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Surrealist Animal 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
Rhinoceros, Tribute to Albrecht DURER - Original lithograph poster (Gaspar #1503
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Rhinoceros, Tribute to Albrecht DURER, 1971 Original lithograph Printed signature in the plate On paper 76 x 56.5 cm (c. 30 x 22 in) REFERENCE : Catalog r...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

"Divagaciones espontáneas" contemporary screenprint surrealist zebra and pyramid
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
During the pandemic, the artist stayed for 4 months in Oaxaca on a beach called San Aguistinillo, where he developed the Sana Distancia (safe distance) collection, he created each da...
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2010s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Screen

"Ver voces II" yellow contemporary surrealist serigraphy w/silver leaf
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Nature is a central theme in Alejandra's work, and with this surreal vibrant landscape, we can notice her profound curiosity about the cycles that occur in the natural world that tur...
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2010s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Screen

Chevalier Royal de L’Apocalypse
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Chevalier Royal de L'Apocalypse MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: 32/100 MEASUREMENTS: 20" x 25.75" YEAR: 1972 FRAMED: No COND...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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La Grande Parade des Chats by Leonor Fini 1973 Cats Lythographs
Located in FR
La grande Parade des Chats Original Illustrations by Leonor Fini Containing sixty illustrations This is from a unique special run being one of only 35 copies produced for personal use by Leonor Fini these were numbered EA 1 to EA 35 This example being EA 9 and has been personally dedicated and signed by the artist to her friend Philippe Aetmann A mid century modern artist Leonor Fini 1907-1996 There was a small run of this Limited Edition in total 250 copies numbered and signed by the artist with 230 copies printed on hand made Arches paper and another 20 on Japon nacre Through time most of these books have been been split up and the illustrations sold off individually Consequently there are very few complete examples remaining Original printed hardcover containing the book itself printed with winged cats (reference to her Sphinx women) Unique copy in very good condition with only minor signs of age Leonor Fini (1907–1996) is considered one of the most important women artists of the twentieth century and also one of the most misunderstood. Frequently labeled a surrealist she was never a member of that group or movement, preferring to stake her own claim on modernism with a vision that owes more to the farthest shores of her imagination than to any affiliation with art trends, schools or movements. The originality of her art as well as her intelligence, famous wit and charisma accorded her celebrity status in the Paris art world and beyond beginning in the late thirties. Often eclipsing and even compromising her standing as a major artist was the originality and impact of her personal style. Her panache and glamour, once they found a place in the collective imagination of the time, turned her into a much-publicized fashion and feminist icon. Always controversial, with as many detractors as admirers, she lived and painted consummately on her own terms. Born in Buenos Aires of mixed Spanish, Italian, Argentine and Slavic blood, Leonor was raised in Trieste by her single mother where she absorbed the multi-ethnic and mixed cultural heritage of that cosmopolitan center. The predominant themes in Leonor Fini’s art are sexual tensions, mysteries and games. One of her favored subjects is the interplay between the dominant female and the passive male, and in many of her most powerful works the female takes the form of the sphinx to which she felt a strong identification. Her genius for stage and screen design is evident in her numerous ground breaking theater decors...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Dog print by California Funk "nut art" painter world renowned for dog portraits
Located in New York, NY
Roy De Forest Untitled (Dog), 1981 Color lithograph with deckled edges. Floated and framed. Pencil signed and numbered from the edition of 125 Frame Included: held in original vintage white frame Wonderful whimsical rare 1981 lithograph by the incredibly popular and beloved Roy de Forest, famous for his paintings and prints of dogs...
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1980s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Spanish Artist hand signed limited edition original art print drypoint n13
Located in Miami, FL
Salvador Dali (Spain, 1904-1989) 'Le Cheval et le Loup', 1974 Serie: Le Bestiaire de La Fontaine dry point, aquatint on japanese paper 22.9 x 30.8 in. (58 x 78 cm.) Edition of 250 Unframed ID: DAL2001-013 Hand-signed by author It appears reviewed in the catalog raisonné: The official catalog of the graphic works of Salvador Dalí. Albert Field. Page: 2/93. Nr. 74-1 L. ______________________________________________________ Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech was a Spanish painter, sculptor, engraver, set designer and writer of the 20th century. An artist associated with surrealism, he is one of the most important figures in 20th century art, representing the archetype of the spectacular contemporary multifaceted artist. He develops his creative activity in various fields through the most diverse cultural formulas: painting, written media, performing arts, cinema, or public appearances in the press, radio, cinema, advertising, television, etc. Master of the most refined pictorial technique, especially drawing, along with various aesthetic languages - from impressionism, cubism, purism or late ultraism with Dadaist edges to the most radical surrealism, hyperrealism, pop-art or art optical—, will absorb every influence that is useful to build its own and personal language, halfway between technical tradition and thematic avant-garde. His paranoid-critical method is his main contribution to the surrealist movement and to the history of art as a new creative model with which Dalí's theories acquire theoretical entity - thanks to the successive interpretations that the Empordà artist made of his readings of Dalí's work. Sigmund Freud—and practice, applying it as a revealing liquid of images that can be represented plastically through multiple images, anamorphisms, relational mirages, irrational and heterogeneous symbolic images, pseudohallucinations, childhood memories, atavisms, obsessive ideas, etc., and recreating a polyphonic method capable of critically relating any visual or sensitive experience. With his method, Dalí makes paranoid delirium a whole mode of expression of an art that introduces us to the concrete irrationality that inhabits every creative process, constructing not only his works, but also his own character. as an artist. In Dalí, the relationship between his work and his personal history becomes evident. Much of the most significant biographical facts for the artist are implicitly or explicitly present in the content of his work and are the explanation of his complex and contradictory personality. In 1910, at the age of 6, he was enrolled by his father in the Hispano-French school of the Immaculate Conception of Figueres, where he learned French, his future language of culture. Dalí's first contact with Impressionism occurred in 1916, when he spent some time on the outskirts of Figueres, specifically at the Molí de la Torre estate, property of the Pichot family (intellectuals and artists), where he was the collection of the painter Ramón Pichot. In 1919 he participated for the first time in a group exhibition in the halls of the Societat de Concerts, and with a group of friends from the institute founded the magazine Studium, in which he published his first writings. A year later he moved to Madrid to study at the School of Fine Arts. In 1922 he won his first prize at the Concurs-exposició d'obres d'art originals d'students, held at the Galeries Dalmau (Barcelona). This same year he attended the School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving in Madrid (Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando), and lived in the Student Residence, where he became friends with prominent personalities such as Luis Buñuel, Federico García Lorca, Pedro Garfias , Eugenio Montes, or Pepín Bello. However, a year later he was expelled from the Academy for his rebellious and revolutionary character, accused of leading a protest. It would be in 1927 when his surrealist period began, after having traveled to the Netherlands and France, meeting Flemish painters and Picasso. In Paris itself, in 1929, through Joan Miró, he came into contact with a group of surrealists headed...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Drypoint, Paper, Aquatint

Spanish Artist hand signed limited edition original art print drypoint n12
Located in Miami, FL
Salvador Dali (Spain, 1904-1989) 'La Cerf se voyant dans l’eau', 1974 Serie: Le Bestiaire de La Fontaine dry point, aquatint on japanese paper 30.6 x 22.7 in. (77.5 x 57.5 cm.) Editi...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Drypoint, Paper, Aquatint

Spanish Artist hand signed limited edition original art print drypoint n15
Located in Miami, FL
Salvador Dali (Spain, 1904-1989) 'Le Coche et le Mouche', 1974 Serie: Le Bestiaire de La Fontaine dry point, aquatint on japanese paper 22.9 x 30.4 in. (58 x 77 cm.) Edition of 250 U...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Drypoint, Paper, Aquatint

Spanish Artist hand signed limited edition original art print drypoint n16
Located in Miami, FL
Salvador Dali (Spain, 1904-1989) 'Jinete apocalíptico', 1974 dry point, etching on paper 22.3 x 30.4 in. (56.5 x 77 cm.) Edition of 175 Unframed ID: DAL2001-016 Hand-signed by author ______________________________________________________ Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech was a Spanish painter, sculptor, engraver, set designer and writer of the 20th century. An artist associated with surrealism, he is one of the most important figures in 20th century art, representing the archetype of the spectacular contemporary multifaceted artist. He develops his creative activity in various fields through the most diverse cultural formulas: painting, written media, performing arts, cinema, or public appearances in the press, radio, cinema, advertising, television, etc. Master of the most refined pictorial technique, especially drawing, along with various aesthetic languages - from impressionism, cubism, purism or late ultraism with Dadaist edges to the most radical surrealism, hyperrealism, pop-art or art optical—, will absorb every influence that is useful to build its own and personal language, halfway between technical tradition and thematic avant-garde. His paranoid-critical method is his main contribution to the surrealist movement and to the history of art as a new creative model with which Dalí's theories acquire theoretical entity - thanks to the successive interpretations that the Empordà artist made of his readings of Dalí's work. Sigmund Freud—and practice, applying it as a revealing liquid of images that can be represented plastically through multiple images, anamorphisms, relational mirages, irrational and heterogeneous symbolic images, pseudohallucinations, childhood memories, atavisms, obsessive ideas, etc., and recreating a polyphonic method capable of critically relating any visual or sensitive experience. With his method, Dalí makes paranoid delirium a whole mode of expression of an art that introduces us to the concrete irrationality that inhabits every creative process, constructing not only his works, but also his own character. as an artist. In Dalí, the relationship between his work and his personal history becomes evident. Much of the most significant biographical facts for the artist are implicitly or explicitly present in the content of his work and are the explanation of his complex and contradictory personality. In 1910, at the age of 6, he was enrolled by his father in the Hispano-French school of the Immaculate Conception of Figueres, where he learned French, his future language of culture. Dalí's first contact with Impressionism occurred in 1916, when he spent some time on the outskirts of Figueres, specifically at the Molí de la Torre estate, property of the Pichot family (intellectuals and artists), where he was the collection of the painter Ramón Pichot. In 1919 he participated for the first time in a group exhibition in the halls of the Societat de Concerts, and with a group of friends from the institute founded the magazine Studium, in which he published his first writings. A year later he moved to Madrid to study at the School of Fine Arts. In 1922 he won his first prize at the Concurs-exposició d'obres d'art originals d'students, held at the Galeries Dalmau (Barcelona). This same year he attended the School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving in Madrid (Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando), and lived in the Student Residence, where he became friends with prominent personalities such as Luis Buñuel, Federico García Lorca, Pedro Garfias , Eugenio Montes, or Pepín Bello. However, a year later he was expelled from the Academy for his rebellious and revolutionary character, accused of leading a protest. It would be in 1927 when his surrealist period began, after having traveled to the Netherlands and France, meeting Flemish painters and Picasso. In Paris itself, in 1929, through Joan Miró, he came into contact with a group of surrealists headed...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Paper, Drypoint, Etching

Jean Arp - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Arp - Original Lithograph 1951 Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm From the art revue XXe siècle Unsigned and unumbered as issued
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1950s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Spanish Artist hand signed limited edition original art print drypoint n11
Located in Miami, FL
Salvador Dali (Spain, 1904-1989) 'La Cerf Malade', 1974 Serie: Le Bestiaire de La Fontaine dry point, aquatint on japanese paper 30.6 x 22.9 in. (77.5 x 58 cm.) Edition of 250 Unfram...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Drypoint, Paper, Aquatint

Spanish Artist hand signed limited edition original art print drypoint n14
Located in Miami, FL
Salvador Dali (Spain, 1904-1989) 'Les Animaux Malades de la Peste', 1974 Serie: Le Bestiaire de La Fontaine dry point, aquatint on japanese paper 22.9 x 30.4 in. (58 x 77 cm.) Editio...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Drypoint, Paper, Aquatint

Salvador Dali, Le Girafe en Feu (Giraffe Afire) from Le Jungle Humaine
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is a lithograph from the original ink drawing with added color. It is from Dali's suite of 6 lithographs entitled "Le Jungle Humaine", which he created in 1976. This piece...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Spanish Artist hand signed limited edition original art print drypoint n7
Located in Miami, FL
Salvador Dali (Spain, 1904-1989) 'La Cour du Lion', 1974 Serie: Le Bestiaire de La Fontaine dry point, aquatint on japanese paper 30.6 x 22.7 in. (77.5 x 57.5 cm.) Edition of 250 Unframed ID: DAL2001-007 Hand-signed by author It appears reviewed in the catalog raisonné: The official catalog of the graphic works of Salvador Dalí. Albert Field. Page: 2/93. Nr. 74-1 J. ______________________________________________________ Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech was a Spanish painter, sculptor, engraver, set designer and writer of the 20th century. An artist associated with surrealism, he is one of the most important figures in 20th century art, representing the archetype of the spectacular contemporary multifaceted artist. He develops his creative activity in various fields through the most diverse cultural formulas: painting, written media, performing arts, cinema, or public appearances in the press, radio, cinema, advertising, television, etc. Master of the most refined pictorial technique, especially drawing, along with various aesthetic languages - from impressionism, cubism, purism or late ultraism with Dadaist edges to the most radical surrealism, hyperrealism, pop-art or art optical—, will absorb every influence that is useful to build its own and personal language, halfway between technical tradition and thematic avant-garde. His paranoid-critical method is his main contribution to the surrealist movement and to the history of art as a new creative model with which Dalí's theories acquire theoretical entity - thanks to the successive interpretations that the Empordà artist made of his readings of Dalí's work. Sigmund Freud—and practice, applying it as a revealing liquid of images that can be represented plastically through multiple images, anamorphisms, relational mirages, irrational and heterogeneous symbolic images, pseudohallucinations, childhood memories, atavisms, obsessive ideas, etc., and recreating a polyphonic method capable of critically relating any visual or sensitive experience. With his method, Dalí makes paranoid delirium a whole mode of expression of an art that introduces us to the concrete irrationality that inhabits every creative process, constructing not only his works, but also his own character. as an artist. In Dalí, the relationship between his work and his personal history becomes evident. Much of the most significant biographical facts for the artist are implicitly or explicitly present in the content of his work and are the explanation of his complex and contradictory personality. In 1910, at the age of 6, he was enrolled by his father in the Hispano-French school of the Immaculate Conception of Figueres, where he learned French, his future language of culture. Dalí's first contact with Impressionism occurred in 1916, when he spent some time on the outskirts of Figueres, specifically at the Molí de la Torre estate, property of the Pichot family (intellectuals and artists), where he was the collection of the painter Ramón Pichot. In 1919 he participated for the first time in a group exhibition in the halls of the Societat de Concerts, and with a group of friends from the institute founded the magazine Studium, in which he published his first writings. A year later he moved to Madrid to study at the School of Fine Arts. In 1922 he won his first prize at the Concurs-exposició d'obres d'art originals d'students, held at the Galeries Dalmau (Barcelona). This same year he attended the School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving in Madrid (Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando), and lived in the Student Residence, where he became friends with prominent personalities such as Luis Buñuel, Federico García Lorca, Pedro Garfias , Eugenio Montes, or Pepín Bello. However, a year later he was expelled from the Academy for his rebellious and revolutionary character, accused of leading a protest. It would be in 1927 when his surrealist period began, after having traveled to the Netherlands and France, meeting Flemish painters and Picasso. In Paris itself, in 1929, through Joan Miró, he came into contact with a group of surrealists headed...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Drypoint, Paper, Aquatint

Spanish Artist hand signed limited edition original art print drypoint n8
Located in Miami, FL
Salvador Dali (Spain, 1904-1989) 'La Cour du Lion', 1974 Serie: Le Bestiaire de La Fontaine dry point, aquatint on japanese paper 30.8 x 22.9 in. (78 x 58 cm.) Edition of 250 Unframed ID: DAL2001-008 Hand-signed by author It appears reviewed in the catalog raisonné: The official catalog of the graphic works of Salvador Dalí. Albert Field. Page: 2/93. Nr. 74-1 C. ______________________________________________________ Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech was a Spanish painter, sculptor, engraver, set designer and writer of the 20th century. An artist associated with surrealism, he is one of the most important figures in 20th century art, representing the archetype of the spectacular contemporary multifaceted artist. He develops his creative activity in various fields through the most diverse cultural formulas: painting, written media, performing arts, cinema, or public appearances in the press, radio, cinema, advertising, television, etc. Master of the most refined pictorial technique, especially drawing, along with various aesthetic languages - from impressionism, cubism, purism or late ultraism with Dadaist edges to the most radical surrealism, hyperrealism, pop-art or art optical—, will absorb every influence that is useful to build its own and personal language, halfway between technical tradition and thematic avant-garde. His paranoid-critical method is his main contribution to the surrealist movement and to the history of art as a new creative model with which Dalí's theories acquire theoretical entity - thanks to the successive interpretations that the Empordà artist made of his readings of Dalí's work. Sigmund Freud—and practice, applying it as a revealing liquid of images that can be represented plastically through multiple images, anamorphisms, relational mirages, irrational and heterogeneous symbolic images, pseudohallucinations, childhood memories, atavisms, obsessive ideas, etc., and recreating a polyphonic method capable of critically relating any visual or sensitive experience. With his method, Dalí makes paranoid delirium a whole mode of expression of an art that introduces us to the concrete irrationality that inhabits every creative process, constructing not only his works, but also his own character. as an artist. In Dalí, the relationship between his work and his personal history becomes evident. Much of the most significant biographical facts for the artist are implicitly or explicitly present in the content of his work and are the explanation of his complex and contradictory personality. In 1910, at the age of 6, he was enrolled by his father in the Hispano-French school of the Immaculate Conception of Figueres, where he learned French, his future language of culture. Dalí's first contact with Impressionism occurred in 1916, when he spent some time on the outskirts of Figueres, specifically at the Molí de la Torre estate, property of the Pichot family (intellectuals and artists), where he was the collection of the painter Ramón Pichot. In 1919 he participated for the first time in a group exhibition in the halls of the Societat de Concerts, and with a group of friends from the institute founded the magazine Studium, in which he published his first writings. A year later he moved to Madrid to study at the School of Fine Arts. In 1922 he won his first prize at the Concurs-exposició d'obres d'art originals d'students, held at the Galeries Dalmau (Barcelona). This same year he attended the School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving in Madrid (Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando), and lived in the Student Residence, where he became friends with prominent personalities such as Luis Buñuel, Federico García Lorca, Pedro Garfias , Eugenio Montes, or Pepín Bello. However, a year later he was expelled from the Academy for his rebellious and revolutionary character, accused of leading a protest. It would be in 1927 when his surrealist period began, after having traveled to the Netherlands and France, meeting Flemish painters and Picasso. In Paris itself, in 1929, through Joan Miró, he came into contact with a group of surrealists headed...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Drypoint, Paper, Aquatint

Spanish Artist hand signed limited edition original art print drypoint n9
Located in Miami, FL
Salvador Dali (Spain, 1904-1989) 'Le Singe et le Léopard', 1974 Serie: Le Bestiaire de La Fontaine dry point, aquatint on japanese paper 30.8 x 22.7 in. (78 x 57.5 cm.) Edition of 25...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Drypoint, Paper, Aquatint

Spanish Artist hand signed limited edition original art print drypoint n6
Located in Miami, FL
Salvador Dali (Spain, 1904-1989) 'L’Elephant et le singe de Jupiter', 1974 Serie: Le Bestiaire de La Fontaine dry point, aquatint on japanese paper 22.9 x 30.8 in. (58 x 78 cm.) Edition of 250 Unframed ID: DAL2001-006 Hand-signed by author It appears reviewed in the catalog raisonné: The official catalog of the graphic works of Salvador Dalí. Albert Field. Page: 2/93. Nr. 74-1 B. ______________________________________________________ Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech was a Spanish painter, sculptor, engraver, set designer and writer of the 20th century. An artist associated with surrealism, he is one of the most important figures in 20th century art, representing the archetype of the spectacular contemporary multifaceted artist. He develops his creative activity in various fields through the most diverse cultural formulas: painting, written media, performing arts, cinema, or public appearances in the press, radio, cinema, advertising, television, etc. Master of the most refined pictorial technique, especially drawing, along with various aesthetic languages - from impressionism, cubism, purism or late ultraism with Dadaist edges to the most radical surrealism, hyperrealism, pop-art or art optical—, will absorb every influence that is useful to build its own and personal language, halfway between technical tradition and thematic avant-garde. His paranoid-critical method is his main contribution to the surrealist movement and to the history of art as a new creative model with which Dalí's theories acquire theoretical entity - thanks to the successive interpretations that the Empordà artist made of his readings of Dalí's work. Sigmund Freud—and practice, applying it as a revealing liquid of images that can be represented plastically through multiple images, anamorphisms, relational mirages, irrational and heterogeneous symbolic images, pseudohallucinations, childhood memories, atavisms, obsessive ideas, etc., and recreating a polyphonic method capable of critically relating any visual or sensitive experience. With his method, Dalí makes paranoid delirium a whole mode of expression of an art that introduces us to the concrete irrationality that inhabits every creative process, constructing not only his works, but also his own character. as an artist. In Dalí, the relationship between his work and his personal history becomes evident. Much of the most significant biographical facts for the artist are implicitly or explicitly present in the content of his work and are the explanation of his complex and contradictory personality. In 1910, at the age of 6, he was enrolled by his father in the Hispano-French school of the Immaculate Conception of Figueres, where he learned French, his future language of culture. Dalí's first contact with Impressionism occurred in 1916, when he spent some time on the outskirts of Figueres, specifically at the Molí de la Torre estate, property of the Pichot family (intellectuals and artists), where he was the collection of the painter Ramón Pichot. In 1919 he participated for the first time in a group exhibition in the halls of the Societat de Concerts, and with a group of friends from the institute founded the magazine Studium, in which he published his first writings. A year later he moved to Madrid to study at the School of Fine Arts. In 1922 he won his first prize at the Concurs-exposició d'obres d'art originals d'students, held at the Galeries Dalmau (Barcelona). This same year he attended the School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving in Madrid (Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando), and lived in the Student Residence, where he became friends with prominent personalities such as Luis Buñuel, Federico García Lorca, Pedro Garfias , Eugenio Montes, or Pepín Bello. However, a year later he was expelled from the Academy for his rebellious and revolutionary character, accused of leading a protest. It would be in 1927 when his surrealist period began, after having traveled to the Netherlands and France, meeting Flemish painters and Picasso. In Paris itself, in 1929, through Joan Miró, he came into contact with a group of surrealists headed...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Drypoint, Aquatint, Paper

Spanish Artist hand signed limited edition original art print drypoint
Located in Miami, FL
Salvador Dali (Spain, 1904-1989) 'Homage to the horse (The white stallion – Huldigrung an das Pferd)', ca.1970-1989 dry point on japanese paper 22.3 x 30.4 in. (56.5 x 77 cm.) Editio...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints

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Drypoint, Paper

Spanish Artist hand signed limited edition original art print drypoint n10
Located in Miami, FL
Salvador Dali (Spain, 1904-1989) 'La Chêne et le Roseau', 1974 Serie: Le Bestiaire de La Fontaine dry point, aquatint on japanese paper 30.9 x 22.7 in. (78.4 x 57.5 cm.) Edition of 2...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Drypoint, Aquatint, Paper

Salvador Dali (after) - Roussillon - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Lithograph after Salvador Dali Title: S.N.C.F Blind stamped signature Dimensions: 46.5 x 34 cm Edition: 1700 Numbered in pencil 1969 References : Catalogue raisonne Michler & Lopsi...
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1960s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Spanish Artist hand signed limited edition original art print cromolithograph n3
Located in Miami, FL
Salvador Dali (Spain, 1904-1989) 'La conquête du cosmos. Dali martien muni d’un double microscope holo-électronique', ca.1970-1989 cromolithograph, dry point on paper Rives BFK 300 g...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints

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Drypoint, Paper

Spanish Artist hand signed limited edition original art print cromolithograph n2
Located in Miami, FL
Salvador Dali (Spain, 1904-1989) 'La conquête du cosmos. Philosophe écrasé par le Cosmos', ca.1970-1989 cromolithograph, dry point on paper Rives BFK 300 g. 39.2 x 27.6 in. (99.5 x 7...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints

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Drypoint, Paper

Spanish Artist hand signed limited edition original art print cromolithograph n1
Located in Miami, FL
Salvador Dali (Spain, 1904-1989) 'La conquête du cosmos. Le Caducée de Mars alimenté par la boule de feu de Jupiter', ca. 1970-1989 cromolithograph, dry point on paper Rives BFK 300 ...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints

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Drypoint, Paper

Spanish Artist hand signed limited edition original art print cromolithograph n4
Located in Miami, FL
Salvador Dali (Spain, 1904-1989) 'La conquête du cosmos. Vision planétaire et scatologique', ca.1970-1989 cromolithograph, dry point on paper Rives BFK 300 g. 39.2 x 27.4 in. (99.5 x...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints

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Paper, Drypoint

Marc Chagall - The Green Horse - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall Original Lithograph Title: The Green Horse 1973 Dimensions: 33 x 50 cm Reference: This lithograph was created for the portfolio "Chagall Monu...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Surrealist Dream : Couple of Roosters - Original lithograph (Spies #p. 438)
Located in Paris, FR
Max Ernst (1891-1976) Surrealist Dream : Couple of Roosters, 1970 Original color lithograph Printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 33.5 × 61 cm (c. 13 x 24 in) REFERENCES...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

St. George and The Dragon
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: St. George and The Dragon MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: 227/250 MEASUREMENTS: 30" x 22" YEAR: 1973 FRAMED: No CONDITION...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Album Rhinoceros
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Album Rhinoceros MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Jean Schneider, Basel EDITION NUMBER: EA MEASUREMENTS: 14" x 11" YEAR: 1968 FRAM...
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1960s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Etching

Rhinoceros
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Rhinoceros MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Michelle Broutta, Paris EDITION NUMBER: 97/150 MEASUREMENTS: 35.4" x 25" YEAR: 1971 F...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Etching

Saint Martin
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Saint Martin MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Jean Schneider, Basel/Berggruen, Paris EDITION NUMBER: Epreuve d'artiste MEASUREMENTS:...
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1960s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Etching

Sainte Lucie
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Saint Lucie MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Michelle Broutta, Paris EDITION NUMBER: 268/450 MEASUREMENTS: 35.5" x 25" YEAR: ...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Etching

Untitled
Located in Miami, FL
Beautiful Serigraph print on paper by the Cuban artist Manuel Mendive. Manuel Mendive is an eminent Afro-Cuban painter, sculptor, and performance artist. His colorful, evocative pai...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Animal Prints

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Laid Paper, Screen

Hamadryades Mimetiques Arborescentes
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Hamadryades Mimetiques Arborescentes MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: EA MEASUREMENTS: 19.3" x 12.4" YEAR: 1971 FRAMED: No CO...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Etching

Dalinean Horses Horace’s Chimera
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Dalinean Horses Horace's Chimera MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Simeon Wajntraub & Jacques Carpentier EDITION NUMBER: 170/250 M...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Apocalyptische Reiter (Apocalyptic Rider)
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Apocalyptische Reiter (Apocalyptic Rider) MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: 166/175 MEASUREMENTS: 22" x 30" YEAR: 1974 CONDITIO...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Etching

"Jaguares II" Jaguars, contemporary, surrealist print, nature, green, Friedeberg
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
This print is a series of 60, and it has a silver leaf on the moons. This edition is special in its color since the artist doesn't usually work with a green palette but this piece wa...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Animal Prints

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Gold Leaf, Silver

The Blue Owl - Lithograph - Edited by J. Schneider, 1983
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador DALI (after) The Blue Owl Lithograph Printed signature in the plate Printed in Matthieu workshop Edited by J. Schneider for the Dali exhibition at Galerie Orangerie in 198...
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1980s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Surrealist Salvador Dali Large Pochoir Etching Drypoint Lithograph Chariot Rider
Located in Surfside, FL
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) – Spanish painter, graphic artist and sculptor. Drypoint with etching and pochoir on Japon paper "Elijah and the Chariot," 1975, (Horse and rider) from the "Our Historical Heritage" suite. Pencil signed along the lower right and numbered 53/250 along the lower left. Literature: Field 75-4 J Framed; Height: 29 in x width: 35 in. Mat opening 19.5 X 25.5. The Spanish artist’s extensive oeuvre not only includes watercolors, drawings and sculptures but also tapestries; here a fine example from the limited edition ‘The Twelve Tribes of Israel’ The tapestry was created after an etching by Salvador Dalí from 1973 with the title ‘The Tribe of Judah’, which the artist created as part of a suite to mark the 25th anniversary of the State of Israel, and in which he represented the twelve tribes of Israel. This vintage French tapestry is an impeccable textile re-creation of a rare Dali etching. This is a flat weave Aubusson style tapisserie. The edition size was 500. The tapestry is inscribed with woven ‘Salvador Dalí’ lower right Genre: Surrealism Subject: people, architecture rendering Medium: textile Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989) Salvador Dali is considered as the greatest original artist of the surrealist art movement and one of the greatest masters of art of the twentieth century. Dali began to study art at the Royal Academy of Art in Madrid. He was expelled twice and never took the final examinations. His opinion was that he was more qualified than those who should have examined him. In 1928 Dali went to Paris where he met the Spanish painters Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro. He established himself as the principal figure of a group of surrealist artists grouped around Andre Breton, who was something like the theoretical "schoolmaster" of surrealism. Years later Breton turned away from Dali accusing him of support of fascism, excessive self-presentation and financial greediness. By 1929 Dali had found his personal style that should make him famous - the world of the unconscious that is recalled during our dreams. The surrealist theory is based on the theories of the psychologist Dr. Sigmund Freud. Recurring images of burning giraffes and melting watches became the artist's surrealist trademarks. Along with Rene Magritte his is considered the greatest of the Surrealists. His great craftsmanship allowed him to execute his paintings in a nearly photo realistic style. No wonder that the artist was a great admirer of the vintage Italian Renaissance painter Raphael. Meeting Gala was the most important event in the artist's life and decisive for his future career. She was a Russian immigrant and ten years older than Dali. When he met her, she was married to Paul Eluard. In 1933 Salvador Dali had his first one-man show in New York. One year later he visited the U.S. for the first time supported by a loan of US$500 from Pablo Picasso. To evade World War II, Dali chose the U.S.A. as his permanent residence in 1940. He had a series of spectacular exhibitions, among others a great retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He has worked in paining, sculpture, tapestry, Daum glass and prints. Dali became the darling of the American High Society. Celebrities like Jack Warner or Helena Rubinstein gave him commissions for portraits. His artworks became a popular trademark and besides painting he pursued other activities - jewelry and dated clothing designs for Coco Chanel or film making with Alfred Hitchcock. In 1948 Dali and Gala returned to Europe, spending most of their time either in their residence in Ligate/Spain or in Paris/France or in New York. Dali developed a lively interest in science, religion and history. He integrated things into his art that he had picked up from popular science...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Drypoint, Etching, Lithograph

Le Caducee de Mars Alimente par la Boule de feu de Jupiter
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Salvador Dali (Spanish surrealist, 1904-1989) Title: Le Caducee de Mars Alimente par la Boule de feu de Jupiter Year: 1974 Medium: Etching with embossing and color lithograph...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints

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Etching, Lithograph

Le Picador, Surrealist Lithography by Salvador Dali
Located in Long Island City, NY
A picador rides in on a horse, lance in hand, to enrage a bull we cannot see. The horse theme was frequently used by Dali throughout his career. The horse is seen as a symbol of beau...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

The Lion's Court - Etching - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
The Lion's Court is an srtwork realized in 1974. Etching and drypoint with stencil. Printed by Atelier Rigal. Edition XIV/CXX on Auvergne paper. It belongs to the suite "Le Bestia...
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1960s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Etching

The Horse and the Wolf - Etching - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
The Horse and the Wolf is an artwork realized in 1974. Etching and drypoint with stencil. Printed by Atelier Rigal. Edition XIV/CXX on Auvergne paper. It belongs to the suite Le ...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Etching

Marino Marini - Horses - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marino Marini - Horses - Original Lithograph 1951 Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm From the art review XXe siècle Unsigned and unumbered as issued
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1950s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

The Raven and the Fox - Etching - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
The Raven and the Fox is an artwork realized in 1974. Etching and drypoint with stencil, 1974. Printed by Atelier Rigal. Edition XIV/CXX on Auvergne paper. It belongs to the sui...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Etching

Statimque Tobias Visum Recepit - Lithograph - 1967- 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Statimque Tobias visum recepit ("And immediately Tobit revovered his sight") is an artwork realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ editionis published by Rizzoli-Mediola...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

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

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Lithograph

Marino Marini - Knight - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marino Marini - Knight - Original Lithograph 1968 Dimensions: 32 x 48 cm From the art review XXe siècle Unsigned and unumbered as issued
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1960s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Untitled (Fossil)
By Melissa Miller
Located in New York, NY
Melissa Miller Untitled (Fossil), 1998 4 color lithograph on paper Hand signed and numbered 74/100 in pencil on the lower right front 28 1/2 × 21 inches Unframed Melissa Miller’s pai...
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1990s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

La Licorne (The Unicorn), Surrealist Lithograph by Salvador Dali
Located in Long Island City, NY
A woman with flowing gold hair kneels before a unicorn. The horse theme was frequently used by Dali throughout his career. The horse is seen as a symbol of beauty and elegance as wel...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

The Elephant and the Jupiter's Monkey - Etching - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
The Elephant and the Jupiter's Monkey is an artwork realized in 1974. Etching and drypoint with stencil. Printed by Atelier Rigal. Edition XIV/CXX on Auvergne paper. It belongs t...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Etching

The Stag Reflected in the Water - Etching - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
The Stag Reflected in the Water is an artwork realized in 1974. Etching and drypoint with stencil. Printed by Atelier Rigal. Edition XIV/CXX on Auvergne paper. It belongs to the...
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20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints

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Etching

Cat Friends
Located in Columbia, MO
LEONOR FINI Cat Friends 1973 Color lithograph Ed. 157/230 12.5 x 9 inches
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

The Sick Stag - Etching - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
The Sick Stag is an artwork realized in 1974. Etching and drypoint with stencil. 80 x 59 cm. Printed by Atelier Rigal. Edition XIV/CXX on Auvergne paper. It belongs to the suit...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Etching

The Coach and the Flies - Etching - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
The Coach and the Flies is an artwork realized in 1974. Etching and drypoint with stencil. 59 x 79 cm. Printed by Atelier Rigal. Edition XIV/CXX on Auvergne paper. It belongs to...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Etching

Horses in a Mythological Landscape - Lithograph
Located in Paris, FR
Giorgio de CHIRICO Horses in a Mythological Landscape, c. 1955 Lithograph and stencil (Jacomet workshop) Printed signature in the plate On light vellum 48 x 38 cm (c. 19 x 15 in) V...
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1950s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Stencil, Lithograph

Plague-Stricken Animals - Etching - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Plague-Stricken Animals is an artwork realized in 1974. Etching and drypoint with stencil. Dimensions: 59 x 79 cm. Printed by Atelier Rigal. Edition XIV/CXX on Auvergne paper. I...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Etching

Le Cheval du Printemps (The Horse of Spring), Lithograph by Salvador Dali
Located in Long Island City, NY
A close portrait of a horse wearing a laurel crown with the rays of the sun emanating from behind its head. The horse theme was frequently used by Dali throughout his career. The hor...
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

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