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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
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

Composition X - Lithograph by Joan Mirò - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Original lithograph X is a superb color lithograph on paper, realized in 1974 by Joan Miro for the second volume of his catalog " Mirò Lithograph". This plate is from a series compos...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Salvador Dali - The Atomic Era - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Atomic Era - Original Lithograph Joseph FORET, Paris, 1957 PRINTER : Atelier Mourlot. SIGNATURE : printed in the image LIMITED : 19...
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Composition - Lithograph by Jean-Pierre Jouffroy - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an Original Lithograph realized by Jean-Pierre Jouffroy in 1963. Good condition on a yellowed paper. Signed, titled and dated by the a...
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1930s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Aphrodite
Located in New York, NY
A very good, richly-inked impression of this Drypoint and aquatint printed in gray and black on cream wove paper. Signed, dated and numbered 20/150 by Dali. Printed by Robbe, Paris. ...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Drypoint

Le Lézard aux Plumes d'Or - Lithograph by Joan Miró - 1971
Located in Roma, IT
"Le Lézard aux Plumes d'Or" is an original lithograph realized by Joan Miró in 1971, and part of the famous homonym series. Hand signed and numbered, it is an H.C. (out of commerce)...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Lithographie Originale V
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joan Miró Lithographie Originale V Color Lithograph Year: 1977 Size: 12.5 × 9.6 inches Catalogue Raisonné: Teixidor, Miro Lithographe III, 1964-1969 Publisher: Maeght Editeur, Paris, France Verso: Typographically annotated: 'Joan Miro - Lithographie originale V' Unsigned, Unknown Edition Size COA provided --------------------------------------- Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma de Mallorca in 1981 Surrealism, Fauvism, Cubism, Abstract expressionism, Naive art, Expressionism, Suprematism Pablo Picasso, André Breton, Hans Arp, André Masson, Hieronymus Bosch, Tristan Tzara, Modest Urgell
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Miró Lithographe II - Plate VIII - Lithograph by J. Mirò - 1975
Located in Roma, IT
"Miró Lithographe II - Plate VIII" is an original lithograph realized by Joan Miró in 1975. Perfect conditions. It comes from the set of 11 lithographs realized for the catalogue "M...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Jean - Lithograph by Dorothea Tanning - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Jean 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 conditio...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Italian Surrealist Pop Art Serigraph Enrico Baj Pop Art Silkscreen Foil Print
Located in Surfside, FL
Enrico Baj (1924-2003) Italian, limited edition print. Hand signed and numbered Signature on the corner. Edition 44 of 45. metallic silver aluminum. Baj was an Italian artist best known for his political collages, prints, paintings, and sculptures. He was close to the surrealist and dada movements, and was later associated with CoBrA. Italian artist Enrico Baj (1924-2003) was born in Milan into a wealthy family, but left Italy in 1944 having upset the authorities and to avoid conscription. He studied at the Milan University law faculty and the Brera Academy of Art. Italian Surrealist Pop Art. Artist, attorney, ironist, writer, sharp critic, and political dissenter, Enrico Baj brought an urgent, refreshing and unique voice to the art of his time. In 1951 he founded the Movimento d'Arte Nuclear...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Foil

Abstract Composition - Original Lithograph by Michel Cadoret - 1976
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is an Original Litograph realized by Michel Cadoret in 1976. Good condition on a white cardboard, inside a package that presents t...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Permanent Marker

Poster: Zeichnungen 1942/1981 Hand Signed by Jean Dubuffet, Kunsthalle Tübingen
Located in New York, NY
Jean Dubuffet Zeichnungen 1942/1981 (Hand Signed), 1983 Offset lithograph poster (hand signed) 33 × 23 1/2 inches Signed by Jean Dubuffet in pencil on the front Unframed This limited edition vintage German Dubuffet poster...
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1980s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Offset, Pencil, Lithograph

'Evening' —Mid-Century American Surrealism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon, 'Evening', color serigraph, 1958, edition 25, Ryan 71. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Ed. 25' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on cream wove paper; the...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Screen

Untitled - Etching by Sebastian Matta - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. Original color etching and aquantint. Edition of 63/100. Very good condition.
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Mirò Lithograph II, no. IV - Lithograph by J. Mirò - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Mirò Lithographe II, no. IV is a beautiful color lithograph on paper, realized in 1974 by Joan Miró for the second volume of his "Mirò Lithographe II", composed by an original lithog...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Seven Sculpture Ideas I - ETCHING, AQUATINT and ROULETTE in TEN COLORS
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Seven Sculpture Ideas I (Cramer 589) Etching, aquatint and roulette in 10 colors, 1982, on Arches, signed in pencil. 39/50 From the numbered edition of 50. Published by The Raymond ...
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1980s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Archival Paper, Etching, Aquatint

Twilight Harlequin
Located in London, GB
JOAN MIRÓ 1893-1983 Montroig 1893-1983 Mallorca (Spanish) Title: Twilight Harlequin Arlequin Crépusculaire, 1975 Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Etching and Aquatin...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Le Lézard aux Plumes d'Or - Lithograph by Joan Miró - 1967
Located in Roma, IT
Le Lézard aux Plumes d'Or is a beautiful and rare color lithograph on parchment, realized in 1967 by the Spanish Surrealist artist Joan Miró (Montroing, 1893 - Mallorca, 1983). Num...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

The Convict and his Companion
Located in London, GB
JOAN MIRÓ 1893-1983 Montroig 1893-1983 Mallorca (Spanish) Title: The Convict and his Companion Le Bagnard et sa Compagne, 1975 Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Etchi...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Seiko Kawachi (1948) Katsura Pillar Large Surrealist Woodblock Print Japan 1979
By Seiko Kawachi
Located in Meinisberg, CH
Seiko Kawachi (Japanese, 1948) KATSURA (The Pillar) • Woodblock print, ca. 98 x 69 cm • Signed, dated 1979 • Limited 19/30 Worldwide shipping for this object is complimentary - Th...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Ink, Handmade Paper

Collage - Digital Collage by Chiara Santoro - 2010s
Located in Roma, IT
Collage is a beautiful print on canvas of a digital collage realized in 2019 by the Italian artist Chiara Santoro. Edition of 10. Hand-signed and numbered. Minimalism collage art. ...
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Digital

Pop Town - Digital Collage by Chiara Santoro - 2010s
Located in Roma, IT
Pop Town is a beautiful print on canvas of a digital collage realized in 2019 by the Italian artist Chiara Santoro. Edition of 10. Hand-signed and numbered. The work is divided int...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Digital

ORBITS - Large Hoeckner print
Located in Santa Monica, CA
CARL HOECKNER (1883 – 1972) ORBITS, c. 1935 Lithograph, edition unknown but small. Image 11 3/3 \4 x 18 3/8 inches, sheet 12 3/8 x 19. In good condition aside from small margins an...
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1930s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

French Abstract Surrealist Color Lithograph Andre Masson
Located in Surfside, FL
Published Benincasa Carmine. Edizioni SEAT, Torino, Italy. Offset directly from the original plates. Limited edition. This is not hand signed or numbered. Signature in the printing p...
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20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Les Révolutions Scéniques du XX siècle - Lithograph by Joan Mirò - 1975
Located in Roma, IT
"Les Révolutions Scéniques du XX siècle" is an original lithograph realized by Joan Miró in 1975. This is a limited edition. Bibliography: Joan Miró. Catalogue raisonné des livres i...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Cleopatra
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this large color drypoint with strong colors. Signed and numbered 203/325 in pencil by Dali.
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Color, Drypoint

Femme et Chien devant la Lune
Located in New York, NY
A superb impression of this very scarce, early color pochoir. Signed, dated "1935" and numbered 58/60 in pencil by Miro. Published by Adlan, Barcelona. Ink stamp on the reverse indic...
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1930s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Color, Stencil

Spanish Artist Santi Moix Aquatint Etching Ed 2/3 Surrealist Abstract Symbols
Located in Surfside, FL
Moix, Santi (Spanish, b. 1960), Figural Abstraction, hybrid print with etching and aquatint, 23.5 x 16.75 inches, pencil signed and numbered 2/3. Santi Moix (Barcelona, 1960) lives ...
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20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Untitled - Original lithograph by J. Hérold - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is an original artwork realized by Jacques Hérold in 1974. Original colored lithograph. Good conditions. Printed by Mourlot , France. This...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

LA FOLLE AU PIMENT RAGEUR
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed and numbered lithograph in colors on Arches paper. Mourlot 1025. Published by Maeght Éditeur, Paris. Edition of 27/30. Artwork size 91.375 x 47.875 inches. Custom framed ...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

En-Haut
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edition of 3
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Esui Libae
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edition of 7
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Le Regard
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edition of 7
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Vintage Exhibition Poster at Galerie Maeght - Offset and Lithograph - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Mirò - Fondation Maeght is an original artwork realized after Joan Miró. Offset and Lithograph. The artwork was realized in the occasion of the exhibition dedicated to the graphic ...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Le Lèzard aux Plumes d'Or - Lithograph - 1971
Located in Roma, IT
Le Lézard aux Plumes d'Or is a beautiful and rare color lithograph on Jason Kochi paper, realized in 1971 by the Spanish Surrealist artist Joan Miró (Montroing, 1893 - Mallorca, 19...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Em-Bas
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edition of 7
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Serie "Eye(s)" Noir-Sienna
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edition of 9
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Les Murs 1
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edition of 9
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Double
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edition of 7
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Serie "Eye(s)" Bleu
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edition of 6
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Hooking
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edition of 8
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Les Murs 2
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edition of 8
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Serie "Eye(s)" Rouge-Brun
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edition of 9
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Metamorphose
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edition of 10
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Four Eyes
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edition of 4
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Reflet
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edition of 6
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Montee
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edition of 9
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Nuit Mauve
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edition of 9
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Dali Inaguracion Teatro Museo Figueras Espana Septiember 1974 Poster
Located in Paonia, CO
Dali Inaguracion Teatro Museo Figueras Espana Septiember 1974 is a rare plate signed vintage poster celebrating the opening of the Salvad...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Color

Mirò - L'Oeuvre Graphique - Vintage Poster after Joan Miró - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Mirò - l'Oeuvre Graphique is a vintage offset and lithograph poster realized after Joan Miró, in 1974. The artwork was realized in occasion of the exhibition dedicated to the graphi...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Offset, Lithograph

Moderna Museet ( the Red Model ) Oct -Nov ’67 original poster by Magritte framed
Located in Paonia, CO
Moderna Museet ( the Red Model ) Oct -Nov ’67 is an original poster for an exhibit of works by renowned surrealist painter, Rene Magritte ( 1898 – 1967 ). It was held at the Moder...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

French Abstract Surrealist Color Lithograph Andre Masson
Located in Surfside, FL
Published Benincasa Carmine. Edizioni SEAT, Torino, Italy. Offset directly from the original plates. Limited edition. This is not hand signed or numbered. Signature in the printing plate. Size is of the full sheet. André-Aimé-René Masson (4 January 1896 – 28 October 1987) was a French artist. Masson was born in Balagny-sur-Thérain, Oise, but when he was eight his father's work took the family first briefly to Lille and then to Brussels. He began his study of art at the age of eleven at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, under the guidance of Constant Montald, and later he studied in Paris. He fought for France during World War I and was seriously injured. His early works display an interest in cubism. He later became associated with surrealism, and he was one of the most enthusiastic employers of automatic drawing, making a number of automatic works in pen and ink. Masson would often force himself to work under strict conditions, for example, after long periods of time without food or sleep, or under the influence of drugs. He believed forcing himself into a reduced state of consciousness would help his art be free from rational control, and hence get closer to the workings of his subconscious mind. Masson experimented with altered states of consciousness with artists such as Antonin Artaud, Michel Leiris, Joan Miro, Georges Bataille, Jean Dubuffet, and Georges Malkine, who were neighbors of his studio in Paris. From around 1926 he experimented by throwing sand and glue onto canvas and making oil paintings based around the shapes that formed. By the end of the 1920s, however, he was finding automatic drawing rather restricting, and he left the surrealist movement and turned instead to a more structured style, often producing works with a violent or erotic theme, and making a number of paintings in reaction to the Spanish Civil War (he associated once more with the surrealists at the end of the 1930s). Under the German occupation of France during World War II, his work was condemned by the Nazis as degenerate. With the assistance of Varian Fry in Marseille, Masson escaped the Nazi regime on a ship to the French island of Martinique from where he went on to the United States. Upon arrival in New York City, U.S. customs officials inspecting Masson's luggage found a cache of his erotic drawings. Denouncing them as pornographic, they ripped them up before the artist's eyes. Living in New Preston, Connecticut his work became an important influence on American abstract expressionists, In particular Arshile Gorky drew on it, as did Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Following the war, he returned to France and settled in Aix-en-Provence where he painted a number of landscapes. Masson drew the cover of the first issue of Georges Bataille's review, Acéphale, in 1936, and participated in all its issues until 1939. His brother-in-law, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan...
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20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Mirò - Sculptures - Vintage Lithographic Poster Galerie Maeght - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Mirò - Sculptures is a vintage lithographic poster realized after Joan Mirò in occasion of one of his exhibitions at Galerie Maeght. Off...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Offset, Lithograph

Decanter - Etching and Screen Print by Man Ray - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Decanter from "Revoving Doors" is an original artwork realized by Man Ray in 1973 realized in mixed colored etching and silkscreen. Hand signed on the lower right margin. Edition of...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Screen, Etching

Le Lézard aux Plumes d'Or - Lithograph by Joan Mirò - 1971
Located in Roma, IT
Le Lézard aux Plumes d'Or, Plate X is a beautiful color lithograph on Japanese paper, realized in 1971 by the Spanish Surrealist artist Joan Miró (Montroing, 1893 - Mallorca, 1983)...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Ariadne by Rita Simon
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rita Simon's (aka Atirnomis) prints typically relate to visions and dreamlike states. In this print, a ball of yarn tattered at the edges is held aloft in the sky while a rectangular...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Screen

Salvador Dali American Trotting Horses No.1 rare poster for Tokyo Exhibit 1974
Located in Paonia, CO
Salvador Dali American Trotting Horses no.1 poster for Tokyo Exhibit 1974. This image is from the The Currier and Ives Suite of six litho...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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C Print

Arrow, Screenprint by Rita Simon
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rita Simon's (aka Atirnomis) prints typically relate to visions and dreamlike states. The silkscreen is hand-signed and numbered in pencil. Arrow Rita Simon (aka Atirnomis), America...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Screen

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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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