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Prints and Multiples For Sale
Style: Surrealist
Style: Constructivist
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
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
Materials
Woodcut
Beautiful Beasts 1978 Signed Limited Edition Lithograph Mati (Abdul) Klarwein
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist Mati (Abdul) Klarwein
Title: Beautiful Beasts
Year: 1978
Print - Lithograph
Paper Size 23" x 23½" inches
Edition: signed in pencil and marked 18/300
Hand embellished by the a...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Hard Margins - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Hard Margins - Hell Plate 19, is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri.
Not signed, as issued.
G...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Miró, Composition, (Cramer 198; Mourlot 1039), Joan Miró Lithographs (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Joan Miró Lithographs, Volume II, 1975...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
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...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Heaven 33 : Prayer of Saint Bernard - Color woodcut - 1963 (Field p. 189 à 200)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Heaven 33 - Prayer of Saint Bernard
Color woodcut
with the signature printed in the plate
1960/63
Printed on paper Vélin BFK Rives
Size 32,8 x 26,4 cm (c. ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Femmes Poules (Hen Woman) - Etching - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Femmes Poules (Hen Woman) is an artwork realized in 1968/69, from the Series "Faust" (La Nuit de Walpurgis).
Etching, Drypoint, Watercolor and Roulette on Japon Paper.
Hand signed ...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Paper, Watercolor, Drypoint
Espace-temps en fusion (M/L 822-831; Field 75-13)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph, silkscreen, drypoint, and collage on vélin de Rives BFK paper. Inscription: hand signed and numbered, I-70/250, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Imaginat...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
New-York City Suite : Plaza - Lithograph - circa 1981
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali (after)
New-York City : Plaza
Lithograph after a watercolor
Printed signature in the plate
On BFK Rives vellum 50 x 65 cm (c. 20 x 26 in)
Printed in Matthieu workshop circa 1981...
Category
1980s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Color Rainbow : Biennale de Menton - Original lithograph poster (MOURLOT)
By Man Ray
Located in Paris, IDF
MAN RAY (Emmanuel Radnitsky, known as) (1890-1976)
Menton Biennale, 1970
Original lithograph (Mourlot workshop)
Signed on the plate
On paper, 67 x 47 cm (c. 27 x 18 in)
INFORMATION...
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1970s Surrealist 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...
Category
1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
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...
Category
1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint, Lithograph
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
Materials
Etching, Lithograph
Surrealist composition
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: collotype (after the Miro lithograph). Printed in 1947 in an edition of 1500 by Meriden Gravure and published by Curt Valentin for "The Prints of Joan Miro" portfolio. Size: ...
Category
1940s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photogravure
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...
Category
1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
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:...
Category
1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
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
Materials
Etching
Jacob's Blessing - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1979
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Jacob's Blessing is a beautiful contemporary art realized by March Chagall in 1979.
Color lithograph printed and published by Maeght, Paris, in 1979.
Ref. Catalogue Mourlot n. 94...
Category
1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Fin d'Absalom - Hand Colored Etching by Marc Chagall - 1958
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed (artist's signature "M.Ch." lower right).
Edition of 100 copies (62/100).
From the series of “The Bible“, printed by Raymond Haasen and published by Tériade..
Ref. Cra...
Category
1950s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
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:...
Category
1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
The Inferno, Canto 9 - The Furies
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - The Inferno, Canto 9 - The Furies
Woodcut print from 1960.
Dimensions of work: 33 x 26.2 cm
Publisher: Les Heures Claires, Paris.
The work is in Exce...
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1960s 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
Lithographs II (1039), Modern Abstract Lithograph by Joan Miro
By Joan Miró
Located in Long Island City, NY
Joan Miro was a Spanish Surrealist artist, world-renowned for his unique art style that blended surrealist fantasy and modern life. This lithograph is part of the series "Lithographs...
Category
1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
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...
Category
1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Happy New Year - Drawing by L. Gischia - 1960
By Léon Gischia
Located in Roma, IT
Happy New Year is an original black marker drawing on paper with autograph wishing notes by the French artist Léon Gischia to Nesto Jacometti, editor and collector of Graphic art.
...
Category
1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Permanent Marker
Fegefeuer XXX (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
Materials
Woodcut
"C'mon Baby" Black & White Photography 39" x 28" in Ed. 1/7 by Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"C'mon Baby" Black & White Photography 39" x 28" in Ed. 1/7 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Not framed. Ships in a tube.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photographic Paper
LA SORCIERE - (The Witch)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
KURT SELIGMANN (1900–1962 American, born in Switzerland,)
LA SORCIERE - (The Witch) 1934
Etching and aquatint, unsigned ? possibly a proof aside from The ...
Category
1930s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Les Metamorphoses Erotiques Red Portfolio Book
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Les Metamorphoses Erotiques Red Portfolio
DESCRIPTION: First edition printed in a limited edition of 300. Large quarto in ff. under a folded cover a...
Category
1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper
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...
Category
1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Miró, Litógrafia original II (Cramer 160; Mourlot 858), Litógrafo I (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Joan Miró Lithographs, Volume I, 1972. Published by Tudor Publishi...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
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
Materials
Engraving
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
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) - Hand watercolored drypoint etching on Japanese paper
Located in Varese, IT
Hand watercolored drypoint etching on extremely fine Japanese paper, edited in 1969.
Limited edition of 145 copies water-coloured, numbered in lower left corner EA (Epreuve d'artist)...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Etching
Signed and numbered Salvador Dali etching with gold dust on arches paper
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904 – 1989)
The beloved is as fair as a company of horses
Etching with gold dust on arches.
Signed and numbered ‘204 / 250’ (lower left) and ‘Dali’ (lower ...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
A ballerina. Limited edition print, Surrealism, Established Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary colorful figurative surrealistic print on paper by Polish artist Rafal Olbinski. This print shows woman ballerina dancer with skirt shaped like a tabletop with teapot an...
Category
2010s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Color
Miró, Composition, (Cramer 198; Mourlot 1037), Joan Miró Lithographs (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Joan Miró Lithographs, Volume II, 1975. Published by Leon Amiel pu...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Vellum, Lithograph
TIE Fighter Beatles Large Oversize Pop Art Print Signed Limited Edition
By BATIK
Located in London, GB
TIE Fighter Beatles
by B A T I K
Pop art work featuring the Fab Four Paul McCartney , George Harrison, Ringo Starr and John Lennon running away from Star Wars TIE fighters chasing...
Category
2010s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Erhu
By James Jean
Located in Dallas, TX
Erhu is a signed and numbered time-limited edition of giclée prints. The erhu, or spike fiddle, typically has two strings, but the instrument being played here is missing a tuning sp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
The Tree of Knowledge - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Color lithograph realized by Marc Chagall in 1960 to illustrate "The Bible".
Edition of 6500, published by Tériade in no. 33 and 34 of the Art Magazine Verve.
Printed by Mourlot a...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Magritte, Les bijoux indiscrets (Kaplan/Baum 3), XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. n° 22, 1963. Published and printed under the dire...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
"Femmes et Oiseaux devant la Lune" original pochoir
By Joan Miró
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original pochoir stencil print in five colors. Catalogue reference: Dupin 50. Printed in 1947 in an edition of 1500 by Meriden Gravure and published by Curt Valentin for the ...
Category
1940s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
"Mr Knife, Miss Fork"
By Max Ernst
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: gelatin silver print (photogram). Printed in 1931 and published in Paris for the journal Arts et Metiers Graphiques. A photogram was an experimental technique conceived by Ma...
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1930s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photogram
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
Materials
Etching
Flordali : Musician Lilies - Original Handsigned Etching (Field #68-3 D)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador DALI
Flordali : Musician Lilies
Original Lithograph and Etching
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /175 copies
On Japan paper 77 x 57 cm (c. 31 x 22.4 inch)
REFERENCES :
- Ca...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Lithograph
Salvador Dalí, Composition (Field 69-5, A-M), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on Papeterie de Mandeure vélin paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Miró, Composition, (Cramer 249; Mourlot 1256), Joan Miró Lithographs (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Joan Miró Lithographs, Volume IV 1981. Published by Maeght Éditeur...
Category
1980s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Purgatory 30 - The Announcement of a Great Event - woodcut -1963
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Purgatory 30 - The Announcement of a Great Event
Wood engraving from "Divine Comedy"
with the printed signature
1960/63
Printed on paper Vélin BFK Rives
S...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
Jesus Scourged by Salvador Dali from Biblia Sacra porfolio
Located in Paonia, CO
Jesus Scourged, 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 Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Surrealist composition
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: collotype (after the Miro lithograph). Printed in 1947 in an edition of 1500 by Meriden Gravure and published by Curt Valentin for "The Prints of Joan Miro" portfolio. Size: ...
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1940s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photogravure
Editions Lahumiere (Eyeglasses), Surrealist Screenprint by Jean-Michel Folon
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jean Michel Folon, Belgian (1934 - 2005)
Title: Editions Lahumiere
Year: Circa 1980
Medium: Screenprint on Arches Paper
Paper Size: 29.5 in. x 39.5 in. (74.93 cm x 100.33 cm)
Category
1980s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
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
Materials
Lithograph
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
Materials
Lithograph
Francis Bacon (1909–1992) - Color etching and aquatint on Guarro laid paper
Located in Varese, IT
Color etching and aquatint on Guarro laid paper, edited in 1981.
Limited edition, numbered as: 24/99
Signed in pencil by artist in lower right corner.
Very good conditions.
Plate si...
Category
1980s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, 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
Materials
Gold Leaf
Magritte 1968 'Le Domaine Enchante (VI)' FRAMED Hand signed Mourlot
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This limited edition lithograph, signed by Fernand Mourlot beneath the right-hand corner of the image, is part of a suite of eight “Le Domaine Enchanté” images, printed in an edition...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Leo From Signs of the Zodiac Series
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Giclee print on paper after 1967 original color lithograph
Framed 16.75 x 13.13 in
Dali’s 1967 Signs of the Zodiac Series is a series of original color lithographs based on the 12 si...
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2010s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
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Giclée
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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