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Art For Sale
Artist: Salvador Dalí
Artist: Sarah Alexander
Salvador Dalí – Femme à le béquille – hand watercolored drypoint etching – 1969
Located in Varese, IT
hand watercolored drypoint etching on extremely fine Japanese paper, edited in 1969 limited edition of 145 copies water-colored , numbered in lower left corner ea ( artist proof ) si...
Category

1960s Surrealist Art

Materials

Watercolor, Etching, Drypoint, Paper

New York City Plaza (Plaza Fountain)
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: New York City Plaza (Plaza Fountain) MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: 101/125 MEASUREMENTS: 30" x 22" YEAR: 1964 FRAMED: No C...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching

Rhinoceros, Tribute to Albrecht DURER - Original lithograph poster (Gaspar #1503
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Rhinoceros, Tribute to Albrecht DURER, 1971 Original lithograph Printed signature in the plate On paper 76 x 56.5 cm (c. 30 x 22 in) REFERENCE : Catalog r...
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1970s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Losias Sepultus in Mausoleo Patrum from Bibla Sacra by Salvador Dali
Located in Paonia, CO
Losias Sepultus in Mausoleo Patrum ( Josiah buried in the Mausoleum of his Father ) is a colored lithograph from the original gouache on heavy rag paper from Salvador Dali’...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Saint Raphael from Biblia Sacra by Salvador Dali
Located in Paonia, CO
Saint Raphael 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 , 1965-1969....
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

He Uttered A Loud Cry and He Breathed His Last from Biblia Sacra Salvador Dali
Located in Paonia, CO
He Uttered A Loud Cry and He Breathed His Last is a colored lithograph from the original gouache on heavy rag paper from Salvador Dali’s five volume Biblia Sacra Suite publish...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Raspberry Bush
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: Raspberry Bush Series: Flors Dali (The Fruits) Date: 1969 Medium: Lithograph with original drypoint remarques Framed Dimensions: 37" x 29.5" Signa...
Category

1960s Surrealist Art

Materials

Drypoint, Lithograph

Don Quijote : The Heart of Madness - Original etching, Handsigned (Field #80-1J)
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador DALI (1904-1989) Don Quijote : The heart of madness, 1980 Original etching with aquatint Hansigned in pencil Numbered / 125 On Arches vellum...
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1970s Surrealist Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

And He Was Baptised from Biblia Sacra by Salvador Dali
Located in Paonia, CO
And He Was Baptised 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 , 1965-1...
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1960s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Macbeth
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: Macbeth Series: Much Ado About Shakespeare Date: 1968 Medium: original drypoint engravings Unframed Dimensions: 17.72" x 12.6" Framed Dimensions: ...
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1960s Surrealist Art

Materials

Engraving, Drypoint

Battle of the Knights
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: Battle of the Knights Series: La Vida es Sueno Date: 1973 Medium: drypoint engraving in sanguine ink Unframed Dimensions: 11" x 14.9" Framed Dimens...
Category

1970s Surrealist Art

Materials

Drypoint, Engraving

Oysters and Nude
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: Oysters and Nude Series: Dali Illustre Casanova Date: 1967 Medium: drypoint with added watercolor Unframed Dimensions: 14.75" x 11" Framed Dimensio...
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1960s Surrealist Art

Materials

Drypoint

The Golden Fleece
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: The Golden Fleece Series: Aranella Date: 1974 Medium: drypoint printed in color Signature: Pencil signed Edition: 127 / 300 Literature: AF 91 Pr...
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1970s Surrealist Art

Materials

Drypoint, Color

The Unicorn Laser Disintegrates the Horns of Cosmic Rhinoceroses (The Conquest o
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Unicorn Laser Disintegrates the Horns of the Cosmic Rhinoceroses from the Conquest of Cosmos suite – 29.5 x 22" image size, signed ‘Dalí’ lower right and annotated lower left. Fr...
Category

20th Century Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph, Drypoint

Fashion Designer
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Fashion Designer MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: 292/350 MEASUREMENTS: 29" x 21" YEAR: 1980 FRAMED: No CONDITION: Excell...
Category

1980s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Angels in Flight: The Divine World
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: Angels in Flight: The Divine Word Series: The Stained-Glass Windows - Les Vitraux Date: 1974 Medium: Lithograph printed in color Unframed Dimensio...
Category

1970s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Torero Noir
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Torero Noir MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Jean Schneider, Basel EDITION NUMBER: EA MEASUREMENTS: 29.75" x 21.75" YEAR: 1969 P...
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1960s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Salvador Dalíi -- The Bird Has Flown from the Carmen suite, 1970
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Salvador Dali The Bird Has Flown from the Carmen suite, 1970 Signed in the centre of the image bottom Edition J/Z lower left Published by Shorewood Publishers, New York Image size...
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1970s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Large Flask
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: Large Flask Series: Dali Illustre Casanova Date: 1967 Medium: drypoint with added watercolor Unframed Dimensions: 14.75" x 11" Framed Dimensions: ...
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1960s Surrealist Art

Materials

Drypoint

Caballero con Casco y Mariposas
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: Caballero con Casco y Mariposas Series: La Vida es Sueno Date: 1973 Edition: /355 Medium: drypoint engraving with added color Unframed Dimensions: ...
Category

1970s Surrealist Art

Materials

Drypoint, Engraving, Color

King Lear
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: King Lear Series: Much Ado About Shakespeare Date: 1968 Medium: original drypoint engravings Unframed Dimensions: 17.72" x 12.6" Framed Dimensions:...
Category

1960s Surrealist Art

Materials

Engraving, Drypoint

Visions Surrealiste Mystery of Sleep
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Visions Surrealsite Mystery of Sleep MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Levine & Levine EDITION NUMB...
Category

1970s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

The Three Graces of Hawaii
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: The Three Graces of Hawaii MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: A.P. 56/75 MEASUREMENTS: 21.5" x 30" YEAR: 1979 FRAMED: No C...
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1970s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Woman Aflame Salvador Dali 1980
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Salvador Dali Femme En FLamme Woman Aflame Artist signed in the mold, edition 141/350 Edition of 350 + 35AP stamped 'Venturi Arte' and Camblest 1981 Edi...
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1980s Surrealist Art

Materials

Bronze

Moses
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: Moses Series: Our Historical Heritage Date: 1975 Medium: drypoint with added color Unframed Dimensions: 26" x 19.875" Framed Dimensions: 33.5" x 2...
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1970s Surrealist Art

Materials

Drypoint

Magic Butterfly & The Dream Apparition of The Rose
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Magic Butterfly & The Dream Apparition of The Rose MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: 92/250 MEASUREMENTS: 29.5" x 21.3" YEAR...
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1970s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

The Fisherman
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: The Fisherman Series: Les Amours de Cassandre Date: 1968 Medium: drypoint with added color Framed Dimensions: 27.5" x 23.5" Signature: Pencil sig...
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1960s Surrealist Art

Materials

Drypoint

Ants, Snails, and Flies on Nude
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: Ants, Snails, and Flies on Nude Series: Dali Illustre Casanova Date: 1967 Medium: drypoint with added watercolor Unframed Dimensions: 14.75" x 11" ...
Category

1960s Surrealist Art

Materials

Drypoint, Watercolor

Chevalier Royal de L’Apocalypse
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Chevalier Royal de L'Apocalypse MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: 32/100 MEASUREMENTS: 20" x 25.75" YEAR: 1972 FRAMED: No COND...
Category

1970s Surrealist Art

Materials

Etching

Salvador Dalí – La Botte violette – hand watercolored drypoint etching – 1969
Located in Varese, IT
hand watercolored drypoint etching on extremely fine Japanese paper, edited in 1969 limited edition of 145 copies water-colored , numbered in lower left corner ea ( artist proof ) si...
Category

1960s Surrealist Art

Materials

Watercolor, Paper, Drypoint, Etching

Salvador Dalí – Femme-feuille – hand watercolored drypoint etching – 1969
Located in Varese, IT
hand watercolored drypoint etching on extremely fine Japanese paper, edited in 1969 limited edition of 145 copies water-colored , numbered in lower left corner ea ( artist proof ) si...
Category

1960s Surrealist Art

Materials

Watercolor, Etching, Drypoint, Paper

Departure of The Fisherman
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Departure of The Fisherman MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: 51/150 MEASUREMENTS: 25.75" x 38" YEAR: 1965 FRAMED: No CONDIT...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

The Court of the Lion
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: The Court of the Lion Series: Bestiaire de la Fontaine Date: 1974 Medium: drypoint drypoint with color added by stencil Unframed Dimensions: 29.92"...
Category

1970s Surrealist Art

Materials

Drypoint, Color Pencil

Salvador Dalí­ -- The Toda from the series "Contes d'Andersen", 1966
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Salvador Dalí The Toda from the series "Contes d'Andersen", 1966 Signed low right Edition number: E.A. Literature Michler-Lopsinger 1171. Plate. 50 x 40 cm Sheet 65 x 50 cm
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1960s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Divine Comedy complete set of 6 books
Located in Wilton, CT
complete set of 100 plates from the Divine Comedy Perfect condition. Illustration pages only, no text. Justification pages included.
Category

Mid-20th Century Surrealist Art

Materials

Engraving

Poems Secrets War 1914-1918
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Poems Secrets War 1914-1918 MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Editions Argillet, Paris EDITION NUMBER: 108/145 MEASUREMENTS: 11" x 15...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching

Don Quijote : The Legacy - Original etching, Handsigned (Field #80-1N)
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador DALI (1904-1989) Don Quijote : The Legacy, 1980 Original etching with aquatint Hansigned in pencil Numbered / 125 On Arches vellum 76 x 56.5 cm (c. 30 x 22 in) Authenticate...
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1970s Surrealist Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Spanish Artist hand signed limited edition original art print drypoint n13
Located in Miami, FL
Salvador Dali (Spain, 1904-1989) 'Le Cheval et le Loup', 1974 Serie: Le Bestiaire de La Fontaine dry point, aquatint on japanese paper 22.9 x 30.8 in. (58 x 78 cm.) Edition of 250 Unframed ID: DAL2001-013 Hand-signed by author It appears reviewed in the catalog raisonné: The official catalog of the graphic works of Salvador Dalí. Albert Field. Page: 2/93. Nr. 74-1 L. ______________________________________________________ Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech was a Spanish painter, sculptor, engraver, set designer and writer of the 20th century. An artist associated with surrealism, he is one of the most important figures in 20th century art, representing the archetype of the spectacular contemporary multifaceted artist. He develops his creative activity in various fields through the most diverse cultural formulas: painting, written media, performing arts, cinema, or public appearances in the press, radio, cinema, advertising, television, etc. Master of the most refined pictorial technique, especially drawing, along with various aesthetic languages - from impressionism, cubism, purism or late ultraism with Dadaist edges to the most radical surrealism, hyperrealism, pop-art or art optical—, will absorb every influence that is useful to build its own and personal language, halfway between technical tradition and thematic avant-garde. His paranoid-critical method is his main contribution to the surrealist movement and to the history of art as a new creative model with which Dalí's theories acquire theoretical entity - thanks to the successive interpretations that the Empordà artist made of his readings of Dalí's work. Sigmund Freud—and practice, applying it as a revealing liquid of images that can be represented plastically through multiple images, anamorphisms, relational mirages, irrational and heterogeneous symbolic images, pseudohallucinations, childhood memories, atavisms, obsessive ideas, etc., and recreating a polyphonic method capable of critically relating any visual or sensitive experience. With his method, Dalí makes paranoid delirium a whole mode of expression of an art that introduces us to the concrete irrationality that inhabits every creative process, constructing not only his works, but also his own character. as an artist. In Dalí, the relationship between his work and his personal history becomes evident. Much of the most significant biographical facts for the artist are implicitly or explicitly present in the content of his work and are the explanation of his complex and contradictory personality. In 1910, at the age of 6, he was enrolled by his father in the Hispano-French school of the Immaculate Conception of Figueres, where he learned French, his future language of culture. Dalí's first contact with Impressionism occurred in 1916, when he spent some time on the outskirts of Figueres, specifically at the Molí de la Torre estate, property of the Pichot family (intellectuals and artists), where he was the collection of the painter Ramón Pichot. In 1919 he participated for the first time in a group exhibition in the halls of the Societat de Concerts, and with a group of friends from the institute founded the magazine Studium, in which he published his first writings. A year later he moved to Madrid to study at the School of Fine Arts. In 1922 he won his first prize at the Concurs-exposició d'obres d'art originals d'students, held at the Galeries Dalmau (Barcelona). This same year he attended the School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving in Madrid (Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando), and lived in the Student Residence, where he became friends with prominent personalities such as Luis Buñuel, Federico García Lorca, Pedro Garfias , Eugenio Montes, or Pepín Bello. However, a year later he was expelled from the Academy for his rebellious and revolutionary character, accused of leading a protest. It would be in 1927 when his surrealist period began, after having traveled to the Netherlands and France, meeting Flemish painters and Picasso. In Paris itself, in 1929, through Joan Miró, he came into contact with a group of surrealists headed...
Category

1970s Surrealist Art

Materials

Drypoint, Paper, Aquatint

Don Quijote : Off to Battle - Original etching, Handsigned (Field #80-1L)
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador DALI (1904-1989) Don Quijote : Off to Battle, 1980 Original etching with aquatint Hansigned in pencil Numbered / 125 On Arches vellum 76 x 56.5 cm (c. 30 x 22 in) Authentic...
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1970s Surrealist Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Ultra Surrealist, Corpuscular Galutska
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: Ultra Surrealist Corpuscular Galutska Series: Memories of Surrealism Date: 1971 Medium: Lithograph with etching Unframed Dimensions: 29.75" x 21.2...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Etching, Lithograph

The Mythology Medusa
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: The Mythology Medusa MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Pierre Argillet, Paris EDITION NUMBER: 68/150 MEASUREMENTS: 29.9" x 1...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching

Piano surréaliste, Salvador Dali
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Title: Piano surréaliste Year: 1984 Medium: Bronze Edition: 34/350, plus proofs Size: 26.3 x 15.7 x 12 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Inci...
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1980s Surrealist Art

Materials

Bronze

The Earth Goddess (The Chef)
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: The Earth Goddess (The Chef) MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Levine & Levine for DALART EDITION NUMBER: HC 19/65 MEASUREMENTS: 29...
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1980s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Martian Dalí Equipped with a Holo-Electronic Microscope (The Conquest of Cosmos
Located in Greenwich, CT
Martian Dalí Equipped with a Holo-Electronic Microscope – 29.75 x 21.87" image size, signed ‘Dalí’ lower right and annotated lower left. Framed in an ornate gold-tone frame. Micheler...
Category

20th Century Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph, Drypoint

Return, O Virgin ...
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: Return, O Virgin... Series: Aliyah Date: 1968 Medium: Color Lithograph Unframed Dimensions: 25" x 19.625" Framed Dimensions: 33" x 27.25" Signatur...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph, Color

Vegetation Inedit (Pineapple)
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Vegetation Inedit (Pineapple) MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Les Bibliophiles de L'Union Francaise EDITION NUMBER: EA MEA...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching

Salvador Dalí -- The Black Mass / The bishop, 1974
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Salvador Dali The Black Mass (The bishop), 1974 Lithograph On Arches wove paper Signed lower right Edition E.A. lower left 56 x 76 cm References : - Michler & Lopsinger #1469 - Fie...
Category

1970s Art

Materials

Engraving

Freud with Snail-head
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: Freud with Snail-head Series: After 50 Years of Surrealism Date: 1974 Medium: drypoint engraving with hand coloring Unframed Dimensions: 26" x 19.7...
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1970s Surrealist Art

Materials

Engraving, Drypoint

Tristan et Iseult King Marc
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Tristan et Iseult King Marc MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Jean Schneider, Basel/Leon Amiel, New York EDITION NUMBER: Not Numbered ...
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1970s Surrealist Art

Materials

Etching

The Mythology Icarus
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: The Mythology Icarus MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Pierre Argillet, Paris EDITION NUMBER: LII/C MEASUREMENTS: 30" x 18" YEAR: 19...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching

Salvador Dalí Atomo 1973 (Salvador Dalí­ prints Salvador Dalí Colibri)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Salvador Dalí Atomo 1973 (from Colibri): Lithograph in colors on Arches paper. 33 x 22.25 inches (83.8 x 56.5 cm). Good overall vintage condition; minor signs of handling; minor s...
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1970s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph, Paper

Nude with Snail (Poèmes Secrets d'Apollinaire), 1967
Located in Greenwich, CT
Nude with Snail – 12.5 x 9.5" image size, signed and dated ‘Dalí 67’ lower right and framed in an ornate, gold-tone frame. Micheler-Löpsinger 196; Field 67-10 Plate G From the total ...
Category

20th Century Surrealist Art

Materials

Etching, Engraving

The Chemist
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: The Chemist MEDIUM: Lithograph on Japon Paper SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Levine & Levine for DALART EDITION NUMBER: 94/150 MEASUREMENTS: 21" x...
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1980s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Triumph of The Sea
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Triumph of The Sea MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Sidney Lucas, New York EDITION NUMBER: 12...
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1960s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Salvador Dalí­ -- Academie des beaux-arts, 1975
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Salvador Dali Academie des Beaux Arts, 1975 Color etching Hand Signed low right Numbered low left, 173 / 250 Sheet size: 25.5'' x 29.5'' Reference: Field 75-7 Unframed
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1970s Art

Materials

Etching

Spanish Artist hand signed limited edition original art print drypoint n12
Located in Miami, FL
Salvador Dali (Spain, 1904-1989) 'La Cerf se voyant dans l’eau', 1974 Serie: Le Bestiaire de La Fontaine dry point, aquatint on japanese paper 30.6 x 22.7 in. (77.5 x 57.5 cm.) Editi...
Category

1970s Surrealist Art

Materials

Drypoint, Paper, Aquatint

The Princess and the Herd Boy
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: The Princess and the Herd Boy Series: Japanese Fairy Tales Year: 1976 Medium: drypoint with stenciled color Unframed Dimensions: 25.98" x 19.88" Fra...
Category

1970s Surrealist Art

Materials

Drypoint, Color Pencil

PURGATORY CANTO 7
Located in Aventura, FL
Woodblock engraving on paper from the Divine Comedy series. Sheet size 13 x 10 inches. Frame size approx 18 x 15 inches. Edition 4,765 in French, 3,000 in Italian, 300 in German. ...
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1960s Surrealist Art

Materials

Woodcut, Paper

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