Surrealist Paintings

Artist: Hattakitkosol Somchai, Thai (1934 - 2000) Title: Green Virgin Year: 1970 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l. Size: 27.5 x 31.5 in. (69.85 x 80.01 cm)

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...

Plagues of Egypt by Kate Orr (British 20th century) signed lower corner, circa 1990's oil painting on board, unframed painting: 31 x 25 inches Superbly painted, Modern British oil ...

IIsabel 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 tak...

Joseph Broghammer Luck Memory (Hummingbird, Portrait, Storytelling, Oil Painting) Oil on Canvas Year: 2023 Size: 21x17in Signed by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1897 *Framed - read...

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...

Title: The Word In My Mind No.24 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 19 x 23 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Ye...

This artwork "Rainforest" c.1990, is an oil painting on canvas by noted surrealist Brazilian artist Fernando De Jesus Oliveira A.K.A. Ferjo, b.1946. It is signed at the lower right c...

The artwork is print on silk and it is limited edition. "In our family of crocodiles, everything from scandals to idylls. Croco Friends tells the whimsical yet thought-provoking st...

One of a kind mixed-media collage on canvas by Philip Kuznicki from the Spirit exhibition. Comes in its original frame. Born in Dunkirk NY, Kuznicki started his career working for ar...

Stella Jae Changement 2024 Oil on Canvas Size: 26.06 x 31.04 inches (60 x 80cm) Signed by hand COA provided ---------- Tags: #StellaJRichey #VisualArtist ...

Vintage Surreal Oil Painting on Canvas c.1940s to 1950s. Classic Surrealism brought to life on canvas by a very talented artist. The painting has no visible signature. Canvas dimen...

Ifeoluwa Alade ( Nigeria based) "Roses Are Not Only Red" is an original, handmade acrylic painting that depicts a female model with a rose and butterfly cast in a deep red glow. Ar...

Patrick Maxcy's "Borrowed Time" is an original, handmade acrylic painting that depicts an antelope with blue ribbons and butterflies swirling around its ...

Red, pink, blue, and brown abstract surrealist painting by Soviet-American artist Vladimir Ryklin. The painting depicts what appears to be a rehabilitating village after a chaotic ti...

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 ---------- Tags: #StellaJRichey...

The Blue Column transports us to a space where time appears to stand still. The composition divides the canvas into two parts: at the top, a narrow strip reveals the head of a classi...

YURI MARTINEZ RAMOS "SILLY TOPIC OF TWO LOVERS" OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED, TITLED CUBAN-AMERICAN, DATED 2000 31.5 X 39.5 INCHES Silly Topic for Two Lovers is exactly what you can appreciate in the painting, by the time every young couple was using the bicycle as a way of transportation in Havana, I saw that silly imagery as an excuse to talk about love. Yuri Martinez Ramos was born in Havana, Cuba on November 24, 1964. He studied at the Elemental School of Plastic Arts from 1975 – 1979 and the National School of the Arts from 1979 – 1983. Martinez’ figurative paintings have been compared to Botero because of his satirical social commentary. His style, however, is uniquely his own with typically vibrant Latin colors and use of expressive magical realism. His paintings tell his story and the story of the Cuban dilemma. Martinez was granted permission by the US Justice Department after much effort with Cuban authorities to come to the US with his family and pursue his career outside Cuba. He now lives and works in Texas. Papillon Gallery...

An oil painting by Ernst Neizvestny from 1984. An abstract modernist depiction of two figures in a dramatically expressive scene of pathos. Artist: Ernst Neizvestny Title: Kepmovr?...

These paintings reflect the love Nancy Baker has for combining classical imagery with an image that is strange. The most direct example is in Alien Nation where i have a potter at a ...

Jean Pierre Serrier (French, 1934-1989) Oil on canvas painting depicting four figures Hand signed lower right. Measures (frame) 26.5" x 30" wide, and (sight) 18.25." x 22.25" wide. Jean Pierre Serrier (1934 – 1989) was a French painter known for surrealism and absurdist art. Jean-Pierre Serrier was born in Montparnasse, Paris and attended the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. the son of Louis and Solange Serrier. His father fought in World War II and became a prisoner of war. In 1940, as a six-year-old, he and his mother fled Paris for Corrèze in southwest France. Childhood memories of close escapes from German bombardments would later influence his absurdist philosophy of life. Passionate about drawing, in 1951 he applied and was admitted to the École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués et des métiers d'art in Paris. He shared an attic apartment in the 16th arrondissement with fellow student Jean-Baptiste Valadié. For income, he decorated shop windows. A trip to Spain provided motifs for early works. His student work might be characterized as art naïf (Naive art). While still a student, he sold a ceramic artwork to the poet and publisher Pierre Seghers, who would later commission drawings from him. He frequented jazz clubs in Saint-Germain des Près, and while listening to Sidney Bechet at the Vieux Colombier, he met his wife, Yvette.One of the last French Surrealist and follower of Nietzsche. His art conveyed the message to all of mankind that we are only human. The other Surrealist to center his art in philosophy was Rene Magritte whose paintings reflect his understanding of Sigmund Freud. He had his first exhibition in 1955, before being sent to Algeria to complete his military service. After graduating in 1955, he was drafted for military service, spent time in Germany and Morocco, and was sent to the front lines of the Algerian War. In 1959 he exhibited works at two Parisian galleries and at Juan-les-Pins on the Côte d'Azur. From 1961, he exhibited annually at the Salon des Artistes Français. In 1962, the City of Paris purchased his painting Un dimanche In 1961, Serrier made his first visit to the United States to exhibit at a New York gallery. In 1975 and 1979, he had successful exhibitions in New Orleans, and his work was included in art and news magazines, including Time and Newsweek. Beginning in the 1950s, his works included stylized portraits similar in some ways to the "big eyes" art of Margaret Keane, though it is uncertain that either artist influenced the other. Keane painted children, and so did Serrier, sometimes from life, but Serrier’s models are usually somewhat older, though uniformly slender and with androgynous features. A gallery owner introduced Serrier to American collectors Edgar Garbisch and his wife, Bernice Chrysler (daughter of Chrysler founder Walter P. Chrysler), who had a particular interest in naïve art; they commissioned a series of portraits from Serrier. At the same time, he met Reine Ausset in Paris, who in 1961 invited him to New York to take part in an exhibition at Galerie Norval on 57th Street. The show also included work by Moïse Kisling, and the exhibition program explicitly linked the two artists, saying that Serrier, who considered Moise Kisling "the Master," had found his own technique, but "the same vision joins the grand Kisling to the young Serrier: plenitude of shapes, sureness of palette, precision in outlines." In the 1960s he began painting slender, young, androgynous figures in groups, set in sparse landscapes with suggestions of the surreal and sometimes wearing costumes of the Commedia dell'arte. In some of these paintings the eyes of the figures are completely black, a motif that would continue in his later work. In 1965, he exhibited at Forest and Reed Gallery in London. Also in 1965, he discovered the small town of Martel, and with his old roommate Jean-Baptiste Valadié purchased a house that they opened as the gallery La Licorne (The Unicorn) in 1967. Responding to the political upheavals of May 1968 in France, and following the advice of Geneva gallery owner Roger Ferrero, Serrier's work became increasingly complex, idiosyncratic, and surreal. Imagery included the Tower of Babel, bodies suspended in space, and crowds of people all dressed alike, with identical features and entirely black eyes. Mannequins, playing cards, nudes, and levitating orbs also figured in the work. In a nod to Magritte, his men sometimes wear bowler hats. Another influence may have been the works of the Franco-Belgian surrealist Gaston Bogaert (1918-2008). Serrier's first major exhibit of these works, in Geneva in 1971, was titled Le Réalisme Fantastique. (Magic Realism) In 1972, he was made a member of the Société du Salon d'Automne, under whose auspices he was invited by the Polish government to exhibit in Warsaw in 1973, as part of a cultural exchange across the Iron Curtain. In 1976, he served on the jury of the Salon d'Automne. In 1975, New Orleans gallery owner Kurt E. Schon brought his work to several cities in the United States. A copiously illustrated monograph in English, Surrealism and the Absurd: Jean Pierre Serrier, was published in 1977. Author Thomas M. Bayer wrote: Serrier's world is one where—to use Friedrich Nietzche's term—the "human herd animal" is being confronted with the overwhelming task of coping with the world, his solitude, and at times, his resignation in the face of its monstrous size and duration. It is a world where the characterless, "blind" man faces the institutions, rules and symbols that made him into the being he now is…But Serrier does not lose himself in this world he portrays. He never forgets the old French tradition, the "black" humor, à la Molière. This classical humor at times is more felt than seen, in a manner that can be terribly funny, because it is horrifying, laughable, poignant and always true. Serrier told a friend, "In each of my paintings there's a message of hope amid the crowd of stereotypical figures. It could be an escaping dirigible, or a nymphet who flees like a deer under the red and blue trees of paradise...

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...

Justin Wheatley's (US based) "The Reunion" is an original, handmade acrylic painting that depicts small white house-like objects balancing precariously on paintbrushes over a grey an...

These paintings reflect the love Nancy Baker has for combining classical imagery with an image that is strange. The most direct example is in Alien Nation where i have a potter at a ...

The style of the artist Airo is called "retrofuturism" or "Russian cosmism." This is a popular and growing trend among artists and collectors around the world. He connects the past with the future in the present. The artist uses various types of techniques to create his own special expression. Sergei Airo was born in 1960 in the city of Novorossiysk (Krasnodar region) in the artist's family. In 1991, Sergei showed interest in the so-called "primitivism". His attention is drawn to the works and images of mythical life. After that the artist was concentrated on the study of medieval masters. Mainly exploring the religious direction and influence of Flemish medieval artists. In 1996, Sergei Airo presents a series of works at the Airspace Design exhibition in Air France. He is a permanent member of the Union of Artists, the Association of New Artists and the Society of Fine Arts, on the personal recommendation of Zurab Tsereteli...

The artist is a master at storytelling. He sets the stage for the viewer to bring the events to a particular scene. Here, the artist has set two wine glasses, napkins and a small plate of desserts on a geometrically patterned table cloth, draping so it almost appears to be falling over the frame. The viewer is required to ask the questions about the scene but the answers may only lie in their own imagination. The painting, which is painted on canvas then mounted to a panel, is framed in a simple wooden frame measuring 21 x 30 inches. John Hrehov Dessert, 2022 oil on canvas on panel 20h x 29w in 50.80h x 73.66w cm JHR008 John Hrehov Education 1985 MFA-Painting, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1981 BFA-Painting, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH. Solo Exhibitions 2017 John Hrehov, Paintings and Drawings. Tom Thomas Gallery, Indiana University East, Richmond, IN. 2012 Shades from White to Black, New Drawings. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. 2011 John Hrehov: Charcoal. Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne. 2009 John Hrehov: A Survey 1999-2009 Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. Paintings and Drawings. Seerveld Gallery, Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL. 2004 John Hrehov: Drawings and Paintings. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. 2002 Paintings. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. 2001 Charcoal. Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne. John Hrehov, Paintings and Drawings. Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL. 2000 The Picture Proper. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. Fearful Symmetry. Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN. Allegories in Contemporary Life. Yvonne Rapp Gallery, Louisville, KY. 1999 Paintings and Working Drawings. Adams Hall Gallery, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL. 1998 John Hrehov. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. John Hrehov: Paintings and Drawings. Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL. 1997 Object Lesson, Paintings, and Drawings by John Hrehov. Yvonne Rapp Gallery, Louisville, KY. 1995 John Hrehov. Trinity Art Gallery, Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL. 1993 John Hrehov: Selected Works 1980-1992 Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne. Group Exhibitions 2019 2019 Alumni Exhibition. Reinberger Gallery at The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH. Out Of The Closet. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. 1026 West Berry Street: The Fort Wayne Art School. Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN. 2018 Artlink Regional Exhibition. Artlink Contemporary Art Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN. 2017 Sola Grace-Faith-Scripture: An Exhibition of Sacred Visual Art. Good Shepherd Institute at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, IN. Norman Bradley...

Title: The Word In My Mind No.26 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 19 x 23 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Ye...

Austin Howlett's "Citadel" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a larger than life woman reclining in a seaside landscape. Artist Autobi...

Signed lower right, "O Connor" and painted circa 1945. A panoramic view of an autumn landscape with leafless trees in front of a mountain lake and an olive green sky scattered with ...

John Baker’s “Eating and Drinking I” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 24 x 30 inches in reds, greens and yellows against a neutral background. What at first glance appea...

A series of experimental paintings. I like to look for new horizons in art, colors, shapes, objects. Fine paintings for the interior. The paintings are painted on cardboard glued ont...

*Painting will be available after 6.06.2021* Marta Rynkiewicz is a young Polish artist born in 1983. She studied painting with Professor Henryk Czenik and graphic arts with Profes...

Joshua Lawyer's (US based) "Beak" is an oil painting that depicts a figure with her face in profile with a yellow triangle that resembles a beak.

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....

Edna Andrade Mirage (de-accessioned from the Reader's Digest Art Collection), 1988 Original Collage painting on board Signed, titled & dated on the front; the back bears labels from Marian Locks Gallery & Readers Digest Association with inventory (RDA) number Original frame included with collection and gallery labels verso This is a unique work Exquisite 1980s collage on board painting (framed) titled "Mirage" by renowned female Op artist Edna Andrade...

Katherine Bello Title: Siren's Song Medium: oil and charcoal on canvas Year: 2021 Size: 22" x 46" x 1.5" Signed, dated and inscribed by hand COA provided (issued by representing gallery) Katherine Bello's aim as an artist is to capture a sense of place, a moment of time, or a feeling - to evoke a sense of wonder. Bello loves paint and paint brushes; bold, gestural mark-making and the interplay of color. She is influenced by light and landscape, poetry, history and science. Formerly educated in Chemical Engineering and Interior Design, Bello is drawn to the process of creating Something out of Nothing. Abstract, sbstract art...

Kirsten Savage's "Unbroken Silence" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a larger than life man asleep at the base of a mountain range that stretches into the distance....

Panchat Yodmanee-Ice (1993 - ) Blue Heart with Sin Acrylique sur toile 97 x 130 cm 38.2 x 51.2 in. 2023 Born in 1993 in Nakornsrithammarat, Thailand, Panchat holds a B.F.A. from th...

Pastel surrealist painting done by contemporary artist Henry David Potwin. The piece features a scene of four cars and clown-like figures racing on a bridge with a fire lit below. Potwin incorporates the history of Texas through the use of a Texan longhorn on the front of the car. Signed in the lower right corner. Titled and dated on reverse. Currently unframed, but options are available. Artist Biography: Born in Dallas, Texas David Potwin is the oldest of three children. He first started to paint at the age of 8 years old. As a young boy, Potwin's family would summer vacation in Taos, New Mexico. During the family vacations in 1965, he met artist Eric Gibberd...

"YOU ALWAYS HURT THE ONE YOU LOVE, 2019, is an oil painting on canvas by artist Tslil Tsemet, and measures 62x55". At once provocative and serene, the wel...

David Cheifetz's "The Water" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an odd and richly colorful assortment of objects, with green and blue raindrops cascading down on the ...

Surreal abstract expressionist painting of a group of clowns in the style of Belgian painter James Ensor. Combining the macabre with the playful, the work features distorted clowns a...

Lithograph on Arches paper Exemplaire B/165 Leonor Fini was born in Argentina in 1907 but travelled and lived in Europe with her mother from a young age. By 1931, she was in Paris, ...

Title: Untitled 44 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 11.5 x 8 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Year: 2014 Artist: Shaohua Nong...

Amanda Seckington's "Silver Cord" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a vibrant purple and red eye and face.

"a" (English translation: "Octopus Queen Urraca I, Empress of All Spain") 24"×18" acrylic on canvas ©2021 Georgia Griffin Queen Urraca I was the first woman ever to reign in a weste...

I always liked the idea of a painting of a fish tank, as you don't have to ever clean it. Spray paint, acrylic and oil on canvas. :: Painting :: Surrealism :: This piece comes with a...

Biomorphic Surrealism. Signed Luigi, Enamel on metal (probably copper). Mounted to a plexi or acrylic purple mounting. I am assuming it is Italian as it is signed Luigi but it might ...

Rhonda Libbey's "The Unicorn's Garden" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a grey unicorn in a lush garden of cat faced flowers and rollin...

from the series "Abandoned rooms": This series of paintings was inspired by the metaphysical landscapes of De Chirico. I have always been fascinated by their clear vision of the a...

"MIDDLE POINT", 2016, is a surrealist oil painting on canvas by artist Tslil Tsemet, and measures 37x32". It's a mysterious canvas. A woman of a certain a...