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
Amos' Prophecy - Héliogravure by Marc Chagall - 1960
By Marc Chagall
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
Maximino Javier Mexican artist original hand signed silkscreen surrealism
Located in Miami, FL
Maximino Javier (Mexico, 1948)
'Bajada de emergencia (serie Tamayo Total)', 2023
silkscreen on paper Canson 320 g.
20.3 x 28.2 in. (51.5 x 71.5 cm.)
Edition of 100
Unframed
ID: JAV-1...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Cotton, Paper, Screen
Maravillas con Variaciones acrósticas en el Jardín de Miró (Mourlot, 1051-1072)
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Maravillas con variaciones acrósticas en el Jar...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Cobea (Pisum Sensuale), Surrealist Drypoint Etching by Salvador Dali
Located in Long Island City, NY
This surreal botanical print by Salvador Dali is from a suite of 10 engravings called "Flora Dalinae". Growing from a vine are leaves shaped like lips an...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Drypoint, Etching
Leonor Fini, rare original serigraph on Rives paper, circa 1970
By Leonor Fini
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Rare print handsigned by surrealist artist Leonor Fini, inscreasingly esteemed with the movement of rediscovering art by women. This silkscreen is in perfect condition and from a ver...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Paper
Tamar, Daughter of Judah - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
By Marc Chagall
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
Young Shepherd Joseph - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1956
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on Montval wove paper, realized by Marc Chagall in 1931-39 and published by Tériade in 1956.
Belongs to the series "The Bible".
Edition of 275+30 out of commerce copies.
N...
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1950s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Etching
Magnelli, Papier collé, 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°6, 1956. Published and printed under the direct...
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1950s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
L'Ospite dei Bagnanti Misteriosi - Lithograph by G. De Chirico - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 90 specimens in arab numbers and 10 specimens in roman numbers.
Edition IV/X.
Hand signed by the artist with pencil.
Ref. Cat. Raisonné "G. de Chirico: Catalogo dell'Ope...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Mother Goose, Surrealist Etching and Aquatint by Martin Barooshian
Located in Long Island City, NY
Martin Barooshian, American (1929 - 2022) - Mother Goose, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Etching and Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: Trial Printers Proof, Image Siz...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Etching, Aquatint
Miró, Composition (Cramer 103; Mourlot 382-383), Miró Cartones 1956-1965 (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Miró: Cartones, 1959-1965, October - November 1965, 196...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
1970s Modernist Swiss Colorful Surrealism Signed Dada Lithograph Andre Thomkins
Located in Surfside, FL
This one is titled "Walk in a Broken Lake" and depicts a surreal figure of a robed woman walking in an abstract landscape in yellow, green, red and blue with a Salvador Dali esque quality about it.
Published by Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart They published concrete poetry and art books by Mark Boyle, Richard Hamilton, Dorothy Iannone, John Latham, Tom Phillips, Dieter Roth, André Thompkins and Emmett Williams, to name just a few.
André Thomkins (1930 - 1985) was a Swiss painter, illustrator, and poet. He attended art-school, taught by Max von Moos, 1947 – 1949 and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, France, 1950. From 1952, he lived in Germany and taught at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf between 1971 and 1973.
Thomkins painted and drew ironic and fantastic pictures influenced by surrealism and dadaism. Together with Dieter Roth and Daniel Spoerri he prepared works of Eat Art. He also was a writer of palindromes. His friends and collaborators included Daniel Spoerri, Dieter Roth, George Brecht, Richard Hamilton and Karl Gerstner, Thomkins gained a reputation as an ‘artist’s artist’, and is considered one of the most important Swiss artists of the second half of the twentieth century.He died in 1985.
His work is currently represented by Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Switzerland.
Select group exhibitions:
2018
Kunsthalle Krems, 'Pablo Picasso. Arshile Gorky, Andy Warhol. Sculptures and Works on Paper. Hubert Looser Collection', Krems, Austria
2017
Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, 'Martin Barré, Karl Otto Götz, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, André Thomkins',
Berlin, Germany
2013
Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie, 'Schweizer Avantgarde Kunst nach 1940', Zurich, Switzerland
2009
The Modern Institute, 'Thomas Houseago, Dieter Roth, Andre Thomkins', Glasgow, England
Museum of Modern Art, 'Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Collection', NYC
2004
Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, 'Arman, Baumeister, Götz, Graubner, Tàpies, Thomkins', Berlin,
Germany
1994
Kunstmuseum Solothurn, 'Eine Schenkung. Grafik von Eduardo Chillida, Antoni Tàpies, Alexander Calder, Jean Dubuffet, Ben Nicholson, Giacometti, Tinguely, Thomkins', Solothurn, Switzerland
1992
Galerie Littmann, Tinguely zu Ehren. A Tribute to Jean Tinguely. Hommage à Tinguely, Basel,
1988
Museum Ludwig, 'Uebrigens sterben immer die anderen. Marcel Duchamp und die Avantgarde seit
1950', Cologne, Germany
1987
Aargauer Kunsthaus, 'Otto Grimm. Marc-Antoine Fehr. Christoph Gredinger', Aarau, Switzerland
Cercle Municipal, 'Art contemporain suisse. Collection de la Banque du Gothard', Luxembourg,
1985
Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, 'Livres d'artistes', Paris, France
Rathaus, 'Claude Sandoz – Hans Schärer...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Lithograph, Offset
Praying Job - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
By Marc Chagall
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
Composition (Michler/Löpsinger 1601), Romeo e Giulietta
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph, silkscreen in colors on vélin vergata paper. Paper size: 16.5 x 12.625 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue Raisonne Reference: M...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Lithograph, Screen
Mother Goose (Red), Surrealist Etching and Aquatint by Martin Barooshian
Located in Long Island City, NY
Martin Barooshian, American (1929 - 2022) - Mother Goose (Red), Year: circa 1979, Medium: Etching and Aquatint on Arches, signed, titled and numbered in pencil, Edition: HC, Ima...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Etching, Aquatint
"Alice Monday Morn" - 1975 Surrealist Lithograph on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Alice Monday Morn" - 1975 Surrealist Lithograph on Paper
1975 surrealist lithograph on paper titled "Alice Monday Morn" by Jim Crabb (American, b. 1947). This piece gives the impression of looking through a tunnel or cave to see biomorphic objects. Some of them look like bugs, cells, or worms. Several of the shapes are connected by a thin line, implying a rope of some other mechanism.
Titled, numbered, signed, and dated along the bottom edge:
Alice Monday Morn 11/20 J Crabb...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Paper, Ink, Lithograph
Composition (Spies/Leppien 218), La Ballade du Soldat, Max Ernst
By Max Ernst
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
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
Miró, Composition (Cramer 145; Mourlot, 738-740), Derrière le miroir (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Derrière le miroir, N° 193-194. Publis...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
"Geometry 1" Photography 39" x 39" inch Edition of 3 by Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Geometry 1" Photography 39" x 39" inch Edition of 3 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Not framed. Ships in a tube.
Availab...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Photographic Paper
Purgatory: Canto 7 from The Divine Comedy
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Medium: Woodblock engraving
Title: Purgatory: Canto 7
Portfolio: The Divine Comedy: Purgatory
Year: 1963
Edition: 4765
Framed Size: 19 1/8" x 16 5/8"
Sheet Size...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Engraving
Lam 林飛龍, Double personnages, XXe Siècle (after)
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. n°52, 1979. Published and printed under the direction of Gualt...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Ernst, Composition (Spies/Leppien 222), Histoire Naturelle (after)
By Max Ernst
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Collotype from frottage on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Max Ernst, Histoire Naturelle, 1972. Published and printed by Verla...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Miró, Composition (Cramer 103; Mourlot 382-383), Miró Cartones 1956-1965 (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Miró: Cartones, 1959-1965, October - November 1965, 196...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Apollo - 1978
Located in Roma, IT
Apollo is a woodcut print on Arches Paper realized in 1978 to illustrated "L'Art d'Aimer" (The Art of Love) by Ovid.
Hand signed and numbered in pencil. Dali's Drystamp.
Published...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
Magritte, La Traversée Difficile (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in Colours on Vélin d'Arches paper. Edition: 350, plus proofs. Signed in the plate by the artist; hand signed in pencil by the printer, Fernand Mourlot. Good Condition; ne...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Purified Dante - Lithograph - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Purified Dante - "The Divine Comedy" - Song 33 - 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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Lithograph
God and Eve - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
By Marc Chagall
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
Composition (Field 69-3; M/L. 1600), VI tavole dal ciclo della, Biblia Sacra
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin Fabriano charta ex meris pannis "ab alveo" manu fabricata, perlucidis figuris intexta paper. Paper size: 19 x 13.75 inches. Inscription: Signed in the p...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Miró, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Derrière le miroir, N° 155, 1965. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeu...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Conventional sentiment. 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 and a woman standing on the road. The road is transformin...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Paper, Color
Purgatory 13 - The Second Terrace - Color woodcut - 1963
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Purgatory 13 - The Second Terrace
Color woodcut on paper
Printed signature
1960/63
Printed on paper Vélin BFK Rives
Size 32,8 x 26,4 cm (c. 13 x 10")
REFE...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
Miró, Composition (Cramer 83; Mourlot 341), Derrière le miroir (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Derrière le miroir, N° 139-140, 1963. ...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Ruth Gleaner - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
By Marc Chagall
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
The Earth Goddess (The Chef)
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
Salvador Dali
The Earth Goddess (The Chef)
1980
Lithograph
29 x 21 1/2 in.
Edition of 350
Pencil signed and numbered; certified a...
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Giorgio de Chirico (1888–1978) - Coloured lithograph on paper - 1970
Located in Varese, IT
Coloured lithograph on paper, edited in 1970.
Limited edition of 90 copies, numbered as 27/90 in lower left corner.
Hand-signed by artist in pencil in the lower right corner.
Pape...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Paper, Lithograph
Roi, je t’attends a Babylone Des Rois Pendus aux Arbes...
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Roi, je t'attends a Babylone Des Rois Pendus aux Arbes...
MEDIUM: Etching on parchemin (peau de mouton)
SIGNED: Hand Signed
EDITION NUMBER: HC 1
ME...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Etching
The Giants - Original etching - 150ex
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali
The giants (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")
References:
- Field p...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Etching
New-York City Suite : Plaza - Lithograph - circa 1981
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali (after)
New-York City : Plaza
Lithograph after a watercolor
Printed signature in the plate
On BFK Rives vellum 50 x 65 cm (c. 20 x 26 in)
Printed in Matthieu workshop circa 1981...
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Costumes for Tristan Fou, Flower Women - Original Signed Lithograph (Field 70-2)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Costumes for Tristan Fou: Flower Women, 1970
Original lithograph (Desjobert workshop)
Signed in pencil
Numbered /XX copies
On Japanese paper, 56 x 76 cm (c...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
INFRATERRESTRIALS ADORED BY DALI AT THE AGE OF SIX ...
Located in Aventura, FL
Engraving with lithographic color on paper. Hand signed and numbered in pencil. From the series La Conquete du Cosmos (Conquest of Cosmos). Frame approx size 45 x 35 inches. Sheet ...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Paper, Engraving, Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Biblia Sacra - Offset Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Biblia Sacra was published in 1969 by Rizzoli of Rome
- SIGNATURE : printed in the image
- LIMITED EDITION: 1499
- SIZE : 19 x 13 3/4"
- REFERENCES : Michler an...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Untitled (Fantastic Scene)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled, Fantastic Scene" c.1975 is an original color etching with aquatint on wove paper by American surrealist artist Michael Bowen, 1937-2009. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. The plate mark (image) size is 14.85 x 18 inches, sheet size is 21.5 x 26 inches. It is in excellent condition, has never been framed.
About the subject:
Nowhere is the intertwining of metaphysical, biographic and social narratives more evident than in the Café Life series painted in the 1980’s. Though the “series” was done in the 80’s, the pieces really revive the spirit of the Beat café scene, which began in the mid-1950’s and which was so instrumental to the particular spiritual and social vibe of the counter culture. And his Café Life observations continue over his artist life with scenes, such as the ones here, from Los Angles, Bolinas, Mexico and Italy.
About the artist:
Michael Bowen (December 8, 1937 – March 7, 2009) was an American fine artist known as one of the co-founders of the late 20th and 21st century Visionary art movements. His works include paintings on canvas and paper, 92 intaglio etchings based on Jungian psychology, assemblage, bronze sculpture, collage, and handmade art books. An icon of the American Beat Generation and the 1960s counterculture, Bowen is also known for his role in inspiring and organizing the first Human Be-In in San Francisco. Chronicled in books and periodicals reflecting on the turbulent 1960s, Bowen's historical impact on both the literary and visual art worlds is well documented. He remains influential among avant-garde art circles around the world. He started his art career at age 17, when he joined the American installation artist Ed Kienholz in his Los Angeles studio. There he met and joined with other influential Beat Generation artists including Wallace Berman, John Altoon, and Dennis Hopper. Bowen participated in the construction of the Ferus Gallery and Now Gallery created by Ed Kienholz and curated by Walter Hopps. Bowen attended the Chouinard Art Institute for several years during his formative artistic experiences in Los Angeles. In the late 50s and early 60s, Bowen continued his spiritual training and research. He investigated and practiced a variety of occult topics, Eastern philosophies, and mysticism, and his artwork reflected these themes. Bowen is often referred to as a mystic artist. As a lifelong student of the Bhagavad-Gita, Bowen's entire career has emulated the spiritual warrior archetype of Arjuna, fighting for the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution. Michael Bowen moved to San Francisco in the late 1950s, and along with fellow artist comrades Arthur Monroe...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Etching, Aquatint
Magritte, Une Porte s'ouvre sur la Nuit Veloutée, from Les Enfants (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in Colours on Vélin d'Arches paper. Edition: 350, plus proofs. Signed in the plate by the artist; hand signed in pencil by the printer, Fernand Mourlot. Good Condition; ne...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Magritte Portfolio V 20 lithographs- 20th Century, Surrealist, Figurative Print
Located in Sint-Truiden, BE
Complete set of 20 color lithographs in a beautiful burgundy board with ties, plate-signed by Magritte and numbered from the edition of 275.
The lithograph features the dry stamps of the Magritte Foundation & ADAGP and is countersigned in pencil by Mr. Charly Herscovici, President of the Magritte Foundation, Chairman of the Magritte Museum and unique representative of the Magritte Succession. A proof of edition is printed on the back of the lithograph, guaranteeing its authenticity.
Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist whose witty and thought-provoking images challenged observers? preconditioned perceptions of reality. Magritte's work frequently displays a juxtaposition of ordinary objects in an unusual context, giving new meanings to familiar things.Magritte grew up in a simple and somewhat tragic household. His father was a modest tailor. His mother, who was mentally unsound, committed suicide in the year 1912. Magritte started drawing at a young age, and his first paintings, produced c. 1915, were Impressionistic in style.Magritte first worked as a draughtsman in a wallpaper factory and, in the year 1922, fell in love with and married Georgette Berger. In 1926, Magritte signed...
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20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
The Path to Wisdom (The Banker) (Drawer), hand signed lithograph
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph in colors on arches paper. Hand signed and numbered by Salvador Dali. Edition E 193/350. From the Retrospective Suite. Published by Levine and Levine Publishers, New York for DALART. Sheet size 29.375 x 21.5 inches. Image size 22.5 x 16.75 inches.
Catalogue Raisonné: Field 78-10, pp. 183.
Artwork is in excellent condition. All reasonable offers will be considered.
About the Artist: Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904–1989) was a renowned Surrealist artist known for his enigmatic paintings of dreamscapes and religious themes. The Persistence of Memory (1931), arguably his best known work, visually manifests the strangeness of time, showing clocks melting in an idyllic landscape. “One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams,” he once reflected. Born Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech on May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Spain, he displayed a great aptitude for the visual arts as a teenager. Three years after his first exhibition at the age of 14, he enrolled at the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid. At school, he emulated many contemporary styles but also the works of Johannes Vermeer and Diego Velázquez. During his visits to Paris in the late 1920s, he was introduced to the Surrealist movement by René Magritte and Joan Miró. Though the concept of Surrealism was new to him, Dalí was already well versed in the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud. Dabbling in various projects throughout his long career, in 1942 he published the book The Secret...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Paper, Lithograph
Cain and Abel - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
By Marc Chagall
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
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
La Dulce Aqua Vita, Surrealist Etching by Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 - 2002)
Title: La Dulce Aqua Vita
Year: 2002
Medium: Carborundum Etching on Hand-Made Paper, signed and numbered in marker
Edition: an artist’s p...
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Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Handmade Paper, Etching
'Forest Woman' — Mid-Century Surrealism, Atelier 17
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ian Hugo, 'Forest Woman', engraving, 1945, edition 50. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '5/50' in pencil. With the blind stamp 'madeleine-claude jobrack E...
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1940s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Engraving
Purgatory: Canto 24 from The Divine Comedy
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Medium: Woodblock engraving
Title: Purgatory Canto 24
Portfolio: The Divine Comedy: Purgatory
Year: 1963
Edition: 4765
Framed...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Engraving
Miró, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From volume, Derrière le miroir, N° 186, 1970. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, P...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Winter - 21st century, Figurative Surrealist print
Located in Warsaw, PL
The work comes directly from the artist, is numbered out of limited edition of 20, signed and made on sealed paper.
RAFAŁ OLBIŃSKI (born in 1943)
He graduated from the Faculty of Ar...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Color, Paper
Miró, Composition (Cramer 34; Mourlot 228), Derrière le miroir (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From volume, Derrière le miroir, N° 87-88-89. June-July-August, 1956. Published by ...
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1950s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Miró, Composition (Cramer 102; Mourlot 435), Derrière le miroir (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 151-152. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; printed by Édit...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Jean COCTEAU and Raymond MORETTI : Portrait - Original Hansigned Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean Cocteau and Raymond Moretti
Portrait
Original lithograph
Printed signature in the plate, handsigned by Raymond Moretti
Numbered 1/79 - Very look for artist proof bearing n°1
On...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Leonor Fini, original lithograph from Satiricon, 1970
By Leonor Fini
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Rare lithograph by surrealist artist Leonor Fini. This signed print is in perfect condition and from a very searched series untitled Satyricon and dealing with Antique Rome and its f...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Paper
CREATION Hand Drawn Lithograph, Cupped Pair of Hands, Light Glow, Meditation
Located in Union City, NJ
CREATION 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 free. CREATION is a highly detailed, surreal hand portrait drawing depicting a pair of cupped hands made of stone, seemingly emitting a glow of light. CREATION with its glowing effect expressed from the center evokes a sense of mystery that captivates the viewer into another world of meditative, spiritual consciousness.
Print size - 21.5 x 29.5 in., unframed, excellent condition, rare unsigned trial proof aside from the printed edition of 100, printers legend stamped on verso, fine impression, completely hand drawn lithograph by DE ES Schwertberger
Year printed - 1979, printed by master printer Joseph Kleineman at JK Fine Art Editions Co., NYC
DE ES (DE ES Schwertberger) - Popular Viennese Fantastic Realist artist was born in 1942 in Gresten, Lower Austria, as Dieter Schwertberger. He studied the painting technique of the Old Masters in Vienna under Ernst Fuchs and has been an independent artist since 1962. DE ES lived three years in Switzerland and twelve years in New York City. The painter has been known under the name DE ES since 1972. He currently lives in Vienna.
The artist considers himself to be a seeker, who shows what he has found through “the language of the images”. His message of “meaning and transformation” finds clear and intense expression in his paintings through a precise use of space, light and texture.
De Es' was the featured artist for Omni magazine...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Composition (Spies/Leppien 218), La Ballade du Soldat, Max Ernst
By Max Ernst
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
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
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