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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
Beach Houses I - Original 3D surrealistic painting - contemporary illusion art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. Marek Letkiewicz’s Beach Houses I offers a whimsical journey t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

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Acrylic, Board

Marc Chagall - Inspiration - Original Lithograph from "Chagall Lithographe" v. 2
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall Original Lithograph from Chagall Lithographe 1957-1962. VOLUME II. 1963 Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm From the unsigned edition of 10000 copies without margins Reference: Mourlot 398 Condition : Excellent Marc Chagall (born in 1887) Marc Chagall was born in Belarus in 1887 and developed an early interest in art. After studying painting, in 1907 he left Russia for Paris, where he lived in an artist colony on the city’s outskirts. Fusing his own personal, dreamlike imagery with hints of the fauvism and cubism popular in France at the time, Chagall created his most lasting work—including I and the Village (1911)—some of which would be featured in the Salon des Indépendants exhibitions. After returning to Vitebsk for a visit in 1914, the outbreak of WWI trapped Chagall in Russia. He returned to France in 1923 but was forced to flee the country and Nazi persecution during WWII. Finding asylum in the U.S., Chagall became involved in set and costume design before returning to France in 1948. In his later years, he experimented with new art forms and was commissioned to produce numerous large-scale works. Chagall died in St.-Paul-de-Vence in 1985. The Village Marc Chagall was born in a small Hassidic community on the outskirts of Vitebsk, Belarus, on July 7, 1887. His father was a fishmonger, and his mother ran a small sundries shop in the village. As a child, Chagall attended the Jewish elementary school, where he studied Hebrew and the Bible, before later attending the Russian public school. He began to learn the fundamentals of drawing during this time, but perhaps more importantly, he absorbed the world around him, storing away the imagery and themes that would feature largely in most of his later work. At age 19 Chagall enrolled at a private, all-Jewish art school and began his formal education in painting, studying briefly with portrait artist Yehuda Pen. However, he left the school after several months, moving to St. Petersburg in 1907 to study at the Imperial Society for the Protection of Fine Arts. The following year, he enrolled at the Svanseva School, studying with set designer Léon Bakst, whose work had been featured in Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. This early experience would prove important to Chagall’s later career as well. Despite this formal instruction, and the widespread popularity of realism in Russia at the time, Chagall was already establishing his own personal style, which featured a more dreamlike unreality and the people, places and imagery that were close to his heart. Some examples from this period are his Window Vitebsk (1908) and My Fianceé with Black Gloves (1909), which pictured Bella Rosenfeld, to whom he had recently become engaged. The Beehive Despite his romance with Bella, in 1911 an allowance from Russian parliament member and art patron Maxim Binaver enabled Chagall to move to Paris, France. After settling briefly in the Montparnasse neighborhood, Chagall moved further afield to an artist colony known as La Ruche (“The Beehive”), where he began to work side by side with abstract painters such as Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger as well as the avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire. At their urging, and under the influence of the wildly popular fauvism and cubism, Chagall lightened his palette and pushed his style ever further from reality. I and the Village (1911) and Homage to Apollinaire (1912) are among his early Parisian works, widely considered to be his most successful and representative period. Though his work stood stylistically apart from his cubist contemporaries, from 1912 to 1914 Chagall exhibited several paintings at the annual Salon des Indépendants exhibition, where works by the likes of Juan Gris, Marcel Duchamp and Robert Delaunay were causing a stir in the Paris art world. Chagall’s popularity began to spread beyond La Ruche, and in May 1914 he traveled to Berlin to help organize his first solo exhibition, at Der Sturm Gallery. Chagall remained in the city until the highly acclaimed show opened that June. He then returned to Vitebsk, unaware of the fateful events to come. War, Peace and Revolution In August 1914 the outbreak of World War I precluded Chagall’s plans to return to Paris. The conflict did little to stem the flow of his creative output, however, instead merely giving him direct access to the childhood scenes so essential to his work, as seen in paintings such as Jew in Green (1914) and Over Vitebsk (1914). His paintings from this period also occasionally featured images of the war’s impact on the region, as with Wounded Soldier (1914) and Marching (1915). But despite the hardships of life during wartime, this would also prove to be a joyful period for Chagall. In July 1915 he married Bella, and she gave birth to a daughter, Ida, the following year. Their appearance in works such as Birthday (1915), Bella and Ida by the Window (1917) and several of his “Lovers” paintings give a glimpse of the island of domestic bliss that was Chagall’s amidst the chaos. To avoid military service and stay with his new family, Chagall took a position as a clerk in the Ministry of War Economy in St. Petersburg. While there he began work on his autobiography and also immersed himself in the local art scene, befriending novelist Boris Pasternak, among others. He also exhibited his work in the city and soon gained considerable recognition. That notoriety would prove important in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution when he was appointed as the Commissar of Fine Arts in Vitebsk. In his new post, Chagall undertook various projects in the region, including the 1919 founding of the Academy of the Arts. Despite these endeavors, differences among his colleagues eventually disillusioned Chagall. In 1920 he relinquished his position and moved his family to Moscow, the post-revolution capital of Russia. In Moscow, Chagall was soon commissioned to create sets and costumes for various productions at the Moscow State Yiddish Theater...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Closed Isle
Located in Bozeman, MT
Acrylic paint on raw canvas.
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Divagaciones espontáneas" contemporary screenprint surrealist zebra and pyramid
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
During the pandemic, the artist stayed for 4 months in Oaxaca on a beach called San Aguistinillo, where he developed the Sana Distancia (safe distance) collection, he created each da...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Screen, Paper, Ink

Composition (Field 69-3; M/L. 1600), VI tavole dal ciclo della, Biblia Sacra
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin Fabriano charta ex meris pannis "ab alveo" manu fabricata, perlucidis figuris intexta paper. Paper size: 19 x 13.75 inches. Inscription: Signed in the p...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Surrealist Woodblock Print Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ Female Magic Red Shoes
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative take...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Archival Ink, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Woodcut

Salvador Dali - Woman with a Whip - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Woman with a Whip - Original Stamp-Signed Etching Stamp signed by Dali Edition of 294 copies. Paper : Arches vellum. Dimensions : 16x12". Catalogue Raisonné : Fiel...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching

Wifredo Lam (1902-1982) - Color lithography on Hahnemühle paper - 1974
Located in Varese, IT
Color lithography on Hahnemühle paper, edited in 1974. Limited edition of 99 copies + XXV EA, numbered as XXIII/XXV in lower left corner.
 Hand-signed in pencil by artist in lower ri...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Paper, Lithograph

ShaoHua Nong Surrealist Original Oil On Canvas "Staircase"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Staircase Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 12 x 16 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This painting is unstretched Year: 2015 Artist: ShaoHua Nong...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Oreste e Pilade, 2e version
Located in New York, NY
The Roman numeral edition of 25, aside from the Arabic numeral edition of 99. Signed, titled and numbered VI/XXV in pencil, lower margin. With the artist's blind stamp lower left. Pu...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Etching, Aquatint, Color

Rise, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
A circus of sorts Anonymous performers Reaching for the sky :: Painting :: Surrealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Oil

Dessert - Still Life Table Setting with Fruit, Wine and Flowers, Oil on Panel
Located in Chicago, IL
The artist is a master at storytelling. He sets the stage for the viewer to bring the events to a particular scene. Here, the artist has set two wine glasses, napkins and a small plate of desserts on a geometrically patterned table cloth, draping so it almost appears to be falling over the frame. The viewer is required to ask the questions about the scene but the answers may only lie in their own imagination. The painting, which is painted on canvas then mounted to a panel, is framed in a simple wooden frame measuring 21 x 30 inches. John Hrehov Dessert, 2022 oil on canvas on panel 20h x 29w in 50.80h x 73.66w cm JHR008 John Hrehov Education 1985 MFA-Painting, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1981 BFA-Painting, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH. Solo Exhibitions 2017 John Hrehov, Paintings and Drawings. Tom Thomas Gallery, Indiana University East, Richmond, IN. 2012 Shades from White to Black, New Drawings. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. 2011 John Hrehov: Charcoal. Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne. 2009 John Hrehov: A Survey 1999-2009 Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. Paintings and Drawings. Seerveld Gallery, Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL. 2004 John Hrehov: Drawings and Paintings. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. 2002 Paintings. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. 2001 Charcoal. Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne. John Hrehov, Paintings and Drawings. Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL. 2000 The Picture Proper. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. Fearful Symmetry. Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN. Allegories in Contemporary Life. Yvonne Rapp Gallery, Louisville, KY. 1999 Paintings and Working Drawings. Adams Hall Gallery, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL. 1998 John Hrehov. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. John Hrehov: Paintings and Drawings. Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL. 1997 Object Lesson, Paintings, and Drawings by John Hrehov. Yvonne Rapp Gallery, Louisville, KY. 1995 John Hrehov. Trinity Art Gallery, Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL. 1993 John Hrehov: Selected Works 1980-1992 Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne. Group Exhibitions 2019 2019 Alumni Exhibition. Reinberger Gallery at The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH. Out Of The Closet. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. 1026 West Berry Street: The Fort Wayne Art School. Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN. 2018 Artlink Regional Exhibition. Artlink Contemporary Art Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN. 2017 Sola Grace-Faith-Scripture: An Exhibition of Sacred Visual Art. Good Shepherd Institute at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, IN. Norman Bradley...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Oil, Panel

Self-Portrait Sundial
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Self-Portrait Sundial MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: 103/150 MEASUREMENTS: 22.25" x 18" YEAR: 1966 CONDITION: Excellent ...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

"Vanity Fair (The Face Off) Recto, Camel Cigarette Verso, " by Paolo Garretto
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This double-sided lithograph by Paolo Garretto features a Vanity Fair cover "The Face Off" on the front and a Camel Cigarette ad on the back. It was pu...
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1930s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Israeli Large Vibrant Surrealist Flowers Oil Painting
By Milia Laufer
Located in Surfside, FL
Milia Laufer, born Romania. From 1951 lived and worked in Safed. Together with her husband opened one of the earliest galleries in Israel, in Tiberias. Worked in watercolors and oils...
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1950s Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Oil

The Judgement of Paris original E.A. etching by Salvador Dali Mythology Suite
Located in Paonia, CO
The Judgement of Paris ( Three Graces ) is an original limited edition Epreuve d'Artiste ( EA ) etching on Rives BFK by Salvador Dali from the Mythology Suite. ( ref: Field 63-3.I / Michler & Lopsinger 123 ). Salvador Dalí’s mythology...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching

Homage to Modigliani-Original 3D surrealistic painting-contemporary illusion art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. Marek Letkiewicz’s Homage to Modigliani is a captivating fusion of Modigliani’s signature style and Letkiewicz’s innovative three-dimensional approach. The painting features elongated, stylized portraits of a cat and a woman, rendered on the surface of a fragmented architectural...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

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Acrylic, Board

Gala's Castle (Plate K) , 1974
Located in Greenwich, CT
Gala's Castle – signed ‘Dalí’ lower right and numbered A 11/195 lower left, from the edition of 462 (there were also 35 'A' Roman, 195 'F' Arabic, and 35 'F' Roman, plus 2 additional suites on japon). Framed in an ornate gold-tone moulding. Cataloging: Micheler-Löpsinger 675; Field 74-8 Plate K Dalí’s series of colored etchings After Fifty Years of Surrealism reflects on the artist’s long...
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20th Century Surrealist Art

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Etching, Stencil

"Moon Birth" Photography 24" x 24" in Edition 6/15 by Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Moon Birth" Photography 24" x 24" in Edition 6/15 by Olha Stepanian Printed on Epson Professional Paper Signed and numbered by the artist Not framed. Ships in a tube. Available...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

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Photographic Paper

Max Ernst - Abstract Birds - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Max Ernst - Birds - Original Lithograph Birds, 1962 Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm From the art review XXe siècle Unsigned and unumbered as issued
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

To have or to have not. Figurative surrealist print, Polish art master
Located in Warsaw, PL
Vibrant giclee limited edition print by worldwidely established Polish artist Rafal Olbinski. Figurative surrealistic print with ballet dancer holding a bird cage. There are trees in...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Paper, Color

Dreaming in the Backyard, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Original acrylic painting of a surreal dream-like setting. Varnished, with sides of canvas painted neutral tone and wired. No framing necessary. :: Painting :: Surrealism :: Thi...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Acrylic

Salvador Dali - Bicephale - Original Etching on Silk
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Bicephale - from "Les Amours de Cassandre" Original Etching From the suite on Silk made for editions 9 to 34 Dimensions: 38,5 x...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching

Composition (Field 69-3; M/L. 1600), VI tavole dal ciclo della, Biblia Sacra
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin Fabriano charta ex meris pannis "ab alveo" manu fabricata, perlucidis figuris intexta paper. Paper size: 19 x 13.75 inches. Inscription: Signed in the p...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Paradies XIX (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), Die Göttliche Komödie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin de Rives BFK paper, mounted on vélin d’Arches support, as issued. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Signed in the block, and unnumbered, as issu...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Woodcut

Lupo, wolf, sleeping face, mystery blacks and dark colors symbolist elements
Located in Brooklyn, NY
In this series, Audrey Anastasi has shifted her focus away from naturalistic domestic settings to a dark, enigmatic, and some might say, unsettling, place. These figures could be he...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Pool, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This is purely a surreal painting, without the symbolism that is often the case in my work, but purely surreal images of beauty and calm straight from the subconscious. The water ref...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Oil

Chromatic butterfly - pink, Painting, Oil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
An original piece from the series “Please do not kill butterfliesâ€
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Oil

Ivory Tower Modern Figurative Oil Painting
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Ivery Tower Modern Figurative Oil Painting John Nathaniel Fenton was born in 1929 in Mountaindale, New York. He is a 20th-century American painter and printmaker who studied at the A...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Salvador Dali - Brother Ogrin, The Hermit - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Brother Ogrin, The Hermit - Original Etching Dimensions: 45 x 33 cm Edition: 4/125 1970 Signed in pencil. On Arches Vellum References : Field 70-10 (p. 60-61)
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Etching

"Flora" - Geometric Surrealist Painting - Nude - Arcimboldo
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Flora" is one in a series of surreal paintings of the female figure featuring intricate patterning and hues of dark blue, bright yellow, lime green, pink, orange, and yellow ochre. ...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Linen, Oil

'On Voit cette Reine...' Colour Wood Engraving from ‘L’Arte d’Aimer d’Ovide’
Located in Toronto, ON
Artist proof from Salvador Dalí's series of prints 'L'Art d'Aimer d'Ovide' published in 1978 in Paris by Centre Culturel de Paris. This wood engraving is printed on Arches paper and ...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Engraving

Purgatory Canto 10 (The Divine Comedy)
Located in Greenwich, CT
Purgatory Canto 10 is a wood engraving on BFK Rives with an image size of 10 x 7" from the popular French edition of the portfolio. Framed in a classic, gold-tone frame. Cataloging: Micheler, R., & Löpsinger, L. (Eds.). (1995). Salvador Dalí Catalogue Raisonné of Prints II Lithographs and Wood Engravings 1956 – 1980. Prestel. pgs 102 -114. Field, A. (1996). The Official Catalog of the Graphic Works of Salvador Dalí. The Salvdor Dalí Archives. pgs. 189 – 200. Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy...
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20th Century Surrealist Art

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Paper, Woodcut

Composition (Field 69-3; M/L. 1600), VI tavole dal ciclo della, Biblia Sacra
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin Fabriano charta ex meris pannis "ab alveo" manu fabricata, perlucidis figuris intexta paper. Paper size: 19 x 13.75 inches. Inscription: Signed in the p...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Salvador Dali - The Lane of the Birches - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Lane of the Birches - Original Stamp-Signed Etching Stamp signed by Dali Edition of 294 copies. Paper : Arches vellum. Dimensions : 16x12". Catalogue Raisonné ...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching

"Swimming Suit 3" Photography 31" x 31" in Edition 1/7 by Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Swimming Suit 3" Photography 31" x 31" in Edition 1/7 by Olha Stepanian Printed on Epson Professional Paper Signed and numbered by the artist Not framed. Ships in a tube. Avail...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

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Photographic Paper

Man Ray, Composition, Man Ray (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Man Ray, 1984. Published by Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Ni...
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1980s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Nautical Vintage Voyage of Yesteryear, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
For this unique, original a ceramic egg was merged into a seascape for a surreal styled painting. The egg features nostalgia of jubilant sailor boys on their travels in a hot air bal...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Oil

House by the River, dramatic, black & white, noir, mystery, genre
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Dramatic imagery from Tom Bennett’s series of black and white monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism About Tom Bennett: With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett ...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Monotype

SPRING UP, Oil on Canvas
Located in Montreux, CH
Karen Shahverdyan „Eleven“ 129 X 147cm, oil on canvas
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Early 2000s Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Oil

La Pieta Nera, from "Les Vitraux"
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Salvador Dali La Pieta Nera (The Black Madonna) 1974 Lithograph 30 x 22 in. Edition of 50 E.A. (Epreuve d'Artiste) Pencil signed and nu...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Composition (Field 69-3; M/L. 1600), VI tavole dal ciclo della, Biblia Sacra
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin Fabriano charta ex meris pannis "ab alveo" manu fabricata, perlucidis figuris intexta paper. Paper size: 19 x 13.75 inches. Inscription: Signed in the p...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

La Source du Calme, Surrealist Etching by Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 - 2002) Title: La Source du Calme Year: 2002 Medium: Carborundum Etching on Hand-Made Paper, signed and numbered in mark...
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Early 2000s Surrealist Art

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Handmade Paper, Etching

French Neo-Romantic Surrealist Painting "Circus" by Kristians Tonny
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Kristians Tonny (French, born Holland; 1907-1977) Circus Oil on prepared board, 16 1/2 x 13 inches Framed: 22 x 19 inches (approx.) Inscribed on reverse: (in pencil) "cadre noir/ave...
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1920s Surrealist Art

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Oil, Board

'Edward', Woman Artist, PAFA, Art Students League, Smithsonian, Art Deco Figural
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A color, stone lithograph titled 'Edward' by Nura Woodson Ulreich (American, 1899–1950) stamped verso with certification of authenticity. A crisp and fresh image from 'Nura's Childre...
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1940s Surrealist Art

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Paper, Lithograph

A La Plage (At the Beach), framed hand signed lithograph
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph in black on pale green panel on white Rives paper. Hand signed lower right by Salvador Dali. Hand numbered LXXVII/CXX lower left. Artwork size: 20 x 28 inches. Frame ...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph, Paper

"Nightgale" Surreal Still Life in a Blue Landscape style of Yves Tanguy and Dali
Located in Soquel, CA
"Nightgale" Birds Fly in a Surreal Still Life in a Blue Landscape Surreal landscape by Kennard M. Harris (American, b-1930). A table is set with a broken glass and surreal objects, becoming a landscape; roiling clouds lurk nearby as a flock of Nightingales fly in the distance. Kennard Studied art at the Art Center School in Los Angeles Signed with his Monogam lower left The Hammer Galleries ink stamp on paper backing and title "Nightgale #62, a label 14. Nightgale on board. Possibly indication of a number of paintings exhibited at the Hammer Galleries. Image, 24.5"H x 20"W Frame, 27.5"H x 23"W x 1.5"D EXHIBITED: Hammer Galleries, New York, 1962 First: San Diego, Orr's Gallery, Kennard Harris...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Oil, Board, Stretcher Bars

Bon Fire Night Circle (13 totally nude men arrayed in a circle in the desert)
Located in New Orleans, LA
13 nude guys form a circle in the desert. This is number 1 from a limited edition of 12. The work is signed on the back. A book of the artists work will be published in early Spring London-based Photographer and Graphic designer Omer Ga...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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C Print

Moses and Aaron Before Pharaoh - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1956
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on Montval wove paper, realized by Marc Chagall in 1931-39 and published by Tériade in 1956. Belongs to the series "The Bible". Edition of 275+30 out of commerce copies. N...
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1950s Surrealist Art

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Etching

Surrealist Woodblock Print Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ Female Blue Green Birds
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative take...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Woodcut, Mixed Media

banana print kitchen art
Located in Roma, GB
limited edition print on paper hand signed 25x35cm(40x50cm full size) Limited Edition, Hand Signed Certificate of Authenticity
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

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Paper, C Print, Color, Digital, Laser

Miss Friday
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Much of Keith Hamilton's work is a comment on human perception: how our mind tries to recognize patterns and make sense of a complex world. Because context greatly influences how we ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

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Archival Pigment

"Miss Ada" Black & White Photography 39" x 39" in Edition 1/3 by Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Miss Ada" Black & White Photography 39" x 39" in Edition 1/3 by Olha Stepanian Printed on Epson Professional Paper Signed and numbered by the artist Not framed. Ships in a tube. ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

"Layers of the Self", Surrealist, Portrait, Man, Collage, Acrylic Painting, 2025
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Layers of the Self” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 32 x 20 inches in greys, blacks and whites, with flesh tones. Although quite young, the gentleman has ...
Category

2010s Surrealist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Swimming Suit 3" Photography 24" x 24" in Edition 1/15 by Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Swimming Suit 3" Photography 24" x 24" in Edition 1/15 by Olha Stepanian Printed on Epson Professional Paper Signed and numbered by the artist Not framed. Ships in a tube. Avai...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Surrealist Gouache on Paper, 'Threshold or Pagans'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Contemporary surrealist watercolour and gouache on paper by British artist Derek Carruthers. Signed bottom right. An intriguing and beautifully pain...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

Materials

Gouache, Paper

Tight Rope
Located in Greenwich, CT
Tight Rope is a lithograph on paper with an image size of 3 x 3.25 inches, initialed 'FMB' lower right and annotated lower left, framed in a contemporary si...
Category

20th Century Surrealist Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

François-Xavier Lalanne (1927-2008) the blackbird -2003
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
François-Xavier Lalanne (1927-2008) the blackbird, 2003 Techniques : woodcut on paper, hand signed in pencil by François Xavier Lalanne, in perfect condition Dimensions of the paper...
Category

Early 2000s Surrealist Art

Materials

Paper

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