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Style: Surrealist
Period: 20th Century
Driftwood & Fish, Mid-20th Century Magical Realism, Surrealist Cleveland Artist
By Paul Riba
Located in Beachwood, OH
Paul Riba (American, 1912-1977)
Driftwood and Fish
Oil on panel
Signed lower right
9.25 x 23.5 inches
14 x 28.25 inches, framed
Paul Riba was a painter of Magic Realism. He explore...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Oil
Mid-20th Century Magical Realism, Surrealist Painting, Cleveland School Artist
By Paul Riba
Located in Beachwood, OH
Paul Riba (American, 1912-1977)
Untitled
Oil on panel
Signed lower right
30 x 18 inches
39.25 x 27.25 inches, framed
Paul Riba was a painter of Magic Realism. He explored the unrea...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Oil
Vintage American Modernist Trompe L'Oeil Surreal Still Life Exhibited Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Amazing American modernist still life oil painting by Adrian Martinez (Born 1949) . Oil on canvas. Exhibited.
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Surrealist acrylic on board painting surrealism picasso style
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Gustavo Úbeda (1930-1994) - Surrealism - Acrylic panel
Acrylic measurements 80x100 cm.
Frameless.
The painting by Gustavo Úbeda Romero (Herencia, 1930 – Sao Paulo, 1994) comes from ...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Acrylic, Board
Surrealist Painting on Paper, 'Godot', Artefacts of Civilisations Lost
Located in Cotignac, FR
A late 20th century watercolour, gouache and acrylic on paper by British artist Derek Carruthers. Signed to the bottom right and dated 1985 and titled, 'Godot' to the reverse.
A ch...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Acrylic, Gouache, Watercolor, Paper
Surrealist still-life acrylic on board painting surrealism Ubeda
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Gustavo Úbeda (1930-1994) - Still life - Acrylic panel
Acrylic measurements 61x91 cm.
Frameless.
The painting by Gustavo Úbeda Romero (Herencia, 1930 – Sao Paulo, 1994) comes from a...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Acrylic, Board
Surrealist still-life acrylic on board painting surrealism Ubeda
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Gustavo Úbeda (1930-1994) - Still life - Acrylic panel
Acrylic measurements 75x32 cm.
Frameless.
The painting by Gustavo Úbeda Romero (Herencia, 1930 – Sao Paulo, 1994) comes from a...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Board, Oil
Murdered doll acrylic on board painting surrealism Ubeda
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Gustavo Úbeda (1930-1994) - Murdered doll - Acrylic panel
Acrylic measurements 61x91 cm.
Frameless.
The painting by Gustavo Úbeda Romero (Herencia, 1930 – Sao Paulo, 1994) comes fro...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Oil, Board
cubist composition oil on board painting expressionism Ubeda
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Gustavo Úbeda (1930-1994) - cubist composition - Oil panel
Oil measurements 50x42 cm.
Frame measurements 58x50 cm.
The painting by Gustavo Úbeda Romero (Herencia, 1930 – Sao Paulo, ...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Oil, Board
Vintage Signed Contemporary Surreal Apple Strength Portrait Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Image size, 24H x 30L. Signed verso.
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Oil, Canvas
Mid 20th Century French Modernist Still Life of Objects
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Still Life"
by Geneviève Zondervan (French 1922-2013)
oil painting on board, stamped verso
board: 15 x 18 inches
Original oil painting on board by the French artist, Geneviève Zon...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Oil
Israeli Large Vibrant Surrealist Flowers Oil Painting
By Milia Laufer
Located in Surfside, FL
Milia Laufer, born Romania. From 1951 lived and worked in Safed. Together with her husband opened one of the earliest galleries in Israel, in Tiberias. Worked in watercolors and oils...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Picassian surreal scene oil on board painting surrealism Picasso Ubeda
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Gustavo Úbeda (1930-1994) - Picasian scene - Oil panel
Oil measurements 41x50 cm.
Frameless.
The painting by Gustavo Úbeda Romero (Herencia, 1930 – Sao ...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Oil, Board
French Surrealist Trompe L'oeil Apples OIl Painting
By Lucien Mathelin
Located in Surfside, FL
size uncludes frame.
Lucien Mathelin, born in 1905 in Binche, A province of Hainaut, in Wallonia, Belgium, and died in 1981 in Paris. French painter. His work was influenced by surrealism andtinged with irony.
Lucien Mathelin was born in a family of artists and has benefited from artistic training since childhood. He made his first oil on canvas at the age of 15 in 1920. In 1924, he exhibited at the Salon d'Automne which he became a member. He did not study plastic arts, but traveled to Morocco (1925-1926) and Greece (1933-1934), where he enriched his palette. In 1937, Mathelin worked for a while for Raoul Dufy to realize the gigantic painting...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Amédée Ozenfant - Nature morte, Tabagie, french, modern, still life, surreal
Located in London, GB
signed ‘ozenfant’ (lower right)
Provenance:
Sale: Christie's London, 4 April 1989, lot 198
Dr. Arthur Brandt, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Literature:
P. & M. Guénégan, 'A...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Nature Morte
Located in New York, NY
Serge Clement
Nature Morte, 1963
Signed lower right Clement 1963
Oil on canvas, still life.
(Frame) H 25" x W 28.75" (Sight) H 18" x H 21"
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Surrealist Trompe L'oeil, Lush Roses
Located in Surfside, FL
Trompe-l'œil (French for "deceive the eye",) is an art technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions. Forced perspective is a comparable illusion in architecture.
Though the phrase, originates in the Baroque period, when it refers to perspectival illusionism, trompe-l'œil dates much further back. It was (and is) often employed in murals. Instances from Greek and Roman times are known, for instance in Pompeii. A typical trompe-l'œil mural might depict a window, door, or hallway, intended to suggest a larger room.
A version of an oft-told ancient Greek story concerns a contest between two renowned painters. Zeuxis (born around 464 BC) produced a still life painting so convincing that birds flew down to peck at the painted grapes. A rival, Parrhasius, asked Zeuxis to judge one of his paintings that was behind a pair of tattered curtains in his study. Parrhasius asked Zeuxis to pull back the curtains, but when Zeuxis tried, he could not, as the curtains were included in Parrhasius's painting—making Parrhasius the winner.
With widespread fascination with perspective drawing in the Renaissance, Italian painters of the late Quattrocento such as Andrea Mantegna (1431–1506) and Melozzo da Forlì (1438–1494), began painting illusionistic ceiling paintings, generally in fresco, that employed perspective and techniques such as foreshortening to create the impression of greater space for the viewer below. This type of trompe l'œil illusionism as specifically applied to ceiling paintings is known as di sotto in sù, meaning "from below, upward" in Italian. The elements above the viewer are rendered as if viewed from true vanishing point perspective. Well-known examples are the Camera degli Sposi in Mantua and Antonio da Correggio's (1489–1534) Assumption of the Virgin in the Duomo of Parma. Similarly, Vittorio Carpaccio (1460–1525) and Jacopo de' Barbari (c. 1440 – before 1516) added small trompe-l'œil features to their paintings, playfully exploring the boundary between image and reality. For example, a fly might appear to be sitting on the painting's frame, or a curtain might appear to partly conceal the painting, a piece of paper might appear to be attached to a board, or a person might appear to be climbing out of the painting altogether—all in reference to the contest of Zeuxis and Parrhasius. In a 1964 seminar, the psychoanalyst and theorist Jacques Lacan...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Acrylic
HAVANA Cuba Mid Century Surreal Male Nude Graphic Painting, Gay Interest
Located in New York, NY
Here we have a Surreal Male Nude by a famous Cuban artist Carlos Macia (1951-1994).
*** please excuse the photos, it is under glass and there are reflections of a yellow light. I’v...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Acrylic, Graphite
Large Italian Surrealism Painting Colorful Scarecrow Clown, Surrealist Landscape
Located in Surfside, FL
Framed 40 X 28 sight 32 X 20.5 inches.
Bears his address verso Via Innocenzo n.57 Roma. (Rome, Italy
Titled: L'Ultimo "Clown"
Hand signed lower left and bears artists name verso.
Alberto Trevisan (1919-1978), a listed Italian artist who specialized in Venetian watercolor...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Paint, Board
Guy Johnson "Rembrandt At My Window" Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Guy Johnson: 1927-2019. Well listed American post war surrealist artist. He has had auction results over $10,800. This incredible piece is the finest and m...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Oil
Industrial Scene Acid Glove, Drafsman's Pencil and Piping - Fortune Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
Surrealist ad where a gloved human hand rises in pictorial height to the size of a chemical plant. Tension is created as Drafsman's Pencil is about to t...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Board, Oil
FRENCH SURREALIST SIGNED OIL PAINTING - STILL LIFE BY WINDOW SILL
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School:
French School, second half 20th century
Title:
Surrealist Still Life study.
Medium: oil painting on canvas, framed
Size:
frame: 23.25 x 17.25 inches, painting...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Oil, Canvas
Origin: How God and I Created the World
By Tony Smith
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
"Origin: How God And I Created The World" acrylic on canvas, 45.5 x 61.5 inches (unframed), $9,500
Tony Smith’s paintings are works in motion. They are tho...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Canvas, Acrylic
Charles Houghton Howard Surrealist Painting Still Life with Hand and and Egg
Located in Brookville, NY
California artist Charles Houghton Howards Surrealist painting of a hand holding a green egg was painted in 1931.
He was represented by the legendar...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Oil
Richard Whalen "Jeffery's Toy's" Original Watercolor Painting c.1970
Located in San Francisco, CA
Richard Whalen (American, 1926-2009)
"Jeffery's Toy's" Original Watercolor Painting c.1970s
The artist uses a surreal technique which highlights the ...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Watercolor
The Vegetable Garden Huge Still Life Signed Large French Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Garden, Signed Oil Painting
By French artist Claude Benard, (1926 - 2016)
Signed by the artist to the lower left hand corner,
oil painting, unframed
size: 31.5 x 41.5 inches
Stu...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Oil
Horeb by Angelo Donadoni - Mixed media 53x72 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Angelo Donadoni was born in post-war northern Italy in 1945. His father did not recognize him. Her mother was a prostitute. At 13, he was placed in a reformatory. Then, very quickly,...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Oil
Karl Gasslander, Surreal Scene
Located in New York, NY
Gasslander lived and worked in Chicago and also visited Provincetown in the 1930s; he made portraits and city views. This Surreal Scene is unusual in his oeuvre both for its extreme ...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Oil
ROGER BONAFE (B.1932) ORIGINAL PAINTING FRENCH MODERNIST STILL LIFE COMPOSITION
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Roger Bonafe (French b. 1932) signed and dated 81
oil pastel on thick art paper, inscribed verso
Size 22.5 x 30 inches
Bonafe was born in the town of ...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Oil Pastel
'Self Portrait with Orchids', National Association of Women Artists, AWS
By Leonebel Jacobs
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An enigmatic and psychologically penetrating self-portrait in vivid shades of yellow, green and red.
Signed lower right, 'Leonebel Jacobs' (American, 1883-1967) and painted circa 1945.
Writer, sculptor, teacher and portrait painter Leonebel Jacobs first studied under Brush and Charles Hawthorne at the University of Oregon. A well traveled artist, Jacobs lived and painted in China, Hawaii, New York City and Los Angeles. She was a member of the American Watercolor Society, the American Federation of Arts, the Municipal Art Commission of New York, the National Association of Women Artists, the New York Watercolor Club and the Pen & Brush Club.
Jacobs spent her early years in the Foreign Colony in Peking, China as a portrait artist to nobles and visiting foreigners, including Rabindranath Tagore. Notably, Jacobs painted several portraits of the Emperor and Empress after they fled to Tianjin when Christian General Feng Yu-Hsiang came to power. Additionally, Jacobs's paintings include Hawaiian notables, former First Ladies Grace Coolidge...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Canvas, Oil, Foam Board
Nudist Woman, Surrealist Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nudist Women, Signed Oil Painting
By French artist Claude Benard, (1926 - 2016)
Signed by the artist on the lower left hand corner,
Oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas size: 32 x...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Oil
Ronde, Figurative Surrealist Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Ronde, Signed Oil Painting
By French artist Claude Benard, (1926 - 2016)
Signed by the artist on the lower left hand corner,
titled verso
Oil painting on canvas, unframed
Canvas size...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Oil
'72', Still Life Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
72, Signed Oil Painting
By French artist Claude Benard, (1926 - 2016)
Signed by the artist on the lower left hand corner,
Oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas size: 21.25 x 32 inc...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Oil
Surrealist Vase
Located in Buffalo, NY
A modern surreal oil painting on linen depicting a vase with one yellow flower and a mysterious almost figural black design. This midcentury work is unsigned and comes housed in a pe...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Oil, Linen
Surreal Native American Painting Coming to Life
By Bo Newell
Located in Houston, TX
Surrealist and naturalistic painting of a painting of Native Americans emerging from a painting hung on the wall. Painting has various still life elements including a satchel and a c...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Acrylic
"In Transit", Surreal Seashells and Maple Seeds
By Luis Eades
Located in Houston, TX
Surrealist painting of white maple seeds and seashells on a blue background by artist Luis Eades in 1977 titled "In Transit." Signed, dated, and titled on t...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Oil
Bang, Bang, Banjio
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Red in the Sky
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Linen, Oil
The Picnic
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an exceptional mid century oil painting by American artist Robert McIntosh,
"The Picnic, is an original oil on panel, signed and dated 1950. ...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
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Oil
Brow Ye Ye Bam
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined pa...
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Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas