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Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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
Detente, Surrealist Lithograph by Frederic Menguy
Located in Long Island City, NY
Frederic Menguy, French (1927 - 2007) - Detente, Year: 1975, Medium: Lithograph, signed in pencil, Edition: EA, Size: 15 x 22.5 in. (38.1 x 57.15 cm)
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Wifredo Lam Pastels vintage 1980s Galerie Lelong, Paris offset lithograph poster
Located in New York, NY
Wifredo Lam Wifredo Lam Pastels: vintage Galerie Lelong poster, 1988 Offset lithograph Plate signed on the front 26 1/2 × 19 1/2 inches Unframed, unnumbered Offset lithograph poster...
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1980s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Offset

Divine Comedy Hell Canto 31
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Divine Comedy Hell Canto 31 MEDIUM: Woodblock SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: 18/150 MEASUREMENTS: 9" x 13.5" CONDITIO...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Ruth Gleaner - 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 Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Régate II, Surrealist Lithograph by Frederic Menguy
Located in Long Island City, NY
Frederic Menguy, French (1927 - 2007) - Regate II, Year: 1992, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 145/150, Size: 20.5 x 24.75 in. (52.07 x 62.87 cm)
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1990s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Salvador Dali - Don Quixote Pear - Original Hand-Signed Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Don Quixote Pear - Original Hand-Signed Lithograph 1969 Dimensions: P. 57 x 37 cm Sheet: 75 x 56 cm Handsigned, EA (Epreuve d'Artiste) Excellent Condition Reference:...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Salvador Dali "Icarus (Eolus)"
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: Icarus (Eolus) Series: The Mythology Date: 1963 Medium: drypoint Unframed Dimensions: 30" x 18" Framed Dimensions: 41" x 33" x 2" Signature: Pen...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint

Exhibition at Galerie Lucie Weill, Surrealist Lithograph Poster by Andre Masson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Andre Masson, French (1896 - 1987) - Exhibition at Galerie Lucie Weill, Year: 1968, Medium: Lithograph Poster, Size: 30 x 20.5 in. (76.2 x 52.07 cm), Printer: Mourlot, Paris, Des...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Mythology Narcissus
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: The Mythology Narcissus MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Pierre Argillet, Paris EDITION NUMBER: XXXI/C MEASUREMENTS: 18" x 30" YEAR...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Surrealist composition
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: collotype (after the Miro lithograph). Printed in 1947 in an edition of 1500 by Meriden Gravure and published by Curt Valentin for "The Prints of Joan Miro" portfolio. Size: ...
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1940s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Photogravure

Dali - De Draeger - Portfolio Luxury edition - 1968
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Dali -De Draeger, Portfolio by Max Gérard Luxury edition inside special packaged box bearing a cover with “soft melting pocket watch” and bronze medal of “L'Unicorne Dyonisiaque” minted and numbered by Monnaie de Paris...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Bronze

Cantique du Singulier
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Cantique du Singulier" 1977, is an original colors lithograph on Japan paper by noted French artist Aristide Caillaud, 1902-1990. It is hand signed and numbered ...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Grey Oval - Lithograph by Marcello Avenali - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Grey Oval is a lithograph realized by Marcello Avenali between the 1960s and 1970s. It is a composition with female legs and shoes and some abstract figures instead of the body.  Ha...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Miró, Serie V (Cramer 36), Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Etching from cuivre rayé après tirage on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches; image size: 5.91 x 4.92 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné ...
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1950s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Weeping Willow - 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 Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Abstract - Surrealist Lithograph
Located in Houston, TX
Surreal lithograph with light lavender and blue colors, 1982. Titled and numbered on lower left and signed lower right in pencil. Displayed on a white mat with a gold border and fi...
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1980s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

Army Of Caine Giant Oversize Pop Art Print Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Army Of Caine by B A T I K Pop art work featuring multiples of Michael Caine in Get Carter mode - possibly his most iconic movie role. Archival pigment pop art print signed & limi...
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2010s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Black and White, Archival Pigment

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

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Lithograph

Giacometti, Couverture, XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. n°7, 1956. Published and printed under the direction of Gualtieri di San Lazza...
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1950s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Le Cheval du Printemps, Signed Surrealist Lithograph by Salvador Dali
Located in Long Island City, NY
A close portrait of a horse wearing a laurel crown with the rays of the sun emanating from behind its head. The horse theme was frequently used by Dali throughout his career. The hor...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) - Hand watercolored drypoint etching on Japanese paper
Located in Varese, IT
Hand watercolored drypoint etching on extremely fine Japanese paper, edited in 1969. Limited edition of 145 copies water-coloured, numbered in lower left corner EA (Epreuve d'artist)...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Etching

La divine forêt - Engraving - 150 copies
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali La divine forêt (1960) Heliogravure reworked with drypoint Signature printed in the plate On BFK Rives Vellum paper Size 32.8 x 26.4 cm (c. 1...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Opposite of sentimental... . Limited edition print, Surreal, Established artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Size of sheet is ca. 21 x 29 cm (A4) Contemporary figurative giclee print by Polish artist Rafal Olbinski. Print is signed, numbered and has a stamp of an artist's atelier. It comes...
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2010s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Color

Act III, Scene I - From “Romeo and Juliet” - Lithograph - 1975
Located in Roma, IT
Act III, Scene I - From “Romeo and Juliet”  is an artwork realized in 1975. Mixed colored lithograph. Signed and dated in plate on the lower right  margin. Perfect conditions. P...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

A Logician Devil - Etching - 150ex
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali A logician devil (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 in) References: -...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Sans titre (C. 211), Maravillas con variaciones acrósticas en el Jardín de Miró
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 19.5 x 28.25 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné refere...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Sans titre (Cramer 34), Derrière le miroir
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 22 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cramer, Patrick, an...
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1950s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Witches with Broom, from: Faust (Walpurgis Night) - Spanish Surrealism
Located in London, GB
This original hand-coloured etching is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Dalí" at the lower right margin. It is also all hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 145, with Roma...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Salvador Dali "Blackberries"
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: Blackberries Series: Fruits Date: 1970 Medium: Photolithograph with original engraving on Rives Unframed Dimensions: 22.5" x 14.5" Framed Dimensio...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Engraving, Lithograph

Miró, Composition (Mourlot 1722), Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with bifold, as issued. Notes: From volume, Derrière le miroir, N° 125-126, 1961. Publishe...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Le cheval de labeur
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Le cheval de labeur Lithograph from 1972. The edition of 187/250. Dimensions of work: 68 x 50 cm On B.F.K Rives paper as stated in the Field catalogue...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

A La Plage (At the Beach), framed hand signed lithograph
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph in black on pale green panel on white Rives paper. Hand signed lower right by Salvador Dali. Hand numbered LXXVII/CXX lower left. Artwork size: 20 x 28 inches. Frame ...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

Le Roi Peste (The Plague Kings) - Etching by James Ensor - 1895
Located in Roma, IT
The Plague Kings is an original etching on the Japanese paper, realized by James Ensor in 1895, signed on the plate and dated, unique state, with the second signature on the reverse ...
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1890s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Jonah and the Storm at Sea - 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 Prints and Multiples

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Photogravure

Christ (Patricius)
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali Title: Andrew (Visions of Camelot) Portfolio: 1972 The Twelve Apostles (Knights of the Round Table) Medium: Lithograph Year: 1972 Edition: 41/350 Frame Size: 29...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

THE MOST FORMAL GARDEN
Located in Santa Monica, CA
LEONARD EDMONDSON (1916 – 2002) THE MOST FORMAL GARDEN, c. 1965 Color intaglio signed titled and annotated “Artist’s Proof" Irregular platemark 10 ¼ x14...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Intaglio

" Le Miroir Magique " . Musée FABRE .
Located in CANNES, FR
Jean HUGO ( 1894 - 1984 ) " Le miroir Magique " . PARIS .Jeanne Buchet .1927. Musée FABRE . Montpellier . portefeuille de 20 lithographies coloriées sur pochoir par Jean saudé d'apré...
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1920s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper

"Untitled"
Located in Southampton, NY
Original artist proof engraving, aquatint, intaglio on archival paper by the Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed in pencil lower right and dated 1947. Condition: good...
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1940s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper, Engraving, Aquatint, Intaglio

"Untitled"
"Untitled"
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Salvador Dalí­, "Les petits chevaux" from Poemes de Mao-tse-toung, mixed media
Located in Chatsworth, CA
A heliogravure reworked in drypoint and ink drawing on Chinois ancien paper by Salvador Dali, 1967. Hand signed twice within the drawing and dated '1967'. It is inscribed "Por monsi...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Ballpoint Pen, Etching, Photogravure

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

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Etching, Paper

Bather, Surrealist Screenprint Poster after Joan Miro
Located in Long Island City, NY
Joan Miro, After, Spanish (1893 - 1983) - Bather, Medium: Screenprint Poster, Image Size: 21 x 30 inches, Size: 23 x 35 in. (58.42 x 88.9 cm)
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Aaron and the Menorah - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1956
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 Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Les Chiens Ont Soif VIII, Surrealist Lithograph by Max Ernst
Located in Long Island City, NY
Max Ernst, German (1891 - 1976) - Les Chiens Ont Soif VIII, Portfolio: Les Chiens Ont Soif, Year: 1964, Medium: Lithograph, Edition: 165/320, Size: 17 x 24.5 in. (43.18 x 62.23 ...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Les Chiens Ont Soif II, Surrealist Lithograph by Max Ernst
Located in Long Island City, NY
Max Ernst, German (1891 - 1976) - Les Chiens Ont Soif II, Portfolio: Les Chiens Ont Soif, Year: 1964, Medium: Lithograph, Edition: 165/320, Size: 17 x 24.5 in. (43.18 x 62.23 cm...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Leonor Fini, Rogomelec (rare print on paper)
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Leonor Fini, Rogomelec (rare original print on Rives paper) Texte : Rare lithograph on Rives paper, handsigned and numered by surrealist artist Leonor Fini, now rediscovered and inscreasingly esteemed with the movement of rediscovering art by women. Leonor Fini was actually the life of the party during the Surrealist movement like Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, Jacqueline Lamba and Claude Lalanne. Many consider her to be the most fiercely independent female artist of the 20th centuryThis rare lithograph was made after the painting untitled Rogomelec, which was sold by Christie's on october 9th 2024 at GBP 907,200. Created in 1978, Rogomelec is an arresting example of Leonor Fini’s fantastical visions. Within a barren land stands a king dressed in an elaborate coat of peacock feathers. Light glints off his dazzling crown. He is magisterial, imperious, royalty incarnated. The painting shares its title with that of Fini’s third novella, first published in 1979; Rogomelec means ‘he who stones the king’. Written in the first person, the story tells of a traveller in a faraway land, home to a decaying monastery-turned-sanatorium, where monks proffer hallucinatory herbal cures, and culminates in an unsettling discovery during a ritual celebration of the king, the subject of the present work. Born in Buenos Aires, Fini moved to Trieste as a young child. There, she developed an early interest in Renaissance and Mannerist art – the latter’s influence is evident in the elongated figure of Rogomelec – as well as Gustav Klimt, the Pre-Raphaelites, and the German and French Romantics, artists she discovered while riffling through her uncle’s extensive library. Largely self-taught, she moved to Paris in 1931 where she befriended René Magritte, Paul Éluard, Max Ernst, and Victor Brauner. Through them, Fini grew close with the Surrealists and participated in their exhibitions, including Peggy Guggenheim’s landmark show 31 Women at her eponymous gallery on West 57 Street in New York. Like her contemporaries, Fini’s paintings too seem wrenched from a dream and across her works she sought to reconcile the world that she experienced with that of her subconscious mind. In Rogomelec, the king’s clothing is meticulous, and the drama of the ensemble was likely influenced by Fini’s work outside the studio. She created sets and costumes for the ballet, stage, and film; collaborated on performances for the Paris Opéra and La Scala in Milan; and conceived of the bottle and packaging for Elsa Schiaparelli’s perfume...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Paper

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 Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Femme Bleue
Located in OPOLE, PL
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - Femme Bleue Lithograph from 1958. Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.4 cm Plate signed. Publisher: Tériade, Paris. On the verso there is another Lithograp...
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1950s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Femme Bleue
Femme Bleue
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The Creation of Earth and Sea Animals - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
The Creation of Earthly and Sea Animals is an artwork realized by Salvador Dalí in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ editionis published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 an...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Vitraux in Four Sheets Puzzle of Life by Salvador Dali
Located in New York, NY
Vitraux in Four Sheets, Puzzle of Life, 1974, by Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Lithograph on paper 52 ¼ x 55 ½ inches unframed (132.715 x 140.97 cm) 53 ½ x ...
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1770s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall - The Red Rider - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph The Red Rider From the unsigned, unnumbered lithograph printed in the literary review XXe Siecle 1957 See Mourlot 191 Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm Publisher: G. di San Lazzaro. 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, where he would paint a series of murals titled Introduction to the Jewish Theater as well. In 1921, Chagall also found work as a teacher at a school for war orphans. By 1922, however, Chagall found that his art had fallen out of favor, and seeking new horizons he left Russia for good. Flight After a brief stay in Berlin, where he unsuccessfully sought to recover the work exhibited at Der Sturm before the war, Chagall moved his family to Paris in September 1923. Shortly after their arrival, he was commissioned by art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard to produce a series of etchings for a new edition of Nikolai Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls. Two years later Chagall began work on an illustrated edition of Jean de la Fontaine’s Fables, and in 1930 he created etchings for an illustrated edition of the Old Testament, for which he traveled to Palestine to conduct research. Chagall’s work during this period brought him new success as an artist and enabled him to travel throughout Europe in the 1930s. He also published his autobiography, My Life (1931), and in 1933 received a retrospective at the Kunsthalle in Basel, Switzerland. But at the same time that Chagall’s popularity was spreading, so, too, was the threat of Fascism and Nazism. Singled out during the cultural "cleansing" undertaken by the Nazis in Germany, Chagall’s work was ordered removed from museums throughout the country. Several pieces were subsequently burned, and others were featured in a 1937 exhibition of “degenerate art” held in Munich. Chagall’s angst regarding these troubling events and the persecution of Jews in general can be seen in his 1938 painting White Crucifixion. With the eruption of World War II, Chagall and his family moved to the Loire region before moving farther south to Marseilles following the invasion of France. They found a more certain refuge when, in 1941, Chagall’s name was added by the director of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City to a list of artists and intellectuals deemed most at risk from the Nazis’ anti-Jewish campaign. Chagall and his family would be among the more than 2,000 who received visas and escaped this way. Haunted Harbors Arriving in New York City in June 1941, Chagall discovered that he was already a well-known artist there and, despite a language barrier, soon became a part of the exiled European artist community. The following year he was commissioned by choreographer Léonide Massine to design sets and costumes for the ballet Aleko, based on Alexander Pushkin’s “The Gypsies” and set to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. But even as he settled into the safety of his temporary home, Chagall’s thoughts were frequently consumed by the fate befalling the Jews of Europe and the destruction of Russia, as paintings such as The Yellow Crucifixion...
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1950s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

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 Prints and Multiples

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Etching

La Folie des Grandeurs II -20th Century, Surrealist, Lithogr, Figurative Print
Located in Sint-Truiden, BE
Color lithograph after the 1948 oil on canvas by René Magritte, printed signature of Magritte and numbered from the edition of 300. The lithograph features the dry stamps of the Mag...
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20th Century Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Listen
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Listen" 1998 is an original color lithograph on paper by noted American artist David Hollowell, b.1951. It is hand signed and num...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Savage Beasts in the Desert original lithograph by Salvador Dali 1976
Located in Paonia, CO
Savage Beasts in the Desert  or Little Animal Kingdom ( Les Betes Sauvages sans Le Desert ) is an original signed lithograph (+ original etched remarque)  by Salvador Dali . L...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Man Ray, Composition, Man Ray (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Man Ray, 1984. Published by Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Ni...
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1980s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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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 Prints and Multiples

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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 Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Figurative Picasso Etching, 'Sculpteur et Modèle Debout', 1933
Located in New York, NY
Pablo Picasso's "Sculpteur et modèle debout" (1933), (which translates to "Sculptor and Model Standing") is a striking example of his exploration of the human form and his innovative...
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1930s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Paper

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 Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Les chevaliers du roi Arthur ("The cavaliers of King Arthur"), Etching, Handsign
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador DALI Les chevaliers du roi Arthur ("The cavaliers of King Arthur") Original etching Handsigned in pencil Limited to 115 copies On vellum ...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

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