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Prints and Multiples For Sale
Artist: Salvador Dalí
Artist: Zao Wou-Ki
Hölle VII (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
Salvador Dalí -- Bird of Paradise from Hawaii: California Suite
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Salvador Dalí
Bird of Paradise from Hawaii: California Suite, 1973
Lithograph
Image size: 55 x 39 cm
Sheet size: 64 x 49.5 cm
Reference: Fields 73-3A
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1970s Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Imaginations and Objects of The Future Melting Space Time
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Imaginations & Objects of The Future Melting Space Time
MEDIUM: Etching
SIGNED: Hand Signed
PUBLISHER: Merrill Chase, Chicago/Alan Rich, New York
E...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Etching
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
Imaginations & Objects of The Future Cybernetic Lobster Telephone
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Imaginations & Objects of The future Cybernetic Lobster Telephone
MEDIUM: Etching
SIGNED: Hand Signed
PUBLISHER: Merrill Chase, Chicago/Alan Rich, ...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Etching
St Georges et le Dragon, Surrealist Etching by Salvador Dali 1974
Located in Long Island City, NY
Salvador Dali was a Spanish painter, printmaker, and sculptor heralded as the father of surrealism. This piece features the fabled story of Saint George gallantly slaying a dragon. T...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Stencil
Casanova : Birdy on the Tongue - Original etching (Field #67-4 F)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador DALI (1904-1969)
Casanova : Birdy on the Tongue, 1967
Original etching
Printed signature in the plate
On Rives vellum 38 x 28 cm (c. 14.9 x 11 inch)
REFERENCES :
- Catalog...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Retrospective The Agony of Love
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Retrospective The Agony of Love
MEDIUM: Lithograph
SIGNED: Hand Signed
PUBLISHER: Levine and Levine for DALART
EDITION NUMBER: 126/350
MEASUREMENT...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Divine Comedy complete set of 6 books, 100 illustrations
Located in Wilton, CT
complete set of 100 illustrations from Dante's Divine Comedy contained within complete text, 6 volumes. Beautiful condition. Justification pages included. Published by Editions ...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Salvador Dali -- Femmes fleurs
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Salvador Dali
Femmes fleurs, 1970
Color lithograph
Hand signed lower right
Numbered 94/150
Image size 51.5 x 66 cm
Sheet size 56.5 x 76 cm
Printed by Desjobert, Paris.
Published by ...
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1970s Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Salvador Dalí -- Pegasus from The Mythology suite
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Salvador Dalí
Pegasus from The Mythology suite, 1960-1964
Etching and engraving with color aquatint.
Hand Signed lower right
Numbered 28/150
Image size: 52 x 61 cm
Sheet size: 55...
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1960s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Salvador Dali - Apparition de Dulcinée - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Apparition de Dulcinée - Original Lithograph
Joseph FORET, Paris, 1957
SIGNATURE : printed in the image
LIMITED : 197 copies.
SIZE : 41 x 33 cm
REFERENCES : Field 57...
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1950s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
The Fiancee of King of Garbe
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador
Title: The Fiancee of King of Garbe
Series: Le Decameron
Date: 1972
Medium: drypoint printed in color
Unframed Dimensions: 17.72" x 12.2"
Framed Dimension...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint
Le Purgatoire XXII (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
Salvador Dalí -- Don Quichotte
Located in BRUCE, ACT
SALVADOR DALÍ
Don Quichotte, 1971
Color drypoint
Hand signed lower right
Numbered 16/100
Image size: 51 x 39 cm
Sheet size: 78.5 x 58.5 cm
Printed by Ateliers Rigal, Fontenay-aux-Ro...
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1970s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Moses and Monotheism Moses & Akhenaton
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Moses & Monotheism Moses & Akhenaton
MEDIUM: Etching on soft glove sheepskin
SIGNED: Hand Signed
PUBLISHER: Art et Valeur, Paris
EDITION NUMBER: 2...
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1970s 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
Don Quixote & Sancho Panza Sancho Panza
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Don Quixote & Sancho Panza Sancho Panza
MEDIUM: Etching
SIGNED: Hand Signed
EDITION NUMBER: 136/175
MEASUREMENTS: 29 9/10" x 22"
YEAR: 1971
FRAME...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Salvador Dali - Biblia Sacra
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Biblia Sacra was published in 1969 by Rizzoli of Rome
- SIGNATURE : printed in the image
- LIMITED : 1499
- SIZE : 19 x 13 3/4"
- RE...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Le Vitrail
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Le Vitrail
MEDIUM: Etching
SIGNED: Hand Signed
EDITION NUMBER: XCVII/C
MEASUREMENTS: 15" x 10.4"
YEAR: 1968
FRAMED: No
CONDITION: Excellent
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Homage to Durer - Lithograph by Salvador Dalì - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Homage to Durer is a contemporary artwork realized by Salvador Dalì in the 1980s.
Colored lithograph of BFK Rives Paper.
Hand signed and numbered on the lower margin.
Edition of 1...
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1980s Modern Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Le Paradis XX (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
Salvador Dali - The Beloved Feeds Among the Lilies - Signed Aquatint
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
SALVADOR DALI (1904-1989)
THE BELOVED FEEDS AMONG THE LILIES, 1971
Board for the series "The Song of Songs hymns"
Aquatint and dry point on wove paper...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Aquatint
Salvador Dalí -- Dionysus
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Salvador Dali
Dionysus, 1967
Colour etching and aquatint
Hand signed lower right
Numbered 52/300 lower left
Sheet size: 76 x 56 cm
Image size 36 x 48 cm.
Reference Michler/Löpsinger ...
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1960s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
La Femme Visible
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: La Femme Visible
MEDIUM: original Heliogravure - Etching in the book titled "La Femme Visible"
SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali on the frontispie...
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1930s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Etching
L'Enfer XII (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
L'Enfer XVII (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
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
Salvador Dalí -- Le Cheval De La Mort from Les Chevaux Daliniens
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Salvador Dali
Le Cheval De La Mort from Les Chevaux Daliniens, 1970
Lithograph with embossing
Hand-signed lower right
Edition EA lower left
Image Size: 54 x 39.5 cm.
Sheet Size: 65 ...
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1970s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Dalinean Horses The Centaur of Crete
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Dalinean Horses The Centaur of Crete
MEDIUM: Lithograph
SIGNED: Hand Signed
PUBLISHER: Simeon Wajntraub & Jacques Carpentier
EDITION NUMBER: 170/25...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Salvador Dali - The Drawers
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Drawers - Original Etching
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Edition: 235
1967
Embossed signature
On Arches Vellum
References : Field 67-10 (p. 34-35)
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Hölle XXVIII (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
Hölle 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
Salvador Dali - Biblia Sacra - Offset Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Biblia Sacra was published in 1969 by Rizzoli of Rome
- SIGNATURE : printed in the image
- LIMITED : 1499
- SIZE : 19 x 13 3/4"
- REFERENCES : Michler and Lopsi...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
I am my beloved from The Song of Songs of King Solomon by Salvador Dali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: I am my beloved from The Song of Songs of King Solomon from the Portfolio Song of Songs of Solomon
Year: 1972
Medium: Color Etching with Gold Dust on Arc...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Salvador Dalí -- Athene from the series "Mythologie"
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Salvador Dalí
"Athene" from the series "Mythologie". 1965
Coloured etching,
Signed and dated low right
Edition number: 111/150
Literature Michler & Löpsinger cat. 130.
Plate. 5...
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1960s Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Faust Chevalier a Genou
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Faust Chevalier a Genou
MEDIUM: Etching
SIGNED: Hand Signed
EDITION NUMBER: 9/95
MEASUREMENTS: 15.3" x 11.4"
YEAR: 1969
FRAMED: No
CONDITION: Ex...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Psychoanalysis : Tribute to Freud - Original handsigned lithograph (Field #72-3)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Psychoanalysis : Tribute to Freud, 1972
Original coloured lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered 984/ 1000
On Arches Vellum 35 x 26" (87 x 64 cm)
Ref...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Woman with cushion, from The Hippies
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: Woman with cushion
Portfolio: The Hippies
Medium: Color etching on Arches wove paper
Date: 1969
Edition: 67/145
Frame Size: 31" x 26 1/2"
Sheet Size: 26"...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Etching
St. George and The Dragon
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: St. George and The Dragon
MEDIUM: Lithograph
SIGNED: Hand Signed
EDITION NUMBER: 227/250
MEASUREMENTS: 30" x 22"
YEAR: 1973
FRAMED: No
CONDITION...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Nu a la Guitarre (Serenade), Signed Surrealist 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 Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Salvador Dali "Thou art Fair, My Love, and Thy Breats..." from Song of Songs of
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: "Thou art Fair, My Love, and Thy Breats..." from the Portfolio Song of Songs of Solomon
Year: 1972
Medium: Color Etching with Gold Dust on Arches Paper, ...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Archival Paper, Etching
Les Panaches Panaches from Les Diners de Gala, Lithograph by Salvador Dali
Located in Long Island City, NY
A lithograph with added etching from Salvador Dali's series "Les Diners de Gala". This print is titled "The plumes plumes". A larger than life fish is se...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Argus - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Argus - from "Mythologie"
Original Etching
Dimensions: 76 x 56 cm
1962
Editor: Pierre Argillet
Edition: /150
Handsigned and numbered
On Arches Paper
References : Fiel...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Judah (Twelve Tribes of Israel), 1973
Located in Greenwich, CT
Judah is an etching on paper from Salvador Dalí's "Twelve Tribes of Israel." The image size is 14.37 x 19.62 inches and the framed dimensions are 27.75 x 34.25 inches. From the Engli...
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20th Century Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Etching
Inferno: Canto 20 from The Divine Comedy
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: Inferno: Canto 20
Portfolio: The Divine Comedy: Inferno
Medium: Woodblock engraving
Year: 1963
Edition: 4765
Framed Size: 19 1/4" x 16 3/4"
Sheet Size: 1...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
À la gloire de l'image et art poétique 15 lithographs by Zao Wou-ki AGE271-285
By Zao Wou-Ki
Located in Hong Kong, HK
À la gloire de l'image et art poétique,
1976 by Zao Wou-ki
Printed by Ediciones Polígrafia, Barcelona
The portfolio, comprising 15 Lithographs in color,
With the printed signatures and dates on each.
accompanied by the title page and text in French by Roger Callois,
lacking the justification, loose, as issued,
contained in a paper wrapper, lacking the cloth wrapper case,
with central fold as issued.
image 40 x 67 cm; sheet 49.7 x 71.6 cm
image 15 ³/₄ x 26 ³/₈ cm; sheet 19 ⁹/₁₆ x 28 ³/₁₆ cm
Edition of 300 plus 15 Artist Proofs.
Literature:
Catalogue Raisonné of Zao Wou-ki's graphic works (AGERUP) plates 271-285
About the Artist:
Born in 1920 in Beijing, Zao Wou-Ki attended the National School of Arts, Hangzhou for six years under the supervision of Lin Fengmian...
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1970s Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Les Fesses Piquantes (from La Venus aux Fourrure) (Surrealism, Modern)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Salvador Dali
Les Fesses Piquantes (Piquant Buttocks, 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
Winter and Summer
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Winter and Summer
MEDIUM: Etching
SIGNED: Hand Signed
EDITION NUMBER: A/P
MEASUREMENTS: 25" x 35.5"
YEAR: 1973
FRAMED: No
AUTHENTICITY: This pi...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Aphrodite
Located in New York, NY
A very good, richly-inked impression of this Drypoint and aquatint printed in gray and black on cream wove paper. Signed, dated and numbered 20/150 by Dali. Printed by Robbe, Paris. ...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint
Salvador Dali - Nude at the Window - Original Handsigned Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Nude at the Window - Original Handsigned Lithograph
Dimensions: 76.5 x 57 cm
1970
Signed in pencil and numbered
Edition : /CXX
References : Field 70-8
Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali was born as the son of a prestigious notary in the small town of Figueras in Northern Spain. His talent as an artist showed at an early age and Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali received his first drawing lessons when he was ten years old. His art teachers were a then well known Spanish impressionist painter, Ramon Pichot and later an art professor at the Municipal Drawing School. In 1923 his father bought his son his first printing press.
Dali began to study art at the Royal Academy of Art in Madrid. He was expelled twice and never took the final examinations. His opinion was that he was more qualified than those who should have examined him.
In 1928 Dali went to Paris where he met the Spanish painters Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro. He established himself as the principal figure of a group of surrealist artists grouped around Andre Breton, who was something like the theoretical "schoolmaster" of surrealism. Years later Breton turned away from Dali accusing him of support of fascism, excessive self-presentation and financial greediness.
By 1929 Dali had found his personal style that should make him famous the world of the unconscious that is recalled during our dreams. The surrealist theory is based on the theories of the psychologist Dr. Sigmund Freud. Recurring images of burning giraffes and melting watches...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
DALI Saint Mathew from Twelve Apostles suite signed & numbered Lithograph 1977
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Lithograph on Arches paper with embossing and gold foil by the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali. From the 1977 Twelve Apostles Suite (sometimes ...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Gold Leaf
Purgatory Canto 25 (The Divine Comedy)
Located in Greenwich, CT
Purgatory Canto 25 is a wood engraving on BFK Rives with an image size of 10 x 7" from the popular French edition of the portfolio. Framed in a classic, gold-tone frame.
Cataloging:...
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20th Century Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Woodcut
Come, Lord Jesus , 1967 original lithograph by Salvador Dali from Biblia Sacra
Located in Paonia, CO
Come, Lord Jesus, 1967 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 , 1...
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1960s Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali -- Sun Goddess Flower
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Salvador Dali
Sun Goddess Flower (Michler & Lopsinger 1386)
Lithograph printed in colours,
Signed and dated 1974
Annotated 1st artist's proof HC ...
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1970s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Three Graces of Cova d’or
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Three Graces of Cova d'or
MEDIUM: Etching with embossed verso
SIGNED: Hand Signed
PUBLISHER: Galerie des Quatre Mouvements
EDITION NUMBER: 31/90
ME...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Etching
The Paradise, Canto 25 - St. James of Hope
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - The Paradise, Canto 25 - St. James of Hope
Woodcut print from 1960.
Dimensions of work: 33 x 26.2 cm
Publisher: Les Heures Claires, Paris.
The work is...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Ten of Staves from Lyle Stuart Tarot Print Suite
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Salvador Dali, Spanish (1904 - 1989)
Title: Ten of Staves from Lyle Stuart Tarot Print Suite [Intended for a James Bond Movie]
Year: 1978
Medium: ...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Fine Art Prints for Sale — Animal Prints, Abstract Prints, Nude Prints and Other Prints
Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.
Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.
Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.
Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.
Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.
“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.
Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.
For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)
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