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Surrealist Art

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
Pale Moon - Original Dream-like Landscape Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rob Katkowski’s original oil painting, Pale Moon, is a captivating exploration of form, color, and abstraction that draws viewers into a serene, dreamlike landscape. Measuring 12 inc...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Oil, Canvas

Voyager, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A surreal portrait of a jaguar overlaid with a glowing peony. "She moves unapologetically through space, through water, through the land," says artist Miranda...

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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

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Oil

For Alberti, For Spain - Etching by Joan Mirò - 1975
Located in Roma, IT
For Alberti, For Spain! is an artwork realized by Joan Mirò in 1975. Etching and aquatint, 90 x 66 cm. Hand signed. Edition 64/90. Reference: Dupin 926. Printed on Fabriano paper, ...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Etching

Terres Grand de Feu (one plate from Artigas) (~50% OFF LIST PRICE, LIMITED TIME)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joan Miro Terres Grand de Feu (one plate from Artigas) Medium: Original lithograph Size: 14.1875 x 19.625 in Year: 1956 Edition: 1,500 Unsigned Printed text on verso as issued Portf...
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1950s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

The Moon. Paris. Limited edition print Surreal Established Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary colorful figurative surrealistic print on paper by Polish artist Rafal Olbinski. This print shows a woman sitting on chair with her feet on a Moon. There is parisian arc...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Paper, Color

Mal Muchacho (Bad Boy)
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Armando Villagran, Mexican (1945 -1995) Title: Mal Muchacho (Bad Boy) Year: 1987 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l. Size: 47 x 39 inches [119.38 x 99.06 cm] Frame: 49 x 41 in...
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1980s Surrealist Art

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Oil

Surrealist Painting Royal College Art LGBTQ+ Female Artist Banana Blue Heads
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative takes the audience on a journey into the imagination. In October 2023 Isabel won the Evelyn Williams Drawing Award at the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. Known as the UK’s most prestigious annual open exhibition for drawing; part of the prize is a solo show at Hastings Contemporary, scheduled for 2024. Whilst Isabel always has a tale to tell for each of her images, you may or may not choose to go on the journey with her or you may indeed have a different story, one of your own that jumps off the page at you, that that you decide to follow. Artwork Details: (A), 48x60cm, acrylic ink and acrylic paint on paper, 2011 Artwork Provenance: from the Artist Studio photo credits, Isabel working, black and white shots, James Brown In Isabel's own words: Banana Boat...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen

Snake Charmer, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A woman's face with downcast eyes emerges in a vibrant collage. Her expression is peaceful yet intense. Intricate patterns, dots, and botanical elements surroun...

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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

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Mixed Media

1970's MODERN BRITISH ABSTRACT OIL PAINTING BEAUTIFUL GREEN & ORANGE COLORS
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Modern British School Title: Interior scene with side table Medium: oil on canvas laid over board, unframed Size: painting: 55...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Art

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Oil

How Come
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"How Come" is a Modern surrealist oil on canvas painting by Irving Norman in 1968. The artwork is 90 x 60 inches and 91 1/4 x 61 1/2 x 1 5/8 inches with the fram, weighing less than ...
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20th Century Surrealist Art

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Oil

"Islands" (ca. 2014) By John Tarantola, Surrealistic Nude Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
John Tarantola's original nude portrait "Islands" (2014) is a beautiful surrealist oil on panel painting that depicts a nude male figure, lying in death in a desolate desert. Another...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Oil, Panel

Double Personage
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Double Personage Color lithograph, 1975 (?) Unsigned (as issued) Edition: Large Edition Limited, (estimated to be approximately 2000) Published in: XXe Siecle, No. 52, Juin 1979 Published: G. di San Lazzaro Printer: Mourlot Imprimeur, Paris, France Reference: Lam-Tonneau-Ryckelynck L7513 Condition: Excellent, fresh colors Traces of glue residue along margin edge where it was bound in the book Image/sheet size: 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches Wilfredo Lam (1902-1982) Biography Wifredo Lam was born in Sagua la Grande, Cuba, on December 8, 1902. He was the eighth child born to Lam-Yam―born in Canton around 1820, an immigrant to the Americas in 1860―and to Ana Serafina Catilla―born in 1862 in Cuba of mixed African and Spanish ancestry. The luxuriant nature of Sagua la Grande had a strong impact on Lam from early childhood. One night in 1907, he was startled by the strange shadows cast on the wall of his bedroom of a bat in flight. He often recounted the incident as his first magnificent awakening to another dimension to existence. In 1916, Lam and part of his family settled in Havana. He was enrolled in the Escuela Profesional de Pintura y Escultura, Academia de San Alejandro, where he remained a student until 1923. This period, with exhibitions at the Salón de Bellas artes, was determinant in his choice to become a painter. In 1923, the municipality of Sagua la Grande awarded him a grant to study in Europe and by the autumn of that year, at the age of twenty-one, he left the country for Spain. His time in Spain―initially intended as a short stay on his way to Paris―lasted 14 years. In Madrid, he was exposed to the ideas and movements of modern art. He spent long hours at the Archeological Museum and the Prado. He studied the great masters of Spanish painting, Velázquez and Goya, but felt particularly drawn to the works of Bosch and Bruegel the Elder. In 1931, his first wife, Eva (Sébastiana Piriz) and their son Wilfredo Victor died of tuberculosis. The terrible suffering he endured led to numerous paintings of mother and child. Lam found solace in the company of his Spanish friends and made contact with several political organizations. In 1936, with the help of his friend Faustino Cordón, he joined the Republican forces in their fight against Franco. He designed anti-Fascist posters and took part in the struggle by working in a munitions factory. The violence of the struggle inspired his painting La Guerra Civil. In 1938, Lam left Spain for Paris. Shortly before leaving, he met Helena Holzer, who would become his wife in 1944. His meeting Picasso in his studio on the Rue des Grands Augustins proved decisive. Picasso introduced his new “cousin” to his painter, poet and art critic friends, Braque, Matisse, Miró, Léger, Eluard, Leiris, Tzara, Kahnweiler, Zervos. Lam also met Pierre Loeb, the owner of the Galerie Pierre in Paris, which hosted Lam’s first solo exhibition in 1939. Shortly before the Germans arrived, Lam left Paris for Bordeaux and then Marseille, where many of his friends, for the most part surrealists, had gathered around André Breton in the Villa Air Bel: Pierre Mabille, René Char, Max Ernst, Victor Brauner, Oscar Domínguez, André Masson, Benjamin Péret. In the Villa Air Bel, a meeting place for creativity and experimentation, Lam worked and produced, most notably, a series of ink drawings that set the tone for what would become his signature style of hybrid figures, a vocabulary he would develop more fully during his years in Cuba from 1941 to 1947. In January and February 1941, Lam illustrated Breton’s poem Fata Morgana which was censored by the Vichy government. On March 25, Lam and Helena Holzer embarked on the “Capitaine Paul Lemerle” headed for Martinique, in the company of some 300 other artists and intellectuals―André Breton and Claude Lévi-Strauss among them. Upon arrival, the passengers were interred at Trois Îles. It was during this forced passage in Martinique and before leaving for Cuba that Lam and Aimé Césaire met for the first time to become life-long friends. Newly settled in his native land after almost twenty years, Lam delved deeper into his artistic investigations, finding nourishment for his ideas in the surroundings of his childhood and youth. His sister Eloisa, whom he was closest to, explained to him in much detail the workings of Afro-Cuban rituals and he began attending ritual ceremonies with some of his friends. This contact with Afro-Cuban culture brought new impetus to his art. He painted over one hundred canvases, most notably La Jungla, making the year 1942 his most productive of this period. Over the next few years, a number of exhibitions followed in the United States, at the Institute of Modern Art of Boston, at the MoMA of New York, at the Galerie Pierre Matisse, where La Jungla was presented and created a scandal. In 1946, Lam and Helena travel to Haiti and attend voodoo ceremonies in the company of Pierre Mabille and André Breton. Talking about his experience in Haiti, Lam said, “It is often assumed that my work took its final form in Haiti, but my stay there, like the trips I made to Venezuela, Colombia or to the Brazilian Mato Grosso only broadened its scope. I could have been a good painter from the School of Paris, but I felt like a snail out of its shell. What really broadened my painting is the presence of African poetry.” Picasso_Lam_Vallauris_1954_vignette Wifredo Lam et Pablo Picasso, Vallauris, 1954 Lam then went on to New York where he renewed contact with Marcel Duchamp and made new acquaintances: Jeanne Reynal, James Johnson Sweeney, Arshile Gorky, John Cage, Roger Wilcox, Mercedes Matter, Ian Hugo, Jesse Fernández, John Cage, Sonia Sekula and Yves Tanguy. By the end of the 1940s, Lam divided his time between Europe, Havana and New York, where they stayed with Pierre and Teeny Matisse...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

L'Escargot
Located in OPOLE, PL
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - L'Escargot Lithograph from 1958. Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26 cm. Plate signed. Publisher: Tériade, Paris. First, original edition. The work is in ...
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1950s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Woman with cushion, from The Hippies
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali Title: Woman with cushion Portfolio: The Hippies Medium: Color etching on Arches wove paper Date: 1969 Edition: 67/145 Frame Size: 31" x 26 1/2" Sheet Size: 26"...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching

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 Art

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Lithograph

Huge French Surrealist Fantasy Oil Painting Floating Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Josyne Gallet, French signed and dated 1970 verso Title: Floating Figures Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 39.5 x 33 inches Provenance: private co...
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20th Century Surrealist Art

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Oil

Roister - 21st Century, Surrealism, Young Men Making Cheers to Good Life
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Bor...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

Signed surrealist lithograph by German artist Horst Antes, 1966- 68
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Horst Antes (German, 1936) Zwi Fusse (Two feet) Signed ‘Antes’ (lower right) and inscribed ‘profe’ (lower right) Executed in 1966 – 1968 Lithograph 22.3/4 x 28 in. (57.8 x 71.2 cm.) ...
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20th Century Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Salvador Dalí, Composition (Field 69-5, A-M), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on Papeterie de Mandeure vélin paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Innocence - 21st Century, Surrealism, Figurative Painting, Bulgy Eyes, Modern
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Bor...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Oil

The Tree of Knowledge - 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 Art

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Lithograph

THE LAST PRIVATE PERSON - DER LETZIE PRIVATIER
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ANDREAS PAUL WEBER (German 1893-1980) THE LAST PRIVATE PERSON - DER LETZIE PRIVATIER Lithograph signed in pencil and with the artist's Clan Press Stamp l...
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1950s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Man Ray, Composition, Man Ray, Electa Editrice Portfolios (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Man Ray, Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1980. Published and printed ...
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1980s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Calligrammes, by Guillaume Apollinaire and Giorgio De Chirico
Located in Roma, IT
Format : 2 Volumes, In-4° Typology : Print Suite Edition of 100 copies, including 65 original lithographs by Giorgio De Chirico in the text. This copy is in two volumes, unlike the standard edition printed in a unique volume. This edition is part of the only 6 made on Japan Supernacré Paper...
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1930s Surrealist Art

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Handmade Paper

Large Russian Israeli Fantastic Realism Surrealist Oil Painting Girl with Swan
Located in Surfside, FL
Rina Sutzkever Calderon (Russian/Israeli, b. 1945), Fly Away Oil on canvas, signed at lower left, presented in a gilt frame with linen liner. Frame dimensions 56 x 46 in. Rina Sut...
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20th Century Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Oil

In Spite of it All (Window, Skyscape, Warm, Dreamy, ~29% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Annieo Klaas In Spite of it All 2024 Oil on Canvas 84 x 48 inches (213.36 x 121.92 cm) Signed lower right COA provided *On stretcher frame - gallery wrapped - ready to hang Annieo ...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

"cocoons?" - 1976 Surrealist Lithograph on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"cocoons?" - 1976 Surrealist Lithograph on Paper 1976 surrealist lithograph on paper titled "cocoons?" by Jim Crabb (American, b. 1947). This piece features a variety of lines and f...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Laid Paper, Lithograph

Inside a Cloud (Window, Skyscape, Warm, Bluesy, Dreamy, ~29% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Annieo Klaas Inside a Cloud 2024 Oil on Canvas 40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 30.48 cm) Signed lower right COA provided *On stretcher frame - gallery wrapped - ready to hang Annieo Klaas’...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Miró, Composition (Cramer 69; Dupin 292; Mourlot 286-294) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From folio, Miró 1959-1960, 1961. Published by Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York; pr...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Vitraux in Four Sheets Royal Insect
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Vitraux in Four Sheets Royal Insect MEDIUM: 4 Lithographs SIGNED: 1 Lithograph is Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMBER: 1 lithograph is numbe...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Italian Surrealist Oil Painting Jean Calogero Big Eyed Girl Doll Mandolin Flower
Located in Surfside, FL
Frame is 12 X 10. Canvas is 9.5 X 7.5 Calogero was born August 20, 1922 in Catania, Sicily. Self-taught Surreal Artist First exhibitions in 1945 in Sicily and Rome were very successful. He arrived in Paris in 1947 and studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He is best known for his Surrealism and genre works. His paintings are dreamlike and visionary. They travel to an infinite space created by the artist through his memories, the sky and the sea so dear to him. In his paintings there are a few common themes: the masks with their dual dimensions that hide or shows only what you want, the profiles of the women, and the horsemen, drawn as the Sicilian tradition requires. He exhibited at the Gallery Hervé in 1951 and the following year he went to New York to present his show, then in 1953 he was invited to Los Angeles, where he returned two years later, and from where he regularly exhibited his works, and San Francisco. In 1954, Maximilien Gauthier devoted a book to him published by "The Gemini." The first exhibition in Japan was in 1965. He was awarded the Grand Silver Medal by the City of Paris in 1957. Calogero had countless exhibitions in Paris, in the fifties, plus the American exhibitions in New York (Associated American Artists, 1952), Los Angeles (James Vigevano Galleries, 1953) and then later in Japan and in major galleries in Italy. He lived and worked for many years in Paris and Italy. He died in 2001. Galerie Hervè, Parigi 1950. Associated American Artists - New York 1952. James Vigevano Galleries, Los Angeles 1953. Galerie Madsen, Parigi 1954/1960. Antologica, Tokyo 1965. Galleria La Robinia, Palermo 1969. Florida Gallery, Chicago 1970. Galleria Il Cavalletto, Catania 1971. Galleria De Rosa, Milano 1972. Galleria Pinacoteca, Roma; L'Incontro, Taranto 1973. Galleria Idea-Bellini, Firenze; David Galleries, Bari; Palazzo Melloni, L'incontro, Bologna; Galleria Schettini, Milano; Galleria Pinacoteca, Roma; Galleria La Meridiana, Verona; Pier della Francesca, Arezzo 1974. Galleria L'isolotto, Napoli; Pinacoteca, Roma; Galleria del Corso, Latina 1975. Galleria Michelangelo, Firenze; Pinacoteca, Roma 1977. Galleria Robert Philip, Parigi 1978. Galleria d'Arte Pinacoteca, Roma 1979. Centro L'Esagono, Lecce; Graziani Gallery, New York 1981. Chiesa di S. Silvestro, Tuscania; Museo d'Arte Moderna, Sessa Aurunca 1982. Galerie Hervè, Parigi 1983. Galleria l'Angolo, Catania; Galleria Arte Spazio, Sassari; Centro Il Faro, Taranto 1987. Galleria L'Esagono, Lecce 1988.Galerie Molière, Parigi; Nihon Garo, Nagoya, Giappone; Minako H. Gallery, Tokyo; Galleria del Viale Jonio, Catania 1989. Art Expo, New York; Axis Gallery, San Francisco; Galerie Axe, Parigi; Galerie Molière, Parigi 1990. Antologica, Palazzetto dell'Arte, Foggia; Galleria d'Arte Pinacoteca, Roma; Sinagrarte 91, Sinagra, Messina; La Magia di Taormina, Palazzo Corvaja, Taormina; Galleria Buonarroti, Siracusa 1991. Galleria Arte Oggi, Reggio Calabria; Galleria del Corso, Latina; Galleria Arte Spazio, Sassari; Galleria Art Gallery, Gela 1992. Galleria Profili d'Arte, Catania 1993. Europ'Art 94, Ginevra; Galleria Antarte, Messina 1994. Galleria Agorà, Palermo 1995. Comune di Aci Castello, Palazzo Russo, Aci Castello, Catania; Galleria Arte Spazio, Sassari 1996. Art Gallery, Gela; Chiesa di San Leonardo, Tuscania 1997. Pinacoteca Galleria Donini, Roma 1998. Galleria Perlini Arte, Reggio Calabria; Galleria Il Castello, Rovigo; Galleria Profili d'Arte, Catania; Pinacoteca Galleria Donini, Roma 1999. Gallery Robert Philippe: Jean Calogero, Alexandre Grig, Linda le Kinff, Jacques Lefort...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Symphony Bicyclette
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Symphony Bicyclette MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: 183/200 MEASUREMENTS: 25" x 36" YEAR: 1970 FRAMED: No CONDITION: Exce...
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1970s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Purgatory Canto 25 (The Divine Comedy)
Located in Greenwich, CT
Purgatory Canto 25 is a wood engraving on BFK Rives with an image size of 10 x 7" from the popular French edition of the portfolio. Framed in a classic, gold-tone frame. Cataloging:...
Category

20th Century Surrealist Art

Materials

Paper, Woodcut

Ten of Staves from Lyle Stuart Tarot Print Suite
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Salvador Dali, Spanish (1904 - 1989) Title: Ten of Staves from Lyle Stuart Tarot Print Suite [Intended for a James Bond Movie] Year: 1978 Medium: ...
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1970s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Birthday (Self Portrait), Signed Surrealist Lithograph by Dorothea Tanning
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Dorothea Tanning, American (1910 - 2012) Title: Birthday (Self Portrait at age 30, 1942) Year: circa 1970 Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition:...
Category

1970s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Lithographs II (1045), Surrealist Lithography by Joan Miro
Located in Long Island City, NY
Joan Miro was a Spanish Surrealist artist, world-renowned for his unique art style that blended surrealist fantasy and modern life. This lithograph is part of the series "Lithographs...
Category

1970s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Dog barking at the moon
Located in OPOLE, PL
Joan Miro (1893-1983) - Dog barking at the moon Lithograph from 1952. Dimensions of work: 52 x 35 cm Publisher: Tériade, Paris. On the verso another Lithographs and lithographic ...
Category

1950s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Heaven Canto 9 (The Divine Comedy)
Located in Greenwich, CT
Heaven Canto 9 is a wood engraving on BFK Rives with an image size of 10 x 7" from the popular French edition of the portfolio. Framed in a classic, gold-tone ...
Category

20th Century Surrealist Art

Materials

Paper, Woodcut

We're All Here
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category

1970s Surrealist Art

Materials

Rag Paper, Etching

Gymnast (bust), Bronze Sculpture
Located in Aventura, FL
Bronze sculpture with marble base. Incised artist signature and date. Sculpture size 13.5 x 7 x 6 inches (including base). Sculpture is in excellent condition (marble base has a c...
Category

1980s Surrealist Art

Materials

Bronze

Florals Narcissus (Phones) Andalou
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Florals Narcissus (Phones) Andalou MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: 1/350 MEASUREMENTS: 21.75" x 29.5" YEAR: 1972 FRAMED: No...
Category

1970s Surrealist Art

Materials

Etching

Wrong Place Wrong Time (surreal painting monkey iceberg scale animal chimpanzee
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Rudolf Kosow’s Wrong Place, Wrong Time is a haunting surrealist composition that juxtaposes disparate elements to create an unsettling yet mesmerizing scene. A colossal chimpanzee, i...
Category

2010s Surrealist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Trojan Horse, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Trojan Horse Wojtek Kowalczyk, Polish (1960) Date: 2005 Lithograph, signed in pencil Size: 19.5 in. x 13.5 in. (49.53 cm x 34.29 cm)
Category

Early 2000s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

A cage - Surrealist print, Limited edition, Established Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
The work comes directly from the artist, is numbered, signed and made on sealed paper. Limited edition of 20. RAFAŁ OLBIŃSKI (born in 1943) He graduated from the Faculty of Archite...
Category

2010s Surrealist Art

Materials

Color, Paper

"Library"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
The artwork is print on silk and it is limited edition. I clear the world layer by layer of verbal husk and silent contours of things appear like skeletons. "Library" by Natalia Ko...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

Materials

Silk

A ballerina. 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 a ballerina with doves sitting on her leg. Colors are deep an...
Category

2010s Surrealist Art

Materials

Paper, Color

Amorpha (Color), Surrealist Etching by Frantisek Kupka
Located in Long Island City, NY
Frantisek Kupka, Czech (1871 - 1957) - Amorpha (Color). Year: 1913, Medium: Color Etching on Richard de Bas, stamp signed, Image Size: 9 x 5.75 inches, Size: 20.25 x 12.75 in. (51.44...
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1910s Surrealist Art

Materials

Etching

Salvador Dali - Argus - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Argus - from "Mythologie" Original Etching Dimensions: 76 x 56 cm 1962 Editor: Pierre Argillet Edition: /150 Handsigned and numbered On Arches Paper References : Fiel...
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1960s Surrealist Art

Materials

Etching

I Am Not Alone 1
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"I Am Not Alone" by Joshua Salami is a captivating artwork that delves into the profound bond between a woman and her cherished pet, transcending the convent...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Cherub - Héliogravure by Marc Chagall - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Héliogravure on brown-toned paper, so signature. On bot sheets, recto and verso. Edition of 6500 unsigned copies. Printed by Mourlot and published by Tériade, Paris. Ref. Mourlot,...
Category

1960s Surrealist Art

Materials

Photogravure

Companion oil on canvas painting surrealist european art
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Companion (Compañera) Artist: Félix Ferreras Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 28.7 x 23.6 inches Framing: Unframed Description The artwork Companion (Compañera) by Félix Ferr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Woman, Flowers and Potteries - Lithograph - Numbered / 100
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean Marais (1913 - 1998) Woman, Flowers and Potteries Lithograph and offset print Signed with the stamp of the artist Bears also a printed signature in the plate Numbered / 100 On ...
Category

Late 20th Century Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Surrealist Lady - Original Etching Hand Signed & Numbered
Located in Paris, IDF
Léonor FINI (1907-1996) Surrealist lady Original etching, 1973 Hand signed in pencil Numbered /275 copies On Arches vellum size 56 x 38 cm (c. 22 x 15 in) Very good condition
Category

1970s Surrealist Art

Materials

Etching

Man Ray, Composition, Man Ray, Electa Editrice Portfolios (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Man Ray, Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1980. Published and printed ...
Category

1980s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Dance
Located in OPOLE, PL
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - Dance Lithograph from 1939. Dimensions of work: 52 x 35 cm Publisher: Tériade, Paris. On the back there are two lithographs signed in plate. The prin...
Category

1930s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Heavyweight Executives", surrealist, portrait, mixed media, acrylic painting
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Heavyweight Executives” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 24 x 30 inches in dark greens, deep silver greys, and flesh tones. The two executives have put on ...
Category

2010s Surrealist Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

An angel. Limited edition print Surreal Established Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary colorful figurative surrealistic print on paper by Polish artist Rafal Olbinski. This print shows an angel in red dress floating in the sky. The print is signed by the a...
Category

2010s Surrealist Art

Materials

Paper, Color

El Ultimo viaje del buque fantasma, Plate I
Located in Fairlawn, OH
El Ultimo viaje del buque fantasma, Plate I Color lithograph, 1976 Signed and numbered in pencil (see photos) Edition: 99 (6/99) From: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, El Ultimo viaie del buq...
Category

1970s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

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