Skip to main content

Refugee Art

to
10
18
10
10
11
9
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
41
17
2
3
4
3
7
4
2
12
11
7
3
2
1
27
25
4
27
17
13
9
5
5
5
4
4
3
3
3
3
3
2
2
2
2
1
1
35
21
16
15
11
4
3
2
2
2
1
8
43
6
Sort By
Refugees
Located in Montreal, Quebec
within The Flood and Iceberg, war and immigration in Refugees, the harms of industrial farming through
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Spray Paint, Acrylic, Resin, Wood Panel

Afghan Refugee
By Steve McCurry
Located in Greenwich, CT
. In a small village, he met a group of refugees from Afghanistan, who smuggled him across the border
Category

1980s Color Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Pigment

Israel Refugees
By Leonard Freed
Located in Westwood, NJ
Leonard Freed is considered one of the most prolific and timely photojournalists of his generation. Born in Brooklyn, he traveled to Europe for the first time in 1952, where he disc...
Category

1960s Black and White Photography

114, 000, 000 Refugees.
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
114,000,000 Refugees. Cate Blanchett Goodwill Ambassador to UNHCR Addressing European Parliament
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic

Afghan refugee - Peshawar, Pakistan
By Steve McCurry
Located in Toronto, ON
4" x 5" Unframed Closed Edition Photograph MAGNUM Photography Hand Signed by Steve McCurry
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, C Print, Digital

Israeli Eritrean Refugees Wedding, 2014
Located in Toronto, ON
4" x 5" Unframed Closed Edition Photograph MAGNUM Photography Hand Signed by Malin Fezehai
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Color, Digital

An Afghan Refugee in Balochistan, Pakistan, 1981 - Steve McCurry
By Steve McCurry
Located in London, GB
An Afghan Refugee in Balochistan, Pakistan, 1981 - Steve McCurry Signed and numbered on
Category

1980s Photography

Materials

C Print

Refugees in the Korem Camp, Ethiopia
By Sebastião Salgado
Located in Carmel, CA
Purchased from Peter Fetterman Gallery - Authorized dealer of Salgado's work. No damage issues. Look print moutned on corners. Over Mat included.
Category

1980s Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Refugee from England ( Memories), 20th Century Contemporary Acrylic
By Graham Dean
Located in London, GB
Graham Dean 1975 Refugee from England ( Memories) Acrylic on canvas Image size: 47 x 41 inches
Category

1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Old Jew Taking Children to School (the Refugee)
By Marian Kratochwil
Located in Surfside, FL
Gallery of Modern Art and several foreign collections hold his work. He shared a retrospective with his
Category

20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Refugee Children - Vintage b/w Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Refugee Children- Vintage b/w Photo realized by Peter Tatiner in 1980. Copyright by Agenzia Gamma
Category

1980s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Lithuanian French Cubist Modernist Lithograph "Flight" Refugees
By Jacques Lipchitz
Located in Surfside, FL
flight to reflect the plights of refugees and the hope of a new life. Flight is comprised of eleven
Category

1960s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"The Refugee, " Story Illustration for the Saturday Evening Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
" on Saturday Evening Post label verso. "The Refugee" by Bud Hutton and illustrated by Robert Fawcett
Category

1940s Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Board

"Refugees" contemporary surrealist painting moose, wolverine, beaver on sailboat
By Thomas Broadbent
Located in New York, NY
Art Fair. His work was subsequently featured in “Mission to Space” at the Children’s Art Museum in
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Calder, The Blue Balloon, Spanish Refugee Aid (after)
By Alexander Calder
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Alexander Calder for the benefit of the Spanish Refugee Aid. ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976) Credited with the
Category

1970s Modern Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Carved Wood German Expressionist Sculpture Jewish Woman Refugee Artist Judaica
By Miriam Sommerburg
Located in Surfside, FL
, which did not waver through her move. She famously said, “Art doesn’t belong on a pedestal. It belongs
Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Wood

'Persistence' mixed media on aluminum. Proceeds to aid Ukrainian refugees.
Located in Milwaukee, WI
refugees. 34 x 23 inches Artist's labels on the reverse Unframed, ready to hang Framing options
Category

1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Metal

Lithuanian French Ecole de Paris Judaica Oil Painting Refugee Family
By Jacques Koslowsky
Located in Surfside, FL
Expressionist Realistic portrait of a Jewish refugee family World War II era by Lithuanian French
Category

20th Century Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Social Realist Lithograph Moses Soyer WPA Artist Hudled Refugees
By Moses Soyer
Located in Surfside, FL
subject in his paintings. Soyer studied art in New York, first at Cooper Union and later at the Ferrer Art
Category

Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Jewish Refugees, Lydda Airport, Tel Aviv, Israel by Ruth Orkin, 1951
By Ruth Orkin
Located in Denton, TX
Jewish Refugees, Lydda Airport, Tel Aviv, Israel by Ruth Orkin depicts a window with three faces
Category

20th Century Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Lux Aeterna I (Eternal Light -The Requiem/ copters hover over fearful refugees)
By Ana Maria Pacheco
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ana Maria Pacheco portrays the fear and feelings of the displacement of refugees cowering beneath
Category

1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Drypoint

Playboys (2 American male refugees from the Gatsby era preen on Mexican beach)
By Caroline Durieux
Located in New Orleans, LA
born in New Orleans and was already making sketches by the age of four. Her formal art training was at
Category

1930s American Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Inside on Papers
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
the UNHCR Global Youth With Refugee Art Award 2020. He has worked with international organizations
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Inside on Papers
Inside on Papers
H 35.4 in W 27.5 in D 1 in
Serenity
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
) Participant. He also won the UNHCR global Youth With Refugee Art Award 2020. He has worked with international
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Serenity
Serenity
H 35.4 in W 27.5 in D 1 in
My Dear Lady
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Edition (Collective exhibition) Participant. He also won the UNHCR Global Youth With Refugee Art Award
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

My Dear Lady
My Dear Lady
H 55.1 in W 47.2 in D 1 in
Speak Up
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Edition (Collective exhibition) Participant. He also won the UNHCR Global Youth With Refugee Art Award
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Speak Up
Speak Up
H 39.4 in W 31.5 in D 1 in
Queen Kong
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Edition (Collective exhibition) Participant. He also won the UNHCR Global Youth With Refugee Art Award
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Queen Kong
Queen Kong
H 47.2 in W 47.2 in D 1 in
Higher Life
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
) Participant. He also won the UNHCR Global Youth With Refugee Art Award 2020. He has worked with international
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Higher Life
Higher Life
H 39.4 in W 31.5 in D 1 in
Israeli Oil Painting Ruth Schloss Child, Doll, Wagon, Kibbutz Social Realist Art
By Ruth Schloss
Located in Surfside, FL
Ruth’s mental development, as she learned to tie culture and art with sensitivity towards the weak and
Category

Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Abstract Piece - Mid 20th Century Colourful Oil on Canvas by Metchiled Naviasky
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Metchiled Naviasky Refugee from Europe who studied art in England. During the war she became
Category

1930s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Family of Refugees
Located in Los Angeles, CA
refugee family using a non-traditional color palette. On the brink of survival, the figures seem surreal
Category

20th Century Art

Materials

Oil

Family of Refugees
Family of Refugees
H 28.25 in W 22 in
Long Haul Refugee
By Judith Lindbloom
Located in East Hampton, NY
The art market--collectors, curators and museums--is in the early stages of a broad reappraisal of
Category

Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Foam Board

Strongly Pro-Taliban Refugees
By Simon Norfolk
Located in New York, NY
With the Refugees
By Edward Hopper
Located in Allentown, PA
Art, New York, September 27-December 9, 1979. This exhibition traveled to The Boston Museum of Fine
Category

1910s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Ares and Aphrodite #17 ( Refugees)
By Sanda Iliescu
Located in New York, NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Paul Barolsky, Commonwealth Professor of Art History at the University of
Category

2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Refugee Boys, Going Home, Kyber Pass, Pakistan/Afghan Border
By Tony O\'Brien
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Category

20th Century Photography

Lebanese Refugees at the Burj el-Barajneh Camp, Beirut
By Simon Norfolk
Located in New York, NY
Edition of: 10
19.2"x 24"

Edition of: 10
40"x 50"
Addiction
By Americus Long
Located in East Hampton, NY
. Lowenfeld was a noted art theorist and refugee from the Nazis who chose to teach African-American students
Category

1970s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Fiberboard

Compo B
By Americus Long
Located in East Hampton, NY
. Lowenfeld was a noted art theorist and refugee from the Nazis who chose to teach African-American students
Category

1970s Outsider Art Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Compo B
H 36 in W 24 in
Untitled
By Americus Long
Located in East Hampton, NY
. Lowenfeld was a noted art theorist and refugee from the Nazis who chose to teach African-American students
Category

1970s Outsider Art Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Fiberboard

Untitled
H 30 in W 22 in
Georgian Contemporary Art by Ilia Balavadze - Refugees
Located in Paris, IDF
Dry pastel on paper
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Pastel

Place of Refugee Wales original landscape painting
By Garry Raymond-Pereira
Located in London, Chelsea
white tray frame and ready to be displayed. Garry Pereira was born in 1974 and studied art at
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Old Jew Taking Children to School (the Refugee)
By Marian Kratochwil
Located in Surfside, FL
Gallery of Modern Art and several foreign collections hold his work. He shared a retrospective with his
Category

20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Lithuanian French Cubist Modernist Lithograph "Flight" Refugees
By Jacques Lipchitz
Located in Surfside, FL
flight to reflect the plights of refugees and the hope of a new life. Flight is comprised of eleven
Category

1960s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Carved Wood German Expressionist Sculpture Jewish Woman Refugee Artist Judaica
By Miriam Sommerburg
Located in Surfside, FL
, which did not waver through her move. She famously said, “Art doesn’t belong on a pedestal. It belongs
Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Wood

Lithuanian French Ecole de Paris Judaica Oil Painting Refugee Family
By Jacques Koslowsky
Located in Surfside, FL
Expressionist Realistic portrait of a Jewish refugee family World War II era by Lithuanian French
Category

20th Century Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Refugees, World War II, Modernist Judaica Gouache Painting Jewish WPA Artist
By Hananiah Harari
Located in Surfside, FL
exhibited nationally at the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Academy of Design and the Whitney Museum
Category

1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Rare Russian Judaica Oil Painting Jewish Pogrom Refugees Signed in Cyrillic
Located in Surfside, FL
representational art who captured the Jewish experience on canvas, wood and paper.
Category

Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Social Realist Lithograph Moses Soyer WPA Artist Hudled Refugees
By Moses Soyer
Located in Surfside, FL
subject in his paintings. Soyer studied art in New York, first at Cooper Union and later at the Ferrer Art
Category

Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Israeli Oil Painting Ruth Schloss Child, Doll, Wagon, Kibbutz Social Realist Art
By Ruth Schloss
Located in Surfside, FL
Ruth’s mental development, as she learned to tie culture and art with sensitivity towards the weak and
Category

Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Jewish Yemenite Fine Art Etching Print Israeli Parting Prayer Judaica Refugees
By Itamar Siani
Located in Surfside, FL
the teachers recognized his artistic talent. In 1968, he was admitted to Goldsmiths College of Art in
Category

1970s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Homeless Jewish Refugee Family 1940s Judaica Oil Painting
By Frederick B. Serger
Located in Surfside, FL
. Showing artistic talent at a young age, he attended art schools in Brno, Vienna, and Munich. During World
Category

1940s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Jewish Refugees, Lydda Airport, Tel Aviv, Israel
By Ruth Orkin
Located in Greenwich, CT
Print of Jewish refugees at Lydda Airport, Tel Aviv, Israel
Materials

Photographic Paper

In the Nikolsburg, [Mikulov, Moravia] Refugee Camp.
By Max Pollak
Located in Storrs, CT
In Flüchtlingslager Nikolsburg-Auskämmen. (In the Nikolsburg,[Mikulov, Moravia] Refugee Camp
Category

1910s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Drypoint

"Refugees" Mexican American Oil Painting Depression Era WPA Mid-Century Modern
By Michael Loew
Located in New York, NY
"Refugees" Mexican American Oil Painting Depression Era WPA Mid-Century Modern. The Whitney
Category

1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Rare Russian Judaica Oil Painting Jewish Pogrom Refugees Signed in Cyrillic
Located in Surfside, FL
representational art who captured the Jewish experience on canvas, wood and paper.
Category

Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

NEW IMMIGRANTS Signed Lithograph, Refugees, Boat, Humanitarian Aid, Sun
By Chaim Gross
Located in Union City, NJ
Austria retook the town in 1915, refugees of the war. When World War I ended, Gross and brother Avrom-Leib
Category

1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

The Storm, Modern Oil Painting WPA Jewish artist (War Allegory, Refugees)
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
, Kish used the skills he acquired in art school to earn his living at a Manhattan glass factory where he
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Heart of Man
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
) Participant. He also won the UNHCR Global Youth With Refugee Art Award 2020. He has worked with international
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Heart of Man
Heart of Man
H 55.1 in W 47.2 in D 1 in
Other Side
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Edition (Collective exhibition) Participant. He also won the UNHCR global Youth With Refugee Art Award
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Other Side
Other Side
H 47.2 in W 47.2 in D 1 in
  • 1
Get Updated with New Arrivals
Save "Refugee Art", and we’ll notify you when there are new listings in this category.

Refugee Art For Sale on 1stDibs

Find the exact piece of refugee art you’re shopping for in the variety available on 1stDibs. Find Contemporary versions now, or shop for Contemporary creations for a more modern example of these cherished works. Making the right choice when shopping for an item from our selection of refugee art may mean carefully reviewing examples of this item dating from different eras — you can find an early iteration of this piece from the 20th Century and a newer version made as recently as the 21st Century. Adding a choice in our collection of refugee art to a room that is mostly decorated in warm neutral tones can yield a welcome change — find a piece on 1stDibs that incorporates elements of gray, black, brown, silver and more. An object in our assortment of refugee art from Ana Maria Pacheco, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Graham Dean, Caroline Durieux and Hananiah Harari — each of whom created distinctive versions of this kind of work — is worth considering. Artworks like these — often created in paint, oil paint and board — can elevate any room of your home. If space is limited, you can find a small option in this array of refugee art measuring 7.88 high and 7.88 wide, while our inventory also includes works up to 42 across to better suit those in the market for a large piece of refugee art.

How Much is a Refugee Art?

The price for an artwork of this kind can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — a piece of refugee art in our inventory may begin at $317 and can go as high as $40,000, while the average can fetch as much as $2,500.