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
Lam 林飛龍, Les affinites ambigues, XXe Siècle (after)
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. n°21, 1963. Published and printed under the direction of Gualt...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Wardell-Power, L'homme calculateur, XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching and engraving on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: Extracted from the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. n° 5-6, 1939. Published and ...
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1930s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Surrealist Explosion - Handsigned Original Lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Alain LE YAOUANC
Surrealist Explosion
Original lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
On Japan paper, 40,5 x 31,5 cm (c. 15,9 x 12,4 inch)
Very good condition, a few foxings on the right ...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Miró, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good Condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 195. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; printed by Éditions...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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
Materials
Photogravure
Untitled - Etching by Johnny Friedlaender - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is an artwork realized by Johnny Friedlaender 1970s.
Etching on wove paper. Signed and numbered.
Edition of 135 copies.
Good conditons
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Le Delire du Couturier, Bleu, Rouge, Vert
By Joan Miró
Located in Wien, 9
signed on lower right, numbered 2/30 lower left
Category
1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Lithograph
One plate from DLM "Peintures Murales de Miró" (~31% OFF)
By Joan Miró
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joan Miró
One plate from DLM "Peintures Murales de Miró"
Medium: Color lithograph
Publisher: Maeght, Paris
Signature: Unsigned
Edition: Unnumbered from an edition of unknown, but pre...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Construction - Handsigned Original Lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Alain LE YAOUANC
Construction
Original lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
On Japan paper, 40,5 x 31,5 cm (c. 15,9 x 12,4 inch)
Excellent condition
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Fall of Black and Withe Cubes - Handsigned Original Lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Alain LE YAOUANC
Fall of Black and Withe Cubes
Original lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
On Arches vellum, 76 x 56 cm (c. 30.4 x 22,4 inch)
Excellent condition
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Dream Flowers, Irène, 1969 - Original Handsigned Etching
By Man Ray
Located in Paris, IDF
Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitsky, aka)
Dream Flowers, Irène, 1969
Handsigned original etching
On vellum, 23 x 17 cm (c. 9 x 6,6 inch)
Numbered /50 copies
INFORMATIONS : This etching i...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Sutherland, 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°38, 1972. Published and printed under the direction of Gualt...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Profil rose
By André Masson
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color lithograph. Signed and numbered 14/200 in pencil.
Category
1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Untitled Composition (Surrealism)
By Raoul Ubac
Located in Kansas City, MO
Raoul Ubac
Title: Untitled Composition
Medium: Color Lithograph
Year: 1972
Size: 14.9 x 21.8 inches
Notes: Centerfold and verso printed as published
Publisher: Maeght, Paris
Unsigned...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Arp, Configuration, XXe Siècle (after)
By Jean Arp
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, n°6, 1956. Published and printed under the direction of Gualtieri di S...
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Miró Lithographe II - Plate II - Lithograph by J. Mirò - 1975
By Joan Miró
Located in Roma, IT
"Miró Lithographe II - Plate II"
is an original lithograph realized by Joan Miró in 1975. Perfect conditions.
It comes from the set of 11 lithographs realized for the catalogue "M...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Giacometti, Objets mobiles et muet (Lust 1), XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. n°3, 1952. Published and printed un...
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Braque, Couverture (Oiseaux), XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on velin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. n°20, 1962. Published and printed under the direction of Gualt...
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Composition - Lithograph by Max Ernst - 1974
By Max Ernst
Located in Roma, IT
Pink Composition is an original artwork realized by Max Ernst in 1974.
Original colored lithograph.
Very Good conditions. Printed by Atelier Pierre Chave in Vence, France.
This li...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ernst, Composition, Cahiers d'Art (after)
By Max Ernst
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, Cahiers d'Art, vol. 24, no. 2, 1949. P...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"No Exit-ing" - 1976 Lithograph on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"No Exit-ing" - 1976 Lithograph on Paper
1976 surrealist lithograph titled "No Exit-ing" by Jim Crabb (American b. 1947). Abstracted figures of black, white and grey take up the lit...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Lithograph
"Arian Moon Chance" - 1975 Surrealist Lithograph on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Arian Moon Chance" - 1975 Surrealist Lithograph on Paper
1975 surrealist lithograph on paper titled "Arian Moon Chance" by Jim Crabb (American, b. 1947). Surrealist figures appear ...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Lithograph
Marcoussis, Rimbaud, XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Burin etching and engraving on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. n° 5-6, 1939. Published and prin...
Category
1930s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Manessier, Croquis, 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°20, 1962. Published and printed under the direction of Gualt...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Miró, Composition (Mourlot 232; Cramer 39) (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From volume, Joan Miro by Jacques Prévert and Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, 1956. Pu...
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Miró Lithographe I - Plate VII - Lithograph by Joan Mirò - 1972
By Joan Miró
Located in Roma, IT
Miró Lithographe I - Plate VII is a vintage lithograph realized by Joan Miró in 1972. Perfect conditions.
It comes from the set of 11 lithographs ...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Surrealist Carborundum Etching, Homage a Rodin
Located in Surfside, FL
This is from a portfolio Hommage A Rodin. It included a lithograph by Henry Moore, Ossip Zadkine, Berto Lardera, an etching by Robert Couturier and an etching...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
"41 Budmen" - 1975 Lithograph on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"41 Budmen" - 1975 Lithograph on Paper
Black and white figurative lithograph by Jim Crabb (American, b. 1947). Numerous abstracted figures take up the paper, with black, white and g...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Lithograph
"Centre Noeuds" planche #9
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Centre Noeuds" plate #9, 1974, is an original color etching with aquatint on Japan nacre paper by renown Chilean artist Roberto Sebastian Matta, 1911-2002. It is...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Bald Eagle, Modern Etching and Aquatint by Martin Barooshian
Located in Long Island City, NY
Bald Eagle
Martin Barooshian, Armenian/American (1929–2022)
Date: circa 1979
Etching and Aquatint, signed, titled and numbered in pencil
Edition of 50/60
Image Size: 14.25 x 14 inche...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Queen Iseult and Her Daughter, from Tristan and Iseult
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: Queen Iseult and Her Daughter
Portfolio: Tristan and Iseult
Medium: Color engraving
Year: 1970
Edition: XII/XXV
Frame Size: 25 1/4" x 20 3/4"
Sheet Size:...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Engraving
Unité, Planche 16 (Set of 2) /// Surrealism Modern Art Le Corbusier Abstract
By Le Corbusier
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) (Swiss-French, 1887-1965)
Title: "Unité, Planche 16" (Set of 2)
Portfolio: Unité
*Signed by Le Corbusier in pencil lower right. It is...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio
Salvador Dali Museum Lucas Collection 1985 St. Petersburg Fla. Poster
Located in Paonia, CO
Salvador Dali Museum St. Petersburg Florida 1985 poster is advertising the exhibition of the collection of the original Salvador Dali paintings owned by the Sidney and Phyllis Lucas ...
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1980s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Color
Tribute to Mirò - by Martine Goeyens - Late 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Tribute to Mirò is a colorful artwork realized by Martine Goeyens in 2023.
Digital Print.
Numbered, Edition, 5/99.
Hand-signed in the lower right margin.
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Digital
Composition VIII - Lithograph by Joan Mirò - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Composition VIII is a wonderful color lithograph on paper, realized in 1974 by the Spanish master Joan Miro for the second volume of his catalog "Mirò Lithographe". This plate is fro...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Surrealist Peacock - Original color Etching and Aquatint
Located in Paris, IDF
Jacques HEROLD (French, 1910-1987)
Surrealist Peacock, 1975
Original etching and aquatint
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /49
Justified "E.A" (Artist's p...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Ruth glaneuse
By Marc Chagall
Located in Paris, FR
Original lithograph by Marc Chagall from The Bible of 1960
Ruth glaneuse
Unsigned
35 x 26 cm
Excellent condition
Category
1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ernst, Têtes d'Aigles (Spies/Leppien 88A), XXe Siècle (after)
By Max Ernst
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. n°20, 1962. Published and printed under the direction of Gualt...
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Surrealists Seaweeds - Original color Etching and Aquatint
Located in Paris, IDF
Jacques HEROLD (French, 1910-1987)
Surrealists Seaweeds, 1975
Original etching and aquatint
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /49
Justified "E.A" (Artist's...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Pink Composition - Lithograph by Max Ernst - 1974
By Max Ernst
Located in Roma, IT
Pink Composition is an artwork realized by Max Ernst in 1974.
Original colored lithograph.
Good conditions. Printed by Atelier Pierre Chave in Vence, France.
This lithograph was ...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Così Fan Tutte - Etching by Sebastian Matta - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed and numbered. Etching and aquatint. Edition of 100 prints plus some artist's proofs.
From the portfolio: "così fan tutte".
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Arp, Composition, XXe Siècle (after)
By Jean Arp
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, n°4, January 1954. Published and printed under the direct...
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
"Centre Noeuds" planche #6
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Centre Noeuds" plate #6 1974, is an original color etching with aquatint on Japan nacre paper by renown Chilean artist Roberto Sebastian Matta, 1911-2002. It is ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Figure Rouge avec Portrait de Quevedo (Michler/Löpsinger 771; Field 75-5-C)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Title: Figure Rouge avec Portrait de Quevedo
Year: 1975
Medium: Engraving with pochoir on Japon paper
Edition: E.A.;300, plus proofs
Size: 26.25 x 20 inches
Condition: Excellent
Insc...
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Engraving, Stencil
Bones And Chrysalids
By André Masson
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. Edition of 60 prints.
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Into the Grave of of Elish from Biblia Sacra by Salvador Dali
Located in Paonia, CO
Into the Grave of Elish is a colored lithograph from the gouache original 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 Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Miro, Sculptures et Ceramics, 1973 Fondation Maeght
By Joan Miró
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: After Joan Miro (1893-1983)
Title: Sculptures et Ceramics
Year: 1973
Medium: Lithograph exhibition poster on wove paper
Size: 32.5 x 22 inches
Condition: Excellent
Notes: Pub...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Personnages - Lithograph by R.S. Matta - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Personnages is an Artwork realized by Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren (Santiago, Chile, 1911 - Civitavecchia, Italy, 2002).
Colored Litograph on paper. Hand Signed on the lower right margin.
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
"Centre Noeuds" planche #3
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Centre Noeuds" plate #3 1974, is an original color etching with aquatint on Japan nacre paper by renown Chilean artist Roberto Sebastian Matta, 1911-2002. It is ...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Miró, Composition (Cramer 102; Mourlot 428-449), Derrière le miroir (after)
By Joan Miró
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
Materials
Lithograph
Les Deux Vaches - Original Etching by J. Friedlaender - 1953
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed. Edition of 50 prints.
Image Dimensions : 42 x 55 cm
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Miro, Oeuvres Graphiques, 1965 Galerie Maeght
By Joan Miró
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: After Joan Miro (1893-1983)
Title: Miro Oeuvres Graphiques
Year: 1965
Medium: Lithograph exhibition poster on wove paper
Size: 22.25 x 19.25 inches
Condition: Excellent
Notes...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
The Giant Beliagog, from Tristan and Iseult
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: The Giant Beliagog
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
Materials
Engraving
Miró Exhibition Poster - Photo-Offset After Joan Miró - 1971
By Joan Miró
Located in Roma, IT
"Miró Exhibition Poster " is a vintage photo-offset print realized after Joan Miró in 1971, it comes from one of the Italian Exhibition posters...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Offset
Vintage Poster Exhibition Galerie Maeght-Lithograph/Offset after J. Mirò-1978
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Poster Exhibition Galerie Maeght is a vintage Lithograph and Offset poster realized after Joan Mirò (1893-1983) in 1978.
Good conditions.
Joan Miró i Ferrà (20 April 1893 –...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Crisscrossed Road- Handsigned Original Lithograph
By Raoul Ubac
Located in Paris, IDF
Raoul UBAC
Crisscrossed Road
Original lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
On Japan paper, 40,5 x 31,5 cm (c. 15,9 x 12,4 inch)
Excellent condition
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pour Ida Chagall et Franz Meyer - Lithograph by Joan Mirò - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Pour Ida Chagall et Franz Meyer is a rare colored Lithograph realized in the 1970s by Joan Mirò (1893-1983).
Signed in the plate on the lower right and inscribed pour Ida Chagall et...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sans Titre
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Sans Titre" 1968, is an original color lithograph on Arches paper by renown Chilean artist Roberto Sebastian Matta, 1911-2002. It is hand signed and numbered 30/...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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