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
Treasures In The Flames (colorful abstract surrealist painting) Armenian Artist
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Treasures In The Flames is a colorful, abstract, surrealist painting by Armenian artist, Vatche Geuvdjelian.
Artist’s Statement
“𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 �...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cotton Canvas
Untitled (Two Woman in Blue Background) circa 1987 acrylic/canvas British artist
By Robert Lowe
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Robert Lowe was born in England in 1955. He moved to the USA in the 1980s.
Lowe's work is very rare but can be found in museum collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Tampa Art...
Category
1980s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Frosty stag, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Yue Zeng
Located in Yardley, PA
A white stag with giant antler stands in snowy forest. :: Painting :: Surrealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Couple II, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Here is a portrait from Central Africa of a happy couple. This painting will ship from the USA. Sales benefit only the artist and his family in civil war Cameroon. :: Painting :...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
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
IN VINO VERITAS, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Marcelo Novo
Located in Yardley, PA
This piece is part of my "Contrast Series". "Like a musician playing by ear and improvising as he goes, my art begins not with cautious preliminary sketches but working directly on ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
MATES, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Marcelo Novo
Located in Yardley, PA
From my "Contrast Series". "Like a musician playing by ear and improvising as he goes, my art begins not with cautious preliminary sketches but working directly on the chosen surfac...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
My grandfather was a light maker, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Every family has its own legends. Those of my family are centered on the figure of my grandfather. My grandfather made his living by inventing a thousand jobs: he was a blacksmith, b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Forgotten Flying Machine - Oil on Canvas - Romanian French Surrealism
Located in London, GB
JULES PERAHIM 1914-2008
Bucharest 1914-2008 Paris (Romanian)
Title: A Forgotten Flying Machine Une machine volante oubliée, 1978
Technique: Signed, Da...
Category
1970s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Princess and Prince, Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina Fairy Tales
Located in Miami, FL
Italian illustrator Gianni Benvenuti paints a charming fantasy scene. It's of an extreme closeup of a tiny crowned and winged Prince and Princess They are standing upright in a dand...
Category
1950s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Murmur of tender leaves", Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
© Paulo Jimenez 2021. :: Painting :: Surrealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Yes :: Signat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Haitian Couple in Bed Simultaneously Adjusting their Radios, Surrealism
Located in Miami, FL
Wilson Bigaud is an idea artist in who showcases visual ideas in many of his paintings. In this work, a married Haitian couple tunes their radios in sync as they lie in bed. Bigaud was greatly interested in radios, which appeared in many of his works. This work rises to the level of Surrealism in that Bigaud is doing more than just depicting a normal bedroom moment. There is something very strange and bizarre in the couple's synchronized actions. Also of note, it looks like the woman is swallowing the edge of the radio. Signed lower right in a handmade and hand-painted frame.
Wear to the edges of board, including delamination in the corners, some dents and losses. Frame rubbing with associated wear. Areas of white discoloration to the bed and headboard...
Category
1960s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Celestial Metamorphosis -Nude Sci-Fi Woman becomes a Flower in Outer Space
Located in Miami, FL
Legendary illustrator Wilson McLean depicts "Celestial Bodies" of all sorts floating in the inky black expanse of space. This is a story about a transition from a human to plant. A nude female holds a flower and she becomes the flower she holds while she floats in an inky black void framed by planets. This is a story about a transition from a human to a plant. The painting looks better in person... A Stellar Experience.
During the 1970s and 1980s, McLean was a dominant force in American Illustration with his work gracing the covers...
Sports Illustrated, Time, The Saturday Evening Post, Look, Playboy...
Category
1980s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Guardian of the Shrine -, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Japanese Komainu is like a lion and dog shape animal and is dedicated to the shrine which is also believed to be an imaginary creature. The Komainu statue is placed in pairs at th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Organic Mechanism 2014 colorful large abstract oil Surrealist oc Armenian Artist
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
"Organic Mechanism"
Date: 2014-2015
Abstract oil painting on canvas (oc)
Vatche is an Armenian artist living in Mexico.
Artist’s Statement
“𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳�...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
“Make Believe Heroine” - Young Girl Bow & Arrow red green 2017 DeLoss McGraw
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Make Believe Heroine depicts a Young Girl with a Bow & Arrow painted in 2017 by DeLoss McGraw.
Signed lower right. Not framed.
PROVENANCE: Private collection San Diego, Ca. Acquired...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Rag Paper
Storm in Porto, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
One of the surreal vison of human faced with irrepressible power of nature. Symbolic figure of kid showing how small we are in this whole mill of cases. Knowing this should we be wor...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
L'abbraccio, 2020
Located in Atlanta, GA
Gigino Falconi was born in Giulianova (Teramo) in 1933. He began painting at the age of sixteen, and in 1954 he obtained a Liceo Artistico of Pescara. During the early years of his career, Falconi began teaching and drawing at the middle school in his city, refining his technique by copying a thousand paintings and drawings, bringing himself to an understanding of the secrets of technique and color behind the Great Masters of every century.
In 1975 he abandoned teaching to devote himself entirely to painting. His method of working developed in pictorial cycles over the years in the most exposed and prestigious Italian galleries...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Blues
Located in Dallas, TX
Austin Surrealist Artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
$480 Sale Price
20% Off
Emanation, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Slav Nedev
Located in Yardley, PA
A work (# 13) from the ELEMENTS series Why did I call this series elements? Because there is air in it, there is water, there are earth and fire… There are birth, life and death, s...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
I Want To Live With You, Even When We're Ghosts, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This abstract painting of two figures joined at the spine comments on a combined lifestyle of domestic partnership. The commitment in love despite the perpetual chance of loss is exq...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
L'incubo, 2010
Located in Atlanta, GA
Gigino Falconi was born in Giulianova (Teramo) in 1933. He began painting at the age of sixteen, and in 1954 he obtained a Liceo Artistico of Pescara. During the early years of his c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"No.B222 Window Boy", Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Jan Sowarby
Located in Yardley, PA
20 x 20 A slightly unsettling scene of the back of a boy in a half shuttered window of a Provencal farmhouse. What's going on? :: Painting :: Surrealism :: This piece comes with an ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Birth of Time, Painting, Oil on MDF Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
A vision about the birth of Time :: Painting :: Surrealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes :...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blossom, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Slav Nedev
Located in Yardley, PA
A work (#6) from the ELEMENTS series Why did I call this series elements? Because there is air in it, there is water, there are earth and fire… There are birth, life and death, ...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Post-urban Vision No. 5, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Slav Nedev
Located in Yardley, PA
A work from the Post-urban Visions series - a series that transcends the existence of today's highly urbanized industrial society and envisages a future (post-urban) state when the h...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Skin, Painting, Acrylic on Wood Panel
By Newel Hunter
Located in Yardley, PA
"Skin" is painted with acrylic and water-based stain on an 18 x 24 x .25 inch hardboard panel, sold unframed. :: Painting :: Surrealism :: This piece comes with an official certifica...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Work in Progress, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Newel Hunter
Located in Yardley, PA
Work in Progress is painted on a 24 x 30 inch canvas, edge-painted, ready to hang. :: Painting :: Surrealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed b...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Lily, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Lily, an illusion below the surface. Oil painting created live by artist at a private event in North Hills CA. Painted on large white square stretched canvas, edges white. :: Paint...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Harbinger, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Sandra Lamb
Located in Yardley, PA
The title, as usual, is key. Is the black dog a harbinger of doom or a harbinger of joy? There's a great luminosity just behind and around the corner. Is it the light from the apocal...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Payload, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Yotam Zohar
Located in Yardley, PA
This painting depicts a singularity opening up in the payload bay of a space shuttle, and suggests that universe's indifference to the presence of its contents (of which we are a par...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Adrift, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Yotam Zohar
Located in Yardley, PA
A prototype for my "Frontier Project", this painting depicts a cosmonaut adrift in the void of outer space. It is meant as a visual metaphor for the fragility of human life and the v...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
High Drama Adventure Scene - Italian Illustrator Mid-Century Jules Verne
Located in Miami, FL
Original illustration was done by Renna for the novel "Journey to the Center of the Earth" by Jules Verne, published in 1963. What makes this work special is how brilliantly the subj...
Category
1960s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Illustration Board
Pique Nique beside the Lake
Located in London, GB
GREGOIRE MICHONZE 1902-1982
KiChinev (Bessarabia) 1902-1982 Paris (Russian / French)
Title:Pique Nique beside the Lake, 1957
Technique: Original Si...
Category
1950s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lili Ocean Part II
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Lili Ocean Part 2 Pink Abstract.
Mixed media: acrylic, ink marker, pastel on paper, white frame under Plexiglas.
Malgosia Kiernozycka was born i...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper
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
Il Dardi del Cielo, 2001
Located in Atlanta, GA
Gigino Falconi was born in Giulianova (Teramo) in 1933. He began painting at the age of sixteen, and in 1954 he obtained a Liceo Artistico of Pescara. During the early years of his c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Glass Houses (Left)
Located in Greenwich, CT
Glass Houses (Left) is an acrylic on canvas painting, with a canvas size of 30 x 48 inches, signed 'afn' lower right and framed in a contemporary black moulding.
Anne Faith...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
L'Angelo Caduto, 2003
Located in Atlanta, GA
Gigino Falconi was born in Giulianova (Teramo) in 1933. He began painting at the age of sixteen, and in 1954 he obtained a Liceo Artistico of Pescara. During the early years of his c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Portrait of Mythological Figure
Located in Miami, FL
Works on Paper, watercolor, gouache, and pencil on paper
Robert L. B. Tobin Foundation San Antonio, Texas
initialed in cartouche bottom center
Category
1950s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Surrealist Landscape, Mountain with Nude Woman - Perls Gallery
Located in Miami, FL
A nude white woman gazes out and over a Giorgio de Chirico like surrealist landscape to an overly dramatic sunset with stylized orange rays. In the center of the composition is a cut-out of a mountain with a moat. In the extreme foreground is a silhouetted orange plane with a spiral of leaves. Along with the empty landscapes of de Chirico, it's possible that Frederick Haucke was influenced by Salvador Dalí " The Persistence of Memory" in 1931, and Dali's painting was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in 1934. In that painting, Dali, paints a vacant landscape doted with symbols from the unconscious. This painting by Frederick Haucke owes a debt to giants of the Surrealist movement but still, Haucke carves out his style. The shape of the nude's hair echoes the shape of the sunset. What the symbolism to the mountain is and the flower in the foreground we will leave to the viewer to speculate. It was shown at the very prestigious Pearls Gallery in New York City. Artists in the famous Perls' stable included Derain, Dufy, Rouault, Matisse, Picasso, Modigliani, Pascin, Soutine, Chagall and Vlaminck. With a 1971 retrospective of Alexander Calder's work. This Haucke from the Perls Gallery...
Category
1940s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"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
Strana luce Sul Porto, 2006
Located in Atlanta, GA
Gigino Falconi was born in Giulianova (Teramo) in 1933. He began painting at the age of sixteen, and in 1954 he obtained a Liceo Artistico of Pescara. During the early years of his c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Way of Serpent by Lucas Aoki
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media Original
Charcoal, powder paint, acrylic, resin, and paper
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Resin, Charcoal, Pen
$2,625 Sale Price
25% Off
The Arrival of Madness by Lucas Aoki
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media Original
Charcoal, powder paint, acrylic, resin, and paper
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Resin, Charcoal, Pen
$2,438 Sale Price
24% Off
Ponza
Located in Atlanta, GA
Gigino Falconi was born in Giulianova (Teramo) in 1933. He began painting at the age of sixteen, and in 1954 he obtained a Liceo Artistico of Pescara. During the early years of his c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$58,500
Volcano Eruption - Explosive Fire Lava Flow from Hell
Located in Miami, FL
A Fiery Hell is depicted as a volcano that spews flames and lava dust into the air. According to the Peter and Harrison Ellenshaw Family Archive, this work was shown to Stanly Kubrick for a Paradise Lost, movie concept. Peter had created matte paintings for Kubrick's Spartacus in 1960 and they continued their professional friendship for years to come. Peter did some collaboration with TRON in 1982. Unfortunately, the movie concept for John Miltons, Paradise Lost, was not brought into production. An erupting volcano is also an powerful metaphor for many human conditions.
Ellenshaw (1913–2007) was a highly regarded matte painter and special-effects creator whose filmography includes Old Yeller (1957), Swiss Family Robinson...
Category
1980s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Our Lady of the Foam", John Stephens, Acrylic Painting, Surrealism, 24x30
Located in Dallas, TX
This John Stephens original acrylic on panel painting measures 24x30 in and is available for $27,500. "Our Lady of the Foam" features a woman inside a greek mythology dome covered in...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Horitzó de Successos
By Jordi PRAT
Located in Atlanta, GA
Established Catalan painter Jordi Prat Pons is best known for his uniquely modern approach to the traditional still life. The works are characterized by bold use of color and manipul...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Environs of Rome
Located in Miami, FL
Klett was an in-demand illustrator in the post-war period of the late 1940's and 1950's. and . His work appeared in many of the newsstand magazines at the time.
This work is a pers...
Category
1940s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
L'attesa melancolica, 2020
Located in Atlanta, GA
Gigino Falconi was born in Giulianova (Teramo) in 1933. He began painting at the age of sixteen, and in 1954 he obtained a Liceo Artistico of Pescara. During the early years of his c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Return Home
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 19...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"The Three Graces" - Surrealism, figurative, nudes, patterns - Arcimboldo
By Guy Robinson
Located in Atlanta, GA
"The Three Graces" features hues of blue, pink, yellow, orange, green, and black.
Guy Robinson is inspired by the work of Paul Klee, Albrecht Durer and Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
Atlanta ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Message
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 19...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
$9,100
Il Baccio, 2001-02
Located in Atlanta, GA
Gigino Falconi was born in Giulianova (Teramo) in 1933. He began painting at the age of sixteen, and in 1954 he obtained a Liceo Artistico of Pescara. During the early years of his c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Notturni di Cleopatra Lo sguardo, 2020
Located in Atlanta, GA
Gigino Falconi was born in Giulianova (Teramo) in 1933. He began painting at the age of sixteen, and in 1954 he obtained a Liceo Artistico of Pescara. During the early years of his c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The Optimas
By Lynne Naylor
Located in Miami, FL
Lynne Naylor is an Emmy Award winning, animator, artist, director, producer, and voice actress.
Filmography: SpongeBob SquarePants, Wander Over Yonder, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Fish Hooks, Breaking the Mold: The Re-Making of Mighty Mouse...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Flora #11" - Geometric Surrealist Painting - Nude - Arcimboldo
By Guy Robinson
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Flora #5" is one in a series of surreal paintings of the female figure featuring intricate patterning and hues of bright yellow, lime green, pale pink, light blue and yellow ochre.
...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Flora #10" - Geometric Surrealist Painting - Nude - Arcimboldo
By Guy Robinson
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Flora #10" is one in a series of surreal paintings of the female figure featuring intricate patterning and hues of purple, magenta, blue, and orange.
Guy Robinson is inspired by the...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Windy Days, Original Contemporary Surrealist Painting
Located in Boston, MA
Windy Days
31.5 x 39.5 x 0.75, 5.0 lbs
Acrylic on canvas
Hand signed by artist
Artist's Commentary:
"The whimsical painting allows one to daydream. One views the colours and images...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
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.