Stephen Basso Paintings
American, b. 1953
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic yet thought provoking fables. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagination wry wit and fearless color. Mr. Basso's works evoke a high level of inquiry. The fanciful yet keenly observed characters are unpredictable and evocative. The viewer vacillates between surprised delight and consternation, A Brooklyn native much of Basso's art has been inspired by travel to Jamaica Puerto Rico and in particular Mexico blended with is urban New York experience.
By in large Basso is self taught ( after initially attending the School of Visual Arts for illustration he came to the conclusion painting was more engaging ) Seeking emotional honesty he has looked to the work of several mentors notably Max Beckmann Willem de Kooning Goya Marsden Hartley and Albert Pinkham Ryder to name a few...artists that speak to the human condition
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Artist: Stephen Basso
Yellow Reflection woman in yellow gown mirror peacock and children images
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This image is a depiction of Oshun an orisha in the religion of Santeria . She is often pictured dressed in yellow and white with peacocks small children and waterfalls ABOUT Stephen...
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2010s Surrealist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Balls and Strikes coney islandbeach brooklyn denizens summer baseball bathers
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
this is an oil on cradled wood board, framing recommended but not necessary. the paint was mixes=d with a pumice like material to give it a rough sandy feel
ABOUT Stephen Basso
Ste...
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2010s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Oil
Surf N' Turf mermaid mythic figures interior food romantic undertones
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on canvas heavy duty stretcher bars .Framing recommended but not wit. Signed and dated on reverse. Part of an ongoing series of mermaids by the artist.
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Early 2000s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,640 Sale Price
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Pastry chef food cooking theme sweet color figure resembles delicious cakes
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This painting is inspires by the painting of chaim soutine pastry chefs.
Category
2010s Outsider Art Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Valentine Cat (double Hearted Cat) bright sunny color cat romantic greens
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on masonite with a natural birch frame glossy finish
Category
1990s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Wonderland small scale seated woman with large bouquet soft green colors
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imaginat...
Category
2010s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Release female figure on cliff seascape muted green &select bright color
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imaginat...
Category
2010s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Release, female figure on cliff colorful birds in flight dreamlike imagery
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
An oil on canvas from 2017 depicting a young lone woman standing on the edge of a cliff overlooking a deep green sea. She lifts her dress releasing hundreds of colorful birds into a ...
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2010s Surrealist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Doll House colorful whimsical women large female figure w/ smaller figures
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imaginat...
Category
2010s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Butcher ll male figure cuts meat pork warm olive & red colors food theme
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on plywood signed and dated . Second of several works depicting butchers. Recently exhibited at the Bartow-Pell Museum on the Bronx NYC.
ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's h...
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2010s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Wood, Plywood, Oil
Eden Lockdown, colorful humorous nude woman with apple and snake
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on linen on mounted board
outsider pastel on archival paper
*ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking f...
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2010s Outsider Art Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
procession, seashore, beach, colorful, humor, female figure, bather green tones
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Blending surrealistic elements with narrative, Mr. Basso is known for wildly imaginative and colorful work.
Category
1980s Fauvist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
bathers (the kiss), female nude figures indoor pool green grey tones
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
female bathers by visionary artist Stephen Basso surreal dreamlike imagery
ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil painting...
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Early 2000s American Modern Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cooped Up, colorful painting of cats and birds in birdcage
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
colorful surrealist narrative of cats
*ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical...
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2010s Surrealist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Trash Talk, seated shirtless male figure parrots & cat yellow & warm green color
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Recent oil on linen canvas mounted on cradled wood panel signed and dated on reverse. Part of an ongoing series by the artist in his humorous observation of humans and their pets
ABO...
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2010s Outsider Art Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Linen, Wood Panel, Oil
la sala de la bruja (sorcerer's parlor), surrealist interior, green, bird, nude
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Narrative, colorful and surreal fantasy of a room interior. The image incorporates many of the recurring symbols in the artist's work such as hearts fe...
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1990s Surrealist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lemon Winter, colorful humorous woman and dog
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on linen on mounted board
*ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works a...
Category
2010s Outsider Art Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Cafe Max, bar scene red and bright color, music, genre, night club
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
*ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagina...
Category
2010s Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Lemondrops persimmon red and rich gold ochre colors interior subjects
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
First of a series of totem like images by the artist dealing with everyday ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought pr...
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2010s Outsider Art Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Foregone Conclusion large colorful triptych-like seafood still life lobster
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This triptych-like lobster still life is only one of four paintings in this format by the artist. It is not a true triptych, as it is one large single canvas with three distinct imag...
Category
1990s Modern Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,080 Sale Price
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Catcus Fever seated man with catcus plant warm southwestern colors
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an oil on linen canvas mounted on a cradled wood panel. Framing recommended but not necessary. It is signed and dated on the reverse
Category
2010s Outsider Art Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Wood Panel
The Golden Sea. Female bather with lobster warm yellow and soft red color
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an oil painted on linen mounted on cradled wood panel titled signed and dated on reverse.
It is a humorous allegory depicting a bather holding a large golden yellow lobster....
Category
2010s Outsider Art Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Wood Panel
Scent floral arrangement and mask like head warm yellow and olive colors
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on board signed on reverse (frame included at no charge)
ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fanta...
Category
2010s Outsider Art Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Lover Boy, colorful humorous woman and Cat
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on linen on mounted board
*ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fanta...
Category
2010s Outsider Art Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
salty sue and kandy korn, colorful woman and bird humorous people pets
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
one of a series of people and their pets painted on wood panel suitable for framed smooth texture
Category
2010s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
The Boxer. Humorous nature encounter seaside w lobster, soft muted colors
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on cradled board. Signed and dated on back.
Part of an ongoing series of man vs beast by the artist
Category
2010s American Modern Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Yellow Bouquet seated female figure with flowers soft yellow and pink
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Seated woman in a pink suit strong yet warm color consistent with the artist's palette. It is painted on jute a coarse type of burlap mounted on a cradled wood board . Framing recomm...
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2010s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Jute, Wood, Oil
Congregation, still life food peppers dark colors rough textured surface
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on wood with a rough texture surface. Signed and dated on reverse. Part ot an ongoing series if still life by the artist which is the artist refers...
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2010s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Cupid Under Construction valentine hearts quasi romantic theme strong red colors
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on canvas heavy duty stretcher framing recommended but not required . painting part of a series of narrow vertical canvases depicting totem like stories
ABOUT Stephen Basso
Step...
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2010s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
valentine cat, colorful greens, plants, interior by window
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Early work - Mixed media on board
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with bound...
Category
1990s Fauvist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
Lollipop Emperor. Carnival suckers and ancient leaders dark blues and greys
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on linen mounted on wood signed and dated on reverse. ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasie...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Wood, Linen, Oil
Tequila Revision Tulum Maya Riviera magical seascape warm tropical colors
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on canvas heavy duty stretchers framing not necessary influenced by the Tulum seascape after too many tequilas.
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Oil
$3,680 Sale Price
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TiTi Dolores and Coquito sitting female portrait with pet chihuahua dark colors
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This recent painting is part on an ongoing series of humans and their non human companions. It is painted on linen canvas mounted on a cradled wood panel. Signed and dated by the art...
Category
2010s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Wood Panel
Pale Jade. Hairless female head warm and cool green tones
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imaginat...
Category
2010s American Modern Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Strongman and Fire eater circus, coney island influences colorful carnival
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on board mounted on a wooden frame suitable for immediate hanging. The board has been primed with an acrylic pumice gel giving the surface a rough texture visible from the photo...
Category
2010s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Brass
Meeting. Three empty chairs in a NYC residential lobby warm Gray and green color
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imaginat...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Stickball Team sports related group male figures earth and red colors
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The painting hardens back to the artist's memory of stickball played on YYC streets. The rough texture is created by pumice like material mixed with the primer. It is on wood signed ...
Category
2010s Outsider Art Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Bella Buster and Bruno. Seated male figure two dogs blue and Grey tones
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on linen canvas mounted on wood suitable for framing. Signed and dated on reverse. Part of a series by the artist of humans and their animal counterparts
ABOUT Stephen Basso
Ste...
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2010s American Modern Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Linen, Wood, Oil
Bluebird Spring garden setting large female figure soft warm Grey violet yellow
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an oil painting on jute canvas mounted on a cradled wood board. It is signed and dated by the artist on reverse. The texture is rough yet dense with a strong balance of light...
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2010s Outsider Art Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Jute, Wood, Oil, Canvas
Travel Guide. Seated male figure reading large yellow bird shaped canvas
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Painted on an arch shaped canvas signed on lower left and on reverse.
ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provo...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bordertown Standing comical male figure w dogs bright yellow red orange
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imaginat...
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2010s Other Art Style Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Trojan Cat surreal dreamlike image of small boy inside a large black cat
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
*ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagina...
Category
1980s Surrealist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Looking South. NYC urban landscape Part Mexico city landscape melded together
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an experimental work by the artist combining two different city landscapes. It was created after the artist's return to New York after visiting Mexico
Category
1990s American Modern Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Bronx Wedding, colorful dancing celebration w musicians blue sky butterflies
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
*ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagina...
Category
2010s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Champagne Toast reclining female figure with five faces in large mirrors
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The subject is primarily about multiple personalities. It is signed and dated on the reverse side.
*ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings ar...
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2010s Feminist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Masquerade heart shaped male figure catching masked female figure cat watching
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
*ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagina...
Category
2010s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
flowers from evergood, bright figure domestic setting predominantly red painting
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on wood by Stephen Basso
Narrative work, woman in chair in interior setting
Category
2010s American Modern Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
The Da Vinci Feds. Two seated suited male figures flanking a reclining woman
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
*ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagin...
Category
Early 2000s Post-Modern Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lullaby music by the sea guitars and song soft tranquil dreamlike color
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Stephen Basso's highly original paintings are romantic yet thought provoking musings. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagination wry wit and fearless color
The elemen...
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2010s Surrealist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ciambotta. music theme still life & figure women w instruments blue & violet
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Ciambotta is a southern Italian vegetable dish usually prepared with whatever vegetables are on hand at any given day meal. It may also refer to a varied collection of objects.
ABOU...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mermaid Reflections imaginative fantasy of women, mirror warm inviting color
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This work is part of an ongoing series of Mermaid by the artist. It is oil paint on linen mounted on wood panel with wooden bars suitable for hanging without framing unless desired. ...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Linen, Wood, Oil
Nude on the Edge#2, colorful, whimsical imaginative nude
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
*ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagina...
Category
2010s Outsider Art Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Cloistered Baker male figure with cake cherub with cupcake earthy tones
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Signed and dated on reverse. Oil paintings on cradled wood panel Stephen BassoStephen BassoABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic...
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2010s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
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Oil, Wood Panel
Perch. Seated dark clothed female figure holding white large bird.
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This whimsical work is an oil on linen canvas mounted on a cradled wood panel suitable for framing. It is signed and dated by the artist on reverse side.
The colors are warm greens a...
Category
2010s Outsider Art Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Global Warming rich color humor art topical subject birds and human interaction
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on stretched canvas signed an dated on reverse.
Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic yet thought provoking narratives. His whimsical works are alive wit...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Sinking Ship Blues lone female figure holding flowers and wine dark colors
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an oil on linen canvas mounted on a 1/4 inch plywood panel. It is signed and dated on the reverse side
Category
2010s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Linen, Plywood, Oil
Blue Period artist as subject humorous observation coll blue and Grey tones
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soft pastel on archival toned paper signed and dated top left. Part of an ongoing series by the artist of artist and model subject matter
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2010s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Music Scale, Bright colors, Musical instruments violin bass male female figures
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imaginat...
Category
2010s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bird Trainers seated male standing female figure white tropical bird hot color
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Surrealistic, stylized magic realism oil painting of oversize bird and 2 people signed and dated on reverse
ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil pai...
Category
2010s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pink Mirror two women with masks bedroom dresser flowers warm red and yellows
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This wildly colorful oil painting on linen canvas is signed and dated on the ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
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