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
Cliff Face Nest, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A colorful little bird watches over her nest perched on a ledge. The white porcelain trays represent cliffs that are fixtures on any nesting island. The asymm...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Fresh North Wind - Whimsical Fantasy Figurative Artwork on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Italian painter Silvia Pavarini is known for her distinctly feminine artworks that resonate with the quiet whispers of nature. Each piece she creates ...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Geometric Color Variation Surrealist Drawings, France 1960s
Located in Atlanta, GA
These exceptional original project drawings, painted with colored pencil on translucent tracing paper, are by a French artist, circa the 1960s. The two paintings feature a geometric ...
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1960s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper
Sphinx and Moon (Self Portrait) 1980s Pastel, Cleveland School Artist
By Mary Spain
Located in Beachwood, OH
Mary Spain (American, 1934-1983)
Sphinx and Moon (Self Portrait), c. 1980
Pastel on paper
9 x 16.5 inches
17. 5 x 25 inches, framed
Set in a realm of fantasy, Mary Spain’s work ex...
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1980s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Man with Telephone - Surrealist Black and White Portrait in Ink on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Man with Telephone - Surrealist Black and White Portrait in Ink on Paper
Surrealist composition by an unknown artist (20th Century). A man dressed in a su...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Pen, Pencil
$440 Sale Price
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Lemon Yellow Flowers - Whimsical Fantasy Figurative Artwork on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Italian painter Silvia Pavarini is known for her distinctly feminine artworks that resonate with the quiet whispers of nature. Each piece she creates ...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Composition - Drawing by Antoine Mayo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original ink and watercolor drawing on paper, realized by the artist Antoine Mayo (1905-1990) in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Antoine M...
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1970s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink, Watercolor
Frida Khalo
s House - Whimsical Surrealist Modern House Watercolor Painting
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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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Fuck You, Surrealist Mixed Media Drawing by Leonel Gongora
Located in Long Island City, NY
Leonel Gongora, Colombian (1932 - 1999) - Fuck You, Year: circa 1968, Medium: Graphite, Gouache and Foil on Board, signed top right, Size: 5.5 x 8.5 in. (13.97 x 21.59 cm), Frame ...
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1960s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Gouache, Graphite
Animal Surrealist Painting Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ artist Circle Life Blue
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 takes the audience on a journey into the imagination. Hugely inspired by Paula Rego, Isabel Rock is part of a formidable group of women artists (Leonora Carrington and Eileen Agar amongst others) working with Surrealism.
In October 2023 Isabel won the Evelyn Williams...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Archival Paper, Pen, Ink
Sunshine Bouquet - Original Collage Floral Whimsical Still Life Boot Artwork
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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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Surrealist Large Painting Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ Women artist Red Green
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 takes the audience on a journey into the imagination.
In October 2023 Isabel won the Evelyn Williams Drawing Award at the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. Known as the UK’s most prestigious annual open exhibition for drawing; part of the prize is a solo show at Hastings Contemporary, scheduled for 2024.
Whilst Isabel always has a tale to tell for each of her images, you may or may not choose to go on the journey with her or you may indeed have a different story, one of your own that jumps off the page at you, that that you decide to follow.
Artwork Details:
Isabel Rock , 'Maud' 200 x 107cm, collaged woodblock print and acrylic ink on 410gsm Somerset Satin paper.
*Please note we are happy to ship this work rolled in an art tube. Whilst the work is on heavy duty art paper and mixed media, the artist is happy that the painting will be fine rolled in a tube. This is a more cost effective and environmentally sound method of shipping. Shipping via this method is free
In Rock's own words,
Maud
'Maud was a legend in the city. A legend that walked the streets and lived and breathed in the minds of the townsfolk so strongly that no one was sure any more if she was real or not.
The tap...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen, Woodcut
The society gravitates to an uncertain core by José Gerson - Pastel 68x50 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
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1970s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Color Pencil
Surrealist composition by José Gerson n°3 - Airbrush on paper 45x69 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper to frame
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1980s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Mid-Century Danish Surrealist Pastel on Paper. "Sunset over the Docks".
Located in Cotignac, FR
Danish surrealist oil pastel on paper of a harbour scene by Poul Møller. The pastel is signed PM and dated 71 to the bottom right. Presented in a plain wood tray frame.
Provenance: ...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Surrealist Mermaid Orchestra Large Painting Royal College Art Women LGBTQ+ Blues
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...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Pen
Howdy! (Roses) - Original Blue Floral Arrangement in Boot Still Life Artwork
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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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
La Torera, Surrealist Ink Drawing by José Luis Cuevas
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jose Luis Cuevas, Mexican (1934 - 2017) - La Torera, Year: 1973, Medium: Ink Drawing, signed, titled and dated in ink top right, Size: 29.5 x 43 in. (74.93 x 109.22 cm), Frame Siz...
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1970s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Love Birds, Sally-Ann Johns, Contemporary Animal Art, Original Drawings, Bright
Located in Deddington, GB
Sally-Ann Johns
Love Birds
Original Animal Drawing
Oil Pastel on Dutch Metal
Framed Size: H 31cm x W 31cm x D 10cm
Sold Framed in a Deep White Circular Frame
Please note that in situ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Gold Leaf
3D Surrealist Mixed Media Portrait,
by Jeffrey Kronsnoble, Mixed Media
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This framed 15.5" x 13.25" mixed media female portrait by artist Jeffrey Kronsnoble features the black and white profile of a women with a circular ...
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1960s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Graphite
The Queen - Watercolor House Home Original Painting Whimiscal Playful Art
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
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Consoling Partner, Surrealist Ink and Graphite Drawing by José Luis Cuevas
Located in Long Island City, NY
José Luis Cuevas, Mexican (1934 - 2017) - Consoling Partner, Year: 1980, Medium: Ink and Graphite on Paper, signed and dated top right, Size: 7.5 x 10.5 in. (19.05 x 26.67 cm), Fr...
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1980s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Graphite
The Cartographer - Black, Yellow, Collage, Surrealism
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
The Cartographer, 2021
collage on paper
50 H x 35 W cm
Raluca Arnăutu dreams the world through collages. A collage, dreamlike and surreal, populated by thousands of pieces of paper,...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Soap clouds - Drawing, Contemporary, Fantasy, Animals, Children
s Room
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Soap clouds, 2014
Acryl, fineliner and colored pencil on paper
13.97 H x 19.68 W in
35.5 H x 50 W cm
Raluca Arnăutu creates a zoomorphic world, where ...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil, Acrylic
A 1959 Black
White, Mid-Century, Surrealist Abstraction by 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: 12" x 30". Framed size: 19 3/4" x 25 3/4".
McL...
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1950s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Animal Painting Surrealist Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ artist Circle of Life
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...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Pen
Personne Suite No. 7
Located in Columbia, MO
Dorothea Tanning (American, 1910–2012)
Initially associated with the Surrealist movement, Dorothea Tanning developed a personal visual language that blurred the boundaries between r...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Etching
All We Need Is Flowers - Still Life Flowers in Vase Colorful Contemporary
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
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
The rest of the archaeologist
Located in Roma, RM
Giorgio de Chirico (Greece 1888 - Rome 1978), The Archaeologist's Rest
Lithographic pencil on paper 53.5×45 cm. Work executed for the lithograph of the same name.
Artwork registere...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Pencil
Forward
Located in Oslo, NO
The picture was painted in an original style. The artist conveys the forms in an original interpretation. Composition and interpretation of forms are timeless. This is the kind of sl...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$1,072
"Scarecrow" (2019) By Babs Webb and Timothy Von Rueden, Graphite Illustration
Located in Denver, CO
"Scarecrow" is a beautiful collaboration between fantasy masters Babs Webb and Timothy Von Rueden, done with graphite on mixed media paper, and measuring at 14 x 11 in. in its frame,...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Animal Capers (Black Surrealist Artist)
By Roland Ayers
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Surrealist proto-Afropunk drawing by African-American artist, Roland Ayers (1932-2014).
Animal Capers, ca. 1970 .
Ink on illustration board, image measures 20 inches. inches; illustration panel measures 21.5 inches. Unsigned.
Minor staining evident in detail photos
Artist and art educator, Roland Ayers was born on July 2, 1932, the only child of Alice and Lorenzo Ayers, and grew up in the Germantown district of Philadelphia. Ayers served in the US Army (stationed in Germany) before studying at the Philadelphia College of Art (currently University of the Arts). He graduated with a BFA in Art Education, 1954. He traveled Europe 1966-67, spending time in Amsterdam and Greece in particular. During this period, he drifted away from painting to focus on linear figurative drawings of a surreal nature. His return home inaugurated the artist’s most prolific and inspired period (1968-1975). Shorty before his second major trip abroad in 1971-72 to West Africa, Ayers began to focus on African themes, and African American figures populated his work almost exclusively.
In spite of Ayers’ travel and exploration of the world, he gravitated back to his beloved Germantown, a place he endowed with mythological qualities in his work and literature. His auto-biographical writing focuses on the importance of place during his childhood. Ayers’ journals meticulously document the ethnic and cultural make-up of Germantown, and tell a compelling story of class marginalization that brought together poor families despite racial differences. The distinctive look and design of Germantown inform Ayers’ visual vocabulary. It is a setting with distinctive Gothic Revival architecture and haunting natural beauty. These characteristics are translated and recur in the artist’s imagery.
During his childhood, one of the only books in the Ayers household was an illustrated Bible. The images within had a profound effect on the themes and subjects that would appear in his adult work. Figures in an Ayers’ drawing often seem trapped in a narrative of loss and redemption. Powerful women loom large in the drawings: they suggest the female role models his journals record in early life. The drawings can sometimes convey a strong sense of conflict, and at other times, harmony. Nature and architecture seem to have an antagonistic relationship that is, ironically, symbiotic.
A critical turning point in the artist’s career came in 1971 when he was included in the extremely controversial Whitney Museum show, Contemporary Black Artists in America. The exhibition gave Ayers an international audience and served as a calling card for introductions he would soon make in Europe.
Ayers is a particularly compelling figure in a period when black artists struggled with the idea of authenticity. A questioned often asked was “Is your work too black, or not black enough?” Abstractionists were considered by some peers to be sell-outs, frauds or worse. Figurative* work was accused of being either sentimental or politically radical depending on the critical source. Ayers made the choice early on to be a figurative artist, but considered his work devoid of political content.
Organizations such as Chicago’ s Afri-Cobra in the late 1960‘s asserted that the only true black art of any relevance must depict the black man and woman...
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1970s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
"Le combat des poissons "Pencil study with annotations , cm. 30 x 20 1940 ca
By André Masson
Located in Torino, IT
André Masson ( 1896-1987)
No signed
Pencil study with annotations on the right side, acquired by the previous owner from Luis Masson son of Andrè Masson
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1940s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Pencil
Surrealist Gouache on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Watercolour and gouache on paper painting titled 'Siamese Slaves' by British artist Derek Carruthers, signed to the bottom right and to the reverse and dated 2008 and titled.
A colo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
New York No. 1968 - Whimsical Playful House Home Original Painting
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
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
New York No. 50 - Watercolor House Home Original Painting Whimiscal Playful Art
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
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
"Dragonfly Mother" (2023) By Babs Webb and Timothy Von Rueden
Located in Denver, CO
"Dragonfly Mother" is a beautiful collaboration between fantasy masters Babs Webb and Timothy Von Rueden, done with graphite on mixed media paper, and measuring at 14 x 11 in. in its...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper, Graphite
Coloured City - Drawing, Pencil, Blue, Red, Paper
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Coloured city, 2014
acryl and colored fine liner on paper
19.68 H x 13.89 W in
50 H x 35.3 W
Raluca Arnăutu creates a zoomorphic world, where animals f...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Royal Dreams - 21st Century, Drawing on Paper, Tree, Crown, Blue, Fantasy
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Royal Dreams, 2013
Black and colored fine liner on paper
16.53 H x 11.69 W in
42 H x 29.7 W cm
Raluca Arnăutu creates a zoomorphic world, where animals...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Kyle Andrew Szpyrka - Babel, Drawing 2014
Located in Stamford, 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 sin...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Graphite
"Animal Illustrations" Allan Rohan Crite, 2 Ink Drawings African American Artist
Located in New York, NY
Allan Rohan Crite
Animal Illustrations
Signed lower left
Pen and ink on paper
23 1/2 x 16 inches
Brought up in Boston, Crite received his art training al the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at the Harvard University Extension School in 1968. He worked for most of his life as an illustrator in the Planning Department of the Boston Naval Shipyards, retiring in 1976, but continued to paint at the same time. His work has been widely exhibited and well received in Boston, where a square is named after him. Crite's early paintings depict the daily life of Boston's African-American community, a community that was to be transformed in the following decade by urban renewal and housing projects.
In his later paintings, magic-realist visions in which a black Virgin and Child ride on public transportation or float above the city streets, Crite used a bright palette rather than the more somber tones of his "neighborhood paintings...
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1930s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink
Escaping Eerie Monsters on the Roof at Night - Macabre Fantasy
Located in Miami, FL
Renowned artist Walter Schnackenberg departs from this jovial poster art to paint an eerie nocturnal scene depicting a female subject running for her life from macabre roof monsters....
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1950s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen
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
The Writer - Drawing by Antoine Mayo - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Writer is an Original China Ink Drawing and Watercolour realized by Mayo (1905-1990).
Good condition included a cardboard passpartout (50x35 cm).
Hand signed by the artist on the lower right corner.
Provenance: Private Collection, Paris.
Antoine Mayo (Port Said, Egypt 1905 - Seine Port1990)
Greek painter naturalized French citizen, active from 1924 in France, was a Surrealist artist and a polyhedric artist: painter, decorator, costume, designer, illustrator and much more. His father was Greek and his mother French, friend of Prévert and Desnos, he is also known for his work as a decorator and costume designer of masterpieces such as Les Enfants du Paradis, Golden helmet or Hiroshima my love.
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
"Brewing Up Whimsy" (2024) By Timothy Von Rueden, Original Graphite Drawing
Located in Denver, CO
"Brewing Up Whimsy" (2024) Timothy Von Rueden is an original handmade graphite drawing that depicts a student of magic brewing a potion in a small cauldron. There is a black cat stan...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Untitled Nude. Pencil and gold paint nude figurative drawing on paper.
By Juan C. Estrada
Located in Miami Beach, FL
"Estrada-Duran combines realism and surrealism in his work, the artists paintings are often monochromatic pencil drawings with overlays of gold paint that depict goddess-like women ...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gold
Tilt, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A surreal pinball game unfolds as oversized marbles cascade on a fire escape outside an inner city dwelling. The complimentary colors between the building and...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
A Man
s Home is His Castle, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A landscape watercolor painted in the realist tradition blends humor with commentary on modern life. The scene reflects on the cost of living and the conditio...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Fashionable Faces, Surrealist Figurative Line Drawing
Located in Soquel, CA
Fun and playful figurative line drawing with three stylized female faces by SusanBrooks (American, b. 1951), 1985. Signed and dated in the lowe...
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1980s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
untitled, original
By Paul Colin
Located in Belgrade, MT
This piece is a limited edition, pencil signed by the artist on the print and in the plate. It is part of my private collection of artists from the School of Paris era. It is in very...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Engraving, Lithograph
$680 Sale Price
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Achilles and Centaur - Welsh Greek Mythology art 1965 water colour painting
By Glyn Morgan
Located in Hagley, England
This interesting mythological watercolour painting on paper is by noted Welsh artist Glyn Morgan. Morgan was a noted Welsh artist, initially taught by Ceri Richards in Cardiff and la...
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1960s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$1,971 Sale Price
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Surrealist composition by José Gerson n°2 - Watercolor on paper 42x62 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
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1970s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Ancestor Worship II (Black Surrealist Philadelphia artist)
By Roland Ayers
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Roland Ayers (1932-2014).
Ancestor Worship II, 1971
Ink on paper, 4 × 5.5 inches.
Signed and dated.
Artist and art educator, Roland Ayers was born on July 2, 1932, the only c...
Category
1970s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Surrealist composition by José Gerson n°5 - Drawing 37x60 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Category
1980s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
$232 Sale Price
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Surrealist Large Painting Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ Female Artist Yellow Red
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 takes the audience on a journey into the imagination.
In October 2023 Isabel won the Evelyn Williams Drawing Award at the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. Known as the UK’s most prestigious annual open exhibition for drawing; part of the prize is a solo show at Hastings Contemporary, scheduled for 2024.
Whilst Isabel always has a tale to tell for each of her images, you may or may not choose to go on the journey with her or you may indeed have a different story, one of your own that jumps off the page at you, that that you decide to follow.
Artwork Details:
The Storm, 140x140cm, collaged woodblock print, acrylic ink, acrylic paint, 2020
* Please note this artwork is on two separate pieces of paper that have been joined together. The join is not obvious when looking at the work. At the time Isabel was desperate to make the piece but did not have a large enough piece of paper in the studio, so she joined two together.
Artwork Provenance: from the Artist Studio
photo credits, Isabel working, black and white shots, James Brown
In Isabels own words:
The Storm
It started with a butterfly flapping its wings, which caused an ant to drop a leaf it was carrying, the leaf fluttered and spun, it tickled the nose of a fox returning to its den, the fox sneezed which awoke a sleeping dog, the dog barked and the fox screamed, a baby in a house began to cry. The storm clouds gathered, threatening, grey, black, blue, like swollen bruises from the blows of life. Round and round they whirled, the butterfly flapping and flipping with them. People looked out of their windows and knew that the sky was falling on their heads. The swirling vortex opened and all life was sucked away, never to be seen again. All that was left was the tiny butterfly who shrugged its tiny shoulders and flapped its wings.
*Please note we are happy to ship this work rolled in an art tube. Whilst the work is on heavy duty art paper and mixed media, the artist is happy that the painting will be fine rolled in a tube. This is a more cost effective and environmentally sound method of shipping. Shipping via this method is free.
Artwork Provenance: from the Artist Studio
A certificate of authentication comes from Gallery Art 1821...
Category
2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen, Woodcut
Drain Vortex, Surrealist Mixed Media Drawing by Thom Cooney-Crawford
Located in Long Island City, NY
Thom Cooney-Crawford, American (1944 - ) - Drain Vortex, Year: 2000, Medium: Acrylic, Collage and Gold Leaf on Paper, signed and dated in pencil lower right, Size: 30 x 41.25 in. ...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Composition avec cheval en movement, original engraving
Located in Belgrade, MT
Roderick Fletcher Mead (American, 1900-1972) was an important painter and printmaker, best known for his surrealist landscapes and figural compositions reminiscent of Pablo Picasso a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Engraving
$636 Sale Price
29% Off
The feather of the soul by José Gerson - Watercolor on paper 50x70 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Category
1970s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$240 Sale Price
20% Off
A Colorful 1930s Modern Surrealist Abstraction by Hananiah Harari "The Military"
Located in Chicago, IL
A Colorful, 1930s Modern Surrealist Abstraction by Notable New York Avant Garde Artist, Hannah Harari (Am. 1912-2000). Titled "The Military", the artwork is ink and colored pencil ...
Category
1930s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil, Ink
Concert #II
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Concert #II" 1974 is a 2 colors ink drawing on creme Canson et Montgolfier paper by noted Polish artist Barbara Gawdzik Brzozowska...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
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