood Panel
Street Art, Black and Blue Painting, Portrait Painting-A Face Between the Words
Located in Delaware , OH
Street Art, Black and Blue Painting, Portrait Painting-A Face Between the Words
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"A Face Between the Words (Beth...
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2010s Street Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
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An elegant and sophisticated decorative touch in any living space, portrait paintings have remained popular throughout the years and are widely loved pieces of art for display in many homes today.
Portrait paintings are at least as old as ancient Egypt, where realistic, lifelike depictions of the recently deceased — commonly known as “mummy portraits” — were painted on wooden panels and affixed to mummies as part of the burial tradition.
For centuries, painters have used portraiture as a means of expressing a subject’s nobility, societal status and authority. Portraits were given as gifts in Renaissance Europe, and a portrait artist might have been commissioned to help mark a significant occasion such as a wedding or a promotion to high office. Prior to the advent of photography, which eventually replaced painted portraits as a quicker and more efficient way of capturing a person’s essence, the subject of a portrait had to sit for hours until the painter had finished. And during the 18th century in particular, if an artist commissioned for a portrait struggled with how to adequately memorialize and capture a subject’s likeness, sometimes a portrait painting wasn’t completed for up to a year.
Whether it’s part of the gallery-style approach to your living-room or dining-room walls or merely inspiration as you devise an eye-grabbing color scheme in your home, a portrait painting is a timeless decorative object for any interior. A landscape painting or sculpture might give you the kind of insight into a specific region of the world or a different culture that you can ascertain only through art. Similarly, when you take the time to learn about the subject of a portrait painting that you bring into your home — the sitter’s history, the relationship between the sitter and the artist should one exist, the story of how the portrait came to be — that work can become intensely personal in addition to its place as an object for an art-hungry corner of your apartment or house.
On 1stDibs, visit a vast collection of famous portrait paintings or works by emerging artists. Search by medium to find the right portrait paintings for your home in oil paint, synthetic resin paint and more. Find portrait paintings in a variety of styles, too, including contemporary, Impressionist and Pop art, or search by artist to find unique works created by painters such as Mark Beard, Steve Kaufman and Montse Valdés.