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
"Nesting Swan" Contemporary Surrealist, Large scale Watercolor painting
Located in New York, NY
large scale contemporary surrealist watercolor painting depicting a graceful white swan on a green leather armchair, with a stack of books piled high to its side. A silver designer mid-century modern pole...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
French Contemporary Art By Helen Uter - Le Petit Patissier
By Helen Uter
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas,
Helen Uter is an established Franco-American painter born in 1955 who lives and works in Donnery, near Orléans, France. Heavily influenced by Edward Hopper, she crea...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$480 Sale Price
20% Off
French Contemporary Art By Helen Uter - La Bourasque
By Helen Uter
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas,
Helen Uter is an established Franco-American painter born in 1955 who lives and works in Donnery, near Orléans, France. Heavily influenced by Edward Hopper, she crea...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$480 Sale Price
20% Off
French Contemporary Art By Helen Uter - L’Escalier
By Helen Uter
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas,
Helen Uter is an established Franco-American painter born in 1955 who lives and works in Donnery, near Orléans, France. Heavily influenced by Edward Hopper, she crea...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,840 Sale Price
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French Contemporary Art By Helen Uter - Le Blouson
By Helen Uter
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas,
Helen Uter is an established Franco-American painter born in 1955 who lives and works in Donnery, near Orléans, France. Heavily influenced by Edward Hopper, she crea...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,760 Sale Price
20% Off
Mischievous
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- The idea of meditation and contemplation play a major role in the paintings of artist Craig Carlisle. His paintings articulate indel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Masquerade
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- The idea of meditation and contemplation play a major role in the paintings of artist Craig Carlisle. His paintings articulate inde...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
$10,200
The Artist
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- The idea of meditation and contemplation play a major role in the paintings of artist Craig Carlisle. His paintings articulate inde...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
$3,600
Garden in Blue Sky
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- The idea of meditation and contemplation play a major role in the paintings of artist Craig Carlisle. His paintings articulate inde...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Linen, 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
French Contemporary Art By Helen Uter - Mother
By Helen Uter
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Helen Uter is an established Franco-American painter born in 1955 who lives and works in Donnery, near Orléans, France. Heavily influenced by Edward Hopper, she create...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
$2,000 Sale Price
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French Contemporary Art By Helen Uter - Ocean Girl
By Helen Uter
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas
Helen Uter is an established Franco-American painter born in 1955 who lives and works in Donnery, near Orléans, France. Heavily influenced by Edward Hopper, she cr...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
$1,840 Sale Price
20% Off
French Contemporary Art By Helen Uter - La Muleta
By Helen Uter
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas with knife
Helen Uter is an established Franco-American painter born in 1955 who lives and works in Donnery, near Orléans, France. Heavily influenced by Edward Hopper...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,520 Sale Price
20% Off
French Contemporary Art By Helen Uter - El Sol
By Helen Uter
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas with knife
Helen Uter is an established Franco-American painter born in 1955 who lives and works in Donnery, near Orléans, France. Heavily influenced by Edward Hopper...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$3,200 Sale Price
20% Off
French Contemporary Art By Helen Uter - El Fuego
By Helen Uter
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas with knife
Helen Uter is an established Franco-American painter born in 1955 who lives and works in Donnery, near Orléans, France. Heavily influenced by Edward Hopper...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$3,200 Sale Price
20% Off
French Contemporary Art By Helen Uter - La Tierra
By Helen Uter
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas with knife
Helen Uter is an established Franco-American painter born in 1955 who lives and works in Donnery, near Orléans, France. Heavily influenced by Edward Hopper...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$880 Sale Price
20% Off
French Contemporary Art By Helen Uter - Abajo
By Helen Uter
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas with knife
Helen Uter is an established Franco-American painter born in 1955 who lives and works in Donnery, near Orléans, France. Heavily influenced by Edward Hopper...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$880 Sale Price
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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
"Beyond Reach" Surrealist Still Life Painting of books with ladders
Located in New York, NY
Hardbound books in black, orange and yellow are stacked with magazines and soft cover books. In a surreal shift of scale bright orange construction ladders are leaned against the b...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
ARIA. VII abstract framed black& white painting, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
By Sia Aryai
Located in Yardley, PA
A neutral white palette with a splash of black evokes soft appeal in this abstract one of a kind painting. This 16.5X22" hand-cut parchment is custom framed and floats mounted o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Holding My Breath, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Newel Hunter
Located in Yardley, PA
"Holding My Breath" is a perfect example of Hunter's highly fluid, calligraphic style -- which so often results in arresting images with a sense of depth and sculptural form. Intrigu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
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
The coral cat mask, Painting, Oil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
From a series of imaginary surreal tribal masks. Oil on thick paper, 50 x 60 cm, 2021. :: Painting :: Surrealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity sig...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nevermore, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Newel Hunter
Located in Yardley, PA
"Nevermore" is painted with acrylic on a 24 x 24 x 1.5 inch gallery-wrapped canvas, edge painted black, ready to hang. This expressive, colorful, and whimsical image is a reflectio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
All in bloom. VIII one of a kind blue painting, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
By Sia Aryai
Located in Yardley, PA
Abstract vibrant blue framed art This bold, brushstroke hand-cut parchment works great as an abstract statement piece everywhere from entryways to guest bedrooms. The painting is...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Highness
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- The idea of meditation and contemplation play a major role in the paintings of artist Craig Carlisle. His paintings articulate indel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Degratissimo Rainbow
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- The idea of meditation and contemplation play a major role in the paintings of artist Craig Carlisle. His paintings articulate indel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Two faced, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
TITLE - Two faced DIMENSION : 24 x 24 inches “Why does everyone have to be so two-faced? I’d rather have an enemy who admits they hate me, instead of someone who secretly puts me down.†DETAILS : - Artwork will be carefully packaged ready for delivery with Tracking Number. - You will receive the artwork "Ready to Hang", the canvas is stretched on a wooden frame. - High quality acrylic, UV varnish. - Includes a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. NOTES : - Every piece of mine has it’s own personality ! This is a unique piece of art. - The side of the painting is painted. - The images in context are scale approximately. I recommend you to measure the dimensions with your tape to visualize the artwork in your space. THANKS for your interest in my art! I will be happy to create a unique custom piece in any size. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or just to say hi when you purchase your piece. I hope my artworks will bring some joy and thoughtfulness to you. Copyright ©POOVI ART...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
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
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
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
The Meeting -15-02-22, Painting, Oil on Other
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Landscapes of Old This oil ‘The Meeting’ has a long story. Ages ago, before my cubist and roundistic revolution, I was more into landscapes and surrealism. Even though I already sketched models I feel like I did more landscapes and cityscapes than now. One of the last oil paintings I made was ‘Autumn Tree at Laren (2013)’. The urge for painting trees suddenly came to a standstill and was replaced by the love for the female form. Pandemic Gone, New Beginning Now I am sitting here behind my desk, writing this art statement. Our current Secretary of State for Health Ernst Kuipers declared the end of the pandemic yesterday. Next to this I long for Spring more than I ever did and want to do landscapes again. It is not a coincidence when you clean up your house certain artefacts come popping up. Cleaning up means emptying your mind to make space for something new. Springtime This landscape of a windmill from above I started back in 2011. I put that oil face...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
Marvel. VI gold leaf abstract framed painting, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
By Sia Aryai
Located in Yardley, PA
Gold leaf is brilliant for modern painting. Brings to life elegant details that appear as an icon. Painting is 12X16.5†acrylic with a dash of gold leaf with a twist on heav...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary 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
Totemic Gathering, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This work was inspired by the universal occurrence of totemic shapes going back to pre-history. This large, signature piece needs a feature wall to do justice to its strong shapes an...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Organic Mechanism (colorful large abstract oil painting) Armenian Artist 2014
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Artist’s Statement
“𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘺 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨: 𝟷) 𝘔𝘺 “𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩” 𝘪𝘯 ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cotton Canvas
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
"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
Guardian of the Castle -, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This guardian is called “Shachihoko.†It is a Japanese mythical creature that has a tiger head and fish body, and it creates waves and rains. Shachihoko is considered as a charm of fire protection...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
"You Can't Always Get What You Want" is a song by the Rolling Stones on their 1969 album Let It Bleed, which lyrics guided me when I was creating this painting. Allegory of expulsion...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
34 Things I Love About You (and a trust fall), Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
The work addresses internal conversations, especially involving love and intimacy. By using domestic objects such as chairs the imagery interrogates the architecture of the psyche an...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Morning Vine
By Sarah Olson
Located in New York, NY
Morning Vine, 2017, oil on traditional gesso primed canvas mounted on wood panel with incised line drawing, 54 x 40 inches
Morning Vine is painted on a traditional gesso primed surf...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Wood, Oil
Green between the Seas, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Slav Nedev
Located in Yardley, PA
A work (#11) 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, sp...
Category
Early 2000s 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
Irreparable Consequences of the Irrational, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Original oil on canvas is ready to hang! Sides were painted for a gallery wrap look. :: Painting :: Surrealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Garden Gait, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Horse plowing through flower gardens fearfully. :: Painting :: Surrealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Sunrise, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Slav Nedev
Located in Yardley, PA
A work (#4) 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
Ocean dwellers '1', Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
One of the beauty of nature is the ocean which is filled with various kinds of creatures. I am attracted to the fishes in these water bodies and the beauty of them moving to and fro ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
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
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
Enigmas, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This painting continue the series of Oceans but incorporate some figures and silhouettes reflections making more complex the composition and the feelings behind the painting. Thank y...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
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
Hull, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Yotam Zohar
Located in Yardley, PA
A prototype for my "Frontier Project", this painting depicts an astronaut spray-painting a tag on the side of a module of the International Space Station bearing Blackbeard's pirate flag...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil
La Poissan Bleu, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Derek Olson
Located in Yardley, PA
The blue fish swimming near the rocky shore :: Painting :: Surrealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the arti...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Angel
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
$15,600
A Cup of Coffee, 2020
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Alexei Ravski unites landscape painting with the art of the surreal in his dramatic, large-format compositions. Meticulous in technique, they are marked by a striking use of perspe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
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.