Surrealist Art
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
The Fall Approaches, Original Painting
By Libby Ramage
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Libby Ramage presents a surrealist representation of the changing seasons. "The leaves are like flames, and the boy and man are hesitant to venture fur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Milton, Lost Paradise : The Cup Offered - Original Hand Signed Etching, 1974
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador DALI
The Cup Offered
Original etching in colour
Hand signed in pencil
Justified EA (Éprouve d’artiste - artist proof)
On Auvergne vellum 58 x 45,5 cm...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Etching
Visionary Mystical Landscape Mississippi Artist
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant landscape with a group of trees by H. W. Shankle (20th Century). The trees, clouds, and ground are all swirling, as if warped by the perspective of the viewer, creating a fantastical feeling to the composition. In the Visionary Artist style.
Signed and dated "H. Shankle 71" along the bottom edge.
Label from exhibition on verso.
Presented in a distressed frame.
Board size: 16"H x 20"W
Hugh W. Shankle (American, b. 1921) was a photo technician with WLBT-TV in Jackson, Mississippi, during the late 1950s and '60s. He was also the official photographer for the Mississippi Art...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Acrylic, Cardboard, Canvas
Huge French 20th Century Surrealist Oil Painting Knights on Horseback Swordfight
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, 20th century
Title: The Sword Fight
Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 28.5 x 39.25 inches
Provenance: pri...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Miró, Composition (Cramer 34; Mourlot 224), Derrière le miroir (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From volume, Derrière le miroir, N° 87-88-89. June-July...
Category
1950s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
INFRATERRESTRIALS ADORED BY DALI AT THE AGE OF SIX ...
Located in Aventura, FL
Engraving with lithographic color on paper. Hand signed and numbered in pencil. From the series La Conquete du Cosmos (Conquest of Cosmos). Frame approx size 45 x 35 inches. Sheet ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Paper, Engraving, Lithograph
Amos' Prophecy - Héliogravure by Marc Chagall - 1960
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Héliogravure on brown-toned paper, so signature.
On bot sheets, recto and verso.
Edition of 6500 unsigned copies. Printed by Mourlot and published by Tériade, Paris.
Ref. Mourlot,...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Photogravure
Incredible Vintage Surreal Religious Framed Signed Latin American Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed lower right.
Category
1940s Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
UNTITLED
Located in Portland, ME
Drawing, Ink and colored pencil or Watercolor and color pencil, 2013-2020. 6 x 7 5/8 or 7 5/8 x 6 inches. Signed and inscribed, verso. One of a series of untitled drawings on various...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Watercolor, Color Pencil
Maravillas con Variaciones acrósticas en el Jardín de Miró (Mourlot, 1051-1072)
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Maravillas con variaciones acrósticas en el Jar...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Le Cirque - Rare Book by Marcel Vertès - 1928
Located in Roma, IT
Le Cirque by Vertes and De la Serna is an edition of 103 copies including 5 original colour etchings and many drawings reproduced with lithograph techniques by Vertès. Includes soft ...
Category
1920s Surrealist Art
Materials
Paper
UNTITLED
Located in Portland, ME
Drawing, Ink and colored pencil or Watercolor and color pencil, 2013-2020. 6 x 7 5/8 or 7 5/8 x 6 inches. Signed and inscribed, verso. One of a series of untitled drawings on various...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Watercolor, Color Pencil
Her Green Robe
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The heart of this artwork features a woman seated gracefully on her bed, a place of comfort and solace. Her posture exudes a sense of tranquility and introspection, as she gazes into...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Surrealistic Nude Figures, ' by Leonard Kaplan, Painting, c. 1960s
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This framed 20" x 14" painting in a surrealist style by artist Leonard Kaplan depicts three nude figures crowded together, sitting and standing with a white bird obscured by the dark shadows. Predominant colors are red, orange, black, and cream. The painting is on paper and masonite framed behind glass in a silver metal frame.
Leonard Kalan is known for surrealism and figure paintings. He died in California in 2008. Leonard was born January 15, 1922 in New York City and won a scholarship in 1940 to study at the Art Student League under Reginald Marsh and William Pair. He won an art scholarship to New York University in the late 1930's. He studied art at the Henry Street...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Masonite, Chalk, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Antique Spanish School Surrealist Modernist Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique Spanish school modernist surreal portrait oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Measuring 18 by 24 inches overall and 15 by 21 painting alone.
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Les Danseurs à la Lune - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1967
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 35 prints.
Rare and precious artwork by Chagall, in excellent conditions.
Ref. Cat. Cramer, n. 32
Image dimensions : 30.5 x 24 cm
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Let Us Make Man in our Image and Likeness Dali lithograph Biblia Sacra 1964
Located in Paonia, CO
Let Us Make Man in our Image and Likeness shows God lying on his back facing upwards with his left hand raised, two fingers pointing upwards in the midst of creating man repres...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Cosmicstrip I, Aquatint Etching by Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Cosmicstrip I by Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911–2002)
Date: 1959
Etching, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 21/50
Image Size: 14.75 x 19.25 inches
Frame Size: 23.75 x 28 inches
...
Category
1950s Surrealist Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Composition (Cramer 97), Une Étoile de Craie, André Masson
By André Masson
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Une Étoile de Craie, seize lithographies originales par An...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
"With Kindness" Intertwined Nature and Humanity Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"With Kindness" by Victoria Novak, completed in 2017, is a provocative oil on canvas that delves into the fusion of human and natural forms. The painting measures 39.40 x 23.60 inche...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1970's French Surrealist Signed Oil Figurative Abstract Amazing Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: T. Fabris 1973, French
Title: Abstract Surrealist Figurative study
Medium: oil on canvas, framed
Framed: 27 x 20.5 inches
Painting: 26 x 19 inches
Provenance: pri...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait of Ronsard - Etching - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and drypoint realized by Salvador Dalì to illustrate Pierre Ronsard's "Les Amours de Cassandre".
Published by Argillet, Paris, in 1968.
Edition of 299 pieces. One of 165 sp...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Etching
Composition (Spies/Leppien 218), La Ballade du Soldat, Max Ernst
By Max Ernst
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, La Ballade du Soldat, 34 Lithographies Originales de Max Ernst, 1972. P...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled - IX
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled - IX
Wojtek Kowalczyk, Polish (1960)
Date: 2005
Lithograph, signed in pencil
Size: 19.5 in. x 13.5 in. (49.53 cm x 34.29 cm)
Frame Size: 21 x 18 inches
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Gathering, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"'Gathering' was inspired by the works of Aron Wiesenfeld, and features a woman who is drawn in such a way where one cannot tel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil
Landscape with window in D oil on canvas painting surrealist
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Felix Ferreras - Landscape with window in D - Oil on canvas
Oil measurements 73x100 cm.
Frameless.
Félix Ferreras is a visual artist with numerous national and international awards ...
Category
1990s Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
20th Century French Modernist Signed Oil Painting Portrait of Young Girl Green
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Tristan Fabris 1970's French surrealist artist
signed oil on canvas, framed
framed: 19 x 16 inches
canvas: 18 x 15 inches
private collection, France
The painting is in overall sound ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Performing in the Circus - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960s
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Performing in the circus is an original artwork realized in the 1960s by Marc Chagall.
Mixed colored lithograph.
The artwork represents a typical compostion in the Chagall style.
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Ernst, Composition (Spies/Leppien 222), Histoire Naturelle (after)
By Max Ernst
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Collotype from frottage on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Max Ernst, Histoire Naturelle, 1972. Published and printed by Verla...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
God, Time, Space, and the Pope - orignal etching - signed - 1974
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali
God, Time, Space, and the Pope
Original etching and stencil
Handsigned in the right corner
with the blind stamp of the editor in the left corner
On BFK Rives vellum...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Etching, Stencil
La Mujer Isla Surrealist Painting
By Enrique Chavarría
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
The Island Woman (La Mujer Isla)
Artist signed and titled.
Enrique Chavarría (1927-1998) was a Mexican painter and neo-surrealist, whose fantastic imagery carries forward the work of the Mexican Surrealists. He created hundreds of easel-sized oil paintings on masonite and numerous smaller works. For four decades his principal patron was Bryna Prensky, an American gallery owner from Florida who moved to Mexico City in 1954. She bought most of Chavarría’s known works for her gallery and her own collection.
Prensky said she often found Chavarría in his pajamas at mid-day. He read widely and painted dreamlike images that reflect his wide-ranging scholarly interests. Much of his work is thought to have been inspired by poetry, especially the writings of André Breton, Paul Éluard, Arthur Rimbaud, and Paul Valéry; by the classic surrealism of Salvador Dalí; and by the paintings of Mexican neo-surrealist artists Remedios Varo...
Category
1980s Surrealist Art
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Miró, Composition (Cramer 145; Mourlot, 738-740), Derrière le miroir (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Derrière le miroir, N° 193-194. Publis...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Miró, Composition (Cramer 103; Mourlot 382-383), Miró Cartones 1956-1965 (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Miró: Cartones, 1959-1965, October - November 1965, 196...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Femme Bleue
Located in OPOLE, PL
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - Femme Bleue
Lithograph from 1958.
Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26 cm.
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
First, original edition.
The work is in Excellent cond...
Category
1950s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Sans Titre Drawing on print, Hand Colored
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Roberto Matta
Title: Sans Titre Drawing on Print, Hand Colored
Medium: Drawing on Print with Hand Coloring
Signed: Hand Signed
Measurements: 11.8" x 16.5"
Framed: 22.5" x...
Category
1990s Surrealist Art
Materials
Paper
Djinn- Original contemporary seascape landscape surrealistic painting-modern art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
"Djinn" by Hallie Packard is an original seascape painting tha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Their Song Welcomed the Night, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Sara Scribner's (US based) "Their Song Welcomed the Night" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a realistic portrait of a feminine form in ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Cigognes Ciseaux Gigognes (Nesting Scissor Storks), Lithograph by Wifredo Lam
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Long Island City, NY
Wifredo Lam, Cuban (1902 - 1982) - Cigognes Ciseaux Gigognes (Nesting Scissor Storks), Portfolio: Phases no 11, Year: 1966, Medium: Lithograph, Edition: 1000, Size: 10.75 x 16.5 in....
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Tamar, Daughter of Judah - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Color lithograph realized by Marc Chagall in 1960 to illustrate "The Bible".
Edition of 6500, published by Tériade in no. 33 and 34 of the Art Magazine Verve.
Printed by Mourlot a...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Pleni Luna Complete Suitę
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Wifredo Lam
Title: Pleni Luna Complete Suitę
Medium: 10 Lithographs
Signed: Each lithograph is Hand Signed
Edition Number: XXXVII/L matched numbered suite
Measurements: 1...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Creation Of The Angels - The Divine Comedy - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Creation Of The Angels - The Divine Comedy is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri.
Not signed...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Raising Lazarus from Biblia Sacra by Salvador Dali
Located in Paonia, CO
Raising Lazarus by Salvador Dali from Biblia Sacra is a colored lithograph from the gouache original on heavy rag paper from Salvador Dali’s five volume Biblia Sacra Suite pub...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Femme au Collant Rose, Signed Surrealist Lithograph by Rufino Tamayo
Located in Long Island City, NY
The title of this piece by Mexican Surrealist artist Rufino Tamayo translates to "Woman with Pink Tights", The signed and numbered lithograph is from the Mujeres suite, a portfolio o...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Mother Goose, Surrealist Etching and Aquatint by Martin Barooshian
Located in Long Island City, NY
Martin Barooshian, American (1929 - 2022) - Mother Goose, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Etching and Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: Trial Printers Proof, Image Siz...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Alchimie des Philosophes The Angel of Alchemy
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Alchimie des Philosophes The Angel of Alchemy
MEDIUM: Etching on parchment paper
SIGNED: Hand Signed
PUBLISH...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Etching
Purgatory: Canto 21 from The Divine Comedy
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: Purgatory: Canto 21
Portfolio: The Divine Comedy: Purgatory
Medium: Woodblock engraving
Year: 1963
Edition: 4765
Framed Size: 19 1/4" x 16 3/4"
Sheet Siz...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Engraving
Miró, Composition (Cramer 103; Mourlot 382-383), Miró Cartones 1956-1965 (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Miró: Cartones, 1959-1965, October - November 1965, 196...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
"A Family of Means", surrealist, blue, red, pink, mixed media, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “A Family of Means” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 38 x 50 inches in blues, reds, and pinks. Depicted in their commodious library, the wealthy family exudes a sense of arrogant privilege and shameless materialism. The matriarch displays her rings to the spectator as though their monetary value was proof of her worth as a person, while her son, in his prep school blazer...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Lam 林飛龍, Double personnages, XXe Siècle (after)
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. n°52, 1979. Published and printed under the direction of Gualt...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Hommage a Cranach lithograph by Salvador Dali 1971
Located in Paonia, CO
Hommage a Cranach is a lithograph with original etching by Salvador Dali and published by Transworld Art in 1971. This limited edition print is number A110 out of 175 and is i...
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1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
STILL LIFE WITH PEAR Signed Mini Lithograph, Surreal Interior, Table and Chair
Located in Union City, NJ
STILL LIFE WITH PEAR is a rarely seen, hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the American surrealist artist Fanny Brennan, created using traditional hand lithography techniques printed on archival Arches paper, 100% acid-free. STILL LIFE WITH PEAR is an engaging miniature interior scene depicting a simple room where a white dish and yellow pear is positioned on a round wood table...
Category
1990s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Mother Goose (Red), Surrealist Etching and Aquatint by Martin Barooshian
Located in Long Island City, NY
Martin Barooshian, American (1929 - 2022) - Mother Goose (Red), Year: circa 1979, Medium: Etching and Aquatint on Arches, signed, titled and numbered in pencil, Edition: HC, Ima...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Bobby' Nightmare (pug dog face helicopter vintage surreal oil painting)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Bobby's Nightmare" by Rudolf Kosow is a striking blend of humor and surrealism, juxtaposing an exaggeratedly expressive pug with an intense military scene. The dog's bulging eyes, lolling tongue, and shocked expression contrast sharply with the highly detailed helicopter and soldiers descending from the sky, creating an absurd and unexpected composition.
The painting plays on the idea of a pet's anxiety, turning an ordinary moment of canine surprise into an action-packed, almost cinematic spectacle. The hyperrealistic rendering of the pug’s fur and facial details enhances the surrealism, making the implausible scene feel eerily convincing. With its mix of realism and whimsy, Bobby’s Nightmare captures the chaotic energy of an overactive imagination—whether that of a dog startled by its surroundings or a playful human interpretation of a pet’s exaggerated emotions.
keywords; painting on canvas, surrealist painting, americana...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le Legacy from Historia de Don Quichotte de la Mancha, Etching by Salvador Dali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Salvador Dali, Spanish (1904 - 1989)
Title: Le Legacy from Historia de Don Quichotte de la Mancha
Year: 1981
Medium: Etching on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition:...
Category
1980s Surrealist Art
Materials
Etching
Purgatory 13 - The Second Terrace - Color woodcut - 1963
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Purgatory 13 - The Second Terrace
Color woodcut on paper
Printed signature
1960/63
Printed on paper Vélin BFK Rives
Size 32,8 x 26,4 cm (c. 13 x 10")
REFE...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
The Petrified Origin oil on canvas painting Antoni Pitxot
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: The Petrified Origin
Artist: Antoni Pitxot i Soler (1934–2015)
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 25.6 x 31.9 in (65 x 81 cm)
Date: 1967
Condition: Unframed
Signature: Signed lower right: Pitxot
Provenance: Private collection
Notes: Early work from Pitxot’s mature period, featuring the symbolic and meticulously rendered stone forms that would define his artistic identity.
📝 Work Description
In The Petrified Origin, Antoni Pitxot presents a haunting and timeless vision of a single, eroded rock suspended in a dreamlike, undefined space. The stone, modeled with sculptural precision, appears to float over a subtly reflective surface, devoid of background or narrative context. Its porous texture, cracks, and shadows evoke a fossilized memory — a silent relic of geological time.
Painted in 1967, this piece exemplifies Pitxot's unique visual language, developed through his practice of collecting stones along the Costa Brava and transforming them into anthropomorphic and symbolic compositions. The result is both surreal and solemn, an ode to nature’s memory and the enduring presence of the inanimate.
👤 About the Artist
Antoni Pitxot i Soler (born in Figueres, 1934 – died in Barcelona, 2015) was a Catalan painter deeply rooted in the surrealist tradition. Coming from an artistic family —his uncle was Ramon Pichot, a friend of Picasso and Dalí— Pitxot trained as a draughtsman and painter from a young age. In the 1960s, he settled in Cadaqués, where he developed his distinct artistic universe.
His paintings revolve around stone as a symbol of permanence, transformation, and memory. Pitxot created sculptural assemblages from real coastal stones and later immortalized them in oil on canvas. His works often hint at human figures, ancient myths, and allegories of time.
🎭 Connection with Salvador Dalí
Pitxot was not only a close friend of Salvador Dalí but also one of his closest collaborators. Dalí admired his work and invited him to co-design the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres. After Dalí’s death...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Urban Zoo" Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Louis Recchia's (US based) "Urban Zoo" is an oil painting that depicts a lama, giraffes, and a whale in a surreal urban environment
Louis Recchia has been producing contemporary ar...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antonio Monasterio – Woman with a Large Hat and Table with Vase. Nr.2
Located in Firenze, IT
Antonio Monasterio – Woman with a Large Hat and Table with Vase. Nr.2
• Technique: Mixed media on paper (pastels, wax, and red pen)
• Dimensions: 56 x 44 cm
• Signature: Lower ri...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Art
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Wax Crayon, Wax, Pen
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