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Prints and Multiples For Sale
Artist: Salvador Dalí
Artist: Joan Melnick
Pantagruel : The Knight - Original handsigned lithograph (Field #73-7W)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali
Pantagruel : The Knight, 1973
Original lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered edition of 250 copies on Japan paper with color
Dimensions 75.5 x 53.5 cm (c. 30 x ...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Don Quixote - Original etching HANDSIGNED and Numbered / 200 (Field #68-1)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador DALI (1904-1989)
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, 1968
Original etching and aquatint (Rigal workshop)
Second state, with the aquatint overlay
Signed in pencil
Numbered / 200 c...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Purgatory 11 - The Haughty - woodcut - 1963 (Field #p. 189)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Purgatory 11 - The Haughty
From "The Divine Comedy"
Original woodcut
Signature printed in the plate
Printed on BFK Rives vellum 32,8 x 26,4 cm (c. 13 x 10 ...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
L'Enfer VI (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), La Divine Comédie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin pur chiffon de Rives paper. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Michler & Löpsin...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Signs of The Zodiac, Libra original lithograph by Salvador Dali
Located in Paonia, CO
Libra from Signs of the Zodiac by Salvador Dali is from a series of 12 limited edition lithographs. This original hand signed lithograph is Libra, the seventh astrological sign ...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Portfolio: Hamlet
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dalí, 1904–1989 (Spain)
Portfolio: Hamlet, 1973
Salvador Dalí’s Hamlet (1973) is a stunning portfolio of ten drypoint etchings with aquatint and ...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
Tauramachie Surrealiste The Giraffe on Fire
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Tauramachie Surrealiste The Giraffe on Fire
MEDIUM: Etching
SIGNED: Hand Signed
EDITION NUMBER: LXIV/C
MEASUREMENTS: 20" x 26"
YEAR: 1970
FRAMED...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Heaven 4 - Beatrice - Color woodcut - 1963 (Field p. 189)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Heaven 4 - Béatrice, 1960/63
Woodcut in color
Printed signature in the plate
On BFK Rives vellum 32,8 x 26,4 cm (c. 13 x 10")
REFERENCES :
- Catalog rais...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Salvador Dali Pencil Signed Nude on a Rhinoceros Horn
Located in San Francisco, CA
Salvador Dali: 1904-1989. One of the most famous artist of the 20th century. A master surrealist, whose auction prices are well into the millions. This image of a nude on a rhinocero...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Composition (Field 69-3; M/L. 1600), VI tavole dal ciclo della, Biblia Sacra
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin Fabriano charta ex meris pannis "ab alveo" manu fabricata, perlucidis figuris intexta paper. Paper size: 19 x 13.75 inches. Inscription: Signed in the p...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Le Girafe en Feu (Field 76-2-A; Michler & Lopsinger 1449), Salvador Dali
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Title: Le Girafe en Feu
Year: 1976
Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper
Edition: CXLII/CCL; 250 Roman Numerals, plus proofs...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
The Lovers Condemned
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador
Title: The Lovers Condemned
Series: Tristan et Iseult
Date: 1970
Edition: 587 (numbered on justification page only)
Medium:...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint
Salvador Dali, American Trotting Horses No. 2, Lithograph with collage
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: American Trotting Horses No. 2
Date: 1971
Portfolio: Currier & Ives as Interpreted by Salvador Dali
Medium: Litho...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Mixed Media, Lithograph
Inferno Canto 28 from the Divine Comedy, Woodcut Print by Salvador Dali
Located in Long Island City, NY
A surrealist illustration from Salvador Dalí’s (Spanish, 1904-1989) Divine Comedy series based on the Italian writer Dante’s epic poem. Inferno is the first part of the epic, which f...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Manhattan Skyline
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Manhattan Skyline
MEDIUM: Lithograph
SIGNED: Hand Signed
PUBLISHER: Levine & Levine
EDITION NUMBER: 49/150
MEASUREMENTS: 29.75" x21.25"
YEAR: 19...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Le Chimere d'Horace from Dalinean Horses, Surrealist Lithograph by Salvador Dali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Salvador Dali, Spanish (1904 - 1989)
Title: Le Chimere d'Horace from Dalinean Horses
Year: 1972
Medium: Lithograph, Signed in Pencil
Edition: 2...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
The Vitraux : The Divine Word - Original Lithograph Handsigned (Field #74-5C)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador DALI
The Vitraux : The Divine Word, 1973
Original lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /250
On Arches vellum, 65 x 48 cm (c. 25.6 x 18.9 inch)
References :
- Catalo...
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1970s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
American Trotting Horses No. I
Located in Paonia, CO
American Trotting Horses No.1 is from the series “The World Of Currier And Ives as interpreted by Salvador Dali” published by Phyllis...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Les Amours de Cassandre Complete Suite
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Les Amours de Cassandre Complete Suite
MEDIUM: 10 Etchings
SIGNED: Each etching is Hand Signed
PUBLISHER: Editions Argillet, Paris
EDITION NUMBER:...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Crazy Horse
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Crazy Horse
MEDIUM: Lithograph
SIGNED: Hand Signed
EDITION NUMBER: 223/250
MEASUREMENTS: 30.5" x 22.25"
YEAR: 1968
FRAMED: No
CONDITION: Excelle...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Shakespeare II Timon of Athens
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Shakespeare II Timon of Athens
MEDIUM: Etching
SIGNED: Hand Signed
PUBLISHER: Transworld Art/Loinel Praeger/Berggruen
EDITION NUMBER: 155/250
MEAS...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Ultra Surrealist Corpuscular Galutska, from 1971 Memories of Surrealism
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: Ultra Surrealist Corpuscular Galutska
Portfolio: Memories of Surrealism
Medium: Etching and photolithograph
Date: 1971
Edition: AP XIV/XXV (artist's proo...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Lithograph
Une de Mai
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Une de Mai
Lithograph from 1972.
Th edition of 49/150.
Dimensions of work: 120.5 x 78 cm
Publisher: Edition Waintrop, Paris.
Reference: Michler/Löpsi...
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1870s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Blackberries
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador
Title: Blackberries
Series: Fruits
Date: 1970
Medium: Photolithograph with original engraving on Rives
Unframed Dimensions: 22.5" x 14.5"
Framed Dimensio...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Lithograph
Anemone per Antipasti, Lithograph by Salvador Dali 1972
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Salvador Dali, Spanish (1904 - 1989)
Title: Anemone per Antipasti (Anemone of the Toreador)
Year: 1972
Medium: Lithograph with embossing on heavy Arches paper, signed and num...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Salvador Dali, signed and numbered drypoint etching 'The oak and the reed', 1974
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904 – 1989)
The oak and the reed
Drypoint etching with hand coloured pochoir, on Richard de Bas Auvergne, 1974
From the suite Le Bestiaire de la Fontaine pri...
Category
20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Hommage a Albrecht Durer Sirene au Dauphin
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Hommage a Albrecht Durer Sirene au Dauphin
MEDIUM: Etching
SIGNED: Hand Signed
EDITION NUMBER: EA
MEASUREMENTS: 22.5" x 30.5"
YEAR: 1971
FRAMED:...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
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
MEASUREMENTS:...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
The Vitraux : Pink Elephant - Original Lithograph Handsigned (Field #76-2F)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador DALI
The Vitraux : Elephant-stork, 1973
Original lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered edition of 250 copies
On Arches vellum, 65 x 48 cm (c. 25.6 x 18.9 inch)
Refer...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Fegefeuer XVII (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), Die Göttliche Komödie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin de Rives BFK paper, mounted on vélin d’Arches support, as issued. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Signed in the block, and unnumbered, as issu...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Portrait of Picasso
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Portrait of Picasso
MEDIUM: Etching
SIGNED: Hand Signed
EDITION NUMBER: a/b 66/200
MEASUREMENTS: 19" x 31"
YEAR: 1970
FRAMED: No
CONDITION: Exc...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Is It Lawful to Pay Taxes to Caesar Biblia Sacra Salvador Dali
Located in Paonia, CO
Is it Lawful to Pay Taxes To Caesar shows Caesar as an imposing seated figure taking up three quarters of the image against a white background with a mounted horseman over Caes...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
The Corridor of Katmandu, from The Hippies
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: The Corridor of Katmandu
Portfolio: The Hippies
Medium: Etching on Arches wove paper
Date: 1969
Edition: 43/145
Framed Size: 31" x 26 1/2"
Sheet Size: 26...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Etching
"La Deese de Cythere" from the suite "l'Art d'Aimer d'Ovide"
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled, "La Deesse de Cythere" from the suite, "l'Art d'Aimer d'Ovide" 1976. is an original wood engraving on Japan nacre paper by artist Salvador Dali 1904-1989. It i...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Le cheval de course
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Le cheval de course
Lithograph from 1970.
Dimensions of work: 68 x 50 cm
On B.F.K Rives paper as stated in the Field catalogue.
Reference: Field 72-6G...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint, Lithograph
Soll Y Dali
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Sol Y Dali
MEDIUM: Lithograph
SIGNED: Hand Signed
EDITION NUMBER: 153/200
MEASUREMENTS: 16.5" x 21.9"
YEAR: 1967
FRAMED: Yes
CONDITION: Excelle...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Purgatory: Canto 25 from The Divine Comedy
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Medium: Woodblock engraving
Title: Purgatory Canto 25
Portfolio: The Divine Comedy: Purgatory
Year: 1963
Edition: 4765
Framed Size: 19 1/8" x 16 5/8"
Sheet Size...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Picasso: a Ticket to Glory
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador
Title: Picasso: a Ticket to Glory
Series: After 50 Years of Surrealism
Date: 1974
Medium: drypoint engraving with hand coloring
Unframed Dimensions: 26" ...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Engraving
Paradise: Canto 33 from The Divine Comedy
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Medium: Woodblock engraving
Title: Paradise: Canto 33
Portfolio: The Divine Comedy: Paradise
Year: 1963
Edition: 4765
Framed Size: 19 1/8" x 16 5/8"
Sheet Size:...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
The Fisherman
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: The Fisherman
MEDIUM: Lithograph
SIGNED: Hand Signed
EDITION NUMBER: 44/150
MEASUREMENTS: 39.87" x 23.75"
CONDITION: Excellent
AUTHENTICATION: ...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Monumental Original Surrealist Signed Color lithograph "Puzzle of Life" 1974 COA
Located in Portland, OR
A very rare "Hors de Commerce", monumental signed color lithograph by the surrealist Spanish genius Salvador Dali (1904-1989), titled "The Puzzle of Life", 1974. This artwork is a gu...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Color
Purgatory 21 - The Spring - woodcut - 1963 (Field #p. 189)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Purgatory 21 - The Spring
From the "Divine Comedy"
Original woodcut
Signature printed in the plate
Printed on BFK Rives vellum 32,8 x 26,4 cm (c. 13 x 10 i...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Salvador Dali - Woman Holding a Veil - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Woman Holding a Veil - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
Stamp signed by Dali
Edition of 294 copies.
Paper : Arches vellum.
Dimensions : 16x12".
Catalogue Raisonné : F...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Le Nu à la Guitarre (The Nude on the Guitar) (Serenade) /// Salvador Dali Modern
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989)
Title: "Le Nu à la Guitarre (The Nude on the Guitar) (Serenade)"
Portfolio: Nudes
*Signed by Dali in pencil lower right
Year: 1970
Medium: Original Lithograph on white Rives paper
Limited edition: 104/120
Printer: Desjobert, Paris, France
Publisher: E.G.I., Beverly Hills, CA
Reference: "The Official Catalog of the Graphic Works of Salvador Dali" - Field No. 70-8-D, page 158
Beautifully framed in handmade real gold-leaf moulding with raw silk matting and gold filet
Framed size: 30.25" x 38.25"
Image size: 20" x 28.25"
Condition: Light toning to sheet in margins and some minor handling creases. Some minor cosmetic wear to framing. It is otherwise a strong impression in very good condition
Rare
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Philadelphia, PA. Numbered by Dali in pencil lower left. Comes from Dali's 1970 "Nudes" portfolio of 8 lithographs from original drawings. Printed in light yellow-brown on pale green panel.
Note: We are specialists in Salvador Dali's printmaking oeuvre, having personally worked with his cataloger Albert Field in the 1980's, we unconditionally guarantee all of our examples to be authentic.
Biography:
Salvador Dalí (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres, Spain. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.
Dalí attributed his "love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Gold Leaf
Composition (Field 69-3; M/L. 1600), VI tavole dal ciclo della, Biblia Sacra
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin Fabriano charta ex meris pannis "ab alveo" manu fabricata, perlucidis figuris intexta paper. Paper size: 19 x 13.75 inches. Inscription: Signed in the p...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
FlorDali/Les Fruits Cherries
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: FlorDali/Les Fruits Cherries
MEDIUM: Etching
SIGNED: Hand Signed
PUBLISHER: Jean Schneider, Basel
EDITION NUMBER: 109/200
MEASUREMENTS: 22" x 30"
...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Paradise: Canto 16 from The Divine Comedy
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: Paradise: Canto 16
Portfolio: The Divine Comedy: Paradise
Medium: Woodblock engraving
Year: 1963
Edition: 4765
Framed Size: 19 1/4" x 16 3/4"
Sheet Size:...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Faust Marguerite/Gretchen
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Faust Marguerite/Gretchen
MEDIUM: Etching
SIGNED: Hand Signed
PUBLISHER: Editions Argillet, Paris
EDITION NUMBER: 89/95
MEASUREMENTS: 11" x 14.75"...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Composition (Field 69-3; M/L. 1600), VI tavole dal ciclo della, Biblia Sacra
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin Fabriano charta ex meris pannis "ab alveo" manu fabricata, perlucidis figuris intexta paper. Paper size: 19 x 13.75 inches. Inscription: Signed in the p...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Salvador Dalí -- Thomas (Lancelot healing Sir Urre) from The Twelve Apostles
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Salvador Dali
Thomas (Lancelot healing Sir Urre) from The Twelve Apostles, 1977
Lithographs in colors with embossment on Arches paper
Hand signed lower right
Edition EA lower left
Sh...
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1970s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Color Suite from "Les Amours de Cassandre"
Located in Wilton, CT
a rare set of the Color Suite from Les Amours de Cassandre. Paris: Editions Argillet, 1968. [15" x 11"]. 10pp. 10 illustrations. (10 hors text.) General Condition: Fine. Hand colored...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Aquatint
Bullfight No. 5 original signed limited edition lithograph by Salvador Dali
Located in Paonia, CO
Bullfight No. 5 is a signed limited edition ( 4/300 ) original lithograph by Salvador Dali from the Taureaumachie Suite of five original lithographs. Published by Phyllis Lucas...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Femme a le bequille (from La Venus aux Fourrure) (Surrealism, Modern)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Salvador Dali
Femme a le bequille (Woman with Crutch, from La Venus aux Fourrure)
1969
Etching on Arches teinte’ paper
Visible: 12.75 x 10.125 inches
Framed: 21 x 17 x 1 inches
Editi...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Salvador Dali "King Solomon” from Song of Songs of Solomon Suite
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: "King Solomon" from the Portfolio Song of Songs of Solomon
Year: 1972
Medium: Color Etching with Gold Dust on Arches Paper, signed in pencil
Edition: 250...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Archival Paper, Etching
St. George
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - St. George
Lithograph from 1970.
Dimensions of work: 68 x 50 cm
On B.F.K Rives paper as stated in the Field catalogue.
Reference: Field 72-6G
The wor...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Le cercle visceral du Cosmos from La Conquete du Cosmos Etching by Salvador Dali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Salvador Dali, Spanish (1904 - 1989)
Title: Le cercle visceral du Cosmos from La Conquete du Cosmos
Year: 1974
Medium: Etching with Litho...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph, Etching
Hommage aux Petits Lits Blancs
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE:Hommage aux Petites Lits Blancs
MEDIUM: Lithograph done for Wally Findlay Gallery
SIGNED: Hand Signed
PRINTER: Mourlot Printers
EDITION NUMBER: 87/2...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) - Seven-colour aquatint etching on paper - 1974
Located in Varese, IT
Orient
Seven-colour aquatint etching on paper, edited in 1974.
Limited edition of 245 copies, numbered as 79/245 in lower left corner.
Hand-signed by artist in pencil in the lower r...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Etching
Fine Art Prints for Sale — Animal Prints, Abstract Prints, Nude Prints and Other Prints
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