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
Patiently Waiting 2 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Black Woman, Love
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Incident II (horse leg hoof equestrian man surrealistic animal tennis brown art)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
A surreal vertical oil painting titled Incident by Rudolf Kosow depicts an immense, detailed black horse's hoof dominating the majority of the composition, set against a muted, textured background. At the bottom right, a small man...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Men Philosophizing
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Men Philosophizing 1998
Born in 1950 Vina Del Mar Chile. Already when a child his drawings and paintings were noticed by the public. From 1966 to 1969 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Valparaiso where he received awards every year. Very soon he exhibited his works that document his specific interest in the portrayal of man in Chile. In the age of 24 he went abroad having exhibition in several Latin American countries. In 1983 he joined the League Art Student of New York.
Duran developed his style which distinguishes him from present day currents.
His work was exhibited in Europe, South America and USA recently his work was exhibited in Chile.
Ivan Duran Garlick...
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$6,250 Sale Price
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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
Instantly (woman tennis player vintage surrealist oil painting monochrome grey)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
**The actual color of this piece is a monochrome off-white and dark grey palette.
Rudolf Kosow’s Instantly is a striking monochrome oil painting that blends contemporary surrealism w...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Getting on Horse 2, florance , Italy
Located in Hudson, NY
These 4 oil on canvas paintings are in a set of 4 for $8000.00.
“Friends of Friends” explores a playful world where dreams and reality meld together to create surreal moments. Wh...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Getting on Horse 4, Florance, italy
Located in Hudson, NY
These 4 oil on canvas paintings are in a set of 4 for $8000.00.
“Friends of Friends” explores a playful world where dreams and reality meld together to create surreal moments. Wh...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Angel of Music " Modern Surrealist Oil Painting by Luis Alberto Solari
Located in Pasadena, CA
In The Angel of Music, Luis Alberto Solari presents a surreal, symbol-laden tableau where figuration and fantasy merge. At the center, a winged figure in a red cap floats horizontall...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oh Darling (Young couple in love rasberry jam vintage figurative oil painting)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Oh Darling!" by Rudolf Kosow is a surreal and humorous exploration of romance, identity, and the unexpected. The painting depicts an intimate, almost cinematic embrace between a man and a woman, rendered in a vintage, film-noir aesthetic. However, Kosow subverts this classic imagery by replacing the man's hair with an oversized, glistening raspberry, adding an element of absurdity and playful surrealism.
The color palette consists of soft blues, muted earth tones, and the striking red of the raspberry, which commands attention and contrasts with the subdued hues of the couple’s attire. The detailed rendering of the fruit—almost hyper-real in its texture—further heightens the surreal quality of the work. This unexpected fusion of realism and fantasy transforms an ordinary moment into a dreamlike narrative, inviting viewers to reflect on the interplay of love, desire, and the subconscious.
This painting comes ready to hang with clean edges.
keywords; painting on canvas, surrealist painting, americana...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
4224 The batlle, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Andres Vivo
Located in Yardley, PA
In the heat of the independence, locals fighting spanish colonizers. Uruguay first fought against Spain and later on against the brazilian. We also hat to get rid of british invador...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Renaissance dream. Messenger. Acrylic on canvas, 57x59 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Renaissance dream. Messenger. Acrylic on canvas, 57x59 cm
Painting with mystic creatures, people, horse, knight
Igor Leontiev (1957) - one of the leading independent painters in Latvia
Born in Riga, Latvia.
Studied in the Art School of Rozental, the Latvian Academy of Arts and private studios of the famous painters and teachers Abram Bikov and Vitaly Karkunov. Participates in exhibitions since 1987.
Awards:
1991 – One of the main grants at the International Art Project «Golden Brush» at the Central Painters' House, Moscow, Russia
Solo Shows:
2008- Gallery "Antonia", Riga. exhibition "Dream City"
2002 – Open exhibition “Genesis” Austria, Vienna
2002 - «Painting», Blackhead's House, Riga (printed brochure)
2000 - Personal exhibition in Austria, Vienna “Gallery Atelier T”
2000 – Personal exhibition in Riga, Latvia
2000 - Institute of Practical Psyhogy, Riga (printed brochure)
2001 - Gallery «AtelierT», Vienna, Austria
1998 – Joined exhibition with N.Bessonova «Garant», Vienna, Austria
1998 - Gallery «Nelliya», Riga
1998 - Co-project with N.Bessonova «Birds and Fish», Gallery «Nelliya», Riga
1997 - Gallery «Dzintars», Riga
1997 - Insurance Company «New Re» Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
1997 - Gallery «Rigas Vini», Riga
1997 - Gallery «Goldshidhaus», Gilzenkirken, Germany, with N.Bessonova
1996 – Personal exhibition in “Rigas vini” Gallery, Riga
1996 - Gallery «Sofia», Gilzenkirken, Germany
1991 - Russian Culture Fund, Riga
1991 – Last personal exhibition in Riga
Group Shows:
2007 - Museum der stad Bad Ischl”Genesis2000”
2007 -“Art Innsbruck” International Messe.
2004 - Showcase of Latvian painters dedicated to Latvia joining the EU, museum «Horst Shloss», Germany
2004 - «Hungary by the Latvian Painters», Moscow House, Riga
2003 - «Autumn-2003», Latvian State Art Museum
2003 - Autumn exhibitions of Latvian Painters, Gallery «Nelliya», Riga
2003 - «Abstract Art in Latvian Painting», Latvian State Art Museum
2000-2006 - International Project dedicated to the Book «Genesis», Austria
2002 - «Autumn», Latvian State Art Museum
1999 - Participation in exhibition “Gold of Russian Art” Austria, Vienna, “Gallery Atelier T”
1999 – Participation in projects “Genesis” Austria, Vienna, “Gallery Atelier T”
1997 - «Art Expo» New York, USA
1996 - «Art of the Chosen Ones», Latvian State Art Museum «Arsenal»
1995 - «Surrealism in Works of Latvian Painters», Russian Culture Fund, Riga
1994 - «Christmas Exhibition», Embassy of Poland in Latvia, Riga
1993 - «Art of the Russian Painters», Embassy of Russia in Latvia, Riga
1993 - «Golden Brush», Central Painters' House, Moscow, Russia
1993 - «Latvian Painters», Gallery «Sofia», Germany
1992 – sept.,Oct. – exhibition in Baad Goseberg, Germany
1992 - «Artmyth», International Art Festival, Manezh, Moscow, Russia
1992 - «Latvian Art», Berlin, Germany
1991 – «Reshaping», exhibition in Moscow
1991 - «Golden Brush», Central Painters' House, Moscow, Russia
1991 - «Transformation», Youth Palace, Moscow, Russia
1991 - «Latvian Painters», Belver, Germany
1989 - «Artcontact» National Art Project, Culture House of Railroad workers, Riga
1989 - «Artist and Religion», Riga - Moscow
1988 - «Free Art», Rigas Modes, Riga
1987 - First exhibition with painters A.Alekperov and G.Huckivadze in the Culture House of Railroad workers, Riga
Auctions:
2002 - «Doroteum» Vienna, Austria - paintings «Russian Art» and «Portrait of Olga...
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$4,618 Sale Price
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Looking for blue (Young girl pink dress reaching for sky figurative oil painting
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Looking for Blue by Rudolf Kosow is a delicate and thought-provoking oil painting that captures a moment of curiosity and wonder. The artwork depicts a young girl standing on tiptoe,...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled, Nude Surreal Figures Together Slovenian French Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Surrealism
Subject: Abstract
Medium: Oil
Surface: Canvas
Country: France
In this surreal composition by Heinrich M. Frama the artist clumps a group of figures towards the mid...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gerard Tunney, Midsummer night
s dreamers, Original figurative painting
Located in Deddington, GB
A dancer looks upwards towards the sun as her fellow dancers sleep during rehearsals. The ballet is based on Shakespeare’s famous play. The green colours and foliage echo the forest ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
THE GEOGRAPHER (VERMEER INDIANA)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original oil painting on canvas. Hand signed on front by the artist. Canvas is stretched.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$5,700 Sale Price / item
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Bites of Trivial Matter- 3rd Panel in 6 Piece Series by Indian Artist Binay Sinh
By Binay Sinha
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Bites of Trivial Matter," is a six panel work by Binay Sinha, but each piece is also available for sale individually. The artist discusses modernity, specifically the effect in has ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Baddie (coyote, man, wild animal, americana, surrealist painting, nature, field)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
This surrealistic painting on canvas titled "Baddie" by Rudolf Kosow is an enthralling visual narrative that masterfully weaves together three essential elements: man, animal, and na...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surreal Figurative Painting, "D
or"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is an original Oil on Canvas painting by Charlene Mosley. A cirtificate of authenticity will follow delivery.
Charlene Mosley’s current work discusses the importance of the ba...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sunset. Mixed media drawing, Black and white, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
ZOFIA ANNA MISIAK
Zofia Anna Misiak is a contemporary painter from an artistic family. Her parents are Janina Żylińska and Stanisław Misiak. Zofia Anna Misiak graduated from the Acad...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Acrylic
Hermits (blue butterfly Woman vintage lingerie surrealist oil painting sculpture
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Hermits is a tridimensional original painting on paper on branches depicting a woman next to a giant butterfly along a path in a dark night.
keywords; butterfly, woman, lingerie, americana...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Driftwood, Laid Paper
Surreal Figurative Painting, "Elegance and Power" 2024
Located in San Diego, CA
This is an original Oil on Canvas figurative painting by Charlene Mosley. A cirtificate of authenticity will follow delivery. It is framed as pictured.
Charlene Mosley’s current wor...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dream in Pink Modern Cuban Art Hyperrealism Mixed Media Surreal
Located in Houston, TX
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Dreams in Pink was recently painted by the Cuban artist Brian Sanchez in 2023. It is oil and mixed media on linen .Dreams in Pink by Brian Sanchez shows the hyperrealism of modern Cuban art...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
$2,080 Sale Price
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"Saint Michel House Sunset" (2024) By Christopher Clark, Oil
Acrylic Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Christopher Clark's "Saint Michel House Sunset" is an original, handmade oil & acrylic painting that depicts an abstracted landscape with a house surrounded by trees, tall, grass and...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Surrealist Large Purple Figurative Dreamscape with Horse, A Walk During Eclipse
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Walk During the Eclipse is a large-scale original surrealist oil painting by Feros, rich with symbolism, narrative depth, and cinematic color. Rendered in vibrant purples, soft pin...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Spray Paint
Incredible Vintage Surreal Religious Framed Signed Latin American Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed lower right.
Category
1940s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,160 Sale Price
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4b
By Leonor Fini
Located in Columbia, MO
Lithograph on washi paper
Exemplaire B/165
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Lithograph, Washi Paper
$1,920
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
German Surrealist Colorful Oil Painting Space Moon 1960 Mid Century Red Green
Located in Buffalo, NY
A rare surrealist painting depicting a scene which appears to reference outer-space.
Great composition, color and texture.
Signed Krause but...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,031 Sale Price
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Magic Realism Figurative Artwork, "Spring Herald" by Evgeniya Golik
Located in San Diego, CA
A 19” x 25” Magic Realism Figurative Artwork by artist Evgeniya Golik. A certificate of authenticity will accompany the piece upon its purchase or delivery.
Evgeniya Golik (also kn...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
A Surreal Encaustic on Wood "I Remember My Castle"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original encaustic mixed media artwork by Tiffany Bociek. Its dimensions are 12.8 x 14 x 2 in. A certificate of authenticity will follow delivery.
Created ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Oil
Game (bob cat, female tennis player, ball, vintage, animal, surrealist painting
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
In this captivating painting by Rudolf Kosow, the canvas comes alive with a surreal and dynamic encounter. At first glance, we see a massive bob cat head, rendered in repose with a t...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surrealist Classical Ruins Scene titled "Echoes Among the Ruins"
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Echoes Among the Ruins is a striking surrealist composition by Alfred W. Campbell, an enigmatic artist whose work is deeply rooted in dreamlike architecture and psychological landsca...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Oxacan (sic.) Spirits"
Located in Astoria, NY
Louis Mendez (American, 1929-2012), "Oxacan (sic.) Spirits", Oil on Canvas, 1998, depicting three faces and abstracted body parts on a colorful ground, the artist drawing inspiration...
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$750 Sale Price
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Magic Realism Figurative Artwork, "The Air On A G String" by Evgeniya Golik
Located in San Diego, CA
A 20.5” x 16.5" x 1.5" Magic Realism Figurative Artwork by artist Evgeniya Golik. A certificate of authenticity will accompany the piece upon its purchase or delivery.
Evgeniya Golik (also known as Evgola) is a Russian born pop-surrealist based in San Diego, California. Golik graduated Art School at the age of 17, and having studied at the Far Eastern State Technical University in Vladivostok, Russia, Golik graduated and earned her degree in Design and Architecture. In the present moment, she is a full-time fine artist, illustrator, educator.
Inspired by the European Renaissance, Russian Orthodox icons, Slavic folklore, fairy tales and modern pop culture (fashion, photography, cinematography, music), Golik’s art combines a classic sensibility within a contemporary setting, something which artist-self defines as ‘Neo-Renaissance’.
Using a variety of media, her work joins real world portraiture with imaginative and often surreal narratives to highlight and reveal her subject’s personalities. Golik’s paintings and drawings are doors to a mystical realm, one which showcases a myriad of beautiful human faces and fantastical creatures, that seek to express their secret through esoteric language.
Golik has been working notably with The Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA), Museum Of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), New Americans Museum (NAM) and with James Hubbell & Ilan-Lael Foundation (Pacific Rim Park Project). Her art has been exhibited in various Galleries within the USA and Europe, as well as being published and commissioned by private collectors all over the world.
"This artwork is my impression of a classical music piece now known as “the Air on a G String...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Color Pencil
Abstract Figurative Impasto Surrealist Work
By Robert Del Rio
Located in Houston, TX
Textured abstract painting of what appears to be a serpent or venus fly traps. The painting is signed by the artist on the back of the canvas with the date. Canvas is not framed.
Artist Biography: Robert Del Rio is a Mexican artist who has a very distinct abstract style. His solo exhibits include: 2019 Art Palm beach by Marcel Katz
2018 The art plug...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Modern Figurative Surrealism Watercolor, Drawing - "The Dressers"
Located in Surfside, FL
Gary Hansmann (1947-2008) was active/lived in California. He is known for abstract, Surrealism figure painting.
Gary William Hansmann was born Dec. 4, 1940, in San Diego to Ethel May...
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Watercolor
"Birch Woods", Surrealist Naive Primitive Night Landscape Acrylic Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This artwork actually contains two landscapes. The inner landscape depicts a forest of birch trees at dawn or at dusk, with a purple sky and a fuzzy Sun. The ground is full of colored small flowers and plants. The outer landscape depicts a night green landscape through birch branches, with clouds and the Moon. Although both landscape can't actually merge, some branches of the inner landscape extends into those of the outer landscape, which makes this painting surrealist. Both landscapes are separated by a pink mosaic...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
1970 Mod Surrealist Painting Collage David Hare Abstract Landscape Summer Land
By David Hare
Located in Surfside, FL
David Hare
Summer Land, 1970
Acrylic or oil paint and collage on board
Dimensions: 26 X 36 inches. Framed measuring 29 x 38 inches.
Hand signed, dated and titled on tape to verso 'Summer Land 1970 Hare'.
Provenance: Hamilton Gallery of Contemporary Art, New York
David Hare (1917 – 1992) was an American artist, associated with the Surrealist movement. He is primarily known for his sculpture, though he also worked extensively in photography and oil painting. The VVV Surrealism Magazine was first published and edited by Hare in 1942.
Born March 10, 1917 in New York City, New York to father Meredith Hare, a lawyer and mother Elizabeth Sage Goodwin, an art collector. In the 1920s the family moved first to Santa Fe, New Mexico and later to Colorado Springs, Colorado, in hope that the fresh air would help heal Meredith Hare's tuberculosis. His mother founded the Fountain Valley School, where David attended high school. After high school Hare married and moved to Roxbury, Connecticut where he worked as a color photographer. He attended Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson from 1936 to 1937, studying biology and chemistry.
In the late 1930s, with no previous artistic training, he began to experiment with color photography. Using his previous education in chemistry Hare developed an automatist technique called "heatage" in which he heated the unfixed negative from an 8 by 10-inch plate, causing the image to ripple and distort.
Hare's Surrealist experiments in photography were only one of his many projects. In 1938 he met Susanna Winslow Wilson and the couple soon married. Both David and Susanna pursued their interests in Surrealism and regularly attended Surrealist gatherings in New York Larre French restaurant on 56th street and at Breton's Greenwich Village apartment. In 1940 he received a commission from the American Museum of Natural History to document the Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest, for which he eventually produced 20 prints developed using Eastman Kodak's then-new dye transfer process (a time-consuming and complicated technique). In the same year, he also opened his own commercial photography studio in New York City and exhibited his photographs in a solo show at the Julien Levy Gallery.
In the next few years, through his cousin the painter Kay Sage, he came into contact with a number of Surrealist artists who had fled their native Europe because of World War II. Hare became closely involved with the émigré Surrealist movement and collaborated closely with them on projects such as the Surrealist journal VVV, which he co founded and edited from 1941 to 1944 with André Breton, Max Ernst, and Marcel Duchamp. With numerous illustrations by Breton, Leonora Carrington, Marc Chagall, Roberto Matta, Giorgio de Chirico, MarcelDuchamp, Max Ernst, Andre Masson, Joan Miro, Enrico Donati, Dorothea Tanning, and others.
Published in only four issues between 1942-44, VVV was an experimental New York-based magazine devoted to the dissemination of Surrealism. Edited by David Hare, the short-lived magazine featured contributions from some of the leading avant-garde artists of the period.
David and Susanna divorce in 1945 and Breton’s wife Jacqueline Lamba...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Druid, Black and White, Original Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
ARTIST: Aibek Begalin
WORK: Original acrilic graphics, handmade artwork
Medium: Acrylic and ink on paper
YEAR: 2020
STYLE: Modern
SUBJECT: DRUID
SIZE: 12" x 9" x 0,1" inch, 21X29 cm
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Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic
Joker, Found Objects and Oil Paint on Canvas and Wood by Mihail Sorin
By Mihail Sorin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mihail Sorin
Title: Joker
Year: 2000
Medium: Oil on Canvas with Wood Frame adorned with Mini Playing Cards
Size: 27.5 x 19.75 in. (69.85 x 50.17 cm)
Frame Size: 54 x 42.5 x...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Found Objects, Oil
Affected Memory , Oil, Mixed Media, Hyperrealism Style of Modern Cuban Art
Located in Houston, TX
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Affected Memory shows the hyperrealism of modern Cuban art that is now available to art market. Affected Memory is one of many of the hyperrealism paintings by the artist. Brian Sanchez...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Canvas
$5,100 Sale Price
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Surrealist Gouache Watercolour on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th century gouache and watercolour on paper by British artist Derek Carruthers. The painting is signed to the bottom right and signed and dated 1985 to the reverse.
An impos...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
A Surreal Encaustic on Wood "Northeast Pacific Dreams"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original encaustic mixed media artwork by Tiffany Bociek. Its dimensions are 8 x 10 x 1 in. A certificate of authenticity will follow delivery.
Created thr...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold
Harlequin. 1923, oil on canvas, 40x53 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Harlequin. 1923, oil on canvas, 40x53 cm
Jekabs Bine (1895 11 04 Riga – 1955 24 10 Riga) painter, glass artist, teacher and writer of art critics.
His ar...
Category
1920s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,312 Sale Price
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Puppet Show, Surrealist Oil Painting by Lucio Ranucci
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lucio Ranucci, Italian (1925 - )
Title: Puppet Show
Year: 1971
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed u.l.
Size: 24 x 36 in. (60.96 x 91.44 cm)
Frame:...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Modern Figurative Surrealism Watercolor, Drawing - "You Must Die For Yours"
Located in Surfside, FL
On heavy Arches deckle edged paper. This combines text or poetry in calligraphy on the side.
Gary Hansmann (1947-2008) was active/lived in California. He is known for abstract, Surr...
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Watercolor
Emancipation Mixed media on paper, 19.5x33 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Emancipation
Mixed media on paper, 19,5x33 cm
"Emancipation" is a surreal and figurative mixed media artwork created on paper. The surreal nature of the composition invites viewers...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
$459 Sale Price
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Love, cow, red, girl
Located in London, London
Abstract painting on canvas, blue, extra-large, XXL, large oil on canvas painting, abstract expressionism.
The painting will be shipped rolled
without stretcher bars, unframed.
or...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Cool Specter" (2024) By David Cheifetz, Oil on Aluminum Panel Painting
Located in Denver, CO
David Cheifetz's "Cool Specter" (2024) is an original, handmade oil painting on aluminum panel that depicts a surreal still-life featuring vases and fruits, all having a thick black ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Dark Hollow" (2024) by Morgan Cameron, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Morgan Cameron’s (US based) “Hallowed Ground” (2024) is an original handmade oil painting on panel that depicts a surreal portrait of a woman and a horse in a dark forest.
About the...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Hourglass
By Bernhard Martin
Located in Long Island City, NY
A surrealist painting by Bernhard Martin from 2007. A dark, surrealist scene of a figure inside an hourglass set against an abstract, shadowed background.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
In Search of the False Trout
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
"En Busca de la falsa trucha" In Search of the False Trout 2010
With signed certificate of autenticity.
Oil on canvas signed and dated, it will be frame before shipping 39x61x1.5
Isa...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
20th Century British artist Jenny Ogg oil on panel, lady sunbathing
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Jenny Ogg (British school, 20th Century)
Sunbathing
oil on panel
signed 'J Ogg' (lower right) and bearing label for Grants Fine Art Gallery Newcastle (to the reverse)
Category
20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Arcane Aura (Oil Painting, Symbolist, Ancient Cultures, Pop, Surreal, ~47% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Stella Jae
Arcane Aura
2024
Oil on canvas
Size: 23.62 x 31.49 inches (60 x 80 cm)
Signed by hand
COA provided
Stella J Richey is an international visual artist and designer. Her wor...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,444 Sale Price
46% Off
Vicissitudes (Oil Painting, Symbolist, Ancient Cultures, Pop, Surreal, ~47% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Stella Jae
Vicissitudes
2024
Oil on canvas
Size: 31.49 x 23.62 x inches (80 x 60 cm)
Signed by hand
COA provided
Stella J Richey is an international visual artist and designer. Her...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,444 Sale Price
46% Off
Psychic Fallout
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Psychic Fallout is an original painting by Elisha Nyong. Elisha created Psychic Fallout with Oil on a 42W by 45H inches primed canvas.
Psychic Fallout ac...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Not so bad (cowboy hat western country vintage hat man oil painting light brown)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Rudolf Kosow’s Not So Bad is a haunting contemporary surrealistic oil painting that evokes the aesthetic and ethos of Americana, tinged with an unsettling air of mystery and nostalgi...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Magic Realism Figurative Artwork, "Honey and Bees" by Evgeniya Golik
Located in San Diego, CA
An 18” x 18” Magic Realism Figurative Artwork by artist Evgeniya Golik. A certificate of authenticity will accompany the piece upon its purchase or delivery.
Evgeniya Golik (also k...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel, Color Pencil, Graphite
Time Machine, Surrealist Oil and Acrylic Painting by Samuel Iztueta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Samuel Iztueta, American - Time Machine, Year: 2017, Medium: Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, signed, titled, and dated verso with drawing, Size: 40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
French Surrealist Theater Stage Design Large Gouache Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
This is for a French Avant garde theatre stage design. it depicts a man in sunglasses , coat and scarf in a wheelchair. (Eugene Ionesco)
Grégoire Michonze...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Surrealist figurative paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Surrealist figurative paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add figurative paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Rudolf Kosow, Carlos Gamez De Francisco, Henry David Potwin, Ferjo, and Fernando de Jesus Oliveira. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Surrealist figurative paintings, so small editions measuring 2.13 inches across are also available. Prices for figurative paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1 and tops out at $400,000, while the average work sells for $3,770.
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