Magic Realism
The turn of phrase of magic realism was invented by German photographer, art historian and art critic Franz Roh in 1925 when he wished to describe modern realist paintings that portrayed fantastical or dream-like topics as their subjects of attention. The term originates from Roh's book Nach Expressionismus: Magischer Realismus which translates as “After Expressionism: Magic Realism".
In 20th century European culture, Magic Realism partook in a reactionary movement against modern or avant-garde art, known as the return to order. This movement in the arts was largely founded around a philosophy that came as a result of the legacy of the First World War. Magic realist artists included Giorgio de Chirico, Alberto Savinio and others in Italy, and Alexander Kanoldt and Adolf Ziegler in neighboring Germany. Magic Realism is closely related to the dreamlike depictions of Surrealism and Neo-Romanticism in France. The term is also used to describe the work of certain painters from across the pond in America in the 1940s and 1950s including Paul Cadmus, Philip Evergood and Ivan Albright. It has also been known to describe the practices of literature, such as the writing of Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez.
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Le Modèle et son Peintre
Pablo Picasso
Print - 50 x 70 x 0.2 cm Print - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$15,378
Le Peintre et Son Modèle
Pablo Picasso
Print - 50 x 70 x 0.2 cm Print - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$15,438
Deux femmes accroupies
Pablo Picasso
Print - 50 x 65 x 0.2 cm Print - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.1 inch
$15,259
Les Bleus de Barcelone
Pablo Picasso
Print - 41.5 x 54 x 0.2 cm Print - 16.3 x 21.3 x 0.1 inch
$11,325
Venus et l'Amour, dans le style du XVIIe siècle
Pablo Picasso
Print - 54.5 x 56.5 x 0.2 cm Print - 21.5 x 22.2 x 0.1 inch
$16,094
Patron et sa suite en visite à l’atelier
Pablo Picasso
Print - 36 x 47 x 0.1 cm Print - 14.2 x 18.5 x 0 inch
$12,517
Peintre et modèle aux cheveux longs
Pablo Picasso
Print - 57.5 x 46 x 0.1 cm Print - 22.6 x 18.1 x 0 inch
$17,286
Peintre et sa toile avec modèle assis
Pablo Picasso
Print - 39 x 51.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 15.4 x 20.3 x 0 inch
$22,054
Nude Woman, Femme Nue, Mourlot Frères (after Pablo Picasso)
Pablo Picasso
Print - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Print - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,861
Mother's Embrace, Gardens of Resilience series
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
$775
Peintre peignant la nuque de son jeune modèle
Pablo Picasso
Print - 25 x 32.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 9.8 x 12.8 x 0 inch
$10,491
Sisters in the garden, Gardens of Resilience series
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
$775
Union: Woman and Swan
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 60 x 40 x 1.8 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.7 inch
$775
The cycle of being: Motherhood through the ages
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 60 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$811
Jeune fille aux mandarines
Serge Kalinowski
Painting - 146 x 114 x 5 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 2 inch
$4,351
Apocalypse of John the Evangelis
Giorgio de Chirico
Print - 30.5 x 23 x 0.1 cm Print - 12 x 9.1 x 0 inch
$1,431
Sculpteur devant sa Sculpture
Pablo Picasso
Print - 19.5 x 27.5 x 0.2 cm Print - 7.7 x 10.8 x 0.1 inch
$10,491
Hope, Melancholy serie
Olha Vlasova
Painting - 60 x 40 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.6 inch
$834
The Weave of Myths
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 60 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,013
Vue nocturne d'atelier
Serge Kalinowski
Painting - 89 x 116 x 3 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,735
La Ballade des dames hors du temps, Natasha (1971)
Man Ray
Print - 66 x 50.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 26 x 19.9 x 0 inch
$3,576
Peaceful Slumber, Silence Series
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,252
Horsewoman, Spring serie
Olha Vlasova
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,192
In Shelter Under Protection
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1.8 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
$2,253
Eclipse, Melancholy serie
Olha Vlasova
Painting - 100 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,788
Moonlight, Figurative neon painting
Olha Vlasova
Painting - 100 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 23.6 x 1 inch
$2,146
L'Ospite dei Bagnanti Misteriosi
Giorgio de Chirico
Print - 71.5 x 50.5 x 0.2 cm Print - 28.1 x 19.9 x 0.1 inch
$5,603
The Challenge in the Aegean - Plate 3
Giorgio de Chirico
Print - 61 x 48 x 0.1 cm Print - 24 x 18.9 x 0 inch
$5,722
The Winds of Change
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,013
You Are My Universe
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,800
Contemplations of the Trypillian Heritage
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,013
Intertwining Thoughts
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,013
Harmony Unleashed: Sunflower Whispers
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,311
Thoughts: The Eve Within
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,490
Self-Perception: Night and Day
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,490
The Power of Good
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$2,682
Whispers of Eternity
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,371
Whispers of Time: The Gathering
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 90 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$2,563
Reflection, Melancholy serie
Olha Vlasova
Painting - 100 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,788
Guardians of the Primordial Woods
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1.8 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
$2,253
Slumbering Spirit, Thoughts series.
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 60 x 80 x 1.8 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.7 inch
$1,371
Echoes of the Forest
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 60 x 80 x 1.8 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.7 inch
$1,907
Whispers of Ancestry, Thoughts series
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1.8 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
$1,371
Contemplations by the river
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 90 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,729
Modèle black endormi
Serge Kalinowski
Painting - 55 x 46 x 5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 2 inch
$1,258
Fantasy Art I (flamencos)
Vesna Udicki Vucetic
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,384
Try walking in my shoes.
Elena Shichko
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,219
Incarnate
Nino Eliashvili
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$2,861
Embody
Nino Eliashvili
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$2,265
Mavka and the Woodland Fairy: Enchanted Garden, Gardens of Resilience series
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
$536
Sculpteur travaillant à un buste de femme II
Pablo Picasso
Print - 54 x 41 cm Print - 21.3 x 16.1 inch
Sold
Enchantment of the Mythic Steed, Myths Series
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
$358
Whisper of the Soul , Myths Series
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
$572
Petit déjeuner sur l’herbe
Serge Kalinowski
Painting - 97 x 130 x 5 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 2 inch
$3,040
Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel
Salvador Dali
Print - 76 x 54 cm Print - 29.9 x 21.3 inch
$5,000
Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel
Salvador Dali
Print - 76 x 54 cm Print - 29.9 x 21.3 inch
$5,000
