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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
Les Peintres Témoins de leur Temps - Lithographed Poster after M. Chagall - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Les peintres Témoins de leur Temps is a rare vintage poster realized in the 1963 in offset and lithograph after Marc Chagall (Lëzna...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Signs of The Zodiac, Libra original lithograph by Salvador Dali
Located in Paonia, CO
Libra from Signs of the Zodiac by Salvador Dali is from a series of 12 limited edition lithographs. This original hand signed lithograph is Libra, the seventh astrological sign ...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Menorah - Lithograph by Max Ernst - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Menorah is a lithograph on Arches paper realized by Max Ernst in 1972. Belongs to the suite "Judith". Limited edition of 500. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Godd conditions. ...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Théo Tobiasse - A train - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Théo Tobiasse Title: C'est un train portant un parfum d'odalisque Signed and Numbered Dimensions: 57 x 76 cm Information : Edition of 175 Condition : E...
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Fantasy : Woman with Unicorn - Original handsigned lithograph - 275ex
Located in Paris, IDF
Francis de SAINT GENIES (1925-) Fantasy : Woman with Unicorn Original lithograph Handsigned in pencil Limited /275 copies On vellum 56 x 76 cm (c. 22 x 30...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

The Language of the Prophet - Héliogravure by Marc Chagall - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Héliogravure on brown-toned paper, so signature. On bot sheets, recto and verso. Edition of 6500 unsigned copies. Printed by Mourlot and published by Tériade, Paris. Ref. Mourlot,...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Photogravure

Playing Cards - Lithograph poster for "Le Surrealisme" by Max ERNST (Mourlot)
Located in Paris, IDF
Exhibition poster after Max ERNST featuring an image of playing cards HIgh-quality lithograph printed in Mourlot workshop in 1964 Created for the exhibition "Le Surréalisme, Sources...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Composition (Spies/Leppien 218), La Ballade du Soldat, Max Ernst
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, La Ballade du Soldat, 34 Lithographies Originales de Max Ernst, 1972. P...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Adam and Eve Banished from the Paradise - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Color lithograph realized by Marc Chagall in 1960 to illustrate "The Bible".  Edition of 6500, published by Tériade in no. 33 and 34 of the Art Magazine Verve. Printed by Mourlot a...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Gathering of Sad Clowns, Surrealist Lithograph by Marcel Marceau
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marcel Marceau, French (1923 - 2007) - Gathering of Sad Clowns, Portfolio: Le Troisieme Oeil (The Third Eye), Year: 1981, Medium: Lithograph on Arches Paper, signed and numbered i...
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Hero
Located in Palm Springs, CA
An ex libris print featuring the heroic figure of a man on horseback, in a blend of medieval and fantasy armor, with a vanquished dragon at his feet. Roman Sustov's prints often prov...
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Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Aquatint, Etching

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The Fairy - Etching - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and drypoint realized by Salvador Dalì to illustrate Pierre Ronsard's "Les Amours de Cassandre". Published by Argillet, Paris, in 1968. Edition of 299 pieces. One of 165 sp...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

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

Antoni Tàpies lithograph (derriere le miroir)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Antoni Tàpies Lithograph c. 1967 from Derrière le miroir: Lithograph in colors; 15 x 22 inches. Very good overall vintage condition; contains center fold-line as originally issued...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

The Betrayers of Their Hosts - Original etching - 150ex
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali The Betrayers of Their Hosts (1960) Heliogravure reworked with drypoint Printed signature in the plate On BFK Rives Vellum paper Size 32.8 x 26.4 cm (c. 13 x 10") Ref...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Dancing Nude - Etching - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and drypoint realized to illustrate Pierre Ronsard's "Les Amours de Cassandre". Published by Argillet, Paris, in 1968. Edition of 299 pieces. One of 165 specimen on Arches...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Avarice et prodigialité - Engraving - 150 copies
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali Avarice et prodigialité (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") Referen...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Apparition, Surrealist Lithograph by André Masson
Located in Long Island City, NY
André Masson, French (1896 -1987) - Apparition pour les poèmes de Emily Brontë, Year: circa 1945, Medium: Lithograph on thin wove paper, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP...
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1940s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

"June A" - 1975 Surrealist Lithograph on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"June A" - 1975 Surrealist Lithograph on Paper 1975 surrealist figurative lithograph on paper by Jim Crabb (American, b. 1947). Black spotted figures appear to be ascending upward, ...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Ink, Lithograph

Ciudad de Medio Millon y 25 Huevos Duros
Located in Cuauhtemoc, Ciudad de México
-Pedro Friedeberg signed print featuring a fantastical surrealistic scene. Includes whimsical figures, optical art elements, and surreal details. framed in a hand-painted black and g...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Painter and his Double (2nd State) - Russian French Self Portrait
Located in London, GB
This original lithograph in colours is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Marc Chagall" at the lower right margin. It is also numbered 37 in pencil from the edition of 50, at the l...
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

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

Beati Pauperes...Beati Mites...Beati - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Beati pauperes...beati mites...beati is an artwork realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ editionis published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 and 1969. Color lithog...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Losias Sepultus in Mausoleo Patrum from Bibla Sacra by Salvador Dali
Located in Paonia, CO
Losias Sepultus in Mausoleo Patrum ( Josiah buried in the Mausoleum of his Father ) is a colored lithograph from the original gouache on heavy rag paper from Salvador Dali’...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Place de la Concorde et L'Arc de Triomphe, Regards sur Paris, André Masson
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Regards sur Paris, 1963. Published by André Sauret, Paris;...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Virgil Comforts Dante - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Virgil Comforts Dante - Hell, Plate-2- Divine Comedy 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

Tightrope and Fiddle
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Tightrope and Fiddle" c.1975, is an original colors lithograph on Wove paper by noted French/American artist Charles Cobelle, 1902-1994. It is hand signed and numbered 117/500 in pencil by the artist. The artwork (image) size is 34.5 x 22.25 inches, framed size is 43.25 x 30.5 inches. Custom framed in a gold ornate frame, with off-white matting. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Charles Cobelle, born Carl Edelman (1902–1994), was a modern French master of painting, lithography and a fine muralist, who was born in Alsace-Lorraine, France. He is considered the last link to the great tradition of the Open Line School of Paris. Biography Cobelle received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Munich and continued his studies at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Much more influential in his development, however, were his private studies with Marc Chagall and his apprenticeship in the studio of Raoul Dufy in Menton on the Riviera. Cobelle lived and painted in Paris until the late 1920s and established himself within the great tradition of the School of Paris.[2] In the late 1920s, Cobelle moved to the United States, where his paintings were immediately sought after by galleries and private collectors alike. Cobelle became a U.S. citizen before the outbreak of World War II. In the late 1940s to 1950s, Cobelle lived in Westport, Connecticut.Charles Cobelle lived in Ridgefield CT in a private lake community called Twixt Hills until his death. By the 1950s, spurred by the commercial success of his mentor, Dufy, Cobelle had achieved phenomenal success commercially with his Parisian-influenced style. Much like contemporary artists and designers at the time, his designs graced a number of pottery patterns for various pottery companies, including Midwinter Stylecraft, Universal Potteries and Homer Laughlin China...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

The Mythology The Milky Way
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: The Mythology The Milky Way MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Editions Argillet, Paris EDITION NUMBER: 30/150 MEASUREMENTS: 22" x 30"...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Antes de la Corrida, Surrealist Etching by Guillermo Silva Santamaria
Located in Long Island City, NY
Guillermo Silva Santamaria, Colombian (1922 -2007) - Antes de la Corrida, Year: circa 1963, Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed, titled and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP 53, I...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Aquatint, Etching

Eat Grapefruits, Drink Wine - Original handsigned lithograph - 90 copies
By Bona de Mandiargues
Located in Paris, IDF
Bona de MANDIARGUES Eat Grapefruits, Drink Wine Original lithograph Handsigned in pencil Limited to 90 copies On vellum 16 x 12" (40 x 30 cm) Excellent Condition
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Dubuffet, Composition (Webel 775-779), La Fleur de Barbe (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
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

Spanish Catalan Surrealist Lithograph Portrait Girl with Fruit Still Life
By Luis Vidal Molné
Located in Surfside, FL
Luis Molné (or Luis Vidal Molné ) painter and lithographer born in Barcelona in 1907 and lived in Monaco where he died in 1970. Friends with Antoni C...
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20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Salvador Dali - Cup of Chocolate
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Cup of Chocolate - Original Etching Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm Edition: 390 1967 On Rives Vellum References : Field 67-4 (p. 32-33) / Michler & Lopsinger 174 to 187.
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Femmes aux Fleurs, Surrealist Lithograph by Frederic Menguy
Located in Long Island City, NY
Frederic Menguy, French (1927 - 2007) - Femmes aux Fleurs, Year: 1970, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: EA, Size: 20.75 x 15.75 in. (52.71 x 40.01 cm)
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Own heaven. Limited edition print, Surreal, Established Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Giclee limited edition print by worldwidely established Polish artist Rafal Olbinski. Figurative surrealistic print with man watering a tree. Scene takes place at night and there is ...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Color

Vanade (Vanity) - Belgian Surrealism Muses
Located in London, GB
This original lithograph is hand signed by the artist in pencil "P. Delvaux" at the lower right margin. It is also hand inscribed ‘HC 10’ in pencil at the lower left margin. This is ...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

The Angel of Mercy - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Angel of Mercy - from the Series "The Divine Comedy" is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. No...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Jonah and the Whale - Héliogravure by Marc Chagall - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Héliogravure on brown-toned paper, no signature. Héliogravure  on bot sheets, recto and verso. Edition of 6500 unsigned copies. Printed by Mourlot and published by Tériade on the A...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Photogravure

Composition (Spies/Leppien 218), La Ballade du Soldat, Max Ernst
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, La Ballade du Soldat, 34 Lithographies Originales de Max Ernst, 1972. P...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Filiae Herodiadis Saltatio - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Filiae Herodiadis saltatio 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 19...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

French Abstract Surrealist Color Lithograph Andre Masson
Located in Surfside, FL
Published Benincasa Carmine. Edizioni SEAT, Torino, Italy. Offset directly from the original plates. Limited edition. This is not hand signed or numbered. Signature in the printing p...
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20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Self-Portrait in Light, Surrealist Lithograph by Marcel Marceau
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marcel Marceau, French (1923 - 2007) - Self-Portrait in Light, Portfolio: Le Troisieme Oeil (The Third Eye), Year: 1981, Medium: Lithograph on Arches Paper, signed and numbered in...
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Le Chimere d'Horace from Dalinean Horses, Surrealist Lithograph by Salvador Dali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Salvador Dali, Spanish (1904 - 1989) Title: Le Chimere d'Horace from Dalinean Horses Year: 1972 Medium: Lithograph, Signed in Pencil Edition: 2...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

"Shakespeare"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
The artwork is print on silk and it is limited edition. Shall we wander through realms surreal? Where Shakespeare's tales in moonlight reel. Midsummer's night, where fairies prance,...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Silk

Untitled - Lithograph by Wifredo Lam- 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is a lithograph realized y the Cuban artist Wifredo Lam (Sagua la Grande, 1902 - Paris, 1982). This color lithograph on wove paper, was edited by the French magazine "XXe...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Portrait of Autumn
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Glorious, elaborate, and eccentric - these are just a few of the words to describe Salvador Dali (1904-1989). He is Surrealism's most accomplished and iconic practitioner. Prolifi...
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Symbols Devil
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Symbols Devil MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: EGI/Vanguard Studios (Beverly Hills) EDITION NUMBER: 26/150 MEASUREMENTS: 16" x 16" ...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Come Forth - Lazare - Lithography - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Come forth - Lazare 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. Si...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

LE COUPLE FROM SONGES (CRAMER 112)
Located in Aventura, FL
Color etching with aquatint on Rives paper. From Songes portfolio. Hand signed and numbered by Marc Chagall. Cramer 112. Published by Éditions Gérald Cramer, Geneva. Printed by Lacou...
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Etching, Aquatint

The Bystanders - Hand-signed numbered lithograph Leonor Fini Surrealist, 1975
Located in New York, NY
Leonor Fini The Bystanders, 1973 Lithograph 19 3/10 × 27 3/5 in 49 × 70 cm Edition of 75
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

French Abstract Surrealist Color Lithograph Andre Masson
Located in Surfside, FL
Published Benincasa Carmine. Edizioni SEAT, Torino, Italy. Offset directly from the original plates. Limited edition. This is not hand signed or numbered. Signature in the printing p...
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20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Le Troisième Oeil (The Third Eye), Surrealist Lithograph by Marcel Marceau
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marcel Marceau, French (1923 - 2007) - Le Troisieme Oeil (The Third Eye), Year: 1981, Medium: Lithograph on Japon paper, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 66/70, Image Size:...
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Salvador Dali - Cleopatra - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Cleopatra Original Etching Dimensions: 28x 18.7cm 1969 Edition: /165 Plate signed References : Field 68-7-I page 48
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Double profil d'hommes béliers
Located in OPOLE, PL
This work will be exhibited at Art on Paper NYC, September 4–7, 2025. – Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) - Double profil d'hommes béliers Lithograph from 1960. With artist stamp. Editio...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Salvador Dali - La Fontaine Portrait - Handsigned Engraving
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - La Fontaine Portrait - Handsigned Engraving 1974 Hand signed by Dali Edition: /250 The dimensions of the image are 22.8 x 15.7 inches on 31 x 23.2 inch paper Referenc...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Drypoint, Aquatint

Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall Original Lithograph 1963 Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm Reference: Chagall Lithographe 1957-1962. VOLUME II. Condition : Excellent Marc Chagall (born in 1887) Marc Chagall was born in Belarus in 1887 and developed an early interest in art. After studying painting, in 1907 he left Russia for Paris, where he lived in an artist colony on the city’s outskirts. Fusing his own personal, dreamlike imagery with hints of the fauvism and cubism popular in France at the time, Chagall created his most lasting work—including I and the Village (1911)—some of which would be featured in the Salon des Indépendants exhibitions. After returning to Vitebsk for a visit in 1914, the outbreak of WWI trapped Chagall in Russia. He returned to France in 1923 but was forced to flee the country and Nazi persecution during WWII. Finding asylum in the U.S., Chagall became involved in set and costume design before returning to France in 1948. In his later years, he experimented with new art forms and was commissioned to produce numerous large-scale works. Chagall died in St.-Paul-de-Vence in 1985. The Village Marc Chagall was born in a small Hassidic community on the outskirts of Vitebsk, Belarus, on July 7, 1887. His father was a fishmonger, and his mother ran a small sundries shop in the village. As a child, Chagall attended the Jewish elementary school, where he studied Hebrew and the Bible, before later attending the Russian public school. He began to learn the fundamentals of drawing during this time, but perhaps more importantly, he absorbed the world around him, storing away the imagery and themes that would feature largely in most of his later work. At age 19 Chagall enrolled at a private, all-Jewish art school and began his formal education in painting, studying briefly with portrait artist Yehuda Pen. However, he left the school after several months, moving to St. Petersburg in 1907 to study at the Imperial Society for the Protection of Fine Arts. The following year, he enrolled at the Svanseva School, studying with set designer Léon Bakst, whose work had been featured in Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. This early experience would prove important to Chagall’s later career as well. Despite this formal instruction, and the widespread popularity of realism in Russia at the time, Chagall was already establishing his own personal style, which featured a more dreamlike unreality and the people, places and imagery that were close to his heart. Some examples from this period are his Window Vitebsk (1908) and My Fianceé with Black Gloves (1909), which pictured Bella Rosenfeld, to whom he had recently become engaged. The Beehive Despite his romance with Bella, in 1911 an allowance from Russian parliament member and art patron Maxim Binaver enabled Chagall to move to Paris, France. After settling briefly in the Montparnasse neighborhood, Chagall moved further afield to an artist colony known as La Ruche (“The Beehive”), where he began to work side by side with abstract painters such as Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger as well as the avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire. At their urging, and under the influence of the wildly popular fauvism and cubism, Chagall lightened his palette and pushed his style ever further from reality. I and the Village (1911) and Homage to Apollinaire (1912) are among his early Parisian works, widely considered to be his most successful and representative period. Though his work stood stylistically apart from his cubist contemporaries, from 1912 to 1914 Chagall exhibited several paintings at the annual Salon des Indépendants exhibition, where works by the likes of Juan Gris, Marcel Duchamp and Robert Delaunay were causing a stir in the Paris art world. Chagall’s popularity began to spread beyond La Ruche, and in May 1914 he traveled to Berlin to help organize his first solo exhibition, at Der Sturm Gallery. Chagall remained in the city until the highly acclaimed show opened that June. He then returned to Vitebsk, unaware of the fateful events to come. War, Peace and Revolution In August 1914 the outbreak of World War I precluded Chagall’s plans to return to Paris. The conflict did little to stem the flow of his creative output, however, instead merely giving him direct access to the childhood scenes so essential to his work, as seen in paintings such as Jew in Green (1914) and Over Vitebsk (1914). His paintings from this period also occasionally featured images of the war’s impact on the region, as with Wounded Soldier (1914) and Marching (1915). But despite the hardships of life during wartime, this would also prove to be a joyful period for Chagall. In July 1915 he married Bella, and she gave birth to a daughter, Ida, the following year. Their appearance in works such as Birthday (1915), Bella and Ida by the Window (1917) and several of his “Lovers” paintings give a glimpse of the island of domestic bliss that was Chagall’s amidst the chaos. To avoid military service and stay with his new family, Chagall took a position as a clerk in the Ministry of War Economy in St. Petersburg. While there he began work on his autobiography and also immersed himself in the local art scene, befriending novelist Boris Pasternak, among others. He also exhibited his work in the city and soon gained considerable recognition. That notoriety would prove important in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution when he was appointed as the Commissar of Fine Arts in Vitebsk. In his new post, Chagall undertook various projects in the region, including the 1919 founding of the Academy of the Arts. Despite these endeavors, differences among his colleagues eventually disillusioned Chagall. In 1920 he relinquished his position and moved his family to Moscow, the post-revolution capital of Russia. In Moscow, Chagall was soon commissioned to create sets and costumes for various productions at the Moscow State Yiddish Theater...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Francois-Xavier Lalanne (1927-2008) Motherhood, 2002
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Francois-Xavier Lalanne (1927-2008) Motherhood, 2002 Techniques : etching on paper Hand signed in pencil by François Xavier Lalanne, in perfect condition Dimensions of the paper :...
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Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Paper

The Celestial Scale - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Celestial Scale -  "The Divine Comedy" - Song 21 -  Paradise is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Aligh...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Dove of peace - 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 graduat...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Color

Night Flower IV, Signed Surrealist Screenprint
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Unknown Title: Night Flower IV Medium: Screenprint, signed, titled, and numbered in pencil mounted on board Image Size: 24.5 x 20 inches Size: 2...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Screen

Surrealist figurative prints for sale on 1stDibs.

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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