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
Alchimie des Philosophes The Angel of Alchemy
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Alchimie des Philosophes The Angel of Alchemy
MEDIUM: Etching on parchment paper
SIGNED: Hand Signed
PUBLISH...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Dark Lemur - Etching by Leo Guida - 1970s
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Dark Lemur is an Etching realized by Leo Guida in 1972s.
Good condition, Hand signed, dated with pencil.
Artist sensitive to current issues, artistic movements and historical techn...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
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Etching
Hotel du Nord (Little Durer)
Located in New York, NY
Joseph Cornell
Hotel du Nord (Little Durer), 1972
Silkscreen in five colors with varnish and stencil additions printed on Buff Arches Paper
Pencil signed and annotated Artists Proof ...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
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Screen, Varnish, Stencil, Mixed Media
Currier & Ives Fire! Fire! Fire!
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Currier & Ives Fire! Fire! Fire!
MEDIUM: Lithograph + Collage
SIGNED: Hand Signed
PUBLISHER: Phyllis Lucas, New York
EDITION NUMBER: 106/250
MEASU...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
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Lithograph
Dali Alchimie des Philosophes Le Phenix
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Alchimie des Philosophes Le Phenix
MEDIUM: Etching on parchment paper
SIGNED: Hand Signed
PUBLISHER: Art et ...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
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Etching
Little Boy
By Karel Appel
Located in New York, NY
Karel Appel
Little Boy, 1969
Color lithograph on wove paper
Hand signed and numbered 8/200 by the artist on the lower front
30 × 22 1/2 inches
Unframed
About Karel Appel:
Karel Appel was born on April 25, 1921, in Amsterdam. From 1940 to 1943 he studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. In 1946 his first solo show was held at Het Beerenhuis, Groningen, Netherlands, and he participated in Jonge Schilders (Young painters) at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. About this time, Appel was influenced first by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, then by Jean Dubuffet. He was a member of the Nederlandse Experimentele Groep (Dutch Experimental Group, 1948) and established the Cobra group (1948–51) with Constant (Constant Nieuwenhuys), Corneille (Guillaume Cornelis Beverloo), and other painters from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam. The style distinguished itself through bold, expressive compositions inspired by folk and children's art, as well as by the work of Paul Klee and Joan Miró. In 1949 Appel completed a fresco for the cafeteria of the city hall in Amsterdam, which created such controversy that it was covered for ten years.
In 1950 the artist moved to Paris; there the writer Hugo Claus...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
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Lithograph
La Dentelliere
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: La Dentelliere
MEDIUM: Etching on a plate marred by nails shot at it
SIGNED: Hand Signed
PUBLISHER: Graft Verlag/Arztesammlerkreis
EDITION NUMBER: ...
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints
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Etching
The Spirit is Willing But the Flesh is Not by Salvador Dali from Biblia Sacra
Located in Paonia, CO
The Spirit is Willing But the Flesh is Not by Salvador Dali from Biblia Sacra is a colored lithograph from the gouache original on heavy rag paper from Salvador Dali’s five volume...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
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Lithograph
"Bacchanale from Je Reve (I Dream) Portfolio, " Original Color Lithograph
By André Masson
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Bacchanale" is an original color lithograph by Andre Masson. This piece is from the Je Reve (I Dream) portfolio and is edition number H.C. XVV/XVV. Masson signed the piece in pencil...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
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Lithograph
Lithographs II (1042). Modern Abstract Lithograph by Joan Miro
By Joan Miró
Located in Long Island City, NY
Joan Miro was a Spanish Surrealist artist, world-renowned for his unique art style that blended surrealist fantasy and modern life. This lithograph is part of the series "Lithographs...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
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Lithograph
Raising Lazarus from Biblia Sacra by Salvador Dali
Located in Paonia, CO
Raising Lazarus by Salvador Dali from Biblia Sacra is a colored lithograph from the gouache original on heavy rag paper from Salvador Dali’s five volume Biblia Sacra Suite pub...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
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Lithograph
Elijah by a Whirlwind on a Chariot of Fire from Biblia Sacra by Salvador Dali
Located in Paonia, CO
Elijah by a Whirlwind on a Chariot of Fire by Salvador Dali from Biblia Sacra is a colored lithograph from the gouache original on heavy rag paper from Salvador Dali’s five vol...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Bullfight'— Mid-century American Surrealism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Vale Faro, 'Bullfight', wood engraving, 1945, edition 15. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '105' (the artist's inventory number) and '13/15' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints
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Woodcut
Digital Iris Print "Stage Theory " Pencil Signed with Initials edition of 15
By Charles Long
Located in Surfside, FL
This is for the one print listed here.
Internalized Page Project. color Iris digital prints on paper, each initialed on verso and numbered from edition of 15. printed & published by ...
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1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints
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Digital
Digital Iris Print "Classic Anomalies" Pencil Signed with Initials edition of 15
By Charles Long
Located in Surfside, FL
This is for the one print listed here.
Internalized Page Project Vol II. color Iris digital prints on paper, each initialed on verso and numbered from edition of 15. printed & publis...
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1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints
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Digital
Lithographs II (1043), Modern Lithograph by Joan Miro
By Joan Miró
Located in Long Island City, NY
Joan Miro was a Spanish Surrealist artist, world-renowned for his unique art style that blended surrealist fantasy and modern life. This lithograph is part of the series "Lithographs...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Digital Iris Print "Good Internal Object" Pencil Signed w Initials edition of 15
By Charles Long
Located in Surfside, FL
This is for the one print listed here.
Internalized Page Project Vol II. color Iris digital prints on paper, each initialed on verso and numbered from edition of 15. printed & publis...
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1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints
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Digital
Digital Iris Print "Effective Disbelief" Pencil Signed w Initials edition of 15
By Charles Long
Located in Surfside, FL
This is for the one print listed here.
Internalized Page Project Vol II. color Iris digital prints on paper, each initialed on verso and numbered from edition of 15. printed & publis...
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1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints
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Digital
Digital Iris Print "An Ideadic Camera" Pencil Signed with Initials edition of 15
By Charles Long
Located in Surfside, FL
This is for the one print listed here.
Internalized Page Project Vol II. color Iris digital prints on paper, each initialed on verso and numbered from edition of 15. printed & publis...
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1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Digital
Digital Iris Print "Character Exhibition" Pencil Signed w Initials edition of 15
By Charles Long
Located in Surfside, FL
This is for the one print listed here.
Internalized Page Project Vol II. color Iris digital prints on paper, each initialed on verso and numbered from edition of 15. printed & publis...
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1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints
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Digital
Into the Grave of of Elish from Biblia Sacra by Salvador Dali
Located in Paonia, CO
Into the Grave of Elish is a colored lithograph from the gouache original on heavy rag paper from Salvador Dali’s five volume Biblia Sacra Suite published in Rome by Rizzoli , 1...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Digital Iris Photo Print "Fangled No-Being" Pencil Signed w Initials edition 15
By Charles Long
Located in Surfside, FL
This is for the one print listed here.
Internalized Page Project Vol II. color Iris digital prints on paper, each initialed on verso and numbered from edition of 15. printed & publis...
Category
1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Digital
Digital Iris Print "Spontaneous Restructuring" Pencil Signed w. Initials ed. 15
By Charles Long
Located in Surfside, FL
This is for the one print listed here.
Internalized Page Project. color Iris digital prints on paper, each initialed on verso and numbered from edition of 15. printed & published by ...
Category
1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Digital
Digital Iris Print "Fatherless Gang" Pencil Signed with Initials edition of 15
By Charles Long
Located in Surfside, FL
This is for the one print listed here.
Internalized Page Project. color Iris digital prints on paper, each initialed on verso and numbered from edition of 15. printed & published by ...
Category
1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Digital
Digital Iris Print "Schizmo Genesis" Pencil Signed with Initials edition of 15
By Charles Long
Located in Surfside, FL
This is for the one print listed here.
Internalized Page Project. color Iris digital prints on paper, each initialed on verso and numbered from edition of 15. printed & published by ...
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1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Digital
Cathedral of Christ the Savior. 1989., paper, screen print, 60x32.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Cathedral of Christ the Savior. 1989, paper, screen print, 60x32.5 cm
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1980s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Digital Iris Print "Heinz Dilemma" Pencil Signed with Initials edition of 15
By Charles Long
Located in Surfside, FL
This is for the one print listed here.
Internalized Page Project. color Iris digital prints on paper, each initialed on verso and numbered from edition of 15. printed & published by ...
Category
1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Digital
Digital Iris Print "Arrogant Peceiver" Pencil Signed with Initials edition of 15
By Charles Long
Located in Surfside, FL
This is for the one print listed here.
Internalized Page Project. color Iris digital prints on paper, each initialed on verso and numbered from edition of 15. printed & published by ...
Category
1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Digital
Digital Iris Print "Theatres of the Body " Pencil Signed w Initials ed. of 15
By Charles Long
Located in Surfside, FL
This is for the one print listed here.
Internalized Page Project. color Iris digital prints on paper, each initialed on verso and numbered from edition of 15. printed & published by ...
Category
1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Digital
Lithographs II (1046), Surrealist Lithography by Joan Miro
By Joan Miró
Located in Long Island City, NY
Joan Miro was a Spanish Surrealist artist, world-renowned for his unique art style that blended surrealist fantasy and modern life. This lithograph is part of the series "Lithographs...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Planetary And Scatologic Vision
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Salvador Dali (Spanish surrealist, 1904-1989)
Title: Planetary and Scatologic Vision
Year: 1974
Medium: Engraving with embossing and color lithograph
Edition: Numbered...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Engraving, Lithograph
Registering a Dimension - Handsigned Original Lithograph
Located in Paris, FR
Alain LE YAOUANC
Registering a dimension
Original lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
On Arches vellum, 76 x 56 cm (c. 30.4 x 22,4 inch)
Excellent condition
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
PLATE 5 (FROM EL ULTIMO VIAJE DEL BUQUE FANTASMA)
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Aventura, FL
From El Ultimo Viaje del Buque Fantasma suite made to illustrate the text of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Hand signed and numbered by Wifredo Lam. Published by Polígrafa, Barcelona. From the edition of 99. Frame Size: approx 31 x 39 inches.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Please note the frame has some minor scratches on the molding. No broken or missing parts. Plexi glass covering is new. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be considered.
About the Artist: Wifredo Lam was an Afro-Cuban artist best known for his unique Surrealist aesthetic that combined European artistic movements with the imagery of his native country. “I responded always to the presence of factors that emanated from our history and our geography, tropical flowers, and black culture,” Lam once said. In one of his most famous paintings, The Jungle (1943), these various influences are melded together, onto a single large-scale canvas. Born Wifredo Oscar de la Concepción Lam y Castilla on December 8, 1902 in Sagua la Grande, Cuba, the painter moved to Madrid, Spain in 1923 to study with Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor, who had been the teacher of famed Surrealist Salvador Dalí. Lam moved to Paris after seeing an exhibition of Pablo Picasso’s work in Spain. Having arrived in Paris, he introduced himself to Picasso who subsequently showed Lam his collection of primitive artworks...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
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Paper, Lithograph
Lithographs II (1044), Abstract Lithograph by Joan Miro
By Joan Miró
Located in Long Island City, NY
Joan Miro was a Spanish Surrealist artist, world-renowned for his unique art style that blended surrealist fantasy and modern life. This lithograph is part of the series "Lithographs...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Caducee de Mars Alimente par la Boule de feu de Jupiter
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Salvador Dali (Spanish surrealist, 1904-1989)
Title: Le Caducee de Mars Alimente par la Boule de feu de Jupiter
Year: 1974
Medium: Etching with embossing and color lithograph...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Lithograph
Lithographs II (1039), Modern Abstract Lithograph by Joan Miro
By Joan Miró
Located in Long Island City, NY
Joan Miro was a Spanish Surrealist artist, world-renowned for his unique art style that blended surrealist fantasy and modern life. This lithograph is part of the series "Lithographs...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Fossil)
By Melissa Miller
Located in New York, NY
Melissa Miller
Untitled (Fossil), 1998
4 color lithograph on paper
Hand signed and numbered 74/100 in pencil on the lower right front
28 1/2 × 21 inches
Unframed
Melissa Miller’s pai...
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1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Personaje de Perfil
Located in New York, NY
Color aquatint and etching
Edition of 99 + 15 AP + 15 HC
29 7/8 x 22 in. / 75.9 x 55.9 cm
Published by Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona.
Category
1980s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Philosophe Ecrasé par le Cosmos
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Salvador Dali (Spanish surrealist, 1904-1989)
Title: Philosophe Ecrasé par le Cosmos (Philosopher Crushed by the Cosmos)
Year: 1974
Medium: Engraving with embossing and color...
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20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Engraving, Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Attack on the Windmils - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Attack on the Windmils - Original Lithograph
Joseph FORET, Paris, 1957
PRINTER : Atelier Mourlot.
SIGNATURE : printed in the image
LIMITED : 197 copies.
SIZE : 64.5...
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Abstract Composition - Lithograph by Joan Mirò - 1963
By Joan Miró
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is a lithograph print realized by Joan Mirò in 1963.
Published on Derriere Le Miroir, Céramiques Monumentales de Miró et Artigas. Printed by Ateliers de Maeght,...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
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Lithograph
This was just a man by Salvador Dali from the Biblia Sacra series
Located in Paonia, CO
This was just a man is a colored lithograph from the gouache original on heavy rag paper from Salvador Dali’s five volume Biblia Sacra Suite published in Rome by Rizzoli , 1965-...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled - Etching by Man Ray - 1976
By Man Ray
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is an artwork realized by Man Ray (1890 - 1976) in 1970.
Etching and aquatint from the series Les Anatomes.
Aquatint etching on lana paper.
Hand signed and numbered. Edition 13/100.
Image 43 x 31.8 cm; Sheet 66 x 50.8 cm.
Ref. Anselmino 70.
Very Good condition.
Man Ray was born in Philadelphia into a family of Russian immigrants of Jewish origin. He grew up in New York where he completed his studies. Here he works in 1908 as a draftsman and graphic designer. In 1912 he began to sign his works with the
pseudonym "Man Ray", which means ray man. He buys his first camera in 1914, to photograph his works of art.
In 1915 the collector Walter Conrad Arensberg presented it to Marcel Duchamp, with whom he would become a great friend. The three founded the Society of Independent Artists. In 1919 he painted his first airbrushes, images produced with an airbrush, a
commonly used retouching tool for a graphic designer. In New York, with Marcel Duchamp he formed the American branch of the Dada movement which began in Europe as a radical rejection of traditional art, but was not very successful.
In 1921 Duchamp returned to Paris and Man Ray followed him. In Paris Duchamp introduced him to the most influential artists of France, including André Breton and Philippe Soupault. Soupault hosted the first exhibition of Man Ray in his library, where the
famous work Cadeau was exhibited. Man Ray's Parisian success is due to his skill as a photographer, especially as a portraitist. Famous artists of the time, such as James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau and many others, posed in front of his camera.
In 1922 Man Ray produced his first frames, which he called rayographs (rayographies), or photographic images obtained by placing objects directly on sensitive paper.
in 1924 surrealism was officially born, Man Ray was the first surrealist photographer. The production of his research work goes hand in hand with the publication of his fashion photographs in Vogue. He falls in love with the famous French singer Alice Prin...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Tandem : Cinetic Compositon with Birds - Handsigned Original Lithograph
Located in Paris, FR
Alain LE YAOUANC
Tandem : Cinetic Compositon with Birds
Original lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
On Arches vellum, 56 x 76 cm (c. 22.4 x 30,4 inch)
Excellent condition
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Journal D'Un Graveur - Vol. 2 Plate 3
By Joan Miró
Located in Roma, IT
This is an original drypoint realized by Joan Miró in 1975. Hand signed in pencil on the lower right and numbered on the lower left. Edition of 75 prints. It represents an abstract s...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Lithograph Belgian American Surrealism WPA Modernist Karl Fortess Surrealist Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Karl Eugene Fortess (1907-1993)
Original color lithographs on BFK Rives paper,
1966, Hand signed and numbered 29/36 in pencil,
Sheet size 20.5 x 15 inches.
Karl E. Fortess (1907-1993) was a painter, printmaker and teacher, of Boston, Massachusetts and Woodstock, N.Y. Fortess was born in Antwerp, Belgium on October 13, 1907, and became an American citizen in 1923. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Students League in New York, and the Woodstock School of Painting with Yasuo Kuniyoshi. In 1937 the Works Progress Administration sent him and several other artists to Alaska to document the towns, villages, and remote wilderness landscapes (Pemberton, “Alaska art museum collects WPA’s Depression works from the territory,” Columbia Daily Tribune, November 9, 2003). Trains, trucks, and industrial buildings were what Karl Fortess envisioned when the Public Works of Art Project suggested that he depict “the American Scene.” His work bears the influence of Surrealism, Russsian Constructivist art and Cubism. He was part of a circle of left leaning artists loosley involved with the WPA which included Sol Wilson, Isaac Soyer, Louis Lozowick, Abraham Harriton, Ben Shahn, William Gropper, Nahum Tschacbasov, Morris Shulman, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Louis Slobodkin, Adolf Dehn, Le Corbusier and Louis Schanker.
Karl Fortress taught at the Art Students League, Brooklyn Museum Art School, Louisiana State University, Fort Wright College, and Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts. He was a member of the Artists Equity Association, Society of American Graphic Artists, American Association of University Professors, and the British Film Institute. He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1946, was named an Associate of the National Academy of Design in 1960 and elected to full Academician in 1971. Fortess taught at many different schools, including Boston University School of Fine Art, where he also created an archive of interviews with more than two hundred and fifty contemporary American painters, sculptors, and graphic artists including many with with artists associated with the Woodstock, N.Y. art community.
Among the interviewees are Kenneth Armitage, Will Barnet, Romare Bearden, George Biddle, James Brooks, Adolph Dehn, Jane Freilicher, Julian Levi, Alice Neel, Larry Rivers, Moses Soyer, Dorothy Varian...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Lithograph Belgian American Surrealism WPA Modernist Karl Fortess Surrealist Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Karl Eugene Fortess (1907-1993)
Original color lithographs on BFK Rives paper,
1966, Hand signed and numbered 29/36 in pencil,
Sheet size 20.5 x 15 inches.
Karl E. Fortess (1907-1993) was a painter, printmaker and teacher, of Boston, Massachusetts and Woodstock, N.Y. Fortess was born in Antwerp, Belgium on October 13, 1907, and became an American citizen in 1923. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Students League in New York, and the Woodstock School of Painting with Yasuo Kuniyoshi. In 1937 the Works Progress Administration sent him and several other artists to Alaska to document the towns, villages, and remote wilderness landscapes (Pemberton, “Alaska art museum collects WPA’s Depression works from the territory,” Columbia Daily Tribune, November 9, 2003). Trains, trucks, and industrial buildings were what Karl Fortess envisioned when the Public Works of Art Project suggested that he depict “the American Scene.” His work bears the influence of Surrealism, Russsian Constructivist art and Cubism. He was part of a circle of left leaning artists loosley involved with the WPA which included Sol Wilson, Isaac Soyer, Louis Lozowick, Abraham Harriton, Ben Shahn, William Gropper, Nahum Tschacbasov, Morris Shulman, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Louis Slobodkin, Adolf Dehn, Le Corbusier and Louis Schanker.
Karl Fortress taught at the Art Students League, Brooklyn Museum Art School, Louisiana State University, Fort Wright College, and Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts. He was a member of the Artists Equity Association, Society of American Graphic Artists, American Association of University Professors, and the British Film Institute. He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1946, was named an Associate of the National Academy of Design in 1960 and elected to full Academician in 1971. Fortess taught at many different schools, including Boston University School of Fine Art, where he also created an archive of interviews with more than two hundred and fifty contemporary American painters, sculptors, and graphic artists including many with with artists associated with the Woodstock, N.Y. art community.
Among the interviewees are Kenneth Armitage, Will Barnet, Romare Bearden, George Biddle, James Brooks, Adolph Dehn, Jane Freilicher, Julian Levi, Alice Neel, Larry Rivers, Moses Soyer, Dorothy Varian...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
ORSA MAGGIORE #7506
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Aventura, FL
From a set of 6 done in 1975 at Pollenza-Macerata, Nuova Foglia Editrice. Hand signed and numbered by Wifredo Lam. Edition EA of 8. Artwork size 31.5 x 25.5 inches. Framed.
Artw...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Flying Elements - Handsigned Original Lithograph
Located in Paris, FR
Alain LE YAOUANC
Flying Elements
Original lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
On Arches vellum, 76 x 56 cm (c. 30.4 x 22,4 inch)
Excellent condition
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Forager III (Ed. 1159/1443)
By James Jean
Located in Dallas, TX
The Forager convenes with the council of miniature sprites in a sylvan glen, the figures delicately illuminated with holographic foil and dimensional details. This elaborate print fe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Fall of Black and Withe Cubes - Handsigned Original Lithograph
Located in Paris, FR
Alain LE YAOUANC
Fall of Black and Withe Cubes
Original lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
On Arches vellum, 76 x 56 cm (c. 30.4 x 22,4 inch)
Excellent condition
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Lithograph Belgian American Surrealism WPA Modernist Karl Fortess Surrealist Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Karl Eugene Fortess (1907-1993)
Original color lithographs on BFK Rives paper,
1966, Hand signed and numbered 29/36 in pencil,
Sheet size 20.5 x 15 inches.
Karl E. Fortess (1907-1993) was a painter, printmaker and teacher, of Boston, Massachusetts and Woodstock, N.Y. Fortess was born in Antwerp, Belgium on October 13, 1907, and became an American citizen in 1923. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Students League in New York, and the Woodstock School of Painting with Yasuo Kuniyoshi. In 1937 the Works Progress Administration sent him and several other artists to Alaska to document the towns, villages, and remote wilderness landscapes (Pemberton, “Alaska art museum collects WPA’s Depression works from the territory,” Columbia Daily Tribune, November 9, 2003). Trains, trucks, and industrial buildings were what Karl Fortess envisioned when the Public Works of Art Project suggested that he depict “the American Scene.” His work bears the influence of Surrealism, Russsian Constructivist art and Cubism. He was part of a circle of left leaning artists loosley involved with the WPA which included Sol Wilson, Isaac Soyer, Louis Lozowick, Abraham Harriton, Ben Shahn, William Gropper, Nahum Tschacbasov, Morris Shulman, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Louis Slobodkin, Adolf Dehn, Le Corbusier and Louis Schanker.
Karl Fortress taught at the Art Students League, Brooklyn Museum Art School, Louisiana State University, Fort Wright College, and Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts. He was a member of the Artists Equity Association, Society of American Graphic Artists, American Association of University Professors, and the British Film Institute. He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1946, was named an Associate of the National Academy of Design in 1960 and elected to full Academician in 1971. Fortess taught at many different schools, including Boston University School of Fine Art, where he also created an archive of interviews with more than two hundred and fifty contemporary American painters, sculptors, and graphic artists including many with with artists associated with the Woodstock, N.Y. art community.
Among the interviewees are Kenneth Armitage, Will Barnet, Romare Bearden, George Biddle, James Brooks, Adolph Dehn, Jane Freilicher, Julian Levi, Alice Neel, Larry Rivers, Moses Soyer, Dorothy Varian...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Lithograph Belgian American Surrealism WPA Modernist Karl Fortess Surrealist Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Karl Eugene Fortess (1907-1993)
Original color lithographs on BFK Rives paper,
1966, Hand signed and numbered 29/36 in pencil,
Sheet size 20.5 x 15 inches.
Karl E. Fortess (1907-1993) was a painter, printmaker and teacher, of Boston, Massachusetts and Woodstock, N.Y. Fortess was born in Antwerp, Belgium on October 13, 1907, and became an American citizen in 1923. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Students League in New York, and the Woodstock School of Painting with Yasuo Kuniyoshi. In 1937 the Works Progress Administration sent him and several other artists to Alaska to document the towns, villages, and remote wilderness landscapes (Pemberton, “Alaska art museum collects WPA’s Depression works from the territory,” Columbia Daily Tribune, November 9, 2003). Trains, trucks, and industrial buildings were what Karl Fortess envisioned when the Public Works of Art Project suggested that he depict “the American Scene.” His work bears the influence of Surrealism, Russsian Constructivist art and Cubism. He was part of a circle of left leaning artists loosley involved with the WPA which included Sol Wilson, Isaac Soyer, Louis Lozowick, Abraham Harriton, Ben Shahn, William Gropper, Nahum Tschacbasov, Morris Shulman, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Louis Slobodkin, Adolf Dehn, Le Corbusier and Louis Schanker.
Karl Fortress taught at the Art Students League, Brooklyn Museum Art School, Louisiana State University, Fort Wright College, and Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts. He was a member of the Artists Equity Association, Society of American Graphic Artists, American Association of University Professors, and the British Film Institute. He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1946, was named an Associate of the National Academy of Design in 1960 and elected to full Academician in 1971. Fortess taught at many different schools, including Boston University School of Fine Art, where he also created an archive of interviews with more than two hundred and fifty contemporary American painters, sculptors, and graphic artists including many with with artists associated with the Woodstock, N.Y. art community.
Among the interviewees are Kenneth Armitage, Will Barnet, Romare Bearden, George Biddle, James Brooks, Adolph Dehn, Jane Freilicher, Julian Levi, Alice Neel, Larry Rivers, Moses Soyer, Dorothy Varian...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Oval Dove of Peace (Carborundum etching with embossing)
By Max Papart
Located in New York, NY
Max Papart
Oval Dove, 1982
Carborundum Etching on embossed paper
Hand signed and numbered 26/135 by the artist on the front
Vintage frame included
Elegant carborundum etching on embo...
Category
1980s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Graphite
Jesus Scourged by Salvador Dali from Biblia Sacra porfolio
Located in Paonia, CO
Jesus Scourged, 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 by Rizzoli , 1...
Category
1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Good Luck with Your Art-istry (Hand Signed Card)
Located in New York, NY
William T. Wiley
Good Luck with Your Art-istry (Hand Signed Card), 2002
Offset lithograph invitation card.
Hand signed in green ink with inscription "Good Luck with your ART istry" ...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Eye On Empire
Located in Brooklyn, NY
In this mesmerizing surrealist image, the artist delves into the realms of the subconscious and the juxtaposition of unexpected elements. A colossal eye gazes upon the towering prese...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Pigment
Cadaver in Sepulchro Elisei - Lithograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Cadaver in sepulchro Elisei ("The body in Elisha's Tomb") is an artwork realized in 1965. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ editionis published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 an...
Category
1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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