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
The Hypnotist large oil painting multiple figures violet and green colors
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Statement from Stephen Basso about “The Hypnotist” :
“Some years ago I took a cruise for the first and probably the last time.I did not enjoy the experience but one night a show feat...
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2010s Outsider Art Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Grinning Man. Expressionist portrait cool blue and green colors
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
ABOUT Stephen Basso
No charge for frame
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive wi...
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2010s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
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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
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1990s American Modern Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tower of Slumber fantasy male and female figures engaged in Hercularian feats.
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This painting is one of various works by the artist depicting narratives in a narrow vertical format primarily influenced by the works of the German artist Max Beckmann . It is a lar...
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2010s Outsider Art Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Precarious, Nude dark colors female nude figure on top of tilting pillows
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
An early work by the artist depicting a Nude posing atop a totem. ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking ...
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1980s American Modern Stephen Basso Paintings
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Cotton Canvas, Oil
Sandwich boy food related theme dark muted color
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This painting was done on cradled wood board signed and dated on back. The rough texture is achieved by adding an pumice like material to the painting ground. It is a companion work ...
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2010s American Modern Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Red Sofa seated female figure with cat and pillows dominant red color
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This painting of a seated woman with her cat is an early work by the artist. It has been held by the artist, exhibited only twice in the 36 years since its creation and is on excelle...
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1980s Expressionist 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 ...
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2010s Outsider Art Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
cold snap, strange character dressed for winter, red coat
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on wood
Category
2010s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Cupid Under Construction valentine hearts cupid mythology humorous overtones
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 Neo-Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
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
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
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
Category
2010s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
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
The Dust Collector religious theme female figure ceremonial objects, bright reds
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on linen canvas heavy duty stretcher reference to Hatian vessels named govi containing souls of the departed
Category
2010s Post-Modern Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Queen of Hearts female nude large red heart big valentine love erotic
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on canvas on heavy stretcher framing recommended but not necessary
Category
Early 2000s Neo-Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Spotlight, seated female figure with plants warm and cool green combinations
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an oil on linen painting signed and dated on reverse.
Category
2010s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Linen, 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
Hide and Seek still life peppers and lemons Spanish influence dark undercurrent
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on linen canvas heavy duty stretcher framing recommended but not required. Part pf a series by the artist titled RESTLESS STILL LIFE
Category
Early 2000s Post-Modern Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
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
Dealmaker, businessman character study cigar bird narrative
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on canvas
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagination, wr...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
the waiting room, colorful narrative w 4 women and a little boy
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
large scale colorful Oil on canvas narrative painting of little boy surrounded by four ethnically diverse women in formal evening gowns.
Category
2010s Outsider Art Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nature Girl, colorful surrealist bird woman painting
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
colorful surrealist image of bird woman
*ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoki...
Category
2010s Surrealist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Viola and the Gatekeepers humans and animals bright color cats and dogs
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on linen canvas mounted on board signed and dated on reverse .part of an ongoing series of people and their pets. this painting requires framing.
Category
2010s Contemporary Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
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
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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
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
the golden lobster, fantasy, surreal bather
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 Outsider Art Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Existential Cyclist human condition humorous male figure on bicycle blue
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Signed and dated on reverse oil on wood panel . This work had a rough surface texture.
Some similarity to Botero quality
Category
2010s Outsider Art Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
purple hat, social observation, portrait of woman with red hat,
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
Snake Charmer warm sunny greens colorful mythic music theme female nude
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
An early work by the artist one of his early female themes. It is signed and dated bottom left and is on heavy duty stretcher bars that do not need framing
Category
1980s Neo-Expressionist 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...
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2010s Post-Modern Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Take the Cannoli food still life Italian pastry delicious tasty sweet treats
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil paint on wood with a rough stippled texture. the artist sometimes primes his painting surfaces with a sand like material for a coarse texture. this part of his continuing series ...
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2010s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
Inner Sanctum interior scene man an cat theme dark and bright color combination
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
this is oil on wood panel with a rough sandy textured surface . it comes ready to hang with a black frame that nicey complements the color scheme
Category
2010s Modern Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
mr. c and gladys, bright colorful man and dog
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 American 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
A Song for Goya, colorful musical theme painting
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
Early 2000s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Warm Reflections pool theme sunny colors florida suburbia human condition
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on stretched linen canvas framing not required signed and dated on reverse
Category
2010s American Modern Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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
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
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
garden variety nudes, narrative, surreal, whimsical, bright color, outsider
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 Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
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
Flight Lesson man and bird theme muted color humor in art
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
a touching portrait of a man and his parrot. oil on canvas signed on reverse
Category
2010s Contemporary Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
Bordeaux Evenings wine theme seated female figure warm evening thoughts
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on board mounted in wooden frame suitable for immediate hanging the artist mixed synthetic pumice into the primer to create a rough textured surface.
Category
2010s Contemporary Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
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
white mink, oil painting of urban scene, w snow, music reference in shadow
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
Early 2000s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Slippery Crustacean, humorous, bright color oil painting of boy and lobster
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
Moon Bathers festive colorful green Coney island beach denizens women humor
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on stretched canvas heavy duty stretchers framing not required signed and dated on reverse
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 fearless color. His shrewd social observations often translate into eerily humorous figurative scenes and narratives. Mr. Basso’s works evoke a high level of inquiry. The fanciful, yet keenly observed characters are unpredictable and evocative. The viewer vacillates between surprise, delight, and consternation.
.) Seeking emotional honesty, he looked to the work of several "mentors": Max Beckmann, Francisco Goya, Willem de Kooning , Philip Guston , Marsden Hartley and Albert Pinkham Ryder...
Category
1980s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portland Crawl still life lobster wine bottles dark new england color surreal
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on canvas ..it has a rough sandy texture . light duty stretchers suitable for framing. The artist had passed by a store window in Portland Maine and observed these fragmented whi...
Category
2010s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Rapunzel by the Sea, fairy tale narrative, colorful whimsical fantasy
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Rapunzel figure narrative, colorful
*ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical w...
Category
2010s Outsider Art Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Off Broadway multi figurative purple colors dancers women in gowns
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
a recent painting signed and dated on reverse
oil on stretched linen canvas heavy duty wooden stretchers framing recommended but not necessary.
Category
2010s Expressionist Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Linen
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
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
Mrs. K and Cherrybomb, colorful sleeping woman and red parrot
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
Early 2000s Outsider Art Stephen Basso Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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