Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor 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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Style: Surrealist
Decomposition, Surrealist Pencil Drawing by Charles Pfahl
Located in Long Island City, NY
Charles Pfahl, American (1946 - 2013) - Decomposition, Medium: Pencil drawing, signed in pencil lower right, Image Size: 8 x 8 inches, Frame Size: 19.75 x 21.25 inches
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
1959 Black
White Mid-Century, Surrealist Abstraction by Artist Desmond Mclean
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1959 black and white, Mid-Century, Surrealist watercolor on paper by artist Desmond McLean in a cerused black frame. Image size: 15 1/2" x 22 1/2". Framed size: 25" x 21".
McL...
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1950s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Surrealist Figure in Space-scape, Surrealist Wax Crayon Drawing by Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 -2002) - Surrealist Figure in Space-scape, Year: 1956, Medium: Wax Crayon on paper, unsigned, Size: 13 x 10 in. (33.02 x 25.4 cm), Frame Size: 20.5 x...
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1950s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Wax Crayon
Cleopatra – 22-12-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Cleopatra – 22-12-18 When I saw the reference picture I was inspired to turn the model sitting in a bath with lots of foam around her, into a donkey milk bath with Cleopatra in ...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Cleopatra – 23-02-24, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
More than Cubism and Roundism This graphite pencil drawing ‘Cleopatra – 23-02-24’ refers to a work under the same name I made back in 2018. That year I started my ‘Out of...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Untitled (Angel, Gabriel)
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Untitled (Angel, Gabriel)
Year: 1973
Medium: Ink on heavy archival paper
Size: 22 x 30 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, ...
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1970s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
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Vulture, Surrealist Watercolor and Ink Drawing by Aubrey Schwartz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Aubrey Schwartz, American (1928 - 2019) - Vulture, Year: circa 1965, Medium: Watercolor and Ink on Georgian laid paper, signed in pen lower right, Image Size: 22 x 15 inches, Size:...
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1960s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Egg Walkers nude male and female figures dark green surreal egg strewn landscape
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 Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Resting, Surrealist Pencil Drawing by Dimitri Petrov
Located in Long Island City, NY
Dimitri Petrov, American (1919 - 1986) - Resting, Year: 1977, Medium: Pencil on Paper, signed, Size: 22 x 29.5 in. (55.88 x 74.93 cm)
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1970s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Skeletons - Polish Art Master, Contemporary Surreal Drawing, XXI Century
By Franciszek Starowieyski
Located in Warsaw, PL
Drawing on paper, 1975
FRANCISZEK STAROWIEYSKI (b.1930- d.2009)
studied paitning at Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków and Warsaw (1949-1955). He specialized in poster, drawing, paintin...
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1970s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil
Edward Burra original drawing
The harbour at low time
, British, 20th Century
By Edward Burra
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Edward Burra CBE (British, 1905 – 1976)
The harbour at low time
pencil on paper
signed with studio stamp ‘E.J. Burra’ (lower right)
21.3/4 x 30 in. (55.3 x 76 cm.)
Provenance: Sotheb...
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20th Century Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
A Machine that Creates Nomads, Surrealist Ink on paper by Dimitri Petrov
Located in Long Island City, NY
Dimitri Petrov, American (1919 - 1986) - This is Not an Idea for a Machine that Creates Nomads, Year: 1976, Medium: Ink on paper, signed, Size: 22 x 29.5 in. (55.88 x 74.93 cm)
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1970s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
La Dame Queteuse
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Jean Cocteau (French, 1889-1963)
La Dame Queteuse
Ink on paper
Signed, inscribed and dated `La Dame Queteuse Jean 1922’ (below)
10.1/4 x 7.7/8 in. (26 x 20 cm...
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Early 20th Century Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Hungry Vampire Theaters
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Ink on paper, framed.
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Early 2000s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
(For Grownups Only, Seriously!)
Located in San Francisco, CA
And what are you to look for? Not random swipes, as if cleaning one’s brush on the verso. Nor the whisps of cigarette smoke wafting upward from below. No. Do look again for an exquis...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Surrealist Composition - Original China Ink Drawing by Jorge Castillo - 1960 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Surrealist Composition is a fascinating drawing in China ink made by the Spanish Surrealist artist Jorge Castillo, dated around 1960. The artwork was drawn on a paper that presents, ...
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1960s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Decorative Figure - Portrait Decorative Figure French
By Jean Cocteau
Located in London, GB
Signed Felt-tip pen drawing signed by the artist Jean Cocteau with his monogram “JC” in the lower right image.
The drawing was created in 1963.
Note: This work is accompanied by a p...
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1960s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Felt Pen
Abstract Figures and Landscape, Surreal Line Drawing Composition
Located in Soquel, CA
Dynamic surrealist line drawing of figures in an abstracted landscape by David Rosen (Canadian, 1912-2004). Signed "Rosen" in the lower right corner. Presented in a new tan mat with ...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Untitled - Surrealist Scene - Drawing by Albert Debois - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled - Surrealist Scene is an original contemporary artwork realized by Albert Debois in 1973.
Mixed colored pastel on paper.
Hand signed and dated on the lower right margin.
...
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1970s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Pencil
Lulu in Space – 11-07-24, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
The Sale of Louise This pastel drawing ‘Lulu – 11-07-24’ depicts new adventurous endeavours celebrity moviestar Louise Brooks is about to undertake. Exit Metropolis! Let me ...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
"Divination" (2024) By Ashly Lovett, Original Chalk Pastel Portrait Illustration
Located in Denver, CO
"Divination" By Ashly Lovett is a beautiful chalk pastel illustration done on archival paper, which depicts a young witch in a moment of pause, surrounded by magical fire.
Artist Bi...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Pastel, Archival Paper
Polynesian Dance at Sunset Watercolor Mixed Media Artwork, 21.25x13"
Located in Miami, FL
A group of sexy Polynesian male and female dancers is depicted with expressive and sensual body gestures. The rhythmic fluidity of each dancer is transferred to their partners, unit...
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1960s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Illustration Board, Pencil
Sunrise, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A vintage mechanical desk light with a bright green shade symbolizes the sun in this modern landscape watercolor. Its light illuminates a solitary tree restin...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Fantasy Landscape with Animals" Abstract Dream Rainbow Peacock Butterfly Fish
Located in Austin, TX
Art Size : 11 x 14 in.
Vintage Frame: 17 x 20 in.
Signed and dated in pencil, bottom right.
Media includes watercolor, acrylic, and pencil on paper.
This vibrant, psychedelic and su...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Graphite, Paper
Isis - 25-01-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Isis - 25-01-19 Some time ago I saw underwater excavation pictures of Heracleion, an ancient Egyptian city submerged. I always thought to return to my painting 'Loving the Alien' ...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
"The Circus" Original Surreal Watercolor
Ink Drawing by Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Palm Beach, FL
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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Paper
Risque – 31-01-22, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Different Styles Another variation in the Risque Series. After my last graphite pencil drawing ‘Risque – 22-01-22’ I was searching for something new. I just don’t like to ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Das Mondgespenst / The ghost of the moon
Located in Wien, 9
Franz Rogler (1921 -1994) studied wood and stone sculpture with Wilhelm Gösser at the Graz School of Applied Arts and attended the master class for painting with Rudolf Szyszkowitz. During his studies he was drafted for military service and, together with fellow artist Hans Fronius, was deployed as a war painter in Austria, Germany, Italy, the former Yugoslavia, Greece and Russia. During this time he completed studies at the Academy in Zagreb and organised exhibitions in Austria. In 1944 he deserted and managed to escape to Switzerland, where he settled in Basel after his internment and came into contact with the Swiss Surrealists of "Group 33" and with the artists Hans Arp, Max Ernst and Meret Oppenheim through his friend Regula Weilenmann. After the end of the war, he studied at the Basel Art School with Walter Bodmer and Heinrich Müller, which introduced him to Constructivist art. In 1947 Rogler returned to Graz and became a member of the Graz Secession. From 1948 to 1950 he studied at the Vienna Academy with Albert Paris Gütersloh, before returning to Graz as a freelance artist in 1950. In 1953 he received the Art Prize of the City of Graz and his works were published in the first issue of the "Surrealist Publications" edited by Edgar Jené and Paul Celan...
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1940s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Evolution of Man
By Marcel Dzama
Located in Toronto, Ontario
With his unmistakable version of contemporary Surrealism, as comical as it is otherworldly, Marcel Dzama is one of Canada's most internationally successful artists.
Dzama's works ar...
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1990s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media
Nina - 16-08-23, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Slender Body This graphite pencil drawing ‘Nina – 16-08-23’ is the second I made of this beautiful model. Her portrait I drew a week ago and I fancied doing another one. Her...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
The Killers, black and white city scape, surrealistic, narrative
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Dramatic imagery from FILM NOIR series of black and white monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism
About Tom Bennett:
With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett crea...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Monotype
DALI...DALI...DALI...
Located in London, GB
Softcover book
Containing a signed and dated drawing by Salvador Dalí
First edition and in the French language
8 3/4 x 12 inches
Published by Draeger Éditeur, 1974
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Early 20th Century Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
Animal Painting Surrealist Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ artist Blue Birds
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative take...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Pen
Slava Ukraini – 28-09-23, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Back to the Narrative This graphite pencil drawing ‘Slava Ukraini – 28-09-23’ incorporates a narrative or theme again. Neo Deco – 20-09-23 merely knew a formalistic approa...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Holiday End - Color Pencil Drawing, Surreal Christmas Scene, Framed
By John Hrehov
Located in Chicago, IL
The artist is a master at storytelling. He sets the stage for the viewer to bring the events to a particular scene. Here, the artist presents us with a curious scene. The Holidays are over and the thought of getting rid of the tree is always a chore. Hrehov has chosen to show how to quickly eliminate the tree (and everything around it!). His sense of humor comes out in this small, highly detailed drawing that is matted and framed measuring 14.5 x 16 inches.
John Hrehov
Holiday End
colored pencil on paper
6.50h x 8w in
16.51h x 20.32w cm
JHR005
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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Color Pencil
Erotic Couple - Surrealism Argentinian French Erotic Couple
By Leonor Fini
Located in London, GB
This drawing by Leonor Fini is hand signed by the artist in black ink "Leonor Fini" in the lower right image. It is additionally annotated ‘4’ in black ink in the lower right corner....
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1970s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
The Egg Farmer half man/ostrich walking on eggs by a dark sea humorous overtones
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soft pastel on toned archival paper signed on bottom left. It is mounted on an acid free foam board suitable for framing under glass. The dimensions with board are 32x 40 inABOUT Ste...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pastel, Archival Paper
Cleopatra - 22-12-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Cleopatra - 22-12-18 When I saw the reference picture I was inspired to turn the model sitting in a bath with lots of foam around her, into a donkey milk bath with Cleopatra in it...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Erotic Couple - Surrealism Argentinian French Erotic Couple
By Leonor Fini
Located in London, GB
This drawing by Leonor Fini is hand signed by the artist in brown ink "Leonor Fini" in the lower right image.
It was executed in 1977.
This work is from a sketchbook.
Condition: Ve...
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1970s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Nights over Egypt – 13-11-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Nights over Egypt – 13-11-18 I found this picture of Jenna J. Ross on Instagram and I liked it a lot. It was dark and blue. I found it fit for my Egypt project and decided to tu...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pencil
Satyr, Pan and Deer - Greek mythology
Located in Miami, FL
This pen and ink from 1920 depicts a Greek mythological scene with a Satyr companioning Pan, who plays the flute to an interested woodland deer. It is rendered in minute detail with...
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1920s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Board, Pencil
Impossible Solutions at The Fountain of Youth
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Impossible Solutions at The Fountain of Youth
Collage on paper, 1987
Signed with the artist's initials and datedlower left
Condition: Good, with the ...
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1980s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Hold Your Horses – 04-01-22, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
A Bit of Extra Fun This graphite pencil drawing ‘Hold Your Horses – 04-01-22 was a done deal in my head already during the live session. That was the same one spawning ‘Julia...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Finding Your Voice - Abstract Figurative Black
White Mixed Media Dreamlike Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Robert Lebsack creates artworks using mixed media with ink, acrylic, and charcoal on archival copies of newspapers, textbooks, and sheet music. As a visionary artist, Lebsack weaves ...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Paper
Third Rock from the Sun – 15-02-24, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
My Compliments This graphite pencil drawing ‘Third Rock from the Sun – 15-02-24’ I wanted to create for a long time. However, caught up in some projects in oil I had some ti...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Daylight in Soft Tones - Abstract Urban Collage Watercolor Artwork on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Maria C. Bernhardsson is a colorful artist who lives and paints in Sweden. Most of her works are influenced by the architecture and geometry of houses. Bernhardsson travels the world...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Face - Ink on Paper Unique Signed Drawing Surrealist Woman Painter, c. 1960
By Leonor Fini
Located in New York, NY
Leonor Fini
Face, ca. 1960
Ink on paper
9 x 11 cm 3 1/2 x 4 1/3 in.
28 x 30 cm 11 x 11 7/8 in. (Frame included)
Unique work
Exhibition History: Leonor Fini: Small Faces, April 7 -...
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1960s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Sketch for the Cover of Andrei Voznesensky
s Collection of Poems - French Bird
By Marc Chagall
Located in London, GB
This brush, pen and India ink with pencil drawing is stamp signed “Marc Chagall” in the lower left corner.
It was executed in 1973 and bears the estate inventory number D1852f, verso...
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1970s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Pen, Pencil
Bastet - 01-01-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Bastet - 01-01-19 My Egyptian series is an addition to my 'j'accuse' painting 'The Revelation of Bettie Page'. My New Year's resolution for this year: I dare all algorithms of soc...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Monkey See, Monkey Do - 05-09-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Monkey Business In all of us there is a monkey tucked deep inside. How about your monkey business? What will you do when beautiful girls run on the beach? Where does human nature st...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Oudaen - 26-11-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Oudaen - 26-11-18 Last year I was at Oudaen, a city castle at Utrecht, Netherlands which now is a crowdy hotspot for party people. I was dining near the window in the corner with ...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Bent, But Not Broke, Surrealist Pencil Drawing by Dimitri Petrov
Located in Long Island City, NY
Dimitri Petrov, American (1919 - 1986) - Bent, But Not Broke, Year: 1977, Medium: Pencil on Paper, signed and dated, Size: 22 x 30 in. (55.88 x 76.2 cm)
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1970s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
A Nearly Forgotten Song - Abstract Colorful Figurative Mixed Media Art on Wood
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Robert Lebsack creates artworks using mixed media with ink, acrylic, and charcoal on archival copies of newspapers, textbooks, and sheet music. As a visionary artist, Lebsack weaves ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
The sheik of Araby - 15-10-17, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
The sheik of Araby - 15-10-17 I always love this jazz song and when listening to jazz doing my nudes in my apartment I made the connection all of a sudden, as I often do between v...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Seaside - Abstract Cool Tone Landscape Collage Mixed Media Artwork on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Maria C. Bernhardsson is a colorful artist who lives and paints in Sweden. Most of her works are influenced by the architecture and geometry of houses. Bernhardsson travels the world...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Solarized Roundism – 01-07-22, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Back to Sketching This graphite pencil drawing ‘Solarized Roundism – 01-07-22’ is a welcome change from oil painting. After the completion of ‘Geesje Kwak and the Secret o...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Foot Musik
Located in Malmo, SE
Artwork size: 56 x 58 cm.
Frame size: 76 x 78 cm.
Free shipment worldwide.
Archive number (P90/36)
Acquired directly from the artist.
“The heart is an eye,” writes Nobel laureate Octavio Paz in an essay on Matta’s paintings. Matta creates a world coloured both by a sunny faith in the future and by visions of impending doom. Roberto Sebastian Echaurren Antonio Matta, who died aged 91 on 23 November 2002, was born in Santiago, Chile, on 11 November 1911 into a family with Spanish, French and Basque roots, and raised in an atmosphere of religiosity. By the age of 21 he had graduated and begun work as an architect, but his leisure time he devoted to sketching and painting. In 1933 he travelled to Europe for the first time, visiting Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy and other countries, and subsequently taking the initiative to collaborate with the architect, Le Corbusier. As time passed, however, Matta’s enthusiasm for a career in architecture waned, and he began to devote himself full-time to art, making early acquaintances with surrealists such as Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, André Breton and others. Between 1939 and 1948 Matta, like many of his artistic contemporaries, lived in self-imposed exile in the USA, but, after almost 10 years’ absence from Europe, he returned to make first Rome and then, a few years later, Paris his home. Throughout most of the rest of his life Matta commuted between his studio in Paris and his creative refuge in the monastery outside Rome. And it is here, in Italy, that he produced his greatest paintings. Matta’s first retrospective in Sweden was organised in 1956 when his works were exhibited in what was then Galerie Colibri – run by, among others, the artist C O Hultén at number 36 Södra Förstadsgatan in Malmö, Sweden. This was also the time when Matta began to collaborate with poets and other artists in Sweden. He produced the illustrations for Lasse Söderberg’s first anthology of poems, Akrobaterna (“The Acrobats”), published in 1955, and was also responsible for the cover of the Swedish art and literary magazine Salamander. In 1959 the first museum exhibition of Matta’s work in Europe was arranged at the Museum of Modern Art (Moderna Museet) in Stockholm. Held under the aegis of Pontus Hultén, it was entitled “Fifteen Forms of Doubt” and included 15 or so gigantic paintings...
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Materials
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