George J. Marinko Paintings & Artwork for Sale | George J. Marinko Art Value Price Guide

Mar. 01, 2025
George J. Marinko - Mask
Est: $200 - $400
George J. Marinko (Connecticut/ New York, 1908 - 1989). Mask. Mixed media, painted wood on burlap-covered backing, stamped "COLLECTION JAMES GOODWIN M (?)" on the reverse. Backing: H: 22.125 in., W: 14.625 in., D: 0.75 in.
Devin Moisan Auctioneers, Inc.
Mar. 01, 2025
George J. Marinko - Mask
Est: $200 - $400
George J. Marinko (Connecticut/ New York, 1908 - 1989). Mixed media, painted wood and glass on burlap-covered plywood, stamped "ESTATE MARINKO 1908 - 1989 COLLECTION" on the reverse. Back: H: 20.375 in., W: 17.875 in., D: 1 in.
Devin Moisan Auctioneers, Inc.
Mar. 01, 2025
George J. Marinko - Portrait of a Mother and Child
Est: $200 - $400
George J. Marinko (Connecticut/ New York, 1908 - 1989). Portrait of a Mother and Child. Mixed media, painted metal on Masonite backing, signed "MARINKO" lower left, (16 x 12.125 inches); housed in a mid-century modern frame. Frame: H: 21.75 in., W: 17.75 in., D: 1.625 in.
Devin Moisan Auctioneers, Inc.
Jan. 26, 2025
George Marinko (CT,NY,1908-1989) oil painting antique
Est: $900 - $1,150
ARTIST: George J Marinko (Connecticut, New York, 1908 - 1989) NAME: Still Life with Tea Set YEAR: circa 1933 MEDIUM: oil on board CONDITION: Minor craquelure. No visible inpaint under UV light. SIGHT SIZE: 10 x 12 inches / 25 x 30 cm FRAME SIZE: 15 x 17 inches / 38 x 43 cm SIGNATURE: lower right PROVENANCE: New Haven Paint and Clay Club, CT (has label on verso) CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 120027 US SHIPPING: $60 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: George Marinko was one of the founders of the surrealist style in the United States. He was born in Derby, Connecticut in 1908. From 1925 to 1929, Marinko attended the Waterbury Art School, coming under the influence of Lewis York, a visiting art professor from Yale. Funded by wealthy persons in Waterbury, he was able to attend the Yale School of Fine Arts where York and Eugene Savage were teachers, and Marinko began experimenting with surrealism. However, his academic training ended that first year with the stock market collapse. He survived by taking odd jobs and painting traditional landscapes. He was an individualist and worked in the surrealist style before he knew what it was. From 1934-1942, he painted in the surrealist style and completed regionalist landscapes. In 1936 he was included in an exhibition of surrealist art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In the late 1930s he traveled to Europe and Mexico, and on his return, worked for the Public Works of Art Project and then for the WPA Federal Arts Project from 1938 to 1940. In an interesting departure from approved criteria, the Federal Arts Project accepted a couple surrealist paintings from among the seventeen he completed. One of his paintings not done under the WPA, Orpheus in Agony , was exhibited at the New York World's Fair. Marinko taught at the Waterbury Art School and in 1950-1951 served as an assistant director of the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York. According to one art dealer, Marinko's earliest surrealist paintings were among the best by an American that he had seen, but Marinko never considered himself an equal with other surrealist artists. He was not well known outside of Waterbury or New Haven, where he spent the last thirty years of his life in a two room apartment. Visitors noted that there was very little furniture in his apartment, and that it contained numerous easels paintings that no one had ever seen. It was not until his later years that art historians and the public began to appreciate Marinko's contributions to the development of American art through his surrealist paintings. He died in 1989.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Jul. 07, 2024
George Marinko (CT,NY,1908-1989) oil painting antique
Est: $950 - $1,250
ARTIST: George J Marinko (Connecticut, New York, 1908 - 1989) NAME: Still Life with Tea Set YEAR: circa 1933 MEDIUM: oil on board CONDITION: Minor craquelure. No visible inpaint under UV light. SIGHT SIZE: 10 x 12 inches / 25 x 30 cm FRAME SIZE: 15 x 17 inches / 38 x 43 cm SIGNATURE: lower right PROVENANCE: New Haven Paint and Clay Club, CT (has label on verso) CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 120027 US Shipping $49 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: George Marinko was one of the founders of the surrealist style in the United States. He was born in Derby, Connecticut in 1908. From 1925 to 1929, Marinko attended the Waterbury Art School, coming under the influence of Lewis York, a visiting art professor from Yale. Funded by wealthy persons in Waterbury, he was able to attend the Yale School of Fine Arts where York and Eugene Savage were teachers, and Marinko began experimenting with surrealism. However, his academic training ended that first year with the stock market collapse. He survived by taking odd jobs and painting traditional landscapes. He was an individualist and worked in the surrealist style before he knew what it was. From 1934-1942, he painted in the surrealist style and completed regionalist landscapes. In 1936 he was included in an exhibition of surrealist art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In the late 1930s he traveled to Europe and Mexico, and on his return, worked for the Public Works of Art Project and then for the WPA Federal Arts Project from 1938 to 1940. In an interesting departure from approved criteria, the Federal Arts Project accepted a couple surrealist paintings from among the seventeen he completed. One of his paintings not done under the WPA, Orpheus in Agony , was exhibited at the New York World's Fair. Marinko taught at the Waterbury Art School and in 1950-1951 served as an assistant director of the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York. According to one art dealer, Marinko's earliest surrealist paintings were among the best by an American that he had seen, but Marinko never considered himself an equal with other surrealist artists. He was not well known outside of Waterbury or New Haven, where he spent the last thirty years of his life in a two room apartment. Visitors noted that there was very little furniture in his apartment, and that it contained numerous easels paintings that no one had ever seen. It was not until his later years that art historians and the public began to appreciate Marinko's contributions to the development of American art through his surrealist paintings. He died in 1989.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
May. 18, 2024
George Marinko (American 1908-1989), "Rouge et Noir", Oil on canvas, Signed lower right "Marinko" signed and titled on verso, 30" x 45", Provenance: Bonhams Skinner, Boston, Massachusetts, Thomas F. Vanderbeck Revocab...
Est: $200 - $400
George Marinko (American 1908-1989) "Rouge et Noir" Oil on canvas Signed lower right "Marinko" signed and titled on verso 30" x 45" Provenance: Bonhams Skinner, Boston, Massachusetts Thomas F. Vanderbeck Revocable Trust Haddam, Connecticut
Nadeau's Auction Gallery
May. 18, 2024
George Marinko (American 1908-1989), "Nachtmusik", 1968, Oil on canvas, Signed and dated "Geo. Marinko II 68", Exhibited at MOMA's 1936 "Fantastic Art, Dada & Surrealism", 24" x 20", Provenance: Thomas F. Vanderbeck R...
Est: $400 - $800
George Marinko (American 1908-1989) "Nachtmusik", 1968 Oil on canvas Signed and dated "Geo. Marinko II 68" Exhibited at MOMA's 1936 "Fantastic Art, Dada & Surrealism" 24" x 20" Provenance: Thomas F. Vanderbeck Revocable Trust Haddam, Connecticut
Nadeau's Auction Gallery
Apr. 24, 2024
GEORGE J. MARINKO (Connecticut/New York, 1908-1989), New bonnet., Mixed media on paper, 14.25" x 9" sight. Framed 21.25" x 15.5".
Est: $200 - $300
GEORGE J. MARINKO Connecticut/New York, 1908-1989 New bonnet. Signed within image lower right "Marinko".
Eldred's
Jan. 31, 2024
George Marinko 1908-1989 Nude Abstraction Painting
Est: $100 - $1,000
George Marinko (American, 1908-1989). An original oil painting on canvas. A colorful work depicting a nude female figure. Signed lower right. Presented in a gilt wood frame. From the private collection of Louis Geys (Belgian, 1945-2022). Work Size: 20 x 16 in. Dimensions: 23.5 X 19.5 X 1.5 in. Condition: Good overall condition having mild surface wear. Frame with average storage wear to edges and corners. Estate fresh to the market. Shipping: Hill Auction Gallery does not offer in-house shipping for this item. Gallery will refer third party shippers for all domestic and international buyers. Purchaser pick up available upon request.
Hill Auction Gallery
Dec. 17, 2023
George Marinko (CT,NY,1908-1989) oil painting antique
Est: $1,050 - $1,300
ARTIST: George J Marinko (Connecticut, New York, 1908 - 1989) NAME: Still Life with Tea Set YEAR: circa 1933 MEDIUM: oil on board CONDITION: Minor craquelure. No visible inpaint under UV light. SIGHT SIZE: 10 x 12 inches / 25 x 30 cm FRAME SIZE: 15 x 17 inches / 38 x 43 cm SIGNATURE: lower right PROVENANCE: New Haven Paint and Clay Club, CT (has label on verso) CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 120027 US Shipping $49 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: George Marinko was one of the founders of the surrealist style in the United States. He was born in Derby, Connecticut in 1908. From 1925 to 1929, Marinko attended the Waterbury Art School, coming under the influence of Lewis York, a visiting art professor from Yale. Funded by wealthy persons in Waterbury, he was able to attend the Yale School of Fine Arts where York and Eugene Savage were teachers, and Marinko began experimenting with surrealism. However, his academic training ended that first year with the stock market collapse. He survived by taking odd jobs and painting traditional landscapes. He was an individualist and worked in the surrealist style before he knew what it was. From 1934-1942, he painted in the surrealist style and completed regionalist landscapes. In 1936 he was included in an exhibition of surrealist art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In the late 1930s he traveled to Europe and Mexico, and on his return, worked for the Public Works of Art Project and then for the WPA Federal Arts Project from 1938 to 1940. In an interesting departure from approved criteria, the Federal Arts Project accepted a couple surrealist paintings from among the seventeen he completed. One of his paintings not done under the WPA, Orpheus in Agony , was exhibited at the New York World's Fair. Marinko taught at the Waterbury Art School and in 1950-1951 served as an assistant director of the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York. According to one art dealer, Marinko's earliest surrealist paintings were among the best by an American that he had seen, but Marinko never considered himself an equal with other surrealist artists. He was not well known outside of Waterbury or New Haven, where he spent the last thirty years of his life in a two room apartment. Visitors noted that there was very little furniture in his apartment, and that it contained numerous easels paintings that no one had ever seen. It was not until his later years that art historians and the public began to appreciate Marinko's contributions to the development of American art through his surrealist paintings. He died in 1989.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Oct. 21, 2023
George Marinko sculpture
Est: $100 - $200
George Marinko (American 1908-1999) Exordium cast metal sculpture, signed Marinko at base, set on wood plinth. 16"h
Rachel Davis Fine Arts
Sep. 10, 2023
George Marinko (CT,NY,1908-1989) oil painting antique
Est: $1,050 - $1,300
ARTIST: George J Marinko (Connecticut, New York, 1908 - 1989) NAME: Still Life with Tea Set YEAR: circa 1933 MEDIUM: oil on board CONDITION: Minor craquelure. No visible inpaint under UV light. SIGHT SIZE: 10 x 12 inches / 25 x 30 cm FRAME SIZE: 15 x 17 inches / 38 x 43 cm SIGNATURE: lower right PROVENANCE: New Haven Paint and Clay Club, CT (has label on verso) CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 120027 US Shipping $49 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: George Marinko was one of the founders of the surrealist style in the United States. He was born in Derby, Connecticut in 1908. From 1925 to 1929, Marinko attended the Waterbury Art School, coming under the influence of Lewis York, a visiting art professor from Yale. Funded by wealthy persons in Waterbury, he was able to attend the Yale School of Fine Arts where York and Eugene Savage were teachers, and Marinko began experimenting with surrealism. However, his academic training ended that first year with the stock market collapse. He survived by taking odd jobs and painting traditional landscapes. He was an individualist and worked in the surrealist style before he knew what it was. From 1934-1942, he painted in the surrealist style and completed regionalist landscapes. In 1936 he was included in an exhibition of surrealist art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In the late 1930s he traveled to Europe and Mexico, and on his return, worked for the Public Works of Art Project and then for the WPA Federal Arts Project from 1938 to 1940. In an interesting departure from approved criteria, the Federal Arts Project accepted a couple surrealist paintings from among the seventeen he completed. One of his paintings not done under the WPA, Orpheus in Agony , was exhibited at the New York World's Fair. Marinko taught at the Waterbury Art School and in 1950-1951 served as an assistant director of the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York. According to one art dealer, Marinko's earliest surrealist paintings were among the best by an American that he had seen, but Marinko never considered himself an equal with other surrealist artists. He was not well known outside of Waterbury or New Haven, where he spent the last thirty years of his life in a two room apartment. Visitors noted that there was very little furniture in his apartment, and that it contained numerous easels paintings that no one had ever seen. It was not until his later years that art historians and the public began to appreciate Marinko's contributions to the development of American art through his surrealist paintings. He died in 1989.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Jun. 11, 2023
George Marinko (CT,NY,1908-1989) oil painting antique
Est: $1,050 - $1,350
ARTIST: George J Marinko (Connecticut, New York, 1908 - 1989) NAME: Still Life with Tea Set YEAR: circa 1933 MEDIUM: oil on board CONDITION: Minor craquelure. No visible inpaint under UV light. SIGHT SIZE: 10 x 12 inches / 25 x 30 cm FRAME SIZE: 15 x 17 inches / 38 x 43 cm SIGNATURE: lower right PROVENANCE: New Haven Paint and Clay Club, CT (has label on verso) CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 120027 US Shipping $49 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: George Marinko was one of the founders of the surrealist style in the United States. He was born in Derby, Connecticut in 1908. From 1925 to 1929, Marinko attended the Waterbury Art School, coming under the influence of Lewis York, a visiting art professor from Yale. Funded by wealthy persons in Waterbury, he was able to attend the Yale School of Fine Arts where York and Eugene Savage were teachers, and Marinko began experimenting with surrealism. However, his academic training ended that first year with the stock market collapse. He survived by taking odd jobs and painting traditional landscapes. He was an individualist and worked in the surrealist style before he knew what it was. From 1934-1942, he painted in the surrealist style and completed regionalist landscapes. In 1936 he was included in an exhibition of surrealist art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In the late 1930s he traveled to Europe and Mexico, and on his return, worked for the Public Works of Art Project and then for the WPA Federal Arts Project from 1938 to 1940. In an interesting departure from approved criteria, the Federal Arts Project accepted a couple surrealist paintings from among the seventeen he completed. One of his paintings not done under the WPA, Orpheus in Agony , was exhibited at the New York World's Fair. Marinko taught at the Waterbury Art School and in 1950-1951 served as an assistant director of the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York. According to one art dealer, Marinko's earliest surrealist paintings were among the best by an American that he had seen, but Marinko never considered himself an equal with other surrealist artists. He was not well known outside of Waterbury or New Haven, where he spent the last thirty years of his life in a two room apartment. Visitors noted that there was very little furniture in his apartment, and that it contained numerous easels paintings that no one had ever seen. It was not until his later years that art historians and the public began to appreciate Marinko's contributions to the development of American art through his surrealist paintings. He died in 1989.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Apr. 29, 2023
George Marinko, Connecticut, New York (1908-1989), Starboard Tack, mixed media assemblage with found objects, 10 3/4"H x 12" W (sight), 19 1/2"H x 21"W (frame)
Est: $300 - $500
George Marinko Connecticut, New York, (1908-1989) Starboard Tack mixed media assemblage with found objects Signed lower right and titled verso. Biography from the Archives of askART: In the early 1930s, George Marinko, was known as one of the most pure surrealists of all the American artists pursuing that pioneering style. He also did automatic drawing that revealed through his personal complex symbolism his interest in mythology and psycho-analysis. Many of his works had allusions to the temptations of Adam and Eve and other suggestions of male/female conflict. His images seem dreamlike and include clowns, humans, dolls, and puppets as well as objects that are bending and twisting, and "any one of them may be running, burning, or melting" (Falk 2185). His painting, Sirius (the Dog Star, the brightest star in the heavens), seems an incongruous combination of very realistically-painted still-life objects including a wooden contraption resembling a human pelvis, and a bright red human leg to the knee, with a rope or snake wrapped around its ankle. His paintings were included in the ground breaking 1936 Surrealist exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, but he choose to stay out of the limelight and lived quietly in Waterbury, Connecticut where he was known for his works in sculpting, lithography, and painting with subjects of landscapes, villages, boats, as well as abstraction. There he was a prominent local artist, teacher at the Waterbury Art School from 1945 to 1957, and later became director of the Hudson River Museum. He also painted the mural in City Hall's Aldermanic Chambers along with artist Francis Jmanie. Marinko had studied at the Waterbury Art School with Lewis York from 1925 to 1929 and took additional training at the Yale University School of Fine Art with Eugene Savage. He began his career as a painter of traditional landscapes, but from 1934-42, painted in the Surrealist manner. Then frustrated with the lack of response to his surrealism, he incorporated regionalist landscape painting into his output, but continued to paint abstract works. He also took up the depiction of surrealist images by carving and painting wooden masks and totems and other primitive figures. He served in World War II, and In the late 1950s, moved to New Haven, Connecticut where he lived in a small apartment crowded with his work. He died there in 1989. Sources include: Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art" http://www.estate-traders.com/main/artist/406 http://mattatuckmuseum.org/collections/art/marinko.htm http://www.munic.state.ct.us/WATERBURY/factn.htm
Ripley Auctions
Mar. 12, 2023
George Marinko (CT,NY,1908-1989) oil painting antique
Est: $1,150 - $1,450
ARTIST: George J Marinko (Connecticut, New York, 1908 - 1989) NAME: Still Life with Tea Set YEAR: circa 1933 MEDIUM: oil on board CONDITION: Minor craquelure. No visible inpaint under UV light. SIGHT SIZE: 10 x 12 inches / 25 x 30 cm FRAME SIZE: 15 x 17 inches / 38 x 43 cm SIGNATURE: lower right PROVENANCE: New Haven Paint and Clay Club, CT (has label on verso) CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 120027 US Shipping $49 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: George Marinko was one of the founders of the surrealist style in the United States. He was born in Derby, Connecticut in 1908. From 1925 to 1929, Marinko attended the Waterbury Art School, coming under the influence of Lewis York, a visiting art professor from Yale. Funded by wealthy persons in Waterbury, he was able to attend the Yale School of Fine Arts where York and Eugene Savage were teachers, and Marinko began experimenting with surrealism. However, his academic training ended that first year with the stock market collapse. He survived by taking odd jobs and painting traditional landscapes. He was an individualist and worked in the surrealist style before he knew what it was. From 1934-1942, he painted in the surrealist style and completed regionalist landscapes. In 1936 he was included in an exhibition of surrealist art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In the late 1930s he traveled to Europe and Mexico, and on his return, worked for the Public Works of Art Project and then for the WPA Federal Arts Project from 1938 to 1940. In an interesting departure from approved criteria, the Federal Arts Project accepted a couple surrealist paintings from among the seventeen he completed. One of his paintings not done under the WPA, Orpheus in Agony , was exhibited at the New York World's Fair. Marinko taught at the Waterbury Art School and in 1950-1951 served as an assistant director of the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York. According to one art dealer, Marinko's earliest surrealist paintings were among the best by an American that he had seen, but Marinko never considered himself an equal with other surrealist artists. He was not well known outside of Waterbury or New Haven, where he spent the last thirty years of his life in a two room apartment. Visitors noted that there was very little furniture in his apartment, and that it contained numerous easels paintings that no one had ever seen. It was not until his later years that art historians and the public began to appreciate Marinko's contributions to the development of American art through his surrealist paintings. He died in 1989.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Feb. 16, 2023
GEORGE MARINKO - HEDONIST
Est: $400 - $600
Lot 133 George Marinko American (1908 - 1989) Hedonist oil and gold leaf on masonite inscribed verso signed lower left 20 x 24 inches unframed Provenance: From a Long Island Collection
Capsule Gallery Auction
Dec. 18, 2022
George Marinko (CT,NY,1908-1989) oil painting antique
Est: $1,150 - $1,500
ARTIST: George J Marinko (Connecticut, New York, 1908 - 1989) NAME: Still Life with Tea Set YEAR: circa 1933 MEDIUM: oil on board CONDITION: Minor craquelure. No visible inpaint under UV light. SIGHT SIZE: 10 x 12 inches / 25 x 30 cm FRAME SIZE: 15 x 17 inches / 38 x 43 cm SIGNATURE: lower right PROVENANCE: New Haven Paint and Clay Club, CT (has label on verso) CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 120027 US Shipping $49 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: George Marinko was one of the founders of the surrealist style in the United States. He was born in Derby, Connecticut in 1908. From 1925 to 1929, Marinko attended the Waterbury Art School, coming under the influence of Lewis York, a visiting art professor from Yale. Funded by wealthy persons in Waterbury, he was able to attend the Yale School of Fine Arts where York and Eugene Savage were teachers, and Marinko began experimenting with surrealism. However, his academic training ended that first year with the stock market collapse. He survived by taking odd jobs and painting traditional landscapes. He was an individualist and worked in the surrealist style before he knew what it was. From 1934-1942, he painted in the surrealist style and completed regionalist landscapes. In 1936 he was included in an exhibition of surrealist art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In the late 1930s he traveled to Europe and Mexico, and on his return, worked for the Public Works of Art Project and then for the WPA Federal Arts Project from 1938 to 1940. In an interesting departure from approved criteria, the Federal Arts Project accepted a couple surrealist paintings from among the seventeen he completed. One of his paintings not done under the WPA, Orpheus in Agony , was exhibited at the New York World's Fair. Marinko taught at the Waterbury Art School and in 1950-1951 served as an assistant director of the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York. According to one art dealer, Marinko's earliest surrealist paintings were among the best by an American that he had seen, but Marinko never considered himself an equal with other surrealist artists. He was not well known outside of Waterbury or New Haven, where he spent the last thirty years of his life in a two room apartment. Visitors noted that there was very little furniture in his apartment, and that it contained numerous easels paintings that no one had ever seen. It was not until his later years that art historians and the public began to appreciate Marinko's contributions to the development of American art through his surrealist paintings. He died in 1989.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Sep. 11, 2022
George Marinko (CT,NY,1908-1989) oil painting antique
Est: $1,250 - $1,500
ARTIST: George J Marinko (Connecticut, New York, 1908 - 1989) NAME: Still Life with Tea Set YEAR: circa 1933 MEDIUM: oil on board CONDITION: Minor craquelure. No visible inpaint under UV light. SIGHT SIZE: 10 x 12 inches / 25 x 30 cm FRAME SIZE: 15 x 17 inches / 38 x 43 cm SIGNATURE: lower right PROVENANCE: New Haven Paint and Clay Club, CT (has label on verso) CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 120027 US Shipping $49 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: George Marinko was one of the founders of the surrealist style in the United States. He was born in Derby, Connecticut in 1908. From 1925 to 1929, Marinko attended the Waterbury Art School, coming under the influence of Lewis York, a visiting art professor from Yale. Funded by wealthy persons in Waterbury, he was able to attend the Yale School of Fine Arts where York and Eugene Savage were teachers, and Marinko began experimenting with surrealism. However, his academic training ended that first year with the stock market collapse. He survived by taking odd jobs and painting traditional landscapes. He was an individualist and worked in the surrealist style before he knew what it was. From 1934-1942, he painted in the surrealist style and completed regionalist landscapes. In 1936 he was included in an exhibition of surrealist art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In the late 1930s he traveled to Europe and Mexico, and on his return, worked for the Public Works of Art Project and then for the WPA Federal Arts Project from 1938 to 1940. In an interesting departure from approved criteria, the Federal Arts Project accepted a couple surrealist paintings from among the seventeen he completed. One of his paintings not done under the WPA, Orpheus in Agony , was exhibited at the New York World's Fair. Marinko taught at the Waterbury Art School and in 1950-1951 served as an assistant director of the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York. According to one art dealer, Marinko's earliest surrealist paintings were among the best by an American that he had seen, but Marinko never considered himself an equal with other surrealist artists. He was not well known outside of Waterbury or New Haven, where he spent the last thirty years of his life in a two room apartment. Visitors noted that there was very little furniture in his apartment, and that it contained numerous easels paintings that no one had ever seen. It was not until his later years that art historians and the public began to appreciate Marinko's contributions to the development of American art through his surrealist paintings. He died in 1989.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Jun. 19, 2022
GEORGE MARINKO (American/Connecticut), 1908-1989)
Est: $600 - $900
Connecticut farm titled on reverse Southington Mountian sgn. l.l. Marinko; o/b; 19.75 by 25 in.; frame 25.25 by 34.5 in.
CRN Auctions
Jun. 12, 2022
George Marinko (CT,NY,1908-1989) oil painting antique
Est: $1,300 - $1,600
ARTIST: George J Marinko (Connecticut, New York, 1908 - 1989) NAME: Still Life with Tea Set YEAR: circa 1933 MEDIUM: oil on board CONDITION: Minor craquelure. No visible inpaint under UV light. SIGHT SIZE: 10 x 12 inches / 25 x 30 cm FRAME SIZE: 15 x 17 inches / 38 x 43 cm SIGNATURE: lower right PROVENANCE: New Haven Paint and Clay Club, CT (has label on verso) CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 120027 US Shipping $49 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: George Marinko was one of the founders of the surrealist style in the United States. He was born in Derby, Connecticut in 1908. From 1925 to 1929, Marinko attended the Waterbury Art School, coming under the influence of Lewis York, a visiting art professor from Yale. Funded by wealthy persons in Waterbury, he was able to attend the Yale School of Fine Arts where York and Eugene Savage were teachers, and Marinko began experimenting with surrealism. However, his academic training ended that first year with the stock market collapse. He survived by taking odd jobs and painting traditional landscapes. He was an individualist and worked in the surrealist style before he knew what it was. From 1934-1942, he painted in the surrealist style and completed regionalist landscapes. In 1936 he was included in an exhibition of surrealist art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In the late 1930s he traveled to Europe and Mexico, and on his return, worked for the Public Works of Art Project and then for the WPA Federal Arts Project from 1938 to 1940. In an interesting departure from approved criteria, the Federal Arts Project accepted a couple surrealist paintings from among the seventeen he completed. One of his paintings not done under the WPA, Orpheus in Agony , was exhibited at the New York World's Fair. Marinko taught at the Waterbury Art School and in 1950-1951 served as an assistant director of the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York. According to one art dealer, Marinko's earliest surrealist paintings were among the best by an American that he had seen, but Marinko never considered himself an equal with other surrealist artists. He was not well known outside of Waterbury or New Haven, where he spent the last thirty years of his life in a two room apartment. Visitors noted that there was very little furniture in his apartment, and that it contained numerous easels paintings that no one had ever seen. It was not until his later years that art historians and the public began to appreciate Marinko's contributions to the development of American art through his surrealist paintings. He died in 1989.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
May. 16, 2022
George Marinko Abstract Floral Still Life Painting
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Connecticut, New York,1908-1989 Polychromatic depiction of vibrant flowers places in a glass vase against a mottled green background. Marinko had studied at the Waterbury Art School with Lewis York and at Yale University School of Fine Art with Eugene Savage. In 1963 Marinko participated in the Fantastic Art, Dada, and Surrealism show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, but later exchanged his surrealist style for stylized landscapes and abstraction.
Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers
Mar. 13, 2022
George Marinko (CT,NY,1908-1989) oil painting antique
Est: $1,300 - $1,600
ARTIST: George J Marinko (Connecticut, New York, 1908 - 1989) NAME: Still Life with Tea Set YEAR: circa 1933 MEDIUM: oil on board CONDITION: Minor craquelure. No visible inpaint under UV light. SIGHT SIZE: 10 x 12 inches / 25 x 30 cm FRAME SIZE: 15 x 17 inches / 38 x 43 cm SIGNATURE: lower right PROVENANCE: New Haven Paint and Clay Club, CT (has label on verso) CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 120027 US Shipping $49 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: George Marinko was one of the founders of the surrealist style in the United States. He was born in Derby, Connecticut in 1908. From 1925 to 1929, Marinko attended the Waterbury Art School, coming under the influence of Lewis York, a visiting art professor from Yale. Funded by wealthy persons in Waterbury, he was able to attend the Yale School of Fine Arts where York and Eugene Savage were teachers, and Marinko began experimenting with surrealism. However, his academic training ended that first year with the stock market collapse. He survived by taking odd jobs and painting traditional landscapes. He was an individualist and worked in the surrealist style before he knew what it was. From 1934-1942, he painted in the surrealist style and completed regionalist landscapes. In 1936 he was included in an exhibition of surrealist art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In the late 1930s he traveled to Europe and Mexico, and on his return, worked for the Public Works of Art Project and then for the WPA Federal Arts Project from 1938 to 1940. In an interesting departure from approved criteria, the Federal Arts Project accepted a couple surrealist paintings from among the seventeen he completed. One of his paintings not done under the WPA, Orpheus in Agony , was exhibited at the New York World's Fair. Marinko taught at the Waterbury Art School and in 1950-1951 served as an assistant director of the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York. According to one art dealer, Marinko's earliest surrealist paintings were among the best by an American that he had seen, but Marinko never considered himself an equal with other surrealist artists. He was not well known outside of Waterbury or New Haven, where he spent the last thirty years of his life in a two room apartment. Visitors noted that there was very little furniture in his apartment, and that it contained numerous easels paintings that no one had ever seen. It was not until his later years that art historians and the public began to appreciate Marinko's contributions to the development of American art through his surrealist paintings. He died in 1989.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Oct. 24, 2021
GEORGE J. MARINKO (Connecticut, 1908-1989)
Est: $500 - $700
New England Winter construction with steam shovel, sgn l.l. MARINKO, o/p, 19.25 by 29 in.; original frame, 26 by 37 in., In the early 1930s, Marinko was known as one of the most pure surrealists of all the American artists. In the 1940's his regionalist landscape style became Marinko's bread and butter. George Marinko did not return to surrealism after the World War II., From the home of a major, long-time collector of Americana in the Boston area.
CRN Auctions
Sep. 30, 2021
George Marinko Abstract Wood Sculpture
Est: $100 - $200
Connecticut, New York,1908-1989 Abstracted geometric form comprised of stacked and layered shapes. Marinko studied at the Waterbury Art School and settled into surrealism as his preferred style. Marinko was part of the Fantastic Art, Dada, and Surrealism exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, in the Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting at the Whitney Museum, and at the World?s Fair held in Flushing Meadow, New York.
Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers
Aug. 19, 2021
George Marinko Abstract Iron Sculpture
Est: $200 - $300
Connecticut, New York,1908-1989 Industrial sculpture comprised of blocks of solid iron welded together with pieces of bars. Marinko studied at the Waterbury Art School and settled into surrealism as his preferred style. Marinko was part of the Fantastic Art, Dada, and Surrealism exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, in the Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting at the Whitney Museum, and at the World’s Fair held in Flushing Meadow, New York.
Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers
Aug. 19, 2021
George Marinko Abstract Wood Sculpture
Est: $200 - $300
Connecticut, New York,1908-1989 Abstracted geometric form comprised of stacked and layered shapes. Marinko studied at the Waterbury Art School and settled into surrealism as his preferred style. Marinko was part of the Fantastic Art, Dada, and Surrealism exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, in the Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting at the Whitney Museum, and at the World’s Fair held in Flushing Meadow, New York.
Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers
Jun. 27, 2021
George Marinko - Clown
Est: $150 - $250
George Marinko. Clown. Circa 1960. Oil on masonite in it's original; frame. Signed LR. Panel H10" W8-1/2". OA H 15-1/2'"W 14". CONDITION: Excellent without damage. Please copy and paste the following link below for high-res images.
New England Auctions
Mar. 20, 2021
Three Piece Painting Group, to include George Marinko (1908 - 1989), village scene with building and figures, watercolor, signed low...
Est: $150 - $300
Three Piece Painting Group, to include George Marinko (1908 - 1989), village scene with building and figures, watercolor, signed lower right, 11" x 14 1/4"; Dennis Boileau carriage in Central Park, oil on board; along with a Japanese watercolor, Mt. Fuji, signed lower left 'Goto'.
Nadeau's Auction Gallery
May. 21, 2020
George Marinko (American, 1908 - 1989)
Est: $300 - $500
Painted wood sculpture. 23 x 5 in. Signed and stamped on the base.
Vallot Auctioneers
May. 16, 2020
George Marinko, (Connecticut / New York, 1908-1989), New England street view, oil on paper, 18"H x 15"W (plate). 22 3/4"H x 19 1/2"W...
Est: $500 - $700
George Marinko (Connecticut / New York, 1908-1989) New England street view oil on paper Signed lower left. Unframed. 18"H x 15"W (plate). 22 3/4"H x 19 1/2"W (paper)
Ripley Auctions
Mar. 19, 2020
George Marinko - Oil on Canvas-1965
Est: $150 - $250
George Marinko (1908-1989) Oil on Canvas. H 20-1/8", W 16". Signed LR and dated 1965 .
New England Auctions
Dec. 28, 2019
George Marinko (CT 1908-1989)
Est: $100 - $300
Untitled Portrait of Girl with yellow background. Signed MARINKO lower right. Gouache on masonite, good condition. Work measures 24" x 18" frame measures 28" x 22" Keywords: Art, Artist, Painting
Nest Egg Auctions
Dec. 12, 2019
George Marinko (American 1908 - 1989)
Est: $300 - $500
Painted wood sculptural construction. 23 x 5 in. Signed and stamped on the base. An elaborate construction.
Vallot Auctioneers
Sep. 14, 2019
George Marinko; American Oil -Southington Mountains Sgd
Est: $800 - $1,200
Oil on board. Southington Mountains. Signed l.l. Inscribed with title on reverse and having old label affixed to frame; 20in. X 29in.
Mid-Hudson Auction Galleries
Jun. 09, 2019
George Marinko (1908 - 1989) "Clown"
Est: $100 - $200
George Marinko (CT, New York, 1908 - 1989) "Clown" ink drawing. Signed lower right. Sight size: 5.25 x 3.5 in. Overall Size: 10 x 7.75 in.
Helmuth Stone
May. 02, 2019
GEORGE J. MARINKO, American (1908-1989), Still Life with Wedgewood and Mirror, oil on masonite, signed lower right "Marinko", 29 1/2...
Est: $2,500 - $3,500
GEORGE J. MARINKO American (1908-1989) Still Life with Wedgewood and Mirror oil on masonite, signed lower right "Marinko" 29 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches Provenance: Private Collection, Connecticut. Other Notes: Tags: Still-Life, 20th century, Modern / Contemporary, Oil Painting, Listed Artist
Shannon's
Mar. 17, 2019
George Marinko - Oil on Canvas circa 1940
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
A rare early WPA period work by George Marinko - Oil on Canvas. Canvas 30" x 28". Overall framed size 37-1/2" x 32-1/2". Circa 1940. George Marinko, native if New Haven, CT, Exhibited : Waterbury, CT, 1935 (prize), 1937 (prize); MoMA, 1936 ("Fantastic Art, Dada, and Surrealism" exhib.); Yale Univ. AG, 1936; New Haven PCC, 1937 (prize); WFNY, 1939; GGE, 1939 (bronze med.); Dallas MFA; PAFA Ann., 1941, 1944; Corcoran Gal. biennial, 1941; Carnegie Int.; WMAA; AIC; NAD; Grand Central AG, NYC; Ferargil Gal., NYC; Zimmerli AM, Rutgers Univ., 1977 ("Surrealism in Am. Art"); Mattatuck Mus., Waterbury, CT, 1978 (solo), 1988 ("Dreamscapes: Aspects of Surreality in Connecticut"); M. Diamond FA, NYC, 1980s; NYPL, 1986 ("Surrealist Books and Prints"); Wadsworth Atheneum, 1985; J.S. Ely House, New Haven, CT, 1989 (memorial exhib.)
New England Auctions
Mar. 03, 2019
George Marinko (1908 - 1989) "Clown"
Est: $100 - $200
George Marinko (CT, New York, 1908 - 1989) "Clown" ink drawing. Signed lower right. Sight size: 5.25 x 3.5 in. Overall Size: 10 x 7.75 in.
Helmuth Stone
Mar. 03, 2019
George Marinko (CT, NY, 1908 - 1989)
Est: $100 - $200
George Marinko (Connecticut, New York, 1908 - 1989) Abstract ink/paper drawing. Signed lower right. Marinko had studied at the Waterbury Art School with Lewis York from 1925 to 1929 and took additional training at the Yale University School of Fine Art with Eugene Savage. He began his career as a painter of traditional landscapes, but from 1934-42, painted in the Surrealist manner. Sight Size: 2.5 x 5 in. Overall Size: 4.5 x 7.25 in. Framed behind glass.
Helmuth Stone
Jan. 27, 2019
GEORGE MARINKO CUBIST CLOWNS PAINTING
Est: $500 - $800
MARINKO, George, (American, 1908-1989): Cubist Composition of Clowns, Oil/Canvas, 30" x 24", signed lower right, framed 38" x 34".
Burchard Galleries Inc
Oct. 28, 2018
George Marinko (Connecticut, NY 1908 - 1989)
Est: $200 - $400
George Marinko (Connecticut, New York 1908 - 1989) abstract mixed media composition. Signed lower right. Housed in original vintage frame. Image size: 4.5 x 5.5 in. Overall Size: 10.75 x 15.75 in. Framed behind glass. Marinko's paintings were included in the ground breaking 1936 Surrealist exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, but he choose to stay out of the limelight and lived quietly in Waterbury, Connecticut where he was known for his works in sculpting, lithography, and painting with subjects of landscapes, villages, boats, as well as abstraction. There he was a prominent local artist, teacher at the Waterbury Art School from 1945 to 1957, and later became director of the Hudson River Museum. He also painted the mural in City Hall's Aldermanic Chambers along with artist Francis Jmanie.
Helmuth Stone
Oct. 25, 2018
George Marinko, (American, 1908-1989), Fruit, watercolor and gouache on paper, 14" x 18"
Est: $300 - $500
George Marinko (American, 1908-1989) Fruit watercolor and gouache on paper signed and titled in pencil on verso 14" x 18"
Toomey & Co. Auctioneers
Oct. 25, 2018
George Marinko, (American, 1908-1989), Green Apples and Pears, watercolor and gouache on paper, 14 1/2" x 19"
Est: $300 - $500
George Marinko (American, 1908-1989) Green Apples and Pears watercolor and gouache on paper signed and titled in pencil on verso 14 1/2" x 19"
Toomey & Co. Auctioneers
Sep. 09, 2018
MARINKO, George. Oil on Canvas. Clown.
Est: $300 - $500
Signed lower right. George Marinko (American, 1908-1989). From a New York, NY collection.
Clarke Auction Gallery
Aug. 26, 2018
George Marinko (Connecticut, NY 1908 - 1989)
Est: $200 - $400
George Marinko (Connecticut, New York, 1908 - 1989) Abstract Mixed media composition. Signed lower right. Marinko's paintings were included in the ground breaking 1936 Surrealist exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, but he choose to stay out of the limelight and lived quietly in Waterbury, Connecticut where he was known for his works in sculpting, lithography, and painting with subjects of landscapes, villages, boats, as well as abstraction. There he was a prominent local artist, teacher at the Waterbury Art School from 1945 to 1957, and later became director of the Hudson River Museum. He also painted the mural in City Hall's Aldermanic Chambers along with artist Francis Jmanie. Sight Size: 9.75 x 14.5 in. Overall Size: 10.75 x 15.75 in. Framed behind glass.
Helmuth Stone
Aug. 26, 2018
George Marinko (Connecticut, NY 1908 - 1989)
Est: $200 - $400
George Marinko (Connecticut, New York 1908 - 1989) abstract mixed media composition. Signed lower right. Housed in original vintage frame. Image size: 4.5 x 5.5 in. Overall Size: 10.75 x 15.75 in. Framed behind glass. Marinko's paintings were included in the ground breaking 1936 Surrealist exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, but he choose to stay out of the limelight and lived quietly in Waterbury, Connecticut where he was known for his works in sculpting, lithography, and painting with subjects of landscapes, villages, boats, as well as abstraction. There he was a prominent local artist, teacher at the Waterbury Art School from 1945 to 1957, and later became director of the Hudson River Museum. He also painted the mural in City Hall's Aldermanic Chambers along with artist Francis Jmanie.
Helmuth Stone
Jan. 07, 2018
MARINKO, George. Two Works on Paper.
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Three trees - watercolor on paper, signed lower right, dedication verso preserved from original frame: "To my good friends Harriette + Martin Diamond / George Marinko sr"; sight - 14" high x 18.75" wide; good condition. "Menace of the Medacious Medousa" - charcoal on paper, signed lower right, further titled and signed with artist's label on cardboard backing; sight - 13" high x 13.5" wide; generally good condition with light crease lower right and some creasing to extreme upper right. George Marinko (American, 1908 - 1989). From the collection of Martin Diamond of Martin Diamond Fine Arts Inc, New York, NY.
Clarke Auction Gallery
Nov. 17, 2017
†George Marinko (1908-1989, American), "Three Girls," watercolor/gouache, signed lower right, presented in a gilt shadowbox frame, H...
Est: $150 - $250
George Marinko (1908-1989, American), "Three Girls," watercolor/gouache, signed lower right, presented in a gilt shadowbox frame, H.- 9 1/2 in., W.- 9 in.
Crescent City Auction Gallery