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Surrealist Portrait 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
The Muse: Time in Time (Model: Natalia Gubanova)
Located in Atlanta, GA
Item is in excellent condition and has only been displayed in a gallery setting. Item does not include frame. Throughout his evolution as a painter, Antonio Torres has dedicated him...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media

Body of Mind -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Women, Men Oil, Modern Art
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube. This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Lawrence...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Nude Figurative in Oil on Artist's Board
Located in Soquel, CA
Nude study by Andy Smith (American, 20th Century). A woman is seated, slightly leaning to the left of the composition. The background fades from a rusty red to a dark blue, changing ...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board

Spring III - Contemporary colourful figurative surrealistic painting
Located in DE
Gamez de Francisco paints and photographs very passionately, making statements filled with symbolism. He frequently includes insects in his artwork. He says: Flying insects represent...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Rider, Florance , italy
Located in Hudson, NY
“Friends of Friends” explores a playful world where dreams and reality meld together to create surreal moments. When engaging with Piussi's work, we enter an arena where we are imme...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait in Black, Face Silhouette, Pink Details, Abstract, Line Drawing, White
Located in Barcelona, ES
The paintings of Aleix Font (Sabadell, Spain, 1984) function as a narrative between the collective and the individual world, exploring space and its interac...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Spray Paint, Acrylic, Handmade Paper

"Eating at the Airline Diner", surrealist, red, blue, yellow, acrylic painting
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Eating at the Airline Diner” is an acrylic on canvas with collage 30 x 30 inches in reds, yellows and blues with green accents. The iconic diner, in Queens, New York, i...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Mixed Media

Italian Modernist Surrealist Woman Color Oil Painting Lazzaro Donati La Regina
Located in Surfside, FL
Lazzaro Donati (Italian, 1926-1977) Oil on board. Colorful woman. La Regina (the Queen) Hand signed upper right. signed, titled on back of panel. Dimensions: (Frame) H 37" x W 29", (Panel) H 27.5" x W 20" 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 is recalling the works of the french Raoul Dufy, Dunoyer de Segonzac, Francois Gall and Jean Jansem. This particular work is reminiscent of the work of Manolo Valdes. 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...
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1960s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Panel

"Don't Say it Outloud", Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Tiffany Dae's (US based) "Don't Say it Outloud" is a original, handmade oil painting that depicts a feminine face surrounded by darkness, gently holding an...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Panel

20th Century French Surrealist Portrait of Woman with Landscape Hair signed oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Surrealist Portrait French, mid 20th century signed oil on board, framed Framed: 14 x 16 inches Board : 9 x 11 inches Provenance: private collection Condition: the board has a convex...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

"Salvador Dalí"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
I was inspired to create this painting by a mirage in the sea. I saw on the horizon, a fantastic city with huge eyes looking at me. By purchasing Ukrainian art from Ukrainian artists...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

View to Brighter Future -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Woman
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
“A View to a Brighter Future” is a vibrant and uplifting fabric collage painting that embodies the promise of hope and optimism. As viewers engage with the collage, they are encourag...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Fabric, Canvas

Blossom of Beauty -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa Woman
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Blossom of Beauty" is an evocative fabric collage painting that celebrates the intricate intersection of nature, texture, and colour. The piece explo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Fabric, Canvas

Autumn oil on canvas painting surrealist woman
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Felix Ferreras - Autumn - Oil on canvas Oil measurements 100x65 cm. Frame size 115x80 cm.. Félix Ferreras is a visual artist with numerous national and international awards and dist...
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1990s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Antler" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Joshua Lawyer's (US based) "Antler" is an oil painting that depicts a figure with a white branch appearing as an antler on her head.
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Wood

"Surprise in the Garden", Surrealist, Collage, Acrylic Painting, 2008
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Surprise in the Garden” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 31 ½ x 28 ¼ inches brightly colored in greens, blues, oranges, rose and russet, and cream. Little ...
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Early 2000s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

"Within the Hollow" (2024) by Morgan Cameron, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Morgan Cameron’s (US based) “Within the Hollow” (2024) is an oil painting on panel that depicts a surreal portrait of a woman with white hair and antlers letting the snow from a pine...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Confident Figure - Original Figurative Abstract Man in Purple Suit on Blue Wall
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Iqi Qoror's surreal figurative paintings are arresting in their earthy palettes offset by pops of fluorescent textile embroidery. His artworks revolve around questions of trust, inte...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Wool, Canvas, Thread, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Self-Portrait 1990. original painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this vivid tapestry of oil, I’ve melded realism with surreal touches, expressing raw emotion and inner conflict. Layers of impressionistic strokes convey a sense of time's fluidit...
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1990s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Ethnic Meld #3", Surrealist, Portrait, Pink, Collage, Acrylic Painting, 2008
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Ethnic Meld #3” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 17.75 x 15.75 inches in pinks, reds and ochers. The noted American painter George Tooker (1920-2011), hims...
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Early 2000s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Tapestry of Love - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Men, Modern, Cat
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube. This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Lawrence Amoo (...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Cotton

"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...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Mixed Media

"Where The Swamps Sing" (2024) By Nadezda, Original Oil Surrealist Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Nadezda's beautiful new oil on panel painting "Where The Swamps Sing" (2024) is a surrealist Slavic portrait of a woman dressed in traditional Russian clothing, standing stoically in front of a bizarre scene, with iconography of demons' heads towered up with a cat resting atop it, deep in an abstracted symbolic forest. Nadezda is a painter, sculptor, photographer, and concept artist. Her artwork is focused on narratives carefully gathered from the hidden chambers of her imagination as well as live theater-inspired work with actors, dancers, and models. Like a quilt stitched of poetic realities, Nadezda’s mysterious world defies the mundane. With a non-linear creative process flowing between different media, the artist explores various vantage points in her creations. This dynamic approach inspires her mind’s eye to focus on the worlds within and evoke an uninterrupted, creative transmission which is then channeled through her paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography, writing and film. SOLO EXHIBITIONS: September 2024 Once There Was, Once There Wasn’t // Modern Eden, San Francisco, CA, USA May 2024 Siren’s Heart // Haven Gallery, Long Island, NY, USA February 2022 Secret Hallway // Modern Eden, San Francisco, CA, USA July 2021 The Great Scale of Little Things // Galleria D’Arte Piero Della Francesca, Arezzo, Italy February 2021 A Place To Dream // SHOH Gallery, Berkley, CA, USA July 2019 Pins & Petals // Haven Gallery, Long Island, NY, USA August 2018 Lukomorye // Spoke Art, San Francisco, CA, USA February 2018 Nightmares & Lullabies // Haven Gallery, Long Island, NY, USA June 2017 Fly-By-Night // Haven Gallery, Long Island, NY, USA MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS: March 2024 Miradas Femeninas // group exhibition, Museu Europeu d’Art Modern (MEAM), Barcelona, Spain FAIRS: April 2020 Art Market San Francisco // SFADA x Modern Eden, San Francisco, CA, USA February 2020 LA Art Show // Abend Gallery, Los Angeles, CA July 2019 Art Market Hamptons // Haven Gallery at Bridgehampton Museum of Art, NY October 2018 Moniker Art Fair // Spoke Art, London, UK July 2017 Art Market Hamptons // Haven Gallery at Bridgehampton Museum of Art, NY SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: June 2024 Portrait Show XII: Myth // Modern Eden, San Francisco, USA March, 2024 BAA Teachers Show 2024 // BAA Gallery, Barcelona, Spain January, 2024 AKSK // Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, USA September 2023 Reverie // Modern Eden, San Francisco, USA August 2023 Mass // Modern Eden, San Francisco, USA October 2023 Bacchus // Modern Eden, San Francisco, USA September 2023 Harvest // Modern Eden, San Francisco, March 2023 Secret Longings // Corey Helford Gallery x Beautiful Bizarre, Los Angeles, CA December 2022 Yule // Modern Eden, San Francisco, CA November 2022 Halcyon Days // Beautiful Bizarre x Modern Eden, San Francisco, CA October 2022 Danse Macabre // Modern Eden, San Francisco, CA September 2022 Totem // Modern Eden, San Francisco, CA August 2022 Mighty // Modern Eden, San Francisco, CA June 2022 X Annual Portrait Exhibition // Modern Eden, San Francisco, CA April 2022 100 Trees // Modern Eden, San Francisco, CA October 2021 Lore // Modern Eden, San Francisco, CA June 2021 Moleskine Project X // Spoke Art, San Francisco, CA June 2021 Portrait Show IX // Modern Eden, San Francisco, CA November 2020 Art Collector Starter Kit VII // Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, CA October 2020 Midnight Garden // Beautiful Bizarre x Modern Eden, San Francisco, CA July 2020 The Art of Quarantine // SHOH Gallery, Berkley, CA May 2020 Unjust Contentment // Beinart Gallery, Brunswick, Australia March 2020 Contemporary Figuration // Abend Gallery, Denver, CO November 2019 Paintguide x Thinkspace Projects // Thinkspace Projects, Los Angeles, CA November 2019 Annual Holiday Miniatures Show // Abend Gallery, Denver, CO November 2019 Esprit De Corps // Modern Eden x Haven Gallery, CA and NY June 2019 Moleskine Project VIII // Spoke Art SF, CA June 2019 Muse, SHOH Gallery // Berkley CA June 2019 Small Works, Beinart Gallery // Australia May 2019 Gaia Reborn // Beautiful Bizarre at Museum of Urban Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany March 2019 Femme, Spoke Art + Juxtapoz, NY January 2019 Music Box // Haven Gallery, Northport, NY December 2018 Solstice Blue...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Be A Man
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Beneath my sturdiness is a puddle surrounded by the moistness of fresh mud- soft and mushy- and it’s how I learned to nurture and love flowers. I’ve been told my best trait has to b...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Be A Man
Be A Man
$2,800 Sale Price
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"Fuchsia de Mirabilibus" (2023) by Sybiline, Oil Painting, Fairy Flower
Located in Denver, CO
Sybiline's (CAN based) "Fuchsia de Mirabilibus" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a green fairy in a suspended flower. About the Artist: Sybiline is a Canadian art...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Panel

"The End of Our Season" (2024) by Morgan Cameron, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Morgan Cameron’s (US based) “The End of Our Season” (2024) is an oil painting on panel that depicts a surreal still life of a cart filled with broken and decaying jack-o-lanterns. A...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Panel

MEJOR SOLAS
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"MEJOR SOLAS" OIL AND ACRILIC ON CANVAS SIGNED AND DATED 2010 EXHIBITED MUSEO DEL BANCO CENTRAL DE COSTA RICA 47.5 X 59 INCHES Sofía Ruiz was born in ...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

"To The Shade" (2024) by Morgan Cameron, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Morgan Cameron’s (US based) “To The Shade” (2024) is an oil painting on panel that depicts a surreal portrait of a skeleton cowboy. About the artist: I am an oil painter based ou...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Trumpet Player
Located in Zofingen, AG
I love painting people. I love to capture their movement, their emotions, the dramas and the theatrics of life. I paint people to express their personality, their lightness and darkn...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Flamingo Chair, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A woman in a red dress lounges on a green chair adorned with two stylized flamingos. Large, bold leaves surround her as she gazes forward. Her red sunglasses ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic

"Jax, the Mischievous Pumpkin Lad" By Timothy Von Rueden, Graphite Drawing
Located in Denver, CO
"Jax, the Mischievous Pumpkin Lad" (2024) by Timothy Von Rueden is an original handmade graphite drawing that depicts a monster with a pumpkin for a head and a bag of jacks.
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Paper, Graphite

Antique American School Surreal Signed Modernist Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American abstract cubist composition "Terra Firma Theme 10" by Augustus Goertz (Born 1948) . Oil on canvas, circa 1958. Housed in a period gilt...
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1970s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Poetry and Painting", Surrealist, Reds, Blues, Collage, Acrylic Painting, 2018
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Poetry and Painting” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 21 x 18.75 inches in reds, blues, greys and pinks. In this image the sister arts of poetry and painti...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Gnome"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
In this painting, I've depicted a whimsical world where fantasy and reality blend under a vintage patina. The main figure, a gnome, exudes a contemplative aura, imbued with the myst...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Getting on Horse 2, florance , Italy
Located in Hudson, NY
These 4 oil on canvas paintings are in a set of 4 for $8000.00. “Friends of Friends” explores a playful world where dreams and reality meld together to create surreal moments. Wh...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"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...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Bloom (Oil Painting, Symbolist, Ancient Cultures, Pop, Surreal, ~47% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Stella Jae Bloom 2024 Oil on canvas Size: 31.49 x 23.62 x inches (80 x 60 cm) Signed by hand COA provided Stella J Richey is an international visual artist and designer. Her works ...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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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...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic

Fantasy. 2010. Mixed media, collage on canvas, 100x70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Fantasy. Mixed media, collage on canvas, 100x70 cm
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media

"Night Bloom, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Sara Scribner's (US based) "Night Bloom" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a realistic portrait of a feminine form in profile with a full moon behind her and white Moonflowers blooming amidst her form. About the Artist: Sara Scribner (B. 1982 Fremont, California) is a figurative painter living in Oklahoma. She earned a BFA in painting from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She has exhibited in museums and galleries across the US and in Europe, including European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM) museum in Barcelona, Spain, Wausau Museum of Art in Wausau, WI, Wally Workman Gallery...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Panel

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...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Surrealist Watercolour and Mixed Media, "Ne Nastupit bui!" (Wouldn't Come!).
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th century mixed media surrealist painting by Yuri Ilyich Kononenko. Titled 'Ne Nastupit Bui!' (Wouldn't Come!). Signed with artists symbol bottom left. Fully signed, dated an...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Charcoal, Paper, Crayon, Watercolor, Pencil

Psychic Fallout
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Psychic Fallout is an original painting by Elisha Nyong. Elisha created Psychic Fallout with Oil on a 42W by 45H inches primed canvas. Psychic Fallout ac...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Psychic Fallout
Psychic Fallout
$4,000 Sale Price
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A Boy and his Dog Oil and Mixed Media Cuban Hyperrealism Framed
Located in Houston, TX
LOOK FOR FREE SHIPPING AT CHECKOUT OR GALLERY RATE A Boy and His Dog shows the hyperrealism of modern Cuban art that is now available to the world...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

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...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic

SUENO PROFUNDO
Located in Los Angeles, CA
SUENO PROFUNDO OIL AND ACRILIC ON CANVAS SIGNED, 2013 EXHIBITED MUSEO DEL BANCO CENTRAL DE COSTA RICA 43.25 X 35.5 INCHES Sofía Ruiz was born in 1982....
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Lovers, I’ll put a spell on you. (I was listening to Nina Simone)
Located in Zofingen, AG
Each of the Lovers comes from Ta's memory and imagination, "my feelings, my memories, some good, some not so good, but I try to focus on the good ones, a dance I remember, a hug afte...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Conspirators hatching a plot
Located in Zofingen, AG
I am an accomplished fine portrait artist, but my real passion is in colour and how the arrangement of colour can produce a different emotional experience of art. I want original and...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Last Leaves (young girl yellow shirt fall leave portrait figurative oil painting
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Rudolf Kosow’s Last Leaves is a hauntingly poetic oil painting that blends contemporary figurative painting with surrealism and symbolic composition. A young girl, her face rendered ...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Other Side 7
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authent...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

GENEVIEVE ZONDERVAN (1922-2013) FRENCH OIL PAINTING -
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"" 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...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Sax duo
Located in Zofingen, AG
Welcome to my world of Monkeys and Lions smoking cigars, the Egg family, my Lovers Jazz Conspirators and Ladies in Red. Someone once said of my work. 'I often wonder why people worl...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Egg Girls on a bike
Located in Zofingen, AG
I’ve written a book based on my Egg people and Characters such as the Conspirators. It is a fantasy novel that takes place in Egg Island and London. The story has a mix of good and bad characters, full of excitement, sadness, and intrigue. Egg Island is a mysterious place where you can find all sorts of creatures, such as dolphins, including a giant one as big as a ship and one even bigger one that sleeps at the bottom of the sea. Baboons who think they own the place, firebugs light up the village, giant turtles protect kids while swimming, Bright orange coconut crabs...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

"Man Adjusting his Tie", surrealist, green, red, blue, yellow, acrylic painting
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Man Adjusting his Tie” is an acrylic painting on canvas 24 x 18 inches in greens and reds with blue and yellow color accents. The disheveled appearance of the man impli...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Egg flowers
Located in Zofingen, AG
“The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.” Lucian Freud My hero, Vincent Van Gogh, painted his sunflowers in Arles, in the Sou...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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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...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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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 ...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Linen, Oil

"Self Chaperone", Surrealist, Portrait, Mixed Media Acrylic Painting, 2020
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Self-Chaperone” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 28 x 22 inches in flesh tones, yellows and greys. The portrait depicts the inner conflict between uninhibi...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

"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...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Face nº 4
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
The painting “Rostro nº4” is an oil on linen that depicts a male Roman bust. The work reinterprets the classical sculpture in a more personal way, playing with colors and textures th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Surrealist portrait paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Surrealist portrait 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 portrait 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, green, pink and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Rudolf Kosow, Carlos Gamez De Francisco, Tslil Tsemet, and Suzi Fadel Nassif. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Surrealist portrait paintings, so small editions measuring 5 inches across are also available. Prices for portrait 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 $27 and tops out at $400,000, while the average work sells for $4,500.

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