Surrealist Nude 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
Holiday Situations #1
By Charles Long
Located in Surfside, FL
HOLIDAY SITUATIONS,1999, color c-prints on Fuji crystal archive paper, each initialed on verso and inscribed "BAT" sheets 11 ¾ x 11 ¾", printed & published by Muse X, Los Angeles.
(...
Category
1990s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
C Print
Jean Cocteau - Woman's Profile - Original Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau
Title: Profil
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 65 x 44 cm
Category
1950s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Girl on Rhinoceros Horn
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Girl on Rhinoceros Horn - Original Etching
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Edition: 390
1967
On Rives Vellum
Signed in the plate
References : Fi...
Category
1960s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dali - The Kidnapping - Original Etching on Silk
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Kidnapping - from "Les Amours de Cassandre"
Original Etching
From the suite on Silk made for editions 9 to 34
Dimensions: 38,5 x 28,5 cm
...
Category
1960s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dali - Pierre Curie - Original Handsigned Engraving
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Pierre Curie - Original Handsigned Engraving
Dimensions: 17.5 x 12.5 cm
1970
Signed in pencil
EA
Jean Schneider, Basel
References : Field 70-5
Provenance : Schneider ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Engraving
"Ladybugs" Nude Photography 39" x 39" inch Edition of 3 by Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Ladybugs" Nude 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.
Avai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Erotica III Marginala, " from the Mask of the Red Death series signed Castellon
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This lithograph was one of sixteen Federico Castellón produced in 1968, published by Aquarius Press, to illustrate Edgar Allan Poe's 1832 story 'The Mask of the Red Death.' The image...
Category
1960s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - The Arrival of Iseult - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Arrival of Iseult - Original Etching
Dimensions: 45 x 33 cm
Edition: 125
1970
Signed in pencil.
On Arches Vellum
References : Field 70-10 (p. 60-61)
Category
1970s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dali - Jonas Salk - Original Handsigned Engraving
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Jonas Salk - Original Handsigned Engraving
Dimensions: 17.5 x 12.5 cm
1970
Signed in pencil
EA
Jean Schneider, Basel
References : Field 70-5
Category
1960s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Engraving
Salvador Dali - Nude with Flower - Original Etching on Silk
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Nude with Flower - from "Les Amours de Cassandre"
Original Etching
From the suite on Silk made for editions 9 to 34
Dimensions: 38,5 ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dali - Queen Iseult and her daughter
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Queen Iseult and her daughter - Original Etching
Dimensions: 45 x 33 cm
Edition: 125
1970
Signed in pencil.
On Arches Vellum
References : Field 70-10 (p. 60-61)
Category
1970s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Golden Calf, 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: 18 x 18 inches
Size: 29 x 20.5 in. (73.66 x 52.07 cm)"
Category
1980s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
Salvador Dali - Head of Veal - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Head of Veal - Original Etching
Embossed signature
From the edition of 731
Dimensions: 38,5 x 28,5 cm
1969
References : Field 69-1 / Michler & Lopsinger 305
Category
1960s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Holiday Situations #5
By Charles Long
Located in Surfside, FL
(female nude manikin beneath a white sculpture between spruces ), 1999
HOLIDAY SITUATIONS,1999, color c-prints on Fuji crystal archive paper, each initialed on verso and inscribed "BAT" sheets 11 ¾ x 11 ¾", printed & published by Muse X, Los Angeles.
(female nude manikin beneath a white sculpture between spruces ), 1999
in the colection of Harvard University art museum where it is described as aInk jet digital print
Born in 1958 in Long Branch, New Jersey, Long currently lives and
works in California.Education B.F.A., University of the Arts, Phila,
PA; Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY; M.F.A., Yale
University, New Haven, CT. Since then, the artist has received a
number of honors and awards, most recently the 2008 Award of Merit
Medal for Sculpture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in
New York. He currently teaches as a professor in the Art Department at
the University of California, Riverside.
Long’s work has been the subject of major exhibitions worldwide. His
most important solo presentations include CATALIN at The Contemporary
Austin in Texas (2014), Fountainhead, a public commission in Dallas,
Texas organized by the Nasher Sculpture Center (2013), Pet Sounds at
Madison Square Park in New York City (2012), Seeing Green, a solo
project in conjunction with All of this and nothing: The 6th Hammer
Invitational at the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (2011), 100
Pounds of Clay at Orange County Museum of Art in California (2010),
and More Like a Dream Than a Scheme at David Winton Bell Gallery at
Brown University in Rhode Island, which traveled to SITE Santa Fe in
New Mexico (2005). His work has been included in many significant
museum exhibitions such as the 1997 and 2008 Biennials, Whitney Museum
of American Art New York; Open Ends, The Museum of Modern Art; NYC.
Performance Anxiety, MCA, Chicago; Happiness, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo;
Arte Contemporáneo Internaciona, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City;
ART/MUSIC: rock, pop, and techno Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney;
Almost Warm and Fuzzy, Des Moines Art Center, The Shape of Color:
Excursions in Color Field Art, AGO/Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada;
Gone Formalism, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA;
The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Washington D.C. SculptureCenter in New York, Museum of
Contemporary Art Chicago, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., Institute of
Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, among other
museums.Long's sculptures have explored the abstract autonomous art
object as a psychological investigation into the nature self and
others and have been made from diverse media such as coffee grounds,
rubber and hair from Abraham Lincoln. He has collaborated with pop
musicians such as Stereolab, Mark Mothersbaugh...
Category
1990s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
C Print
Holiday Situations #6
By Charles Long
Located in Surfside, FL
HOLIDAY SITUATIONS,1999, color c-prints on Fuji crystal archive paper, each initialed on verso and inscribed "BAT" sheets 11 ¾ x 11 ¾", printed & published by Muse X, Los Angeles.
(female nude manikin beneath a brilliant star), 1999
in the collection of Harvard University art museum where it is described as an Ink jet digital print
Born in 1958 in Long Branch, New Jersey, Long currently lives and
works in California.Education B.F.A., University of the Arts, Phila,
PA; Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY; M.F.A., Yale
University, New Haven, CT. Since then, the artist has received a
number of honors and awards, most recently the 2008 Award of Merit
Medal for Sculpture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in
New York. He currently teaches as a professor in the Art Department at
the University of California, Riverside.
Long’s work has been the subject of major exhibitions worldwide. His
most important solo presentations include CATALIN at The Contemporary
Austin in Texas (2014), Fountainhead, a public commission in Dallas,
Texas organized by the Nasher Sculpture Center (2013), Pet Sounds at
Madison Square Park in New York City (2012), Seeing Green, a solo
project in conjunction with All of this and nothing: The 6th Hammer
Invitational at the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (2011), 100
Pounds of Clay at Orange County Museum of Art in California (2010),
and More Like a Dream Than a Scheme at David Winton Bell Gallery at
Brown University in Rhode Island, which traveled to SITE Santa Fe in
New Mexico (2005). His work has been included in many significant
museum exhibitions such as the 1997 and 2008 Biennials, Whitney Museum
of American Art New York; Open Ends, The Museum of Modern Art; NYC.
Performance Anxiety, MCA, Chicago; Happiness, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo;
Arte Contemporáneo Internaciona, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City;
ART/MUSIC: rock, pop, and techno Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney;
Almost Warm and Fuzzy, Des Moines Art Center, The Shape of Color:
Excursions in Color Field Art, AGO/Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada;
Gone Formalism, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA;
The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Washington D.C. SculptureCenter in New York, Museum of
Contemporary Art Chicago, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., Institute of
Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, among other
museums.Long's sculptures have explored the abstract autonomous art
object as a psychological investigation into the nature self and
others and have been made from diverse media such as coffee grounds,
rubber and hair from Abraham Lincoln. He has collaborated with pop
musicians such as Stereolab, Mark Mothersbaugh...
Category
1990s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
C Print
Holiday Situations #3
By Charles Long
Located in Surfside, FL
HOLIDAY SITUATIONS,1999, color c-prints on Fuji crystal archive paper, each initialed on verso and inscribed "BAT" sheets 11 ¾ x 11 ¾", printed & published by Muse X, Los Angeles.
(female nude manikin with blue sculpture and waves ), 1999
in the colection of Harvard University art museum where it is described as aInk jet digital print
Born in 1958 in Long Branch, New Jersey, Long currently lives and
works in California.Education B.F.A., University of the Arts, Phila,
PA; Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY; M.F.A., Yale
University, New Haven, CT. Since then, the artist has received a
number of honors and awards, most recently the 2008 Award of Merit
Medal for Sculpture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in
New York. He currently teaches as a professor in the Art Department at
the University of California, Riverside.
Long’s work has been the subject of major exhibitions worldwide. His
most important solo presentations include CATALIN at The Contemporary
Austin in Texas (2014), Fountainhead, a public commission in Dallas,
Texas organized by the Nasher Sculpture Center (2013), Pet Sounds at
Madison Square Park in New York City (2012), Seeing Green, a solo
project in conjunction with All of this and nothing: The 6th Hammer
Invitational at the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (2011), 100
Pounds of Clay at Orange County Museum of Art in California (2010),
and More Like a Dream Than a Scheme at David Winton Bell Gallery at
Brown University in Rhode Island, which traveled to SITE Santa Fe in
New Mexico (2005). His work has been included in many significant
museum exhibitions such as the 1997 and 2008 Biennials, Whitney Museum
of American Art New York; Open Ends, The Museum of Modern Art; NYC.
Performance Anxiety, MCA, Chicago; Happiness, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo;
Arte Contemporáneo Internaciona, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City;
ART/MUSIC: rock, pop, and techno Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney;
Almost Warm and Fuzzy, Des Moines Art Center, The Shape of Color:
Excursions in Color Field Art, AGO/Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada;
Gone Formalism, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA;
The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Washington D.C. SculptureCenter in New York, Museum of
Contemporary Art Chicago, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., Institute of
Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, among other
museums.Long's sculptures have explored the abstract autonomous art
object as a psychological investigation into the nature self and
others and have been made from diverse media such as coffee grounds,
rubber and hair from Abraham Lincoln. He has collaborated with pop
musicians such as Stereolab, Mark Mothersbaugh...
Category
1990s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
C Print
Holiday Situations #10
By Charles Long
Located in Surfside, FL
HOLIDAY SITUATIONS,1999, color c-prints on Fuji crystal archive paper, each initialed on verso and inscribed "BAT" sheets 11 ¾ x 11 ¾", printed & published by Muse X, Los Angeles.
(black male nude manikin with white sculpture), 1999
in the collection of Harvard University art museum where it is described as an Ink jet digital print
Born in 1958 in Long Branch, New Jersey, Long currently lives and
works in California.Education B.F.A., University of the Arts, Phila,
PA; Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY; M.F.A., Yale
University, New Haven, CT. Since then, the artist has received a
number of honors and awards, most recently the 2008 Award of Merit
Medal for Sculpture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in
New York. He currently teaches as a professor in the Art Department at
the University of California, Riverside.
Long’s work has been the subject of major exhibitions worldwide. His
most important solo presentations include CATALIN at The Contemporary
Austin in Texas (2014), Fountainhead, a public commission in Dallas,
Texas organized by the Nasher Sculpture Center (2013), Pet Sounds at
Madison Square Park in New York City (2012), Seeing Green, a solo
project in conjunction with All of this and nothing: The 6th Hammer
Invitational at the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (2011), 100
Pounds of Clay at Orange County Museum of Art in California (2010),
and More Like a Dream Than a Scheme at David Winton Bell Gallery at
Brown University in Rhode Island, which traveled to SITE Santa Fe in
New Mexico (2005). His work has been included in many significant
museum exhibitions such as the 1997 and 2008 Biennials, Whitney Museum
of American Art New York; Open Ends, The Museum of Modern Art; NYC.
Performance Anxiety, MCA, Chicago; Happiness, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo;
Arte Contemporáneo Internaciona, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City;
ART/MUSIC: rock, pop, and techno Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney;
Almost Warm and Fuzzy, Des Moines Art Center, The Shape of Color:
Excursions in Color Field Art, AGO/Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada;
Gone Formalism, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA;
The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Washington D.C. SculptureCenter in New York, Museum of
Contemporary Art Chicago, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., Institute of
Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, among other
museums.Long's sculptures have explored the abstract autonomous art
object as a psychological investigation into the nature self and
others and have been made from diverse media such as coffee grounds,
rubber and hair from Abraham Lincoln. He has collaborated with pop
musicians such as Stereolab, Mark Mothersbaugh...
Category
1990s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
C Print
"Mais O Belle Dionee" from the suite "lArt d'Aimer d'Ovide"
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled, "Mais O Belle Dionee" 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...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Woodcut
"Phobeus , ce Dieu Couronne de Lauriers" from the suite "l'Art d'Aime d'Ovide"
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled, "Phobeus, ce Dieu Couronne de Lauriers" from the suite, "l'Art d'Aimer d'Ovide" 1976. is an original wood engraving on Japan nacre paper by artist Salvador Dal...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Woodcut
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