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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
Marc Chagall - La Place de la Concorde - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall Original Lithograph Title: La Place de la Concorde 1963 Dimensions: 39 x 30 cm Edition: 180 Unsigned as issued. From Regards sur Paris Reference: Catalogue Raisonné, Mou...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Miró, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From volume, Derrière le miroir, N° 186, 1970. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, P...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Surrealist Large Painting Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ Female Artist Blue Pink
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: Porthole to Another Dimension, 168x153cm, woodblock print, acrylic ink, acrylic paint, 2020 * Please note this artwork is on two separate pieces of paper that have been joined together. The join is not obvious when looking at the work. At the time Isabel was desperate to make the piece but did not have a large enough piece of paper in the studio, so she joined two together. Artwork Provenance: from the Artist Studio photo credits, Isabel working, black and white shots, James Brown In Isabels own words: Porthole to Another Dimension The legend said, that down by the river, beneath the purple hills, where the black iris...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen, Woodcut

Under the Skin 5 signed #2/20 Paula Craioveanu Photograph 20x16in in mat 28x20in
Located in Forest Hills, NY
UNDER THE SKIN 5 Surreal Nude, part of my "Under the Skin" series. Printed on Hahnemuhle art photo paper with white borders, size is 20x16in. In mat overall size 28x20in. This par...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Photographic Paper

Memories of Surrealism Surrealist Gastronomy
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Memories of Surrealism Surrealist Gastronomy MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Transworld Art/ A & E Rich EDITION NUMBER: A 6/175 ME...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Etching

Ahasuerus Sends Vasthi Away - 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

Ivanhoe - Rowena
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Salvador Dali Ivanhoe - Rowena 1978 Lithograph 29 1/2 x 21 1/2 in. Edition of 250 Pencil signed and numbered; certified authentic by Frank Hunter of the Sal...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Sarah and the Angels - 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 Art

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Photogravure

Miró, Composition (Cramer 102; Mourlot 435), Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 151-152. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; printed by Édit...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Investigation II
Located in Quebec, Quebec
In "Investigation II", banal, everyday things meet in this painting to create an unusual, strange, absurd and ironical situation derived by the disproportional scale size of things. ...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Jonah and the Whale - 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 Art

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Photogravure

"Black Cloud 2" Nude Photography 31" x 31" in Edition 1/7 by Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Black Cloud 2" Nude Photography 31" x 31" in Edition 1/7 by Olha Stepanian Printed on Epson Professional Paper Signed and numbered by the artist Not framed. Ships in a tube. Av...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

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Photographic Paper

The Prophet - Héliogravure by Marc Chagall - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Héliogravure on brown-toned paper, so signature. Héliogravure  on bot sheets, recto and verso. Edition of 6500 unsigned copies. Printed by Mourlot and published by Tériade, Paris. ...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Photogravure

Miró, Composition (Cramer 112; Mourlot 439-442), Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Derrière le miroir, N° 164-165, 1967. ...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall "Dédicace"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Marc Chagall (French/Russian, 1887-1985) "Dédicace" 1968 Color lithograph signed and numbered ##/50 in pencil Image: 17 7/8 x 15 1/4 inches. Framed: 38 x 34 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches. ...
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Mid-19th Century Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Surrealist Large Painting Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ Women artist Red Green
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: Isabel Rock , 'Maud' 200 x 107cm, collaged woodblock print and acrylic ink on 410gsm Somerset Satin paper. *Please note we are happy to ship this work rolled in an art tube. Whilst the work is on heavy duty art paper and mixed media, the artist is happy that the painting will be fine rolled in a tube. This is a more cost effective and environmentally sound method of shipping. Shipping via this method is free In Rock's own words, Maud 'Maud was a legend in the city. A legend that walked the streets and lived and breathed in the minds of the townsfolk so strongly that no one was sure any more if she was real or not.  The tap...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen, Woodcut

The Dentist & The Doctor, from L’Aventure Medicale
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Salvador Dali The Dentist: The Healing Light & The Doctor: The Struggle Against Illness, from L’Aventure Medicale 1980 Lithograph o...
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1980s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Cobea (Pisum Sensuale), Surrealist Drypoint Etching by Salvador Dali
Located in Long Island City, NY
This surreal botanical print by Salvador Dali is from a suite of 10 engravings called "Flora Dalinae". Growing from a vine are leaves shaped like lips an...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Drypoint, Etching

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 Art

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Ballpoint Pen, Etching, Photogravure

"Our Lady of the Foam", John Stephens, Acrylic Painting, Surrealism, 24x30
Located in Dallas, TX
This John Stephens original acrylic on panel painting measures 24x30 in and is available for $27,500. "Our Lady of the Foam" features a woman inside a greek mythology dome covered in...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Acrylic, Panel

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

The Flood - 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,...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Photogravure

1980’s French Surrealist Huge Oil Painting Nude Sculpture in Green Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Tristan Fabris, 1980’s French Surrealist painter Abstract Surrealist Figurative nude work oil on canvas, unframed painting: 26 x 32 inches private collection, France The painting is...
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1980s Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Rachel has Stolen the Idols of Her Father - 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

Octopus Huggs - Surrealist Blue and Yellow Figurative Painting
Located in New York, NY
Parris Jaru's Octopus Huggs is a 8 x 9 inches surrealist oil painting. The main colors are blue and yellow. The artist created a surrealist representation of a human face defined by ...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Joan Miró Litografia Original IV – 1972 Color Lithograph, Mourlot 860
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Litografia Original IV by Joan Miró, a 1972 color lithograph from Litografo (Volume I, Spanish edition), listed as Mourlot 860. Published by Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona, with ve...
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20th Century Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Salvador Dali - Venus in Furs - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Original Etching Stamp signed by Dali Edition of 294 copies. Paper : Arches vellum. Dimensions : 16x12". Catalogue Raisonné : Field 68-6 (p. 40-41). Salvador Dal...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching

The Language of the Prophet - 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,...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Photogravure

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

Vintage Surrealist Composition - Precious Stones Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Highly detailed surrealist composition evoking tribal, abstracted carved stone-like shapes fitting together like a three dimensional sphere shaped puzzle, floating in a sky blue space by Clayton Anderson (American b. 1943). Textured plaster border around the edge of the piece. Signed "Clayton Anderson" along the upper left edge and on verso. Presented in a deep maple box frame. Clayton Anderson (American, b. 1943) studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and worked with Ben Kimihira, Walter...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Plaster, Oil, Wood Panel

Lithograph for the Boxes Exhibition - Surrealism Spanish 1965
Located in London, GB
This original lithograph in colours is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Miró" at the lower right margin. It is also hand numbered in pencil, from the edition 38 of 75, at the low...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Masson, Composition, XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, Hommage à Dorothea Tanning, 1977. Published and printe...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Purgatory 19 - Dante's Dream - woodcut - 1963
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Purgatory 19 - Dante's Dream Woodcut on paper Signature printed in the image 1960/63 Printed on paper Vélin BFK Rives Size 32,8 x 26,4 cm (c. 13 x 10 in) ...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Paper, Woodcut

Lithographs II (1043), Modern Lithograph 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...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

FOREST Hand Drawn Signed Lithograph, Surreal Mini Landscape Misty Trees Blue Sky
Located in Union City, NJ
FOREST is a rarely seen, hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the American surrealist artist Fanny Brennan, created using traditional hand lithography techniques printed on archi...
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1990s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

La Quete du Graal The Black Knight
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: La Quete du Graal The Black Knight MEDIUM: Etching EDITION NUMBER: XV/XXV SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali PUBLISHER: Pamela Verlog MEASUREMEN...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Etching

Sailors Delight
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

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Archival Pigment

Hompage Magritte, Called Woman Seen From Behind, Original Gouache
Located in Stockholm, SE
This gouache painting by Ulf Linde, a multifaceted Swedish figure, presents a unique portrayal of a woman seen from behind, set against a blue and white...
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20th Century Surrealist Art

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Gouache, Board

Animal Surrealist Painting Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ artist Circle Life Birds
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. Hugely inspired by Paula Rego, Isabel Rock is part of a formidable group of women artists (Leonora Carrington and Eileen Agar amongst others) working with Surrealism. In October 2023 Isabel won the Evelyn Williams...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Paint, Ink, Archival Paper, Pen

Huge 1970's French Surrealist Signed Oil Floating Figures in the Sky
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, signed and dated 1974 Title: Surrealist abstract depiction of figures floating either in the sky or sea. Medium: oil painting on canvas, framed fra...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Art

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Oil

The Young Woman and the Old Man - 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 Art

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Photogravure

Volo di un Folletto - Etching by Guelfo Bianchini - 1976
Located in Roma, IT
Volo di un folletto is an etching realized by Guelfo Bianchini in 1976. The artwork is hand signed and dated by the artist. Dedication on the lower margin. Numbered on the lower lef...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Etching

Interiors VI: Soundings
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary artist Peter Milton created this etching and engraving entitled "Interiors VI: Soundings" in 1989. The printed image size is 29 7/8 x 23 13/16 and paper size is 36 x 29 inches. This impression is signed, dated, and titled in pencil and inscribed “93/175” – the 93 impression of 175. “I do love to draw. I feel that I am being granted membership in the Brotherhood of Merlin, conjuring forth some apparition. As a drawing develops, I sense a vague presence coming more and more into focus, something in a white fog emerging and becoming increasingly palpable.” – P. Milton, “The primacy of touch. The Drawings of Peter Milton” “Working in layers, Milton begins with drawings based on people and places, with nods to Western art history and culture. He is a master of the appropriated image, a term that may conjure Andy Warhol and his Pop Art comrades. But Milton steps further back in history, avoiding the Pop sense of cool advertising and popular culture references. Instead, a broader cultural past is tapped through historical photographs of key players, architecture, and locales, which he reinvents by hand. He adds content drawn from his life as an avid reader – always with multiple possible interpretations – thus incorporating deeper meaning in his cinematic worlds. Elements of Greek mythology, classical music, art history, and history coalesce in his images, which embrace the messiness, sorrow, and elation that is life. One is hard-pressed to imagine a more erudite, skilled, passionate, and cheeky soul." – T. L. Johnson and A. Shafer Peter Milton was born in Pennsylvania in 1930. He studied for two years at the Virginia Military Institute...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Art

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Etching, Engraving

Horeb by Angelo Donadoni - Mixed media 53x72 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Angelo Donadoni was born in post-war northern Italy in 1945. His father did not recognize him. Her mother was a prostitute. At 13, he was placed in a reformatory. Then, very quickly,...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Art

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Oil

'Two Women with a Guitar', Large Tonalist Figural Oil, New Orleans, New York
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Inscribed lower right, 'Kimball' for Harold Kimball (American, born 1929) and painted circa 1975. Born in New York City, Harold Kimball lived for sever...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Cotton Canvas, Oil

Salomon Appears - 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,...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Photogravure

La Fille de Minos (Daughter of Minos) - 1978
Located in Roma, IT
La Fille de Minos (The Daughter of Minos)  is a woodcut print on Arches Paper realized in 1978 to illustrated "L'Art d'Aimer" (The Art of Love) by Ovid. Hand signed and numbered in ...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Woodcut

Miró, Composition (Cramer 83; Mourlot 346), Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Derrière le miroir, N° 139-140, 1963. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éd...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

9 of Pentacles, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
The artwork depicts the Nine of Pentacles card, symbolizing rapidly growing success, incoming financial satisfaction, and wealth. White bison figures represen...

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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

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Oil

Animal Painting Surrealist Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ artist Birds Circle Life
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 whi...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Paint, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Pen

Jean COCTEAU and Raymond MORETTI : The kiss- Original Hansigned Lithograph, 1973
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean Cocteau and Raymond Moretti The Kiss Original lithograph Printed signature in the plate, handsigned by Raymond Moretti Numbered 1/79 - Very look for artist proof bearing n°1 On...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

1970s Modernist Swiss Colorful Surrealism Signed Dada Lithograph Andre Thomkins
Located in Surfside, FL
This one is titled "Walk in a Broken Lake" and depicts a surreal figure of a robed woman walking in an abstract landscape in yellow, green, red and blue with a Salvador Dali esque quality about it. Published by Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart They published concrete poetry and art books by Mark Boyle, Richard Hamilton, Dorothy Iannone, John Latham, Tom Phillips, Dieter Roth, André Thompkins and Emmett Williams, to name just a few. André Thomkins (1930 - 1985) was a Swiss painter, illustrator, and poet. He attended art-school, taught by Max von Moos, 1947 – 1949 and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, France, 1950. From 1952, he lived in Germany and taught at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf between 1971 and 1973. Thomkins painted and drew ironic and fantastic pictures influenced by surrealism and dadaism. Together with Dieter Roth and Daniel Spoerri he prepared works of Eat Art. He also was a writer of palindromes. His friends and collaborators included Daniel Spoerri, Dieter Roth, George Brecht, Richard Hamilton and Karl Gerstner, Thomkins gained a reputation as an ‘artist’s artist’, and is considered one of the most important Swiss artists of the second half of the twentieth century.He died in 1985. His work is currently represented by Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Switzerland. Select group exhibitions: 2018 Kunsthalle Krems, 'Pablo Picasso. Arshile Gorky, Andy Warhol. Sculptures and Works on Paper. Hubert Looser Collection', Krems, Austria 2017 Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, 'Martin Barré, Karl Otto Götz, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, André Thomkins', Berlin, Germany 2013 Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie, 'Schweizer Avantgarde Kunst nach 1940', Zurich, Switzerland 2009 The Modern Institute, 'Thomas Houseago, Dieter Roth, Andre Thomkins', Glasgow, England Museum of Modern Art, 'Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Collection', NYC 2004 Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, 'Arman, Baumeister, Götz, Graubner, Tàpies, Thomkins', Berlin, Germany 1994 Kunstmuseum Solothurn, 'Eine Schenkung. Grafik von Eduardo Chillida, Antoni Tàpies, Alexander Calder, Jean Dubuffet, Ben Nicholson, Giacometti, Tinguely, Thomkins', Solothurn, Switzerland 1992 Galerie Littmann, Tinguely zu Ehren. A Tribute to Jean Tinguely. Hommage à Tinguely, Basel, 1988 Museum Ludwig, 'Uebrigens sterben immer die anderen. Marcel Duchamp und die Avantgarde seit 1950', Cologne, Germany 1987 Aargauer Kunsthaus, 'Otto Grimm. Marc-Antoine Fehr. Christoph Gredinger', Aarau, Switzerland Cercle Municipal, 'Art contemporain suisse. Collection de la Banque du Gothard', Luxembourg, 1985 Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, 'Livres d'artistes', Paris, France Rathaus, 'Claude Sandoz – Hans Schärer...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph, Offset

Aliyah The Wailing Wall
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Aaliyah The Wailing Wall MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: 232/250 MEASUREMENTS: 25" x 19.6" YEAR: 1968 FRAMED: No CONDITI...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Miró, Composition (Mourlot 234; Cramer 39) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From volume, Joan Miro by Jacques Prévert and Georges R...
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1950s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Mrs. Goodshoe Takes a Holiday, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A slow-moving sea turtle swims with determination, balancing a cupcake on its head. It evokes feelings of solitude, peace, and joy. The artwork, painted over ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

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Oil

The Path to Wisdom (The Banker) (Drawer), hand signed lithograph
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph in colors on arches paper. Hand signed and numbered by Salvador Dali. Edition E 193/350. From the Retrospective Suite. Published by Levine and Levine Publishers, New York for DALART. Sheet size 29.375 x 21.5 inches. Image size 22.5 x 16.75 inches. Catalogue Raisonné: Field 78-10, pp. 183. Artwork is in excellent condition. All reasonable offers will be considered. About the Artist: Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904–1989) was a renowned Surrealist artist known for his enigmatic paintings of dreamscapes and religious themes. The Persistence of Memory (1931), arguably his best known work, visually manifests the strangeness of time, showing clocks melting in an idyllic landscape. “One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams,” he once reflected. Born Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech on May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Spain, he displayed a great aptitude for the visual arts as a teenager. Three years after his first exhibition at the age of 14, he enrolled at the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid. At school, he emulated many contemporary styles but also the works of Johannes Vermeer and Diego Velázquez. During his visits to Paris in the late 1920s, he was introduced to the Surrealist movement by René Magritte and Joan Miró. Though the concept of Surrealism was new to him, Dalí was already well versed in the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud. Dabbling in various projects throughout his long career, in 1942 he published the book The Secret...
Category

1970s Surrealist Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Dreaming Under a Cactus Tree and Arizona Wildlife (Set of 2)
Located in Wilton, CT
Dreaming Under a Cactus Tree, lithograph in colors, on wove paper, circa 1977, signed in pencil, numbered 49/125; together with Arizona Wild Life numbered 118/125, lithograph in colo...
Category

1970s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

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

1960s Surrealist Art

Materials

Photogravure

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