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Style: Surrealist
Period: 1950s
20th Century Surrealist Painting By Harold Hitchcock
Located in Hoddesdon, GB
Harold Hitchcock 1914-2009
A breathtakingly beautiful watercolour painting by one of the 20th century’s most admired English artists .
This is a rare early work by the artist dated 1...
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Surrealist 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Early Street Art - New York Urban Factory Scene - Mid Century - Factory X
By Dong Kingman
Located in Miami, FL
This early work from 1955 by Dong Kingman N.A. is as surreal as it is a document of a place. The artist effectively captures a slice of American urban life but constructs the compo...
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Surrealist 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Rag Paper, Watercolor
Surreal figure watercolor spanish surrealism
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Eugenio Granell (1912-2001) - Surrealist figure. Watercolor
Watercolor measures 29x22 cm.
Frame measures 56x49 cm.
Eugenio Granell was born in La Coruña in 1912. He lived most of his childhood in Santiago de Compostela, a city that marked a large part of his artistic work.
From a young age, he showed a great predisposition to art, specifically to music, and in 1928 he moved to Madrid to study violin at the Escuela Superior de Música. There he met the composer and director Enrique Casal Chapí. It is at this time when he begins to attend political and literary gatherings in Madrid cafes. His circle of friends - such as Benjamín Péret or Wilfredo Lam - brought him closer to the orbit of the Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista (POUM), in which he began to serve in 1935.
At the outbreak of the Spanish civil war, he joined the militias loyal to the republican government to defend the capital and combined this activity with the direction of El Combatiente Rojo, the POUM newspaper. After the war ended, he was doubly persecuted; on the one hand, the victorious fascist army, which tried to get rid of any signs of active resistance against the new regime. On the other hand, Granell would suffer the persecution of his own communist comrades, since, under Stalin's mandate, the POUM and its militancy -of a Trotskyist nature and opposed to the Stalinist line of the Soviet Union- were considered enemies of communism and, therefore, this, condemned to persecutions and murders.
Thus, in 1939, he must move to France. There he finds a reality different from the one he was looking for and went through various concentration camps until, after several attempts, he managed to escape and reach Paris -where he will meet Péret and Lam- to find a way out of his situation, leaving for South America. On the train that takes him to the port of La Havre, he meets Amparo Segarra, a Valencian fleeing Franco's repression, who would become his partner.
They embark to Chile but, given the impossibility of this country to receive more refugees, they divert to the Dominican Republic, where they will settle, now together with Amparo, in the capital, Ciudad Trujillo. There, the artist will become part of the Symphony Orchestra as first violin. In 1941 he met André Breton when interviewing him for the newspaper La Nación. From this meeting a friendship will arise that will last until his death in 1966. In 1944 he publishes the book of stories El hombre verde.
In 1946, only six years after settling in, under the hardening of the Trujillo dictatorship, he refused to sign a letter of adherence to the regime, so they had to leave the country and moved to Guatemala. There he entered as a professor at the School of Plastic Arts, maintaining an intense cultural activity.
At the beginning of the Guatemalan revolution, in 1950, he had to flee the country again, for fear of Stalinist persecution. This time the Granell-Segarra family arrives in Puerto Rico, where the artist will occupy the chair of Art History at the Faculty of Humanities. In these years he published Isla Cofre Mítico -which is tremendously close to the surrealist poetic style- and participated in various collective exhibitions at the Puerto Rican university. Although in Santo Domingo he had collaborated with him on poetry magazines...
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Surrealist 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Dante and Beatrice - Original WATERCOLOR, Signed (Descharnes #d6970_1951)
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador Dali
Divine Comedy : Dante and Beatrice, 1952
Original watercolor
Signed in lower center
Dated 1952
On vellum lined on thin board 42 x 30 cm (c. 17 x 12in)
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Ink, Watercolor
" Two Heads " SURREALIST
By Jean Cocteau
Located in CANNES, FR
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963).
"Two Heads " . original , signed ,dated and certified drawing by :
"Jean Cocteau" has been acclaimed as one of the world's most im...
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Two Women, Erotic Nude Woman - Lesbian Dream - Existential Magic Realism
Located in Miami, FL
Two Women by George Tooker is a psychologically engaging portrait of contrasts. An untidy, older, overweight woman is seen slumped in a chair, asleep and lost in a dream. Her head ti...
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Untitled (Abstraction)
Located in Chicago, IL
A black and white, Surrealist watercolor on paper by artist Desmond McLean in a cerused black frame.
McLean was born in Sligo, Ireland and raised in Brooklyn, NY. He was a professor...
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Untitled (Abstraction)
Located in Chicago, IL
A black and white, Surrealist watercolor on paper by artist Desmond McLean in a cerused black frame.
McLean was born in Sligo, Ireland and raised in Brooklyn, NY. He was a professor...
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Surrealist Portrait Drawing by Philadelphia Artist Leon Kelly
By Leon Kelly
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Leon Kelly
(American, born France, 1901-1982)
Surrealist Portrait
Ink on paper, 11 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches; Framed: 21 3/4 x 18 3/4 inches
Signed and dated at lower right: "Leon Kelly 19...
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Surrealist 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink
1957 Feminist Surrealist Israeli Colorful Watercolor Painting Myriam Bat Yosef
Located in Surfside, FL
Myriam Bat-Yosef
Surrealist abstract painting in colorful abstract shapes and shades in the style of Joan Miro
Hand signed and dated Tel Aviv, 1957.
frame measures 10 X 5.5 sheet measures 2.5 X 7 inches
The envelope of 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, Myriam 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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Surrealist 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Landscape - Drawing by Antoine Mayo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original drawing in Gouache, realized by the artist Antoine Mayo (1905-1990) in the 1950s.
Hand-Signed.
In good condition.
Antoine Mayo...
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Surrealist 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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French Form - Pencil Drawing - Abstract French German
By Hans Arp
Located in London, GB
JEAN [HANS] ARP 1886 –1966
Strasbourg, France 1886–1966 Basel, Switzerland (German/French)
Title: French Form Forme Francaise, 1959
Technique: Hand Signed Pencil Drawing on Wove P...
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Surrealist 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Seascape - Drawing by Antoine Mayo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Seascape is an original drawing in watercolor on paper, realized by the artist Antoine Mayo (1905-1990) in the 1950s.
Hand-Signed on the lower right marg...
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Surrealist 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Dancing Figure - Pen by Mayo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is a drawing in Pen realized by Mayo in 1950s.
Good condition.
Signature on the lower right corner.
Antoine MAYO (1905-1990) is an artist born/buried in 1905 in Egypt. The ...
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Surrealist 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pen
The Face - China Ink Drawing by Sergio Barletta - 1958
Located in Roma, IT
The Face is an original drawing in China ink on cardboard realized by Sergio Barletta in 1958.
Applied on passepartout: 65 x 50 cm.
Hand-signed and dated on the lower left.
In ver...
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Surrealist 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Nude - China Ink Drawing - 1958
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in china ink realized by Sergio Barletta in 1959. Applied on cardboard.
Hand-signed on the lower right and dated.
In very good ...
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Surrealist 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink
Abstract Composition - Penmarker on Paper by Michel Cadoret
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract composition is an original artwork realized by Michel Cadoret.
Penmarker on paper.
The monogram of the artist is on the lower right corner.
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Surrealist 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Permanent Marker
Untitled - Early Surrealist Pencil Drawing by Roberto Matta - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Surrealist Drawing is an exceptional pencil drawing by the artist Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren, who signed on the lower right of the paper “Matta”. The artwork is in ver...
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Surrealist 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pencil
Untitled
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Wifredo Lam, Cuban (1902 - 1982)
Title: Untitled - I
Year: 1957
Medium: Crayon and Pastel on Paper, signed and dated l.r.
Paper Size: 22 in. x 26.5 in. (55.88 cm x 67.31...
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Surrealist 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Cruxificion
Located in London, GB
Signed in pencil at lower right.
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Que principio a abrir los ojos
Located in London, GB
Signed in pencil at lower right. Inscribed 'Que principio a abrir los ojos' ('Where to start when you open your eyes') in pencil at lower centre.
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Surrealist 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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From Monkey to Man
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jirayr Hamparzoom Zorthian was born April 14, 1911 in Kutahya, Turkey, of Armenian parents. At the age of three, he showed considerable talent in drawing and painting.
Zorthian ...
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Surrealist 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
Lucien Coutaud 1950 Original French Surrealist Gouache Painting Figures
Located in Surfside, FL
"Abstract Figures"
Hand signed and dated 1950 Lower Right.
Measures: site, 9" x 7", framed, 16-1/2" x 14-3/4".
Lucien Coutaud (French Surrealist artist, 1904-1977)
Known for etchings, engravings and printmaking and for theater, ballet and opera set decoration as well as for his superb tapestries produced for Marie Cuttoli and with Jacques Adnet at the Aubusson tapestry atelier Pinton workshop for the Compagnie des Arts Français.
Lucien Coutaud was born in a small town in the Gard, between Nîmes and Beaucaire. His father Adrien Antoine Coutaud was a watchmaker and jeweler in Nîmes. His mother Françoise Célestine Priad is from an old Mynoise family. He spent his childhood and adolescence in Nîmes, apart from a short stay in Marseille in 1917. In 1920 he enrolled in the School of Fine Arts of Nîmes where he studied with Armand Coussens.
In October 1924, at the age of twenty, Coutaud moved to Paris. He attended the art academies of Montparnasse. He is accepted to the School of Decorative Arts. In 1926, on the advice of André Salmon, he met Charles Dullin who asked him to make the sets and costumes for the Birds, the play by Aristophane, adapted by Bernard Zimmer.
In April 1928, he returned to Paris and, in 1929, painted his first important paintings: The Bicycle, Woman and Soldier, Soldiers arresting a spy and Young Girl with three wheels. Rose Adler takes an interest in his work. There he meets Max Ernst, Paul Klee and eventually becoming part of the artistic circles, making friends with key figures of the Parisian cultural scene like Pablo Picasso, Jean Paul Sartre, Jacques Prévert, Paul Eluard, Boris Vian, and others. He is mostly known for Surrealism and erotic symbolism. He was included in the show Surrealism and its Affinities along with Leonor Fini, Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dali, Max Ernst and Roberto Matta, Andre Breton, Roberto Matta
In 1930, he made his first engravings with drypoint on zinc. He enters into a relationship with the writer Jean Blanzat.
In 1931, the Quatre Chemins gallery in Paris organized his first private exhibition for him. He befriended Jean-Louis Barrault who made his stage debut at the Théâtre de l'Atelier. In 1932, he works almost exclusively in gouache, painting numerous bouquets of flowers and large esoteric compositions. Sets and costumes for Le Château des Papes by André de Richaud directed by Charles Dullin at the Théâtre de l'Atelier. Sets for Venus and Adonis by André Obey directed by Michel Saint-Denis and represented by the Compagnie des Quinze. He is interested in the activities of the surrealist group, reads Breton, Soupault and Aragon but maintains his independence.
He meets Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso in Antibes...
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Surrealist 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Melting Faces - Original Pencil on Paper by Michel Cadoret - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
Melting Faces is an original artwork realized by Michel Cadoret in 1955.
Pencil on paper.
Monogrammed and dated in pencil by the artist on the lower r...
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Surrealist 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pen
H 5.32 in W 11.03 in D 0.04 in
The Prophet
By Walter Peregoy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
WALTER PEREGOY
"THE PROPHET"
DRAWING, SIGNED
CALIFORNIA, C.1950
21 X 10 INCHES
Walter Peregoy
1925-2015
Alwyn Walter Peregoy was born in Los Angeles in 1925. At age nine he began his formal art training at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Berkeley; at age 12 he returned to Los Angeles with his parents and enrolled in Chouinard Art Institute; at 17 he dropped out of high school and went to work for Disney Studios.
After serving in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II, he further studied in Mexico at University de Belles Artes and in Paris. Walt Peregoy...
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Surrealist 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Graphite
Surreal Nude
By Henri Perez
Located in Los Angeles, CA
HENRI PEREZ
"SURREALIST nude"
DRAWING, SIGNED
FRENCH-MOROCCAN, DATED 1958
14 x 20 INCHES
Henri Perez
Born 1931
After high school in Morocco, Henri Perez was acce...
Category
Surrealist 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil, Archival Paper
Surreal Landscape
By Henri Perez
Located in Los Angeles, CA
HENRI PEREZ
"SURREALIST LANDSCAPE"
DRAWING, SIGNED
FRENCH-MOROCCAN, DATED 1960
10.25 X 12 INCHES
Henri Perez
Born 1931
After high school in Morocco, Henri Perez ...
Category
Surrealist 1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil, Archival Paper
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