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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
Untitled X, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled X Wojtek Kowalczyk, Polish (1960) Date: 2005 Lithograph, signed in pencil Size: 13.5 in. x 19.5 in. (34.29 cm x 49.53 cm)
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Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Lithograph Belgian American Surrealism WPA Modernist Karl Fortess Surrealist Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Karl Eugene Fortess (1907-1993) Original color lithographs on BFK Rives paper, 1966, Hand signed and numbered 29/36 in pencil, Sheet size 20.5 x 15 inches. Karl E. Fortess (1907-1993) was a painter, printmaker and teacher, of Boston, Massachusetts and Woodstock, N.Y. Fortess was born in Antwerp, Belgium on October 13, 1907, and became an American citizen in 1923. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Students League in New York, and the Woodstock School of Painting with Yasuo Kuniyoshi. In 1937 the Works Progress Administration sent him and several other artists to Alaska to document the towns, villages, and remote wilderness landscapes (Pemberton, “Alaska art museum collects WPA’s Depression works from the territory,” Columbia Daily Tribune, November 9, 2003). Trains, trucks, and industrial buildings were what Karl Fortess envisioned when the Public Works of Art Project suggested that he depict “the American Scene.” His work bears the influence of Surrealism, Russsian Constructivist art and Cubism. He was part of a circle of left leaning artists loosley involved with the WPA which included Sol Wilson, Isaac Soyer, Louis Lozowick, Abraham Harriton, Ben Shahn, William Gropper, Nahum Tschacbasov, Morris Shulman, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Louis Slobodkin, Adolf Dehn, Le Corbusier and Louis Schanker. Karl Fortress taught at the Art Students League, Brooklyn Museum Art School, Louisiana State University, Fort Wright College, and Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts. He was a member of the Artists Equity Association, Society of American Graphic Artists, American Association of University Professors, and the British Film Institute. He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1946, was named an Associate of the National Academy of Design in 1960 and elected to full Academician in 1971. Fortess taught at many different schools, including Boston University School of Fine Art, where he also created an archive of interviews with more than two hundred and fifty contemporary American painters, sculptors, and graphic artists including many with with artists associated with the Woodstock, N.Y. art community. Among the interviewees are Kenneth Armitage, Will Barnet, Romare Bearden, George Biddle, James Brooks, Adolph Dehn, Jane Freilicher, Julian Levi, Alice Neel, Larry Rivers, Moses Soyer, Dorothy Varian...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Sara et les Anges
Located in Paris, FR
Original lithograph by Marc Chagall from The Bible of 1960 Sara et les Anges Unsigned 35 x 26 cm Excellent condition
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Feminist Surrealist French Abstract Colorful Lithograph Print Myriam Bat Yosef
Located in Surfside, FL
Myriam Bat-Yosef Surrealist abstract lithograph print in colorful abstract shapes and shades Hand signed and dated 1971. sheet measures 9.25 X 9.25 inches The envelope and the Peter Buch poster is just for provenance and is not included in this sale. Myriam Bat-Yosef, whose real name is Marion Hellerman, born on January 31, 1931 in Berlin, Germany to a Jewish family from Lithuania, she is an Israeli-Icelandic artist who paints on papers, paintings, fabrics, objects and human beings for performances. Myriam Bat-Yosef currently lives and works in Paris. In 1933, her family fleeing the Nazi Holocaust, Miriam Bat-Yosef emigrates to Palestine and settles in Jaffa. In 1936, she suffers a family tragedy, her father, militant Zionist, is called to fight, still recovering from an operation of appendicitis. The incision will become infected, antibiotics did not exist yet, and her father will die in the hospital after 9 months of suffering. Myriam and her mother leave Palestine to live in Paris for three years. French is Myriam's first school language. In 1939, still fleeing Nazism, she returned to Palestine, leaving France by the last boat from Marseille. She moved to Tel Aviv with her mother, aunt and maternal grandmother. In 1940, she began attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Tel Aviv and took her name as an artist, Bat-Yosef, which means Joseph's daughter in Hebrew, as a tribute to her father. In 1946, Myriam graduated as a kindergarten teacher but wanted to be an artist. Her mother enrolled her in an evening school to prepare a diploma of art teacher. At 19, she performs two years of military service in Israel. In 1952, with a pension of $50 a month that her mother allocated, she went to study at the Beaux-Arts in Paris. To survive, she has several activities while studying. In 1955, she had her first solo exhibition, at the Israeli Club on Wagram Avenue in Paris. Many artists, such as Yaacov Agam, Yehuda Neiman Avigdor Arikha, Raffi Kaiser, Dani Karavan and sculptors Achiam and Shlomo Selinger attended the opening . In 1956, she enrolled at the School of Fine Arts in Florence. This is where she meets the painter Errô. They share an icy studio in winter. Myriam moves to Milan with friends. She organizes a joint exhibition with Erro, one room each, at the Montenapoleone gallery. Her works are admired by the sculptor Marino Marini and the painters Renato Birolli and Enrico Prampolini. Myriam and Erro exhibit in Rome, Milan, Florence and meet many personalities: Alain Jouffroy and his wife, the painter Manina, Roberto Matta and his wife Malitte, textile artist who was one of the founders of the Pompidou Center. Back in Paris, Myriam and Erro get married, which allows Myriam to avoid being called into the Israeli army during the Suez Canal War. In 1957, Myriam and her husband went to Iceland. Myriam works in a chocolate factory. Having enough money, she starts producing art again. She exhibited in Reykjavik's first art gallery. She meets the artist Sigridur Bjornsdottir, married to the Swiss painter Dieter Roth . In 1958, Myriam and her husband leave for Israel. They exhibit in Germany, then in Israel. Back in Paris, the couple became friends with artists of the surrealist movement, such as Victor Brauner, Hans Bellmer, the sculptor Philippe Hiquily, Liliane Lijn, future wife of Takis and photographer Nathalie Waag. Erro and Myriam have a daughter on March 15, 1960, named Tura, after the painter Cosmè Tura, but also close to the Icelandic Thora or the Hebrew Torah. Bat-Yosef’s complex trajectory throughout the 20th century is linked as much to the transnational history of what was for a time called the School of Paris as it is to a certain legacy of Surrealism. Her work features the same idea of resolving antinomies that also defined the spirit of surrealism, and is enhanced with her readings of the Kabbalah and her spiritual grounding in Taoism. However, while there are reasons for her approach to be associated with the process of the ready-made, it is important to consider the immediate intrication of these works with her practice of performance, during which the body itself is also painted – a feminist response to Yves Klein’s Anthropometries (1960) and an echo of the happenings which Jean-Jacques Lebel organised at the time in Paris. In 1963, Erró told Myriam that if she wants to be a painter, she can not be his wife. Myriam chose to be a painter and the couple divorced in 1964. Since that time, Myriam Bat-Yosef has exhibited in many countries: Europe, United States, Japan, etc. Although long in the shadows, the work of Myriam Bat-Yosef has been greeted by many artists and personalities: Anaïs Nin, Nancy Huston, André Pieyre of Mandiargues, José Pierre, René de Solier , Jacques Lacarrière, Alain Bosquet, Pierre Restany, Sarane Alexandrian and Surrealist André Breton who, after a visit to her studio, confided to having been intrigued by its phantasmagorical dimension. She was included in the book Pop Art and Beyond: Gender, Race, and Class in the Global Sixties by Mona Hadler and Kalliopi Minioudaki. Extract "World Citizen, Artist of the Pop Era Sarah Wilson; Why do we know so little of Myriam Bat-Yosef, the most important female Israeli artist of the Pop era? Issues of identity and sexuality feature constantly in her work. She exhibited internationally from Reykjavik to Tokyo; she had two shows at Arturo Schwarz’s famous Dada/surrealist gallery in Milan; she participated in feminist art events in Los Angeles. Above all, in 1971, she conceived Total Art, a Pop Gesamtkunstwerk inside and outside the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Painter, performer, and installation artist, she was also a lover, wife, and mother. Of Lithuanian-Jewish descent, she was close to the family of philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. An émigré in Paris she would repudiate a national passport, participating in Garry Davis’s short-lived “World Citizens” movement. She continues the lineage of women surrealist artists: Valentine Hugo, Leonor Fini, Dorothea Tanning, Leonora Carrington, Unica Zürn, Jane Graverol, Toyen, Alice Rahon...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Lithograph Belgian American Surrealism WPA Modernist Karl Fortess Surrealist Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Karl Eugene Fortess (1907-1993) Original color lithographs on BFK Rives paper, 1966, Hand signed and numbered 29/36 in pencil, Sheet size 20.5 x 15 inches. Karl E. Fortess (1907-1993) was a painter, printmaker and teacher, of Boston, Massachusetts and Woodstock, N.Y. Fortess was born in Antwerp, Belgium on October 13, 1907, and became an American citizen in 1923. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Students League in New York, and the Woodstock School of Painting with Yasuo Kuniyoshi. In 1937 the Works Progress Administration sent him and several other artists to Alaska to document the towns, villages, and remote wilderness landscapes (Pemberton, “Alaska art museum collects WPA’s Depression works from the territory,” Columbia Daily Tribune, November 9, 2003). Trains, trucks, and industrial buildings were what Karl Fortess envisioned when the Public Works of Art Project suggested that he depict “the American Scene.” His work bears the influence of Surrealism, Russsian Constructivist art and Cubism. He was part of a circle of left leaning artists loosley involved with the WPA which included Sol Wilson, Isaac Soyer, Louis Lozowick, Abraham Harriton, Ben Shahn, William Gropper, Nahum Tschacbasov, Morris Shulman, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Louis Slobodkin, Adolf Dehn, Le Corbusier and Louis Schanker. Karl Fortress taught at the Art Students League, Brooklyn Museum Art School, Louisiana State University, Fort Wright College, and Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts. He was a member of the Artists Equity Association, Society of American Graphic Artists, American Association of University Professors, and the British Film Institute. He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1946, was named an Associate of the National Academy of Design in 1960 and elected to full Academician in 1971. Fortess taught at many different schools, including Boston University School of Fine Art, where he also created an archive of interviews with more than two hundred and fifty contemporary American painters, sculptors, and graphic artists including many with with artists associated with the Woodstock, N.Y. art community. Among the interviewees are Kenneth Armitage, Will Barnet, Romare Bearden, George Biddle, James Brooks, Adolph Dehn, Jane Freilicher, Julian Levi, Alice Neel, Larry Rivers, Moses Soyer, Dorothy Varian...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Temptation, Abstract Aquatint Etching by Donald Newman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Donald Newman Title: Temptation Year: 1982 Medium: Etching, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition: 25 Paper Size: 38 x 29.25 Inches [96.52 x 74.92 cm]
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1980s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Expulsion, Abstract Aquatint Etching by Donald Newman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Donald Newman Title: Expulsion Year: 1982 Medium: Etching, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition: 3/25 Paper Size: 38 x 29.25 Inches [96.52 x 74.92 cm]
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1980s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Noémi et ses belles-filles
Located in Paris, FR
Original lithograph by Marc Chagall from The Bible of 1960 Noémi et ses belles-filles Unsigned 35 x 26 cm Excellent condition
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

'Maravillas Con Variations Acrósticas 7' by Joan Miró, Lithograpgh
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 29" x 36.75" signed lithograph was produced by Joan Miró. The lithograph floats on matt board and is presented in a white wooden frame with glass. This minimalist work incorpora...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

'Maravillas Limited Edition' by Joan Miró, Lithograph
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 29" x 36.75" signed lithograph was produced by Joan Miró. The lithograph floats on matt board and is presented in a white wooden frame with glass. This minimalist work incorpora...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Untitled XXII, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled XXII Wojtek Kowalczyk, Polish (1960) Date: 2005 Lithograph, signed in pencil Size: 19.5 in. x 13.5 in. (49.53 cm x 34.29 cm)
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Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Job désespéré
Located in Paris, FR
Original lithograph by Marc Chagall from The Bible of 1960 Job désespéré Unsigned 35 x 26 cm Excellent condition
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Mirage. 1990, zinc etching, 37x56.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Mirage. 1990, a / p., zinc etching, 37x56.5 cm
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1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Paper, Etching

Cahiers d'art, Surrealist Composition 1
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Cahiers d'art, Surrealist Composition 1 Pochoir, 1934 Unsigned as issued in Cahier's edition Published in Cahier's d'art, 1934 Unsigned Edition of 1200 There was also a pencil signed...
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1930s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Stencil

Self-portrait of a painter in old garden. 2/31., 2010., lithograph, 46x36cm
Located in Riga, LV
Self-portrait of a painter in an old garden. 2/31., 2010., color lithograph, 46x36cm Leonids Maurins (1934-2012) From 1954 to 1961 studied at J. Rozent...
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Morning Bell, Magritte-like Surreal Lithograph by Backstrom aka Beck o Jung
Located in Long Island City, NY
A lithograph and collage by Holger Bäckström from 1978. A mixed media collage and lithograph produced by the company Beck & Jung, a collaborative duo between Holger Bäckström and Bo ...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Mixed Media, Lithograph

Italian Surrealist Pop Art Serigraph Enrico Baj Pop Art Silkscreen Foil Print
Located in Surfside, FL
Enrico Baj (1924-2003) Italian, limited edition print. Hand signed and numbered Signature on the corner. Edition 44 of 45. metallic silver aluminum. Baj was an Italian artist best known for his political collages, prints, paintings, and sculptures. He was close to the surrealist and dada movements, and was later associated with CoBrA. Italian artist Enrico Baj (1924-2003) was born in Milan into a wealthy family, but left Italy in 1944 having upset the authorities and to avoid conscription. He studied at the Milan University law faculty and the Brera Academy of Art. Italian Surrealist Pop Art. Artist, attorney, ironist, writer, sharp critic, and political dissenter, Enrico Baj brought an urgent, refreshing and unique voice to the art of his time. In 1951 he founded the Movimento d'Arte Nuclear...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Foil

"Bacchanale from Je Reve (I Dream) Portfolio, " Original Color Lithograph
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Bacchanale" is an original color lithograph by Andre Masson. This piece is from the Je Reve (I Dream) portfolio and is edition number H.C. XVV/XVV. Masson signed the piece in pencil...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Barricade, Screenprint by John Hultberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Hultberg Title: Barricade Year: 1978 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Image Size: 24 x 29 inches Paper Size: 26 in. x 31 in. (66.04 cm x 7...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Screen

Sara et Abimelec
Located in Paris, FR
Original lithograph by Marc Chagall from The Bible of 1960 Sara et Abimelec Unsigned 35 x 26 cm Excellent condition
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Ruth aux pieds de Booz
Located in Paris, FR
Original lithograph by Marc Chagall from The Bible of 1960 Ruth aux pieds de Booz Unsigned 35 x 26 cm Excellent condition
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Tamar belle-fille de Juda
Located in Paris, FR
Original lithograph by Marc Chagall from The Bible of 1960 Tamar belle-fille de Juda Unsigned 35 x 26 cm Excellent condition
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

“Perro Herido (Wounded Dog)” from 90th Anniversary Suite Lithograph Ed. 22/110
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract surrealist lithograph of a dog wounded by an arrow. This work is from his 90th anniversary suite, the last prints Tamayo completed, before passing on. Signed and editioned a...
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1980s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Fragments of a Dream, Abstract Screenprint by John Hultberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Hultberg Title: Fragments of a Dream Year: 1977 Medium: Serigraph, Signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200, AP 30 Image Size: 24 x 32.5 inches Paper Size: 26 in. x 3...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Screen

Graphisms & 3. 1980, paper, silk screen, 15x28 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Graphisms & 3. 1980, paper, silk screen, 15x28 cm Maris Argalis (1954-2008) Born in Riga. 1971. - graduated the Janis Rosenthal Riga Art School. Ongoing...
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1980s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Paper, Screen

Divine Comedy Heaven Canto 14 Decomposition (2 pieces)
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Salvador Dali Title: Divine Comedy Heaven Canto 14 Decomposition (2 pieces) Medium: Woodcut Measurements: 10.5" x 13" each piece Note: Piece is sold unframed Condition: ...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Greenhouse, Surrealist Lithograph by John Hultberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Hultberg Title: Greenhouse Year: 1978 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200, AP 30 Image Size: 24 x 32 inches Paper Size: 26 in. x 34 in. (66.0...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Divine Comedy Purgatory Canto 15 Decomposition (3 Pieces)
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Salvador Dali Title: Divine Comedy Purgatory Canto 15 Decomposition (3 pieces) Medium: Woodcut Measurements: 10.5" x 13" each piece Note: Piece is sold unframed Conditio...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Woodcut

Sleeping man. Paper, etching, watercolor, 19x13 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Sleeping man. Paper, etching, watercolor, 19x13 cm Juris Putrāms graphics artists, works in book and advertising graphics, poster art, creates installations, organizes campaigns, de...
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1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Paper, Etching, Watercolor

Actors, Screenprint by John Hultberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Hultberg Title: Actors Year: 1977 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200, AP 30 Image Size: 24 x 36 inches Paper Size: 26 in. x 38 in. (66.04 cm...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Screen

"Hommage a Picasso, " Etching by Stefan Wewerka, 1972
By Stefan Wewerka
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Stefan Wewerka, German (1928 - 2013) Title: Hommage a Picasso Year: 1972 Medium: Etching, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 52/90 Image Size: 15 x 19 inches Size: 22 x 3...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Graphisms & 4. 1979, paper, silk screen, 15x28 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Graphisms & 4. 1980, paper, silk screen, 15x28 cm Maris Argalis (1954-2008) Born in Riga. 1971. - graduated the Janis Rosenthal Riga Art School. Ongoing...
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1980s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Paper, Screen

Wide Window I, Screenprint by John Hultberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Hultberg Title: Wide Window I Year: 1977 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Image Size: 24 x 33 inches Paper Size: 26 in. x 35 in. (66.04 cm...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Screen

Ballet, Screenprint by John Hulterberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Hultberg Title: Ballet Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200, AP 30 Image Size: 22 x 29 inches Paper Size: 26 in. x 33.5 in. (66.04 cm x 85.09 cm)
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Screen

Abstract Tulip, 1979 by Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000) Title: Abstract Tulip Year: 1979 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Paper Size: 35 x 26 inches (88...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Screen

Salvador Dali - Attack on the Windmils - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Attack on the Windmils - Original Lithograph Joseph FORET, Paris, 1957 PRINTER : Atelier Mourlot. SIGNATURE : printed in the image LIMITED : 197 copies. SIZE : 64.5...
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Visionary Landscape Antiquity, Surrealist Screenprint by Rita Simon
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Rita Simon, American (1938 - ) Title: Visionary Landscape Antiquity Year: 1979 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 300, AP Image Size: 24 x 38...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Screen

Digital Iris Print "Stage Theory " Pencil Signed with Initials edition of 15
Located in Surfside, FL
This is for the one print listed here. Internalized Page Project. color Iris digital prints on paper, each initialed on verso and numbered from edition of 15. printed & published by ...
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1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Digital

Digital Iris Print "Character Exhibition" Pencil Signed w Initials edition of 15
Located in Surfside, FL
This is for the one print listed here. Internalized Page Project Vol II. color Iris digital prints on paper, each initialed on verso and numbered from edition of 15. printed & publis...
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1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Digital

Digital Iris Print "Classic Anomalies" Pencil Signed with Initials edition of 15
Located in Surfside, FL
This is for the one print listed here. Internalized Page Project Vol II. color Iris digital prints on paper, each initialed on verso and numbered from edition of 15. printed & publis...
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1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Digital

Lithograph Belgian American Surrealism WPA Modernist Karl Fortess Surrealist Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Karl Eugene Fortess (1907-1993) Original color lithographs on BFK Rives paper, 1966, Hand signed and numbered 29/36 in pencil, Sheet size 20.5 x 15 inches. Karl E. Fortess (1907-1993) was a painter, printmaker and teacher, of Boston, Massachusetts and Woodstock, N.Y. Fortess was born in Antwerp, Belgium on October 13, 1907, and became an American citizen in 1923. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Students League in New York, and the Woodstock School of Painting with Yasuo Kuniyoshi. In 1937 the Works Progress Administration sent him and several other artists to Alaska to document the towns, villages, and remote wilderness landscapes (Pemberton, “Alaska art museum collects WPA’s Depression works from the territory,” Columbia Daily Tribune, November 9, 2003). Trains, trucks, and industrial buildings were what Karl Fortess envisioned when the Public Works of Art Project suggested that he depict “the American Scene.” His work bears the influence of Surrealism, Russsian Constructivist art and Cubism. He was part of a circle of left leaning artists loosley involved with the WPA which included Sol Wilson, Isaac Soyer, Louis Lozowick, Abraham Harriton, Ben Shahn, William Gropper, Nahum Tschacbasov, Morris Shulman, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Louis Slobodkin, Adolf Dehn, Le Corbusier and Louis Schanker. Karl Fortress taught at the Art Students League, Brooklyn Museum Art School, Louisiana State University, Fort Wright College, and Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts. He was a member of the Artists Equity Association, Society of American Graphic Artists, American Association of University Professors, and the British Film Institute. He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1946, was named an Associate of the National Academy of Design in 1960 and elected to full Academician in 1971. Fortess taught at many different schools, including Boston University School of Fine Art, where he also created an archive of interviews with more than two hundred and fifty contemporary American painters, sculptors, and graphic artists including many with with artists associated with the Woodstock, N.Y. art community. Among the interviewees are Kenneth Armitage, Will Barnet, Romare Bearden, George Biddle, James Brooks, Adolph Dehn, Jane Freilicher, Julian Levi, Alice Neel, Larry Rivers, Moses Soyer, Dorothy Varian...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Theater from Brodsky and Utkin: Projects 1981 - 1990
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin, Russian (1955 - ) Title: Theater from Brodsky and Utkin: Projects 1981 - 1990 Year: 1990 Medium: Etching on German Rag paper, signed and num...
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1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Fiery Furnace, Surrealist Screenprint by Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000) Title: Fiery Furnace Year: 1978 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200, AP 30 Paper Size: 35 x 26 inc...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Screen

The Watcher, Surrealist Screenprint by Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000) Title: The Watcher Year: 1977 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200, 30 AP...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Screen

Toward the Furnace, Surrealist Screenprint by John Hultberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Hultberg Title: Toward the Furnace Year: 1979 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200, AP 30 Image Size: 24 x 32 inches Paper Size: 26 in. x 35 in...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Screen

Tabula A from Brodsky and Utkin: Projects 1981 - 1990
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin, Russian (1955 - ) Title: Tabula A from Brodsky and Utkin: Projects 1981 - 1990 Year: 1990 Medium: Etching on German Rag paper, signed and nu...
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1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

In a Landscape #1, from Long Point Gallery Portfolio (signed/n 22/30)
Located in New York, NY
Edward Giobbi In a Landscape #1, from Long Point Gallery Portfolio, 1988 Lithograph on paper with deckled edges Hand signed, numbered 22/3...
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1980s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Feminist Surrealist French Abstract Colorful Lithograph Print Myriam Bat Yosef
Located in Surfside, FL
Myriam Bat-Yosef Surrealist abstract lithograph print in colorful abstract shapes and shades Hand signed and dated 1971. sheet measures 9.25 X 9.25 inches The envelope and the Peter Buch poster is just for provenance and is not included in this sale. Myriam Bat-Yosef, whose real name is Marion Hellerman, born on January 31, 1931 in Berlin, Germany to a Jewish family from Lithuania, she is an Israeli-Icelandic artist who paints on papers, paintings, fabrics, objects and human beings for performances. Myriam Bat-Yosef currently lives and works in Paris. In 1933, her family fleeing the Nazi Holocaust, Miriam Bat-Yosef emigrates to Palestine and settles in Jaffa. In 1936, she suffers a family tragedy, her father, militant Zionist, is called to fight, still recovering from an operation of appendicitis. The incision will become infected, antibiotics did not exist yet, and her father will die in the hospital after 9 months of suffering. Myriam and her mother leave Palestine to live in Paris for three years. French is Myriam's first school language. In 1939, still fleeing Nazism, she returned to Palestine, leaving France by the last boat from Marseille. She moved to Tel Aviv with her mother, aunt and maternal grandmother. In 1940, she began attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Tel Aviv and took her name as an artist, Bat-Yosef, which means Joseph's daughter in Hebrew, as a tribute to her father. In 1946, Myriam graduated as a kindergarten teacher but wanted to be an artist. Her mother enrolled her in an evening school to prepare a diploma of art teacher. At 19, she performs two years of military service in Israel. In 1952, with a pension of $50 a month that her mother allocated, she went to study at the Beaux-Arts in Paris. To survive, she has several activities while studying. In 1955, she had her first solo exhibition, at the Israeli Club on Wagram Avenue in Paris. Many artists, such as Yaacov Agam, Yehuda Neiman Avigdor Arikha, Raffi Kaiser, Dani Karavan and sculptors Achiam and Shlomo Selinger attended the opening . In 1956, she enrolled at the School of Fine Arts in Florence. This is where she meets the painter Errô. They share an icy studio in winter. Myriam moves to Milan with friends. She organizes a joint exhibition with Erro, one room each, at the Montenapoleone gallery. Her works are admired by the sculptor Marino Marini and the painters Renato Birolli and Enrico Prampolini. Myriam and Erro exhibit in Rome, Milan, Florence and meet many personalities: Alain Jouffroy and his wife, the painter Manina, Roberto Matta and his wife Malitte, textile artist who was one of the founders of the Pompidou Center. Back in Paris, Myriam and Erro get married, which allows Myriam to avoid being called into the Israeli army during the Suez Canal War. In 1957, Myriam and her husband went to Iceland. Myriam works in a chocolate factory. Having enough money, she starts producing art again. She exhibited in Reykjavik's first art gallery. She meets the artist Sigridur Bjornsdottir, married to the Swiss painter Dieter Roth . In 1958, Myriam and her husband leave for Israel. They exhibit in Germany, then in Israel. Back in Paris, the couple became friends with artists of the surrealist movement, such as Victor Brauner, Hans Bellmer, the sculptor Philippe Hiquily, Liliane Lijn, future wife of Takis and photographer Nathalie Waag. Erro and Myriam have a daughter on March 15, 1960, named Tura, after the painter Cosmè Tura, but also close to the Icelandic Thora or the Hebrew Torah. Bat-Yosef’s complex trajectory throughout the 20th century is linked as much to the transnational history of what was for a time called the School of Paris as it is to a certain legacy of Surrealism. Her work features the same idea of resolving antinomies that also defined the spirit of surrealism, and is enhanced with her readings of the Kabbalah and her spiritual grounding in Taoism. However, while there are reasons for her approach to be associated with the process of the ready-made, it is important to consider the immediate intrication of these works with her practice of performance, during which the body itself is also painted – a feminist response to Yves Klein’s Anthropometries (1960) and an echo of the happenings which Jean-Jacques Lebel organised at the time in Paris. In 1963, Erró told Myriam that if she wants to be a painter, she can not be his wife. Myriam chose to be a painter and the couple divorced in 1964. Since that time, Myriam Bat-Yosef has exhibited in many countries: Europe, United States, Japan, etc. Although long in the shadows, the work of Myriam Bat-Yosef has been greeted by many artists and personalities: Anaïs Nin, Nancy Huston, André Pieyre of Mandiargues, José Pierre, René de Solier , Jacques Lacarrière, Alain Bosquet, Pierre Restany, Sarane Alexandrian and Surrealist André Breton who, after a visit to her studio, confided to having been intrigued by its phantasmagorical dimension. She was included in the book Pop Art and Beyond: Gender, Race, and Class in the Global Sixties by Mona Hadler and Kalliopi Minioudaki. Extract "World Citizen, Artist of the Pop Era Sarah Wilson; Why do we know so little of Myriam Bat-Yosef, the most important female Israeli artist of the Pop era? Issues of identity and sexuality feature constantly in her work. She exhibited internationally from Reykjavik to Tokyo; she had two shows at Arturo Schwarz’s famous Dada/surrealist gallery in Milan; she participated in feminist art events in Los Angeles. Above all, in 1971, she conceived Total Art, a Pop Gesamtkunstwerk inside and outside the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Painter, performer, and installation artist, she was also a lover, wife, and mother. Of Lithuanian-Jewish descent, she was close to the family of philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. An émigré in Paris she would repudiate a national passport, participating in Garry Davis’s short-lived “World Citizens” movement. She continues the lineage of women surrealist artists: Valentine Hugo, Leonor Fini, Dorothea Tanning, Leonora Carrington, Unica Zürn, Jane Graverol, Toyen, Alice Rahon...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Tribute to Mirò - by Martine Goeyens - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Tribute to Mirò is a colorful artwork realized by Martine Goeyens in the Late-20th century. Digital Print. Numbered, Edition, 5/99. Hand-signed in the lower right margin.
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Digital

Tribute to Mirò - by Martine Goeyens - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Tribute to Mirò is a colorful artwork realized by Martine Goeyens the late 20th century. Digital Print. Numbered, Edition, 5/99. Hand-signed in the lower right margin.
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Digital

Tribute to Mirò - by Martine Goeyens - 2023
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

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Digital

Tribute to Mirò - by Martine Goeyens - 2023
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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Late 20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Digital

"Four Terrorist Trapped in a Bullring" Edition 2 of 20
Located in Houston, TX
Surrealist abstract print of four figures that are in a bullring with other onlookers. In the image, there are paper airplanes flying around the scene. The first two terrorists are i...
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1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Miró, Composition (Cramer 34; Mourlot 223), 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° 87-88-89. June-July-August, 1956. Published by ...
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Miró, Composition (Cramer 239; Mourlot 890), 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

La Chambre
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this large and scarce etching. 1969. Signed and numbered 8/50 in pencil. Printed by Lacourière, Paris. Catalogue reference: Jacob 29
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Miró, Composition, (Cramer 249; Mourlot 1259), 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 IV 1981. Published by Maeght Éditeur...
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1980s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Jean Arp - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Arp - Original Etching 1954 Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm From XXe siècle Unsigned and unumbered as issued
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

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