Surrealist Still-life 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
"Islands" (ca. 2014) By John Tarantola, Surrealistic Nude Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
John Tarantola's original nude portrait "Islands" (2014) is a beautiful surrealist oil on panel painting that depicts a nude male figure, lying in death in a desolate desert. Another...
Category
2010s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
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 ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Surrealist Composition, Untitled 2, Lambert Werner (1900-1983), Oil Canvas, 1948
Located in New York, NY
Lambert Werner (1900-1983)
Untitled, 1948
Oil on canvas
29 1/8 × 26 1/3 in l 74 × 67 cm
30 3/4 x 28 in l 78 x 71 cm (Frame included)
Exhibition history: Nordic Surrealism 1930-1960 ...
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1940s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Sacred Grove 9" - surrealist portrait, flowers, rainbow, blue birds, love
By Guy Robinson
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting features hues of green, purple, blue, red, and yellow.
This surrealist portrait features blue birds, flowers, fruits and vegetables, and patterns.
Guy Robinson is insp...
Category
2010s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Self Portrait in Absentia 2" - surrealist portrait, flowers, patterns, paint
By Guy Robinson
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting features hues of green, purple, blue, red, and yellow.
This surrealist portrait features a paint palette, glove, egg, paint tubes and fruit.
Guy Robinson is inspired ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Ghost Tree
By Megan Frazer
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
The intricate and complex branching patterns of a giant willow tree stand out in ghostly contrast to storm clouds in the background. A patch of illuminated sky in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
"Another Vanitas 3" - surrealist still life, objects, flowers, books, pattern
By Guy Robinson
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting features hues of green, purple and blue.
This surrealist still life has a flowers, a skull, a book and a seashell.
Guy Robinson is inspired by the work of Paul Klee, ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Just Another Bunch of Flowers at Breakfast" - surrealist still life, flowers
By Guy Robinson
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting features hues of green, purple and blue.
This surrealist still life features flowers, toast, an apple and patterned textile.
Guy Robinson is inspired by the work of Pa...
Category
2010s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Homes in the Desert - Colorful Abstract Landscape Painting on Canvas Framed
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Maria C Bernhardsson's original artworks are influenced by the architecture and geometry of houses. Born in Sweden, Bernhardsson travels the world photographing and sketching houses ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Der Blaue Reiter III - surreal, contemporary, figurative, oil on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This surrealistic oil painting by Toni Hamel references the English tradition of the fox hunt.
This visually compelling work by Toni Hamel was inspired by the early twentieth-centur...
Category
2010s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mother and Child Reunion - surreal, contemporary, figurative, oil on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary painting by Toni Hamel features the image of the beloved character Woodstock.
In her singularly original way, Canadian artist Toni Hamel pays homage to a beloved p...
Category
2010s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Music Fantasy Folk Guitar with Two Moons and Steam Locomotive in Red Background
Located in Miami, FL
Famed Illustrator Isadore Seltzer paints a fantasy folk guitar in a surreal setting. The viewer looks down at the guitar as it rests in bold red space where foreground and sky blend ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
"Nightgale" Surreal Still Life in a Blue Landscape style of Yves Tanguy and Dali
Located in Soquel, CA
"Nightgale" Birds Fly in a Surreal Still Life in a Blue Landscape
Surreal landscape by Kennard M. Harris (American, b-1930). A table is set with a broken glass and surreal objects, becoming a landscape; roiling clouds lurk nearby as a flock of Nightingales fly in the distance.
Kennard Studied art at the Art Center School in Los Angeles
Signed with his Monogam lower left
The Hammer Galleries ink stamp on paper backing and title "Nightgale #62,
a label 14. Nightgale on board. Possibly indication of a number of paintings exhibited at the Hammer Galleries.
Image, 24.5"H x 20"W
Frame, 27.5"H x 23"W x 1.5"D
EXHIBITED:
Hammer Galleries, New York, 1962
First: San Diego, Orr's Gallery, Kennard Harris...
Category
1960s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Stretcher Bars
"Raven Moon" (2014) By John Tarantola, Surrealistic Nude Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
John Tarantola's original nude portrait "Raven Moon" (2014) is a beautiful surrealist oil on panel painting that depicts two young nude athletic male figures in an embrace in front o...
Category
2010s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"The Embrace" (2015) By John Tarantola, Original Nude Oil Portrait Painting
Located in Denver, CO
John Tarantola's original nude portrait "The Embrace" (2015) is a beautiful surrealist oil on panel painting that depicts an athletic nude male figure embracing the bright silhouette...
Category
2010s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Butterfly Giver - original still life surrealism painting - contemporary art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
Donald Macdonald’s The Butterfly Giver is a poetic and symboli...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Green and Teal - original still life surrealism painting - contemporary art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
Donald Macdonald’s Green and Teal shifts from his signature ce...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Giving Butterflies - original still life surrealism painting - contemporary art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
Donald Macdonald’s Giving Butterflies is a whimsical and thoug...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
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 ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
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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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still life oil on canvas painting sfumato
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Josep Navarro Vives (1931-2023) - Still life - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 92x60 cm.
Frame measures 117x75 cm.
Josep Navarro Vives (Castelsarrasin,...
Category
1990s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$2,276 Sale Price
36% Off
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...
Category
1960s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Still Life with Wine and Glaciers" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Robin Hextrum's "Still Life with Wine and Glaciers" is an original, handmade oil painting that features a still life of fruit, Peony's and Red wine floating on icebergs in an arctic...
Category
2010s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$960 Sale Price
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Spring Garden
Located in Zofingen, AG
Spring Garden" landscape in the style of Paul Cezanne. Impressionism" original oil painting by Volskya Lilya
Magical iridescence of colors on canvas.
For...
Category
2010s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Cardboard
A Surreal “Due Appetti” by Ferruccio Rosini
Located in San Francisco, CA
Ready for some self-reflection? Intriguing hints about this striking painting’s origin, handwritten on the reverse, could get you started. “Due Appetiti” di Vita suggests that two ap...
Category
1970s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mod Italian Surrealist Oil Painting Jean Calogero Big Eyed Girl, Victorian Party
Located in Surfside, FL
Jean Calogero (Italian, 1922-2001)
23 x 30. framed. 21.5 x 15 canvas.
Hand signed
Little girl at a party with flowers
Calogero was born August 20, 1922 in Catania, Sicily. Self-taught Surreal Artist First exhibitions in 1945 in Sicily and Rome were very successful. He arrived in Paris in 1947 and studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.
He is best known for his Surrealism and genre works. His paintings are dreamlike and visionary. They travel to an infinite space created by the artist through his memories, the sky and the sea so dear to him. In his paintings there are a few common themes: the masks with their dual dimensions that hide or shows only what you want, the profiles of the women, and the horsemen, drawn as the Sicilian tradition requires.
He exhibited at the Gallery Hervé in 1951 and the following year he went to New York to present his show, then in 1953 he was invited to Los Angeles, where he returned two years later, and from where he regularly exhibited his works, and San Francisco.
In 1954, Maximilien Gauthier devoted a book to him published by "The Gemini." The first exhibition in Japan was in 1965. He was awarded the Grand Silver Medal by the City of Paris in 1957. Calogero had countless exhibitions in Paris, in the fifties, plus the American exhibitions in New York (Associated American Artists, 1952), Los Angeles (James Vigevano Galleries, 1953) and then later in Japan and in major galleries in Italy.
He lived and worked for many years in Paris and Italy. He died in 2001.
Galerie Hervè, Parigi 1950.
Associated American Artists - New York 1952.
James Vigevano Galleries, Los Angeles 1953.
Galerie Madsen, Parigi 1954/1960.
Antologica, Tokyo 1965.
Galleria La Robinia, Palermo 1969.
Florida Gallery, Chicago 1970.
Galleria Il Cavalletto, Catania 1971.
Galleria De Rosa, Milano 1972.
Galleria Pinacoteca, Roma; L'Incontro, Taranto 1973. Galleria Idea-Bellini, Firenze; David Galleries, Bari; Palazzo Melloni, L'incontro, Bologna; Galleria Schettini, Milano; Galleria Pinacoteca, Roma; Galleria La Meridiana, Verona; Pier della Francesca, Arezzo 1974.
Galleria L'isolotto, Napoli; Pinacoteca, Roma; Galleria del Corso, Latina 1975.
Galleria Michelangelo, Firenze; Pinacoteca, Roma 1977.
Galleria Robert Philip, Parigi 1978.
Galleria d'Arte Pinacoteca, Roma 1979. Centro L'Esagono, Lecce; Graziani Gallery, New York 1981.
Chiesa di S. Silvestro, Tuscania; Museo d'Arte Moderna, Sessa Aurunca 1982.
Galerie Hervè, Parigi 1983.
Galleria l'Angolo, Catania; Galleria Arte Spazio, Sassari; Centro Il Faro, Taranto 1987.
Galleria L'Esagono, Lecce 1988.Galerie Molière, Parigi; Nihon Garo, Nagoya, Giappone; Minako H. Gallery, Tokyo; Galleria del Viale Jonio, Catania 1989.
Art Expo, New York; Axis Gallery, San Francisco; Galerie Axe, Parigi; Galerie Molière, Parigi 1990.
Antologica, Palazzetto dell'Arte, Foggia; Galleria d'Arte Pinacoteca, Roma; Sinagrarte 91, Sinagra, Messina; La Magia di Taormina, Palazzo Corvaja, Taormina; Galleria Buonarroti, Siracusa 1991.
Galleria Arte Oggi, Reggio Calabria; Galleria del Corso, Latina; Galleria Arte Spazio, Sassari; Galleria Art Gallery, Gela 1992.
Galleria Profili d'Arte, Catania 1993.
Europ'Art 94, Ginevra; Galleria Antarte, Messina 1994.
Galleria Agorà, Palermo 1995.
Comune di Aci Castello, Palazzo Russo, Aci Castello, Catania; Galleria Arte Spazio, Sassari 1996.
Art Gallery, Gela; Chiesa di San Leonardo, Tuscania 1997.
Pinacoteca Galleria Donini, Roma 1998.
Galleria Perlini Arte, Reggio Calabria; Galleria Il Castello, Rovigo; Galleria Profili d'Arte, Catania; Pinacoteca Galleria Donini, Roma 1999.
Gallery Robert Philippe: Jean Calogero, Alexandre Grig, Linda le Kinff, Jacques Lefort...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Wisdom" (2024) By Nadezda, Original Surrealist Oil Portrait Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Nadezda's beautiful new oil on panel painting "Wisdom" (2024) is a surrealist portrait of three women performing a ritual.
Nadezda is a painter, sculptor, photographer, and concept ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Coffee for Two" (2024) By Nadezda, Original Oil Painting, Surreal Portrait
Located in Denver, CO
Nadezda's beautiful new oil on panel painting "Coffee for Two" (2024) is a surrealist portrait of a woman sitting and holding two cups of coffee up to the small faces on her knees.
...
Category
2010s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Vintage American Modernist Surreal Moustache Bull Horn Landscape Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist surreal painting. Framed. Gouache and watercolor on paper. Image size, 19H by 14L.
Category
1960s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$380 Sale Price
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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...
Category
1950s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
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...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Sweetman" (2024) By Nadezda, Original Oil Surrealist Portrait Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Nadezda's beautiful new oil on panel painting "Sweetman" (2024) is a surrealist portrait of a young man, wearing goggles, tie-shorts and a seemingly impossible harness made of pies. Finely holding two lollipops out to the viewer, his presence is both inquisitive and lighthearted. He stands in a ribbon swirl of taffy, while a cat stares upwards at him with joy.
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...
Category
2010s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Good Things, Oil Painting
By Diane Flick
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Dwelling in a space of absolute simplicity, free from endless mental chatter, seems quite appealing. A tiny robot with a die is captivated by what exists befo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
'L'Obscurité', Trompe L'oeil, Newport Art Museum, Frye Museum, RISD, Yale
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower left, 'RCW' for Richard Whitten (American, born 1958) and dated, lower right, in Roman numerals, 2009. Formerly in the collection of the Triton Art Museum, Santa Clara, California.
Whitten's early work may loosely be termed geometric abstraction, but he is best known for his later representational paintings that combine his interest in architecture, invented machinery and toys. Whitten is also known for his toy-like sculptures. His paintings and drawings are essentially representational but have strong ties to geometric abstraction.
A native of New York City, Richard Whitten first attended the Collegiate School before studying economics at Yale where he received his BA in 1980. He then constructed a personal painting program at Yale where he studied with Gretna Campbell...
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Early 2000s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
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...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Sanguis Maledictum" (2023) by Sybiline, Oil Painting, Surreal Still Life
Located in Denver, CO
Sybiline's (CAN based) "Sanguis Maledictum" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts several purple blooms with tiny fangs and dripping blood.
About the Artist:
Sybiline ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Garden of Inspiration" (2022) by Sybiline, Oil Painting, Ripe Yellow Pear
Located in Denver, CO
Sybiline's (CAN based) "Garden of Inspiration" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a perfectly ripe yellow pear.
About the Artist:
Sybiline is a Canadian artist base...
Category
2010s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Unexplicable (teal art apricot lady brown vintage earth tone nostalgia fur coat
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; surrealism, fruit, ripe fruit, humour, apricot, fur coat lady, uncanny, lady, vintage, earth tones, oil painting, figurative painting, str...
Category
2010s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Time I, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Guigen Zha presents elements of Chinese cultural relics set upon a surrealist beach. A Tang Sancai, a type of pottery from the Tang Dynasty, sits prominently with its gilded handles. Together on the steps are an embroidered shoe worn by women and a pomegranate flower in full bloom. He paints a snail walking into a mural depicting cultural history. "The piece presents a reminder of the past and how time flies," says Guigen.
About the Artist
Words that describe this painting: healing, landscape, seascape, floral, poetic, cultural relics, surrealism, Dali...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
One Blossom One World. Peony & Deer I, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"A flower is small, but it is also a world of its own," says artist Guigen Zha. He paints a surreal image of a flower growing from bud to bloom. A parallel metaphor of human life from birth to death plays out in the scene. Guigen displays a peony, a deer, and a human expressing the interconnection and interdependence of all things in a utopian world.
About the Artist
Words that describe this painting: healing, peony, deer, animal, belief, landscape, floral, poetic, oilpaint, flower, surrealism, figure, nude, surrealism, flora, oil painting, green
One Blossom One World...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Think Piece, Oil Painting
By Diane Flick
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Stacked like rocks on the shore, artist Diane Flick plays with scale, color, texture, and joyful imagery—creating a quirky, awkward, and jovial childlike ba...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Melon" by David Cheifetz, Oil on Aluminum Panel Painting
Located in Denver, CO
David Cheifetz's "Melon" (2025) is an original, handmade oil painting on aluminum panel that depicts a lush still-life featuring a brightly lit watermelon, apple and assorted fruits,...
Category
2010s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"While You Weren't Looking" by David Cheifetz, Oil on Aluminum Panel Painting
Located in Denver, CO
David Cheifetz's "While You Weren't Looking" (2025) is an original, handmade oil painting on aluminum panel that depicts a lush still-life featuring a bright yellow pitcher, red onio...
Category
2010s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
YiJian Wang Surrealist Original Oil Painting "Caprice 3"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Caprice 3
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 12 x 15 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This painting is unstretched
Year: 2015
Artist: YiJian Wang...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$880 Sale Price
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Bodegon 5, Surrealist Still Life Painting by Juan Gomez Quiroz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Juan Manuel Gomez-Quiroz, Chilean (1939 - )
Title: Bodegon 5
Year: 1977
Medium: Oil on Canvas, Signed Verso
Size: 64 x 41.5 in. (162.56 x 105.41 cm)
Framed: 65.25 x 42.75 ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cobalt Pot 2 - original still life surrealism painting - contemporary art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
Donald Macdonald’s Cobalt Pot 2 is a mesmerizing exploration o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
YanRu Han Landscape Original Oil On Canvas "Rainy Night 3"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Rainy Night 3
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 8 x 12 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This painting is ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,080 Sale Price
20% Off
"FIELD PROJECT", painting, surrealist dream, rocket, priestess, sci-fi, worship
By Tony Geiger
Located in Toronto, Ontario
FIELD PROJECT is an acrylic on canvas surrealist painting by Brooklyn, New York artist Tony Geiger. It measures 60x48" and is a unique artwork. Note the mo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
'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...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,460 Sale Price
30% Off
"Rocky Mountain High" (2024), Original Landscape Oil Painting by Heather Neill
Located in Denver, CO
Heather Neill's (US based) "Rocky Mountain High" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a teacup hanging off a cliff by a climbing rope.
Artist Autobiography:
Born in Ho...
Category
2010s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"The Beautiful Tree, " Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Rhonda Libbey's "The Beautiful Tree" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a grouping of lush patterned trees in situ with a vanity and mirr...
Category
2010s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
$1,920 Sale Price
20% Off
"CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE", painting, Victorian, Jaguar, surrealist dream, symbol
By Tony Geiger
Located in Toronto, Ontario
CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE is an acrylic on canvas surrealist painting by Brooklyn, New York artist Tony Geiger. It measures 36x48" and is a unique artwork. N...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Zhan Yang Contemporary Art Original Mixed Media "Rootless Tree 3"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Rootless Tree 3
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 19.5 x 15.5 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This painting is unstretched
Year: 2016
Artist: Zhan Yang...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,040 Sale Price
20% Off
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,...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,016 Sale Price
59% Off
"NATALIE", surrealist oil painting, nude woman, portrait, classic pose, tattoos
By Tslil Tsemet
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"NATALIE", 2015, is an oil painting on canvas by artist Tslil Tsemet, and measures 47x62". One of a series of portraits by the artist of her friends. "Nat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cosmos
Located in Kansas City, MO
Stella Jae
Cosmos
2023
Oil on Canvas
Size: 51.96 x 35.03 inches (132 x 89cm)
Signed by hand
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-2112
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Category
2010s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,222
"Afternoon Delight" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Sybiline's (CAN based) "Afternoon Delight" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a Sphynx cat eyeing a pink teacup with milk and plate with a w...
Category
2010s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Pop Surrealist Painting, "The Key To Success"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is an original pop surrealist oil painting by San Diego artist, Brady Willmott. It's dimensions are 14"x 11"x 2". It is unframed. A certificate of authenticity will follow delivery.
This is a memento mori still life. Creating imagery that inspires the imagination, coupled with classic painting techniques, Brady Willmott’s unique twist on pop surrealism...
Category
2010s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"SORCERER'S BISCUIT", painting, surrealist dream, wolf, queen, duality, magic
By Tony Geiger
Located in Toronto, Ontario
SORCERER'S BISCUIT is a new oil on canvas surrealist painting by Brooklyn, New York artist Tony Geiger. It measures 16x20" and is a unique artwork. Note the artist's vocabulary present here – the young girl in early 20th century clothes holding the chewed biscuit; on poles either side of her what looks like a wolf in top hat, and a queen with crown. The wolf and queen are dimensional though appear as garish silhouettes – setting up a duality, a dream, a magic spell...
Tony Geiger has said his paintings take you to a certain place, but you have to find your own way back. The world he creates encompasses both classical surrealism and more contemporary concerns. Conflict is usually present. These mischievous juxtapositions make statements on the human condition – either politically, physically or spiritually. Geiger wants the viewer to be challenged and amused by this mixture of the macabre and the playful.
A graduate of the School of Visual Arts, New York and a longtime NYC resident, Tony Geiger still considers himself a transplanted Californian. He has exhibited paintings at the Sideshow Gallery in Williamsburg, the Barbican Centre in London, England, Miami Projects at Art Basel, Ceres Gallery in Chelsea, NYC, and he was accepted into The Drawing Center’s Viewing Program. Tony Geiger lives in Carroll...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Surrealist still-life paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Surrealist still-life 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 still-life 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 Tslil Tsemet, Guy Robinson, Tony Geiger, and Claude Benard. 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 still-life paintings, so small editions measuring 5 inches across are also available. Prices for still-life 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 $225 and tops out at $76,849, while the average work sells for $2,769.
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