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Surrealist Figurative 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
Ruth at the feet of Boaz - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Ruth at the feet of Boaz  is an artwork from the Series "The Bible", by Marc Chagall in 1960. Mixed colored lithograph on brown-toned paper, no signature. Edition of 6500 unsigned li...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Flights of Fancy original lithograph by Michel Pellus 1977
Located in Paonia, CO
Flights of Fancy is an original signed limited edition (060/250 ) lithograph by Michel Pellus showing a man in a top hat floating in the sky in a hot a...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Falsifiers - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Falsifiers - Hell, Tav- 28, is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. Not signed, as issued. Good...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Falsifiers - Woodcut - 1963
Falsifiers - Woodcut - 1963
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Dubuffet, Composition Barbe (Webel 775-779), La Fleur de Barbe (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Phototype on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, La Fleur de Barbe, 1960. Published by Jean Dubu...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Photogravure

Ernst, Elektra, XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. n°5-6, 1939. Published and printed under the dire...
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1930s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Tristan blessé ("Tristan wounded"), Original etching, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador DALI Tristan blessé ("Tristan wounded") Original etching Handsigned in pencil Limited to 115 copies On vellum Rives 45 x 32.5 cm This etching is part of serie "...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Farinata - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Farinata - Hell Plate 10 is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. Not...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Noli me Tangere - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Noli me Tangere is a Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 and 1969. Signed...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Iseult et Branguine ("Iseult and Branguine"), Etching, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador DALI Iseult et Branguine ("Iseult and Branguine") Original etching Handsigned in pencil Limited to 115 copies On vellum Rives 45 x 32.5 cm This etching is part of serie ...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Lunar Poet - Etching by Guelfo Bianchini - 1978
Located in Roma, IT
Lunar Poet  is a Contemporary Artwork realized in Italy by  Guelfo Bianchini  (Ancona, 1937) in 1978 . Colored Etching on paper.  Hand-signed  in pencil on the lower right corner: ...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Many Sins Are Forgiven To The Sinful Woman - Lithography - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Many Sins Are Forgiven To The Sinful Woman is a Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Mediolani bet...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Autobus, Surrealist Lithograph by Alejandro Colunga
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alejandro Colunga, Mexican (1948 - ) Title: Autobus Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 110 Size: 25 x 36 in. (63.5 x 91.44 cm)
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

The Minotaur - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Minotaur - The Divine Comedy is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. Not signed, as issued. ...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Aracne - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Aracne -  "The Divine Comedy" - Song 12 -  Purgatory  is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. Not s...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

The Earthly Paradise - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Earthly Paradise - The Divine Comedy is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. Not signed, as i...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

The Negligent - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Negligent -  "The Divine Comedy" - Song 4 -  Purgatory is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. ...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

The Heaven of Venus - The Divine Comedy - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Heaven of Venus - The Divine Comedy is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. Not signed, as is...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

The Siren of the Dream - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Siren of the Dream -  "The Divine Comedy" - Song 19 -  Purgatory  is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante ...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Italian Surrealist Aquatint Etching Enrico Baj Pop Art Nude Mod Cherubs Angels
Located in Surfside, FL
Enrico Baj (1924-2003) Italian, limited edition print. Hand signed and numbered in pencil from limited edition of 100 Aquatint etching Image size: cm 39.5 x 29.5, sheet cm 53 x 39 ...
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20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Third Planet - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Third planet -  "The Divine Comedy" - Song 14 -  Purgatory is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. ...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

The Black Cherub - The Divine Comedy - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Black Cherub - The Divine Comedy is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. Not signed, as issued...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

The Key to the Virgin Mary
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Key to the Virgin Mary" 1975, is an original colors woodcut on thin paper by noted Austrian artist Bernd Kroeber, b.1942. It is hans signed, titled, dated an...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

The Heaven of Venus - Woodcut Print - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Heaven of Venus - from the Series "The Divine Comedy" is a woodcut print realized in 1963. Good conditions. Not signed, as issued. Plate n.9 (as reported on the back of the art...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

The Apparition of St. James "The Divine Comedy" - Woodcut attr. to S. Dali- 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Apparition of St. James from the Series "The Divine Comedy" - Song 26 - Paradise is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine C...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

The Heaven of Fixed Stars- Song 25 - Paradise - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Heaven of Fixed Stars - Song 25 -  Paradise is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. Plate n.25 ...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Curious
Located in Columbia, MO
Leonor Fini was born in Argentina in 1907 but travelled and lived in Europe with her mother from a young age. By 1931, she was in Paris, in the full swing of the Surrealist movement....
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

HOVERING STONE Signed Lithograph, Sci-Fi Landscape, Stone Men, Meditation
Located in Union City, NJ
HOVERING STONE is a hand drawn original lithograph(not a photo reproduction or digital print) printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches printmaking paper 100% acid...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Lewis Carroll's Wunderhorn - Lithograph by Max Ernst - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 69 prints. Matting included. Very good condition.
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Vintage Mirò Exhibition Poster Galerie Maeght - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Mirò Exhibition Poster is an original offset print realized for the sculptures' exhibition of the surrealist artist Joan Mirò at the Galerie Mae...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Offset

Picabia La Nuit Espagnole - Poster Exhibition - Vintage Offset Print - 1986
Located in Roma, IT
Picabia La Nuit espagnole - Poster Exhibition is a mixed colored offset print realized in 1986. This print was realized on the occasion of the exhibition dedicated to the artist and...
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Offset

The Cross of Mars - The Divine Comedy - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Cross of Mars is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. Not signed...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Anatomy Studies - Etching by Nicholas Cochin - 1755
Located in Roma, IT
Anatomy Studies is an etching realized by Nicholas Cochin in 1755. Signed in the plate. Good conditions with foxing and folding. The artwork is depicted through confident strokes....
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1750s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Salvador Dali Museum Lucas Collection 1985 St. Petersburg Fla. Poster
Located in Paonia, CO
Salvador Dali Museum St. Petersburg Florida 1985 poster is advertising the exhibition of the collection of the original Salvador Dali paintings owned by the Sidney and Phyllis Lucas ...
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Color

Narcisse - Original etching handsigned and numbered
Located in Paris, IDF
Pierre-Yves Tremois Narcisse Original etching, 1970 Handsigned by the artist Numbered / XXIV copies (total edition of 90 + XXIV) Size 57 x 45 cm (c. 22,4 x 17,7 in) Very good condit...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Ernst, Composition, Cahiers d'Art (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Excellent Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, Cahiers d'Art, vol. 24, no. 2, 1949. P...
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1940s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Salvador Dali - Woman with the Crutch - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Woman with the Crutch - Original Stamp-Signed Etching Stamp signed by Dali Edition of 294 copies. Paper : Arches vellum. Dimensions : 16x12". Catalogue Raisonné : ...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Untitled - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is an artwork realized by March Chagall, 1960s. Lithograph on brown-toned paper, no signature. Lithograph on both sheets. Edition of 6500 unsigned lithographs. Printed by...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Birth of Samuel - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Birth of Samuel is an artwork realized by March Chagall, 1960s. Lithograph on brown-toned paper, no signature. Lithograph on both sheets. Edition of 6500 unsigned lithographs. Pri...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

A cage - Surrealist print, Limited edition, Established Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
The work comes directly from the artist, is numbered, signed and made on sealed paper. Limited edition of 20. RAFAŁ OLBIŃSKI (born in 1943) He graduated from the Faculty of Archite...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Color

Crazy, Crazy, Crazy Minerva Salvador Dali Memories of Surrealism suite
Located in Paonia, CO
Crazy, Crazy, Crazy Minerva by Salvador Dali is from the Memories Of Surrealism suite which consists of 12 hand-signed lithographs with etching p...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Surrealist Body - Handsigned lithograph, 125 copies
Located in Paris, IDF
Patrick BRISSAUD Surrealist Body Orignal lithograph Handsigned in pencil Numbered / 125 copies On Arches Vellum 54 x 74 cm (c. 22 x 30 in) Very good condition, paper slightly yello...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Acrobate - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Acrobate  is an artwork realized by March Chagall, 1960s. Lithograph on brown-toned paper, no signature. Lithograph on both sheets. Edition of 6500 unsigned lithographs. Printed b...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Full Moon - Etching by Guelfo Bianchini - 1978
Located in Roma, IT
Full Moon is a Contemporary Artwork realized by the Italian Artist Guelfo Bianchini (Ancona, 1937) in 1978. Original colored Etching on paper. Hand-signed in pencil on the lower...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Ezra Teaches the People - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Ezra Teaches the People is an artwork realized by March Chagall, 1960s. Lithograph on brown-toned paper, no signature. Lithograph on both sheets. Edition of 6500 unsigned lithogra...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Rachel Goes Away with Jacob- Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Rachel Goes Away with Jacob is an artwork realized by March Chagall, 1960s. Lithograph on brown-toned paper, no signature. Lithograph on both sheets. Edition of 6500 unsigned lith...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Tete de Veau (Calf's Head) - Etching - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Tete de Veau (Calf's Head) is an artwork realized in 1968/69, from the Series "Faust" (La Nuit de Walpurgis). Etching, Drypoint, Watercolor and Roulette on Japon Paper. Hand signed...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Watercolor, Drypoint, Etching

Vanitas Vanitatum - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Vanitas Vanitatum is a Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 and 1969. Sign...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Hamadryades Mimétiques Arborescentes - Original handsigned etching - 1971
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Hamadryades mimétiques arborescentes (1971) Original Etching on vellum Handsigned in pencil Numbered on 300 Size : 20 x 25.6 inch (50 x 65 cm) Referen...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Prodigality - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Prodigality, Hell Plate 21, is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. Not signed, as issued. Good...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Ancient View of Lago Maggiore - Lithograph on Paper - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient View of Lago Maggiore is an original modern artwork realized in Italy in the first half of the 19th Century. Original Lithograph on Ivory Paper...
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1850s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

The Traitors - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Traitors - Hell, Plate- 33 - Divine Comedy is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. Not signed...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

The Elephant and Jupiter's Monkey - Attr. to S.Dalì - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
The Elephant and Jupiter's Monkey. Mixed colored etching on Japan paper. Signed on the lower right margin. Numbered on the lower left margin. Edition of 249/250. The artwork is from...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

La Confession de Dante - Engraving - 150 copies
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali La Confession de Dante (1960) Heliogravure reworked with drypoint Signature printed in the plate On BFK Rives Vellum paper Size 32.8 x 26.4 cm (c. 13 x 10") Reference...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Magic Realism Figurative Artwork, "Swan Song" by Evgeniya Golik
Located in San Diego, CA
A 24” x 18” Magic Realism Figurative Artwork by artist Evgeniya Golik. This piece is a Mixed-media inkjet print on Canvas. A certificate of authenticity will accompany the piece upon...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Inkjet

Planctus David in Mortem Saul - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Planctus David in mortem Saul (" David's Mourning at the death of Saul ") is an artwork realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ editionis published by Rizzoli-Mediola...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Magritte, Composition, Les chants de Maldoror (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin papier pur chiffon paper. Paper Size: 10 x 7.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Les chants de Maldoror, illustrat...
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1940s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Épris d'une folle passion - Original etching - 1979 - 50 exem
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Épris d'une folle passion (1979) Original Etching on Japon paper Handsigned in pencil, and printed signature in the plate 50 exemplars Size : 22.2 x 30 i...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Magritte, Composition, Poèmes 1923-1958, Dix dessins de René Magritte (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Paper Size: 11 x 8.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Poèmes 1923-1958. Dix dessins d...
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1950s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Magritte, Composition, Poèmes 1923-1958, Dix dessins de René Magritte (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Paper Size: 11 x 8.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Poèmes 1923-1958. Dix dessins d...
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1950s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Magritte, Composition, Poèmes 1923-1958, Dix dessins de René Magritte (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Paper Size: 11 x 8.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Poèmes 1923-1958. Dix dessins d...
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1950s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

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Find a wide variety of authentic Surrealist figurative prints available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add figurative prints created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, red, yellow and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Salvador Dalí, Marc Chagall, (after) René Magritte, and Rafał Olbiński. Frequently made by artists working with Lithograph, and Etching and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Surrealist figurative prints, so small editions measuring 2.5 inches across are also available. Prices for figurative prints made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $48 and tops out at $1,450,000, while the average work sells for $941.

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