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Surrealist Nude 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
Thou art all faire, my love: there is no spot in thee, Etching by Salvador Dali
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original hand-signed Dali etching framed in a museum white-gold leaf frame with silk matting and silver bevel. Artist: Salvador Dali Title: Thou art all faire, my love: there is no spot in thee from the Portfolio Song of Songs of Solomon...
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1970s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Etching

Salvador Dali - Queen Iseult and her daughter
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Queen Iseult and her daughter - Original Etching Dimensions: 45 x 33 cm Edition: 125 1970 Signed in pencil. On Arches Vellum References : Field 70-10 (p. 60-61)
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1970s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Etching

Mujer en Azul, Abstract Lithograph by Byron Galvez
Located in Long Island City, NY
Title: Mujer en Azul Date: 1980 Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 100 Dimensions: 30 x 22 inches
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1980s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Salvador Dali - Pear and Nude Back
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Pear and Nude Back - Original Etching Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm Edition: 390 1967 On Rives Vellum References : Field 67-4 (p. 32-33) / Michler & Lopsinger 174 to 187.
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1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Salvador Dali - The Queen with Silk Tunic
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Queen with Silk Tunic - Original Etching Dimensions: 45 x 33 cm Edition: 125 1970 Signed in pencil. On Arches Vellum References : Field 70-10 (p. 60-61)
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1970s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Salvador Dali - The Knights of King Arthur
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Knights of King Arthur - Original Etching Dimensions: 45 x 33 cm Edition: 125 1970 Signed in pencil. On Arches Vellum References : Fiel...
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1970s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Salvador Dali - The Arrival of Iseult - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Arrival of Iseult - Original Etching Dimensions: 45 x 33 cm Edition: 125 1970 Signed in pencil. On Arches Vellum References : Field 70-10 (p. 60-61)
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1970s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Salvador Dali - Nails on Nude
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Nails on Nude - Original Etching Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm Edition: 390 1967 On Rives Vellum References : Field 67-4 (p. 32-33) / Michler & Lopsinger 174 to 187.
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1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Etching

"Erotica IV Marginala, " from the Mask of the Red Death series signed Castellon
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This lithograph was one of sixteen Federico Castellón produced in 1968, published by Aquarius Press, to illustrate Edgar Allan Poe's 1832 story 'The Mask of the Red Death.' The image...
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1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Salvador Dali - Brother Ogrin, The Hermit - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Brother Ogrin, The Hermit - Original Etching Dimensions: 45 x 33 cm Edition: 4/125 1970 Signed in pencil. On Arches Vellum References : Field 70-10 (p. 60-61)
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1970s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Salvador Dali - The Giant Beliagog
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Giant Beliagog - Original Etching Dimensions: 45 x 33 cm Edition: 125 1970 Signed in pencil. On Arches Vellum References : Field 70-10 (p. 60-61)
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1970s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Salvador Dali - Women - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Women - Original Etching Embossed signature From the edition of 731 Dimensions: 38,5 x 28,5 cm 1969 References : Field 69-1 / Michler & Lopsinger 305
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1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Etching

Salvador Dali - The Crown - Original Etching on Silk
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Crown- from "Les Amours de Cassandre" Original Etching From the suite on Silk made for editions 9 to 34 Dimensions: 38,5 x ...
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1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Etching

"Erotica III Marginala, " from the Mask of the Red Death series signed Castellon
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This lithograph was one of sixteen Federico Castellón produced in 1968, published by Aquarius Press, to illustrate Edgar Allan Poe's 1832 story 'The Mask of the Red Death.' The image...
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1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Aphrodite - Héliogravure and Drypoint attr. to Salvador Dali - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Attr. to S. Dalì, "Aphrodite", Heliogravure and dry-point. Paris, Argillet. 1963-65. Image dimensions 49,2 x 39,7 cm. Beautiful Proof on vélin filigrané “Arches”, Signed and Dated...
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1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Drypoint

Une Jeune Femme Presente Avec Grace, from Les Enfants Trouves
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "" Une Jeune Femme Presente Avec Grace" from the suite" Les Enfants Trouves created in 1953 and printed/published in 1968 in an...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Nude Prints

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Lithograph

The Journey to India, Etching by Jan Peter Tripp
Located in Long Island City, NY
The Journey to India Jan Peter Tripp German (1945) Date: 1986 Etching, signed, numbered, dated, and titled in pencil Edition of 46/300 Image Size: 15 x 18 inches Size: 21.5 x 24.5 in...
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1980s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Etching

Unité, Planche 10 (Set of 2) /// Surrealism Modern Art Le Corbusier Nude Animal
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) (Swiss-French, 1887-1965) Title: "Unité, Planche 10" (Set of 2) Portfolio: Unité *Signed by Le Corbusier in pencil lower right. It is...
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1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio

Jean Cocteau - Under the Fire Coat - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau - Under the Fire Coat - Original Lithograph Signed "Jean" in the plate and dated 1954 in the plate. Joseph Forêt Editions Dimensions: 41 x 33 cm...
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1950s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Rat in the sky - XX century, Mixed media print, Figurative, Nude
Located in Warsaw, PL
Copy III of X. JACEK SOWICKI (born in 1948) He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and graduated from the Academy Of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1973. In 1984-89 he run the gra...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Nude Prints

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Mixed Media, Paper

Nu a la Guitarre (Serenade), Lithograph by Salvador Dalí
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Salvador Dali, Spanish (1904 - 1989) Title: Nu a la Guitarre (Serenade) from the Nudes Suite Year: 1970 Medium: Lithograph on Rives, Signed and numbered in Pencil Edition: C...
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1970s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Les Amours de Cassandre Bicephale by Salvador Dali
Located in Paonia, CO
Bicephale ( personnage a deux tetes ) by Salvador Dali is from Les Amours de Cassandre , a suite of 18 original engravings inspired by ...
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1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Finis le Paradis, Surrealist Etching by Jan Peter Tripp
Located in Long Island City, NY
Finis le Paradis Jan Peter Tripp German (1945) Date: 1994 Etching, signed, numbered, dated, and titled in pencil Edition of 6/66 Image Size: 39 x 20 inches ...
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1990s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Etching

Remembrance of Noah's Ark
By Konstantin Kalinovich
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed artist proof from ex libris edition of approx. 100. Based on the Biblical story of Noah's Ark Kalinovich (Born in Novokuznetsk, Russia, in 1959) is a Ukrainian printmaker bes...
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Early 2000s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Salvador Dali - Bicephale - Original Etching on Silk
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Bicephale - from "Les Amours de Cassandre" Original Etching From the suite on Silk made for editions 9 to 34 Dimensions: 38,5 x...
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1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Etching

Leonor Fini Erotica I etching
Located in Paonia, CO
An etching by Leonor Fini depicting three men and three woman interacting in various ways and one of the woman sitting in the foreground is playing the lute. This is a signed limited edition etching numbering 68 out of 100. There is also a signature by the artist embossed in the paper just below the pencil signature. The paper is very fibrous and is deckle -edged. The paper size is 26 x 20.25 Image size 15.50 x 12.50. This original rare etching is in very good condition. Argentinian-born artist Leonor Fini (1907-1996) is considered one of the great female artists of the twentieth century. She moved to Paris in the early 1930’s where she spent most of her life and almost immediately formed friendships with Salvador Dali, Cartier- Bresson, Max Ernst and other intellectuals of the time. At twenty five she had her first one person show in Paris and was included in the 1936 pivotal exhibition at MOMA…Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism…..and that same year had an exhibition at a famous avant garde gallery in New York. Although Fini never considered herself a Surrealist she maintained close personal relationships with several members of the group. One can see how their ideology influenced her work but she remained firmly rooted in the tradition of Symbolism, Metaphysics and Italian and German Romanticism Her works can be found in most important collections of modern art around the world. Fini was renowned as a portraitist and as a painter of erotic sexual tensions with a mysterious atmosphere. She was adamant about being independent and not belonging to any one group. She lived life on her own terms and is sometimes referred to as …..the female Dali. She was also involved with designing for fashion and creating elaborate sets for opera and theatre. As a feminist she was definitely ahead of the times. She produced the first erotic male nude...
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1970s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Salvador Dali - Old Faust - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Old Faust - from "Faust" Original Etching Embossed signature From the edition of 731 Dimensions: 38,5 x 28,5 cm 1969 References : Field 69-1 / Michler & Lopsinger 305
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1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Etching

Salvador Dali - Baubo (Woman Riding a Sow), from Faust - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Baubo (Woman Riding a Sow), from Faust Embossed signature (from the standard book edition of 731) Dimensions: 38,5 x 28,5 cm 1969 References : Field 69-1 B / Michler ...
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1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Etching

Demon, rising sun - XX century, Mixed media print, Figurative, Nude
Located in Warsaw, PL
JACEK SOWICKI (born in 1948) He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and graduated from the Academy Of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1973. In 1984-89 he run the graphics atelier at...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Nude Prints

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Paper, Mixed Media

Petit traite de Morale, Surrealist Nude by Hans Bellmer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Hans Bellmer, German Title: Petit traite de Morale Year: 1968 Medium: Color Etching, signed in pencil Image Size: 10.5 x 8.5 inches Frame Size: 20 x 16 inches
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1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Etching

Dreaming Nude and Blue Bird - Original handsigned lithograph
Located in Paris, FR
Corneille Dreaming Nude and Blue Bird, 1998 Original lithograph Handsigned in pencil Numbered EA / 20 On vellum 52 x 66 cm (c. 21 x 26 inch) Excellent condition
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1990s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Salvador Dali - Kneeling Knight - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Kneeling Knight - Original Etching Stamp Signed Dimensions: 38,5 x 28,5 cm 1969 References : Field 69-1 / Michler & Lopsinger 305
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1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Etching

Salvador Dali - Venus, Mars and Cupidon - Handsigned Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Venus, Mars and Cupidon - Handsigned Etching Title: Venus, Mars and Cupidon Dimensions: 76 X 56 cm From the Homage to Dürer Numbered: EA, Epreuve d'Artiste Rives ...
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1970s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Etching

Les Crimes de l'Amour, Surrealist Nude by Hans Bellmer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Hans Bellmer, German (1902 - 1975) Title: Les Crimes de l'Amour Year: 1968 Medium: Color Etching, signed in pencil Image Size: 10.5 x 8.5 inches Frame Size: 21.5 x 17.5 inches
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1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Etching

The Milky Way ( La Voie Lactee ) Etching by Salvador Dali The Mythology suite
Located in Paonia, CO
The Milky Way ( La Voie Lactee ) is from The Mythology Suite by Salvador Dali. It is the fourteenth plate created out of sixteen in the years 1960-...
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1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Etching

Le Fil d'Ariane (Ariadne's Clew) /// Modern Surrealism Surrelist Andre Masson
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: André Masson (French, 1896-1987) Title: "Le Fil d'Ariane (Ariadne's Clew)" Portfolio: For Meyer Schapiro *Signed by Masson in pencil lower right Year: 1973 Medium: Original Etching with Aquatint on Rives BFK paper Limited edition: 15/100 Printer: Atelier Crommelynck, Paris, France Publisher: The Committee to Endow a Chair in Honor of Meyer Schapiro at Columbia University, New York, NY Sheet size: 18" x 13.5" Image size: 11.5" x 8.5" Condition: Never framed, has been professionally stored away for decades. In excellent condition Rare Notes: Numbered by Masson in pencil lower left. Comes from the 1974 "For Meyer Schapiro" portfolio of twelve print editions by various artists. The "For Meyer Schapiro" portfolio consisted of four lithographs (one with embossing), three screenprints (one with stamp additions), two lithographs and screenprints (one with embossing), two etching and aquatints, and one duplicated drawing. Various printers were used. In addition to Masson, the following artists also contributed to the portfolio: Stanley William Hayter, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Alexander Liberman, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Saul Steinberg, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol. Biography: André Masson (b. Balagny-sur-Thérain 1896 - Paris 1987) was a French artist. He was brought up in Belgium. He began his study of art at the age of eleven in Brussels, at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts 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 experimented with altered states of consciousness with artists such as Antonin Artaud, Michel Leiris, Joan Miró, Georges Bataille, Jean Dubuffet, and Georges Malkine, who were neighbors of his studio in Paris. 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. 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...
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1970s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Etching, Intaglio, Aquatint

Leonor Fini Erotica II Etching
Located in Paonia, CO
Leonor Fini Erotica II is depicting six nude women in various poses sitting in a circle. This is a signed limited edition etching numbering 1 out of 10. The paper is very fibrous and the paper size is 17.75 x 25 Image size 11.75 x 15.75. This rare original etching is in excellent condition. Argentinian-born artist Leonor Fini (1907-1996) is considered one of the great female artists of the twentieth century. She moved to Paris in the early 1930’s where she spent most of her life and almost immediately formed friendships with Salvador Dali, Cartier- Bresson, Max Ernst and other intellectuals of the time. At twenty five she had her first one person show in Paris and was included in the 1936 pivotal exhibition at MOMA…Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism…..and that same year had an exhibition at a famous avant garde gallery in New York. Although Fini never considered herself a Surrealist she maintained close personal relationships with several members of the group. One can see how their ideology influenced her work but she remained firmly rooted in the tradition of Symbolism, Metaphysics and Italian and German Romanticism Her works can be found in most important collections of modern art around the world. Fini was renowned as a portraitist and as a painter of erotic sexual tensions with a mysterious atmosphere. She was adamant about being independent and not belonging to any one group. She lived life on her own terms and is sometimes referred to as …..the female Dali. She was also involved with designing for fashion and creating elaborate sets for opera and theatre. As a feminist she was definitely ahead of the times. She produced the first erotic male nude...
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1970s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Etching

Decameron - Portfolio of 10 Original Signed Engravings by Salvador Dali
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Portfolio of 10 Original Signed Engravings by Salvador Dali Title: Decameron Signed in Pencil by Salvador Dali Dimensions: 45 x 32 cm Edition EA 1/5 1972 References : Field 72-8 (p. ...
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1970s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Engraving

Hans Bellmer - Woman - HandSigned Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Hans BELLMER Woman Original Etching Hand-Signed Edition: 108 / 150 Dimensions: 51 x 38 cm Circa 1970 Hans Bellmer was born in Kattowitz in 1902. At his father's insistence, he worked in a steel factory and a coal mine after finishing the examinations qualifying for university admittance. Nevertheless, Bellmer managed to do some art work and exhibit it in Poland in 1922/23. The work led to his arrest. While studying engineering at Berlin Polytechnic, Hans Bellmer met John Heartfield, Rudolf Schlichter and George Grosz. In 1924 Bellmer dropped out of engineering, worked as a book printer and then as an illustrator for Malik Verlag. That winter Bellmer took his first trip to Paris. After his marriage in 1927, Hans Bellmer worked as a commercial artist, attended lectures at the Bauhaus in the early 1930s and travelled to Italy and Tunisia. He refused to continue working as a sign of resistance to Fascism in 1933. To show his repudiation of Fascism and the aesthetic it propagated, Hans Bellmer began to construct girlish three-dimensional dolls, which he photographed in erotic poses. Some of these works were published by Bellmer at his own expense in 1934, others appeared in the Surrealist journal "Le Minotaure", ensuring Bellmer important ranking among Paris Surrealists...
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1970s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Dreamy Nude, Original etching, Handsigned
Located in Paris, FR
Hans BELLMER Dreamy Nude Original etching Handsigned in pencil Numbered by Artist, limited to 70 copies On Japanese paper 67.5 x 51.5 cm (26.5 x 20") Excellent condition
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Nude Prints

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Etching

The Autumn - XX century, Mixed media print, Figurative, Nude, Muted Colors
Located in Warsaw, PL
JACEK SOWICKI (born in 1948) He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and graduated from the Academy Of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1973. In 1984-89 he run the graphics atelier at...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Nude Prints

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Paper, Mixed Media

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Find a wide variety of authentic Surrealist nude prints available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add nude prints created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of orange, blue, yellow and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Salvador Dalí, Enrico Baj, Leonor Fini, and Charles Long. Frequently made by artists working with Etching, and Lithograph 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 nude prints, so small editions measuring 2.75 inches across are also available. Prices for nude 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 $125 and tops out at $14,995, while the average work sells for $1,995.

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