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
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...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Ghost. 1989., paper, screen print, 60x32.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Ghost. 1989., paper, screen print, 60x32.5 cm
Category
1980s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
$849 Sale Price
20% Off
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 ...
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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
Red and Blue Rouge et bleu - Surrealism Spanish
By Joan Miró
Located in London, GB
This original lithograph in colours is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Miró" at the lower right margin
It is also hand numbered in pencil, from the edition of 100 at the lower l...
Category
1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Composition IV, from: The Pine Tree of Formentor - Poetry Majorca Pine Forests
By Joan Miró
Located in London, GB
This original etching and aquatint in colours is hand signed in pencil by the artist “Miró” in the lower right margin.
It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 50, in ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Geometrical Clouds
Located in Henderson, NV
Limited Edition of 10 sets. Laser cut steel with powder coat. “Geometrical Clouds” is reimagined as a major theme in my life’s work, with the earliest pieces of that name dating back...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Metal
$16,000 Sale Price
20% Off
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...
Category
1980s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
$358 Sale Price
20% Off
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
$10,000 Sale Price
20% Off
ORSA MAGGIORE #7506
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Aventura, FL
From a set of 6 done in 1975 at Pollenza-Macerata, Nuova Foglia Editrice. Hand signed and numbered by Wifredo Lam. Edition EA of 8. Artwork size 31.5 x 25.5 inches. Framed.
Artw...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
$3,712 Sale Price
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From Miroir du Poète Album
By André Masson
Located in New York, NY
Color aquatint on black backround from Miroir du Poete, published by Louis Broder, Paris, 1960. II/VI of 6 on japon of a total edition of 66. Signed and numbered in pencil by the art...
Category
1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Blow Your Mind
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
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:...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Eye On Empire
Located in Brooklyn, NY
In this mesmerizing surrealist image, the artist delves into the realms of the subconscious and the juxtaposition of unexpected elements. A colossal eye gazes upon the towering prese...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Pigment
$1,400
Teres de Grand Feu
Located in Missouri, MO
Terres de Grand Feu
Miro Artigas
Galerie Maeght Fine Art Poster Print
30 x 21 inches
31 x 22 inches with frame
Joan Miro (Spanish, 1893-1983)
Joan Miro was born in Barcelona, Spain...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Color
Price Upon Request
Calder Stabiles
Located in Missouri, MO
Calder Stabiles
Galerie Maeght Fine Art Poster Print
30 x 22 inches
31 x 23 inches with frame
Alexander Calder (American, 1898-1976)
One of America's ...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Color
Price Upon Request
Lithographier Originale (one plate from Ceramique Murale pour Harvard) (Modern)
By Joan Miró
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joan Miro
Lithographier Originale (one plate from Ceramique Murale pour Harvard)
Original Color Lithograph, doublefold
Year: 1961
Size: 14.5x21.6in
Edition: 1,500
Portfolio: DLM 12...
Category
1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Litografia Original I
By Joan Miró
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joan Miró
Litografia Original I
Color Lithograph
Year: 1975
Size: 12.5 × 9.6 inches
Catalogue Raisonné: Queneau, Miro Lithographe II, 1952-1963, p.35
Publisher: Maeght Editeur, Paris...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Price Upon Request
Centre Noeuds Portfolio, Suite of 10 Aquatint Etchings
Located in Long Island City, NY
These works express the influence of the collective subconscious icons, South American & popular culture, and psycho-sexuality. Their undeniable beauty keeps the eye engaged in visua...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Ma de Proverbis, Joan Miró
By Joan Miró
Located in New York, NY
This lithograph in colors on Arches paper (with watermark) was created by the artist in 1970. Signed in the stone, (lower right) from the edition of 1000.
Category
20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Price Upon Request
Judgements: Blitz
Located in London, GB
Plate 1 from 'Judgements'.
Signed in pencil, from the edition of 100.
Printed on Arches wove paper by Atelier Georges Visat, Paris.
Published by Blue Moon Gallery, New York.
Plat...
Category
1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Price Upon Request
Aimera bien qui aimera le dernier
Located in London, GB
Signed in pencil, from the edition of 85.
Printed on Lana wove paper and published by Georges Visat, Paris.
Plate: 42 x 32.7 cm.
(Sabatier 194).
Category
1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Price Upon Request
Droites Libérées: Plate 9
Located in London, GB
From 'Droites Libérées', a series which illustrated a poem by Henri Michaux.
Signed in pencil, numbered in Roman numerals from XXV.
From the suite on Japon nacré paper (the total e...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Price Upon Request
L'Arbre des voyageurs: III - Joan Miró, Lithograph, Surrealist
By Joan Miró
Located in London, GB
From Tristan Tzara's 'L'Arbre des voyageurs'.
Signed and dated in pencil, a large paper proof. Inscribed 'Pour Henriette, en toute amitié'.
Printed on wove paper and published by E...
Category
1930s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Forbidden Fruit: Eve
Located in Kansas City, MO
Artist : Jolynn Reigeluth
Title : Forbidden Fruit: Eve
Materials : Etching, collage and watercolor
Date : 2018
Dimensions : 19" x 13" in.
Jolynn Reige...
Category
2010s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Printer's Ink, Watercolor, Color, Monoprint, Etching
Price Upon Request
Space Eagles
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Price Upon Request
Joy
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Price Upon Request
Music Box
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Price Upon Request
Pillow Machine
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...
Category
1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Rag Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Price Upon Request
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