Surrealist Figurative 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
Tribute to Meissonier : The Hand - Original Handsigned Lithograph (Field 67-2D)
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador DALI
Tribute to Meissonier : The Hand
Original Lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /150 copies.
On Rives vellum 65 x 50 cm (c. 25.5 x 19.7 inch)
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20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Aurelia, The Colossus - Original Etching Hand Signed Numbered - Field 72-5
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador DALI
Aurelia, the colossus
Original etching, 1972
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /175 copies
On Arches vellum, size 76 x 56 cm (c. 30 x 22 in)
Very good condition
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Zootopia - Figurative Surrealist print, Colofrul, Animals, Vibrant
Located in Warsaw, PL
The work comes directly from the artist, is numbered out of limited edition of 20, signed and made on sealed paper.
Size of paper: ca 100 x 70 cm ( ca 39 x 20 inch)
Dimensions of im...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Color
A clown - XXI century, Figurative Surrealist print, Birds, Animals, Vertical
Located in Warsaw, PL
The work comes directly from the artist, is numbered out of limited edition of 20, signed and made on sealed paper.
Size of paper: ca 100 x 70 cm ( ca 39 x 20 inch)
Dimensions of imprinted part: ca 60 x 40 cm ( ca 23 x 15 inch)
RAFAŁ OLBIŃSKI...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Color
The Dream, Oneiric Figure - Original Handsigned Etching (Anselmino #75)
By Man Ray
Located in Paris, FR
Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitsky, aka)
Oneiric Figure, K, 1969
Handsigned original etching
Also printed signature in the plate
On vellum, 23 x 17 cm (c. 9 x 6,6 inch)
Numbered /50 copie...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Blue Twins - Original handsigned lithograph
Located in Paris, FR
Felix LABISSE
The Blue Twins, 1966
Original lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
On Rives vellum 37 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11 inch)
Excellent condition
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Unknown
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Lovely screen print.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
After Marc CHAGALL : Circus, Revolution - Lithograph exhibition poster - Mourlot
Located in Paris, FR
After Marc CHAGALL
Circus - Revolution, 1963
Lithograph after the painting, engraved by Charles Sorlier under the supervision of Marc Chagall
Print...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The goddess of Cythère - Original Woodcut, Handsigned, 1979
Located in Paris, FR
Salvator DALI
The goddess of Cythère, 1979
Original woodcut
Handsigned in pencil
Justified artist proof (Épreuve d'artiste)
On Japan paper 56 x 38 cm (...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Daughter of Minos - Original Woodcut, Handsigned, 1979
Located in Paris, FR
Salvator DALI
Daughter of Minos, 1979
Original woodcut
Handsigned in pencil
Justified artist proof (Épreuve d'artiste)
On Japan paper 56 x 38 cm (c. 22...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Figure I
Located in London, GB
Signed in pencil, an artist's proof aside from the numbered edition of 95.
Printed on Arches wove paper by Atelier Georges Visat, Paris.
Published by Editions L'Oeuvre Gravée, Bern...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Personnages III
Located in London, GB
Signed in pencil, numbered from the edition of 95.
Printed on Arches wove paper by Atelier Georges Visat, Paris.
Published by Editions L'Oeuvre Gravée, Bern.
Plate: 55 x 41.6 cm. ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Viens Voir
Located in London, GB
Signed in pencil, from the edition of 99.
Printed on Arches wove paper by Atelier Georges Visat, Paris.
Published by Editions L'Oeuvre Gravée, Bern in 1970.
Plate: 41.1 x 54.6 cm....
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Castronautes
Located in London, GB
Signed in pencil, from the edition of 100.
Printed on Arches wove paper by Atelier Georges Visat, Paris.
Published by Editions L'Oeuvre Gravée, Bern.
Plate: 23.5 x 31 cm.
(Sabati...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
FMR: Plate 7
Located in London, GB
Signed in pencil, from the edition of 85.
Printed on Arches wove paper and published by Georges Visat, Paris.
Plate: 23.8 x 17.7 cm.
(Sabatier 266).
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Landscape With Rooster - Original Lithograph Handsigned (Mourlot #208)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Paris, FR
Marc CHAGALL
Landscape with rooster (Paysage au coq)
Original lithograph, 1958
Handsigned in pencil
Published by Maeght, Paris
Annotated "Epreuve d'artiste" (= artist proof, aside t...
Category
1950s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Song of Songs : My Sweet Love - Original Lithograph, Handsigned and Numbered
Located in Paris, FR
Theo TOBIASSE
Song of Songs : My Sweet Love, 1975
Original Lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered / 200
On Arches vellum 76 x 55 cm (c. 30 x 22 in)
Excellent condition
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pilade Loves Hermione - Original Woodcut, Handsigned (Field #79-2 K)
Located in Paris, FR
Salvator DALI
Pilade Loves Hermione, 1979
Original woodcut
Handsigned in pencil
Justified artist proof (Épreuve d'artiste)
On Japan paper 56 x 38 cm (c...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Lovers (Adam and Eve) - Original lithograph, Handsigned & Numbered /50
By Marc Chagall
Located in Paris, FR
Marc CHAGALL
Lovers (Garden of Eden : Adam and Eve)
Original lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered / 50
On Japan paper 35 x 42 cm at view (c. 14 x 17 in)
Presented in a golden wo...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
King Ubu : Birds - Original lithograph, Handsigned & N° (Mourlot #416)
By Joan Miró
Located in Paris, FR
Joan MIRO (1893-1983)
King Ubu : Birds, 1966
Original lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered / 75 copies
On Arches vellum 54 x 74.5 cm (c. 21.3 x 29.3 inches)
REFERENCES : Catalo...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
René Magritte - Indiscrete Jewelry - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
René Magritte - Indiscrete Jewelry - Original Lithograph
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
XXe siècle
Reference: Kaplan, Gilbert E. and Timothy Baum, 'The Graphic ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
L'Oiseau De Ciel - 20th Century, Surrealist, Lithograph, Figurative Print
Located in Sint-Truiden, BE
Numbered: 138/275
Color lithograph after the 1966 oil on canvas by René Magritte, printed signature of Magritte and numbered from the edition of 275.
The lithograph features the dry...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
La Grande Guerre - 20th Century, Surrealist, Lithograph, Figurative Print
Located in Sint-Truiden, BE
Color lithograph after the 1954 oil on canvas by René Magritte, plate-signed by Magritte and numbered from the edition of 300.
The lithograph features the dry stamps of the Magritte...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Bouquet tout fait - 20th Century, Surrealist, Lithograph, Figurative Print
Located in Sint-Truiden, BE
Color lithograph after the 1964 oil on canvas by René Magritte, printed signature of Magritte and numbered from the edition of 275.
The lithograph features the dry stamps of the Mag...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Flordali : Helianthus Solifer (Sun) - Original Etching, Handsigned (Field 68-3E)
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador DALI
Flordali : Helianthus Solifer (Sun)
Original Lithograph (pochoir) and Etching
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered / 175
On Japan paper 77 x 56 cm (c. 31 x 22 inch)
REFEREN...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Lithograph
These Are My Legs
Located in Kansas City, MO
Artist : Jolynn Reigeluth
Title : These Are My Legs
Materials : Etching, collage and watercolor
Date : 2015
Dimensions : 18" x 13" in.
Jolynn Reigeluth is an artist and freelance Gr...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Printer's Ink, Watercolor, Color, Etching, Monoprint
The Charmers
Located in Kansas City, MO
Artist : Jolynn Reigeluth
Title : The Charmers
Materials : Etching, collage and watercolor
Date : 2017
Dimensions : 20" x 15" in.
Jolynn Reigeluth is an artist and freelance Graphic...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Printer's Ink, Watercolor, Color, Etching, Monoprint
Raunchy Business
Located in Kansas City, MO
Artist : Jolynn Reigeluth
Title : Raunchy Business
Materials : Etching, collage and watercolor
Date : 2018
Dimensions : 18" x 14" in.
Jolynn Reigeluth is an artist and freelance Gra...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Printer's Ink, Watercolor, Color, Etching, Monoprint
It's For the Birds
Located in Kansas City, MO
Artist : Jolynn Reigeluth
Title : It's for the Birds
Materials : Collagraph, collage and watercolor
Date : 2019
Dimensions : 13" x 18" in.
Jolynn Reigeluth is an artist and freelanc...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Printer's Ink, Watercolor, Color, Monoprint
Barcelona: XXV - Joan Miró, Print, Lithograph, Surrealism, Fauvism, Figurative
By Joan Miró
Located in London, GB
Lithograph.
From the 'Barcelona Series'.
Signed and dated in pencil, numbered from the edition of 5.
Printed in 1944 on Torras Juvinya paper.
Publ...
Category
1930s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Much Ado About Shakespeare : Merchant of Venice - Original Signed Etching
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador DALI
Much Ado About Shakespeare : Merchant of Venice, 1968
Original etching in color
Handsigned
Justified EA
On Japan paper 44.5 x 32 cm (...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Autumn - XX century, Mixed media print, Figurative, Nude, Muted Colors
Located in Warsaw, PL
JACEK SOWICKI (born in 1948)
He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and graduated from the Academy Of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1973. In 1984-89 he run the graphics atelier at...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Le Grand Style - 20th Century, Surrealist, Lithograph, Figurative Print
Located in Sint-Truiden, BE
Color lithograph after the 1951 oil on canvas by René Magritte, printed signature of Magritte and numbered from the edition of 300.
The lithograph features the dry stamps of the Mag...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Tribute to Wesselmann : Woman and Dog - Original handsigned lithograph
By Corneille
Located in Paris, FR
Corneille
Tribute to Wesselmann : Woman and Dog, 1975
Original lithograph
Handsigned
Numbered I / XVI
On vellum 70 x 50 cm (c. 28 x 20 inch)
Very goo...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sun and Moon Beauty Contest from Vienna Daydreams Portfolio by Helmut Kand
By Helmut Kand
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Helmut Kand
Title: Sun and Moon Beauty Contest from the Vienna Daydreams Portfolio
Edition: 150
Medium: Serigraph on Foil Paper, signed and numb...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Salvador Dali - Biblia Sacra - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Biblia Sacra was published in 1969 by Rizzoli of Rome
- SIGNATURE : printed in the image
- LIMITED : 1499
- SIZE : 19 x 13 3/4"
- RE...
Category
1950s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
L'Alchimie - Original etching - 1972 - 50 exem
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
L'Alchimie (1972)
Original Etching on vellum Arches
Handsigned in pencil
50 exemplars
Size : 30 x 22.2 inch (76 x 56 cm)
References : Catalog raisonné ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Général de Gaulle - Original etching and pochoir - 1974 - Artist proof
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Général de Gaulle (1974)
Original Etching and pochoir on vellum Arches
Handsigned in pencil
Artist proof
Size : 30 x 22.2 inch (...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Crazy Horse - Original handsigned lithograph - 250 exemples
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Crazy Horse
Original color lithograph
Signed in pencil
Numbered / 250
On Rives vellum
76 x 56 cm (c. 30 x 22 inches)
References :
- Catalogue raisonné...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
L'immortalité tétraédrique du cube - Original etching - 1973
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
L'immortalité tétraédrique du cube (1973)
Original Etching on Auvergne vellum
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /Z
Size : 15.3 x 22,4 inch (39 x 57 cm)
Ref...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Le système caga y menja - Original etching - 1973
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Le système caga y menja (1973)
Original Etching on Auvergne vellum
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /Z
Size : 15.3 x 22,4 inch (39 x 57 cm)
References : C...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Immortalité du Dalianus Galea - Original etching - 1973
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Immortalité du Dalianus Galea (1973)
Original Etching on Auvergne vellum
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /Z
Size : 22,8 x 15.3 inch (58 x 39 cm)
Referenc...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Spindles
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching
Marquis de Sade : A Miserable Flat - Original handsigned lithograph
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador DALI
Marquis de Sade : A Miserable Flat
Original lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /160 copies
On Arches vellum 65 x 50 cm (c. 26 x 20 in)
REFERENCES :
- Catalog r...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ten Recipes of Immortality : Zootrope and Boullée Tower - Signed etching
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador Dali
Zootrope and Boullée Tower, 1973
Original engraving
Signed in pencil and numbered
Edition limited to 50 copies
On Japane paper 77 x 57 cm (c. 31 x 23 in)
References:...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Birth Then?
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Rag Paper, Etching
Woman looking at the slaves - Original etching - 1969
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador DALI
Woman looking at the slaves, 1969
Original etching
With the blind stamp signature of the artist lower right
Rare proof in yellow
On Japan paper 38 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Le couple - etching (around 1960)
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Paris, FR
Jean COCTEAU
Le couple (around 1960)
Original etching
Signed in plate
On vellum Auvergne with Jean Cocteau watermark
76 x 56 cm (c. 30 x 22")
Very goo...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Figure rouge avec portrait ("Red"), original etching, Handsigned
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador DALI
Figure rouge avec portrait ("Red")
Original etching and color by pochoir
Handsigned in pencil
Limited to 300 copies
On vellum Arches 66 x 50 cm
Thi...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Nude with Garter
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original drypoint printed in colors on wove paper bearing the “ARCHES FRANCE” watermark, with hand-coloring added.
Hand-signed in pencil in the margin lower right Dalí.
A supe...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
La Vache Sacrée
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original drypoint printed in colors on wove paper bearing the “ARCHES FRANCE” watermark, with hand-coloring added.
Hand-signed in pencil in the margin lower right Dalí.
A su...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Le Soleil
Located in San Francisco, CA
1969-70
Original drypoint printed in colors on wove paper bearing the “ARCHES FRANCE” watermark, with hand-coloring added.
Hand-signed in pencil in the margin lower right Dali...
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20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Joy
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
L'Art de Vivre
Located in New York, NY
An iconic image by the master of Surrealism, Rene Magritte. L ‘Art de Vivre, created as an original etching and aquatint in colors in 1968, is stamp-signed and hand-numbered in penc...
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20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Femme Au Clown
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original drypoint printed in black ink on Japan paper, with hand-coloring added.
Hand-signed in pencil in the margin lower right Dalí.
A superb impression of the definitive...
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20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Journey
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching
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