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Visionary Vaudou Surrealism Large Contemporary Haitian Painting
Located in Norwich, GB
Animalist," is evident in the grotesque yet playful human and animalistic forms that populate the scene. Its
Category

1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

17th Century by Pietro della Vecchia Old man in a coat trimmed with fur
Located in Milano, Lombardia
grotesques. During his career he also worked as an art restorer, as an art expert, and he even did expert
Category

17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Rumba en Cartagena. Limited edition Serigraphy
By Maripaz Jaramillo
Located in Miami Beach, FL
earlier German Expressionists, but in a contemporary framework. Her figures are beautiful, yet grotesque
Category

1990s Expressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Screen

Une Table Indiscrète - Lithograph by H. Daumier - 1853
By Honoré Daumier
Located in Roma, IT
grotesque scene in which , a woman with Neapolitan chantan manners screams and scandalized by the gossip of
Category

1850s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

JAKE CHAPMAN - TO LIVE AND THINK PIGS (41/50). Watercolor Goya Disasters of War
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Brothers. These brothers style has always been controversial, mainly for their antiwar but grotesque
Category

2010s Young British Artists (YBA) Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Digital

Marc Chagall, The Inn, from Nicolas Gogol, Dead Souls, 1923-1927
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
interior of the roadside inn as a theatrical space filled with grotesque humor, social observation, and
Category

1920s Expressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Two Fantastic Scenes / - Image dreams -
Located in Berlin, DE
, grotesque juxtaposition invites viewers to develop stories and explore the meaning of the encounter. However
Category

1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Cultured Woman - Tokyo, woodcut portrait by cultural satirist Art hazelwood
By Art Hazelwood
Located in Palm Springs, CA
grotesque. Her pose is elegant yet strained, chin lifted, gaze distant, projecting confidence that borders
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

The dark Secret Garden
Located in Roma, IT
grotesque and fragmented figures, evocative symbols and chromatic tensions, the artist invites us to
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Voyage en Morocco
Located in Roma, IT
grotesque and fragmented figures, evocative symbols and chromatic tensions, the artist invites us to
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Lost in Time, George Condo Print
By George Condo
Located in Manchester, GB
grotesque yet tender, fuse Renaissance draftsmanship with comic-strip distortion and Cubist fragmentation
Category

2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

Materials

Screen

Surrealist Figural Etchings, 3
By Leonard Baskin
Located in Astoria, NY
, Grotesque, Horror, Harpy, Surrealism, 20th Century School, Post-War and Contemporary Art
Category

1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Etching

Dinner in Hell
Located in West Hollywood, CA
for hell—it is hell, served cold and without apology. Hovering above the grotesque feast is a deeply
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Peter Saul, Politics Pop Art Color lithograph 1980s Reagan era Signed X/X Framed
Located in New York, NY
grotesque image of Ronald Reagan has a phallic telephone with the label "Hotline" dropping from his nether
Category

1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Original Vintage Starve Him With Silence Poster for Seagram s by Ess.Ar.Gee C194
Located in Boca Raton, FL
image features a grotesque rat emblazoned with a swastika, hungrily tearing into a sack marked "War
Category

1940s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Cindy Sherman Bomb Magazine 1983 (advertisement)
By Cindy Sherman
Located in NEW YORK, NY
. Sherman’s images range from the beautiful to the grotesque; she’s used elaborate costumes, extensive makeup
Category

1980s Pop Art More Art

Materials

Offset

Saint Michael Archangel 17th Century Paint Oil on canvas Lombard School
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Prince of the Heavenly Militia, and a shield decorated with grotesques. We see depicted two of his
Category

17th Century Old Masters Paintings

Materials

Oil

17th Century by Pietro Della Vecchia The Alchemists Oil on canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
prolific and versatile painter who worked in many genres and created portraits, genre scenes and grotesques
Category

17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Music School oil on canvas painting
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
surreal and grotesque interior scene set in what appears to be a music school, indicated by the “MUSIC
Category

Early 2000s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Marc Chagall, Tchitchikov’s Farewell to Manilov, from Dead Souls, 1923-1927
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
immersed himself in Gogol’s satirical masterpiece, whose grotesque characters and moral absurdities
Category

1920s Expressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Marc Chagall, The Steward, from Nicolas Gogol, Dead Souls, 1923-1927
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
, when he first immersed himself in Gogol’s satirical masterpiece, whose grotesque characters and moral
Category

1920s Expressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Marc Chagall, The Arrival of Tchitchikov, Nicolas Gogol, Dead Souls, 1923-1927
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
immersed himself in Gogol’s satirical masterpiece, whose grotesque characters and moral absurdities
Category

1920s Expressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

"Hokusai Dreaming" 24K Gold Sculpture 7.5 x 1 in Ed. of 10 by Colin Burn
By Colin Burn
Located in Culver City, CA
and grotesque creatures guarding it were lulled to sleep by music. Upon reclaiming the treasure, she
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Gold

Jake Chapman - IN THE REALM OF THE SENSELESS. Watercolor Goya Disasters of War
Located in Madrid, Madrid
has always been controversial, mainly for their antiwar but grotesque imaginary, inspired mostly in
Category

2010s Young British Artists (YBA) Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Lithograph

Marc Chagall, Meal at Manilov s, from Nicolas Gogol, Dead Souls, 1923-1927
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
, when he first immersed himself in Gogol’s satirical masterpiece, whose grotesque characters and moral
Category

1920s Expressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

JAKE CHAPMAN - TO LIVE AND THINK PIGS (48/50). Watercolor Goya Disasters of War
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Brothers. These brothers style has always been controversial, mainly for their antiwar but grotesque
Category

2010s Young British Artists (YBA) Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Digital

Clown
By George Condo
Located in New York, NY
grotesque features like bulging eyes and fractured faces, and his work is inspired by a range of styles
Category

1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Gunegune DOB Special Version, 1997, Limited Edition of 100 by Takashi Murakami
By Takashi Murakami
Located in Hong Kong, HK
from mascot to polymorphic symbol, at once charming, grotesque, and endlessly adaptable.
Category

1990s Figurative Prints

Materials

Offset

Mismatched Couple 17th Century Paint Oli on canvas Old master Flemish School
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
time, involved the depiction of deliberately grotesque couples, often consisting of an attractive young
Category

17th Century Old Masters Paintings

Materials

Oil

Untitled (Blue), Alchemy Series, Vintage Cibachrome Print
By Lyle Ashton Harris
Located in Surfside, FL
Ashton and Cindy Sherman. “The Sublime, The Grotesque, The Epic: Lyle Ashton Harris Interviews Cindy
Category

20th Century Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print

Paula on the Beach - Mixed Media by John Isaacs - 2003
By John Isaacs
Located in Roma, IT
life. The often grotesque, fascinating and technically perfect sculptures are a criticism of our
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

"Transfiguration" (2023) - Medieval Armor Still-Life Oil Painting
By Elena Burykina
Located in Denver, CO
embossed as humorous or grotesque human masks, such helmets were often worn in tournaments held during the
Category

2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Horst Janssen Hand-Signed Poster München Original Zinc Etching, 1967 — Framed
By Horst Janssen
Located in Barcelona, ES
, virtuoso drawing and bold typography; this Munich sheet stages a long table of grotesque profiles and
Category

1960s Abstract More Prints

Materials

Paper

Tool Drypoint: Paintbrush by Jim Dine, black and white tool still life sketch
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
draftsmanship tempers the grotesque possibilities of this inanimate hirsutism, while the delicate, soft quality
Category

1970s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Drypoint

Character vs. Charicature
By William Hogarth
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
here copied from Arthur Pond's Caricatures; and a Leonardo da Vinci grotesque reproduced from the
Category

Mid-18th Century Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Engraving

Allegory of Autumn with Bacchus, studio of Louis de Caullery, 17th c. Antwerp
Located in PARIS, FR
his genre scenes with a subtle blend of grotesque and sophistication that had earned him remarkable
Category

Early 17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

"An Afternoon in the Gorse". Oil on Framed Canvas, Figurative Surrealism Paint
By Inés Silvalde
Located in FISTERRA, ES
the grotesque and the uncanny. By blending hyperrealistic details with unsettling distortions, the
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Sam Colburn Carmel Artist Portrait, Signed Limited Edition Realist Lithograph
By Jack Coughlin 1
Located in Soquel, CA
realism to surrealism and grotesque. He works in series producing portraits of literary and musical
Category

1980s Realist Portrait Prints

Materials

Paper, Ink, Lithograph

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT - Untitled Head (Skull) Skate Decks Urban Art Design
By Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in Madrid, Madrid
multifaceted message. The painting depicts a large skull, both grotesque and vibrant. The outlines of the skull
Category

2010s Pop Art More Art

Materials

Wood, Digital

BAD (silkscreen and lithograph print), unique signed by renowned Chicago artist
By Ed Paschke
Located in New York, NY
Photorealism, Paschke’s art plays heavily upon expressionist distortion and abstract form. The often grotesque
Category

1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Screen

Money, Power, Fur Coats, and a Damn Good Seat in Hell
Located in West Hollywood, CA
playfulness into something grotesque and wildly seductive. By giving a cartoon figure access to the world of
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

17th century . Holy Family with the Saint John the Baptist - Bolognese School
Located in Firenze, IT
, linear tension, and, at times, a near-grotesque expressiveness. These elements converge in this painting
Category

17th Century Italian School Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Untitled (comic), by José Luis Cuevas
By José Luis Cuevas
Located in Palm Springs, CA
vivid parade of distorted and expressionistic figures rendered in his signature grotesque style. Cuevas
Category

Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

"The Battle of the Golden Spurs" Avante Garde Print
By James Ensor
Located in Soquel, CA
French cavalry soldiers. This print is a prime example of Ensor's bizarre, and sometimes grotesque
Category

1890s Expressionist Landscape Prints

Materials

Paper, Ink, Etching

Nude Native American Indian Girl on Burlesque Stage
Located in Miami, FL
renderings of grotesque, existentially angst-ridden figures in isolated or uncomfortable situations, that
Category

1970s Surrealist Nude Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Board, Acrylic

The Fleagatory mixed media painting surrealist
By Antoni Pitxot
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
and hallucinatory scene, the purgatorial becomes grotesque: rather than redemption, there is
Category

1960s Surrealist Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Plant Panel Painting #8
Located in Red Bank, NJ
grotesque, nostalgia and critique. Whether I am celebrating and disrupting the integrity of the picture
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Enamel

Chopped Panel Plant Painting
By Robert Melee
Located in Red Bank, NJ
grotesque, nostalgia and critique. Whether I am celebrating and disrupting the integrity of the picture
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Enamel

1971 Joan Miró’s Ubu aux Baléares original lithograph N. 9
By Joan Miró
Located in PARIS, FR
subtext. They oscillate between the comic and the cryptic, the grotesque and the poetic—drawing the viewer
Category

1970s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

1971 Joan Miró’s Ubu aux Baléares original lithograph N. 21
By Joan Miró
Located in PARIS, FR
subtext. They oscillate between the comic and the cryptic, the grotesque and the poetic—drawing the viewer
Category

1970s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

1971 Joan Miró’s Ubu aux Baléares original lithograph N. 14
By Joan Miró
Located in PARIS, FR
subtext. They oscillate between the comic and the cryptic, the grotesque and the poetic—drawing the viewer
Category

1970s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Original Graphic Hungarian Illustration Art Emma Heinzelmann Children s Book Art
Located in Surfside, FL
original fine art graphics grotesque and bitter elements often prevail, her figures are playfully ironic
Category

Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Original Graphic Hungarian Illustration Art Emma Heinzelmann Children s Book Art
Located in Surfside, FL
. In her original fine art graphics grotesque and bitter elements often prevail, her figures are
Category

Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Bold Black and White Etching on Paper The Colonial Governor by Georges Rouault
By Georges Rouault
Located in White Plains, NY
world and the grotesque nature of power through the eyes of avant-garde satire. Although Rouault
Category

1920s Expressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Etching

Original Midget Dream #1 psychedelic 1967 vintage poster - popart
By Peter Max
Located in Spokane, WA
scene is psychedelic, surreal, dreamlike, fantastical, and grotesque. Peter Max is an icon of the
Category

1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Offset

Cindy Sherman Comme des Garcons 1994 (announcement)
By Cindy Sherman
Located in NEW YORK, NY
beautiful to the grotesque; she’s used elaborate costumes, extensive makeup, and wigs to build her
Category

1990s Pop Art More Art

Materials

Offset

Cindy Sherman Comme des Garcons 1994 (announcement)
By Cindy Sherman
Located in NEW YORK, NY
beautiful to the grotesque; she’s used elaborate costumes, extensive makeup, and wigs to build her
Category

1990s Pop Art More Art

Materials

Offset

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