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
Love is found, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Diana Rosa
Located in Yardley, PA
original, ready to hang :: Painting :: Surrealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Yes :: Signat...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Salvador Dalí, The First Heaven, Paradise: Canto 3 (Field 189-200)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Wood Engraving in Colors on Rives BFK paper. Edition: 4765, French; 3188, Italian. Paper Size: 13 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Salvador Dalí, Meeting of Dante and Beatrice, Purgatory:Canto 29 (Field 189-200)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Wood Engraving in Colors on Rives BFK paper. Edition: 4765, French; 3188, Italian. Paper Size: 13 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Lithograph Belgian American Surrealism WPA Modernist Karl Fortess Surrealist Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Karl Eugene Fortess (1907-1993)
Original color lithographs on BFK Rives paper,
1966, Hand signed and numbered 29/36 in pencil,
Sheet size 20.5 x 15 inches.
Karl E. Fortess (1907-1993) was a painter, printmaker and teacher, of Boston, Massachusetts and Woodstock, N.Y. Fortess was born in Antwerp, Belgium on October 13, 1907, and became an American citizen in 1923. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Students League in New York, and the Woodstock School of Painting with Yasuo Kuniyoshi. In 1937 the Works Progress Administration sent him and several other artists to Alaska to document the towns, villages, and remote wilderness landscapes (Pemberton, “Alaska art museum collects WPA’s Depression works from the territory,” Columbia Daily Tribune, November 9, 2003). Trains, trucks, and industrial buildings were what Karl Fortess envisioned when the Public Works of Art Project suggested that he depict “the American Scene.” His work bears the influence of Surrealism, Russsian Constructivist art and Cubism. He was part of a circle of left leaning artists loosley involved with the WPA which included Sol Wilson, Isaac Soyer, Louis Lozowick, Abraham Harriton, Ben Shahn, William Gropper, Nahum Tschacbasov, Morris Shulman, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Louis Slobodkin, Adolf Dehn, Le Corbusier and Louis Schanker.
Karl Fortress taught at the Art Students League, Brooklyn Museum Art School, Louisiana State University, Fort Wright College, and Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts. He was a member of the Artists Equity Association, Society of American Graphic Artists, American Association of University Professors, and the British Film Institute. He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1946, was named an Associate of the National Academy of Design in 1960 and elected to full Academician in 1971. Fortess taught at many different schools, including Boston University School of Fine Art, where he also created an archive of interviews with more than two hundred and fifty contemporary American painters, sculptors, and graphic artists including many with with artists associated with the Woodstock, N.Y. art community.
Among the interviewees are Kenneth Armitage, Will Barnet, Romare Bearden, George Biddle, James Brooks, Adolph Dehn, Jane Freilicher, Julian Levi, Alice Neel, Larry Rivers, Moses Soyer, Dorothy Varian...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Small Study in White" - surrealist still life, lace, skull, patterns, shell
By Guy Robinson
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting features the colors of the rainbow as they appear in white objects.
Guy Robinson is inspired by the work of Paul Klee, Albrecht Durer and Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
Atlanta based artist Guy Robinson attended the Atlanta College Of Art on a Ford Foundation grant and has worked extensively in painting, sculpture, printmaking, and drawing. His surrealists works have been exhibited in numerous galleries and have a place in important collections including the Museum Of Contemporary Art, Georgia (MOCA,GA). Robinson has over thirty-five years experience teaching drawing and painting for Emory...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil, Linen
Psalm - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960s
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Psalm is an artwork realized by March Chagall, 1960s.
Lithograph on brown-toned paper, no signature.
Lithograph on both sheets.
Edition of 6500 unsigned lithographs. Printed by Mo...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali, Ugolino and Ruggieri (M. & L. 1039-1138; F. 189-200)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Wood Engraving in Colors on Rives BFK paper. Edition: 4765, French; 3188, Italian. Paper Size: 13 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Salvador Dali, The Law of Climbing (M. & L. 1039-1138; F. 189-200)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Wood Engraving in Colors on Rives BFK paper. Edition: 4765, French; 3188, Italian. Paper Size: 13 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Salvador Dalí, Thus the Earth Was Created, Paradise: Canto 13 (Field 189-200)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Wood Engraving in Colors on Rives BFK paper. Edition: 4765, French; 3188, Italian. Paper Size: 13 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Salvador Dalí, A Spirit Interrogating Dante, Purgatory:Canto 14 (Field 189-200)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Wood Engraving in Colors on Rives BFK paper. Edition: 4765, French; 3188, Italian. Paper Size: 13 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Salvador Dalí, The Source, Purgatory: Canto 21 (Field 189-200)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Wood Engraving in Colors on Rives BFK paper. Edition: 4765, French; 3188, Italian. Paper Size: 13 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Hands of Antaeus -Woodcut print - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Hands of Antaeus - Hell is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri.
Good conditions.
Limited edition...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
The Shine of Bodies - Woodcut print - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Shine of Bodies - Paradise is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri.
Good conditions.
Limited ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Cerberus - Woodcut print - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Cerberus - Hell plate 6 is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri.
Good conditions.
Limited editio...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Rising - Surreal Landscape with Row of Trees and Owl, Oil on Panel
By John Hrehov
Located in Chicago, IL
The pristine, symmetrical and orderly landscape brings an unnatural stillness to John Hrehov's painting entitled "Rising". The owl is central to the sparse landscape peeking out of it's home in the tree. Straight lines and geometric patterns are used to compose a glossy concept of reality. The painting is framed in a simple dark gray wooden frame measuring 25.25 x 29.25 inches.
John Hrehov
Rising
oil on panel
24h x 28w in
60.96h x 71.12w cm
JHR012
John Hrehov
Education
1985 MFA-Painting, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1981 BFA-Painting, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH.
Solo Exhibitions
2017 John Hrehov, Paintings and Drawings. Tom Thomas Gallery, Indiana University East, Richmond, IN.
2012 Shades from White to Black, New Drawings. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY.
2011 John Hrehov: Charcoal. Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne.
2009 John Hrehov: A Survey 1999-2009 Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY.
Paintings and Drawings. Seerveld Gallery, Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL.
2004 John Hrehov: Drawings and Paintings. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY.
2002 Paintings. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY.
2001 Charcoal. Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne.
John Hrehov, Paintings and Drawings. Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2000 The Picture Proper. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY.
Fearful Symmetry. Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN.
Allegories in Contemporary Life. Yvonne Rapp Gallery, Louisville, KY.
1999 Paintings and Working Drawings. Adams Hall Gallery, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL.
1998 John Hrehov. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY.
John Hrehov: Paintings and Drawings. Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL.
1997 Object Lesson, Paintings, and Drawings by John Hrehov. Yvonne Rapp Gallery, Louisville, KY.
1995 John Hrehov. Trinity Art Gallery, Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL.
1993 John Hrehov: Selected Works 1980-1992 Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne.
Group Exhibitions
2019 2019 Alumni Exhibition. Reinberger Gallery at The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH.
Out Of The Closet. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY.
1026 West Berry Street: The Fort Wayne Art School. Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN.
2018 Artlink Regional Exhibition. Artlink Contemporary Art Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN.
2017 Sola Grace-Faith-Scripture: An Exhibition of Sacred Visual Art. Good Shepherd Institute at Concordia Theological
Seminary, Fort Wayne, IN.
Norman Bradley...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Panel, Oil
Charon - Woodcut print - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Charon is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri.
Good conditions.
Limited edition of 2900, realize...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
"Small Study in White 3" - surrealist still life, lace, skull, patterns, shell
By Guy Robinson
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting features the colors of the rainbow as they appear in white objects.
Guy Robinson is inspired by the work of Paul Klee, Albrecht Durer and Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
Atlanta based artist Guy Robinson attended the Atlanta College Of Art on a Ford Foundation grant and has worked extensively in painting, sculpture, printmaking, and drawing. His surrealists works have been exhibited in numerous galleries and have a place in important collections including the Museum Of Contemporary Art, Georgia (MOCA,GA). Robinson has over thirty-five years experience teaching drawing and painting for Emory...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil, Linen
Esther Invites Ahasuerus to a Banquet - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960s
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Esther Invites Ahasuerus to a Banquet is an artwork realized by March Chagall, 1960s.
Lithograph on brown-toned paper, no signature.
Lithograph on both sheets.
Edition of 6500 uns...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali, Gianni Schicchi’s Bite (M. & L. 1039-1138; F. 189-200)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Wood Engraving in Colors on Rives BFK paper. Edition: 4765, French; 3188, Italian. Paper Size: 13 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
The Irascibile - Woodcut print - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Irascibile from the Series "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri is a woodcut print by Salvador Dalì , realized in 1963.
Good conditions. Not signed.
Plate n.8 (as reported o...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Salvador Dalí, At the Empyrean, Heaven: Canto 30 (Field 189-200)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Wood Engraving in Colors on Rives BFK paper. Edition: 4765, French; 3188, Italian. Paper Size: 13 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Salvador Dalí, The Heaven of Venus, Paradise: Canto 9 (Field 189-200)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Wood Engraving in Colors on Rives BFK paper. Edition: 4765, French; 3188, Italian. Paper Size: 13 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Salvador Dalí, The March Towards God, Paradise: Canto 28 (Field 189-200)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Wood Engraving in Colors on Rives BFK paper. Edition: 4765, French; 3188, Italian. Paper Size: 13 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Les travailleurs de la mère
Located in Malmo, SE
Artwork size: 102,5x98 cm
Frame size: 110x105 cm
This artwork is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by Alisée Matta.
Provenance: Artist Jean-Pierre Jouffroy, Paris.
The estate of the artist Jean-Pierre Jouffroy, Paris.
“The heart is an eye,” writes Nobel laureate Octavio Paz in an essay on Matta’s paintings. Matta creates a world coloured both by a sunny faith in the future and by visions of impending doom.
Roberto Sebastian Echaurren Antonio Matta, who died aged 91 on 23 November 2002, was born in Santiago, Chile, on 11 November 1911 into a family with Spanish, French and Basque roots, and raised in an atmosphere of religiosity. By the age of 21 he had graduated and begun work as an architect, but his leisure time he devoted to sketching and painting. In 1933 he travelled to Europe for the first time, visiting Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy and other countries, and subsequently taking the initiative to collaborate with the architect, Le Corbusier. As time passed, however, Matta’s enthusiasm for a career in architecture waned, and he began to devote himself full-time to art, making early acquaintances with surrealists such as Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, André Breton and others.
Between 1939 and 1948 Matta, like many of his artistic contemporaries, lived in self-imposed exile in the USA, but, after almost 10 years’ absence from Europe, he returned to make first Rome and then, a few years later, Paris his home. Throughout most of the rest of his life Matta commuted between his studio in Paris and his creative refuge in the monastery outside Rome. And it is here, in Italy, that he produced his greatest paintings.
Matta’s first retrospective in Sweden was organised in 1956 when his works were exhibited in what was then Galerie Colibri – run by, among others, the artist C O Hultén...
Category
1980s Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Human Condition, Original Painting
By Diane Flick
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This piece blends collaged pages from an old novel with translucent oil glazes as a background. The subjects—a primate, a tennis ball, and a shoe—are rendered in opaque and calm tones. The piece delves into the human condition...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Mixed Media
The Heaven of Venus - Woodcut print - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
La divina Commedia - Paradise 9 is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri.
Good conditions.
Limited...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
"Small Study in White 3" - surrealist still life, lace, skull, patterns, shell
By Guy Robinson
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting features the colors of the rainbow as they appear in white objects.
Guy Robinson is inspired by the work of Paul Klee, Albrecht Durer and Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
Atlanta based artist Guy Robinson attended the Atlanta College Of Art on a Ford Foundation grant and has worked extensively in painting, sculpture, printmaking, and drawing. His surrealists works have been exhibited in numerous galleries and have a place in important collections including the Museum Of Contemporary Art, Georgia (MOCA,GA). Robinson has over thirty-five years experience teaching drawing and painting for Emory...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil, Linen
Salvador Dali, The Powers of Soul (M. & L. 1039-1138; F. 189-200)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Wood Engraving in Colors on Rives BFK paper. Edition: 4765, French; 3188, Italian. Paper Size: 13 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Salvador Dalí, Dante's Dream, Purgatory: Canto 19 (Field 189-200)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Wood Engraving in Colors on Rives BFK paper. Edition: 4765, French; 3188, Italian. Paper Size: 13 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Forest of Suicides - Woodcut print - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Forest of Suicides is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. Plate n.32 (as reported on the back of t...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Minos - Woodcut print - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Minos - Hell plate 5 is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri.
Good conditions.
Limited edition o...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Salvador Dali, The Guardians of the Valley of the Princes (F 189-200)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Wood Engraving in Colors on Rives BFK paper. Edition: 4765, French; 3188, Italian. Paper Size: 13 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Night fishing oil on board painting surrealist
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Josep Vergés Grau (1925-1989) - Night fishing - Oil on panel
Oil measurements 73x92 cm.
Frame measurements 77x96 cm.
Category
1980s Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Dust of Souls - Woodcut print - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Dust of Souls - Paradise 12 is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri.
Good conditions.
Limited edi...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
"Modern Traditions 1" Photography 39" x 39" inch Edition of 3 by Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Modern Traditions 1" Photography 39" x 39" inch Edition of 3 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Not framed. Ships in a tube. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Salvador Dali, Minos (M. & L. 1039-1138; F. 189-200)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Wood Engraving in Colors on Rives BFK paper. Edition: 4765, French; 3188, Italian. Paper Size: 13 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Salvador Dalí, Rising to the Seventh Level: The Lustful, Purgatory: Canto 25
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Wood Engraving in Colors on Rives BFK paper. Edition: 4765, French; 3188, Italian. Paper Size: 13 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Salvador Dalí, The Ghost of Christ, Paradise: Canto 14 Dalí (Field 189-200)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Wood Engraving in Colors on Rives BFK paper. Edition: 4765, French; 3188, Italian. Paper Size: 13 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
The Limbos - Woodcut print - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Limbos - Hell plate 11 is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri.
Good conditions.
Limited edi...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Salvador Dalí, The Angel of the Seventh Heaven, Paradise: Canto 22
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Wood Engraving in Colors on Rives BFK paper. Edition: 4765, French; 3188, Italian. Paper Size: 13 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Amnon And Tamar - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960s
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Amnon And Tamar is an artwork realized by March Chagall, 1960s.
Lithograph on brown-toned paper, no signature.
Lithograph on both sheets.
Edition of 6500 unsigned lithographs. Pri...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dalí, Angel of Mercy, Purgatory: Canto 15 (Field 189-200)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Wood Engraving in Colors on Rives BFK paper. Edition: 4765, French; 3188, Italian. Paper Size: 13 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Basted Waves
Located in Greenwich, CT
Basted Waves is a lithograph on paper with an image size of 2 x 3 inches, initialed 'FMB' lower right and annotated lower left, framed in a contemporary silver and dark gray frame. N...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Salvador Dalí, Language of the Birds, Paradise: Canto 19 (Field 189-200)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Wood Engraving in Colors on Rives BFK paper. Edition: 4765, French; 3188, Italian. Paper Size: 13 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
The Centaur - Woodcut print - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Centaur is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri.
Good conditions.
Limited edition of 2900, r...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
The Sodomites - Woodcut print - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Sodomites - Hell Plate 19 is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri.
Good conditions.
Limited e...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
The Prophecy of Joel - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960s
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
The Prophecy of Joel is an artwork realized by Marc Chagall, 1960s.
Lithograph on brown-toned paper, no signature.
Lithograph on both sheets.
Edition of 6500 unsigned lithographs....
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali, The Punishment of Vanni Fucci (M. & L. 1039-1138; F. 189-200)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Wood Engraving in Colors on Rives BFK paper. Edition: 4765, French; 3188, Italian. Paper Size: 13 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Vanitas Vanitatum - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Vanitas Vanitatum 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 1969.
Sign...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Avaricious - Woodcut print - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Avaricious - Hell plate 7 is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri.
Good conditions.
Limited ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Salvador Dali, Our Lady of the Annunciation (M. & L. 1039-1138; F 189-200)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Wood Engraving in Colors on Rives BFK paper. Edition: 4765, French; 3188, Italian. Paper Size: 13 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
1970 Mod Surrealist Painting Collage David Hare Abstract Landscape Summer Land
By David Hare
Located in Surfside, FL
David Hare
Summer Land, 1970
Acrylic or oil paint and collage on board
Dimensions: 26 X 36 inches. Framed measuring 29 x 38 inches.
Hand signed, dated and titled on tape to verso 'Summer Land 1970 Hare'.
Provenance: Hamilton Gallery of Contemporary Art, New York
David Hare (1917 – 1992) was an American artist, associated with the Surrealist movement. He is primarily known for his sculpture, though he also worked extensively in photography and oil painting. The VVV Surrealism Magazine was first published and edited by Hare in 1942.
Born March 10, 1917 in New York City, New York to father Meredith Hare, a lawyer and mother Elizabeth Sage Goodwin, an art collector. In the 1920s the family moved first to Santa Fe, New Mexico and later to Colorado Springs, Colorado, in hope that the fresh air would help heal Meredith Hare's tuberculosis. His mother founded the Fountain Valley School, where David attended high school. After high school Hare married and moved to Roxbury, Connecticut where he worked as a color photographer. He attended Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson from 1936 to 1937, studying biology and chemistry.
In the late 1930s, with no previous artistic training, he began to experiment with color photography. Using his previous education in chemistry Hare developed an automatist technique called "heatage" in which he heated the unfixed negative from an 8 by 10-inch plate, causing the image to ripple and distort.
Hare's Surrealist experiments in photography were only one of his many projects. In 1938 he met Susanna Winslow Wilson and the couple soon married. Both David and Susanna pursued their interests in Surrealism and regularly attended Surrealist gatherings in New York Larre French restaurant on 56th street and at Breton's Greenwich Village apartment. In 1940 he received a commission from the American Museum of Natural History to document the Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest, for which he eventually produced 20 prints developed using Eastman Kodak's then-new dye transfer process (a time-consuming and complicated technique). In the same year, he also opened his own commercial photography studio in New York City and exhibited his photographs in a solo show at the Julien Levy Gallery.
In the next few years, through his cousin the painter Kay Sage, he came into contact with a number of Surrealist artists who had fled their native Europe because of World War II. Hare became closely involved with the émigré Surrealist movement and collaborated closely with them on projects such as the Surrealist journal VVV, which he co founded and edited from 1941 to 1944 with André Breton, Max Ernst, and Marcel Duchamp. With numerous illustrations by Breton, Leonora Carrington, Marc Chagall, Roberto Matta, Giorgio de Chirico, MarcelDuchamp, Max Ernst, Andre Masson, Joan Miro, Enrico Donati, Dorothea Tanning, and others.
Published in only four issues between 1942-44, VVV was an experimental New York-based magazine devoted to the dissemination of Surrealism. Edited by David Hare, the short-lived magazine featured contributions from some of the leading avant-garde artists of the period.
David and Susanna divorce in 1945 and Breton’s wife Jacqueline Lamba...
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Materials
Acrylic, Board
'Blue Eyes' — 1970s Erotic Surrealism
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hans Bellmer, 'Blue Eyes', engraving and drypoint, edition 99, 1971. Flahutez 89. Signed and numbered '74/99' in pencil. A fine impression, on Arches cream wove paper; the full sheet...
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Materials
Engraving, Drypoint
Bertrand de Born - Woodcut print - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Bertrand de Born - Hell Plate 29 is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri.
Good conditions.
Limite...
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1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Omnes the Saba Venient - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Antequam Exires De Vulva ... 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 ...
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1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Twisted Meat Artist
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Ralph Steadman
Title: Twisted Meat Artist
Medium: One color silkscreen on White Rising Stonehenge Deckle Edge Paper
Size: 15 x 22 Inches
Edition: of 250
Year: 2006
Notes: ...
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Early 2000s Surrealist Art
Materials
Screen
André Masson, "Figures in Landscape, " hand signed lithograph in colors
By André Masson
Located in Chatsworth, CA
André Masson
Figures in Landscape
Lithograph in colors on Arches paper
Hand signed in pencil, numbered 51/150
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali, The Prophecy of Vanni Fucci (M. & L. 1039-1138; F. 189-200)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Wood Engraving in Colors on Rives BFK paper. Edition: 4765, French; 3188, Italian. Paper Size: 13 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
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