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
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
Ghost. 1989., paper, screen print, 60x32.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Ghost. 1989., paper, screen print, 60x32.5 cm
Category
1980s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
And you child, the prophet of the most high, by Salvador Dali from Biblia Sacra
Located in Paonia, CO
And You Child, the Prophet of the Most High is a colored lithograph from the original gouache on heavy rag paper from Salvador Dali’s five volume Biblia Sacra Suite published in ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
UNDER THE SKIN 3 signed #20/20 by Paula Craioveanu Surreal Nude Photography
Located in Forest Hills, NY
Under the Skin #3
Surreal Nude, part of my "Under the Skin" series.
Printed on Hahnemuhle art photo paper with white borders, size is 12.5x12.5in.
This particular one is signed and...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
Personages - Etching by Wifredo Lam- 1974
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Roma, IT
Personages is print realized by Wifredo Lam (Sagua La Grande 1902 - Paris 1982)
Colored etching on paper.
Hand-signed and numbered, edition of XXI/XXV lower in pencil.
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Under the Skin 5 signed #2/20 Paula Craioveanu Photograph 20x16in in mat 28x20in
Located in Forest Hills, NY
UNDER THE SKIN 5
Surreal Nude, part of my "Under the Skin" series.
Printed on Hahnemuhle art photo paper with white borders, size is 20x16in. In mat overall size 28x20in.
This par...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
PICTOPOETRY 1 signed #1/20 by Paula Craioveanu Photograph 20x16in in mat 28x20in
Located in Forest Hills, NY
Surreal Nude, part of my "Pictopoetry" series.
Printed on Hahnemuhle art photo paper with white borders, size 20x16in. In mat overall size 28x20in.
This particular one is signed and...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
Miró Exhibition Poster - Photo-Offset After Joan Miró - 1971
By Joan Miró
Located in Roma, IT
"Miró Exhibition Poster " is a vintage photo-offset print realized after Joan Miró in 1971, it comes from one of the Italian Exhibition posters...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Offset
Dali Vertical La Sirene lithograph certificate painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Work of the Spanish artist SALVADOR DALI.
edition of 195 copies + several E.A.
ej 149/195
certificate
DALÍ, Salvador (Figueras, Gerona,...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Espana, Surrealist figure - Original lithograph, 1982
By Joan Miró
Located in Paris, FR
Joan MIRO
Espana, Surrealist figure, 1982
Original lithograph in colors (atelier Arte, Maeght)
Printed signature in the plate
On thin paper 95 x 60 cm (c. 37.4 x 23.6 in)
Referenc...
Category
1980s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
De l'Origine des Espèces par Voie de Sélection Irrationelle: Visage
By Man Ray
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color lithograph. Artist's proof, aside from the edition of 180. Signed and inscribed "EA" in pencil. Printed by Mourlot, Paris. Published by Leon Amie...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Mid-Century Modern Lithograph in Colors by Marino Marini, Italy, circa 1970
Located in New York, NY
This vibrant and iconic lithograph in colors was realized by the acclaimed Italian artist Marino Marini, circa 1970. A contemporary of Jean Arp, Alexa...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Lithograph
PICTOPOETRY 4 signed #20/20 by Paula Craioveanu Photograph 20x16in in mat 28x20i
Located in Forest Hills, NY
Surreal Nude, part of my "Pictopoetry" series.
Printed on Hahnemuhle art photo paper with white borders, overall size 20x16in.
This particular one is signed and numbered 20 of 20 (e...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
PICTOPOETRY 3 signed #20/20 by Paula Craioveanu Photograph 20x16in in mat 28x20
Located in Forest Hills, NY
PICTOPOETRY 3 signed #20/20 by Paula Craioveanu Photograph 20x16in in mat 28x20
Surreal Nude, part of my "Pictopoetry" series.
Printed on Hahnemuhle art photo paper with white bord...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
PICTOPOETRY 2 signed #2/20 by Paula Craioveanu Photograph 20x16in in mat 28x20in
Located in Forest Hills, NY
Surreal Nude, part of my "Pictopoetry" series.
Printed on Hahnemuhle art photo paper with white borders
This particular one is signed and numbered 2 of 20 (edition of 20).
Has been...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
L'Oiseau Bleu - Etching by Johnny Friedlaender - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
L'oiseau bleu is a print realized by Johnny Friedlaender (Plonia, 1912 - Paris, 1992).
Etching on paper.
Hand-Signed lower right, edition lower left. Numbered, edition of 5/20 prin...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Joan Miro Vintage Surrealist Lithograph Poster Adrien Maeght Marlborough Gallery
By Joan Miró
Located in Surfside, FL
Joan Miro, Spanish (1893–1983)
Vintage lithograph poster from Arte Paris for a Marlborough Gallery show in London, England
Signed in the plate
Rece...
Category
1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Signed surrealist lithograph by German artist Horst Antes, 1966- 68
By Horst Antes
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Horst Antes (German, 1936)
Zwi Fusse (Two feet)
Signed ‘Antes’ (lower right) and inscribed ‘profe’ (lower right)
Executed in 1966 – 1968
Lithograph
22.3/4 x 28 in. (57.8 x 71.2 cm.) ...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Full Moon - Etching by Guelfo Bianchini - 1978
Located in Roma, IT
Full Moon is a Contemporary Artwork realized by the Italian Artist Guelfo Bianchini (Ancona, 1937) in 1978.
Colored Etching on paper.
Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right corn...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
'Hold that Tiger' — Mid-century American Surrealism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Vale Faro, 'Hold that Tiger', color lithograph, 1945, edition 16. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '91' and '15/16' in pen. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on heavy, coated, off-white wove paper; the full sheet with margins (13/16 to 1 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 14 x 9 3/8 inches (356 x 239 mm); sheet size 17 x 11 1/4 inches (432 x 285 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Robert Vale Faro (1902-1988) was a well-known modernist architect and artist associated with the Chicago Bauhaus. He received his degree in architecture and design from the Armour Institute in Chicago and worked at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, from 1924-27, where he was influenced by Harry Kurt Bieg and Le Corbusier. Upon his return to Chicago, Faro worked with the important modernist Chicago architects George and William Keck under Louis Sullivan.
Faro founded the avant-garde printmaking group Vanguard in 1945. The group counted Atelier 17 artists Stanley William Hayter, Sue Fuller, and Anne Ryan as New York members and Francine Felsenthal of Chicago. The Brooklyn Museum mounted a show of Vanguard artists' work in 1946, which subsequently toured several other institutions in the United States.
Faro's visionary graphics from the 1940s are a sophisticated blend of Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism, and Indian Space...
Category
1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Kindergarten' — Mid-century American Surrealism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Vale Faro, 'Kindergarten', color lithograph, 1945, edition 12. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '99' and '5/12' in pen. A fine, richly-inked impression, with fresh colors, on heavy, coated off-white wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1/2 to 1 1/2 inch), in excellent condition. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 13 1/2 x 7 9/16 inches (343 x 192 mm); sheet size 17 x 12 1/4 inches (432 x 311 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Robert Vale Faro (1902-1988) was a well-known modernist architect and artist associated with the Chicago Bauhaus. He received his degree in architecture and design from the Armour Institute in Chicago and worked at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, from 1924-27, where he was influenced by Harry Kurt Bieg and Le Corbusier. Upon his return to Chicago, Faro worked with the important modernist Chicago architects George and William Keck under Louis Sullivan.
Faro founded the avant-garde printmaking group Vanguard in 1945. The group counted Atelier 17 artists Stanley William Hayter, Sue Fuller, and Anne Ryan as New York members and Francine Felsenthal of Chicago. The Brooklyn Museum mounted a show of Vanguard artists' work in 1946, which subsequently toured several other institutions in the United States.
Faro's visionary graphics from the 1940s are a sophisticated blend of Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism, and Indian Space...
Category
1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
AVL Zurich 74 (Surrealism)
By Raoul Ubac
Located in Kansas City, MO
Raoul Ubac
AVL Zurich 74
Lithograph on heavy paper
Signed and numbered by hand
Edition: 150
Size: 27.625x15.75in
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-1560
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Raoul Ubac (31 August...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Bird Dog' — Mid-century American Surrealism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Vale Faro, 'Bird Dog', color lithograph with relief collagraph, 1946, edition 14. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '123' (the artist's inventory number) and '12/14' in pen. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on heavy, cream, wove paper; the full sheet with margins(1 3/4 to 3 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 10 1/8 x 6 7/8 inches (257 x 174 mm); sheet size 17 x 11 7/16 inches (432 x 291 mm).
A collagraph is a relief print made from a collage of various materials adhered to a metal, plastic, hardboard, or other type of ground plate. In this work, the artist appears to have combined a lithograph with a collagraph to achieve the intricately textured image.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Robert Vale Faro (1902-1988) was a well-known modernist architect and artist associated with the Chicago Bauhaus. He received his degree in architecture and design from the Armour Institute in Chicago and worked at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, from 1924-27, where he was influenced by Harry Kurt Bieg and Le Corbusier. Upon his return to Chicago, Faro worked with the important modernist Chicago architects George and William Keck under Louis Sullivan.
Faro founded the avant-garde printmaking group Vanguard in 1945. The group counted Atelier 17 artists Stanley William Hayter, Sue Fuller, and Anne Ryan as New York members and Francine Felsenthal of Chicago. The Brooklyn Museum mounted a show of Vanguard artists' work in 1946, which subsequently toured several other institutions in the United States.
Faro's visionary graphics from the 1940s are a sophisticated blend of Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism, and Indian Space...
Category
1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled, from Le Soleil Recerclé - Abstract Art - Surrealism and Dada
By Hans Arp
Located in London, GB
JEAN [HANS] ARP 1886-1966
Strasbourg, France 1886 - 1966 Basel, Switzerland (German/French)
Title: Untitled, from Le Soleil Recerclé, 1962-65 (Black circle small shapes)
Technique:...
Category
1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Composition avec cheval en movement, original engraving
Located in Belgrade, MT
Roderick Fletcher Mead (American, 1900-1972) was an important painter and printmaker, best known for his surrealist landscapes and figural compositions reminiscent of Pablo Picasso a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Engraving
Trojan Horse, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Trojan Horse
Wojtek Kowalczyk, Polish (1960)
Date: 2005
Lithograph, signed in pencil
Size: 19.5 in. x 13.5 in. (49.53 cm x 34.29 cm)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Waiting, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Waiting
Wojtek Kowalczyk, Polish (1960)
Date: 2005
Lithograph, signed in pencil
Size: 19.5 in. x 13.5 in. (49.53 cm x 34.29 cm)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Composition from" Derrière le Miroir" - Lithograph by Joan Mirò - 1963
By Joan Miró
Located in Roma, IT
Composition from" Derrière le Miroir" is a lithograph print realized by Joan Mirò in 1963.
Derriere Le Miroir, Céramiques Monumentales de Miró et Artigas.Printed by Ateliers de Maeg...
Category
1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled XXII, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled XXII
Wojtek Kowalczyk, Polish (1960)
Date: 2005
Lithograph, signed in pencil
Size: 19.5 in. x 13.5 in. (49.53 cm x 34.29 cm)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled XIV, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled XIV
Wojtek Kowalczyk, Polish (1960)
Date: 2005
Lithograph, signed in pencil
Size: 19.5 in. x 13.5 in. (49.53 cm x 34.29 cm)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled - VII, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled - VII
Wojtek Kowalczyk, Polish (1960)
Date: 2005
Lithograph, signed in pencil
Size: 19.5 in. x 13.5 in. (49.53 cm x 34.29 cm)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Daliean Prophesy, Salvador Dali
Located in Fairfield, CT
Title: Dalinean Prophecy
Year: 1975
Medium: Engraving with pochoir on Arches paper
Edition: 250 Arabic Numerals on Arches paper, 250 (I = International) Arabic Numerals on Rives paper, 75 Roman Numerals on Japon paper, 25 Roman Numeral proofs (EAs) on Japon paper, and 5 Roman Numeral proofs (HCs) on Japon paper.
Size: 22.25 x 30.25 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed and numbered by the artist.
Notes: Published by Merrill Chase Publishing Associates. Albert Field Catalog Reference #: 75-13.
SALVADOR DALI (1904-1989) Salvador Dali's work is associated with the surrealist movement of the 20th Century. A diverse and multi-talented artist, Dali is considered one of the most collected artists today, and his works offer an incredible opportunity for enormous appreciation in value. In addition to his original works, Dali produced works on paper for reproduction using dry point, etching, woodcut, and lithography. Many of his works are held in prestigious private and public collections world...
Category
1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Engraving
Three Nightshades, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Three Nightshades
Wojtek Kowalczyk, Polish (1960)
Date: 2005
Lithograph, signed in pencil
Size: 19.5 in. x 13.5 in. (49.53 cm x 34.29 cm)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled I, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled I
Wojtek Kowalczyk, Polish (1960)
Date: 2005
Lithograph, signed in pencil
Size: 19.5 in. x 13.5 in. (49.53 cm x 34.29 cm)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled - III, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled - III
Wojtek Kowalczyk, Polish (1960)
Date: 2005
Lithograph, signed in pencil
Size: 19.5 in. x 13.5 in. (49.53 cm x 34.29 cm)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled - Seamstress, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled - Seamstress
Wojtek Kowalczyk, Polish (1960)
Date: 2005
Lithograph, signed in pencil
Size: 19.5 in. x 13.5 in. (49.53 cm x 34.29 cm)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled X, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled X
Wojtek Kowalczyk, Polish (1960)
Date: 2005
Lithograph, signed in pencil
Size: 13.5 in. x 19.5 in. (34.29 cm x 49.53 cm)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Traveling, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Traveling
Wojtek Kowalczyk, Polish (1960)
Date: 2005
Lithograph, signed in pencil
Size: 13.5 in. x 19.5 in. (34.29 cm x 49.53 cm)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled XXI, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled XXI
Wojtek Kowalczyk, Polish (1960)
Date: 2005
Lithograph, signed in pencil
Size: 19.5 in. x 13.5 in. (49.53 cm x 34.29 cm)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled XXIII, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled XXIII
Wojtek Kowalczyk, Polish (1960)
Date: 2005
Lithograph, signed in pencil
Size: 19.5 in. x 13.5 in. (49.53 cm x 34.29 cm)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled XXV, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled XXV
Wojtek Kowalczyk, Polish (1960)
Date: 2005
Lithograph, signed in pencil
Size: 13.5 in. x 19.5 in. (34.29 cm x 49.53 cm)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Butterfly Nets, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Butterfly Nets
Wojtek Kowalczyk, Polish (1960)
Date: 2005
Lithograph, signed in pencil
Size: 13.5 in. x 19.5 in. (34.29 cm x 49.53 cm)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled XXVI, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled XXVI
Wojtek Kowalczyk, Polish (1960)
Date: 2005
Lithograph, signed in pencil
Size: 19.5 in. x 13.5 in. (49.53 cm x 34.29 cm)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled - IV, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled - IV
Wojtek Kowalczyk, Polish (1960)
Date: 2005
Lithograph, signed in pencil
Size: 19.5 in. x 13.5 in. (49.53 cm x 34.29 cm)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled - Stairs and Ladders, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled - Stairs and Ladders
Wojtek Kowalczyk, Polish (1960)
Date: 2005
Lithograph, signed in pencil
Size: 19.5 in. x 13.5 in. (49.53 cm x 34.29 cm)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled - Night Path, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled - Night Path
Wojtek Kowalczyk, Polish (1960)
Date: 2005
Lithograph, signed in pencil
Size: 19.5 in. x 13.5 in. (49.53 cm x 34.29 cm)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled - Paper Tree, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled - Paper Tree
Wojtek Kowalczyk, Polish (1960)
Date: 2005
Lithograph, signed in pencil
Size: 19.5 in. x 13.5 in. (49.53 cm x 34.29 cm)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled 26, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled 26
Wojtek Kowalczyk, Polish (1960)
Date: 2005
Lithograph, signed in pencil
Size: 19.5 in. x 13.5 in. (49.53 cm x 34.29 cm)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Miró Lithographe I - Plate VII - Lithograph by Joan Mirò - 1972
By Joan Miró
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 realized for the catalogue "Mir...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Abstract Composition - Woodcut - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is a woodcut print on paper realized by an Anonymous artist in the 1950s.
Hand-signed, illegible, and numbered, edition of 50/100 prints.
Good conditions.
The...
Category
1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
PLATE IX (FROM LA BAGUE D'AURORE SUITE)
By Joan Miró
Located in Aventura, FL
Plate IX from Suite La Bague d'aurore (The Ring of Dawn Suite). Aquatint in colours, on BFK Rives paper, with full margins. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Image size 4.5 x 5...
Category
1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Silex I (Surrealism)
By Raoul Ubac
Located in Kansas City, MO
Raoul Ubac
Silex I
Year: 1981
Lithograph
Signed and numbered by hand
Edition: 75
Size: 9.4 × 13.0 on 20.9 × 25.2 inches
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-1555
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Raoul Ubac (31...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Miró Lithographe I - Plate X - Lithograph by Joan Mirò - 1972
By Joan Miró
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
Materials
Lithograph
Miró Lithographe II - Plate II - Lithograph by J. Mirò - 1975
By Joan Miró
Located in Roma, IT
"Miró Lithographe II - Plate II"
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...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Spectacles with Holograms & Computers (Imagination & Objects), Salvador Dali
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Title: Spectacles w/ Holograms & Computers (Imagination & Objects of the Future Portfolio)
Year: 1975
Medium: Lithograph on Rives BFK paper
Edition: International Edition of 250
Size: 30.25 x 22 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed and numbered by the artist.
Notes: Published by Merrill Chase Publishing Associates, Chicago, IL. Catalog Raisonne Reference #: (M. & L. 822-831 & 832; F. 75-11 & 75-13).
SALVADOR DALI (1904-1989) Salvador Dali's work is associated with the surrealist movement of the 20th Century. A diverse and multi-talented artist, Dali is considered one of the most collected artists today, and his works offer an incredible opportunity for enormous appreciation in value. In addition to his original works, Dali produced works on paper for reproduction using dry point, etching, woodcut, and lithography. Many of his works are held in prestigious private and public collections world...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
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Mixed Media, Lithograph
Les Bijoux Indiscrets
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Les Bijoux Indiscrets
(The Indiscreet Jewels)
Color lithograph, 1962-3
As published in XXeme Siecle, 1963
From the edition issued by San Lazarro unsigned for the album XXeme Siècle No.22. Printed from the same stones and at the same date as the signed edition of 75 impressions. Printed at the studio of Mourlot, Paris 1963.
Signed in the stone (see photo)
Titled in the stone (See photo)
Edition c. 2000
Reference: Kaplan and Baum: Magritte Graphic Work no 3.
Kaplan, Surrealist Prints, Figure 80, page 103
Image size: 9 3/16 x 11 7/8 inches
"Executed in 1963, Les bijoux indiscrets (pen and ink drawing) is a work which shows a hand which has a face, its eyes closed, on its wrist. Magritte had originally intended to call the oil version of this work, which he conceived of in 1962 but only finally painted during the following year, the same this work on paper was created, La divine comédie, but according to the catalogue raisonné changed his mind following the suggestion of his friend Paul Scutenaire. Instead of the Dante reference, it was replaced by one to Denis Diderot's first novel, a satire in which a monarch had a magic ring able to make the genitals of women speak. In an old English translation, the bijoux were the 'toys', or genitals, of the women, making the play on the notion of transformative and elusive jewels evoked by Magritte's picture all the more complex. For here, in place of a bracelet, is a human face: this is, indeed, an indiscreet jewel; however, in the eighteenth-century novel the indiscretion was shared by the ring which was able to gain such voluble responses from the women of the fictitious Congo of which the main protagonist was sultan and by those women's no-longer-private parts themselves. This title therefore adds an extra layer of Surrealism to the work, paying homage to one of the movement's predecessors.
Les bijoux indiscrets is a preparatory work for a lithograph that Magritte created for XXe Siècle, which was published at Christmas the same year. Clearly, the artist was returning to and embellishing his original composition, which had shown a simple landscape as a backdrop to the articulate hand...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
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
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
Miró Lithographe I - Plate VII - Lithograph by Joan Mirò - 1972
By Joan Miró
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 realized for the catalogue "Mi...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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