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
Balance, Whimsical female with flowers, roses, bright golden sky
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
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
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...
Category
2010s Surrealist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Acrobats bright tropical colors man and toucan birds humorous narrative
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on canvas signed and dated on reverse. Part ot a human and animal series by the artist
ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic...
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2010s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,800 Sale Price
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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
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
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Early 2000s Fauvist 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
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....
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2010s Outsider Art Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Wood 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
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
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
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
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...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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
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...
Category
2010s Outsider Art Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
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
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
Hitchhikers, turtle & boys children soft dreamy green colors bamboo
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Imaginary story, fable or fairy tale-like narrative of young boys hitchhiking on the back of a turtle signed and dated on reverse side.
ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly or...
Category
2010s Outsider Art Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Navigator, bright color oil painting of figure, boats, water
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
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
Priest dark muted color somber religious subject figure human condition theme
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Although painted 10 years ago the artist feels it is an appropriate image for these troubled times.
Category
2010s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lifeboat nautical sea fable soft blue color sailing theme male female figures
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The quirky humor in this painting speaks for itself
Category
2010s Contemporary Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Mad Hatters bright colorful fashionable ladies humorous view
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on
cradled wooden board signed and dated on reverse contemporary figurative expressionism
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Pillow Fight, colorful humorous nude women
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...
Category
2010s Outsider Art Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
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
Shoe repairman, colorful, character
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...
Category
2010s Outsider Art Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Oil
Three's a Crowd, whimsical colorful pastel on toned paper
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Three's a Crowd, whimsical colorful pastel on toned paper
A Brooklyn native, much of Basso's wildly imaginative artwork was inspired by travel to Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and especiall...
Category
2010s Outsider Art Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
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
Playa Citra (citrus Beach) colorful citrus fruits red beagle dog beach
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oi on canvas signed on reverse surreal dreamlike quality
Category
Early 2000s Neo-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
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
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
Robed Couple. Male and female bathrobe figures faux diptych violet & red color
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on linen canvas mounted on.plywood titled signed and dated on reverse
ABOUT Stephen Basso
domestic scenario
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romanti...
Category
2010s American Modern Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Linen, Plywood, 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
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...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
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
Soutine's Purveyor, humorous butcher with meat, food
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagination, wry wit and fear...
Category
2010s Outsider Art 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...
Category
2010s Feminist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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...
Category
2010s Outsider Art Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Jute, Wood, Oil, Canvas
Resistance, strong female figure with trees warm green and yellow colors
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is part on an ongoing series of works by the artist depicting strong allegorical women in various landscapes. The painting is oil on linen canvas signed on reverse
Category
2010s Feminist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Linen, 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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Yemaya Descembarcar(Yemaya Ashore) blues seaside West african & religious
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
the subject of this work is Yemaya orisha or saint of the seven oceans . Her colors are blue and white and she exudes great power and love.
Category
2010s Feminist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Melodramatic Breakup romantic couple theme human drama humorous undertones
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on canvas signed on reverse. Heavy duty stretcher ready for display
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
El Bajo Latin music theme rich vibrant colors musical instruments strong rhythm
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on linen canvas
There is no charge for a beautiful gold rimmed ebony colored wood frame, which is included with this painting . the dimensions 52 x 38 are including this frame a...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
wildwood, four female figures, small male, some 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 Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
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 ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
Glory and Grandeur art history strong black female figure topical subject
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, Linen
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
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
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
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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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.
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,640 Sale Price
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Surrogate Family cat woman and with her extended family on sofa humorous theme
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a recent oil on linen canvas mounted on cradled wood panel signed and dated on reverse . Created earlier this year, the artist has titled it in response to the current politi...
Category
2010s American Modern Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Wood Panel
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
The One That Got Away. Smoking man in antique bathtub soft green tones humorous
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an oil on wood painting. There is a rough stipple texture to this work achieved by mixing a pumice like compound into the primer. The work is consistent with the artists humo...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Wood, 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
Moving Day still life vegetables humorous undertones strong bright color
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
this painting is oil on boars framed it is part of a series of still life paintings which the artist refers to as Restless Still Life because in his words "fruits and vegetables have...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, ABS
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