Surrealist Portrait 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
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 Portrait 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 Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Getting on a Horse 3
Located in Hudson, NY
These four paintings are in a series of 4 oil on canvas $8000.00 for the set of four.
“Friends of Friends” explores a playful world where dreams and reality meld together to cre...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
20th Century French Surrealist Portrait of Woman with Landscape Hair signed oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Surrealist Portrait
French, mid 20th century
signed oil on board, framed
Framed: 14 x 16 inches
Board : 9 x 11 inches
Provenance: private collection
Condition: the board has a convex...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
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 Portrait 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 Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surrealist Painting, "After the Rains"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original oil on panel surrealist painting by San Diego artist, Kelley Sutphin. Its dimensions are 14.4"x26.4"x1.5". It is framed. A certificate of authenticit...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Surrealist Mixed Media Portrait, "
Prince
The Guide" by Christopher Polentz
Located in San Diego, CA
A 16” x 16” x 2” Surrealist Mixed Media Portrait Painting executed on Wood Panel with Acrylic and Graphite by artist Christopher Polentz. A certificate of authenticity will accompany...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Graphite
Surrealist Ocean Painting, "Jellyfish Dreams"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original oil on panel surrealist painting by San Diego artist, Kelley Sutphin. Its dimensions are 16"x20"x.75. It is unframed. A...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood 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 Portrait 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 Portrait 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 Portrait 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 Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,000 Sale Price
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Italian Modernist Surrealist Woman Color Oil Painting Lazzaro Donati La Regina
Located in Surfside, FL
Lazzaro Donati (Italian, 1926-1977)
Oil on board. Colorful woman. La Regina (the Queen)
Hand signed upper right. signed, titled on back of panel.
Dimensions: (Frame) H 37" x W 29", (Panel) H 27.5" x W 20"
Lazzaro Donati was born in Florence and attended the Academy of Fine Arts. He began to paint in 1953, and in 1955 held his first exhibition at the Indiano Gallery in Florence. Within three years eleven exhibitions followed in Italy, and as his reputation grew he was invited to give major exhibitions in London, Paris, New York, Chicago, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo. He is considered one of the foremost contemporary Italian painters and his paintings hang in museums and private collections throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. His work is recalling the works of the french Raoul Dufy, Dunoyer de Segonzac, Francois Gall and Jean Jansem. This particular work is reminiscent of the work of Manolo Valdes. Donati lived and worked at 24 Piazza Donatello in Florence, the square where generations of artists have created works worthy of the great Florentine tradition. As you entered the narrow hallway to his studio, a gilded life-size Venetian angel beckoned you to his door. Once inside, the present faded away and you found yourself in an atelier where early masters might have worked during the Renaissance. Within, luxurious Persian rugs set off the innumerable objects d’art and antique furnishings. Light poured in through the sloping glass wall on the north side. A dramatic stairway led to an overhanging balcony which served as a private gallery where the artist hung some of his favorite early works. To the left of the entrance was a smaller studio where Donati sculpted, with a window overlooking the famous old English cemetery where tourists laid flowers on the grave of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
In the main studio itself, where Donati received his clients in an atmosphere as polished as an office of a top executive, one hardly realized that it was here that the artist actually painted. His easel was covered with Persian blue velvet, the painting on the easel was already framed, his chair was upholstered in red velvet and on his palette the colors were arranged with the precision of a Byzantine mosaic. In a corner stand were his latest works, framed and ready to be sent off to his next exhibition in Europe or America. He spoke fluent French and English as well as some Spanish and German. “After all”, he said, “you've got to know how to sell...
Category
1960s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Vintage American Modernist Surreal Abstract Figural Signed Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist surreal figural painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Provenance from a Sag Harbor, NY collection. Measuring: 23 by 29 inches overall. Handsomely frame...
Category
1960s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Pension Fund
Located in Edinburgh, GB
The picture "Pension Fund" is included in the series of artworks "Pathos of the Bureaucracy".
100x100cm / oil on canvas/ 2019
The picture is ready t...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Red Hat", Surrealist Portrait, Grey, Black, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “The Red Hat” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 30 x 24 inches in reds, greys, silvers and blacks. The painting shows a lady musician in downward gaze, at on...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"The Post-Truth Era V", Surrealist Portrait, Brown, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “The Post-Truth Era V “ is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 20 x 16 inches in blues, whites, tans and browns. In our post-truth era it is next to impossible to...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
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 Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
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 Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Surrealist Oil Painting on Photograph, "Queen of Rain"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a surrealist figurative painting on an original photographic print by local San Diego artist, Evgeniya Golik. Its dimensions are 15.5"x19x2". It comes framed. A certificate o...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
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 Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
Judith, Surrealist Acrylic Painting on Paper by Ramon Santiago
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ramon Santiago, American (1943 - 2001)
Title: Judith
Year: 1975
Medium: Acrylic on Paper, signed and dated
Size: 16 x 12 inches
Category
1970s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
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 Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Surrealist Portrait, "Hothead"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original surrealist portrait painting by San Diego artist, Christopher Polentz. It's dimensions are 9.25"x17.5"x1". It is m...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Vellum
Flores Silvestres, Framed Acrylic Painting by Froylan Ojeda, 1983
By Froylán Ojeda
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Froylan Ojela, Mexican
Title: Flores Silvestres
Year: 1983
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed, dated and titled verso
Size: 28.25 x 25 inches
Frame Size: 36 x 28.5 inches
Category
1980s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Surrealist Portrait, "Réveille Mon Amour"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind surrealist oil painting on canvas by San Diego artist, Charlene Mosley. Its dimensions are 16"x 16" x1.5". It is unframed. A ce...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surrealist Portrait, "A Light Within, Amongst The Danger of Skin"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original surrealist oil painting by San Diego artist, Charlene Mosley. Its dimensions are 40"x60". It comes in a thin black frame. A certificate of authentici...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Couple (oil painting flesh tones vintage couple sleeping beauty nostalgia)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
The significant size difference plays with the perception of the viewer, perhaps confused, one asks
oneself the question, if what is shown much larger, is also much more important .....
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The sun. Portrait. 1973. Cardboard, oil, 33x46.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
The sun. 1973. Cardboard, oil, 33x46.5 cm
Woman portrait in orange colors
Vladimir Borisovich Glushenkov (May 21, 1948, Riga - December 26, 2009, Riga.) - painter, graphic artist, poet, translator.
Born in Riga in a Russian-Polish-German family.
Vladimir Glushenkov...
Category
1970s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
$1,772 Sale Price
85% Off
"Roses Are Not Only Red" (2022) By Ifeoluwa Alade, Original Mixed Media Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Ifeoluwa Alade ( Nigeria based) "Roses Are Not Only Red" is an original, handmade acrylic painting that depicts a female model with a rose and butterfly cast in a deep red glow.
Ar...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Italian Modernist Surrealist Woman Colorful Oil Painting Lazzaro Donati
Located in Surfside, FL
Lazzaro Donati (Italian, 1926-1977)
Oil on board. Colorful woman.
Hand signed upper right. signed, titled on back of panel.
Dimensions: (Frame) H 37" x W 29", (Panel) H 27.5" x W 20"
Lazzaro Donati was born in Florence and attended the Academy of Fine Arts. He began to paint in 1953, and in 1955 held his first exhibition at the Indiano Gallery in Florence. Within three years eleven exhibitions followed in Italy, and as his reputation grew he was invited to give major exhibitions in London, Paris, New York, Chicago, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo. He is considered one of the foremost contemporary Italian painters and his paintings hang in museums and private collections throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. His work i faucist recalling the works of the french Raoul Dufy, Dunoyer de Segonzac, Francois Gall and Jean Jansem. This particular work is reminiscent of the work of Manolo Valdes. Donati lived and worked at 24 Piazza Donatello in Florence, the square where generations of artists have created works worthy of the great Florentine tradition. As you entered the narrow hallway to his studio, a gilded life-size Venetian angel beckoned you to his door. Once inside, the present faded away and you found yourself in an atelier where early masters might have worked during the Renaissance. Within, luxurious Persian rugs set off the innumerable objects d’art and antique furnishings. Light poured in through the sloping glass wall on the north side. A dramatic stairway led to an overhanging balcony which served as a private gallery where the artist hung some of his favorite early works. To the left of the entrance was a smaller studio where Donati sculpted, with a window overlooking the famous old English cemetery where tourists laid flowers on the grave of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
In the main studio itself, where Donati received his clients in an atmosphere as polished as an office of a top executive, one hardly realized that it was here that the artist actually painted. His easel was covered with Persian blue velvet, the painting on the easel was already framed, his chair was upholstered in red velvet and on his palette the colors were arranged with the precision of a Byzantine mosaic. In a corner stand were his latest works, framed and ready to be sent off to his next exhibition in Europe or America. He spoke fluent French and English as well as some Spanish and German. “After all”, he said, “you've got to know how to sell...
Category
1960s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Spring in Februrary" (2015), Original Female Portrait, Oil Painting on Panel
Located in Denver, CO
"Spring in February" (2015), is a masterful realist bust portrait of a woman wearing an intricate flower crown, standing confidently, eyes locked with the viewer. This piece is fram...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"The Wrinkled Sea Beneath Her Crawls, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Alexandra Manukyan's "The Wrinkled Sea Beneath Her Crawls" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a female figure balancing on one foot as blue waves swirl behind her in ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
$4,900 Sale Price
30% Off
"Portrait of a Man" Grey Cubist Portrait
Located in Houston, TX
Surrealist portrait of a man with multiple shades of black, grey, and white. The painting is signed and dated in the bottom right corner. The painting is framed in a black frame with...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The Fall Approaches, Original Painting
By Libby Ramage
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Libby Ramage presents a surrealist representation of the changing seasons. "The leaves are like flames, and the boy and man are hesitant to venture fur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Flirt. 1970. Cardboard, mixed media, 50x40 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Flirt. Cardboard, mixed media, 50x40 cm
Abstract/Surrealist composition with two fasec
Vladimir Borisovich Glushenkov (May 21, 1948, Riga - December 26, 2009, Riga.) - painter, grap...
Category
1970s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Cardboard
"Pocket Full of Dreams", Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Tiffany Dae's (US based) "Pocket Full of Dreams" is a original, handmade oil painting that depicts a feminine figure surrounded by darkness, gently holding...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Sea and Stars", Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Tiffany Dae's (US based) "Sea and Stars" is a original, handmade oil painting that depicts an African American face and a Caucasian face transposed over th...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Beak" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Joshua Lawyer's (US based) "Beak" is an oil painting that depicts a figure with her face in profile with a yellow triangle that resembles a beak.
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Coral Angel. Oil on wood, 70X70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Coral Angel. Oil on wood, 70X70 cm
The artist Vadim Kovalev was born in 1968 in the capital of Latvia, Riga, where he is also presently living and creating his works.
When Vadim wa...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
$3,976 Sale Price
20% Off
Fantasy. 2010. Mixed media, collage on canvas, 100x70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Fantasy. Mixed media, collage on canvas, 100x70 cm
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
$1,820 Sale Price
20% Off
Sax duo
Located in Zofingen, AG
Welcome to my world of Monkeys and Lions smoking cigars, the Egg family, my Lovers Jazz Conspirators and Ladies in Red.
Someone once said of my work. 'I often wonder why people worl...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
United and Fate Challenge I
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Mental closeness connects two dissimilar beings, despite great differences.
keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil painting, earth tones, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Discord (couple oil painting suitcase vintage nostalgia sleeping beauty skin)
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 Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Street Smart: Contemporary Surrealist Portrait
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
His time in New York City has ingrained Berlin with the whole vibe of the culture that existed in the city at that time. He is so passionate when talking about it and the lasting eff...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled. 2002, oil on wood, 57x17, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Untitled. 2002, oil on wood, 57x17,5 cm
Man face on red background with flower
Kaspars Perskis (1975)
was born in Riga, Latvia. This is where he stud...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
$843 Sale Price
20% Off
Mr. L (oil painting monochrome vintage old man beard portrait nostalgia flower)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil painting, earth tones, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary figurative painting, dreams, symbolic...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Couple (oil painting woman portrait man flesh tones sleeping beauty vintage)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"The significant size difference plays with the perception of the viewer, perhaps confused, one asks
oneself the question, if what is shown much larger, is also much more important ....
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surreal Figures - figurative painting, surreal painting
Located in New York, NY
This early surreal figurative work by Jacob El Hanani was done in 1971. It is ink on paper. Measurements of the paper are 35X25 cm. It is dated and hand signed in Hebrew in the botto...
Category
1970s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink
The Good the Bad and Ugly (oil painting monochrome man cowboy western hat)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil painting, earth tones, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary figurative painting, dreams, symbolic...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Last Leaves (young girl yellow shirt fall leave portrait figurative oil painting
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Rudolf Kosow’s Last Leaves is a hauntingly poetic oil painting that blends contemporary figurative painting with surrealism and symbolic composition. A young girl, her face rendered ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Leanna
s Dream
Located in Brooklyn, NY
In my appropriation of Henri Rousseau's painting "The Dream," I replaced his nude reclining on the couch with my sister Leanna.
I envisioned her magically transported into a lush ju...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$14,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Couple (oil painting surrealist red hair woman man portrait figurative flesh
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
The significant size difference plays with the perception of the viewer, perhaps confused, one asks
oneself the question, if what is shown much larger, is also much more important .....
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nature Girl, colorful surrealist bird woman painting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
colorful surrealist image of bird woman
*ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoki...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rhapsody
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Art is and has always been at the very center of my life. In creating I find communication and connection with others that surpasses any barrier or boundary. Through imagery, I can c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Celebration
Located in San Francisco, CA
Alejandro Rubio
Celebration, 2024
Oil on canvas
30 x 30 inches
This one-of-a-kind oil painting on canvas is stretched across wooden stretcher bars.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Face nº 4
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
The painting “Rostro nº4” is an oil on linen that depicts a male Roman bust. The work reinterprets the classical sculpture in a more personal way, playing with colors and textures th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Gnome artist"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
This artwork, painted with vibrant acrylics, embodies a fusion of comics, figurative art, pop art, and surrealism. It captures a sense of whimsical introspection through the depictio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Surrealist portrait paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Surrealist portrait 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 portrait 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, green, pink and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Rudolf Kosow, Carlos Gamez De Francisco, Tslil Tsemet, and Suzi Fadel Nassif. 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 portrait paintings, so small editions measuring 5 inches across are also available. Prices for portrait 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 $27 and tops out at $400,000, while the average work sells for $4,500.