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
A Surreal Encaustic on Wood "I Dreamed of a Great Escape"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original encaustic mixed media artwork by Tiffany Bociek. Its dimensions are 13.4 x 19.5 x 2 in. A certificate of authenticity will follow delivery.
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Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Thread, Paper, Encaustic, Oil
Investigation II
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
In "Investigation II", banal, everyday things meet in this painting to create an unusual, strange, absurd and ironical situation derived by the disproportional scale size of things. ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Surreal Encaustic Mixed Media on Wood "Single Lens Reflex"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original encaustic mixed media artwork by Tiffany Bociek. Its dimensions are 9 x 9 x 2 in. A certificate of authenticity will follow delivery.
Created thro...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Encaustic
Surrealist Figurative painting, "Brief. Torrey Pines"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original oil painting by San Diego artist, Julia San Roman. Its dimensions are 41" x 61" x 1.5". It is framed as pictured. A ce...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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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Repose (sleeping beauty woman hair portrait figurative oil painting flesh tones
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
In this painting, the painter tries to portray the young sleeping, lying and oversized figure of a woman as part of the landscape. Who likes to be this person and what is she doing i...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surrealist Figurative painting, "Therapy"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original painting by southern California artist, Kathleen Kane Murrell. Its dimensions are 24" x 36" x 2" It is oil on canvas. It is unframed. A certificate o...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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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Magic Realistic Painting, "My Gypsy Life"
By Cheryl Tall
Located in San Diego, CA
This is an original mixed media work on canvas by Southern California artist, Cheryl Tall. It is a triptych in three vertical canvases. Its dimensions are 48" x 90" x 1.5". It is unf...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Black and white life" interior landscape by Volskaya Liliya
Located in Zofingen, AG
Black and white life" interior landscape by Volskaya Lilia. This is a complex picture with a huge semantic load, the inner world of the child is revealed here. Through dreams, throug...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Cardboard
Flamingo Chair, Original Painting
By Diana Rosa
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A woman in a red dress lounges on a green chair adorned with two stylized flamingos. Large, bold leaves surround her as she gazes forward. Her red sunglasses ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Creative Rush (girl drawing blue sky figurative oil painting brown tonnes)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Creative Rush by Rudolf Kosow is a captivating oil painting that captures the intimate and imaginative world of a child in the act of creation. The artwork depicts a young girl kneel...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Escapade (blue sky figurative oil painting brown tones Young boy balloon)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Escapade by Rudolf Kosow is a whimsical and thought-provoking oil painting that captures a fleeting moment of youthful curiosity and exploration. The composition features a young boy...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Success
Located in London, London
Abstract painting on canvas, blue, extra-large, XXL, large oil on canvas painting, expressionism.
The item is located in central London, UK
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Stranger (black kitten woman nostalgia vintage photograph enigma earth tones)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
We love Rudolf's latest series. The artist says about “Stranger”; "Normally one would hardly take notes of an inconspicuous, black kitten in everyday life...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tricky (ballerina porcelain trinket vintage hat men surrealist oil painting grey
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Superbe original painting on canvas depicting a young ballerina performing a trick while onlookers contemplate perplexed to her prowess.
keywords; americana, surrealism, ballerina, ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Miracle (yellow banana couple surrealist oil painting comical vintage figurative
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
In "Case", 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;...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Love
Located in London, London
Collectors will appreciate:
A sophisticated color dialogue between fiery red and restrained neutrals
Symbolic depth, inviting interpretations of desire, attachment, guardianship, a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
$7,186
Wind Blowing, Large Jazz Painting by Alejandro Romero
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alejandro Romero, Mexican/American (1948 - )
Title: Wind blowing
Year: 1990
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated
Size: 42 x 94 inches
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Modern Figurative Surrealism Watercolor Painting, Drawing California Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
"The Sadness of Mr. lapin After the Artist Left"
Gary Hansmann (1947-2008) was active/lived in California. He is known for abstract, Surrealism figure painting.
Gary William Hansmann was born Dec. 4, 1940, in San Diego to Ethel May Williams and Lester Hughes Hansmann. He grew up in Encinitas and served in the Army in the early 1960s.
Gary Hansmann, San Diego artist, teacher and gallery owner, was known for his Surrealist nude and animal drawings and graphics. He spent time working in Paris and exhibiting his art throughout Europe, but San Diego was home until he moved to Washington state. His life partner was fellow artist, Jill Hosmer. Mr. Hansmann, a respected printmaker and prolific artist, created thousands of drawings, prints and paintings as well as hundreds of poems. His interest in bullfighting led to a book of poetry and illustrations on the subject, “La Corrida, The Run”, a collection of poetry & artwork written as he was preparing for his first bullfight. Prologue written by famous Mexican Matador Antonio Lomelin. The book is written in English and translated into Spanish on opposing pages and was published in 1983. Mr. Hansmann taught intaglio and monotype at the Academy of Fine Arts in San Diego from 1977 to 1980 and at the San Diego Museum of Art in 1980. He also gave lectures and demonstrations throughout the art community, including at the San Diego Art Guild in Del Mar and Artist Equity in San Diego. Although he attended Palomar College in San Marcos and studied lithography at the San Diego Academy of Fine Arts, Mr. Hansmann was mostly self-taught and self-educated. Mr. Hansmann had shows in several art-world capitals, including Paris; Lisbon, Portugal; Cologne, Germany; Brussels, Belgium; and New York. he had one-person exhibits at the Loft Gallery in Clarkston, the Lewis-Clark State College Center of Arts & History, the Carnegie Art Center in Walla Walla and the Valley Art Center in Clarkston. During his long, distinguished career as an artist he had numerous one-person exhibits all over the world and the United States.
His group shows are too numerous to mention, but his one-person exhibits were in Koln, Germany; Bruxelles, Belgium; Paris, France; Viana do Castelo, Portugal; Lisbon, Portugal; Tecate, Mexico; and British Columbia, Canada; and many states at home.
Palomar College, San Marcos, Calif.
San Diego Academy of Fine Arts
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y.
University of Southern California, Idyllwild (ISOMATA)
University of San Diego
San Diego Museum of Art
James Copley Library, La Jolla, Calif.
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice, Italy
Centre de Arte Moderna
Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Museo Taurino de la Communidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Atelier Lacouriere et Frelaut, Paris, France
Gordon Gilkey Collection
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Or.
Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay...
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Watercolor
Huge French Surrealist Fantasy Oil Painting Floating Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Josyne Gallet, French signed and dated 1970 verso
Title: Floating Figures
Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 39.5 x 33 inches
Provenance: private co...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Scurrula, Surrealist Mixed Media and Found Objects on Canvas by Mihail Sorin
By Mihail Sorin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mihail Sorin
Title: Scurrula
Year: 2000
Medium: Oil on Canvas with Wood Frame with Magnifying Glass
Size: 23.5 x 19.75 in. (59.69 x 50.17 cm)
Interior Frame Size: 54 x 42.5 x...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Found Objects, Oil
GENEVIEVE ZONDERVAN (1922-2013) 1940
s FRENCH OIL PAINTING - ELDERLY LADY SEWING
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Sewing"
by Geneviève Zondervan (French 1922-2013)
oil painting on board, dated 1944
board: 19.5 x 10.5 inches
Superb mid-century oil painting on board by the French artist, Genevi...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
What is Behind, Oil, Mixed Media, Hyperrealism, Modern Cuban Art, Surreal
Located in Houston, TX
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What is Behind (Lo que esta atras) shows the hyperrealism of modern Cuban art that is now available to the world art market. What is Behind is one of many of the hyperrealism paintings by the artist. Brian Sanchez...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
Colorful Oil Painting, "Tell Your Secrets to The Bees"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind oil on canvas figurative painting by San Diego artist, Charlene Mosley. It is unframed. Its dimensions are 12" x 10.5"x 1.7". It is framed. A certificate of a...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Carousel, Surrealist Oil Painting on Canvas by Richard Karwoski
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Richard Karwoski, American (1938 - 1993)
Title: Carousel
Year: circa 1975
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 44 in. x 60 in. (111.76 cm x 152.4 cm)
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gerard Tunney, Dancers with Fans, Original surreal painting
Located in Deddington, GB
A group of dancers chat and gossip using the fans to emphasise l their reactions The triangles of the fans are echoed throughout the painting; in the dancers’ feet, the dancers’ arms...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Surrealist Figurative Oil Painting, "Polymita Blue"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original oil figurative painting by San Diego artist, Julia San Roman. Its dimensions are 48x48. It is unframed. A certificate ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Magic Realistic Painting, "Calme and Luxe"
By Cheryl Tall
Located in San Diego, CA
This is an original mixed media work on wood by Southern California artist, Cheryl Tall. Its dimensions are 40" x 30" x 1.5". It is unframed. A certificate of authenticity will follo...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Magic Realistic Painting, "Sudden Eclipse"
By Cheryl Tall
Located in San Diego, CA
This is an original mixed media work on wood by Southern California artist, Cheryl Tall. Its dimensions are 45" x 25" x 1.5". It is unframed. A certificate of authenticity will follo...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Cosmos
Located in Kansas City, MO
Stella Jae
Cosmos
2023
Oil on Canvas
Size: 51.96 x 35.03 inches (132 x 89cm)
Signed by hand
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-2112
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Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,222
Cabeza, Oil Painting by Rodolfo Opazo Bernales
By Rodolfo Opazo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Rodolfo Opazo, Chilean (1935 - )
Title: Cabeza
Year: 1983
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l. and verso
Size: 39 x 32 inches
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Surrealist Oil Painting Cubist Figurative Scene 20th century
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figurative Abstract
French School, signed oil painting on board
framed: 21.25 x 30.75 inches
canvas: 20.5 x 30 inches
The painting is in overall good condition, bar an age related pa...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Family Portrait, Large Surrealist Oil Painting Mother, Children, Neo Surrealism
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed lower right and dated 1958
Hank Laventhol (1927–2001) was an American painter and master print maker. He worked in painting, graphics, scul...
Category
1950s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
French Surrealist Oil Painting Figurative Scene Family with Horse Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figurative Abstract
French School
oil painting on board
painting: 22.5 x 22.5 inches
condition: overall very good and pleasing
provenance: from a private collection of this artists w...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Figurative Surrealism, "Tara Goddess of Love and Compassion"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a pre-owned secondary market painting by Gloria Muriel. It is a framed figurative surrealist painting made with acrylic paint on canvas. Its dimensions are 9.5 x 13.5 in (L x...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Surrealist Spray Paint Mixed Media Snowfall Aurora Borealis Mason Rader Paintin
Located in Surfside, FL
"Snow Fall on Aurora Borealis" 1994 by Mason Rader
A graduate of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at the George Eastman House in Roches...
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Spray Paint
Abstract Surrealist Spray Paint Painting Mixed Media Fleur D’Nuit Mason Rader
Located in Surfside, FL
"Fleur D'Nuit" 1995 by Mason Rader
A graduate of the L. Jefferey Selznick School of Film Preservation at the George Eastman House in Rochester NY with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from t...
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Spray Paint
Nature Walk Magic Realism in Dreamlike Setting
Located in Miami, FL
A soulful young man is captured in a deep, contemplative state, detached from current external concerns, as he gazes beyond the picture plane. He is realistically rendered, but the s...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Tempera
Entrance to the Forest, Surrealist Oil Painting on Canvas by Michael Tice
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Michael Tice, American (1953 - )
Title: Entrance to the Forest
Year: 1997
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated recto, signed, titled and dated verso
Size: 48 x 60 in. (121...
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surrealist Figurative Encaustic Painting, "Shell Game"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original surrealist figurative encaustic wax painting by San Diego artist, Tiffany Bociek. It's dimensions are 11"x11"x1.25. It ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Thread, Encaustic, Oil, Rice Paper
Universal Force, Surrealist Pop Art Painting by Michael Knigin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Michael Knigin, American (1942 - 2011)
Title: Universal Force
Year: 1990
Medium: Acrylic on canvas on board, signed and dated in pencil
Size: 3...
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Board
Dreamer (monkey gorilla iceberg arctic surrealist oil painting light blue)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Superbe original painting on canvas depicting a gorilla in a contemplative state on top of an iceberg while a young woman next to him plays the guitar.
keywords; guitar playing woma...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shaosing Knobst Symbolic Taoist God - "Longevity Star", Acrylic on Panel, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
The figure in this painting is like the popular but at the same time oddly obscure Taoist god called “Longevity Star”. Apparently he was an historical figure born bald and grey like ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Manipulation
Located in Long Island City, NY
De Es Schwertberger's captivating oil painting features several hands supporting each other while the topmost hand holds a small clutch of eggs.
Artist: De Es Schwertberger (Dieter...
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Alti-Thronus, Surrealist Found Objects and Oil Paint Sculpture by Mihail Sorin
By Mihail Sorin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mihail Sorin
Title: Alti-Thronus
Year: 2000
Medium: Oil on Canvas with Wood Frame with Compass Tools
Size: 27.5 x 19.75 in. (69.85 x 50.17 cm)
Frame Size: 54 x 42.5 x 3 inches
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Found Objects, Oil
Woman In The Chair
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Woman in the chair, heavy oil impasto on canvas framed.
Elisabeth Sabala Abelló (Barcelona, 1956). She studied industrial design at the School of Arts and Crafts in Barcelona and has a degree in Fine Arts, a specialty in painting, from the Central University of the same city. Sabala is a convinced figurative who has given all the prominence of her work to the representation of the human being in its most trivial aspects. At a time when the artistic landscape extols abstract and conceptual art focused on the great universal themes, Sabala continues to focus on the small defects that bring us closer to the collective and the human. The artistic progression of Sabala takes place, at first, from a bleak period to another vitalist and, later, from the representation of isolated characters (In the super, Reading the stories of the paintings) to the recreation of great concentrations of its peculiar individuals characterized in an endless number of situations (The Great Dance, The Girls of the Choir). Sabala's work is vital and touching, as well as scathing and satirical: it confronts its characters in the most varied situations, capturing, at the same time, the viewer's attention with an unusual juxtaposition of colors that do not seek chromatic harmony, but expression and movement through matter. In 1980 he won the first prize of a painting of the City of Castelldefels, and the following year he debuted individually in the Caixa Catalunya room, in Barcelona. In 1984, she was selected for the XXIII Joan Miró Drawing Prize, taking part in a traveling exhibition in Japan. Sabala won the first prize in the International Painting Competition of Pollença (Mallorca) in 1985, and the following year she took part in a collective held at the Martano gallery in Turin. That same year of 1986 she obtained the Scholarship of Plastic Arts of the Generalitat de Catalunya. He continues to hold personal shows in Barcelona, Mallorca, Madrid, and Italy, and in 1989 he debuted in New York with an individual exhibition held at the Scott Alan Gallery. Since then she will reiterate his presence both in that city and in Paris, Berlin, Monaco, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Hong Kong, etc. His works have been present at Interactive, ARCO, Art Forum, Art Jonction and New Art, as well as in various Spanish museums.
• Studies: Fine Arts, University of Barcelona
• Industrial Design, School of Arts and Crafts, Barcelona
Main exhibitions
Spain:
• Barcelona:
◦ Arcs & Cracks, 1990, 1992, Anna Benach 1993, Helena Ramos 1993
◦ Maria Jose Castellvi 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001 “a wedding is a wedding” + Performance “Ella”
◦ 2004, 2006 “Fashion satisfaction” + Performance
◦ 2008 “Women's weapons”
• Girona:
◦ Helena Ramos 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995
◦ Cyprus Art...
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Playing Tennis
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Woman playing tennis, heavy oil impasto on canvas framed.
Elisabeth Sabala Abelló (Barcelona, 1956). She studied industrial design at the School of Arts and Crafts in Barcelona and has a degree in Fine Arts, a specialty in painting, from the Central University of the same city. Sabala is a convinced figurative who has given all the prominence of her work to the representation of the human being in its most trivial aspects. At a time when the artistic landscape extols abstract and conceptual art focused on the great universal themes, Sabala continues to focus on the small defects that bring us closer to the collective and the human. The artistic progression of Sabala takes place, at first, from a bleak period to another vitalist and, later, from the representation of isolated characters (In the super, Reading the stories of the paintings) to the recreation of great concentrations of its peculiar individuals characterized in an endless number of situations (The Great Dance, The Girls of the Choir). Sabala's work is vital and touching, as well as scathing and satirical: it confronts its characters in the most varied situations, capturing, at the same time, the viewer's attention with an unusual juxtaposition of colors that do not seek chromatic harmony, but expression and movement through matter. In 1980 she won the first prize of a painting of the City of Castelldefels, and the following year she debuted individually in the Caixa Catalunya room, in Barcelona. In 1984, she was selected for the XXIII Joan Miró Drawing Prize, taking part in a traveling exhibition in Japan. He won the first prize of the International Painting Competition of Pollença (Mallorca) in 1985, and the following year he took part in a collective held at the Martano gallery in Turin. That same year of 1986 she obtained the Scholarship of Plastic Arts of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Sabala continues to hold personal shows in Barcelona, Mallorca, Madrid, and Italy, and in 1989 she debuted in New York with an individual exhibition held at the Scott Alan Gallery. Since then she will reiterate his presence both in that city and in Paris, Berlin, Monaco, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Hong Kong, etc. His works have been present at Interactive, ARCO, Art Forum, Art Jonction and New Art, as well as in various Spanish museums.
• Studies: Fine Arts, University of Barcelona
• Industrial Design, School of Arts and Crafts, Barcelona
Main exhibitions
Spain:
• Barcelona:
◦ Arcs & Cracks, 1990, 1992, Anna Benach 1993, Helena Ramos 1993
◦ Maria Jose Castellvi 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001 “a wedding is a wedding” + Performance “Ella”
◦ 2004, 2006 “Fashion satisfaction” + Performance
◦ 2008 “Women's weapons”
• Girona:
◦ Helena Ramos 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995
◦ Cyprus Art...
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Luck Memory (Hummingbird, Portrait, Storytelling, Oil Painting)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joseph Broghammer
Luck Memory (Hummingbird, Portrait, Storytelling, Oil Painting)
Oil on Canvas
Year: 2023
Size: 21x17in
Signed by hand
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-1897
*Framed - read...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Desert Desert - Surreal Rural Scene, Hyper-realistic Original Oil Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
As a Mexican musician sings and plays the guitar dressed for the day of the dead. He is being unknowingly stalked by a mythical beast. Little does he know that he is singing about ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Mannequin Meditating" Large Surrealist Abstract Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Large still life painting of a mannequin placed in front of a window. The canvas is signed, titled, and dated by the artist on the back and the bottom corner. The work is framed in a...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Silenced quirky, figurative, surreal, secret summer vacation, humor
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This acrylic painting on paper can be framed or displayed easily by hanging with magnets.
Tatana Kellner’s work is rooted in social issues. She has been exhibited in numerous venue...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Israeli Kibbutz Artist Judaica Shul Torah Ark Surrealist Gouache Painting
By Leo Roth
Located in Surfside, FL
Leo Roth (1914–2002), also known as Lior Roth, was an Israeli painter, born in 1914 in Austria-Hungary. (later Poland)
In 1920, Roth moved to Germany and, in 1933, immigrated to Palestine. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and completed frescoes in Italy and France in the 1950s. Roth first settled in Tel Aviv, then moved to Kvutzat Kinneret, then finally to Kibbutz Afikim where he remained until his death. He served as Director of the Art Academy of the Kibbutzim. In 1959, he was awarded the Jordan Valley Prize for Painting. Roth exhibited in the United States, Israel, Mexico, Spain, Holland, Sweden, and Denmark. He died in 2002.
Education:
1930 School of Art, Duisberg-Hamborn, Germany, under Josef Doppelfeld
Academy of Fine Arts, Hamburg, Germany
1951 Fresco and mural painting, Ecole nationale superiere des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
1951 fresco in Italy
Teaching:
Director of Art Academy of the Kibbutzim
Roth's work was influenced by Cubism and bears much in common with the work of compatriot painter Naftali Bezem. His colourful canvases contain biblical imagery and references to early Israeli pioneer culture.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015 Home, Montefiore Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2009 Kibbutz Machanayim Art Gallery
2000 Retrospective, Museum of Art, Kibbutz Ein Harod
1997 Oil paintings, Kibbutz Machanayim Art Gallery
1993 Solo Exhibition, Beit Yad Lebanim, Tiberias
1983 Oil paintings, ''Bet-Emanuel'', Ramat Gan
1980 Wilfrid Israel Museum, Oriental Art and Studies, Kibbutz Hazorea
1977 Tiroche Gallery, Old Jaffa
1976 Hatzrif Art Gallery, Be'er Sheva
1957 Oil paintings, Tel Aviv Art Museum
1950 Katz Gallery, Tel AvivSelected exhibitions
2000: Chaim Atar Art Museum, Ein Harod, Israel: The Works of Leo Roth: An Exhibition
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 Revelations, Jerusalem Print Workshop
2013 Group Exhibition, Yair Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2008 The First Decade: Hegemony and Plurality, Ein Harod Art Museum
2000 Group...
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Couple (oil painting flesh tones vintage couple sleeping beauty nostalgia)
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Located in Quebec, Quebec
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Angelic boy with a devil figure.
Gary Hansmann (1947-2008) was active/lived in California. He is known for abstract, Surrealism figure painting.
Gary William Hansmann was born Dec. 4, 1940, in San Diego to Ethel May Williams and Lester Hughes Hansmann. He grew up in Encinitas and served in the Army in the early 1960s.
Gary Hansmann, San Diego artist, teacher and gallery owner, was known for his Surrealist drawings and graphics. He spent time working in Paris and exhibiting his art throughout Europe, but San Diego was home until he moved to Washington state. His life partner was fellow artist, Jill Hosmer. Mr. Hansmann, a respected printmaker and prolific artist, created thousands of drawings, prints and paintings as well as hundreds of poems. His interest in bullfighting led to a book of poetry and illustrations on the subject, “La Corrida, The Run”, a collection of poetry & artwork written as he was preparing for his first bullfight. Prologue written by famous Mexican Matador Antonio Lomelin. The book is written in English and translated into Spanish on opposing pages and was published in 1983. Mr. Hansmann taught intaglio and monotype at the Academy of Fine Arts in San Diego from 1977 to 1980 and at the San Diego Museum of Art in 1980. He also gave lectures and demonstrations throughout the art community, including at the San Diego Art Guild in Del Mar and Artist Equity in San Diego. Although he attended Palomar College in San Marcos and studied lithography at the San Diego Academy of Fine Arts, Mr. Hansmann was mostly self-taught and self-educated. Mr. Hansmann had shows in several art-world capitals, including Paris; Lisbon, Portugal; Cologne, Germany; Brussels, Belgium; and New York. he had one-person exhibits at the Loft Gallery in Clarkston, the Lewis-Clark State College Center of Arts & History, the Carnegie Art Center in Walla Walla and the Valley Art Center in Clarkston. During his long, distinguished career as an artist he had numerous one-person exhibits all over the world and the United States.
His group shows are too numerous to mention, but his one-person exhibits were in Koln, Germany; Bruxelles, Belgium; Paris, France; Viana do Castelo, Portugal; Lisbon, Portugal; Tecate, Mexico; and British Columbia, Canada; and many states at home.
Palomar College, San Marcos, Calif.
San Diego Academy of Fine Arts
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y.
University of Southern California, Idyllwild (ISOMATA)
University of San Diego
San Diego Museum of Art
James Copley Library, La Jolla, Calif.
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice, Italy
Centre de Arte Moderna
Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Museo Taurino de la Communidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Atelier Lacouriere et Frelaut, Paris, France
Gordon Gilkey Collection
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Or.
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Armageddon finale. 2005, canvas, oil, 73x100 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Armageddon finale. 2005, canvas, oil, 73x100 cm
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Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
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Oil, Canvas
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Summer I. 1972, cardboard, mixed media, silk screen printing, 80x100 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Summer I. 1972, cardboard, mixed media, silk screen printing, 80x100 cm
Atis Ievins (1946)
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European Polish Stage Designer Vibrant Surrealist Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Contemporary
Subject: Abstract
Medium: Mixed Media
Surface: Canvas
Country: United States
commissions for movie advertisements, stage sets, and murals in New Hampshire.
Arm...
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Gerard Tunney, Dancers in the Wings, Original Blue Painting, Figurative Artwork
Located in Deddington, GB
Gerard Tunney
Dancers in the Wings
Original Figurative Painting
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
Canvas Size: H 40cm x W 60cm x D 2cm
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Gerard Tunney, Onstage Ballet Rehearsal, Original Bright Figurative Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Gerard Tunney
Onstage Ballet Rehearsal
Original Figurative Painting
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
Canvas Size: H 40cm x W 60cm x D 2cm
Sold Unframed
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
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