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Surrealist Abstract Prints

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
Alistair Grant Wailing Women Signed 1968 Limited Edition Art Etching
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Alistair Grant Wailing Women - 1968 Print - etching, with Aquatint   16'' x 24'' inches Edition: signed and marked in pencil 36/50 image size = 8.75 x 13.5" Unframed in Excellent Con...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Hélion, Composition, XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Linocut on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, n°4, Christmas 1938. Published and printed under the direc...
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1930s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Linocut

Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Is It Lawful to Pay Taxes to Caesar Biblia Sacra Salvador Dali
Located in Paonia, CO
Is it Lawful to Pay Taxes To Caesar shows Caesar as an imposing seated figure taking up three quarters of the image against a white background with a mounted horseman over Caes...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

The Eld of The World
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Roberto Matta Title: The Eld of The World Medium: Color Etching and Carborundum on Handmade Paper Signed: Hand Signed Edition Number: 81/125 Measurements: 47.12" x 40" F...
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Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Figure and Stars I Personatge I Estels V - Spanish Surrealism Celestial Stars
Located in London, GB
This original etching and aquatint with collage is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Miró" at the lower right edge. It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 50, at t...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Queen of Hearts vintage French limited edition numbered porcelain ceramic plate
Located in New York, NY
Salvador Dali Queen of Hearts, 1967 Limited Edition Limoges Porcelain Plate. Signature Fired into Plate. Numbered with COA 9 3/4 inches diameter Edition 358/2000 Artist Signature and edition Fired into Plate on front. Certificate of Authenticity with edition number from the manufacturer. Produced by Puiforcat, France This dazzling limited edition 1967 Salvador Dali porcelain plate...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Porcelain, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Screen

The Lover’s Sled, from: Allegro Vivace - Spanish Surrealism Musical Inspiration
Located in London, GB
This original lithograph in colours is hand signed by the artist in pencil 'Miró' at the lower right margin. It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 100, at the lower ...
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1980s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Miro, Guggenheim Museum
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: After Joan Miro (1893-1983) Title: Untitled (Guggenheim Museum) Year: 1966 Medium: Offset lithograph exhibition poster on premium paper Size: 33.75 x 24 inches Condition: Exc...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Miro, Composition (Mourlot 244), XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, n°8, January 1957. Published and printed under the dire...
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Invasion de l'Espace - Lithograph by Man Ray - 1975
Located in Roma, IT
Invasion de l'espace is a vintage print by the American artist and exponent of Dadaism Man Ray (Philadelphia 1890 - Paris 1976). This color lithograph on paper, was edited by the Fr...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Miro, Composition (Mourlot 234; Cramer 39) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition, with centerfold, as issued; never framed or matted. Notes: From volume, Joan Miro by Jacque...
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Miro, Composition (Mourlot 235; Cramer 39) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From volume, Joan Miro by Jacques Prévert and Georges Ribemo...
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Miro, Composition (Mourlot 233; Cramer 39) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition, with centerfold, as issued; never framed or matted. Notes: From volume, Joan Miro by Jacque...
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Miro, Oeuvres Graphiques, 1965 Galerie Maeght
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: After Joan Miro (1893-1983) Title: Miro Oeuvres Graphiques Year: 1965 Medium: Lithograph exhibition poster on wove paper Size: 22.25 x 19.25 inches Condition: Excellent Notes...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Miro, Composition, The Prints of Joan Miro (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued; publisher’s imprint, verso, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Prin...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Miro, Composition (Mourlot 232; Cramer 39) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From volume, Joan Miro by Jacques Prévert and Georges Ribemo...
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Miro, Woman at the Mirror (Mourlot 242; Cramer 36) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Vellum Paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition with centerfold, as issued; never framed or matted. Notes: From volume, Derrière le miroir...
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Surrealist Carborundum Etching, Homage a Rodin
Located in Surfside, FL
This is from a portfolio Hommage A Rodin. It included a lithograph by Henry Moore, Ossip Zadkine, Berto Lardera, an etching by Robert Couturier and an etching...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Miro, Zephyr Bird (Mourlot 227; Cramer 34) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Vellum Paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition with centerfold, as issued; never framed or matted. Notes: From volume, Derrière le miroi...
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Miro, Prévert, Ribemont-Dessaignes, Composition (Mourlot 236; Cramer 39) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition, with centerfold, as issued; never framed or matted. Notes: From volume, Joan Miro by Jacque...
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Miro, Composition (Mourlot 223; Cramer 34) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Vellum Paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From volume, Derrière le miroir, No. 87-88-89. June-July-A...
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

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Find a wide variety of authentic Surrealist abstract prints available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 20th Century, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add abstract prints created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including (after) Joan Miró, Holger Bäckström, Joan Miró, and John Hultberg. Frequently made by artists working with Lithograph, and Mixed Media 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 abstract prints, so small editions measuring 2.5 inches across are also available. Prices for abstract prints 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 $88 and tops out at $1,450,000, while the average work sells for $947.

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