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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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Aqueous Steel - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Aqueous Steel becomes an exploration of transformative juxtapositions, where the unyielding nature of steel merges with aqueous fluidity. The canvas becomes a canvas for alchemical i...
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Glistening Mercury - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Glistening Mercury captures the fluid allure of artistry, as mercury transcends its elemental confines. The canvas unveils a mesmerizing dance of fluid metal, where each droplet spar...
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Goddess of The Sea, Surrealist Screenprint by Israel Rubinstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
Goddess of the Sea Israel Rubinstein Israeli (1944) Date: 1980 Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 300 Image Size: 36 x 26.5 inches Size: 39 x 27.5 in. (99.06 x ...
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Ma fortune - Hand-signed numbered lithograph by Leonor Fini, Surrealist, 1975
Located in New York, NY
Leonor Fini Ma fortune, 1975 Colored etching on Arches paper 11 × 15 in 28 × 38 cm Limited edition of 185 Condition: Excellent condition
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Mesh - Digital Collage by Chiara Santoro - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
It's a beautiful print on canvas of a digital collage realized in 2023 by the Italian artist Chiara Santoro. Limited edition. Print-signed and numbered.
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La Dama - Digital Collage by Chiara Santoro - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Digital print realized by the italian artist Chiara Santoro in 2023. Stamp signed, limited edition.
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Behind the Sight - Digital Collage by Chiara Santoro - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Digital print realized by the italian artist Chiara Santoro in 2023. Stamp signed, limited edition.
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Hommage à San Lazzaro - Lithograph after Marc Chagall - 1975
Located in Roma, IT
Hommage à San Lazzaro is a lithograph realized after Marc Chagall in Honor of Gualtieri di San Lazzaro, Director of the Art Review "Xème Siècle". This print (not signed and not numb...
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Extraterrestrial Highway - Digital Collage by Chiara Santoro -2020
Located in Roma, IT
Extraterrestrial Highway - is a beautiful print on canvas of a digital collage realized in 2020 by the Italian artist Chiara Santoro. Edition of 10. Hand-signed and numbered.
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2022 - Digital Collage by Chiara Santoro -2022
Located in Roma, IT
2022 is a beautiful print on canvas of a digital collage realized in 2022 by the Italian artist Chiara Santoro. Edition of 10. Hand-signed and numbered.
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This Wallpaper is not Avaiable - Digital Collage by Chiara Santoro - 2020
Located in Roma, IT
This wallpaper is not available - Representation of the immense artistic landscape of today: from traditionally conceived art to continuous creation in different forms and styles.
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Geisha Road - Digital Collage by Chiara Santoro - 2020
Located in Roma, IT
Geisha Road - is a beautiful print on canvas of a digital collage realized by the Italian artist Chiara Santoro. Edition of 10. Hand-signed and numbered.
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Atychifobia - Digital Collage by Chiara Santoro - 2017
Located in Roma, IT
Atychifobia the word means 'fear of failure'. The work aims to express, on two levels, precisely this: in the foreground movement representing agitation and everyday life, Everything...
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Identity Mad - Digital Collage by Chiara Santoro - 2019
Located in Roma, IT
Identity Mad - The intention of the work is to show the criticality of the individual in the course of existence. The different levels taken individually unfold different feelings c...
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Anecdoche - Digital Collage by Chiara Santoro - 2017
Located in Roma, IT
Anecdoche - is a beautiful print on canvas of a digital collage realized by the Italian artist Chiara Santoro. Edition of 10. Hand-signed and numbere...
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Oriental West - Digital Collage by Chiara Santoro - 2017
Located in Roma, IT
Oriental West The work aims to represent the fusion and, at the same time, the contrast with the lifestyle of two worlds: on the one hand, the West with its own lifestyle and, on the...
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Roma - Digital Collage by Chiara Santoro - 2018
Located in Roma, IT
Roma is a beautiful print on canvas of a digital collage realized in 2019 by the Italian artist Chiara Santoro. Edition of 10. Hand-signed and numbered...
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Taxi Earth - Digital Collage by Chiara Santoro - 2020
Located in Roma, IT
Taxi Earth - is a beautiful print on canvas of a digital collage realized by the Italian artist Chiara Santoro. Edition of 10. Hand-signed and numbered. Fleeting love while every...
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35 01' 15'' N . 135 45' 13'' E - Digital Collage by Chiara Santoro - 2017
Located in Roma, IT
35 01' 15'' N . 135 45' 13'' E - The work represents the two souls of Japan: that of technological progress combined with secular tradition.
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Snow Cut - Digital Collage by Chiara Santoro - 2022
Located in Roma, IT
Snow Cut - The work is inspired by the classical tradition where a scene of everyday life immersed in a surreal atmosphere is showned. The mighty nature becomes small and the high mo...
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Marc Chagall - The Ballet, Frontispiece
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
The Ballet, Frontispiece for the book “Daphnis and Chloe” Lithograph in colors, 1969. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued from an edition of 10,000. Printed ...
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Marc Chagall - Inspiration - Original Lithograph from "Chagall Lithographe" v. 2
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall Original Lithograph from Chagall Lithographe 1957-1962. VOLUME II. 1963 Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm From the unsigned edition of 10000 copies without margins Reference: Mourlot 398 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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Ex Libris Bosznay Karoly - Original Woodcut Print - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris Bosznay Karoly is an original Modern Artwork realized in the early 20th Century. Original B/W woodcut on ivory-colored paper. The work is glued on cardboard. Total di...
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Surrealist Composition 5 - Original Collotype after A. Masson - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Surrealist Composition 5 is an original collotype print realized after André Masson. The artwork is in good conditions, no signature, on a yellowed paper. André Masson (1896-1987) ...
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Composition Surrealist - Original Collotype after André Masson - 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Surrealist Composition is an original collotype print realized after André Masson in the mid-20th Century. The artwork is in good conditions, and not signed. André Masson (1896-198...
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Surrealist Composition 3 - Original Collotype after A. Masson - Mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Surrealist Composition 3 is a vintage collotype print realized after André Masson. The artwork is in good conditions, no signature, on a yellowed paper. André Masson (1896-1987) wa...
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Surrealist Forest - Original Collotype after André Masson - 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Surrealist Forest is an original collotype realized after André Masson. The piece is in good conditions, no signature on a yellowed paper. André Masson (1896-1987) was a French pai...
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Untitled - Original Lithograph by Henry Maurice - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is a beautiful colored lithograph on paper, realized in 1973 by the French artist, Henry Maurice, and published by La Nuova Foglio, a publishing house of Macerata. Hand-signed and numbered in pencil on lower margin. Edition of 100 prints. This contemporary artwork representing a surreal composition in a futuristic world to decipher as a rebus game, is in excellent conditions. Maurice Henry...
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Echoing Green, Surrealist Aquatint Etching by Tighe O'Donoghue
Located in Long Island City, NY
Echoing Green Tighe O’Donoghue, American (1942–2023) Date: circa 1978 Etching with Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of m 2/10 Image Size: 14.5 x 17.75 inches Size: 22 ...
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"Reliq, " Original Black and White Monotype signed by Beckett R. Berning
By Beckett Berning
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Reliq" is an original black and white monotype by Beckett Berning. The artist signed the piece. It depicts a face above a gravestone. 9 1/4" x 6 3/4" art 18" x 15 3/4" frame Beck...
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Profil rose
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color lithograph. Signed and numbered 14/200 in pencil.
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Color, Lithograph

Bewitched Lake, Surrealist Screenprint by Israel Rubinstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
"Israel Rubinstein (1944 - ) Date: 1980 Screenprint on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 350 Image Size: 25 x 30.5 inches Size: 29.5 x...
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"Bonjour" by Max Ernst, Good Day, Surrealism, Light Colors, Figurative
Located in Köln, DE
Etching in colours by Max Ernst. "Bonjour", 1966 66,5 x 50,1 cm Copy 7/99 Edition of 111 copies (approx.)
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Graphisms & 3. 1980, paper, silk screen, 15x28 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Graphisms & 3. 1980, paper, silk screen, 15x28 cm Maris Argalis (1954-2008) Born in Riga. 1971. - graduated the Janis Rosenthal Riga Art School. Ongoing...
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Fantastical character - Hand-signed lithograph Leonor Fini Surrealist, 1975
Located in New York, NY
Leonor Fini Fantastical character, 1975 Colored etching on Arches paper 11 × 15 in 28 × 38 cm Limited edition of 185
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Ma de Proverbis, Joan Miró
Located in New York, NY
This lithograph in colors on Arches paper (with watermark) was created by the artist in 1970. Signed in the stone, (lower right) from the edition of 1000.
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"Apollon" from the suite "lArt d'Aimer d'Ovide"
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled, "Apollon" from the suite, "l'Art d'Aimer d'Ovide" 1976. is an original wood engraving on Japan nacre paper by artist Salvador Dali 1904-1989. It is hand signed...
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Find a wide variety of authentic Surrealist more 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 more 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, pink, yellow and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Salvador Dalí, Marc Chagall, Ralph Steadman, and André Masson. Frequently made by artists working with Lithograph, and Digital Print 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 more prints, so small editions measuring 3.15 inches across are also available. Prices for more 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 $55 and tops out at $50,000, while the average work sells for $888.

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