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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
Feminist Surrealist French Abstract Colorful Lithograph Print Myriam Bat Yosef
Located in Surfside, FL
Myriam Bat-Yosef Surrealist abstract lithograph print in colorful abstract shapes and shades Hand signed and dated 1971. sheet measures 9.25 X 9.25 inches The envelope and the Peter Buch poster is just for provenance and is not included in this sale. Myriam Bat-Yosef, whose real name is Marion Hellerman, born on January 31, 1931 in Berlin, Germany to a Jewish family from Lithuania, she is an Israeli-Icelandic artist who paints on papers, paintings, fabrics, objects and human beings for performances. Myriam Bat-Yosef currently lives and works in Paris. In 1933, her family fleeing the Nazi Holocaust, Miriam Bat-Yosef emigrates to Palestine and settles in Jaffa. In 1936, she suffers a family tragedy, her father, militant Zionist, is called to fight, still recovering from an operation of appendicitis. The incision will become infected, antibiotics did not exist yet, and her father will die in the hospital after 9 months of suffering. Myriam and her mother leave Palestine to live in Paris for three years. French is Myriam's first school language. In 1939, still fleeing Nazism, she returned to Palestine, leaving France by the last boat from Marseille. She moved to Tel Aviv with her mother, aunt and maternal grandmother. In 1940, she began attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Tel Aviv and took her name as an artist, Bat-Yosef, which means Joseph's daughter in Hebrew, as a tribute to her father. In 1946, Myriam graduated as a kindergarten teacher but wanted to be an artist. Her mother enrolled her in an evening school to prepare a diploma of art teacher. At 19, she performs two years of military service in Israel. In 1952, with a pension of $50 a month that her mother allocated, she went to study at the Beaux-Arts in Paris. To survive, she has several activities while studying. In 1955, she had her first solo exhibition, at the Israeli Club on Wagram Avenue in Paris. Many artists, such as Yaacov Agam, Yehuda Neiman Avigdor Arikha, Raffi Kaiser, Dani Karavan and sculptors Achiam and Shlomo Selinger attended the opening . In 1956, she enrolled at the School of Fine Arts in Florence. This is where she meets the painter Errô. They share an icy studio in winter. Myriam moves to Milan with friends. She organizes a joint exhibition with Erro, one room each, at the Montenapoleone gallery. Her works are admired by the sculptor Marino Marini and the painters Renato Birolli and Enrico Prampolini. Myriam and Erro exhibit in Rome, Milan, Florence and meet many personalities: Alain Jouffroy and his wife, the painter Manina, Roberto Matta and his wife Malitte, textile artist who was one of the founders of the Pompidou Center. Back in Paris, Myriam and Erro get married, which allows Myriam to avoid being called into the Israeli army during the Suez Canal War. In 1957, Myriam and her husband went to Iceland. Myriam works in a chocolate factory. Having enough money, she starts producing art again. She exhibited in Reykjavik's first art gallery. She meets the artist Sigridur Bjornsdottir, married to the Swiss painter Dieter Roth . In 1958, Myriam and her husband leave for Israel. They exhibit in Germany, then in Israel. Back in Paris, the couple became friends with artists of the surrealist movement, such as Victor Brauner, Hans Bellmer, the sculptor Philippe Hiquily, Liliane Lijn, future wife of Takis and photographer Nathalie Waag. Erro and Myriam have a daughter on March 15, 1960, named Tura, after the painter Cosmè Tura, but also close to the Icelandic Thora or the Hebrew Torah. Bat-Yosef’s complex trajectory throughout the 20th century is linked as much to the transnational history of what was for a time called the School of Paris as it is to a certain legacy of Surrealism. Her work features the same idea of resolving antinomies that also defined the spirit of surrealism, and is enhanced with her readings of the Kabbalah and her spiritual grounding in Taoism. However, while there are reasons for her approach to be associated with the process of the ready-made, it is important to consider the immediate intrication of these works with her practice of performance, during which the body itself is also painted – a feminist response to Yves Klein’s Anthropometries (1960) and an echo of the happenings which Jean-Jacques Lebel organised at the time in Paris. In 1963, Erró told Myriam that if she wants to be a painter, she can not be his wife. Myriam chose to be a painter and the couple divorced in 1964. Since that time, Myriam Bat-Yosef has exhibited in many countries: Europe, United States, Japan, etc. Although long in the shadows, the work of Myriam Bat-Yosef has been greeted by many artists and personalities: Anaïs Nin, Nancy Huston, André Pieyre of Mandiargues, José Pierre, René de Solier , Jacques Lacarrière, Alain Bosquet, Pierre Restany, Sarane Alexandrian and Surrealist André Breton who, after a visit to her studio, confided to having been intrigued by its phantasmagorical dimension. She was included in the book Pop Art and Beyond: Gender, Race, and Class in the Global Sixties by Mona Hadler and Kalliopi Minioudaki. Extract "World Citizen, Artist of the Pop Era Sarah Wilson; Why do we know so little of Myriam Bat-Yosef, the most important female Israeli artist of the Pop era? Issues of identity and sexuality feature constantly in her work. She exhibited internationally from Reykjavik to Tokyo; she had two shows at Arturo Schwarz’s famous Dada/surrealist gallery in Milan; she participated in feminist art events in Los Angeles. Above all, in 1971, she conceived Total Art, a Pop Gesamtkunstwerk inside and outside the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Painter, performer, and installation artist, she was also a lover, wife, and mother. Of Lithuanian-Jewish descent, she was close to the family of philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. An émigré in Paris she would repudiate a national passport, participating in Garry Davis’s short-lived “World Citizens” movement. She continues the lineage of women surrealist artists: Valentine Hugo, Leonor Fini, Dorothea Tanning, Leonora Carrington, Unica Zürn, Jane Graverol, Toyen, Alice Rahon...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

“Perro Herido (Wounded Dog)” from 90th Anniversary Suite Lithograph Ed. 22/110
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract surrealist lithograph of a dog wounded by an arrow. This work is from his 90th anniversary suite, the last prints Tamayo completed, before passing on. Signed and editioned a...
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1980s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Vintage Poster Modern Art Museum - 1977
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Poster Modern Art Museum is a vintage Lithograph and Offset poster realized after Joan Mirò (1893-1983) in 1977. Good conditions. Joan Miró (20 April 1893 – 25 December 198...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Offset, Lithograph

Feminist Surrealist French Abstract Colorful Lithograph Print Myriam Bat Yosef
Located in Surfside, FL
Myriam Bat-Yosef Surrealist abstract lithograph print in colorful abstract shapes and shades Hand signed and dated 1971. sheet measures 9.25 X 9.25 inches ...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

A Woman Clothed with the Sun, 1967 by Salvador Dali from Biblia Sacra
Located in Paonia, CO
A Woman Clothed with the Sun, 1967 is a colored lithograph from the original gouache on heavy rag paper from Salvador Dali’s five volume Biblia Sacra Suite published in Rome b...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

La Une a L'h Pile (Head to Head), Surrealist Aquatint Etching by Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
An early large-scale work by Chilean artist Roberto Matta. In this black-and-white surrealist piece, various figures can be seen in various acts. Signed and numbered in pencil. This edition is not from the Arabic numbered edition of 40. La Une a L’h Pile (Head to...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Feminist Surrealist French Abstract Colorful Lithograph Print Myriam Bat Yosef
Located in Surfside, FL
Myriam Bat-Yosef Surrealist abstract lithograph print in colorful abstract shapes and shades Hand signed and dated 1971. sheet measures 9.25 X 9.25 inches ...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Le Delire du Couturier, Bleu, Rouge, Vert
Located in Wien, 9
signed on lower right, numbered 2/30 lower left
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Color, Lithograph

Vintage Poster - Exhibition at Galerie Maeght - 1978
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Poster Exhibition Galerie Maeght is a vintage Lithograph and Offset poster realized after Joan Mirò (1893-1983) in 1978. Good conditions. Joan Miró i Ferrà (20 April 1893 –...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Offset, Lithograph

Vintage Poster Modern Art Museum - 1978
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Poster Exhibition Galerie Maeght is a vintage Lithograph and Offset poster realized after Joan Mirò (1893-1983) in 1978. Good conditions. Joan Miró i Ferrà (20 April 1893 –...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Offset, Lithograph

'Salient in February' — Mid 20th-Century Surrealism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon 'Salient in February', color serigraph, 1945, edition 40, Ryan 166. Signed in pencil. Titled, dated, and annotated 'ED. 40' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh col...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Screen

8 Counts for Rita
Located in Kansas City, MO
David Morris 8 Counts for Rita Digital Painting on Archival Paper Year: 2023 Size: 24x24in Edition: 15 Signed, numbered and dated by hand on label to be attached verso COA provided R...
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Pujol Baladas 60 Dali Sensations engraving Surrealist limited edition
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Sensations engraving surrealist limited edition painting Paper handmade of 600 grs. Edition of 100 copies Numbered in pencil and signed Born in Vic, Cataluña, in 1947, he resides in Mexico since 1998. Heir of the Spanish school by tradition and through his personal relation with the three Spanish giants of the 20th Century: Picasso, Dalí and Miró. He has over 50 individual exhibitions presented in Mexico, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Spain, Sweden, France, and the U.S.A., such as “The color of the music of Rodolfo Halffter”, Pecanins Gallery (Mexico City, 2005); “Opus in color”, Museum of Anthropology (Jalapa, Ver., Mexico, 2004); Museum of Art of Queretaro (Queretaro, Mexico, 2001); Spanish Institute of Culture in El Salvador (San Salvador, El Salvador, 2000); “From flesh to passion”, Siqueiros Cultural Polyforum (Mexico City, 1999). He arrived in Mexico in 1997 with an invitation to present the exhibition “Germ of Illusions”, Pemex (Mexico City). Before his experience in Mexico, he realized the Olympic Suite “Homage to the Olympic Subvenues Barcelona 92...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Paper, Engraving

Something
Located in Kansas City, MO
David Morris Something Digital Painting on Archival Paper Year: 2023 Size: 24x24in Edition: 15 Signed, numbered and dated by hand on label to be attached verso COA provided Ref.: 924...
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Portrait of Autumn
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Glorious, elaborate, and eccentric - these are just a few of the words to describe Salvador Dali (1904-1989). He is Surrealism's most accomplished and iconic practitioner. Prolifi...
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1980s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Jeremiah's Prophecy Against the King Joachim, 1967 by Salvador Dali
Located in Paonia, CO
  Jeremiah's Prophecy Against the King Joachim, 1967 is a colored lithograph from the original gouache on heavy rag paper from Salvador Dali’s five volume Biblia Sacra Suite ...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Ernst Fuchs Jesus Crucifixion Aquatint Vienna Fantastic Realism Austria 1972
Located in Meinisberg, CH
Ernst Fuchs (Austrian, 1930 - 2015) Jesus speaking from the cross A rare Artist proof sheet from the Folio “Jean Paul. Die Rede des toten Christus vom Weltgebaude herab, dass kein Gott sei”, published in 1972 by Propyläen, Berlin, Germany. • Aquatint etching on French Arches paper (watermarked) • Sheet ca. 57 x 38 cm • Plate, ca. 24.7 x 19.7 cm • Signed bottom right • Inscribed in pencil bottom left: IV/XX E. A. (Print No. 4 out a run of twenty, Épreuve d'artiste (Artist’s proof) Worldwide shipping for this object is complimentary - There are no additional charges for handling & delivery. Ernst Fuchs was an Austrian painter...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Ink, Archival Paper, Aquatint

Revolving Doors: Dragonfly X
Located in London, GB
Pochoir printed in colours on Arches paper after a collage from 1916-17, published in 1973. One of five exemplaire’s d’artiste aside from an edition of 100. Signed by the artist with...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Stencil

Westchester Lady
Located in Kansas City, MO
David Morris Westchester Lady Digital Painting on Archival Paper Year: 2023 Size: 24x24in Edition: 15 Signed, numbered and dated by hand on label to be attached verso COA provided Re...
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Soulful Strut
Located in Kansas City, MO
David Morris Soulful Strut Digital Painting on Archival Paper Year: 2023 Size: 24x24in Edition: 15 Signed, numbered and dated by hand on label to be attached verso COA provided Ref.:...
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Yardbird
Located in Kansas City, MO
David Morris Yardbird Digital Painting on Archival Paper Year: 2023 Size: 24x24in Edition: 15 Signed, numbered and dated by hand on label to be attached verso COA provided Ref.: 9248...
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Woman - Offset and Lithograph - 1983
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an offset and lithograph print realized on Fabriano Paper after a drawing by Willem De Kooning of 1983. The print suite was realized in a limited edition of 2500, and curat...
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1980s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Crying Eye
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Alistair Grant Crying Eye - 1968 Print - etching, with Aquatint   16'' x 24'' inches Edition: signed and numbered in pencil 45/50 Alistair Grant was a great and justly-revered exp...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Les Transeport Signed Limited Edition Aquatint Etching
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
ROBERTO MATTA (1911-2002) 1977 17.5 x 22.5 in Les Transeport, Editions Sonet, Stockholm printed at Atelier Georges Visat, Paris Etchings with aquatint in colors, Signed in pencil a...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Vintage Poster Exhibition Galerie Maeght-Lithograph/Offset after J. Mirò-1978
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Poster Exhibition Galerie Maeght is a vintage Lithograph and Offset poster realized after Joan Mirò (1893-1983) in 1978. Good conditions. Joan Miró i Ferrà (20 April 1893 –...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

El Ultimo viaje del buque fantasma, Plate I
Located in Fairlawn, OH
El Ultimo viaje del buque fantasma, Plate I Color lithograph, 1976 Signed and numbered in pencil (see photos) Edition: 99 (6/99) From: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, El Ultimo viaie del buque Fantasma (The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship (1868), 12 illustration by Wilfredo Lam This one of an edition of 99 from the delixe edition of the book of the same title There was an additional edition of 200 books, signed and numbered on the justification page Publisher: Poligrafa, Barcelona Printer: Poligrafa, Barcelona The Gabriel Garcia Marquez/Lam book is an illustrated version of the short story, a man recalls the night during his boyhood when an enormous passenger ship went aground in his small town on the shores of the Caribbean. It is considered a Latin American masterpiece of surrealism and transculturation. (See below analysis of the story) Reference: Lam-Tonneau-Ryckelnck CR 351 Condition: very good, slight scuffing on reverse from previous hinges About the author and the storyline of the book by Marquez: Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927, he is a famous Colombian writer, novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and journalist. In 1982 he received the Novel Prize for Literature. He is an author sometimes inherently related to magical realism and his best-known work is the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude in which we find this literary genre. Summary of "The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship" (1868): The novel by Gabriel García Márquez, The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship, written in 1968, is written in a single great sentence, which tells the surprising and amazing adventure that has changed the existence of a child living in a coastal town with a small port sunny, almost forgotten by civilization. The days are peaceful, the nights are silent and illuminated only by the rotating beacon that, every fifteen seconds, transforms the town into a lunar camp with phosphorescent houses. During one night in March, the boy saw an immense afterlife ship that sails through the seas with all the dead crew and sometimes appears to the living, silently crossing the deserted sea, a huge and unexpected mass whose trajectory suddenly it seems to drift, and then runs aground on the reefs. This cataclysm is accomplished without disturbing the night's silence, and the next day the boy found no traces of the shipwreck and no one believed it, not even his mother. Time passes, and the same shipwreck occurs again, every year, on the same night in March; the adolescent...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Triptych
Located in New York, NY
Very good, well-inked impressions of these three color aquatints with etching on one sheet of Guarro paper. Signed and numbered 58/99 in pencil by Bacon. Printed and published by Pol...
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1980s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Color, Etching, Aquatint

Vintage Poster Exhibition Galerie Maeght-Lithograph/Offset after J. Mirò-1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Poster Exhibition Galerie Maeght is a vintage Lithograph and Offset poster realized after Joan Mirò (1893-1983) in the 1970s. Good conditions. Joan Miró i Ferrà (20 April 1...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

'European Landscape' —Mid-century American Surrealism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lawrence Kupferman, 'European Landscape', drypoint, edition 50, 1942. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '7/50' in pencil. A superb, finely nuanced impression, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 to 1 3/4 inches); in excellent condition. Image size 10 7/8 x 13 3/8 inches; sheet size 13 1/8 x 16 1/2 inches. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed. An impression of this work is included in the permanent collection of the Syracuse University Art Museum. ABOUT THE ARTIST Lawrence Kupferman (1909 - 1982) was born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston and grew up in a working-class family. He attended the Boston Latin School and participated in the high school art program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In the late 1920s, he studied drawing under Philip Leslie Hale at the Museum School—an experience he called 'stultifying and repressive'. In 1932 he transferred to the Massachusetts College of Art, where he first met his wife, the artist Ruth Cobb. He returned briefly to the Museum School in 1946 to study with the influential expressionist German-American painter Karl Zerbe. Kupferman held various jobs while pursuing his artistic career, including two years as a security guard at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. During the 1930s he worked as a drypoint etcher for the Federal Art Project, creating architectural drawings in a formally realistic style—these works are held in the collections of the Fogg Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In the 1940s he began incorporating more expressionistic forms into his paintings as he became progressively more concerned with abstraction. In 1946 he began spending summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he met and was influenced by Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock, and other abstract painters. At about the same time he began exhibiting his work at the Boris Mirski Gallery in Boston. In 1948, Kupferman was at the center of a controversy involving hundreds of Boston-area artists. In February of that year, the Boston Institute of Modern Art issued a manifesto titled 'Modern Art and the American Public' decrying 'the excesses of modern art,' and announced that it was changing its name to the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). The poorly conceived statement, intended to distinguish Boston's art scene from that of New York, was widely perceived as an attack on modernism. In protest, Boston artists such as Karl Zerbe, Jack Levine, and David Aronson formed the 'Modern Artists Group' and organized a mass meeting. On March 21, 300 artists, students, and other supporters met at the Old South Meeting House and demanded that the ICA retract its statement. Kupferman chaired the meeting and read this statement to the press: “The recent manifesto of the Institute is a fatuous declaration which misinforms and misleads the public concerning the integrity and intention of the modern artist. By arrogating to itself the privilege of telling the artists what art should be, the Institute runs counter to the original purposes of this organization whose function was to encourage and to assimilate contemporary innovation.” The other speakers were Karl Knaths...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Drypoint

Vintage Poster Exhibition Galerie Maeght after Joan Mirò - 1978
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is a vintage Lithograph and Offset poster realized after Joan Mirò (1893-1983) in 1978. Good conditions. Joan Miró i Ferrà (20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) w...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Untitled
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 100 prints. Slightly discolored with foxing on sheet. Catalogo: Brusberg N.158 .P Image Dimensions : 34 x 20 cm
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Mirò Lithographe I - Plate VIII - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Original Lithograph. Not signed. Plate VIII from the suite of 11 lithographs realized for the catalogue "Mirò Lithographe I" edited by Graphis Arte, Livorno and Toninelli Arte Modern...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Geometrical Clouds
Located in Henderson, NV
Limited Edition of 10 sets. Laser cut steel with powder coat. “Geometrical Clouds” is reimagined as a major theme in my life’s work, with the earliest pieces of that name dating back...
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Metal

Ernst Fuchs Sphinx in Pharao Surreal Color Etching Vienna Fantastic Realism 1967
Located in Meinisberg, CH
Ernst Fuchs (Austrian, 1930 - 2015) Sphinx in Pharao Sheet Nr. 6 from the Folio “Die Sieben Bilder und Sprüche der Sphinx”, published in Autumn of 1967 by Galerie Sydow in Frankfurt, Germany. • Aquatint Etching • Ed. 79/99 • Sheet ca. 59 x 41.5 cm • Plate signed • Signed & numbered by the artist in pencil Worldwide shipping for this object is complimentary - There are no additional charges for handling & delivery. Ernst Fuchs was an Austrian painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, architect, stage designer, composer, poet, and one of the founders of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. I discovered him through H.R. Giger ‘s work, who himself was greatly inspired by the creations of Fuchs and on several occasions exhibited his friend ‘s art in his museum, the Château St-Germain, Gruyères, Switzerland. I actually own the original folio box...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Paper, Ink, Aquatint, Etching

El Ultimo viaje del buque fantasma, Plate IV
Located in Fairlawn, OH
El Ultimo viaje del buque fantasma, Plate IV Color lithograph, 1976 Signed and numbered in pencil (see photos) From: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, El Ultimo viaie del buque Fantasma (The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship (1868), 12 illustration by Wilfredo Lam Edition: 99 (6/99) This one of an edition of 99 from the deluxe edition of the book of the same title There was an additional edition of 200 books, signed and numbered on the justification page Publisher: Poligrafa, Barcelona Printer: Poligrafa, Barcelona The Gabriel Garcia Marquez/Lam book is an illustrated version of the short story, a man recalls the night during his boyhood when an enormous passenger ship went aground in his small town on the shores of the Caribbean. It is considered a Latin American masterpiece of surrealism and transculturation. (See below analysis of the story) Condition: slight yellows (aging) of paper small paper scuffs verso from previous hinges Sheet size: 22 x 29 7/8 inches About the author and the storyline of the book by Marquez: Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927, he is a famous Colombian writer, novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and journalist. In 1982 he received the Novel Prize for Literature. He is an author sometimes inherently related to magical realism and his best-known work is the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude in which we find this literary genre. Summary of "The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship" (1868): The novel by Gabriel García Márquez, The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship, written in 1968, is written in a single great sentence, which tells the surprising and amazing adventure that has changed the existence of a child living in a coastal town with a small port sunny, almost forgotten by civilization. The days are peaceful, the nights are silent and illuminated only by the rotating beacon that, every fifteen seconds, transforms the town into a lunar camp with phosphorescent houses. During one night in March, the boy saw an immense afterlife ship that sails through the seas with all the dead crew and sometimes appears to the living, silently crossing the deserted sea, a huge and unexpected mass whose trajectory suddenly it seems to drift, and then runs aground on the reefs. This cataclysm is accomplished without disturbing the night's silence, and the next day the boy found no traces of the shipwreck and no one believed it, not even his mother. Time passes, and the same shipwreck occurs again, every year, on the same night in March; the adolescent...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Pour Ida Chagall et Franz Meyer - Lithograph by Joan Mirò - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Pour Ida Chagall et Franz Meyer is a rare colored Lithograph realized in the 1970s by Joan Mirò (1893-1983). Signed in the plate on the lower right and inscribed pour Ida Chagall et...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Miró Lithographe I - Plate X - Lithograph by Joan Mirò - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
"Miró Lithographe I - Plate X" is a vintage lithograph realized by Joan Miró in 1972. Perfect conditions. It comes from the set of 11 lithographs realized for the catalogue "Miró...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Miró Lithographe I - Plate VII - Lithograph by Joan Mirò - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Miró Lithographe I - Plate VII is a vintage lithograph realized by Joan Miró in 1972. Perfect conditions. It comes from the set of 11 lithographs ...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Maravillas con Variaciones Acrosticas- Lithograph by Joan Mirò - 1975
Located in Roma, IT
Maravillas con Variaciones Acrosticas is an Original Mixed colored lithograph on Guarro Paper, realized in 1975 by Joan Mirò (1893-1983) Good conditions. Joan Miró (20 April 1893 ...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Abstract Composition - Lithograph by J. Mirò - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition - Mirò Lithographe is a beautiful color lithograph on paper, realized in 1974 by Joan Miró for the second volume of his " Mirò Lithographe III ", composed by an ...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Mira Lithographe VII - by Joan Mirò - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Mirò Lithographe VII is a color lithograph on paper, realized by Joan Miró for the second volume of his catalog " Mirò Lithographe III " in 1974. A beautiful plate from a series c...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Construction - Handsigned Original Lithograph
Located in Paris, FR
Alain LE YAOUANC Construction Original lithograph Handsigned in pencil On Japan paper, 40,5 x 31,5 cm (c. 15,9 x 12,4 inch) Excellent condition
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Rrose Sélavy (Marcel Duchamp) in Wilson-Lincoln System (Schwarz, 344)
Located in New York, NY
Marcel Duchamp Rrose Sélavy (Marcel Duchamp) in Wilson-Lincoln System (Schwarz, 344), 1967 Lenticular print on thin white board. Hand signed by Marcel Duc...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Board, Lenticular, Plastic, Mixed Media, Pencil

Abstract Composition - Lithograph by J. Mirò - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition - Mirò Lithographe is a beautiful color lithograph on paper, realized in 1974 by Joan Miró for the second volume of his " Mirò Lithographe III ", composed by an ...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Miró Lithographe I - Plate X - Lithograph by J. Mirò - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
"Miró Lithographe I - Plate X" is a vintage lithograph realized by Joan Miró in 1972. Perfect conditions. It comes from the set of 11 lithographs realized for the catalogue "Miró...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

'Cheerleader' — Mid-century American Surrealism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Vale Faro, 'Cheerleader', wood engraving, 1945, edition 15. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '104' (the artist's inventory number) and '8/15' in pencil. A fine, black impression, with full margins (1 1/2 inches), on heavy, cream wove paper, in excellent condition. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed. ABOUT THE ARTIST Robert Vale Faro (1902-1988) was a well-known modernist architect and artist associated with the Chicago Bauhaus...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Mirò Lithographe I - Plate IX - Lithograph - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Miró Lithographe I - Plate IX is an original artwork realized by Joan Miró in 1972. Lithograph on paper; the hallmark of Graphis Arte, Livorno is on the back. Perfect conditions. This beautiful abstract print comes from the set of...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Prophets - Lithograph by Dorothea Tanning - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Prophets is a lithograph on Arches paper realized by Dorothea Tanning in 1972. Belongs to the suite "Judith". Limited edition of 500. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good cond...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Abstract Composition - Lithograph by J. Mirò - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is a Lithograph realized by Joan Mirò (1893-1983) within the suite "Mirò Lithographe". The artwork is from gallery "Toninelli Arte Moderna" in Milan. No signat...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Les Mademoiselles - Lithograph by R.S. Matta - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Les Mademoiselles, is an Artwork realized by Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren (Santiago, Chile, 1911 - Civitavecchia, Italy, 2002) Colored Litograph on paper. Hand Signed on the lower right margin. Edition of 283/300. Good conditions. After studying architecture, in 1934 Roberto Sebastian Matta moved to Paris, where he worked with Le Corbusier and came into contact with intellectuals such as Rafael Alberti and Federico García Lorca. Here, he also met André Breton and Salvador Dalí , and adhered to the Surrealist movement, elaborating a painting style focused on psychological morphologies. In 1944, Breton wrote: " Matta is the one who most faithfully keeps his star, which is perhaps on the best path to reach the supreme secret: the control of fire". An extremely dynamic Chilean artist, who met Alvar Aalto in Scandinavia, Henry Moore , Roland Penrose...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Composition VIII - Lithograph by Joan Mirò - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Composition VIII is a wonderful color lithograph on paper, realized in 1974 by the Spanish master Joan Miro for the second volume of his catalog "Mirò Lithographe". This plate is fro...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Composition VI - Lithograph by Joan Mirò - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Composition VI is a beautiful color lithograph on paper, realized in 1974 by Joan Miro for the second volume of his catalog ”Mirò Lithographe III. This...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Composition XI - Lithograph by Joan Mirò - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Original Lithograph XI is an amazing color lithograph on paper, realized in 1974 by Joan Miro for the second volume of his catalog "Mirò Lithographe" This artwork is the last origin...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Personnages - Lithograph by R.S. Matta - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Personnages is an Artwork realized by Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren (Santiago, Chile, 1911 - Civitavecchia, Italy, 2002). Colored Litograph on paper. Hand Signed on the lower right margin. Good conditions. After studying architecture, in 1934 Roberto Sebastian Matta moved to Paris, where he worked with Le Corbusier and came into contact with intellectuals such as Rafael Alberti and Federico García Lorca. Here, he also met André Breton and Salvador Dalí , and adhered to the Surrealist movement, elaborating a painting style focused on psychological morphologies. In 1944, Breton wrote: " Matta is the one who most faithfully keeps his star, which is perhaps on the best path to reach the supreme secret: the control of fire". An extremely dynamic Chilean artist, who met Alvar Aalto in Scandinavia, Henry Moore , Roland Penrose...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Le Enfe - Lithograph by R.S. Matta - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Le enfe, is anArtwork realized by Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren (Santiago, Chile, 1911 - Civitavecchia, Italy, 2002) in 1970. Colored Litograph on paper. Hand Signed on the lower central margin. Edition 6/100. Good conditions. After studying architecture, in 1934 Roberto Sebastian Matta moved to Paris, where he worked with Le Corbusier and came into contact with intellectuals such as Rafael Alberti and Federico García Lorca. Here, he also met André Breton and Salvador Dalí , and adhered to the Surrealist movement, elaborating a painting style focused on psychological morphologies. In 1944, Breton wrote: " Matta is the one who most faithfully keeps his star, which is perhaps on the best path to reach the supreme secret: the control of fire". An extremely dynamic Chilean artist, who met Alvar Aalto in Scandinavia, Henry Moore , Roland Penrose...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Boy with Red Sun - Original linocut - 1938
Located in Paris, FR
Joan MIRO Boy with Red Sun Original linocut Printed signature in the plate Published in 1938 by San Lazzaro for XXe Siecle On wove paper 32 x 25 cm (c. 13 x 10 in) References : Dut...
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1930s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Linocut

Miró Lithographe I - Plate X - Lithograph by J. Mirò - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
"Miró Lithographe I - Plate X" is an original lithograph realized by Joan Miró in 1972. Perfect conditions. It comes from the set of 11 lithographs realized for the catalogue "Miró ...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Untitled - Lithograph by Marcello Avenali - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is a contemporary artwork realized by Marcello Avenali in the mid-20th Century. Mixed colored lithograph on paper. Includes frame: 38 x 3 x 43 cm Hand signed and numbered...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Surrealist abstract prints for sale on 1stDibs.

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