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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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Period: 1960s
Style: Surrealist
Hell 32 - The Betrayers of their Country - Woodcut - 1963 (Field p. 189)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Hell 32 - The Betrayers of their Country Original woodcut with the printed signature 1960/63 Printed on paper Vélin BFK Rives Size 32,8 x 26,4 cm (c. 13 x ...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Woodcut

Untitled - Lithograph by Wifredo Lam - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is a contemporary artwork realized by Wifred Lam. Mixed colored lithograph. Hand signed and numbered on the lower margin. Edition of 5/30. Some folds and signs of time, ...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Miró, Composition (Cramer 83; Mourlot 344), Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with bifold, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Derrière le miroir, N° 139-140, 1963. Publ...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Salomon - Plate from The Bible I - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Salomon - Plate from The Bible I is an original artwork realized by Marc Chagall in 1960. Mixed colored lithograph. Mourlot 131 The artwork is from the series "The Bible". In 19...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

St Georges et le Dragon, Surrealist Etching by Salvador Dali 1974
Located in Long Island City, NY
Salvador Dali was a Spanish painter, printmaker, and sculptor heralded as the father of surrealism. This piece features the fabled story of Saint George gallantly slaying a dragon. T...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching, Stencil

Miró, Composition (Cramer 102; Mourlot 446), 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

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, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From folio, Miró 1959-1960, 1961. Published by Pierre M...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Purgatory 6 - The Dead by Violence - Color woodcut - (Field # p. 189)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Purgatory 6 - The Dead by Violence Original woodcut Signature printed in the plate 1960/63 Printed on BFK Rives vellum Size 32,8 x 26,4 cm (c. 13 x 10") R...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Woodcut

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

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Lithograph

Nude with Guitar
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: Nude with Guitar Series: Secret Poems of Appolinaire Date: 1967 Medium: Drypoint etching Unframed Dimensions: 15" x 11" Framed Dimensions: 25.25"...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Drypoint, Etching

Jeremiah's Prophecy Against King Joachim - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Holy Bible -  Jeremiah's Prophecy Against King Joachim is Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Med...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Salvador Dali - The Winged Demon - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Winged Demon - Original Stamp-Signed Etching Stamp signed by Dali Edition of 294 copies. Paper : Arches vellum. Dimensions : 16x12"....
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching

Blue Bird, Squash - Lithograph and Stencil
Located in Paris, IDF
Paul KLEE (after) Blue, Bird, Squash Lithograph and stencil (Jacomet process) Signed in the board On vellum 50 x 38.2 cm (19.6 x 14.9 in) INFORMATION : This lithograph was edited i...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Watercolor, Lithograph

Inferno Canto 5 from the Divine Comedy, Woodcut by Salvador Dali
Located in Long Island City, NY
A surrealist illustration from Salvador Dalí’s (Spanish, 1904-1989) Divine Comedy series based on the Italian writer Dante’s epic poem. Inferno is the first part of the epic, which follows Dante in his journey through Hell, guided by Virgil. The woodblock print is printed on BFK Rives paper and signed in the block. Inferno Canto 5...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Woodcut

Leda and the Swan
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: Leda and the Swan Series: The Mythology Date: 1963 Medium: drypoint on Japon paper Unframed Dimensions: 30" x 18 1/8" Framed Dimensions: 42" x 34...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Drypoint

Salvador Dali - The War
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The War - Original Etching Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm Edition: 235 1967 Embossed signature On Arches Vellum References : Field 67-10 (p. 34-35)
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching

Purgatory 15 : The Envy - Color woodcut - 1963
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Purgatory 15 - The Envy From the "Divine Comedy" Wood engraving from "Divine Comedy" with the signature printed in the plate 1960/63 Printed on paper Vél...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Woodcut

Vintage Amazing Surreal Street Art Modern Abstract Framed Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American school surreal oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed verso. Framed. Measuring 24 by 30 overall and 22 by 28 painting alone.
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Oil

The Blue Cow - Original lithograph - Mourlot #488
Located in Paris, IDF
Marc CHAGALL The Blue Cow, 1967 Original lithograph (Mourlot workshop) Not signed On paper 31 x 24 cm (c. 12 x 10 in) REFERENCE : Catalog raisonne Mourlot #488 Edited by XX Siecle ...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Composition (Field 69-3; M/L. 1600), VI tavole dal ciclo della, Biblia Sacra
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin Fabriano charta ex meris pannis "ab alveo" manu fabricata, perlucidis figuris intexta paper. Paper size: 19 x 13.75 inches. Inscription: Signed in the p...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Aliyah, Return, O Virgin of Israel Salvador Dali original lithograph
Located in Paonia, CO
Salvador Dali ( 1904 - 1989 ) Aliyah, Return, O Virgin of Israel, Aliyah suite edition 232/ 250 published Shorewood Press 1968 on Arches paper paper size 25 x 19.63 image size 20....
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

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

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Lithograph

"Les chiens ont soif" lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the drawing). Printed by Mourlot for the deluxe limited edition portfolio "Les chiens ont soif", this is one of 250 impressions on BFK Rives wove paper (the...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Adam, Eve and the Forbidden Fruit - 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

Vox Clamantis - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Vox Clamantis 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. Signed a...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

La Sirene, Japanese Surrealist Nude Etching and Aquatint by Masuo Ikeda
Located in Long Island City, NY
La Sirene Masuo Ikeda, Japanese (1934–1997) Date: 1969 Etching and Aquatint on BFK Rives, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 38/45 Image Size: 23.5 x 19.5 inches Size: 28 x 21....
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching, Aquatint

Flordali : Surreal Tree, Fingers & Lips - Original Signed Etching (Field #68-3I)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador DALI Flordali : Surreal Tree (Fingers and Lips), 1969 Original Lithograph and Etching Handsigned in pencil Numbered /175 copies On Japan paper 77 x 57 cm (c. 31 x 22.4 inc...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching, Lithograph

Heaven 18 - Beatrice's Splendor - Original woodcut - 1963 (Field # p. 289)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Heaven 18 - Beatrice's Splendor Original woodcut Signature printed in the plate 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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Woodcut

This was just a man by Salvador Dali from the Biblia Sacra series
Located in Paonia, CO
This was just a man is a colored lithograph from the gouache original on heavy rag paper from Salvador Dali’s five volume Biblia Sacra Suite published in Rome by Rizzoli , 1965-...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Le Nu à la Jarretière, from The Hippies
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Salvador Dali Le Nu à la Jarretière, from The Hippies Etching with hand coloring on Japon Signed in pencil and embossed signature to lower right Edition V/C to lower left Published ...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching

Place de la Concorde, Surrealist Etching by Salvador Dali 1963
Located in Long Island City, NY
Spanish artist Salvador Dali is considered to be the father of Surrealism, renowned for his technical skill and unique style. This etching features a city landscape with fountains, c...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching, Aquatint

The old hippie, from The Hippies
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali Title: The old hippie Portfolio: The Hippies Medium: Color etching on Arches wove paper Date: 1969 Edition: 67/145 Frame Size: 31"...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching

1960’s French Surrealist Abstract Collage Oil Painting Nude Figurative Work
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Surrealist artist, circa 1960’s oil painting on canvas with stuck on magazine art, unframed canvas: 15 x 18 inches provenance: private collection, Paris condition: overall good
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Oil, Magazine Paper

Untitled (Surrealist rendering of Pyramids at Giza with alligator)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Surrealist rendering of Pyramids at Giza with alligator) watecolor and gouache on paper, 1960 Unsigned Beni Kosh estate stamp No. 717 verso, unsigned. (see photo) Condition: Minor condition issues minor folds Not objectionable Image/Sheet size: 18 1/4 x 24 inches Provenance: Estate of the Artist Bingham Vance, Shaker Heights...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Watercolor, Gouache

Miró, Composition (Cramer 83; Mourlot 342), 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

Magritte's original poster for the 1965 Salon de Mai - Musée d'art Moderne Paris
Located in PARIS, FR
Magritte's original poster for the 1965 Salon de Mai is an iconic piece of art that reflects the ingenuity and surrealist aesthetic of renowned Belgian artist René Magritte. Created ...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Paper, Lithograph

Nude from the Back- Etching - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and drypoint realized to illustrate Pierre Ronsard's "Les Amours de Cassandre". Published by Argillet, Paris, in 1968. Edition of 299 pieces. One of 165 specimen on Arches ...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching

Departure of The Fisherman
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Departure of The Fisherman MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: 32/150 MEASUREMENTS: 25.75" x 38" YEAR: 1965 FRAMED: No CONDIT...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

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, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From folio, Miró 1959-1960, 1961. Published by Pierre M...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Butterfly suite : Normandy - lithograph - Tall size, 1969
Located in Paris, IDF
After Salvador DALI (1904-1969) Butterfly suite : Normandy, 1969 Lithograph and heliogravure Printed signature in the plate bottom right Tall model, from the 700 unumbered edition P...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Photogravure, Lithograph

Unité, Planche 10 (Set of 2) /// Surrealism Modern Art Le Corbusier Nude Animal
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) (Swiss-French, 1887-1965) Title: "Unité, Planche 10" (Set of 2) Portfolio: Unité *Signed by Le Corbusier in pencil lower right. It is...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio

Booz Awakes - 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 Candlestick of Zachary - 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

Marc Chagall - Homage to Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall Original Lithograph 1969 From the revue XXe Siecle, edition of 12,000 Unsigned, as issued Dimensions: 32 x 24 Condition : Excellent Reference: Mourlot 572 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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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Surrealist Dream Lithograph Belgian Master Magritte Pencil Signed by Mourlot
Located in Surfside, FL
Artist: Rene Magritte (after), Belgian (1898 - 1967) Title: (from les Enfants Trouvés) Les Claires-Voies d'un Jeune Regard Embaument La Fête d'un Vieil Arbre Year of original paintin...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Casanova : Birdy on the Tongue - Original etching (Field #67-4 F)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador DALI (1904-1969) Casanova : Birdy on the Tongue, 1967 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Rives vellum 38 x 28 cm (c. 14.9 x 11 inch) REFERENCES : - Catalog...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching

Triumph of The Sea
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Triumph of The Sea MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Sidney Lucas, New York EDITION NUMBER: 12...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Ernst, Composition (Monod 2619; Spies/Leppien A19/C), Dent Prompte (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Dent Prompte, Dix poèmes inédits illustrés par Max Ernst, ...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Le Purgatoire XXII (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), La Divine Comédie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin pur chiffon de Rives paper. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Michler & Löpsin...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Woodcut

" la Difficulté d'être "
Located in CANNES, FR
"la difficulté d'être " Signed and dated 1962. partially glazed white earthenware plate 30cm. conceived in 1962 in an edition of 25 . N° 3 / 25. Menton 's museum jean Cocteau exhibit...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Ceramic

Little mouse / - Hypertrophic filigree -
Located in Berlin, DE
Reiner Schwarz (*1940 Hirschberg), Little mouse, 1968. Lithograph, 30 cm x 21 (sheet size), signed “R.[einer] Schwarz” in pencil lower right, dated “[19]68”, identified as copy no. 1...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Paper

Le Paradis XX (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), La Divine Comédie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin pur chiffon de Rives paper. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Michler & Löpsin...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Woodcut

The Cosmonaut
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: The Cosmonaut Series: The Hippies Date: 1969 Medium: drypoint with added color Framed Dimensions: 34" x 28" Signature: Pencil signed Edition: II...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Drypoint

Praying Job - 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

Salvador Dali - John Kennedy - Original Handsigned Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - John Kennedy - Original Handsigned Etching Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm 1968 Signed in pencil EA in Sanguine Jean Schneider, Basel References : ...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching

L'Enfer XII (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), La Divine Comédie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin pur chiffon de Rives paper. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Michler & Löpsin...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Woodcut

L'Enfer XVII (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), La Divine Comédie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin pur chiffon de Rives paper. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Michler & Löpsin...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Woodcut

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° 125-126, 1961. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeu...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

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