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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.

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Style: Surrealist
Souvenir de la Montè Phallouse , '50s - oil paint, 120x80 cm.
By Tristan Fabris
Located in Nice, FR
Oil on canvas depicting an abstract subject by Tristan Fabris. He is a painter from italy where he was born in 1927. He moved early to France and there he attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Lyon. His work is influenced by the cubism and surrealism. He worked with Le Corbusier and his activity was mostly making decors for theatres. He died 1989...
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1950s Surrealist Paintings

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Oil

Woman with Flower and Bird, Psychedelic Oil Painting by Al Amatulli
Located in Long Island City, NY
Woman with Flower and Bird Al Amatulli American (1935) Date: circa 1972 Oil on Canvas, signed verso Size: 44 in. x 33 in. (111.76 cm x 83.82 cm)
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1970s Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"FIELD PROJECT", painting, surrealist dream, rocket, priestess, sci-fi, worship
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

A Surreal Encaustic on Wood "The Golden Hour 1"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original encaustic mixed media artwork by Tiffany Bociek. Its dimensions are 11.9 x 11.9 x 1 in. A certificate of authenticity will follow delivery. Create...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Encaustic

Lerts A-Lerting
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Have you ever seen an Alert alerting? Well, now you have! Here are some Lerts A-Lerting. Up to you to decide what is so important that they are all A-lerting at the same time!! Is i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings

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Gesso, Acrylic, Board

"Au Debut dele Printemps" - "Early Spring" Surreal Figurative Tree Man
Located in Soquel, CA
Surreal figurative abstract depicting a half man, half tree figure on a pedestal in a dream-like, abstracted white and blue space by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957...
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Early 2000s Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Paint. The Devil's Right Hand
Located in Cuernavaca, Morelos
Acrylic on wood
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings

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Acrylic, Wood Panel

Sovereigns of the Sea: Pulpo Reina Urraca I, Emperatriz de Toda Españ
Located in East Hampton, NY
"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...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

In Search of the False Trout
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
"En Busca de la falsa trucha" In Search of the False Trout 2010 With signed certificate of autenticity. Oil on canvas signed and dated, it will be frame before shipping 39x61x1.5 Isa...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Ink, Acrylic

"Cabin 7, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Gregory Block's (US based) "Cabin 7" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a deteriorating cabin wall melding with a sky. Gregory was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Oil

Cabeza, Oil Painting by Rodolfo Opazo Bernales
By Rodolfo Opazo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Rodolfo Opazo, Chilean (1935 - ) Title: Cabeza Year: 1983 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l. and verso Size: 39 x 32 inches
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1980s Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Château Pichon-Longueville. 1994. Canvas, oil, 80x40 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Château Pichon-Longueville. 1994. Canvas, oil, 80x40 cm Vladimirs Pavlovs (1950) Born May 6, 1950 in Riga. In 1981 he graduated from the department of artistic construction of the A...
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1990s Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Magic Realism Figurative Artwork, "Lost in Woods" by Evgeniya Golik
Located in San Diego, CA
A 16” x 20” x 1.25" Magic Realism Figurative Artwork by artist Evgeniya Golik. The artist uses Acrylic on Canvas. A certificate of authenticity will accompany the piece upon its purc...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

A Possibility Garden
Located in Palm Desert, CA
So many layers, such texture and at each one, I did not like some of what was happening. So, another layer entered, and then another. Finally, the story it wanted to tell took shape....
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings

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Ink, Acrylic, Gouache

"SYMPHONY IN D-MINOR"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
YURI MARTINEZ RAMOS "SYMPHONY IN D-MINOR" OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED, TITLED CUBAN-AMERICAN, DATED 2005 40 X 30 INCHES Symphony in D Minor is the "music" Cuban people have to perform every day to survive a decadent system that has pushed people to the limit. A prostitute looking for living on the street, a musician playing for no tourist, a rounded stage that depicts the enclosing system from where you cannot escape, vigilant red birds are the government-symbol watching everywhere, controlling your miserable life. -D- minor instead of a chord is Destruction, Deplorable. 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...
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Early 2000s Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1970's Mod Surrealist Day Glo Fluorescent Acrylic Painting J. James Akston
Located in Surfside, FL
J. James Akston Surrealism, Village scene (Mexico) Acrylic on Board Frame: 15 X 18 Image: 9 X 12 Joseph James Akston was a Polish American sculptor, painter, known for surrealist abstract painting and Aubusson (for Les Ateliers Pinton Frères, tapisserie, Aubusson) tapestry artist. Born in Warsaw, Poland in 1898 he died in Palm Beach Florida in 1983. During the 1960s and '70s the entrepreneur-artist James Joseph Akston adopted a unique Surreal Expressionist style in order to present his private primordial universe and lampoon its denizens, a ribald cast of animal creatures with human foibles. A successful industrialist, he began his career with General Motors foreign operations and then started his own business. Intermittently he studied painting, first with Jerry Farnsworth in North Truro (Mass.) and then with Jose Clemente Orozco in Mexico. In the early 1960s Akston became publisher-editor of a group of art publications which included The Magazine Arts. Initially an abstract expressionist, Akston had one-man exhibitions at the New York Convention Center and the Corcoran Museum in Washington. Since 2015 the record price for this artist at auction is $12,575 USD for Spheres Aux Triangles Aubusson Tapestry, sold at Bonhams New York in 2019. He was a Graduate of Georgetown University. He sat on the board of the Norton Museum. Exhibitions 1976 Hokin Gallery 1966 Gallery 63 NYC 1960 Gallery 63 Rome , Italy Select Public Collections National Museum, Wshington DC Boca Museum of Art Whitney Museum of Art, NYC Museum of Modern Art, NYC Museum of African Art Washington DC (Now part of Smithsonian Museum) Bibliography: 1962 Art...
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1970s Surrealist Paintings

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Acrylic

Rhapsody
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Art is and has always been at the very center of my life. In creating I find communication and connection with others that surpasses any barrier or boundary. Through imagery, I can c...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Surreal Contemporary Figurative Mixed-Media Oil Painting American
Located in Buffalo, NY
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...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Found Objects, Oil

GRANDIOSE (MIRO MAGRITTE)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed lower front by Ferjo. Canvas is stretched. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable offers...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Hovering, surrealist egg tempera insect and skyscape painting
Located in New York, NY
Douglas Safranek's Hovering captures the tension of liminal space. Bees and dragonflies appear pinned, and specimen-like, yet achieve loftiness with their wings. Their hyperbolized d...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Egg Tempera, Illustration Board

BENGAL TIGER
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed on front by Ferjo. Canvas is not stretched. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable offers...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"THE FUNNY SIDE OF ME"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
YURI MARTINEZ RAMOS "THE FUNNY SIDE OF ME" OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED CUBAN-AMERICAN, C.2005 20 X 16 INCHES This piece is a type of self-portrait where I try to show the ones around me, I also have a funny side. 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...
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Early 2000s Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, 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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1960s Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Abstract Surrealist Spray Paint Mixed Media The Web Mason Rader
Located in Surfside, FL
"The Web" 1995 by Mason Rader A graduate of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at the George Eastman House in Rochester NY with a Bachelo...
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1990s Surrealist Paintings

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Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Tricky (ballerina porcelain trinket vintage hat men surrealist oil painting grey
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Superbe original painting on canvas depicting a young ballerina performing a trick while onlookers contemplate perplexed to her prowess. keywords; americana, surrealism, ballerina, ...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

My fish tank, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
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...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Oil

Abstract Surrealist Spray Paint Painting Mixed Media Fleur D’Nuit Mason Rader
Located in Surfside, FL
"Fleur D'Nuit" 1995 by Mason Rader A graduate of the L. Jefferey Selznick School of Film Preservation at the George Eastman House in Rochester NY with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from t...
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1990s Surrealist Paintings

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Mixed Media, Spray Paint

Home Fire
Located in Los Angeles, CA
YURI MARTINEZ RAMOS "HOME FIRE OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED CUBAN-AMERICAN, C.2006 20 X 16 INCHES Home Fire" brings me back to my childhood home when my grandpa visited us every day smoking his pipe and conversing good moments. 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...
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Early 2000s Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A Different Breed
Located in Nottingham, GB
Original artwork, acrylic paints on canvas. With a mixture of street, abstract and fine art influences, most of Joe's work is created using a blend of acrylics, spray paint and char...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Acrylic

Turkey Teeth
Located in Nottingham, GB
With a mixture of street, abstract and fine art influences, most of Joe's work is created using a blend of acrylics, spray paint and charcoal. However, he doesn’t limit himself, sometimes it’s a case of using whatever’s at hand; a splash of tea, a mouthful of spit, on occasion he doesn’t even use a canvas. The inspiration for this piece is as follows: "It’s not about pride, but it was around that time. Everyone’s got nice teeth these days." - Joseph Gilgun.
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Acrylic

4b
Located in Columbia, MO
Lithograph on washi paper Exemplaire B/165
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1960s Surrealist Paintings

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Lithograph, Washi Paper

VAGUE. XI Abstract gold leaf painting, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Whether you love art or just looking to decorate your home, This high-quality 17.75X19.75â€
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Acrylic

"SORCERER'S BISCUIT", painting, surrealist dream, wolf, queen, duality, magic
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Museum of Symbols
Located in Zofingen, AG
With textured strokes of oil, my canvas dances with the raw intensity of expressionism, mingled with the dream-like quality of surrealism. Each symbol here breathes life into a narra...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Oil

Sword Swallower, Acrylic Painting on Canvas by Alejandro Colunga
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alejandro Colunga, Mexican (1948 - ) Title: Lady Sword Swallower Year: 1975 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed l.l. Size: 16 x 12 inches
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1970s Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Magic Realistic Painting, "My Gypsy Life"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is an original mixed media work on canvas by Southern California artist, Cheryl Tall. It is a triptych in three vertical canvases. Its dimensions are 48" x 90" x 1.5". It is unf...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Mixed Media

Surreal Figurative Painting, "Energy" 2024
Located in San Diego, CA
This is an original Oil on Canvas figurative painting by Charlene Mosley. A cirtificate of authenticity will follow delivery. It is framed as pictured. Charlene Mosley’s current wor...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Oil

Surreal Figurative Painting, "TLC Diptych" 2024
Located in San Diego, CA
This is an original Oil on Canvas diptych by Charlene Mosley. A cirtificate of authenticity will follow delivery. It is framed as pictured. Charlene Mosley’s current work discusses ...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Oil

"Reverie, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
David Cheifetz's "Reverie" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a golden vase and red apple situated within a landscape of a green leafing tree and a blue wave crashing...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Surrealistic Acrylic on Canvas Landscape "Forgotten Weapons of Destruction"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
A detailed realistic/surrealistic landscape acrylic painting on large scale canvas.
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Love Birds, Sally-Ann Johns, Contemporary Animal Art, Original Drawings, Bright
Located in Deddington, GB
Sally-Ann Johns Love Birds Original Animal Drawing Oil Pastel on Dutch Metal Framed Size: H 31cm x W 31cm x D 10cm Sold Framed in a Deep White Circular Frame Please note that in situ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings

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Gold Leaf

"TOUR GIANT", surrealist painting, American flag, bone, cottage, cups, storybook
Located in Toronto, Ontario
TOUR (GIANT) is a new oil on canvas surrealist painting by Brooklyn, New York artist Tony Geiger. It measures 50x40" and is a unique artwork. A classic Gei...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Large Modernist Italian Oil Painting Surrealist Abstract Figures
Located in Surfside, FL
Marco Cingolani was born in Como in 1961 and moved to Milan at a very young age, in 1978. He began to frequent the underground creative environment, where art was mixed with fashion and punk music. In those years a new artistic sensibility was being formalized in Milan, whose roots no longer sank in the history of art and in the citation but practiced the critical manipulation of reality and its communication through the mass media. The image was taken out of context, subtracted from the use of common sense, radically distorted, almost mocked. The work of Marco Cingolani, from the beginning, has always tried to cancel the regulatory power of media images, subjecting them to the radical care of the artist, certain that art offers a decisive point of view for the interpretation of the world. In this context the interviews of the Interviews were born, where celebrities for their privacy were submerged by the microphones and the famous series dedicated to the attack on the Pope and to the tragic story of Aldo Moro. After having participated in numerous group exhibitions including An emerging scene (1991, Museo Pecci, Prato) and Two or three things that I know of them (1998, PAC, Milan), he is dedicated to major anthological exhibitions at prestigious public institutions such as Palazzo Strozzi in Florence and Promoter of Fine Arts in Turin. In November 2006 he took part in the collective exhibition "Senza famiglia", in the Palace of the Promoter of Fine Arts in Turin. In 2007 Cingolani received a further consecration: the Galleria Emilio Mazzoli hosts the exhibition entitled "What color are they?" in which the pictorial reflections on the color of Power and its disguises are presented. The art of Cingolani has always been fascinated by the passage from news to history and vice versa; also in this case the UN blue helmets, the red urn containing the electoral ballots, the multicolored segments of the Wall Street charts, the military uniforms and the party flags are contextualized in highly symbolic scenarios. In 2009 a return to the origins for Marco Cingolani, often the author of works expressly inspired by the religious theme. In particular, for this exhibition entitled " Percorsi della Fede", the artist focused his attention on the Marian apparitions that have marked the last two centuries: Lourdes and Fatima . In the same year an exhibition in Lucca at the National Museum of Villa Guinigi, joins him to some of the leading Italian artists of the last two generations; by the universally recognized and celebrated masters, present in the main international museums such as Mimmo Paladino, Sandro Chia, Salvo, passing through some of the protagonists of the 52nd Venice Biennale as Gian Marco Montesano, Daniele Galliano, Nicola Bolla, Bertozzi & Casoni who exhibited in 2009 in contemporary at the Lucca exhibition and at the Italian Pavilion of the Venetian event, to get to the young artists of the last generation already present in important national and international artistic events. Giacinto di Pietrantonio invites him the following year, 2010 to PAC, Pavilion of contemporary art in Milan, for the collective exhibition "Hybrid", alongside Jan Fabre, Gilbert & George, Charles Avery, Damien Hirst, Piotr Uklanski, Patrick Tuttofuoco and other great ones on the international scene. 2012 is the year of "Il Belpaese dell'arte", at Gamec di Bergamo, always curated by Pietrantonio and Maria Cristina Rodeschini, in the company of Elmgreen...
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1980s Surrealist Paintings

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Paper, Oil

‘Trees and Mountains’ by Steven H. Rehfeld - Large Muted Landscape Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Steven H. Rehfeld (American, born 1954) 'Trees and Mountains' 2017 Oil paint, canvas, stretcher bars The artist signed the back of the painting. About the Artist: Introducing Steven...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Surrealist Acrylic Portraiture Painting, "Timmy" by Christopher Polentz
Located in San Diego, CA
A 12” x 14” x 1.5” Surrealist Acrylic Portrait Painting by artist Christopher Polentz. A certificate of authenticity will accompany the piece upon its purchase or delivery. “The Boy In The Iron Mask...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Acrylic

Huellas, Threads
By Israel Gonz��lez Rivero
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Israel Gonzalez Rivero Titled in Spanish, Huellas, in English Threads Mixed media on canvas, purchased from the artist in the 1990s. 54.75 x 27.5 Inches A painter, sculptor and designers. Cuba's national writers and artists union members Barcelona, member of Spain ACEA international association In 2005, member of Canada Montreal Artotheque Member of "The south" project organizing committee Model art representative Member of Cuba-Mexico "Yeti" project Born in 1964 in Cuba Manzanillo Art education: 1992-education certificate for art 1983-graduated from "Jose j. Tejada" college, Santiago, Cuba 1979-graduated from "Carlos Enriquez...
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1990s Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media

D'or. V Abstract gold leaf /blue framed painting, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
D’OR Abstract gold leaf framed painting Gold leaf is brilliant for modern painting. Brings to life elegant details that appear as an icon. Painting is 12X16â€
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Acrylic

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

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Canvas, Oil

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

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Canvas, Oil

Lady in red with her Jazz Band, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
"I once received a compliment about my work. The person said, 'I often wonder why people from all over the world buy Ta's art and write such beautiful things about it. There must be ...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Oil

Shoe Fetish! Whimsical Surrealist Abstract Figurative with High Heel Heads
By M. Jane Balanoff
Located in Soquel, CA
Attention all shoe lovers! This whimsical mixed media figurative abstract piece features four surrealist nude figures with red and blue high heels as h...
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1990s Surrealist Paintings

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Mixed Media, Plywood, Wood Panel

"Spontaneous Combustion" Contemporary Surrealist Exploding Portrait Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful surrealist portrait painting by contemporary Texas artist Henry David Potwin. The work features a figure wearing a suit and tie with sunglasses spontaneously bursting into f...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Wind Blowing, Large Jazz Painting by Alejandro Romero
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alejandro Romero, Mexican/American (1948 - ) Title: Wind blowing Year: 1990 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated Size: 42 x 94 inches
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1990s Surrealist Paintings

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Oil

Contemporary French Surrealist Oil Painting Evolving Shapes and Movement
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Composition signed by Jack Penouel (French 1936-2018) oil on canvas, framed framed: 18.5 x 15.5 inches canvas : 18 x 15 inches provenance: the ar...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Paintings

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Oil

French Surrealist Oil Painting Evolving Shapes and Movement
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Composition signed by Jack Penouel (French 1936-2018) dated 02' signed oil on canvas, framed framed: 26 x 21.5 inches canvas : 25.75 x 20.75 inch...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Paintings

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Oil

Puppet With the Green Eyes Contemporary Surrealist Painting Ellen Steinfeld
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original modern surreal oil painting by American artist Ellen Steinfeld titled, "Puppet with the Green Eyes"
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1980s Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Dreamers (yellow banana vintage car surrealist oil painting grey monochrome)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Two photographic motifs, which can by no means fit together in real life, result in a coherent and at the same time completely absurd image on a painting level. It may symbolize wishful thinking which can never be realized in reality. keywords; americana, surrealism, yellow banana, vintage, oil painting, men figurative painting...
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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