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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
Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Jack Zajac, American, born 1929 1964 Etching and aquatint hand printed on Fabriano paper, pencil signed and editioned. This one depicts winged angels. Edition Roman Numeral III Ima...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Miró, Le réveil de Madame Bou-Bou à l'aube (C. 69; D. 292; M. 286-294) (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph, stencil on vélin paper. Paper Size: 9.24 x 11.5 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cramer, Patrick, and Jo...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

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

Composition (Cramer 211; Mourlot 1051-1072)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 19.5 x 14.125 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cramer, Patrick, and ...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Miró, Femme et oiseau V/X (Cramer 69; Dupin 292; Mourlot 286-294) (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph, stencil on vélin paper. Paper Size: 11.5 x 9.24 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cramer, Patrick, and Jo...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Sans titre (Cramer 202; Mourlot 1080), San Lazzaro et ses Amis, XXe siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cramer, Patrick, and Joan Miró. Joan...
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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

Anamorphoses Lys
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Anamorphoses Lys MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: EA MEASUREMENTS: 34.62" x 23.75" YEAR: 1972 FRAMED: No CONDITION: Excell...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

"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

Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Jack Zajac, American, born 1929 1964 Etching and aquatint hand printed on Fabriano paper, pencil signed and editioned. Edition Roman Numeral III Image: 12 9/16 x 8 5/8 in. (31.9 x 2...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Porc qui pique, Stabiles, Derrière le miroir
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, N° 141, 1963. Published by Maeght É...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

La lune, Stabiles, Derrière le miroir
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, N° 141, 1963. Published by Maeght É...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Le bonnet phrygien, Stabiles, Derrière le miroir
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, N° 141, 1963. Published by Maeght É...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Sabot, Stabiles, Derrière le miroir
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, N° 141, 1963. Published by Maeght É...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Tamanoir, Derrière le miroir
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 22 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, N° 141,...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Chasse neige, Stabiles, Derrière le miroir
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 22 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, N° 141,...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

La lune et porc qui pique, Stabiles, Derrière le miroir
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 22 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, N° 141,...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Sabot et le bonnet phrygien, Stabiles, Derrière le miroir
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 22 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, N° 141,...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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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

Burning Bush, Screenprint by Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000) Title: Burning Bush Year: 1978 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200, AP...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Screen

Lithographs II (1046), Surrealist Lithography by Joan Miro
Located in Long Island City, NY
Joan Miro was a Spanish Surrealist artist, world-renowned for his unique art style that blended surrealist fantasy and modern life. This lithograph is part of the series "Lithographs...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Oiseau solaire, oiseau lunaire, étincelles (Mourlot 567), XXe siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 28.95 inches, with bifold, as issued. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Miró, Joan, and Jo...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Dali Vertical Portrait de Calderon engraving
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Work of the Spanish artist SALVADOR DALI. Engraving of the series LA VIDA ES SUEÑO. Printed signature and date, as issued Catalog. OFFICIAL CATALOG GRAPHYC WORKS BY ALBERT FIELD Page...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Engraving

PLATE 5 (FROM EL ULTIMO VIAJE DEL BUQUE FANTASMA)
Located in Aventura, FL
From El Ultimo Viaje del Buque Fantasma suite made to illustrate the text of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Hand signed and numbered by Wifredo Lam. Published by Polígrafa, Barcelona. From the edition of 99. Frame Size: approx 31 x 39 inches. Artwork is in excellent condition. Please note the frame has some minor scratches on the molding. No broken or missing parts. Plexi glass covering is new. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be considered. About the Artist: Wifredo Lam was an Afro-Cuban artist best known for his unique Surrealist aesthetic that combined European artistic movements with the imagery of his native country. “I responded always to the presence of factors that emanated from our history and our geography, tropical flowers, and black culture,” Lam once said. In one of his most famous paintings, The Jungle (1943), these various influences are melded together, onto a single large-scale canvas. Born Wifredo Oscar de la Concepción Lam y Castilla on December 8, 1902 in Sagua la Grande, Cuba, the painter moved to Madrid, Spain in 1923 to study with Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor, who had been the teacher of famed Surrealist Salvador Dalí. Lam moved to Paris after seeing an exhibition of Pablo Picasso’s work in Spain. Having arrived in Paris, he introduced himself to Picasso who subsequently showed Lam his collection of primitive artworks...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Miró, Composition (Cramer 102; Mourlot 428-449), Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, N° 151-152, 1965. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éd...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

"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...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Ink

Sans titre (Cramer 207; Mourlot 1079), Les Révolutions Scéniques du XXe Siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 13.5 x 10 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cramer, Patrick, and Joan Miró. Joan Miró, Ca...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Surrealist Carborundum Etching, Homage a Rodin
Located in Surfside, FL
This is from a portfolio Hommage A Rodin. It included a lithograph by Henry Moore, Ossip Zadkine, Berto Lardera, an etching by Robert Couturier and an etching...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Composition IX (Cramer 160; Mourlot 865), Joan Miró Lithographs
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.5 x 20 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cramer, Patrick, ...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Composition X (Cramer 160; Mourlot 866), Joan Miró Lithographs
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.5 x 20 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cramer, Patrick, ...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Espriu--Miró
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color etching, aquatint and carborundum. Signed and numbered 20/50 in pencil by Miro. Printed by J. J. Torralba, Barcelona. Published by Sala Gaspar, B...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Color, Etching, Aquatint

Photogram, Surrealist Etching with Embossing by Murray Tinkelman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Murray Tinkelman, American (1933 - ) - Photogram, Year: 1969, Medium: Etching with embossing, signed, dated and numbered in pencil, Edition: 15, Image Size: 14 x 8 inches, Size: ...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

Spacescape, Abstract Surrealist Screenprint by Rita Simon
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Rita Simon, American (1938 - ) Title: Spacescape Year: 1978 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 300, AP 30 Image Size: 32 x 24 inches Size: 36...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Screen

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

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Etching

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

Dali Alchimie des Philosophes Le Phenix
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Alchimie des Philosophes Le Phenix MEDIUM: Etching on parchment paper SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Art et ...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching

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

Graphisms & 2. 1980, paper, silk screen, 15x21 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Graphisms & 2. 1980, paper, silk screen, 15x21 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

Les Chiens Ont Soif II, Surrealist Lithograph by Max Ernst
Located in Long Island City, NY
Max Ernst, German (1891 - 1976) - Les Chiens Ont Soif II, Portfolio: Les Chiens Ont Soif, Year: 1964, Medium: Lithograph, Edition: 165/320, Size: 17 x 24.5 in. (43.18 x 62.23 cm...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Paysage aux Isbas, from: Jacques Lassaigne - French Russian
Located in London, GB
This lithograph in colours is hand signed in pencil by the artist “Marc Chagall” at the lower right margin. It is also numbered 25 in pencil from the deluxe edition of 90, at the low...
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Composition (Cramer 211; Mourlot 1051-1072)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 19.5 x 14.125 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cramer, Patrick, and ...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

T'ou't se tient, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle série, XXXVIIe Année, N°45, Dé...
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1970s 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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Joan Miro Oiseaux dans un paysage Original Lithograph, Hand Signed & Framed
Located in Plainview, NY
Joan Miro Oiseaux dans un paysage Original Lithograph, Hand Signed & Framed: This original color lithograph by Joan Miro ( Spanish, 1893-1983) is a masterwork of Surrealist abst...
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20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Embleme, Surrealist Etching and Aquatint by Andre Masson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Andre Masson, French (1896 - 1987) - Embleme, Year: 1942, Medium: Etching and Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 5/30, Image Size: 9.5 x 8.75 inches, Size: 18.25 ...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Lithographie Originale V (Abstract, Modern, Surrealism, Colorful, ~22% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joan Miró Lithographie Originale V Color Lithograph Year: 1977 Size: 12.5 × 9.6 inches Catalogue Raisonné: Teixidor, Miro Lithographe III, 1964-1969 Publisher: Maeght Editeur, Paris, France Verso: Typographically annotated: 'Joan Miro - Lithographie originale V' Unsigned, Unknown Edition Size COA provided --------------------------------------- Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma de Mallorca in 1981 Surrealism, Fauvism, Cubism, Abstract expressionism, Naive art, Expressionism, Suprematism Pablo Picasso, André Breton, Hans Arp, André Masson, Hieronymus Bosch, Tristan Tzara, Modest Urgell
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Hommage à Dorothea Tanning, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 19.3 x 12.4 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, ...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Composition II (Cramer 198; Mourlot 1038), Joan Miró Lithographs
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.625 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cramer, Patrick, and Joan Miró. Joan Miró,...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Composition - Etching by W. Freddie - 1961
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original black and white etching on paper, realized by Wilhelm Freddie (born Christian Frederik Wilhelm Carlsen Carlsen), a danish abstract and Surrealistic Artist,...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Le Singe et le Léopard, Salvador Dali
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Title: Le Singe et le Léopard Year: 1975 Medium: Engraving with pochoir on Arches paper Edition: E.A.; 682, plus proofs Size: 30 x 22.25 inches Cond...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Cartones Plate 1
Located in Wilton, CT
From Miro's Cartones. numbered 203/500 From Galerie Maeght, Paris.
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Cartones Plate 1
Cartones Plate 1
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Apple (2nd Edition), Surrealist Etching by Marjorie Tomchuk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marjorie Tomchuk, Canadian/American - Apple (2nd Edition), Year: 1967, Medium: Etching, signed, titled and numbered in pencil, Edition: 13/100, Imag...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Sans titre, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle série N°3 (double) Juin 1952, ...
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1950s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Miró, L'Oiseau solaire, L'Oiseau lunaire, Étincelles (C. 117; D. 447-48) (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph, stencil on sandpaper. Paper Size: 11.25 x 3.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cramer, Patrick, and Joan Miró. Joan...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Miró, L'Oiseau solaire, L'Oiseau lunaire, Étincelles (C. 117; D. 447-48) (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph, stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 12.5 x 28.125 inches, with bifold, as issued. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references:...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Miró, L'Oiseau solaire, L'Oiseau lunaire, Étincelles (C. 117; D. 447-48) (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph, stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cramer, Patrick, and Joa...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Miró, L'Oiseau solaire, L'Oiseau lunaire, Étincelles (C. 117; D. 447-48) (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph, stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cramer, Patrick, and Joa...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Sans titre (Cramer 67; Mourlot 206), Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cramer, Patrick, and Joan Miró. Joan Miró, ...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Miró, Personnage et oiseaux (Cramer 103; Mourlot 382-383), Cartones (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph, stencil on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.375 x 8.687 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cramer, Patrick, and...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Garden Under the Moonlight - Original lithograph (Mourlot #896)
Located in Paris, IDF
Joan MIRO Garden Under the Moonlight, 1973 Original lithograph (Mourlot workshop) Printed signature in the plate On wove paper 33 x 24 cm (c. 13 x 10 in) REFERENCE : Catalog raison...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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