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Surrealist Abstract Prints

SURREALIST STYLE

In the wake of World War I’s ravaging of Europe, artists delved into the unconscious mind to confront and grapple with this reality. Poet and critic André Breton, a leader of the Surrealist movement who authored the 1924 Surrealist Manifesto, called this approach “a violent reaction against the impoverishment and sterility of thought processes that resulted from centuries of rationalism.” Surrealist art emerged in the 1920s with dreamlike and uncanny imagery guided by a variety of techniques such as automatic drawing, which can be likened to a stream of consciousness, to channel psychological experiences.

Although Surrealism was a groundbreaking approach for European art, its practitioners were inspired by Indigenous art and ancient mysticism for reenvisioning how sculptures, paintings, prints, performance art and more could respond to the unsettled world around them.

Surrealist artists were also informed by the Dada movement, which originated in 1916 Zurich and embraced absurdity over the logic that had propelled modernity into violence. Some of the Surrealists had witnessed this firsthand, such as Max Ernst, who served in the trenches during World War I, and Salvador Dalí, whose otherworldly paintings and other work responded to the dawning civil war in Spain.

Other key artists associated with the revolutionary art and literary movement included Man Ray, Joan Miró, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Frida Kahlo and Meret Oppenheim, all of whom had a distinct perspective on reimagining reality and freeing the unconscious mind from the conventions and restrictions of rational thought. Pablo Picasso showed some of his works in “La Peinture Surréaliste” — the first collective exhibition of Surrealist painting — which opened at Paris’s Galerie Pierre in November of 1925. (Although Magritte is best known as one of the visual Surrealist movement’s most talented practitioners, his famous 1943 painting, The Fifth Season, can be interpreted as a formal break from Surrealism.)

The outbreak of World War II led many in the movement to flee Europe for the Americas, further spreading Surrealism abroad. Generations of modern and contemporary artists were subsequently influenced by the richly symbolic and unearthly imagery of Surrealism, from Joseph Cornell to Arshile Gorky.

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Style: Surrealist
Les Oh! Tomobiles Plate 6
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Roberto Matta Title: Les Oh! Tomobiles Plate 6 Medium: Etching in Colors on Japon Paper Signed: Hand S...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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La Une a L'h Pile (Head to Head), Surrealist Aquatint Etching by Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
An early large-scale work by Chilean artist Roberto Matta. In this black-and-white surrealist piece, various figures can be seen in various acts. Signed and numbered in pencil. This edition is not from the Arabic numbered edition of 40. La Une a L’h Pile (Head to...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Les Oh! Tomobiles Plate 5
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Roberto Matta Title: Les Oh! Tomobiles Plate 5 Medium: Etching in Colors on Japon Paper Signed: Hand S...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Suite of four prints by Henri Goetz abstract colorful geometric surrealism
Located in New York, NY
Set of four abstract, surrealist compositions in rich blue, green, purple, turquoise, grey, navy and black. Henri Goetz Suite of four etchings with carborundum on Arches wove paper...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Les Oh! Tomobiles Plate 4
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Roberto Matta Title: Les Oh! Tomobiles Plate 4 Medium: Etching in Colors on Japon Paper Signed: Hand S...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Rrose Sélavy (Marcel Duchamp) in Wilson-Lincoln System (Schwarz 344) Signed 8/60
Located in New York, NY
Marcel Duchamp Rrose Sélavy (Marcel Duchamp) in Wilson-Lincoln System (Schwarz, 344), 1967 Lenticular print on thin white board. Hand signed by Marcel Duchamp. Date, title and number on label verso. 12 7/10 × 10 1/10 inches Edition 8/60 Hand-signed by artist, Hand signed by Marcel Duchamp in blue ink recto. Sticker label verso bears printed title, edition number, year and description. Printed by Shuzo Takiguchi, published in Tokyo. Catalogue Raisonne Reference: "The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp" by Arturo Schwarz, Plate 344 Provenance: This was part of the Deluxe Artist portfolio, "To and From Rrose Sélavy"; this will be the first time the work has been separated from the portfolio Please refer to the attached video to see this 3-D piece in person Eager to share Marcel Duchamp with Japanese audiences, Shuzo Takiguchi - a Japanese-born poet, critic, and artist with ties to Surrealist circles, assembled an international portfolio of graphic works by various artists with strong ties to Duchamp, to accompany the deluxe version of his monograph, "To and From Rrose Sélavy (aka Marcel Duchamp)." The present work - Takiguchi's own piece, a lenticular double portrait - combines Rrose Sélavy's signature with Man Ray's 1930 profile of Duchamp. Its subject, Marcel Duchamp, then signed this work in pencil. Its title, "Rrose Sélavy in the Wilson-Lincoln System", refers to Duchamp's Green Box note describing a two-way, changeable portrait of presidents Abraham Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson. Rrose Selavy is, famously, Marcel Duchamp's pseudonym and alter ego. Duchamp died before Takiguchi's book was completed, so this print is one of the very last graphic works that has been hand signed by Marcel Duchamp. It was published in Japan, and is a very elusive work stateside. Another edition of this work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. The National Portrait Gallery and other major institutional collections. This work is fully referenced in the catalogue raisonne "The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp" by Arturo Schwarz, Plate 344, describing the work as follows: "Rrose Selavy in the Wilson Lincoln System (a double image plastic plate with, on the background, Man Ray's portrait of Duchamp, and superimposed,, Rrose Selavy's autograph signature repeated four times, signed lower right in blue ink: Marcel Duchamp, an original embossed print...." More about Marcel Duchamp: Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was born July 28, 1887, near Blainville, France. In 1904, he joined his artist brothers, Jacques Villon and Raymond Duchamp-Villon, in Paris, where he studied painting at the Académie Julian until 1905. Duchamp’s early works were Post-Impressionist in style. He exhibited for the first time in 1909 at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d’Automne in Paris. His paintings of 1911 were directly related to Cubism but emphasized successive images of a single body in motion. In 1912, he painted the definitive version of Nude Descending a Staircase; this was shown at the Salon de la Section d’Or of that same year and subsequently created great controversy at the Armory Show in New York in 1913. Duchamp’s radical and iconoclastic ideas predated the founding of the Dada movement in Zurich in 1916. By 1913, he had abandoned...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Plastic, Mixed Media, Board, Pencil, Lenticular

Les Oh! Tomobiles Plate 3
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Roberto Matta Title: Les Oh! Tomobiles Plate 3 Medium: Etching in Colors on Japon Paper Signed: Hand S...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Flying Elements - Handsigned Original Lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Alain LE YAOUANC Flying Elements Original lithograph Handsigned in pencil On Arches vellum, 76 x 56 cm (c. 30.4 x 22,4 inch) Excellent condition
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Les Oh! Tomobiles Plate 2
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Roberto Matta Title: Les Oh! Tomobiles Plate 2 Medium: Etching in Colors on Japon Paper Signed: Hand S...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Miró, Composition (Mourlot 457), Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Derrière le miroir, N° 155, 1965. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeu...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Dubuffet, Composition (Webel 775-779), La Fleur de Barbe (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Phototype on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, La Fleur de Barbe, 1960. Published by Jean Dubu...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Photogravure

Dubuffet, Composition Barbe (Webel 775-779), La Fleur de Barbe (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Phototype on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, La Fleur de Barbe, 1960. Published by Jean Dubu...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Photogravure

Miró, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From volume, Derrière le miroir, N° 125-126, 1961. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeu...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Miró, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From volume, Derrière le miroir, N° 123, 1961. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, P...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Matta, Composition, 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, Nº45, 1975. Published and printed under the direction ...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Good Luck with Your Art-istry (Hand Signed Card)
Located in New York, NY
William T. Wiley Good Luck with Your Art-istry (Hand Signed Card), 2002 Offset lithograph invitation card. Hand signed in green ink with inscription "Good Luck with your ART istry" ...
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Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Composition XI - Lithograph by Joan Mirò - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Original Lithograph XI is an amazing color lithograph on paper, realized in 1974 by Joan Miro for the second volume of his catalog "Mirò Lithographe" This artwork is the last origin...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Ernst, Vase bleue, XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. n°10, 1958. Published and printed under the direction of Gualt...
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Bill, Composition, XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Linocut on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. n°4, 1938. Published and printed under the direction of Gualtieri di San Lazzaro, éditeur, Paris, by Société Internationale d'Art XXe siècle, Paris. Excerpted from the academic article, “Promoting Original Prints, The Role of Gualtieri di San Lazzaro and XXe Siècle” by Valerie Holman, published in PRINT QUARTERLY, XXXIII, 2016, 2, Until recently very little has been written on the Italian author and art publisher Gualtieri di San Lazzaro (1904-75), yet for 50 years he chronicled the life and work of contemporary artists, produced monographs of exceptional quality, and disseminated original prints by modern painters and sculptors through his best-known periodical, XXe Siècle. Although still a relatively unfamiliar figure in the United Kingdom, San Lazzaro is one of the half-dozen great art publishers of the mid-twentieth century who, together with his exemplar, Ambroise Vollard (1866-1939), and those of his own generation, Christian Zervos (1889-1970), Tériade (1889-1983) and Albert Skira (1904-73), chose to base himself in Paris, seeing it throughout his life as the centre of the art world….XXe Siècle, an illustrated periodical, was launched in 1938 and printed in editions of approximately 2,000, each issue containing both photographs and four-colour separation reproductions across a wide spectrum of visual imagery ranging from masterpieces of Western painting to popular prints from the Far East. Its large format, lively design, and close integration of text and image, were immediately striking, but its most innovative feature, introduced at the suggestion of Hans Arp (1886-1966), was the inclusion of original prints by contemporary artists in every issue. With obvious appeal for collectors, XXe Siècle was also designed to introduce a wider, international public to contemporary painting and sculpture through good quality colour reproductions and the immediacy of original prints. Comparable in price to Cahiers d'Art, early issues of XXe Siècle sold out rapidly. While San Lazzaro's own aesthetic preferences tended towards lyric abstraction, he made clear that XXe Siècle was non-partisan [publication ceased during World War II]….in 1951, San Lazzaro relaunched XXe Siècle with thematic issues that were materials based, or centred on a topic of current interest in the visual arts, particularly in Europe: concepts of space, matter, monochrome, mark-making and the sign.' A defining feature of the new series was Italy's artistic dialogue with France for, while San Laz-zaro had originally concentrated on Paris-based painters and sculptors, his aim was to create an international network, to make known the work of French artists in Italy and Italian artists in France, and subsequently extend this bilateral axis to the English-speak-ing world. The artists represented in No. I by an original print were all best known as sculptors: Arp, Laurens, Henry Moore (1898-186) and Marino Marini, San Lazzaro not only sought to show readers the full range of an artist's work, but to encourage the production of prints, a stimulus much appreciated, for example, by Magnelli…. Suffering from failing health, in 1968 San Lazzaro lost overall control of XXe Siècle to Léon Amiel, a printer-publisher who had provided financial backing and helped with distribution in America." Thematic issues now ceased and were replaced by a 'panorama' of the year, but San Lazzaro was still active as a publisher of books and albums of prints….Shortly after his death, San Lazzaro himself was the subject of two exhibitions: 'Omaggio a XXe Siècle' in Milan in December 1974 centred on graphic work by those artists closest to him late in life, while 'San Laz-zaro et ses Amis' at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1975 featured work by all those whose work he had promoted for more than 50 years: Arp, Calder (1898-1976), Capogrossi, Chagall, Sonia Delau-nay, Dubuffet, Estève, Lucio Fontana (1899-1968), Gili-oli (1911-77), Magnelli, Marini, Miró, Moore and Poliakoff. This exhibition was seen by one of his closest colleagues as an indirect portrait of San Lazzaro, a complex man whose modesty and reserve masked his unremitting drive to extend international appreciation of contemporary art, and to bring the reading public closer to its making through the medium of print. MAX BILL (1908-1994) was a Swiss architect, artist, painter, typeface designer, industrial designer and graphic designer. Bill is widely considered the single most decisive influence on Swiss graphic design beginning in the 1950s with his theoretical writing and progressive work. His connection to the days of the Modern Movement gave him special authority. As an industrial designer, his work is characterized by a clarity of design and precise proportions. Examples are the elegant clocks and watches designed for Junghans, a long-term client. Among Bill's most notable product designs is the "Ulmer Hocker...
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1930s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Linocut

André Masson, "Figures in Landscape, " hand signed lithograph in colors
Located in Chatsworth, CA
André Masson Figures in Landscape Lithograph in colors on Arches paper Hand signed in pencil, numbered 51/150
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Dubuffet, Jardin de quitte vite, XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. n°8, 1957. Published and printed under the direction of Gualti...
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Karel Appel, Miss World First Class Pretty, Lithograph Signed 85/100 1 Cent Life
Located in New York, NY
Karel Appel Miss World First Class Pretty (Deluxe hand signed edition of the 1 Cent Life Portfolio, from the estate of artist Robert Indiana), 1964 Lithograph splayed across two sheets on wove paper (Hand signed by Karel Appel) Pencil signed on the lower right front; numbered 85/100 on the portfolio colophon Frame included Floated and framed in a museum quality wood frame with UV plexiglass., bearing the colophon with the edition number page on the back Measurements: Frame: 20.25 x 27 x 1.25 inches Print: 16 x 23 inches This lithograph was part of the complete portfolio acquired from the estate of Pop Artist Robert Indiana, who also contributed a work to the portfolio. Documented prints from the hand signed edition of 100 rarely appear on the market. This is one of them. The work is pencil signed by Karel Appel on the front and all of the prints are unnumbered, as the complete portfolio is numbered on the colophon page - a copy of which is included for provenance. (There was also an unsigned edition of 2000) Chinese American artist and writer Walasse Ting, in collaboration with Sam Francis, assembled a group of the most significant Pop and Abstract Expressionist artists in America, including Andy Warhol, along with the European COBRA artists to create the definitive artistic portfolio of lithographs with accompanying text by Walasse Ting. The Deluxe edition, which features hand signed prints, was published in a limited edition of only 100. This is one of them. Of the 100, editions numbered 60-100, or 40 portfolios, were reserved exclusively for Artists & Collaborators. This hand signed Karel Appel lithograph...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Miró, Composition, (Cramer 230; Mourlot 1116), Joan Miró Lithographs (after)
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 III, 1977. Published by Maeght Édite...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Vellum, Lithograph

L'eau est Mana, Framed Surrealist Lithograph by Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta Title: L'eau est Mana Year: 1974 Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Size: 21.5 x 30 inches (54.61 x 76.2 cm) Frame...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Hecatombe de Toros
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Hecatombe de Toros" 1971, is an original color lithograph on Arches paper by renown Chilean artist Roberto Sebastian Matta, 1911-2002. It is hand signed and numb...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Miró, Woman at the Mirror (Mourlot 242; Cramer 36) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From volume, Joan Miro by Jacques Prévert and Georges R...
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Miró, Composition (Cramer 160; Mourlot 866), Joan Miro Lithographs (after)
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 I, 1972....
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Registering a Dimension - Handsigned Original Lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Alain LE YAOUANC Registering a dimension Original lithograph Handsigned in pencil On Arches vellum, 76 x 56 cm (c. 30.4 x 22,4 inch) Excellent condition
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Dubuffet, Prairie de Barbe, XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. n°14, 1960. Published and printed under the direction of Gualt...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Screen

"June A" - 1975 Surrealist Lithograph on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"June A" - 1975 Surrealist Lithograph on Paper 1975 surrealist figurative lithograph on paper by Jim Crabb (American, b. 1947). Black spotted figures appear to be ascending upward, ...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Paper, Ink, Lithograph

And you child, the prophet of the most high, by Salvador Dali from Biblia Sacra
Located in Paonia, CO
And You Child, the Prophet of the Most High  is a colored lithograph from the original gouache on heavy rag paper from Salvador Dali’s five volume Biblia Sacra Suite published in ...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Magnelli, Composition, 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°37, 1971. Published and printed under the direc...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

"Sundays Garden" - 1975 Surrealist Lithograph on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Sundays Garden" - 1975 Surrealist Lithograph on Paper 1975 surrealist lithograph on paper depicting ascending string like figures by Jim Crabb (American, b. 1947). The black and wh...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Paper, Ink, Lithograph

Tristan and the Dragon, from Tristan and Iseult
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali Title: Tristan and the Dragon Portfolio: Tristan and Iseult Medium: Color engraving Year: 1970 Edition: XII/XXV Frame Size: 25 1/4" x 20 3/4" Sheet Size: 17 3/4...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Engraving

Ernst, Composition for Werner Spies (Spies/Leppien 251) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Published by M. DuMont Schauberg, Cologne; printed by Pierre...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Tristan's Testament, from Tristan and Iseult
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali Title: Tristan's Testament Portfolio: Tristan and Iseult Medium: Color engraving Year: 1970 Edition: XII/XXV Frame Size: 25 1/4" x 20 3/4" Sheet Size: 17 3/4" x...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Engraving

The beloved feeds among the lilies (Michler/Löpsinger 71-17J; M&L 477), Dalí
Located in Fairfield, CT
Title: The beloved feeds among the lilies (Michler/Löpsinger 71-17J; M&L 477), from the portfolio, The song of songs of King Solomon Year: 1971 Medium: Etching printed in colours wit...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Gold Leaf

Miró, Composition (Cramer 102; Mourlot 428-449), Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 151-152. Published by Aimé Maeght, Édi...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Miró, Composition (Cramer 163; Mourlot 844), Peintures, Gouaches, Dessin (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. From the volume, Mirò—Peintures, Gouaches, Dessins, 1972. Published by Galerie Maegh...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Jack Zajac, American, born 1929 1964 Etching and aquatint hand printed on Fabriano paper, pencil signed and editioned. Edition Roman Numeral III Image: 12 9/16 x 8 5/8 in. (31.9 x 2...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Prophets - Lithograph by Dorothea Tanning - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Prophets is a lithograph on Arches paper realized by Dorothea Tanning in 1972. Belongs to the suite "Judith". Limited edition of 500. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good cond...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Electra - Original lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Max ERNST Electra Stone Lithograph Printed signature in the plate On cream vellum 31 x 24 cm (c. 12.5 x 10 inch) Excellent condition
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Ernst, Un chant d'amour (Spies/Leppien 71), XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. n°10, 1958. Published and printed under the direction of Gualt...
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Composition from A même la Pierre - Lithograph after J. Mirò - 1982
Located in Roma, IT
Mirò Composition from A même la pierre is a splendid lithograph realized by Joan Mirò. The artwork is from A même la pierre, Fernand Mourlot Lithogra...
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1980s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Surrealist Figure, Dorothée, 1969 - Original Handsigned Etching
Located in Paris, IDF
Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitsky, aka) Surrealist Figure, 1969 Handsigned original etching Also printed signature in the plate On vellum, 23 x 17 cm (c. 9 x 6,6 inch) Numbered /50 copie...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Untitled - Etching by Johnny Friedlaender - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is an artwork realized by Johnny Friedlander in 1970s. Etching on wove paper. Signed and numbered. Edition of 135 copies.
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Surrealist Machine, Fausta, 1969 - Original Handsigned Etching
Located in Paris, IDF
Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitsky, aka) Surrealist Machine, Fausta, 1969 Handsigned original etching Also printed signature in the plate On vellum, 23 x 17 cm (c. 9 x 6,6 inch) Numbered ...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

1970s Modernist Swiss Colorful Surrealism Signed Dada Lithograph Andre Thomkins
Located in Surfside, FL
This one is titled "What do you and I and she sea... sieh" and depicts a surreal figure of a robed woman walking in an abstract landscape by a lake in yellow, green, red and blue with a Salvador Dali esque quality about it with a coiled Niki de Saint Phalle style snake. Published by Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart They published concrete poetry and art books by Mark Boyle, Richard Hamilton, Dorothy Iannone, John Latham, Tom Phillips, Dieter Roth, André Thompkins and Emmett Williams, to name just a few. André Thomkins (1930 - 1985) was a Swiss painter, illustrator, and poet. He attended art-school, taught by Max von Moos, 1947 – 1949 and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, France, 1950. From 1952, he lived in Germany and taught at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf between 1971 and 1973. Thomkins painted and drew ironic and fantastic pictures influenced by surrealism and dadaism. Together with Dieter Roth and Daniel Spoerri he prepared works of Eat Art. He also was a writer of palindromes. His friends and collaborators included Daniel Spoerri, Dieter Roth, George Brecht, Richard Hamilton and Karl Gerstner, Thomkins gained a reputation as an ‘artist’s artist’, and is considered one of the most important Swiss artists of the second half of the twentieth century.He died in 1985. His work is currently represented by Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Switzerland. Select group exhibitions: 2018 Kunsthalle Krems, 'Pablo Picasso. Arshile Gorky, Andy Warhol. Sculptures and Works on Paper. Hubert Looser Collection', Krems, Austria 2017 Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, 'Martin Barré, Karl Otto Götz, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, André Thomkins', Berlin, Germany 2013 Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie, 'Schweizer Avantgarde Kunst nach 1940', Zurich, Switzerland 2009 The Modern Institute, 'Thomas Houseago, Dieter Roth, Andre Thomkins', Glasgow, England Museum of Modern Art, 'Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Collection', NYC 2004 Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, 'Arman, Baumeister, Götz, Graubner, Tàpies, Thomkins', Berlin, Germany 1994 Kunstmuseum Solothurn, 'Eine Schenkung. Grafik von Eduardo Chillida, Antoni Tàpies, Alexander Calder, Jean Dubuffet, Ben Nicholson, Giacometti, Tinguely, Thomkins', Solothurn, Switzerland 1992 Galerie Littmann, Tinguely zu Ehren. A Tribute to Jean Tinguely. Hommage à Tinguely, Basel, 1988 Museum Ludwig, 'Uebrigens sterben immer die anderen. Marcel Duchamp und die Avantgarde seit 1950', Cologne, Germany 1987 Aargauer Kunsthaus, 'Otto Grimm. Marc-Antoine Fehr. Christoph Gredinger', Aarau, Switzerland Cercle Municipal, 'Art contemporain suisse. Collection de la Banque du Gothard', Luxembourg, 1985 Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, 'Livres d'artistes', Paris, France Rathaus, 'Claude Sandoz – Hans Schärer...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

"Knife and Fork" - Surreal Landscape of Cutlery in the Clouds
Located in Soquel, CA
"Knife and Fork" - Surreal Landscape of Cutlery in the Clouds Surreal etching of cutlery hanging in the clouds by Elizabeth Quandt (American, 1922-1994). A knife and fork are suspen...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Paper, Ink, Etching

Miró, Composition (Cramer 102; Mourlot 433), Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 151-152. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; printed by Édit...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Tandem : Cinetic Compositon with Birds - Handsigned Original Lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Alain LE YAOUANC Tandem : Cinetic Compositon with Birds Original lithograph Handsigned in pencil On Arches vellum, 56 x 76 cm (c. 22.4 x 30,4 inch) Excellent condition
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Le Enfe - Lithograph by R.S. Matta - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Le enfe, is anArtwork realized by Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren (Santiago, Chile, 1911 - Civitavecchia, Italy, 2002) in 1970. Colored Litograph on paper. Hand Signed on the lower central margin. Edition 6/100. Good conditions. After studying architecture, in 1934 Roberto Sebastian Matta moved to Paris, where he worked with Le Corbusier and came into contact with intellectuals such as Rafael Alberti and Federico García Lorca. Here, he also met André Breton and Salvador Dalí , and adhered to the Surrealist movement, elaborating a painting style focused on psychological morphologies. In 1944, Breton wrote: " Matta is the one who most faithfully keeps his star, which is perhaps on the best path to reach the supreme secret: the control of fire". An extremely dynamic Chilean artist, who met Alvar Aalto in Scandinavia, Henry Moore , Roland Penrose...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Miró, Composition (Cramer 239; Mourlot 891), Derrière le Miroir (after)
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, Derrière le miroir, N° 203, 1973. Publi...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Yardbird
Located in Kansas City, MO
David Morris Yardbird Digital Painting on Archival Paper Year: 2023 Size: 24x24in Edition: 15 Signed, numbered and dated by hand on label to be attached verso COA provided Ref.: 9248...
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Arp, Composition, XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, n°11, 1958. Published and printed under the direction of Gualtieri ...
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Miró, Composition, (Cramer 160; Mourlot 860), Joan Miro Lithographs (after)
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 I, 1972....
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Ernst, Elektra, 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°5-6, 1939. Published and printed under the dire...
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1930s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Lam 林飛龍, Composition, XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. n°43, 1974. Published and printed under the direction of Gualt...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

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