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
Westchester Lady
Located in Kansas City, MO
David Morris
Westchester Lady
Digital Painting on Archival Paper
Year: 2023
Size: 24x24in
Edition: 15
Signed, numbered and dated by hand on label to be attached verso
COA provided
Re...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
"Les Erophages" Etching & Aquatint with Gold Ink on Paper signed by Andre Masson
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Les Erophages" is an etching and aquatint with gold ink on Japanese paper signed by Andre Masson. Coming from the corner on the lower left was a boarder of pink with lines and circl...
Category
1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Etching, Aquatint
"Centre Noeuds" planche #8
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Centre Noeuds" plate #8 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
"Centre Noeuds" planche #10
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Centre Noeuds" plate #10, 1974, is an original color etching with aquatint on Japan nacre paper by renown Chilean artist Roberto Sebastian Matta, 1911-2002. It i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Aquatint
"Centre Noeuds" planche #2
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Centre Noeuds" plate #2, 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
"Musee De L'Athenee Ed. of 1000, " Original Color Lithograph Poster by Joan Miro
By Joan Miró
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Musee de L'Athenee" is an original color lithograph poster by Joan Miro. It is from an edition of 1000. It showcases Miro's surreal biomorphic marks and is an advertising poster for...
Category
1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Dark Lemur - Etching by Leo Guida - 1972
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Dark Lemur is an Etching realized by Leo Guida in 1972s.
Good condition, Hand signed, dated with pencil.
Artist sensitive to current issues, artistic movements and historical techn...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
"East River Dance" original lithograph signed pop art ocean clown fish cityscape
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"East River Dance" is an original color lithograph by Michael Knigin. The artist signed the piece in the lower right and wrote the edition number, 77/275, in the lower left corner wi...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Ink
Pop Town - Digital Collage by Chiara Santoro - 2010s
Located in Roma, IT
Pop Town is a beautiful print on canvas of a digital collage realized in 2019 by the Italian artist Chiara Santoro.
Edition of 10. Hand-signed and numbered.
The work is divided int...
Category
1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Digital
Les Révolutions Scéniques du XX siècle - Lithograph by Joan Mirò - 1975
By Joan Miró
Located in Roma, IT
"Les Révolutions Scéniques du XX siècle" is an original lithograph realized by Joan Miró in 1975. This is a limited edition.
Bibliography: Joan Miró. Catalogue raisonné des livres i...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
STU theater - Offset Print by Jan Sawka - 1974
By Jan Sawka
Located in Roma, IT
STU theater is a poster created by Jan Sawka (Poland, 1946 - 2012) in 1974.
At the top of the opera is the inscription "STU theater Cracow, Poland". While i...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Offset
Cirque du Soleil n.33
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed. Mixed technique and collage on cardboard. Passepartout included.
This artwork is from the series "Cirque du Soleil" that the Italian arti...
Category
1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Mixed Media
Chevalier de Malte .E.A .
By Jean Cocteau
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 ...
Category
1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Ceramic
Jean Arp, Sieben Arpaden - Portfolio of 7 Lithographs, Original Prints
By Jean Arp
Located in Hamburg, DE
Jean Arp (1886-1966)
Arpaden, 1923/1958
Medium: Set of 7 lithographs on paper
Dimensions: 38 x 26.5 cm
Edition of 180: Not signed, not numbered (as issued)
Printed from the original...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Parts of Another, " Mixed Media Collage
Located in Chicago, IL
Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Monoprint
'Mad Dash' original lithograph signed by Joseph Rozman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Mad Dash' is a print that exemplifies the work of Joseph Rozman during the 1970s, moving beyond the playful pictographs of the previous decade and morphing into an increasingly surr...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Lost in Blindfulness
Located in Yardley, PA
The artwork is an original digital composition in which the artist experiments with the collage-like capabilities of computer graphics, composing directly with the computer. The prin...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Digital, Archival Pigment
"Hinting (With Chine Colle), " Etching & Aquatint signed by Molly McKee
By Molly McKee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Hinting (With Chine Colle)" is an etching and an aquatint signed by Molly McKee. This complex print starts with a mass of black scribbles that are in the foreground near the upper left. The next piece is a woman's torso. Covered up slightly by the black marks, but still beautiful and graceful. Behind her is a golden rocket shaped object.
Art: 12 x 8.88 in
Frame: 24.88 x 17.5 in
A Milwaukee...
Category
1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Broken Shell Beach
By Teri Brudnak
Located in Boston, MA
Additional sizes and pricing available upon request.
Artist commentary:
There is an incredible world that exists at the tide line. This piece recalls the mix of broken shells, sea weeds and tiny organisms that wash up...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Zoran Music (after) - Composition - Pochoir
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Zoran Music (after)- Composition - Pochoir
1959
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
From the art review XXe siècle
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
Category
1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
after Jean Arp - Moustaches et Squelette - Pochoir
By Jean Arp
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Jean Arp
Moustaches et Squelette
Executed in 1957 after the original artwork by the studios from Daniel Jacomet in Paris, France
Pochoir
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
From the art re...
Category
1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Stencil, Paper
"Poly-Quad-Pod, " Original Color Collagraph signed by Joseph Rozman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Poly-Quad-Pod" is an original color collagraph signed, titled, and numbered in the lower part of the print. This piece is edition 9/10 and is by the artist Joseph Rozman. It depicts...
Category
1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Color
Untitled, from Le Soleil Recerclé - Abstract Art - Surrealism and Dada
By Hans Arp
Located in London, GB
JEAN [HANS] ARP 1886-1966
Strasbourg, France 1886 - 1966 Basel, Switzerland (German/French)
Title: Untitled, from Le Soleil Recerclé, 1962-65 (Black circle small shapes)
Technique:...
Category
1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Waiting, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Waiting
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)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
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)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled XXI, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled XXI
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)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled XXV, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled XXV
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)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled XXVI, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled XXVI
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)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled XIV, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled XIV
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)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled - Seamstress, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled - Seamstress
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)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled - IV, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled - IV
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)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
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)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
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)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled 26, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled 26
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)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
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)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Arp, Set of 2 Woodcuts, Original Prints from 1958
By Jean Arp
Located in Hamburg, DE
Jean Arp (1886-1966)
Title 1: Masken
Title 2: Es schneit nach oben
Year of creation: 1958
Medium: Set of 2 woodcut prints on paper
Dimensions: 38 x 27 cm
Edition of 180: Not signed, ...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Henri Laurens - Character - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marino Marini - Character - Original Lithograph
1951
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
From XXe siècle
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
Category
1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Arp (after) - Composition - Pochoir
By Jean Arp
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Arp (after) - Composition - Pochoir
1958
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
From the art revue XXe siècle
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
Category
1930s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Stencil
after Jean Arp - Pochoir
By Jean Arp
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Jean Arp - Pochoir
1957
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
From the art review XXe siècle
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
Category
1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Stencil
Arrow, Screenprint by Rita Simon
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...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Ariadne, Surrealist Screenprint by Rita Simon
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...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Digital Iris Print "Good Internal Object" Pencil Signed w Initials edition of 15
By Charles Long
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...
Category
1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Digital
Digital Iris Print "An Ideadic Camera" Pencil Signed with Initials edition of 15
By Charles Long
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...
Category
1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Digital
Digital Iris Print "Effective Disbelief" Pencil Signed w Initials edition of 15
By Charles Long
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...
Category
1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Digital
Digital Iris Photo Print "Fangled No-Being" Pencil Signed w Initials edition 15
By Charles Long
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...
Category
1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Digital
Digital Iris Print "Spontaneous Restructuring" Pencil Signed w. Initials ed. 15
By Charles Long
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 ...
Category
1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints
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Digital
Digital Iris Print "Schizmo Genesis" Pencil Signed with Initials edition of 15
By Charles Long
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 ...
Category
1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Digital
Digital Iris Print "Fatherless Gang" Pencil Signed with Initials edition of 15
By Charles Long
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 ...
Category
1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Digital
Digital Iris Print "Arrogant Peceiver" Pencil Signed with Initials edition of 15
By Charles Long
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 ...
Category
1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Digital
Digital Iris Print "Theatres of the Body " Pencil Signed w Initials ed. of 15
By Charles Long
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 ...
Category
1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Digital
Digital Iris Print "Heinz Dilemma" Pencil Signed with Initials edition of 15
By Charles Long
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 ...
Category
1990s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Digital
Dancing in the Night, Screenprint by John Hultberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Hultberg, American (1922 - 2005)
Title: Dancing in the Night
Year: 1978
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200, AP 30
...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Wide Window II, Surrealist Screenprint by John Hultberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Hultberg
Title: Wide Window II
Year: 1978
Medium: Silkscreen, Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200, 30 AP
Image Size: 24 x 32.5 inches
Paper Size: 26 in. x 35 in....
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Sinking Ship, Abstract Print by John Hultberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Hultberg
Title: Sinking Ship
Year: 1978
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200, AP 30
Image Size: 24 x 24.5 inches
Paper Size: 26 in. x 26.5 in....
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Reflected Landscape (Blue Moon), Screenprint by Rita Simon
By Rita Simon
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Rita Simon, American (1938 - )
Title: Reflected Landscape AKA Blue Moon
Year: 1979
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: AP 30
Image Size: 30 x 24 ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
POEMES: GRAVURES V
By Marc Chagall
Located in Aventura, FL
Woodcut on Japon Nacré paper. Hand signed and numbered (of 26) by the artist. From a total edition of 238: 26 on Japon Nacré numbered 1-26, 200 on Rives numbered 27-226, 12 on Rives...
Category
1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
The Lady Playing Checkers La Dame aux Damiers - Spanish Abstract Surrealism
By Joan Miró
Located in London, GB
This original lithograph is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Miró" at the lower right corner.
It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 75, at the lower left corner...
Category
1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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