Surrealist 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.
Find a collection of original Surrealist paintings, sculptures, prints and multiples and more art on 1stDibs.
Style: Surrealist
Color: Beige
Blue III
Located in Nashville, TN
"Blue III" is an an-acrylic-on-canvas painting by Cuban artist Carlos Gamez de Francisco from his series "Oh Dear." As in his other portrait series, the artis...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
"Junkman" Pastel Contemporary Biomechanical Surrealist Desert Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Pastel surrealist painting by contemporary Texas artist Henry David Potwin. The work features a large mechanized man wandering a desert landscape. Signed in front lower left corner. ...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Monday evening, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
A portrait of a young man chilling after a long day. Oil on circular canvas, ready to hang. :: Painting :: Surrealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authentic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Animal Painting Surrealist Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ artist Circle Life Orange
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative takes the audience on a journey into the imagination. Hugely inspired by Paula Rego, Isabel Rock is part of a formidable group of women artists (Leonora Carrington and Eileen Agar amongst others) working with Surrealism.
In October 2023 Isabel won the Evelyn Williams...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Paint, Archival Paper, Pen
Oh Dear!
Located in Nashville, TN
Artwork Size: 41 x 29.5 in
"Oh Dear!" is a watercolor-on-paper painting by Cuban artist Carlos Gamez de Francisco. As in the rest of his portrait series, Francisco continues to challenge and reimagine traditional forms of portraiture.
In this piece, Francisco depicts a fawn's head on a woman's body dressed in a lavish 17th-century violet gown...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Magic Circles - Acrylic painting by Frida & Raul -2022
Located in Roma, IT
Magic Circles is a beautiful acrylic painting realized by the Italian artists Frida & Raul in 2022.
Hand-signed. Perfect conditions.
Category
1970s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Gerard Tunney, Trapeze, Original still-life painting
Located in Deddington, GB
A view from above , looking down from the Fly floor, down onto the stage. The trapeze artiste floats effortlessly creating a strong outline set against the stage rectangle. All sorts...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Red Bow II
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The figurative surrealistic paintings of Carlos Gamez de Francisco are heavily influenced by his Cuban upbringing in a Russian governed academia setting. This presence exposed Franci...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite
Signed Surreal Southwest Modernist Desert Cactus Original Vintage Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist surreal landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Signed. Unframed. Image size, 28"L x 20"H.
Category
1950s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Lucky Dip' Abstract
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Stunning original oil painting by Elvic Steele depicting this surrealist fantasy abstract painting.
Elvic Steele is a fascinating English painter. Her works entrance the observer, d...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cells - Painting by Frida & Raul -2020
Located in Roma, IT
Cells is a beauty painting by the Italian artists Frida & Raul in 2020. It is realized by mixed technique pixel with acrylic, iron.
The further we g...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Hodel Fantastic Surrealist Oil Painting Monotype Switzerland Signed 1969
Located in Meinisberg, CH
Hodel
(Swiss, 20th Century)
Fantastic Surrealist Painting
• Extensively overworked monotype on stiff paper
• Mixed media - Ink, oil and/or gouache on stiff paper
• Signed ' HODEL' ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Oil, Gouache
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Country Dance' Abstract
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Stunning original oil painting by Elvic Steele depicting this surrealist fantasy abstract painting.
Elvic Steele is a fascinating English painter. Her works entrance the observer, d...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
BURNING HOUSE, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Bill Stone
Located in Yardley, PA
A house on fire burns in many ways. :: Painting :: Surrealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Y...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Bright Yellow Sun Shining
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Stunning original oil painting by Elvic Steele depicting this surrealist fantasy abstract painting.
Elvic Steele is a fascinating English painter. Her works entrance the observer, d...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Vibrant Hippie Print' Abstract
By Elvic Steele
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Stunning original oil painting by Elvic Steele depicting this surrealist fantasy abstract painting.
Elvic Steele is a fascinating English painter. Her works entrance the observer, d...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"SATURDAY AFTERNOON", painting, surrealist dream, giant insect, sci-fi paranoia
By Tony Geiger
Located in Toronto, Ontario
SATURDAY AFTERNOON is a new oil on linen surrealist painting by Brooklyn, New York artist Tony Geiger. It measures 18x18" and is a unique artwork. Note the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
'Petit Déjeuner'. Surrealist Acrylic on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Surrealist contemporary tablescape, acrylic on canvas by Scottish artist Frank McLean Docherty R.S.W. Signed and dated bottom left, presented in custom wood frame.
This piece is wonderfully colourful, playful and is typical of his witty sense of humour. Docherty likes to tease us visually and asks questions and presents conundrums to the viewer.
Frank McLean Docherty was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1942. He became a student at Glasgow School of Art in 1960 and graduated from the Department of Printed Textiles in 1964. He taught in a secondary school in the East End of Glasgow for two years, thereafter departing to work in Dublin in the Republic of Ireland as a textile designer (Marks & Spencer, Heals and Liberty of London). He was also an illustrator for a range of newspapers and an Art Director of magazines.
In 1973, he was appointed Principal Teacher of Art in a Scottish High School and in 1978 was honoured by the Queen when he was appointed Member of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours (R.S.W.) He left education in 1994. Since that time he has developed a vision which is quite unique in Scottish Art.
Bank Managers, toucans, lighthouses, penguins, bowler hats, Frank Docherty...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Bunny II
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The figurative surrealistic paintings of Carlos Gamez de Francisco are heavily influenced by his Cuban upbringing in a Russian governed academia setting. This presence exposed Franci...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite
French Surrealist Oil Painting Figurative Scene Male Nudes in Desert
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figurative Abstract
French School
oil painting on board
painting: 20 x 24 inches
condition: overall very good and pleasing
provenance: from a private collection of this artists work ...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Two
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Georgian artist Merab Gagiladze was born in Tbilisi.
In 1987 he began his formal art education at the Tbilisi College of Art, School of Ceramics.
In 1990 he continued his studies at ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pod ii
By Airom
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Original painting by artist Airom, with sculptural element
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Oil
Color Shot
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Uruguayan artist Leonardo Aguirre creates visually animated surreal scenes in a theatrical environment. Aguirre rearranges whimsical components into unexpectedly harmonious ways of surreal settings that could only exist in an alternate dimension. The idea of a colorful atmosphere with everyday recognizable signs and elements allows the art aficionado to imagine scenes one day and discover another story the next day. His work is a post-constructivist style that has roots in the legacy school of Torres-García.
This one-of-a-kind 24-inch square original artwork is stretched, wired, and ready to hang. The sides are painted. It does not require framing and is signed by the artist on the front of the artwork. A certificate of authenticity issued by the art gallery is included. Convenient local Los Angeles area shipping. Affordable U.S. and global shipping is also available.
Aguirre's architectural training is evident in his expert use of planes of color and precise brushwork to construct immersive, surreal environments that transport viewers to alternate dimensions. His whimsical rearrangement of everyday objects and recognizable signs creates unexpectedly harmonious settings that are visually stunning and emotionally evocative. Aguirre's artworks invite viewers to explore his mini-universes and discover new stories with each visit.
Aguirre was born and lives in Montevideo, Uruguay. His works have been exhibited in Italy, Uruguay, Belgium, the UK, Argentina, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
REPRESENTATION
Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, USA
EXHIBITIONS
2022 “Celebrating Latinx Artists”, Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
2021 “Light On Your Feet”, Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
2020 “Hidden Keyholes”, Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, USA
2017 Art for the People Gallery, Austin, Texas, USA
2016 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, USA
2015 Bohemian Art Gallery, Montevideo, Uruguay
2015 Rhizome Gallery, Las Vegas, USA
2014 Chicago Art Space Gallery, Chicago, USA
2014 10 años Trifecta Gallery, Las Vegas, USA
2013 Chicago Art Space Gallery, Chicago, USA
2013 Galeria Pueblo Garzón, Uruguay
2012 Trifecta Gallery, “6191”, Las Vegas, USA
2011 Golf Club, Montevideo, Uruguay
2011 Colectiva Bolosano Arts Hotel Piazza Mazzini 35
2010 Castells Art Gallery, Montevideo, Uruguay
2010 Nuestro norte es el sur Venice, Italy
2010 Ristoranti Cultural Space “il Simposio”, Trento, Italy
2010 Trifecta Gallery, Las Vegas, USA
2009 Mvd Art Gallery, The Famous Grouse, Montevideo, Uruguay
2009 Wallione de Bruxelles (Grand Place), Belgium
2009 Lido de Venezia Muestra Colectiva, Italy
2009 Agosto Torri del Benaco, Italy
2009 Palazzao della gran Guardia, Verona, Italy
2009 Museo Rawson, Pedro Meyer, Luis Camnitzer
2009 Lla Patagonia, Argentina
2009 Woburn Gallery Studios, United Kingdom
2008 Basilicata Collective Show, Italy
2007 100 Años Punta del Este...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Home Decor V
Located in Nashville, TN
"Home Decor V" is a figurative-surrealistic-style painting by Cuban artist Carlos Gamez de Francisco. It is part of Francisco's "Modern Decor" series featur...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
An example of good strategy, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Two girls are chilling in a pink, strange world. No one cares about her hairy pits, and no one notices that one of them has some silver hair in her head. The love for our own body me...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Woodland Fancy, Mid-Century Fantastical Figurative Landscape 1969
Located in Soquel, CA
Unique and fantastical mid-century painting of a nude figure standing in front of a fish in the forest surrounded by flowers, plants, and a portrait by Kenneth Fong...
Category
1960s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Autumn
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The figurative surrealistic paintings of Carlos Gamez de Francisco are heavily influenced by his Cuban upbringing in a Russian governed academia setting. This presence exposed Franci...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Figures in the Mist
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract figurative work by Bruce Killiam (American, 20th Century). Figures are emerging from the mist, creating an ethereal, moody composition made up of subtle tones of tan, grey, ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surreal Collage: 'Damselfly'
Located in New York, NY
'Combining found elements with those fashioned by my own hand, my work encompasses two- and three-dimensional collage as well as sculptural objects. Infused with a rich sense of hist...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"Vessel" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Alpay Efe's "Vessel" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts three hands gently overlapping on each other in an almost tender embrace.
About th...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Absolut Keck" Vodka Abstract Surrealist Black and White Airbrush Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract surrealist black and white airbrush painting of an Absolut Vodka bottle surrounded by a variety of figures. The piece includes the faces of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Foam Board
Surreal Collage: 'Cyclopaedia'
Located in New York, NY
Combining found elements with those fashioned by my own hand, my work encompasses two- and three-dimensional collage as well as sculptural objects. Infused with a rich sense of histo...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Large Russian Israeli Fantastic Realism Surrealist Oil Painting Girl with Swan
Located in Surfside, FL
Rina Sutzkever Calderon (Russian/Israeli, b. 1945), Fly Away
Oil on canvas, signed at lower left, presented in a gilt frame with linen liner.
Frame dim...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surreal Collage: 'Arduous Journey'
Located in New York, NY
Combining found elements with those fashioned by my own hand, my work encompasses two- and three-dimensional collage as well as sculptural objects. Infused with a rich sense of histo...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Nevia, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
A beautiful woman with a strange birthmark looks at us with her deep stare. Her skin is permanently stained with a tangle of red roses from where a lovely great tit pops out. This ar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The Island I - Surrealist Vibrant Original Artwork by Carlos Gamez de Francisco
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The figurative surrealistic paintings of Carlos Gamez de Francisco are heavily influenced by his Cuban upbringing in a Russian governed academia setting. This presence exposed Francisco to the world of figurative arts while censoring contemporary art. His near-obsession with the past and storytelling translates into his work, which provides an escape from reality while creating an illusory world.
This surrealist 28-inch high by 20-inch wide oval artwork...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Surrealist Figurative Painting, "Spirit Is An Animal"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original surrealist oil painting by San Diego artist, Charlene Mosley.
Its dimensions are 10x10. It comes complete with a Certi...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Restful Fairy" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Matteo Di Ventra's (US based) "Restful Fairy" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a surreal nude figure with butterfly wings
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Gerard Tunney, Dancers on Tour, Original impressionistic painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Gerard Tunney.Dancers on tour.
Dancers on tour- two dancers enter a celestial dream world as they travel together on the ballet company’s’ world tour...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Grapes in the Backyard
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The figurative surrealistic paintings of Carlos Gamez de Francisco are heavily influenced by his Cuban upbringing in a Russian governed academia setting. This presence exposed Franci...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Watercolor
Casual Attire III - Vibrant Surrealist Figurative Original Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The figurative surrealistic paintings of Carlos Gamez de Francisco are heavily influenced by his Cuban upbringing in a Russian governed academia setting. This presence exposed Franci...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Ladies at Tea, " Mixed Media Tile, 2007
Located in Chicago, IL
Liverpool-based artist Pauline Hughes takes a fluid approach to her ceramic practice, combining aspects of painting, collage, and printmaking into her w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Ceramic, Paper, Acrylic
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 Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Attic - Modern Surrealistic Oil Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Pawel Sepielak is a Polish painter, book illustrator and printmaker.
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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,...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mind on Fire, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A contemporary and surreal portrait of a woman clutching her arms, with a phoenix-like bird surrounding her. "A depiction of freedo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
ROBERT BOUILLE (1926-2021) LARGE FRENCH OIL - CLASSICAL NUDE IN PROVENCE WINDOW
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Robert Bouille (French 1926-2021), studio stamp verso
This artist of Var origin studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the scu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Urbane Profile, " Mixed-Media Tile, 2007
Located in Chicago, IL
Liverpool-based artist Pauline Hughes takes a fluid approach to her ceramic practice, integrating techniques of painting, collage, and printmaking into ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Ceramic, Paper, Acrylic
Performance, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2019
Style: Figurative Art,
Subject: Performance,
Size: 47" x 29.5" x 1'' inch, 120x75x2 cm,
...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Meeting, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2019
Style: Figurative Art,
Subject: Meeting
Size: 24" x 20" x 1'' inch, 61x51x3 cm,
Unframed, Stretched on Wooden Bar, Gallery Wrapped, Ready to Hang.
Tigran Hovoumyan was born on November 8, 1969 in American Armenia...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Meeting, Surrealism, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Tigran Hovumyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2019
Style: Surrealism,
Subject: Meeti...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Hungry Dancer
Located in Kansas City, MO
Due to the current situation related to the Novel Coronavirus pandemic, our gallery will donate 10% of our commission from this sale to the Kansas City Artists Coalition, which has been supporting local Kansas City Artists for the past 40 years. The Kansas City Artists Coalition (KCAC), is a non-profit, artist-centered, artist-run alternative space, supporting artists at every level in their career through exhibitions, continuing education and artist studios.
Artist: Joseph Broghammer
Title: “The Hungry Dancer”
Materials : Chalk pastel and pencil on Arches Paper
Date : 2017
Dimensions : 19 x 22 in.
Omaha based artist Joseph Broghammer is as much of a storyteller as he is an artist. His one-of-a-kind pastel drawings in “Animals” are chronicles of his life. The creatures Broghammer creates are vehicles to uncover the varying characteristics of the artist’s personal identity.
Hence, Broghammer’s “Animals” translates as a flowing stream of consciousness. The different birds and livestock staring back at the viewer are ornamented with iconographic symbols – small surprises along the way. These trinkets are keys to understanding the stories Broghammer is sharing.
Broghammer began mastering his “dry painting” technique during his B.F.A. in Visual Art at the University of South Dakota. He graduated in 1986 and a year later went on to study his M.F.A. at the University of Wisconsin. In 2009, he studied at Creative Capital in Omaha, Nebraska.
As storytellers often do, Broghammer later went on to become an educator himself, teaching at WhyArts? and becoming an Artist Assistant at Vera Mercer...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Pastel, Archival Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
Roots, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This painting is all about roots;both going back to my artistic roots, and learning that in order for something to grow, one must take care of the roots. Crafte...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Renaissance - Contemporary acrylic painting, Pop art, Vivid colors, Architecture
Located in Warsaw, PL
*** NOTE: this painting will be avilable since end of September 2021 ***
The reality in Rynkewicz’s paintings is depicted in a graphic manner. They are bound together by concise ae...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
UNTITLED
By Sofia Ruiz
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"UNTITLED"
OIL AND ACRILIC ON CANVAS
SIGNED
35.5 X 27.5 INCHES
Sofía Ruiz was born in 1982.
What she expresses through her paintings has to do with whe...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Modern Figurative Surrealism Watercolor, Drawing - "You Must Die For Yours"
Located in Surfside, FL
On heavy Arches deckle edged paper. This combines text or poetry in calligraphy on the side.
Gary Hansmann (1947-2008) was active/lived in California. He is known for abstract, Surrealism figure painting.
Gary William Hansmann was born Dec. 4, 1940, in San Diego to Ethel May Williams and Lester Hughes Hansmann. He grew up in Encinitas and served in the Army in the early 1960s.
Gary Hansmann, San Diego artist, teacher and gallery owner, was known for his Surrealist nude and animal drawings and graphics. He spent time working in Paris and exhibiting his art throughout Europe, but San Diego was home until he moved to Washington state. His life partner was fellow artist, Jill Hosmer. Mr. Hansmann, a respected printmaker and prolific artist, created thousands of drawings, prints and paintings as well as hundreds of poems. His interest in bullfighting led to a book of poetry and illustrations on the subject, “La Corrida, The Run”, a collection of poetry & artwork written as he was preparing for his first bullfight. Prologue written by famous Mexican Matador Antonio Lomelin. The book is written in English and translated into Spanish on opposing pages and was published in 1983. Mr. Hansmann taught intaglio and monotype at the Academy of Fine Arts in San Diego from 1977 to 1980 and at the San Diego Museum of Art in 1980. He also gave lectures and demonstrations throughout the art community, including at the San Diego Art Guild in Del Mar and Artist Equity in San Diego. Although he attended Palomar College in San Marcos and studied lithography at the San Diego Academy of Fine Arts, Mr. Hansmann was mostly self-taught and self-educated. Mr. Hansmann had shows in several art-world capitals, including Paris; Lisbon, Portugal; Cologne, Germany; Brussels, Belgium; and New York. he had one-person exhibits at the Loft Gallery in Clarkston, the Lewis-Clark State College Center of Arts & History, the Carnegie Art Center in Walla Walla and the Valley Art Center in Clarkston. During his long, distinguished career as an artist he had numerous one-person exhibits all over the world and the United States.
His group shows are too numerous to mention, but his one-person exhibits were in Koln, Germany; Bruxelles, Belgium; Paris, France; Viana do Castelo, Portugal; Lisbon, Portugal; Tecate, Mexico; and British Columbia, Canada; and many states at home.
Palomar College, San Marcos, Calif.
San Diego Academy of Fine Arts
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y.
University of Southern California, Idyllwild (ISOMATA)
University of San Diego
San Diego Museum of Art
James Copley Library, La Jolla, Calif.
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice, Italy
Centre de Arte Moderna
Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Museo Taurino de la Communidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Atelier Lacouriere et Frelaut, Paris, France
Gordon Gilkey...
Category
1980s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Watercolor
Stoning of Saint Stephen (San Stefano)
Located in Kensington, MD
Tempura on wood panel mounted on wood stretcher
A difficult scene of the stoning of St. Stephen rendered by Aldo Pagliacci in a surreal manner. The bloodstained wall evokes the work of Cy Twombly, an abstract painting all its own, while the saint...
Category
1950s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Wood Panel
The Last Time I Saw It - Surrealist Figurative Painting
By Parris Jaru
Located in New York, NY
Parris Jaru's The Last Time I Saw It is a 16 x 11-inch surrealist oil painting. The primary colors are black and red. The canvas surface has a thick impasto of paint, made with plant-based pigments that Jaru collects during his long exploratory trips through India. The imagery brings a surrealist human figure, with all the body features exaggerated as if in a caricature.
NY-born Parris Jaru comes from a Jamaican, Blackfoot Nation, and Arawak Nation background from both his parents. His work is informed by the vivid colors and imagery experienced in his childhood years spent in the coastal town of St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica. His exploratory journeys in India enriched his work with a sensibility to natural plant-based pigments that he grinds with oils for his paintings.
In his Brooklyn studio, Jaru brings all these cultural inspirations together. His entire body of work is informed by an intentional childlike, faux-naïve style, constantly shifting between figurative and abstraction. Even though at times, Jaru has been working on somber and entirely figure-free paintings, most of his work is defined by poignantly colored and playful surrealistic figures. Jaru often draws his figures with a continuous line emerging from a thick impasto of paint made with powders of Sea Algae, Hibiscus, Gymnema Sylvestre, and Turmeric.
Related keywords: Caribbean Artist...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surrealist paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Surrealist 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 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, purple, green and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Elvic Steele, Rudolf Kosow, Isabel Rock, and Henry David Potwin. 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 paintings, so small editions measuring 2 inches across are also available. Prices for 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 $1 and tops out at $400,000, while the average work sells for $2,999.
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