Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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
Pop Surrealism Figurative Artwork. "Listen" by Evgeniya Golik
Located in San Diego, CA
A 16.5” x 20.5” x 1" Surrealism Figurative Artwork by artist Evgeniya Golik. This piece is Acrylic Paint, Pastel, Colored Pencil, and Gold Leaf on Toned Paper. A certificate of authe...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Gold Leaf
"The Embrace" Original Surreal Watercolor & Ink Drawing by Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Chicago, IL
Walter Schnackenberg’s style changed several times during his long and successful career. Having studied in Munich, the artist traveled often to Paris where he fell under the spell o...
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1940s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Watercolor
Surrealist Pop Culture Colored Drawing, "Oh, Edward" by Evgeniya Golik
Located in San Diego, CA
A 15” x 12” Surrealist Pop Culture Figurative Colored Drawing with White Ink by artist Evgeniya Golik. A certificate of authenticity will accompany the piece upon its purchase or del...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Color Pencil
Surrealist Watercolour and Gouache on Paper. 'The Picnic'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th century surrealist watercolour and gouache on paper by British artist Derek Carruthers. Signed bottom right.
An intriguing and beautifully...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Female Artist Surrealism Modern Contemporary Drawing Graphite Mandala Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Presence" is an original graphite drawing created by Cynthia Torroll. This is a meditation on meditation. It took the artist two months and two days to draw this piece. Torroll ...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Graphite, Paper
Surrealist Painting on Paper, 'Godot', Artefacts of Civilisations Lost
Located in Cotignac, FR
A late 20th century watercolour, gouache and acrylic on paper by British artist Derek Carruthers. Signed to the bottom right and dated 1985 and titled, 'Godot' to the reverse.
A ch...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Acrylic, Gouache, Watercolor, Paper
Surrealist Gouache and Watercolour on Paper, 'Sunday School Ghosts'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Surrealist watercolour and gouache on handmade paper by British artist Derek Carruthers. Signed bottom right and signed, dated and titled 'Sunday School Ghosts' to the reverse.
A wo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Acrylic, Gouache, Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Surrealist Gouache Watercolour on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th century gouache and watercolour on paper by British artist Derek Carruthers. The painting is signed to the bottom right and signed and dated 1985 to the reverse.
An impos...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Surrealist Gouache, 'Kerouac, Orlovsky and Burroughs, The Beat Generation'
Located in Cotignac, FR
A late 20th century watercolour and gouache on paper by British artist Derek Carruthers. Signed to the bottom right.
Carruthers at one period in his painting became quite interested...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Pencil, Watercolor, Crayon, Paper
Two men's heads, ca. 1930, ink on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Mathieu (Matei) ROSIANU (1897-1969)
Two men's heads, circa 1930
Ink on paper
7 x 9 cm
Born in Bucharest in 1897 to an officer in the Romanian National Guard and a mother of French ...
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1930s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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India Ink, Ink
Man with coin, ca. 1930, pencil on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Mathieu (Matei) ROSIANU (1897-1969)
Man with coin
Pencil on paper
Workshop stamp on reverse
8 x 5,5 inch
Born in Bucharest in 1897 to an officer in the Romanian National Guard and ...
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1930s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Pencil
Kyle Andrew Szpyrka - Where Have You Been, Where Are You Going?, Drawing 2014
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Paths series was born out of a trip I took one summer to LA. The trip itself was more of an escape from my life in New York. At the time I was at a crossroads. Having just gone t...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Graphite
Kyle Andrew Szpyrka - Babel, Drawing 2014
Located in Greenwich, CT
Sutra, a Sanskrit word meaning “thread”, is a word or small group of words that summarize an entire complex web of ideas, truths, wisdoms, or teachings all woven together into a sing...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Graphite
Kyle Andrew Szpyrka - Don't You Recognize Me?, Drawing 2014
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Paths series was born out of a trip I took one summer to LA. The trip itself was more of an escape from my life in New York. At the time I was at a crossroads. Having just gone t...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Graphite
Hompage Magritte, Called Woman Seen From Behind, Original Gouache
Located in Stockholm, SE
This gouache painting by Ulf Linde, a multifaceted Swedish figure, presents a unique portrayal of a woman seen from behind, set against a blue and white...
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20th Century Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Gouache, Board
Untitled Female Nude with Male, Original Drawing by Surrealist Painter
By Leon Kelly
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Untitled Female Nude and Male" is a 22 x 17 inches, ink on paper drawing by American Surrealist painter Leon Kelly. The drawing is signed and dated in the lower right, it is matted ...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper
"Nest" Graphite Drawing
By Mary Carroll
Located in Denver, CO
Mary Carroll's (US based) "Nest" is an original, handmade graphite drawing that depicts green eggs nestled in a nest surrounded by a snake and two birds.
Artist Biography:
Born in ...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Ballpoint Pen, Acrylic, Graphite, Paper
Apocalypse, Catastrophic Destruction of the World, Surrealism - Life Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
Apocalypse in 1962? At the height of the Cold War, Life Magazine commissions an illustration that describes the world's end by means other than a nuclear war with Russia. Richard Erdoes brilliantly illustrates the work with his highly stylized painting technique. My favorite part of the work is on the left side showing a group of people packed together as they fall into oblivion. A clear reference would be Hieronymus Bosch's "The Last Judgment "
Once Again the World Ends." Illustration published in Life Magazine, Feb. 9, 1962
Signed in lower right image.
Unframed
Richard Erdoes (Hungarian Erdős, German Erdös; July 7, 1912 – July 16, 2008) was an American artist, photographer, illustrator and author.
Early life
Erdoes was born in Frankfurt,[1] to Maria Josefa Schrom on July 7, 1912. His father, Richárd Erdős Sr., was a Jewish Hungarian opera singer who had died a few weeks earlier in Budapest on June 9, 1912.[2] After his birth, his mother lived with her sister, the Viennese actress Leopoldine ("Poldi") Sangora,[3] He described himself as "equal parts Austrian, Hungarian and German, as well as equal parts Catholic, Protestant and Jew..."[4]
Career
He was a student at the Berlin Academy of Art in 1933, when Adolf Hitler came to power. He was involved in a small underground paper where he published anti-Hitler political cartoons which attracted the attention of the Nazi regime. He fled Germany with a price on his head. Back in Vienna, he continued his training at the Kunstgewerbeschule, now the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.[5] He also wrote and illustrated children's books and worked as a caricaturist for Tag and Stunde, anti-Nazi newspapers. After the Anschluss of Austria in 1938 he fled again, first to Paris, where he studied at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, and then London, England before journeying to the United States. He married his first wife, fellow artist Elsie Schulhof (d. xxxx) in London, shortly before their arrival in New York City.
In New York City, Erdoes enjoyed a long career as a commercial artist, and was known for his highly detailed, whimsical drawings. He created illustrations for such magazines as Stage, Fortune, Pageant, Gourmet, Harper's Bazaar, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, Time, National Geographic and Life Magazine, where he met his second wife, Jean Sternbergh (d. 1995) who was an art director there. The couple married in 1951 and had three children.[6] Erdoes also illustrated many children's books.
An assignment for Life in 1967 took Erdoes to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for the first time, and marked the beginning of the work for which he would be best known. Erdoes was fascinated by Native American culture, outraged at the conditions on the reservation and deeply moved by the Civil Rights Movement that was raging at the time. He wrote histories, collections of Native American stories...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Mixed Media, Illustration Board, Board, Gouache
Modern Figurative Surrealist Watercolor Painting, Drawing 'Prince of Innocence'
Located in Surfside, FL
Angelic boy with a devil figure.
Gary Hansmann (1947-2008) was active/lived in California. He is known for abstract, Surrealism figure painting.
Gary William Hansmann was born Dec. 4, 1940, in San Diego to Ethel May Williams and Lester Hughes Hansmann. He grew up in Encinitas and served in the Army in the early 1960s.
Gary Hansmann, San Diego artist, teacher and gallery owner, was known for his Surrealist drawings and graphics. He spent time working in Paris and exhibiting his art throughout Europe, but San Diego was home until he moved to Washington state. His life partner was fellow artist, Jill Hosmer. Mr. Hansmann, a respected printmaker and prolific artist, created thousands of drawings, prints and paintings as well as hundreds of poems. His interest in bullfighting led to a book of poetry and illustrations on the subject, “La Corrida, The Run”, a collection of poetry & artwork written as he was preparing for his first bullfight. Prologue written by famous Mexican Matador Antonio Lomelin. The book is written in English and translated into Spanish on opposing pages and was published in 1983. Mr. Hansmann taught intaglio and monotype at the Academy of Fine Arts in San Diego from 1977 to 1980 and at the San Diego Museum of Art in 1980. He also gave lectures and demonstrations throughout the art community, including at the San Diego Art Guild in Del Mar and Artist Equity in San Diego. Although he attended Palomar College in San Marcos and studied lithography at the San Diego Academy of Fine Arts, Mr. Hansmann was mostly self-taught and self-educated. Mr. Hansmann had shows in several art-world capitals, including Paris; Lisbon, Portugal; Cologne, Germany; Brussels, Belgium; and New York. he had one-person exhibits at the Loft Gallery in Clarkston, the Lewis-Clark State College Center of Arts & History, the Carnegie Art Center in Walla Walla and the Valley Art Center in Clarkston. During his long, distinguished career as an artist he had numerous one-person exhibits all over the world and the United States.
His group shows are too numerous to mention, but his one-person exhibits were in Koln, Germany; Bruxelles, Belgium; Paris, France; Viana do Castelo, Portugal; Lisbon, Portugal; Tecate, Mexico; and British Columbia, Canada; and many states at home.
Palomar College, San Marcos, Calif.
San Diego Academy of Fine Arts
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y.
University of Southern California, Idyllwild (ISOMATA)
University of San Diego
San Diego Museum of Art
James Copley Library, La Jolla, Calif.
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice, Italy
Centre de Arte Moderna
Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Museo Taurino de la Communidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Atelier Lacouriere et Frelaut, Paris, France
Gordon Gilkey Collection
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Or.
Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay...
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, India Ink, Watercolor
French Surrealist pastel drawing 'The queen's journey' by Marchand des Raux
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A striking Surrealist work by the French 20th Century artist Louis Marchand des Raux. Louis Marchand des Raux was a self-taught amateur painter who caught the eye of the famous deal...
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20th Century Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Pastel, Paper
French Surrealist pastel drawing 'Allegory of a beast' by Marchand des Raux
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A striking Surrealist work by the French 20th Century artist Louis Marchand des Raux. Louis Marchand des Raux was a self-taught amateur painter who caught the eye of the famous deal...
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20th Century Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Pastel
Drawing Signed Guillot, Surrealist School
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Ink drawing signed Guillot.
Surrealist school.
Dated on the back August 1980.
Small dirt on the bottom right.
29.5 x 21 cm
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Skull and Ornament - Vanitas, Still Life, Color Pencil Drawing, Framed
By John Hrehov
Located in Chicago, IL
Drawings of skulls are often called vanitas, which often contain collections of objects symbolic of the inevitability of death and the transience and vanity of earthly achievements and pleasures; it exhorts the viewer to consider mortality and to repent. This still life vanitas drawing is matted with a heavy white mat and framed in a bronze toned wooden frame measuring 15.75 x 16.25 inches.
John Hrehov
Skull and Ornament
colored pencil on paper
7h x 8w in
17.78h x 20.32w cm
JHR006
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...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Color Pencil, Archival Paper
French Surrealist pastel drawing 'In front of the church' by Marchand des Raux
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A striking Surrealist work by the French 20th Century artist Louis Marchand des Raux. Louis Marchand des Raux was a self-taught amateur painter who caught the eye of the famous deal...
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20th Century Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Pastel, Paper
French Surrealist pastel drawing 'The Fall from the Horse' by Marchand des Raux
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A striking Surrealist work by the French 20th Century artist Louis Marchand des Raux. Louis Marchand des Raux was a self-taught amateur painter who caught the eye of the famous deal...
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20th Century Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
French Surrealist pastel drawing 'The horse accident' by Marchand des Raux
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Louis Marchand des Raux (French, 1902 – 2000)
‘L’accident de cheval’
Pastel on paper
Signed ‘Marchand des Raux’ (lower right)
18.1/2 x 25.1/4 in. (47 x 64 cm.)
Louis Marchand des R...
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20th Century Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
French Surrealist pastel drawing 'The king and bird' by Marchand des Raux
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Louis Marchand des Raux (French, 1902 – 2000)
Le roi et l’oiseaux
Pastel on paper
Signed ‘Marchand des Raux’ (lower left)
25.1/4 x 18.1/2 in. (64 x 47 cm.)
Louis Marchand des Raux w...
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20th Century Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Pastel, Paper
French Surrealist pastel drawing 'Offering to the bride' by Marchand des Raux
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Louis Marchand des Raux (French, 1902 – 2000)
L’offrande a l’epouse
Pastel on paper
Signed ‘Marchand des Raux’ (lower right)
25.1/4 x 18.1/2 in. (64 x 47 cm
Louis Marchand des Raux ...
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20th Century Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
70s Modernist Swiss Dada Surrealist Painting Signed Andre Thomkins Brush Drawing
Located in Surfside, FL
This is titled "Karrierist" the German word for careerist and depicts a surreal face on a figure with a Salvador Dali esque quality about it.
Published by Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart They published concrete poetry and art books by Mark Boyle, Richard Hamilton, Dorothy Iannone, John Latham, Tom Phillips, Dieter Roth, André Thompkins and Emmett Williams, to name just a few.
André Thomkins (1930 - 1985) was a Swiss painter, illustrator, and poet. He attended art-school, taught by Max von Moos, 1947 – 1949 and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, France, 1950. From 1952, he lived in Germany and taught at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf between 1971 and 1973.
Thomkins painted and drew ironic and fantastic pictures influenced by surrealism and dadaism. Together with Dieter Roth and Daniel Spoerri he prepared works of Eat Art. He also was a writer of palindromes. His friends and collaborators included Daniel Spoerri, Dieter Roth, George Brecht, Richard Hamilton and Karl Gerstner, Thomkins gained a reputation as an ‘artist’s artist’, and is considered one of the most important Swiss artists of the second half of the twentieth century.He died in 1985.
His work is currently represented by Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Switzerland.
Select group exhibitions:
2018
Kunsthalle Krems, 'Pablo Picasso. Arshile Gorky, Andy Warhol. Sculptures and Works on Paper. Hubert Looser Collection', Krems, Austria
2017
Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, 'Martin Barré, Karl Otto Götz, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, André Thomkins',
Berlin, Germany
2013
Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie, 'Schweizer Avantgarde Kunst nach 1940', Zurich, Switzerland
2009
The Modern Institute, 'Thomas Houseago, Dieter Roth, Andre Thomkins', Glasgow, England
Museum of Modern Art, 'Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Collection', NYC
2004
Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, 'Arman, Baumeister, Götz, Graubner, Tàpies, Thomkins', Berlin,
Germany
1994
Kunstmuseum Solothurn, 'Eine Schenkung. Grafik von Eduardo Chillida, Antoni Tàpies, Alexander Calder, Jean Dubuffet, Ben Nicholson, Giacometti, Tinguely, Thomkins', Solothurn, Switzerland
1992
Galerie Littmann, Tinguely zu Ehren. A Tribute to Jean Tinguely. Hommage à Tinguely, Basel,
1988
Museum Ludwig, 'Uebrigens sterben immer die anderen. Marcel Duchamp und die Avantgarde seit
1950', Cologne, Germany
1987
Aargauer Kunsthaus, 'Otto Grimm. Marc-Antoine Fehr. Christoph Gredinger', Aarau, Switzerland
Cercle Municipal, 'Art contemporain suisse. Collection de la Banque du Gothard', Luxembourg,
1985
Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, 'Livres d'artistes', Paris, France
Rathaus, 'Claude Sandoz – Hans Schärer...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Lithograph, Offset
Surrealist composition, ca. 1935, pencil on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Mathieu (Matei) ROSIANU (1897-1969)
Surrealist composition, ca. 1935
Pencil on paper
Studio stamp on verso
5 x 5,5 inch.
Frame : 12 x 12 inch (30 x 30 cm)
Born in Bucharest in 1897...
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1930s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Surrealist composition, ca. 1935, pencil on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Mathieu (Matei) ROSIANU (1897-1969)
Surrealist composition, ca. 1935
Pencil on paper
Studio stamp on verso
6,7 x 5,5 inch.
Frame : 12 x 12 inch.
Born in Bucharest in 1897 to an offi...
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1930s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Pencil
Ink Drawing
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Wilton, CT
Original Ink Drawing by Jean Cocteau. Signed with certificate of authenticity.
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1940s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Hühnerauge - Contemporary Drawing
Located in Vienna, AT
Catharina Bond
Hühnerauge
2023
Pencil on paper
30 x 30 cm
Unique
The tourist takes snapshots of life. Experiences are simultaneously “strange” and “typical”. There is an absurdity t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Untitled #25-1997-22
Located in New Orleans, LA
This work was part of "Body Politics", the August/September 2022 exhibition marked the debut of this work in the region (New Orleans), and the first time any of these works have been...
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1990s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Fancy some ice cream - Contemporary Drawing
Located in Vienna, AT
Catharina Bond
Fancy some ice cream
2023
Pencil on paper
30 x 30 cm
Unique
The tourist takes snapshots of life. Experiences are simultaneously “strange” and “typical”. There is an a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Early Street Art - New York Urban Factory Scene - Mid Century - Factory X
By Dong Kingman
Located in Miami, FL
This early work from 1955 by Dong Kingman N.A. is as surreal as it is a document of a place. The artist effectively captures a slice of American urban life but constructs the compo...
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1950s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Rag Paper, Watercolor
Untitled #15-1996-22
Located in New Orleans, LA
This work was part of "Body Politics", the August/September 2022 exhibition marked the debut of this work in the region (New Orleans), and the first time any of these works have been made available for purchase. This work is part of what remained among his sketchbooks and drawings, after his death.
This work is framed in white as shown in the installation shot, and is a unique and original work by the artist. All sales from this auction benefit the Ardeshir Mohasses...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Untitled #9-1995-22
Located in New Orleans, LA
This work was part of "Body Politics", the August/September 2022 exhibition marked the debut of this work in the region (New Orleans), and the first time any of these works have been...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Untitled #22-0000-22
Located in New Orleans, LA
This work was part of "Body Politics", the August/September 2022 exhibition marked the debut of this work in the region (New Orleans), and the first time any of these works have been made available for purchase. This work is part of what remained among his sketchbooks and drawings, after his death.
This work is framed in white as show in the installation shot, and is a unique and original work by the artist. All sales from this auction benefit the Ardeshir Mohasses...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Monumental Surrealist Pastel, Of Course We Evolve But Does Anything Ever Change?
Located in Cotignac, FR
Surrealist, figurative large scale pastel of a deconstructed head and other elements by Gordon Muir. With original exhibition title label. Presented in fine silvered wood and fabric custom frame, under glass.
A magnificent and truly monumental work of a 'deconstructed' head and three other triptych elements. Influenced by the paintings of Francis Bacon and Salvador Dali the work is intriguing and arresting at the same time. We can see how Muir gained such success later for his sculptural pieces as he is even in this work thinking in three dimensions. On closer inspection the details reveal themselves, the eyeball reminiscent of the shell of a horse chestnut, the furry surface to the tongue all in soft pastel shades. The three upper elements, in monochrome revealing the development of man. A really intriguing and strong painting that would grace any interior and be the talking point of any collection.
It is very unusual to find a pastel of these proportions. The medium itself gives the work a softness creating an intriguing juxtaposition to the subject itself.
Sculptor, born in Hawick, Gordon Muir was educated at art colleges in London, Scotland and the University of New Mexico, after which he spent time working with woodblock artists in Japan. He has more recently concentrated his artistic endeavours on sculpture, much of this in collaboration with the Paul Hogarth...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Untitled #2-1987-22
Located in New Orleans, LA
This work was part of "Body Politics", the August/September 2022 exhibition marked the debut of this work in the region (New Orleans), and the first time any of these works have been made available for purchase. This work is part of what remained among his sketchbooks and drawings, after his death.
This work is framed in white as shown in the installation shot, and is a unique and original work by the artist. All sales from this auction benefit the Ardeshir Mohasses...
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Watercolor
Untitled #1-1985-22
Located in New Orleans, LA
This work was part of "Body Politics", the August/September 2022 exhibition marked the debut of this work in the region (New Orleans), and the first time any of these works have been made available for purchase. This work is part of what remained among his sketchbooks and drawings, after his death.
This work is framed in white as shown in the installation shot, and is a unique and original work by the artist. All sales from this auction benefit the Ardeshir Mohasses...
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Color Pencil
Untitled #20-0000-22
Located in New Orleans, LA
This work was part of "Body Politics", the August/September 2022 exhibition marked the debut of this work in the region (New Orleans), and the first time any of these works have been...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Untitled #16-1996-22
Located in New Orleans, LA
This work was part of "Body Politics", the August/September 2022 exhibition marked the debut of this work in the region (New Orleans), and the first time any of these works have been...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Untitled #13-1995-22
Located in New Orleans, LA
This work was part of "Body Politics", the August/September 2022 exhibition marked the debut of this work in the region (New Orleans), and the first time any of these works have been made available for purchase. This work is part of what remained among his sketchbooks and drawings, after his death.
This work is framed in white as shown in the installation shot, and is a unique and original work by the artist. All sales from this auction benefit the Ardeshir Mohasses...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Untitled #28-1998-22
Located in New Orleans, LA
This work was part of "Body Politics", the August/September 2022 exhibition marked the debut of this work in the region (New Orleans), and the first time any of these works have been made available for purchase. This work is part of what remained among his sketchbooks and drawings, after his death.
This work is framed in white as shown in the installation shot, and is a unique and original work by the artist. All sales from this auction benefit the Ardeshir Mohasses...
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Untitled #14-1995-22
Located in New Orleans, LA
This work was part of "Body Politics", the August/September 2022 exhibition marked the debut of this work in the region (New Orleans), and the first time any of these works have been...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Untitled #12-1995-22
Located in New Orleans, LA
This work was part of "Body Politics", the August/September 2022 exhibition marked the debut of this work in the region (New Orleans), and the first time any of these works have been made available for purchase. This work is part of what remained among his sketchbooks and drawings, after his death.
This work is framed in white as shown in the installation shot, and is a unique and original work by the artist. All sales from this auction benefit the Ardeshir Mohasses...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Untitled #8-0000-22
Located in New Orleans, LA
This work was part of "Body Politics", the August/September 2022 exhibition marked the debut of this work in the region (New Orleans), and the first time any of these works have been made available for purchase. This work is part of what remained among his sketchbooks and drawings, after his death.
This work is framed in white as shown in the installation shot, and is a unique and original work by the artist. All sales from this auction benefit the Ardeshir Mohasses...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Untitled #10-0000-22
Located in New Orleans, LA
This work was part of "Body Politics", the August/September 2022 exhibition marked the debut of this work in the region (New Orleans), and the first time any of these works have been made available for purchase. This work is part of what remained among his sketchbooks and drawings, after his death.
This work is framed in white as shown in the installation shot, and is a unique and original work by the artist. All sales from this auction benefit the Ardeshir Mohasses...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
#11-0000-22
Located in New Orleans, LA
This work was part of "Body Politics", the August/September 2022 exhibition marked the debut of this work in the region (New Orleans), and the first time any of these works have been made available for purchase. This work is part of what remained among his sketchbooks and drawings, after his death.
This work is framed in white as shown in the installation shot, and is a unique and original work by the artist. All sales from this auction benefit the Ardeshir Mohasses...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Untitled #6-1995-22
Located in New Orleans, LA
This work was part of "Body Politics", the August/September 2022 exhibition marked the debut of this work in the region (New Orleans), and the first time any of these works have been...
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
#19-1995-22-R/#19-1996-22-V
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ardeshir Mohassess (1938-2008) was a prolific, influential and internationally renowned Iranian artists. He graduated from the University of Tehran ...
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Untitled #24-1997-22-R-V
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ardeshir Mohassess (1938-2008) was a prolific, influential and internationally renowned Iranian artists. He graduated from the University of Tehran ...
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Untitled #26-0000-22
Located in New Orleans, LA
This work was part of "Body Politics", the August/September 2022 exhibition marked the debut of this work in the region (New Orleans), and the first time any of these works have been...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Untitled #18-1996-22
Located in New Orleans, LA
This work was part of "Body Politics", the August/September 2022 exhibition marked the debut of this work in the region (New Orleans), and the first time any of these works have been...
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Untitled #17-1996-22
Located in New Orleans, LA
This work was part of "Body Politics", the August/September 2022 exhibition marked the debut of this work in the region (New Orleans), and the first time any of these works have been...
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Untitled #4-0000-22
Located in New Orleans, LA
This work was part of "Body Politics", the August/September 2022 exhibition marked the debut of this work in the region (New Orleans), and the first time any of these works have been...
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
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