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Surrealist Paintings

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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Vicissitudes (Oil Painting, Symbolist, Ancient Cultures, Pop, Surreal, ~47% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Stella Jae Vicissitudes 2024 Oil on canvas Size: 31.49 x 23.62 x inches (80 x 60 cm) Signed by hand COA provided Stella J Richey is an international visual artist and designer. Her...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Night in Vence
Located in Cliffside Park, NJ
The reproduction in oil of Marc Chagall's "Night in Vence" by unknown artist. In 1949, Chagall bought a house in Vence close to the Matisse chapel. At the time, the French Riviera w...
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20th Century Surrealist Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic

French Surrealist Oil Painting Evolving Shapes and Movement
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Composition signed by Jack Penouel (French 1936-2018) dated 02' signed oil on canvas, framed framed: 26 x 21.5 inches canvas : 25.75 x 20.75 inch...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Paintings

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Oil

The Virgen & Child, Oil, Mixed Media, Hyperrealism, Modern Cuban Art, Surreal
Located in Houston, TX
LOOK FOR FREE SHIPPING AT CHECKOUT. The Virgin and Child - La Virgen y Nino was recently painted by the Cuban artist Brian Sanchez in 2023. It is oil and mi...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

French Contemporary Art By Helen Uter - El Cielo
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas with knife Helen Uter is an established Franco-American painter born in 1955 who lives and works in Donnery, near Orléans, France. Heavily influenced by Edward Hopper...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Magic Realism Figurative Artwork, "Spring Herald" by Evgeniya Golik
Located in San Diego, CA
A 19” x 25” Magic Realism Figurative Artwork by artist Evgeniya Golik. A certificate of authenticity will accompany the piece upon its purchase or delivery. Evgeniya Golik (also kn...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Israeli Kibbutz Artist Judaica Shul Torah Ark Surrealist Gouache Painting
By Leo Roth
Located in Surfside, FL
Leo Roth (1914–2002), also known as Lior Roth, was an Israeli painter, born in 1914 in Austria-Hungary. (later Poland) In 1920, Roth moved to Germany and, in 1933, immigrated to Palestine. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and completed frescoes in Italy and France in the 1950s. Roth first settled in Tel Aviv, then moved to Kvutzat Kinneret, then finally to Kibbutz Afikim where he remained until his death. He served as Director of the Art Academy of the Kibbutzim. In 1959, he was awarded the Jordan Valley Prize for Painting. Roth exhibited in the United States, Israel, Mexico, Spain, Holland, Sweden, and Denmark. He died in 2002. Education: 1930 School of Art, Duisberg-Hamborn, Germany, under Josef Doppelfeld Academy of Fine Arts, Hamburg, Germany 1951 Fresco and mural painting, Ecole nationale superiere des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France 1951 fresco in Italy Teaching: Director of Art Academy of the Kibbutzim Roth's work was influenced by Cubism and bears much in common with the work of compatriot painter Naftali Bezem. His colourful canvases contain biblical imagery and references to early Israeli pioneer culture. Selected Solo Exhibitions 2015 Home, Montefiore Art Gallery, Tel Aviv 2009 Kibbutz Machanayim Art Gallery 2000 Retrospective, Museum of Art, Kibbutz Ein Harod 1997 Oil paintings, Kibbutz Machanayim Art Gallery 1993 Solo Exhibition, Beit Yad Lebanim, Tiberias 1983 Oil paintings, ''Bet-Emanuel'', Ramat Gan 1980 Wilfrid Israel Museum, Oriental Art and Studies, Kibbutz Hazorea 1977 Tiroche Gallery, Old Jaffa 1976 Hatzrif Art Gallery, Be'er Sheva 1957 Oil paintings, Tel Aviv Art Museum 1950 Katz Gallery, Tel AvivSelected exhibitions 2000: Chaim Atar Art Museum, Ein Harod, Israel: The Works of Leo Roth: An Exhibition Selected Group Exhibitions 2014 Revelations, Jerusalem Print Workshop 2013 Group Exhibition, Yair Art Gallery, Tel Aviv 2008 The First Decade: Hegemony and Plurality, Ein Harod Art Museum 2000 Group...
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20th Century Surrealist Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

CUBIST ROOM (PICASSO)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed on front by Ferjo. Canvas is stretched. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable offers wil...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Junk Food (Pizza)" Contemporary Surrealist Still Life of an Inedible Pizza
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful surrealist still life painting by contemporary Texas artist Henry David Potwin. The work features an opened pizza box with a variety of inedible toppings including items suc...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Marvellous (ballerina red hair porcelain vintage hat men surrealist oil painting
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Superbe original painting on canvas depicting a young ballerina performing a trick while onlookers contemplate perplexed to her prowess. keywords; americana, surrealism, ballerina, ...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Minimalism" - surrealist still life, flowers, cat, apple, bird
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting features hues of green, purple, blue, red, and yellow. This surrealist still life features a cat, vegetables, flowers, pastries, a bird and patterns. Guy Robinson is i...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Linen, Oil

European Polish Stage Designer Vibrant Surrealist Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Contemporary Subject: Abstract Medium: Mixed Media Surface: Canvas Country: United States commissions for movie advertisements, stage sets, and murals in New Hampshire. Arm...
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20th Century Surrealist Paintings

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Mixed Media

"IN-FLIGHT ADJUSTMENT", painting, surrealist dream, submarine, gladiator, dove
Located in Toronto, Ontario
IN-FLIGHT ADJUSTMENT is an acrylic on canvas surrealist painting by Brooklyn, New York artist Tony Geiger. It measures 22x26" and is a unique artwork. It's...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

In Search Of The Favorite Hen Cuban Surrealist
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
"En busca de la gallina predilecta" In Search Of The Favorite Hen 2021 Oil on canvas signed and dated, it will be frame before shipping. Isaac Crespo's C...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Ink, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Large French Surrealist Colorful Futurist Abstract Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
actual image measures 7.5X11.25, titled Composition III on French Arches Mould made paper. Georges DUSSAU est né le 14 Mars 1947, à Chalon-sur-Saône (France) Il vit et travaille...
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20th Century Surrealist Paintings

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Acrylic, Gouache, Handmade Paper

Surrealist Painting, "After the Rains"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original oil on panel surrealist painting by San Diego artist, Kelley Sutphin. Its dimensions are 14.4"x26.4"x1.5". It is framed. A certificate of authenticit...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Oil

Surrealist Vase
Located in Buffalo, NY
A modern surreal oil painting on linen depicting a vase with one yellow flower and a mysterious almost figural black design. This midcentury work is unsigned and comes housed in a pe...
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1950s Surrealist Paintings

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Oil, Linen

Lovers and autumn leaf (oil painting vintage black and white Picture couple)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
LOVERS AND AUTUMN LEAVES is a superbe original painting on canvas depicting a still life of a fall leaves next to a vintage black and white photograph of a couple in a loving embrace...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Italian Surrealist "Butterflies Under the Sea, 1962" Painting
By Giordano Falzoni
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Contemporary Subject: Abstract Medium: Oil Surface: Canvas Country: Italy Dimensions: 19 3/4" x 15 1/2" x 3/4" Dimensions w/Frame: 26" x 22" Giordano Falzoni (Italian, 1925-...
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1960s Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

MEMOIRS_
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Surrealism
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vintage American Modernist Surreal Moustache Bull Horn Landscape Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist surreal painting. Framed. Gouache and watercolor on paper. Image size, 19H by 14L.
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1960s Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Artist Palette - Landscape Painting - Oil On Canvas By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
A verdant tropical scene is the setting for the artists palette. After all its shape and color provide the perfect accent. Artist Palette - Landscape Painting - Oil On Canvas By Mar...
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Early 2000s Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Coral Angel. Oil on wood, 70X70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Coral Angel. Oil on wood, 70X70 cm The artist Vadim Kovalev was born in 1968 in the capital of Latvia, Riga, where he is also presently living and creating his works. When Vadim wa...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Oil, Wood

Untitled Surrealist Mythical Portrait
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract Surrealist ink and gouache drawing of a human and deer hybrid head sitting within a jar. The work is signed by the artist in the bottom corner. The work is framed in a silve...
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20th Century Surrealist Paintings

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Gouache, Ink

Paint. Mysteries of Medicine
Located in Cuernavaca, Morelos
Acrylic on wood
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Acrylic, Wood Panel

Busy (vintage ladies woman lingerie 3D oil painting paper branches surrealist)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Busy is a tridimensional original painting on paper on branches depicting tailor ladies working taking body measurements along a path in a dark night. keywords; vintage tailor ladi...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Driftwood, Oil, Laid Paper

20th Century French Surrealist Oil Painting Cubist Abstract Beautiful Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figurative Abstract French School, signed oil painting on canvas overall size: 23.5 X 32 condition: overall very good and pleasing provenance: from a private collection of this arti...
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20th Century Surrealist Paintings

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Oil

Rising - Surreal Landscape with Row of Trees and Owl, Oil on Panel
Located in Chicago, IL
The pristine, symmetrical and orderly landscape brings an unnatural stillness to John Hrehov's painting entitled "Rising". The owl is central to the sparse landscape peeking out of it's home in the tree. Straight lines and geometric patterns are used to compose a glossy concept of reality. The painting is framed in a simple dark gray wooden frame measuring 25.25 x 29.25 inches. John Hrehov Rising oil on panel 24h x 28w in 60.96h x 71.12w cm JHR012 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 Gallery, Indiana University East, Richmond, IN. 2012 Shades from White to Black, New Drawings. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. 2011 John Hrehov: Charcoal. Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne. 2009 John Hrehov: A Survey 1999-2009 Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. Paintings and Drawings. Seerveld Gallery, Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL. 2004 John Hrehov: Drawings and Paintings. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. 2002 Paintings. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. 2001 Charcoal. Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne. John Hrehov, Paintings and Drawings. Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL. 2000 The Picture Proper. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. Fearful Symmetry. Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN. Allegories in Contemporary Life. Yvonne Rapp Gallery, Louisville, KY. 1999 Paintings and Working Drawings. Adams Hall Gallery, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL. 1998 John Hrehov. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. John Hrehov: Paintings and Drawings. Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL. 1997 Object Lesson, Paintings, and Drawings by John Hrehov. Yvonne Rapp Gallery, Louisville, KY. 1995 John Hrehov. Trinity Art Gallery, Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL. 1993 John Hrehov: Selected Works 1980-1992 Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne. Group Exhibitions 2019 2019 Alumni Exhibition. Reinberger Gallery at The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH. Out Of The Closet. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. 1026 West Berry Street: The Fort Wayne Art School. Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN. 2018 Artlink Regional Exhibition. Artlink Contemporary Art Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN. 2017 Sola Grace-Faith-Scripture: An Exhibition of Sacred Visual Art. Good Shepherd Institute at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, IN. Norman Bradley...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Blossom, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
A work (#6) from the ELEMENTS series Why did I call this series elements? Because there is air in it, there is water, there are earth and fire… There are birth, life and death, ...
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Early 2000s Surrealist Paintings

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Oil

Ceiba Tree
Located in Nashville, TN
Artwork Size: 24 x 16 in "Ceiba Tree" is an oil-on-masonite painting mounted on wood panel by Colombian artist Jorge Yances. This piece is part of the ar...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Masonite, Oil, Wood Panel

Italian Surrealist Colorful Metal Enamel Plaque Painting Wall Hanging Art Luigi
Located in Surfside, FL
Biomorphic Surrealism. Signed Luigi, Enamel on metal (probably copper). Mounted to a plexi or acrylic purple mounting. I am assuming it is Italian as it is signed Luigi but it might ...
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20th Century Surrealist Paintings

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Enamel

Modern Figurative Surrealism Watercolor Painting, Drawing 'The Fire of my Soul'
Located in Surfside, FL
On heavy Arches deckle edged paper. This combines text or poetry in calligraphy on the side. 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 nude and animal 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 Paintings

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Paper, India Ink, Watercolor

"Keeper's Concern" contemporary oil painting of classic old lighthouse
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Keeper's Concern" is a contemporary oil painting of a classic old lighthouse in Northeastern United States. Frame Dimensions 22.5 x 18.5in After growing up in the American South and receiving his BFA from Sam Houston State University, and an MFA from the University of Houston in Texas, Terry...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Man in a wicker chair
Located in Cliffside Park, NJ
Natalya Nesterova has created her own enormous world and has found her own angle of vision in the reality that surrounds us. As an artist, she sees this world in a way that we cannot. The air of mystery permeates Nesterova's works; the surrealistic impulse is definitely present in her paintings. But neither it or any other terminologically defined influence predominates over the freedom and talent of the personality in choosing an independent style and organization of creative ideas. Natalya Nesterova is recognized as one of the most important and internationally acclaimed contemporary Russian artists.
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Waves of Fish No.2, Surrealist Abstract Oil Painting, Signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Waves of Fish No.2, Surrealist Abstract Oil Painting, Signed By British artist, Kate Orr, 20th Century Signed by the artist on the lower right hand corner Signed and titled by the ar...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Paintings

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Oil

Surrealist Woman Oil painting French-Moroccan Israeli Bezalel School Painter
Located in Surfside, FL
Two Women. Colorful Surrealist Portrait Genre: Surrealism Subject: woman Medium: Oil Surface: Canvas Country: Israel Simon Avissar, painter, born 1948, Morocco. Moved to U.S.A. Wo...
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20th Century Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

El Llano en Llamar, Acrylic and Watercolor Painting by J. Benito Zamora
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: J. Benito Zamora, Mexican (1951 - ) Title: El Llano en Llamar Year: 1986 Medium: Acrylic and Watercolor on paper, signed l.r. Size: 22 in. x 30 i...
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1980s Surrealist Paintings

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Acrylic, Watercolor

"The Long Road", Surreal Desert Landscape Painting
By Martin Dreyer
Located in Houston, TX
Surrealist style painting painted with casein paint. Titled and dated by the artist as well as signed. Painting was shown in many exhibits around Texas. Framed in a rustic wooden fra...
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1950s Surrealist Paintings

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Casein

Viviane French Original Surrealist Lithograph signed and numbered Andre Masson
Located in Surfside, FL
His early works display an interest in cubism. He later became associated with surrealism, and he was one of the most enthusiastic employers of automatic drawing, making a number of automatic works in pen and ink. Masson would often force himself to work under strict conditions, for example, after long periods of time without food or sleep, or under the influence of drugs. He believed forcing himself into a reduced state of consciousness would help his art be free from rational control, and hence get closer to the workings of his subconscious mind.[citation needed] Masson experimented with altered states of consciousness with artists such as Antonin Artaud, Michel Leiris, Joan Miró, Georges Bataille, Jean Dubuffet, and Georges Malkine, who were neighbors of his studio in Paris. From around 1926 he experimented by throwing sand and glue onto canvas and making oil paintings based around the shapes that formed. By the end of the 1920s, however, he was finding automatic drawing rather restricting, and he left the surrealist movement and turned instead to a more structured style, often producing works with a violent or erotic theme, and making a number of paintings in reaction to the Spanish Civil War (he associated once more with the surrealists at the end of the 1930s). Under the German occupation of France during World War II, his work was condemned by the Nazis as degenerate. With the assistance of Varian Fry in Marseille, Masson escaped the Nazi regime on a ship to the French island of Martinique from where he went on to the United States. Upon arrival in New York City, U.S. customs officials inspecting Masson's luggage found a cache of his erotic drawings. Denouncing them as pornographic, they ripped them up before the artist's eyes.[citation needed] Living in New Preston, Connecticut his work became an important influence on American abstract expressionists, such as Jackson Pollock. Following the war, he returned to France and settled in Aix-en-Provence where he painted a number of landscapes. Masson drew the cover of the first issue of Georges Bataille's review, Acéphale, in 1936, and participated in all its issues until 1939. His brother-in-law, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan...
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1970s Surrealist Paintings

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Lithograph

Surrealist Beast Oil painting French-Moroccan Israeli Bezalel School Painter
Located in Surfside, FL
A beast metamorphosing into a fish. Genre: Surrealism Subject: Animals Medium: Oil Surface: Canvas Country: Israel Dimensions: 23.5" x 28.5" Dimensions w/Frame: 24.75" x 30" Simon ...
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20th Century Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Gnome artist"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
This artwork, painted with vibrant acrylics, embodies a fusion of comics, figurative art, pop art, and surrealism. It captures a sense of whimsical introspection through the depictio...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings

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Acrylic

"Gnome"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
In this vibrant oil painting, I wanted to capture the fascinating interplay of the mundane and the mystical. The gnome, resting amid his labor, symbolizes perseverance and the ti...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings

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Oil

Qiang Li Still Life Original Oil On Canvas "Comedy 3"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Comedy 3 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 27 x 23 inches Frame: Framing options available! Year: 2000 Circa Artist: Qiang Li Signature: Unsigned Signature Location: N/A ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

MusCATteer - Surreal Rural Scene, Hyper-realistic Original Oil Painting, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
Juxtaposing and altering unrelated natural objects with the machinations of man to create a scene of an impossible surreal world, the viewer enters the mind of artist Christopher Klein...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Linen, Oil

The Sacrifice Of The Favorite Hen Cuban Surrealist
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
"El sacrificio de la gallina predilecta" The Sacrifice Of The Favorite Hen 2024 Oil on canvas artist signed and dated, will be frame before shipping. Isa...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Ink, Oil

Postumi
Located in Genève, GE
Woodworking Golden wooden frame 76.5 x 86 x 2.5 cm This painter painted during his incarceration. This captivating work presents a surreal landscape in vivid, dynamic colors. Flamboy...
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1990s Surrealist Paintings

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Oil

Vortex XVI, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Light is streaming out of the vortex, looking into a ray of hope. Shipping: if your country is not in the shipping table contact me and I'll get a price. :: Painting :: Surreali...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Oil

Jinapin Chen Surrealist Original Oil Painting "Path In My Dream"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Path In My Dream Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 23.5 x 31 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Year: 201...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings

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Oil

Shaohua Nong Surrealist Original Oil Painting "Others"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Others Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 31 x 31 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Year: 2013 Artist: Shaohua Nong...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings

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Oil

The Happy Villagers IV, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Here is an acrylic painting of two friends deeply engaged in conversation over drinks in an African village within a jungle setting. The colors are so bright. :: Painting :: Surreali...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Acrylic

"Robber", Surreal, Figure, Green, Red, Blue, Oil, Monotype, Mixed Media, 1980
Located in Natick, MA
“Robber” by artist Mary Spencer is a 22.5 x 30 inch surreal mixed media painting on paper with dominant colors of blue, red and green. The painting is signed on the front and back. ...
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1980s Surrealist Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media, Monotype

Goldfish XLII, Painting, Oil on MDF Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
A further exploration of the Goldfish theme. Painting onto a solid surface allows the colours to be more concentrated and richer. Here I've reversed the colours (except the eyes) ...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Oil

Surrealist Collection Number 6
Located in Brecon, Powys
Sax Berlin has embarked on a journey through Surrealism. This collection writhes & flows from his "Billion Dollar Hand" creating a complexity of interwoven rhythms. Berlin has been e...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Surrealist Collection Number 6
Located in Brecon, Powys
Sax Berlin has embarked on a journey through Surrealism. This collection writhes & flows from his "Billion Dollar Hand" creating a complexity of interwoven rhythms. Berlin has been e...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

4600 Transformaciones-All together, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
A study of human behaviour today Inspired by the dramatic artworks of the famous spanish master Francisco Goya. :: Painting :: Surrealism :: This piece comes with an official cert...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Oil

Goldfish XLV, Painting, Oil on MDF Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
A further exploration of the Goldfish theme. Painting onto a solid surface allows the colours to be more concentrated and richer. This painting is sold without a frame but please...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Oil

Goldfish XLIII, Painting, Oil on MDF Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
A further exploration of the Goldfish theme. Painting onto a solid surface allows the colours to be more concentrated and richer. This painting is sold without a frame but pleas...
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2010s Surrealist Paintings

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Oil

Three heads are better than one, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This happens to be an old painting of mine that i retouched recently. The popular saying has always been two heads are better than one, but i have titled mine three heads are better ...
Category

Early 2000s Surrealist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

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