Surrealist Figurative 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
LOVE AT FIRST PIPE
Located in Los Angeles, CA
YURI MARTINEZ RAMOS
"LOVE FIRST PIPE"
OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED
CUBAN-AMERICAN, C.2006
20 X 16 INCHES
Yuri Martinez Ramos was born in Havana, Cuba on November 24, 1964.
He studied at the Elemental School of Plastic Arts from 1975 – 1979 and the National School of the Arts from 1979 – 1983.
Martinez’ figurative paintings have been compared to Botero because of his satirical social commentary. His style, however, is uniquely his own with typically vibrant Latin colors and use of expressive magical realism. His paintings tell his story and the story of the Cuban dilemma.
Martinez was granted permission by the US Justice Department after much effort with Cuban authorities to come to the US with his family and pursue his career outside Cuba. He now lives and works in Texas.
Papillon Gallery...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,688 Sale Price
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Surreal Landscape W/ Figures by Rachid Kamoun C.1959
Located in San Francisco, CA
Surreal Landscape w/ Figures by Rachid Kamoun c.1959 Style of Gertrude Abercorombie
Fine oil on masonite signed "Rachid" in the lower right corner.
This surreal-like painting was p...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Grotesque Nude Figures in Battle - like Hieronymus Bosch
Located in Miami, FL
Erik Thor Sandberg paints a fantastical scene that features nude, grotesque combatants engaged in a bloody battle on a surreal, pink, stage-like surface. Some of the painting's subje...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Jin Liu Surrealist Original Oil Painting "Production Plan-2"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Production Plan-2
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 12 x 12 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This paintin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$585 Sale Price
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Voyage (couple pink flamingo blue mauve sky americana vintage surreal painting)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
In this surrealist painting, a couple dressed in vintage clothing rests atop a giant pink inflatable flamingo, drifting through an undefined space. The sky behind them is an emotiona...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
ShaoHua Nong Surrealist Original Oil Painting "Separate"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Separate
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 11.5 x 8 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This painting is unstretched
Year: 2015
Artist: ShaoHua Nong...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$650 Sale Price
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La Mujer Isla Surrealist Painting
By Enrique Chavarría
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
The Island Woman (La Mujer Isla)
Artist signed and titled.
Enrique Chavarría (1927-1998) was a Mexican painter and neo-surrealist, whose fantastic imagery carries forward the work of the Mexican Surrealists. He created hundreds of easel-sized oil paintings on masonite and numerous smaller works. For four decades his principal patron was Bryna Prensky, an American gallery owner from Florida who moved to Mexico City in 1954. She bought most of Chavarría’s known works for her gallery and her own collection.
Prensky said she often found Chavarría in his pajamas at mid-day. He read widely and painted dreamlike images that reflect his wide-ranging scholarly interests. Much of his work is thought to have been inspired by poetry, especially the writings of André Breton, Paul Éluard, Arthur Rimbaud, and Paul Valéry; by the classic surrealism of Salvador Dalí; and by the paintings of Mexican neo-surrealist artists Remedios Varo...
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
12b
By Leonor Fini
Located in Columbia, MO
Lithograph on washi paper
Exemplaire B/165
Leonor Fini was born in Argentina in 1907 but travelled and lived in Europe with her mother from a young age. By 1931, she was in Paris, i...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Lithograph, Washi Paper
$1,920
Vintage Surrealist Composition - Precious Stones Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Highly detailed surrealist composition evoking tribal, abstracted carved stone-like shapes fitting together like a three dimensional sphere shaped puzzle, floating in a sky blue space by Clayton Anderson (American b. 1943). Textured plaster border around the edge of the piece. Signed "Clayton Anderson" along the upper left edge and on verso. Presented in a deep maple box frame.
Clayton Anderson (American, b. 1943) studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and worked with Ben Kimihira, Walter...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Oil, Wood Panel
$1,880 Sale Price
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"Salvador Dalí"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
I was inspired to paint this picture by girls. on a nudist beach, they froze on the mat. Like a city in the steppe. As a result, I met them, they became my muses, I repeatedly painte...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Together I (purple surrealism eyes black animal head comical mystery figurative
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
We love Rudolf's latest series and particularly this exquisitely comical and enigmatic painting. The artist says "Banal, everyday things meet in the middle of nowhere and present the...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled, Figurative, Charcoal on Paper by Modern Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Anita Roy Chowdhury - Untitled
Charcoal on Paper
10 x 16 inches, 1960
(Framed & Delivered)
In this tender charcoal sketch, Anita Roy Chowdhury captures the gentle innocence of a you...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Flow (sleep monkey chimpanzee iceberg arctic surrealist oil painting light blue)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Superbe original painting on canvas depicting a sleeping giant chimpanzee atop a drifting iceberg.
keywords; chimpanzé, americana, surrealism, monkey, sleeping giant, iceberg, vin...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Candles
Located in Nottingham, GB
Original artwork, oil on board
Anna starts by sketching her figures. Based on everyday people, everyday life. Embossing her art boards with telephone directory before adding oils. I...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Shoe Fetish! Whimsical Surrealist Abstract Figurative with High Heel Heads
By M. Jane Balanoff
Located in Soquel, CA
Attention all shoe lovers! This whimsical mixed media figurative abstract piece features four surrealist nude figures with red and blue high heels as h...
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Plywood, Wood Panel
My Secret is Safe With You -21st Century, Surrealism, Figurative, Men and Animal
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
About Artist
Bor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
MEJOR SOLAS
By Sofia Ruiz
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"MEJOR SOLAS"
OIL AND ACRILIC ON CANVAS
SIGNED AND DATED 2010
EXHIBITED MUSEO DEL BANCO CENTRAL
DE COSTA RICA
47.5 X 59 INCHES
Sofía Ruiz was born in ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Vincent
s Nightmare (black Lab dog face cop police crime surreal oil painting)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
In VINCENT'S NIGHTMARE, a melancholic black Labrador dominates the composition, its sorrowful eyes reflecting an unspoken tragedy. The rich, textured fur contrasts with the crisp blue sky, creating an atmosphere of quiet despair. A small yet striking figure—a sheriff—stands before the dog, separated by yellow crime scene tape. His posture, with a hand wiping his face, conveys exhaustion, grief, or perhaps regret. The contrast in scale between the enormous, mournful dog and the diminutive officer suggests themes of loss, injustice, or powerlessness. The surrealist juxtaposition of law enforcement with an innocent, grieving creature invites interpretation: is the dog a witness, a victim, or a symbol of something greater? Vincent’s Nightmare evokes an emotional response, urging viewers to contemplate responsibility, empathy, and the weight of unseen sorrow.
keywords; painting on canvas, surrealist painting, americana...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Magic (animal figurative oil painting surrealist deer man reindeer scenery)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Rudolf Kosow’s Magic is a striking contemporary surrealistic painting that intertwines the mystical with the unsettling. A man, dressed in formal attire, stands upon a rocky terrain,...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woodland Fancy, Mid-Century Fantastical Figurative Landscape 1969
Located in Soquel, CA
Unique and fantastical mid-century painting of a nude figure standing in front of a fish in the forest surrounded by flowers, plants, and a portrait by Kenneth Fong...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$540 Sale Price
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African Lady - Original Mixed Media by Sergio Barletta - 1997
Located in Roma, IT
African Lady is an original painting and collage artwork in mixed media -ink, tempera and watercolor- realized by Sergio Barletta in 1997
Hand-signed on ...
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Ink, Tempera, Watercolor
ShaoHua Nong Surrealist Original Oil On Canvas "Staircase"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Staircase
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 12 x 16 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This painting is unstretched
Year: 2015
Artist: ShaoHua Nong...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$650 Sale Price
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Excess (melting cake lady dessert americana vintage surreal painting)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
In this striking surrealist composition, a giant molten dessert, rich in deep crimson and glossy chocolate tones, engulfs a partially visible human figure. The oversized, almost grot...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Spanish Goalkeeper Gets Ready Again
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
"El arquero Spanol se apresta de nuevo" The Spanish goalkeeper gets ready again, 2010
With signed certificate of autenticity.
Oil on canvas signed and dated, will be frame before shi...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
Yes, right here Bob (surreal painting vintage blue Grey officers cops crime)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; surrealism, humour, uncanny, animals, rabbit, terra cota, fire red, earth tones, indian red, oil painting, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, un...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Astro Diver
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Jeni Stallings creates work that often draws from her dreams and personal experiences. She tends to render those moments in a muted, femininity-infused surrealism far from the hard-...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
"SILLY TOPIC OF TWO LOVERS"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
YURI MARTINEZ RAMOS
"SILLY TOPIC OF TWO LOVERS"
OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED, TITLED
CUBAN-AMERICAN, DATED 2000
31.5 X 39.5 INCHES
Silly Topic for Two Lovers is exactly what you can appreciate in the painting,
by the time every young couple was using the bicycle as a way of transportation in Havana,
I saw that silly imagery as an excuse to talk about love.
Yuri Martinez Ramos was born in Havana, Cuba on November 24, 1964.
He studied at the Elemental School of Plastic Arts from 1975 – 1979 and the National School of the Arts from 1979 – 1983.
Martinez’ figurative paintings have been compared to Botero because of his satirical social commentary. His style, however, is uniquely his own with typically vibrant Latin colors and use of expressive magical realism. His paintings tell his story and the story of the Cuban dilemma.
Martinez was granted permission by the US Justice Department after much effort with Cuban authorities to come to the US with his family and pursue his career outside Cuba. He now lives and works in Texas.
Papillon Gallery...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"GIOTTO ANGEL WITH CIRCLE AND STAR", oil on wood, renaissance gothic, surreal
By Tony Geiger
Located in Toronto, Ontario
GIOTTO ANGEL WITH CIRCLES AND STAR is a new oil on wood surrealist painting by Brooklyn, New York artist Tony Geiger. It measures 20x24" and is a unique ar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"GIOTTO ANGEL WITH CIRCLES", oil on wood, renaissance gothic, spiritual, surreal
By Tony Geiger
Located in Toronto, Ontario
GIOTTO ANGEL WITH CIRCLES is a new oil on wood surrealist painting by Brooklyn, New York artist Tony Geiger. It measures 20x24" and is a unique artwork. Th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Bobby
Nightmare (pug dog face helicopter vintage surreal oil painting)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Bobby's Nightmare" by Rudolf Kosow is a striking blend of humor and surrealism, juxtaposing an exaggeratedly expressive pug with an intense military scene. The dog's bulging eyes, lolling tongue, and shocked expression contrast sharply with the highly detailed helicopter and soldiers descending from the sky, creating an absurd and unexpected composition.
The painting plays on the idea of a pet's anxiety, turning an ordinary moment of canine surprise into an action-packed, almost cinematic spectacle. The hyperrealistic rendering of the pug’s fur and facial details enhances the surrealism, making the implausible scene feel eerily convincing. With its mix of realism and whimsy, Bobby’s Nightmare captures the chaotic energy of an overactive imagination—whether that of a dog startled by its surroundings or a playful human interpretation of a pet’s exaggerated emotions.
keywords; painting on canvas, surrealist painting, americana...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"RIGHT FLANK", painting, surrealist dream, tanks attack birds, peace, protest
By Tony Geiger
Located in Toronto, Ontario
RIGHT FLANK is an acrylic on canvas surrealist painting by Brooklyn, New York artist Tony Geiger. It measures 40x40" and is a unique artwork. It's a classi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Investigation (bat fox bat oil painting surrealism figurative animal vintage)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
In "Investigation I", banal, everyday things meet in this painting to create an unusual, strange, absurd and ironical situation derived by the disproportional scale size of things.
keywords; surrealism, animals, bat, oil painting, earth tones, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary figurative painting, dreams, symbolic composition, giant bat...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman and the Car - Oil Paint by Americo Mazzotta - Late 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Woman and the Car is an original modern artwork realized by Americo Mazzotta (1941-2020) in the late 20th Century.
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas.
Hand signed by the artist ...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
UNTITLED
By Sofia Ruiz
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"UNTITLED"
OIL AND ACRILIC ON CANVAS
SIGNED
35.5 X 27.5 INCHES
Sofía Ruiz was born in 1982.
What she expresses through her paintings has to do with whe...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$6,500
"The Connecting Bridge"
Located in Astoria, NY
Barbara Kur Green (American, b. 1942), "The Connecting Bridge", Oil on Linen, signed lower left, with artist label verso, wood frame. Image: 39.25" H x 29" W; frame: 46.5" H x 36.5" ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Milk and Honey
Located in Nottingham, GB
Original Artwork, oil on board.
Anna starts by sketching her figures. Based on everyday people, everyday life. Embossing her art boards with telephone directory before adding oils. Incredible style, akin with Francis Bacon.
"I create artworks that are unique and modern, yet remain rooted firmly within the traditions of oil painting. I paint intuitively and with energy, and try to truthfully communicate the experience of being alive" - Anna E Davies...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled, Figurative, Mixed Media on Paper by Modern Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Anita Roy Chowdhury - Untitled
Mixed Media on Paper
11 x 15 inches, 2006
(Unframed & Delivered)
Style :
Her works manifest human figures, nude or draped in different poses and postu...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Home Fire
Located in Los Angeles, CA
YURI MARTINEZ RAMOS
"HOME FIRE
OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED
CUBAN-AMERICAN, C.2006
20 X 16 INCHES
Home Fire" brings me back to my childhood home when my grandpa visited us every day smoking his pipe and conversing good moments.
Yuri Martinez Ramos was born in Havana, Cuba on November 24, 1964.
He studied at the Elemental School of Plastic Arts from 1975 – 1979 and the National School of the Arts from 1979 – 1983.
Martinez’ figurative paintings have been compared to Botero because of his satirical social commentary. His style, however, is uniquely his own with typically vibrant Latin colors and use of expressive magical realism. His paintings tell his story and the story of the Cuban dilemma.
Martinez was granted permission by the US Justice Department after much effort with Cuban authorities to come to the US with his family and pursue his career outside Cuba. He now lives and works in Texas.
Papillon Gallery...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,688 Sale Price
24% Off
4a
By Leonor Fini
Located in Columbia, MO
Lithograph on Arches paper
Exemplaire B/165
Leonor Fini was born in Argentina in 1907 but travelled and lived in Europe with her mother from a young age. By 1931, she was in Paris, ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Lithograph
$1,920
"Studio Gothic" (2025) Oil Painting on Panel
Located in Denver, CO
This incredible photorealist oil painting by renowned American painter Heather Neill is framed at 33 x 21 inches, and is ready to hang.
Artist Autobiography:
Born in Honolulu, Hawai...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Candido Ballester Sueño original Magical Surrealism mixed media paper
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Sueño original magical Surrealism mixed media paper painting
Cándido Ballester is a contemporary Mallorcan painter who was born in 1926. As a child he had to emigrate to Argentina. ...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Cardboard
architecture and perspective.
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
An invented landscape, created out of nothing. A tribute to architecture and perspective. Which helps us to be, move and understand space. A landscape with a garden
that seems to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Girl Standing by Horse
Located in Hudson, NY
“Friends of Friends” explores a playful world where dreams and reality meld together to create surreal moments. When engaging with Piussi's work, we enter an arena where we are imme...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Phenomenon (surrealism oil painting rooster chicken head farm animal red)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Absurd scenery in the middle of nowhere: head of a chicken, seemingly alive ... and an elderly man
... do they belong together, are they probably old...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Holiday End - Surreal Christmas Scene, Original Oil on Canvas, Framed
By John Hrehov
Located in Chicago, IL
John Hrehov is a master at storytelling. Here, the artist presents us with a curious scene. In a sparsely decorated room albeit family portraits, a son is witnessing his father doing something very peculiar. Hrehov calls on the viewer to examine the scene more closely - asking ourselves what traits are being passed on to this innocent witness? The piece is framed in a simple white floater frame measuring 26 x 38 inches.
John Hrehov
Holiday End
oil on canvas
24h x 36w in
60.96h x 91.44w cm
JHR020
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...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Levitation Surrealist Landscape River Creature Contemporary
Located in Utrecht, NL
Levitation Surrealist Landscape River Creature Contemporary
Gérard Willemenot was born on February 11, 1943.
World War II and his father's deportation to Mauthausen had a profound i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Panel
3b
By Leonor Fini
Located in Columbia, MO
Lithograph on washi paper
Exemplaire B/165
Leonor Fini was born in Argentina in 1907 but travelled and lived in Europe with her mother from a young age. By 1931, she was in Paris, i...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Lithograph
$1,920
Tapestry of Love - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Men, Modern, Cat
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube.
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
About Artist
Lawrence Amoo (...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cotton
$4,520 Sale Price
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Exhibited Peyote Priest visionary painting with an artist-made, decorated frame
Located in Colfax, CA
A rare visionary sand painting by Kiowa Peyote Priest, Chief Charging Skunk, housed in a hand carved and painted frame, created by the artist.
Works by Chief Charging Skunk are hard...
Category
1930s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"Couturier Giorgio Armani"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
In this painting I have depicted a whimsical world where fantasy and reality blend under a vintage patina. The main figure, a gnome, exudes a contemplative aura, imbued with the myst...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surrealist View (large original painting on canvas)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original oil painting on canvas. Hand signed lower front by Ferjo. Canvas image size 30 x 24 x 1 inches. Canvas is stretched.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of au...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,600 Sale Price
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Charles Ragland Bunnell 1940 Surrealist Oil Painting of Man with Eye Orb
Located in Denver, CO
This original vintage painting by American artist Charles Ragland Bunnell presents a captivating example of his surrealist vision during the mid-20th century. Painted in 1940, the co...
Category
1940s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Italian Modernist Surrealist Lady With a Hat Oil Painting, Signora dal Cappello
Located in Surfside, FL
Lazzaro Donati (Italian, 1926-1977), "Signora dal Cappello," oil on panel, signed lower left, signed, titled and dated verso, overall (with frame): 22.5"h x 24.5"w
Lazzaro Donati wa...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
L
Auto-Stoppeur Surrealism Landscape Skeleton Skull Contemporary
Located in Utrecht, NL
L'Auto-Stoppeur Surrealism Landscape Skeleton Skull Contemporary
Gérard Willemenot was born on February 11, 1943.
World War II and his father's deportation to Mauthausen had a profo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Panel
Surreal Cityscape
, National Academy of Design, San Francisco Museum of Art
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'ZEV' for Daniel Albert Harris (American, 1914-1986) and dated "1952-1953".
A dramatic, Mid-century cityscape showing numerous figures, both concealed and partially-revealed, dispersed in a neo-classical townscape beneath a vibrant sunset.
Born Daniel Harris, and adopting the name of Zev, Harris studied at the Masters Institute of the Roerich Museum in Hungary and at the National Academy of Design...
Category
1950s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Green Virgin, Surrealist Oil on Canvas Painting by Hattakitkosol Somchai
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Hattakitkosol Somchai, Thai (1934 - 2000)
Title: Green Virgin
Year: 1970
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l.
Size: 27.5 x 31.5 in. (69.85 x 80.01 cm)
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Forefarthers
Located in Nottingham, GB
Original artwork, oil on board.
Anna starts by sketching her figures. Based on everyday people, everyday life. Embossing her art boards with telephone directory before adding oils. ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Totemic Arhat - Surreal Buddhist Figure of Enlightenment, Acrylic on Panel
Located in Chicago, IL
Oliver Hazard Benson
Totemic Arhat
acrylic on panel
9h x 7w in
22.86h x 17.78w cm
OB0111
Oliver Hazard’s paintings are produced directly from his imagination and deals with a mixtur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Americana "For a horrible instant Carter thought the jet was going to crash
By Peter Helck
Located in Miami, FL
Mid Century Americana "For a horrible instant Carter thought the jet was going to crash in the street." Saturday Evening Post
Work is unframed
Category
1950s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Gouache
1a
By Leonor Fini
Located in Columbia, MO
Lithograph on Arches
Exemplaire B/165
Leonor Fini was born in Argentina in 1907 but travelled and lived in Europe with her mother from a young age. By 1931, she was in Paris, in the...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Lithograph, Archival Paper
$1,920
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