Gallery

Oil Paintings

Surrealist oil paintings by Attila Kovács, 1983 to the present. Each is an original, sold directly by the artist.

62 works

2026

3
A tall, stained‑glass‑like composition forms a circular compass of colored segments — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
The last wink
70 × 130 cm
A split world of greys and color: on the left, a smoky monochrome field holds a glowing amber sphere and shadowed — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
The final farewell
100 × 80 cm
A warm, honey‑gold sky surrounds a dark, hulking, creature‑like mass crowned by an ear‑shaped spiral — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
The victims of pleasures
60 × 80 cm

2025

11
A surreal abstract painting filled with glowing organic shapes, bells, masks — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
My devil’s jester
60 × 80 cm
A surreal, abstract painting populated by organic, virus-like and cell-like forms in glowing reds, oranges, teals — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Orgy of viruses
70 × 90 cm
A surreal abstract painting dominated by glowing yellow, orange — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Birth
70 × 90 cm
A surreal geometric painting with a central eye-like symbol surrounded by radiating shard-like forms in blue, red — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
...then everything comes to light II
70 × 90 cm
A searing, symmetrical apparatus dominates the scene: a prismatic shield encloses a funnel that becomes — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Under interrogation
50 × 60 cm
A storm of shards—triangles and pyramids—erupts from a faceted field — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Angular invasion
50 × 60 cmSold
A mosaic of colored tiles frames a beaded yellow form that curls like a question mark — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Dimension shift
50 × 60 cm
A single stem rises from a split horizon, opening into a surreal bloom whose petals are hybrid instruments — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
A flower stem (shadow side)
60 × 80 cm
A single amber tear hangs from a wound-like fissure between dark, earthen slopes — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
I will lose you
60 × 80 cm
A surreal abstract painting featuring a central cross-like form against a luminous pastel sky — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
+/-
60 × 80 cm
A turbulent swirl of smudged pigments collides across the surface—reds, blues — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
A color mixer (driving into madness)
70 × 90 cm

2024

14
A 3×3 board like a one‑armed bandit: bright fruit tiles ring the edges — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
This was an unfortunate game
80 × 60 cm
Interlocking corridors form a plan‑like map: four dark quadrants encircle a warm red‑umber core — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
My family...
60 × 80 cm
At the center, a barred window, the surrounding wall is littered with stairs, frames — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Day of the rebel
68 × 52 cm
A golden, elongated figure is strapped to a spinning metallic wheel — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Spin with me
60 × 80 cm
In the upper left, a bony hand with a face mapped into its palm dangles a key while balloons drift across — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Did you lose something?
44 × 83 cm
Numbered hopscotch cubes stack into a staircase across a tiled field, marbles and symbols scattered around — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
And that's that!
60 × 80 cm
A large blue drop descends from a sun‑washed, golden sky; inside it — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Fertilizing water
60 × 80 cm
A fleshy mushroom cloud hangs like a body, tethered to the ground by sinew while red drops fall — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Bomb (reconsidered)
80 × 60 cm
Swirling currents of green and rose carry a face‑like profile and shell forms toward a central seam where a seed/eye — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
From an ending, a beginning
40 × 60 cm
A field of interlocking triangles, orbs, and gyroscopic cages reads like a map of doors and windows — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Possibilities of an exit
80 × 60 cm
A tunnel of nested portals pulls the gaze toward a luminous center as four shape‑families stream in from the axes — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Behind the shapes
60 × 90 cm
A gnarled life‑tree rises from biomorphic roots that cradle reclining forms; within its trunk and canopy — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
The tree of my life
60 × 80 cm
Angular facets radiate from a central ember-like eye, with cool blues and violets on the left and warm golds — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
...then everything comes to light
50 × 60 cmSold
A nude figure sprints along a narrow ledge with a torch raised — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Don't just enjoy, prepare for space
60 × 80 cm

2023

7
Two serpentine bands twisting like a DNA double helix, with varied elements bridging the strands — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Revelations of our characters
54 × 80 cm
A faceted, cubist portrait of triangles and wedges forms a face along a diagonal axis — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
The angle man
40 × 50 cm
A pale spiral mass crowns and presses down on a green face — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
I cry
53 × 83 cm
A faceted self‑portrait without a face: twin eyes sit like bearings amid prisms, grids, and stacked planes — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
(a numb) Self-portrait
60 × 80 cm
At the top, a windmill forged from boulders bursts into light — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Don Quixote and Sisyphus’ last project
60 × 90 cm
Inside a membrane-like cellular lattice, a bound, corseted woman leans forward as if fixed to a stem — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
In private...
60 × 80 cm
Converging chevron bands form an hourglass that pinches the scene, with churning clouds above and a molten — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Time presses
60 × 80 cm

2022

4
Two monumental eyes meet iris-to-iris, their sockets grown from interlaced organic forms—nerves, valves — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Lovemaking with eye contact
70 × 50 cmNot for sale
A hyper-detailed blue eye fills the canvas, its iris radiating light as lashes sweep across the lid — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
I see everything
83 × 53 cmNot for sale
A surreal valley narrows to a single vanishing point where a thin stem rises and unfurls into a dark — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Flower
37 × 57 cm
A nude figure holds a cruciform pose as her legs twist like a serpent — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Prostitute as a gift
60 × 84 cm

2021

1
A playful, gnome‑like face emerges from warm orange and green colours: a snail‑shell cap tilts over a mop of green — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Have a good day!
52 × 83 cm

2020

2
At the meeting point of two worlds, an upper stratum in vivid — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Here I rest
50 × 89 cm
A churning mass of storm clouds swirls at the left, while a cavernous opening reveals a calm — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Storm in my mind
75 × 53 cm

2019

1
A towering composite head emerges with everything radiating from the bridge between the eyes: stitched masks — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Catharsis II
51 × 82 cm

2018

2
A surreal landscape is cleaved by a diagonal ridge bearing a horned profile with a bright blue eye — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
The demon's orchid (and an electric flower)
69 × 101 cm
A headless figure with gleaming yellow limbs is stretched in a cruciform stance against a dark, star‑strewn void — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Crucified
51 × 81 cm

1983–2004

17
A surreal scene: a large head from whose mind a windmill‑like structure rises — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Time
2004 · 50 × 80 cm
A golden chalice at the lower left catches a surge of pale — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
The last chalice (drink)
2003 · 54 × 81 cm
A face coalescing from ribbons of flame and smoke, ember‑red and ochre currents carving fissured features — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Catharsis
1992 · 56 × 62 cm
A scarecrow‑like effigy stands at the road’s last marker — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Meeting a scarecrow (at road's end)
1992 · 56 × 88 cm
On a striped floor, a broken colonnade and toppled plinths frame stone mannequins and severed arms that strain — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
The pain of inertia
1991 · 79 × 54 cm
A surreal hand‑figure stepping across the piano keys; each finger morphs into a different body part — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
A dance on the piano
1990 · 65 × 45 cm
Against a mosaic of map‑like panes, a gilded cruciform figure with a sunburst halo stands on a plinth — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Vile innocence
1990 · 82 × 89 cm
A luminous pearl suspended in a teal, shell‑like grotto of spirals and ridges — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Shell pearl
1988 · 41 × 61 cm
A brass candlestick assembled from human body parts, standing on and backed by a torn, scroll‑like strip — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Prometheus
1988 · 36 × 94 cm
A barren desert with mesas stretches across the bottom — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Hormonal disorders
1988 · 44 × 83 cm
White triangle waves on a colored grid, with a "rail" on the right edge — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
MoonDead world
1987 · 75 × 50 cm
A storm-lit sea rolls beneath torn clouds while, on the right, a cliff resolves into a human, mask-like face — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Shore
1986 · 60 × 36 cm
A mushroom cloud swells into a grotesquely fleshy form — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Bomb
1986 · 80 × 53 cm
etween two tree-trunks that arch like a gate, a tiny sapling stands fragile and bright; beyond it stretches a dark — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
...but it stays between us — But?
1985 · 45 × 26 cm
In a dim, mottled room, a cluttered table holds a skull, bones, an extinguished lamp, sliced fruit — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Still death
1985 · 75 × 50 cm
Stone-like pillars stand in a foggy foreground before a boiling orange cloudbank — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Lethorgy
1985 · 45 × 60 cm
A smoky, fog‑laden darkness where a faint face and two half‑dissolved hands emerge — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
I lost
1983 · 42 × 68 cm