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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
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

Signed surrealist lithograph by German artist Horst Antes, 1966- 68
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Horst Antes (German, 1936) Zwi Fusse (Two feet) Signed ‘Antes’ (lower right) and inscribed ‘profe’ (lower right) Executed in 1966 – 1968 Lithograph 22.3/4 x 28 in. (57.8 x 71.2 cm.) ...
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20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

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

A Ballet Dancer Listening to Organ Surrealist Screenprint Poster after Joan Miro
Located in Long Island City, NY
Joan Miro, After, Spanish (1893 - 1983) - A Ballet Dancer Listening to Organ in A Gothic Cathedral, Medium: Screenprint Poster, Image Size: 30.75 x 21 inches, Size: 35 x 23 in. (8...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Screen

Enchanted Power Lines, Surrealist Etching by Hubertus Von Pilgrim
Located in Long Island City, NY
Hubertus Von Pilgrim, German (1931 - ) - Enchanted Power Lines, Year: 1970, Medium: Etching on Van Gelder Zonen, signed, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: 49/100, Image Size:...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Unité, Planche 16 (Set of 2) /// Surrealism Modern Art Le Corbusier Abstract
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

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Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio

Under the Skin 5 signed #2/20 Paula Craioveanu Photograph 20x16in in mat 28x20in
Located in Forest Hills, NY
UNDER THE SKIN 5 Surreal Nude, part of my "Under the Skin" series. Printed on Hahnemuhle art photo paper with white borders, size is 20x16in. In mat overall size 28x20in. This par...
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Photographic Paper

PICTOPOETRY 3 signed #20/20 by Paula Craioveanu Photograph 20x16in in mat 28x20
Located in Forest Hills, NY
PICTOPOETRY 3 signed #20/20 by Paula Craioveanu Photograph 20x16in in mat 28x20 Surreal Nude, part of my "Pictopoetry" series. Printed on Hahnemuhle art photo paper with white bord...
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Photographic Paper

Untitled XXIII, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled XXIII 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

Miro, Pintura, 1978 Ministerio de Cultura of Madrid
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: After Joan Miro (1893-1983) Title: Miro Pintura Year: 1978 Medium: Lithograph exhibition poster on wove paper Size: 27.5 x 20 inches Condition: Excellent Notes: Published by ...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Untitled - III, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled - III 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

Wide Window II, Surrealist Screenprint by John Hultberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Hultberg Title: Wide Window II Year: 1978 Medium: Screenprint, Signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200, 30 AP Image Size: 24 x 32.5 inches Paper Size: 26 in. x 35 in...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Screen

10PM from L'Arc Obscur des Heures, Surrealist Aquatint Etching by Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 - 2002) Title: 10 PM from L'Arc Obscur des Heures Year: 1975 Medium: Aquatint Etching, Signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 125, XXXIII Image S...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

"Terres de Grande Feu, Miró-Artigas, " an Original Color Poster by Joan Miró
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Terres de Grande Feu" is an original color lithograph poster by Joan Miró for Galerie Maeght Paris. Poster produced for the exhibition of 43 ceramic pieces,...
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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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

Ariadne, Surrealist Screenprint by Rita Simon
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rita Simon's (aka Atirnomis) prints typically relate to visions and dreamlike states. In this print, a ball of yarn tattered at the edges is held aloft in the sky while a rectangular...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Screen

Le Combat avec Morhoult from Tristan et Iseult, Surreal Etching by Salvador Dali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Salvador Dali, Spanish (1904 - 1989) Title: Le Combat avec Morhoult from Tristan et Iseult Year: 1970 Medium: Color Etching on Arches, Initia...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

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

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Engraving

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

Arrow, Surrealist Screenprint by Rita Simon
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rita Simon's (aka Atirnomis) prints typically relate to visions and dreamlike states. The silkscreen is hand-signed and numbered in pencil. Arrow Rita Simon (aka Atirnomis), America...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Screen

Balancing Act, Surrealist Screenprint by Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000) Title: Balancing Act Year: 1976 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200, A...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Screen

Original Marc Chagall Peintures Bibliques Recentes Jacob's Ladder exhibition
Located in Spokane, WA
Marc Chagall, Vintage Exhibition Poster (1977) — 30 × 20.5 in — Very Good, A- Lithography poster (Mourlot workshop). Expertly printed in Paris by the renowned Mourlot Printers. Engra...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

1970s Modernist Swiss Colorful Surrealism Signed Dada Lithograph Andre Thomkins
Located in Surfside, FL
This one is titled "Walk in a Broken Lake" and depicts a surreal figure of a robed woman walking in an abstract landscape in yellow, green, red and blue with a Salvador Dali esque quality about it. 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

Lys
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali Title: Lys Medium: Lithograph Year: 1977 Edition: EA Sheet Size: 34 3/4" x 23 3/4" Image Size: 19 3/4" x 22 1/4" Signature: Hand signed in pencil Reference: Fie...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali Title: Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel Medium: Lithograph in colors on Japon paper Year: 1973 Edition: 209/250 Sheet Size: 29 3/4" x 21" Image Size: 26 1/4...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Butterfly Nets, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Butterfly Nets 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

Untitled - Stairs and Ladders, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled - Stairs and Ladders 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

Untitled - VII, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled - VII 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

Traveling, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Traveling 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

Three Nightshades, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Three Nightshades 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

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: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200, 30 ...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Screen

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

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

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

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

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Engraving

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

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

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

El Ultimo viaje del buque fantasma, Plate IV
Located in Fairlawn, OH
El Ultimo viaje del buque fantasma, Plate IV Color lithograph, 1976 Signed and numbered in pencil (see photos) From: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, El Ultimo viaie del buque Fantasma (The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship (1868), 12 illustration by Wilfredo Lam Edition: 99 (6/99) This one of an edition of 99 from the deluxe edition of the book of the same title There was an additional edition of 200 books, signed and numbered on the justification page Publisher: Poligrafa, Barcelona Printer: Poligrafa, Barcelona The Gabriel Garcia Marquez/Lam book is an illustrated version of the short story, a man recalls the night during his boyhood when an enormous passenger ship went aground in his small town on the shores of the Caribbean. It is considered a Latin American masterpiece of surrealism and transculturation. (See below analysis of the story) Condition: slight yellows (aging) of paper small paper scuffs verso from previous hinges Sheet size: 22 x 29 7/8 inches About the author and the storyline of the book by Marquez: Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927, he is a famous Colombian writer, novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and journalist. In 1982 he received the Novel Prize for Literature. He is an author sometimes inherently related to magical realism and his best-known work is the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude in which we find this literary genre. Summary of "The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship" (1868): The novel by Gabriel García Márquez, The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship, written in 1968, is written in a single great sentence, which tells the surprising and amazing adventure that has changed the existence of a child living in a coastal town with a small port sunny, almost forgotten by civilization. The days are peaceful, the nights are silent and illuminated only by the rotating beacon that, every fifteen seconds, transforms the town into a lunar camp with phosphorescent houses. During one night in March, the boy saw an immense afterlife ship that sails through the seas with all the dead crew and sometimes appears to the living, silently crossing the deserted sea, a huge and unexpected mass whose trajectory suddenly it seems to drift, and then runs aground on the reefs. This cataclysm is accomplished without disturbing the night's silence, and the next day the boy found no traces of the shipwreck and no one believed it, not even his mother. Time passes, and the same shipwreck occurs again, every year, on the same night in March; the adolescent...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Dialogando en Amarillo, Aquating by Stephan Strocen
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Stephan Strocen, Argentine (1930 - 1999) Title: Dialogando en Amarillo Year: 1970 Medium: Aquatint Etching with Intaglio, signed and dated in pencil Edition: 100 Size: 30 x 2...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio

1970s Modernist Swiss Colorful Surrealism Signed Dada Lithograph Andre Thomkins
Located in Surfside, FL
This one is titled "Halemaid" and depicts a surreal figure of a robed woman in yellow red and blue with a Salvador Dali esque quality about it. 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

Digital Iris Print "Fatherless Gang" 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

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 ...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Glass Tower II from Brodsky and Utkin: Projects 1981 - 1990
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin, Russian (1955 - ) Title: Glass Tower II from Brodsky and Utkin: Projects 1981 - 1990 Year: 1990 Medium: Etching o...
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1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Four Doors, Surrealist Black and White Etching by Donald Saff
Located in Long Island City, NY
Four Doors by Donald Saff, American (1937) Date: 1980 Etching, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 50 Image Size: 24 x 18 inches Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm x 55.88 cm)
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1980s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

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

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Etching

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

"Soldier Marionettes" Surrealist Figurative Lithograph
By Donald Sexauer
Located in Houston, TX
Figurative surrealist print of a soldier as a marionette with others suspended in the air behind. A chair is positioned in the back corner with another marionette draped over the cha...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Morning Eye, Magritte-like Surrealist Lithograph with Collage by Beck & 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

Jane Dickson Brooke Alexander 1988 (announcement)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jane Dickson New York 1988: A rare 1980s announcement card published on the occasion of Dickson's exhibition at Brooke Alexander, Inc. from January 9 - February 3, 1988; 59 Wooster S...
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1980s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Offset

Tulip, Surrealist Screenprint by Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000) Title: Tulip Year: 1978 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Paper Size: 35 x 25.75 inches
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Screen

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

Les Révolutions Scéniques du XXe Siècle - Lithograph by J. Mirò - 1975
Located in Roma, IT
Les révolutions scéniques du XXe siècle  is a splendid abstract artwork realized by Joan Miró in the 1975. Color lithograph. Not signed and not numbered. Edited by  Arte Adrien Maeg...
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1970s 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

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

Ballet, Surrealist Screenprint by John Hultberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Hultberg Title: Ballet Medium: Screenprint, 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...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Screen

D.A.F. de Sade, Surrealist Color Etching by André Masson
Located in Long Island City, NY
André Masson, French (1896 -1987) - D.A.F. de Sade, Medium: Color Etching on laid paper, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 8/20, Image Size: 4.75 x 2.75 inches, Size: 8.5 x...
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Rusted Room, Screenprint by John Hultberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Hultberg Title: Rusted Room Year: circa 1978 Medium: Silkscreen, Signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200, AP 30 Image Size: 23.5 inches x 37 inches Paper S...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Screen

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

Chevalier de Malte .E.A .
Located in CANNES, FR
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) " Chevalier de Malte " Exemplaire d'auteur signed jean Cocteau , Edition originale de jean Cocteau , atelier Madeline-jolly (underneath) partially glazed ...
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Ceramic

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