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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
Oil painting of Clown
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This is a painting done by the American artist L.A. McMillen. It is signed lower right and is in excellent condition for the period. This shows a clown scene with the face of a man i...
Category

Early 20th Century Surrealist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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

Artist Comments
Artist Rachel Srinivasan reinterprets the pentacles suit adorned with galloping horses on the edges. Two white bison heads appear in the middle, their gentle ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

Materials

Oil

Exquisite Corpse, Cadavre Exquis, Spanish Surrealist Drawing 3 Artists
Located in Surfside, FL
Provenance: This piece was deaccessioned from the Bass museum in Miami Beach florida. This piece is a good museum example of Exquisite corpse, also known as exquisite cadaver (from the original French term cadavre exquis), A method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. This example is by Manuel Saez, Xisco Mensua and Guillermo Paneque. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule or by being allowed to see only the end of what the previous person contributed. The technique was invented by surrealists. Surrealism principal founder André Breton reported that it started in fun, but became playful and eventually enriching. In the beginning were Yves Tanguy, Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Prévert, Benjamin Péret, Pierre Reverdy, and André Breton. Other participants probably included Max Morise, Joan Miró, Man Ray, Simone Collinet, Tristan Tzara, Georges Hugnet, René Char, and Paul and Nusch Éluard. Henry Miller often partook of the game to pass time in French cafés during the 1930s. Manuel Sáez (born 6 March 1961) is a Spanish, self-taught artist. Since 1984, he has been living and working in Valencia. The Enciclopedia Universal Ilustrada Europeo-Americana describes Manuel Sáez as among the most important painters of the turn of the 21st century owing to his simultaneously sensual and psychological approach to the world of objects, landscapes, figures and portraits. As a resident fellow of the Spanish Fine Arts Academy in Rome in 1990, Sáez elaborated a series of portraits called Biografia no autorizada In 1991 Sáez held his first important show at the Fundació La Caixa. in Valencia In 1996 he presented his first retrospective, Colección Exclusiva 1984-1995, in the Club Diario Levante of Valencia, as well as the Madrid Circle of Fine Arts, the Salas Verónicas of Murcia, the Castellón Delegation and the Brocense of Cáceres. In 2000 Sáez exhibited in Mexico City's Museo Rufino Tamayo and in the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM) in Valencia. In 2008 Sáez's work could be seen at the Sala Parpalló in Valencia. In 2003-04, Dispersions was exhibited at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami. In 2007, Sáez's work is featured in the Valencian Institute of Modern Art's (IVAM) El Pop Art en la Colección del IVAM ("Pop Art in the IVAM Collection") in Valencia.[12] Xisco Mensua Initially studied at Escuelas Virtèlia, but followed an atypical school career due to illness. Began to paint in 1978. Took a course in painting at the Escola d’Arts i Oficis (Valencia), where he had lived since the age of eight. Lived in Barcelona from 1982 to 1987, studying art at the Escola Eina for the first two years. Returned to Valencia and began exhibiting in 1990. Produced works in co-operation with Fernando Ros and Mim Juncà, as well as designing stage sets for the theatre. Now forms part of the Jacques Moran collective. Through drawing, Mensua creates a fictional world in an exercise in which he transfigures common references, whether intimate or biographic, political or social. Guillermo Paneque Seville, 1963 Spanish painter. He completed his artistic training at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Seville, Director and founder, along with Rafael Agredano and José Espaliú, of the magazine Figura in 1984. It is in the mid-eighties when his work is made known within the Andalusian artistic scene, through the production of small format paintings populated with references and symbols from the religious and everyday environment that the author mixes with a playful sense and with erotic characters that reveal a clear rejection of the Andalusian artistic tradition. His work evolves towards a formal synthesis and an iconographic cleansing in the line of conceptual art. He has starred in numerous solo exhibitions and participated in important collectives, among which include: Aperto 86 at the Venice Biennial (1986), Spain 87. Dynamiques and Interrogations (1987) at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris, Spanish natures...
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20th Century Surrealist Art

Materials

Paper, Charcoal, Carbon Pencil

"Le Prince Iris, " Surrealist Lithograph From "Je Reve" Portfolio
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Le Prince Iris" is an original color lithograph by Andre Masson. The artist signed the piece lower right in pencil and wrote the edition number, H.C. XXV/X...
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1970s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Women in the forest oil painting surrealism
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Agustín Úbeda (1925-2007) - Women in the forest - Oil Oil on paper glued to table Oil measures 36x50 cm. Frame measures 45x59 cm. Provenance: Family of the artist. Includes certificate of authenticity from Galeria Sastre...
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1960s Surrealist Art

Materials

Paper, Oil, Board

Original Dora Maar, (Picasso's muse) fine ink drawing of abstract forms, 1998
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
This is a beautiful and fine avant-garde finished drawing of abstract forms by the French female artist, Dora Maar. Dora Maar was a distinctive artist in her own right marked by str...
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20th Century Surrealist Art

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Ink, Paper

serigraph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: serigraph. Printed in 1936 and published in Paris by Arts et Métiers Graphiques. Image size: 7 1/2 x 6 inches (188 x 150 mm). Signed in the plate, not hand-signed.
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1930s Surrealist Art

Materials

Screen

Untitled
Located in Miami, FL
Beautiful watercolor painting by the artist Roberto Fabelo. Roberto Fabelo (born 1951 Camagüey, Cuba) is a contemporary painter, sculptor, and illustrator. Born in Guáimaro, Camagüey, Fabelo studied at The National Art School and at the Superior Art Institute of Havana. He was a professor and a jury member for very important national and international visual arts contests. The Cuban state awarded him a medal for National Culture and the Alejo Carpentier medal for his outstanding artistic career. Fabelo’s art consists of nude women, who often appear with bird-like features, including a beak and wings. He drew in textbooks and created figures out of the pictures already in the textbook. Another example of his art was watercolor markers used to draw on silk embroidered fabric. His work is exhibited at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana, and in the Cuban embassy in Mexico. His 2009 sculpture of a group of human-headed cockroaches can be found climbing one of the walls of the Havana Fine Arts Museum, entitled Survival. He also illustrated a 2007 edition of Gabriel García Márquez’s novel Cien años de...
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1990s Surrealist Art

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Watercolor, Laid Paper

Surreal figure watercolor spanish surrealism
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Eugenio Granell (1912-2001) - Surrealist figure. Watercolor Watercolor measures 29x22 cm. Frame measures 56x49 cm. Eugenio Granell was born in La Coruña in 1912. He lived most of his childhood in Santiago de Compostela, a city that marked a large part of his artistic work. From a young age, he showed a great predisposition to art, specifically to music, and in 1928 he moved to Madrid to study violin at the Escuela Superior de Música. There he met the composer and director Enrique Casal Chapí. It is at this time when he begins to attend political and literary gatherings in Madrid cafes. His circle of friends - such as Benjamín Péret or Wilfredo Lam - brought him closer to the orbit of the Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista (POUM), in which he began to serve in 1935. At the outbreak of the Spanish civil war, he joined the militias loyal to the republican government to defend the capital and combined this activity with the direction of El Combatiente Rojo, the POUM newspaper. After the war ended, he was doubly persecuted; on the one hand, the victorious fascist army, which tried to get rid of any signs of active resistance against the new regime. On the other hand, Granell would suffer the persecution of his own communist comrades, since, under Stalin's mandate, the POUM and its militancy -of a Trotskyist nature and opposed to the Stalinist line of the Soviet Union- were considered enemies of communism and, therefore, this, condemned to persecutions and murders. Thus, in 1939, he must move to France. There he finds a reality different from the one he was looking for and went through various concentration camps until, after several attempts, he managed to escape and reach Paris -where he will meet Péret and Lam- to find a way out of his situation, leaving for South America. On the train that takes him to the port of La Havre, he meets Amparo Segarra, a Valencian fleeing Franco's repression, who would become his partner. They embark to Chile but, given the impossibility of this country to receive more refugees, they divert to the Dominican Republic, where they will settle, now together with Amparo, in the capital, Ciudad Trujillo. There, the artist will become part of the Symphony Orchestra as first violin. In 1941 he met André Breton when interviewing him for the newspaper La Nación. From this meeting a friendship will arise that will last until his death in 1966. In 1944 he publishes the book of stories El hombre verde. In 1946, only six years after settling in, under the hardening of the Trujillo dictatorship, he refused to sign a letter of adherence to the regime, so they had to leave the country and moved to Guatemala. There he entered as a professor at the School of Plastic Arts, maintaining an intense cultural activity. At the beginning of the Guatemalan revolution, in 1950, he had to flee the country again, for fear of Stalinist persecution. This time the Granell-Segarra family arrives in Puerto Rico, where the artist will occupy the chair of Art History at the Faculty of Humanities. In these years he published Isla Cofre Mítico -which is tremendously close to the surrealist poetic style- and participated in various collective exhibitions at the Puerto Rican university. Although in Santo Domingo he had collaborated with him on poetry magazines...
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1950s Surrealist Art

Materials

Watercolor

La Dentelliere
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: La Dentelliere MEDIUM: Etching on a plate marred by nails shot at it SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Graft Verlag/Arztesammlerkreis EDITION NUMBER: ...
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1950s Surrealist Art

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Etching

Collage Watercolor Painting David Gilhooly California Funk Surrealism MixedMedia
Located in Surfside, FL
DAVID JAMES GILHOOLY (American, 1943-2013), Mixed media collage 6 x 4 inches, Hand signed and dated verso Napoleon from the back, holding a heart. cut and pasted cardstock assemblage, collaged art. David Gilhooly RCA (1943 – 2013), was an American ceramicist, sculptor, painter, printmaker, and professor. He is best known for pioneering the Funk art movement. He made a series of ceramic frogs called FrogWorld, as well as ceramic food, planets, and other creatures. David James Gilhooly III was born on April 15, 1943, in Auburn, California. He was raised in Los Altos, California; Saint Croix in the Virgin Islands; and Humacao, Puerto Rico. He enrolled in University of California, Davis (UC Davis) initially studying biology, followed by anthropology, and ending with a focus on fine art. While attending UC Davis, Gilhooly served as artist Robert Arneson assistant starting in 1963. He graduated from UC Davis with a BA degree in 1965, and an MA degree in 1967. Gilhooly, together with Robert Arneson, Peter Vandenberge, Chris Unterseher, and Margaret Dodd, working together in TB-9 (temporary building 9) were what was later to be called, The Funk Ceramic...
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2010s Surrealist Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor

To the Future - Original lithograph, Signed
Located in Paris, FR
Jules Perahim (1914-2008) To the Future, 1974 Original lithograph Signed in pencil by the artist Numbered / 199 On Arches vellum 56 x 38 cm (c. 22 x 15 inches) INFORMATION : From p...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Sphere. IV One-of-a-kind framed hand-painted fish, Mixed Media on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
One-of-a-kind mixed media manipulated painted photographs on hand-painted canvas The painting is 8X10â€
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2010s Surrealist Art

Materials

Mixed Media

The clock butterfly, Painting, Oil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
An original piece from the series “Please do not kill butterfliesâ€
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2010s Surrealist Art

Materials

Oil

PLATE 5 (FROM EL ULTIMO VIAJE DEL BUQUE FANTASMA)
Located in Aventura, FL
From El Ultimo Viaje del Buque Fantasma suite made to illustrate the text of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Hand signed and numbered by Wifredo Lam. Published by Polígrafa, Barcelona. From the edition of 99. Frame Size: approx 31 x 39 inches. Artwork is in excellent condition. Please note the frame has some minor scratches on the molding. No broken or missing parts. Plexi glass covering is new. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be considered. About the Artist: Wifredo Lam was an Afro-Cuban artist best known for his unique Surrealist aesthetic that combined European artistic movements with the imagery of his native country. “I responded always to the presence of factors that emanated from our history and our geography, tropical flowers, and black culture,” Lam once said. In one of his most famous paintings, The Jungle (1943), these various influences are melded together, onto a single large-scale canvas. Born Wifredo Oscar de la Concepción Lam y Castilla on December 8, 1902 in Sagua la Grande, Cuba, the painter moved to Madrid, Spain in 1923 to study with Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor, who had been the teacher of famed Surrealist Salvador Dalí. Lam moved to Paris after seeing an exhibition of Pablo Picasso’s work in Spain. Having arrived in Paris, he introduced himself to Picasso who subsequently showed Lam his collection of primitive artworks...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Paper, Lithograph

RECEIVING HAND Signed Lithograph, Fantastic Realism, Stone, Healing Art
Located in Union City, NJ
RECEIVING HAND is a hand drawn original lithograph printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches printmaking paper 100% acid free. RECEIVING HAND a finely detailed han...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

"Elizabeth's Hat", Oleg Turchin, Figurative, 58x63 in, Baroque Hat Series, Oil
Located in Dallas, TX
"Elizabeth's Hat" by Oleg Turchin is a Figurative Surrealism original oil on canvas painting measuring 58x63 in. This painting is of the Late Queen Elizabeth's life. The queen is bea...
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2010s Surrealist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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

Artist Comments
Artist Rachel Srinivasan reinterprets the pentacles suit adorned with galloping horses on the edges. Rachel uses various tones of green, symbolizing earthly w...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

Materials

Oil

Original Vintage Railway Poster Auvergne By Dali For SNCF Butterfly Abstract Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for Auvergne featuring an iconic butterfly design by the renowned surrealist artist Salvador Dali (1904-1989) for the state owned French Na...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Paper

Spanish signed limited edition original art print engraving 15x21 in. n19
Located in Miami, FL
Andrés Barajas (Spain, 1941) 'Untitled from Portfolio "Los Deseos"', ca.1990-1999 mixed media on paper 15 x 20.9 in. (38 x 53 cm.) Edition of 200 ID: BA...
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20th Century Surrealist Art

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Engraving, Paper, Screen

Salvador Dali - Attack on the Windmils - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Attack on the Windmils - Original Lithograph Joseph FORET, Paris, 1957 PRINTER : Atelier Mourlot. SIGNATURE : printed in the image LIMITED : 197 copies. SIZE : 64.5...
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1950s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Woman and Sun - Original lithograph, Signed
Located in Paris, FR
Jules Perahim (1914-2008) Woman and Sun, 1974 Original lithograph Signed in pencil by the artist Numbered / 199 On Arches vellum 56 x 38 cm (c. 22 x 15 inches) INFORMATION : From p...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Portrait after Raphael - Etching by Nicholas Cochin - 1755
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait after Raphael is an etching realized by Jean Francois Poletnich in 1755. Signed in the plate. Good conditions with foxing. The artwork is depicted through confident strok...
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1750s Surrealist Art

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Etching

Hommage a Cranach
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Hommage a Cranach MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: EA MEASUREMENTS: 21.5" x 30" YEAR: 1970 FRAMED: No CONDITION: Excellent ...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Etching

Dali Alchimie des Philosophes Le Phenix
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Alchimie des Philosophes Le Phenix MEDIUM: Etching on parchment paper SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Art et ...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Etching

"Bacchanale from Je Reve (I Dream) Portfolio, " Original Color Lithograph
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Bacchanale" is an original color lithograph by Andre Masson. This piece is from the Je Reve (I Dream) portfolio and is edition number H.C. XVV/XVV. Masson signed the piece in pencil...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Pick Your Mask
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Every one of us has many faces. Each mask is just another part of the truth about you. In one situation, there is one mask and another mask in yet another experience. New masks are a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

The Key to When
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Time is but a concept that we create to keep existence in an order. This piece seeks to encourage questioning time, the impact and control it might have on existence and just where i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

Drawers of Memory
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Drawers of Memory MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Sidney Lucas EDITION NUMBER: 113/150 MEASUREM...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

French Surrealist Colorful Futurist Abstract Painting Composition I
Located in Surfside, FL
actual image measures 11.25x7.5, titled Composition V on French Arches Mould made paper. Georges DUSSAU est né le 14 Mars 1947, à Chalon-sur-Saône (France) Il vit et travaille a...
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20th Century Surrealist Art

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Acrylic, Gouache, Handmade Paper

French Surrealist Colorful Futurist Abstract Painting Composition V
Located in Surfside, FL
actual image measures 11.25x7.5, titled Composition V on French Arches Mould made paper. Georges DUSSAU est né le 14 Mars 1947, à Chalon-sur-Saône (France) Il vit et travaille a...
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20th Century Surrealist Art

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Acrylic, Gouache, Handmade Paper

Flora Dalinae Chrysanthemum
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Flora Dalinae Chrysanthemum MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Jean Schneider, Basel/Michelle Broutta, Paris EDITION NUMBER: 60/175 MEASUREMENTS: 22" x 30" YEAR: 1968 FRAMED: Yes, museum quality silver...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching

(after) Marino Marini - "Cavalier et cheval, orange et jaune" pochoir
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: pochoir (after the lithograph). Printed by the atelier of Daniel Jacomet, and published in Paris in 1955 by Heinz Berggruen. The image measures 5 x 3 3/4 inches (130 x 97 mm)...
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1950s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph, Stencil

Be Brave
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gal...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

Dali After 50 Years of Surrealism The Laurels of Happiness
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: After 50 Years of Surrealism The Laurels of Happiness MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: F 90/195 MEASUREMENTS: 26" x 19.75" YEA...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Etching

"Mare Nostrum (Our Sea)" Contemporary Pastel Surrealist Still Life Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful, pastel-toned painting by contemporary artist Henry David Potwin. The work features an elephant, giraffe, lion, and rhino on a small boat out at sea, reminiscent of Noah's a...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Surreal Collage: 'Planetary Machines '
Located in New York, NY
Barnett, a surrealist artist incorporates discarded mechanical objects and gadgets into his artwork. His work is characterized by its unique and eclectic mix of materials, which rang...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Mixed Media

"Omniverso" Omniverse - contemporary, surrealist, graphic, geometric sun print
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
The repetition of patterns and rhythm is present in almost every piece of Pedro´s work. The hybrid topographies that Pedro Friedeberg´s unclassifiable practice recreates we must rec...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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Digital

The Kiss
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: The Kiss Series: Le Paradis Terrestre Date: 1974 Medium: drypoint printed in color Framed Dimensions: 22" x 18.5" x 1" Signature: Pencil signed E...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Drypoint

Currier & Ives Fire! Fire! Fire!
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Currier & Ives Fire! Fire! Fire! MEDIUM: Lithograph + Collage SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Phyllis Lucas, New York EDITION NUMBER: 106/250 MEASU...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Egypt : Maternity - Original lithograph, Signed
Located in Paris, FR
Jules Perahim (1914-2008) Egypt : Maternity, 1974 Original lithograph Signed in pencil by the artist Numbered / 199 On Arches vellum 56 x 38 cm (c. 22 x 15 inches) INFORMATION : Fr...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Dante And Beatrice - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Dante And Beatrice is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. Not signed, as issued. Plate n.18 (a...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Woodcut

Arnella The Golden Fleece
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Arnella The Golden Fleece MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: XLVII/C MEASUREMENTS: 25.25" x 20" YEAR: 1974 FRAMED: No CONDITI...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Etching

AVL Zurich 74 (Surrealism)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Raoul Ubac AVL Zurich 74 Lithograph on heavy paper Signed and numbered by hand Edition: 150 Size: 27.625x15.75in COA provided Ref.: 924802-1560 -------------- Raoul Ubac (31 August...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Collage Watercolor Painting David Gilhooly California Funk Surrealism MixedMedia
Located in Surfside, FL
DAVID JAMES GILHOOLY (American, 1943-2013), Mixed media collage 6 x 4 inches, Hand signed and dated verso Napoleon from the back, with King Henry VIII holding a pastry. titled: "England cannot be conquered by a few French pastries" cut and pasted cardstock assemblage, collaged art. David Gilhooly RCA (1943 – 2013), was an American ceramicist, sculptor, painter, printmaker, and professor. He is best known for pioneering the Funk art movement. He made a series of ceramic frogs called FrogWorld, as well as ceramic food, planets, and other creatures. David James Gilhooly III was born on April 15, 1943, in Auburn, California. He was raised in Los Altos, California; Saint Croix in the Virgin Islands; and Humacao, Puerto Rico. He enrolled in University of California, Davis (UC Davis) initially studying biology, followed by anthropology, and ending with a focus on fine art. While attending UC Davis, Gilhooly served as artist Robert Arneson assistant starting in 1963. He graduated from UC Davis with a BA degree in 1965, and an MA degree in 1967. Gilhooly, together with Robert Arneson, Peter Vandenberge, Chris Unterseher, and Margaret Dodd, working together in TB-9 (temporary building 9) were what was later to be called, The Funk Ceramic...
Category

2010s Surrealist Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Asian Kid
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Matheus is greatly influenced by the city he now calls home -- New York has long been the epicenter of fashion, hip hop, and street art, where he feels his interest in contemporary art, architecture, and interior design has grown exponentially. With this influence, he produced his first solo exhibition and debuted his signature series, Caras e Cores, at Avant Garde Gallery...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic

"One heart" Photography 31" x 31" in Edition of 7 by Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"One heart" Photography 31" x 31" in Edition of 7 by Olha Stepanian Printed on Epson Professional Paper Signed and numbered by the artist Not framed. Ships in a tube. Available ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

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Photographic Paper

Sphere. V Framed hand hand-painted butterfly, Mixed Media on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
One-of-a-kind mixed media manipulated painted photographs on hand-painted canvas Painting is a 5X7â€
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2010s Surrealist Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Bicephale - Etching - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Bicephale is an artwork realized bySalvador Dalì in 1968. The artwork is from the suite "Les Amours de Cassandre" Etching with hand coloring on Japanese paper. Hand signed on th...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching

Butterfly suite : Normandy - heliogravure - 1969 (Field #69-2 B)
Located in Paris, FR
after Salvador DALI (1904-1969) Butterfly suite : Normandy, 1969 Heliogravure / Photogravure after an original design by Dali Blind stamp signature bottom right Numbered / 1700 copi...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Photogravure

Sphere. V White framed hand-painted stallion, Mixed Media on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
One-of-a-kind mixed media manipulated painted photographs on hand-painted canvas Painting is 5X7â€
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2010s Surrealist Art

Materials

Mixed Media

The Heavenly Staircase - Woodcut attr. to Salvador Dalì - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
The Heavenly Staircase, from the Series "The Divine Comedy", is a woodcut print realized in 1963. Good conditions. Not signed, as issued. Plate n. 21 as reported on the back of the...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Woodcut

Probity in the Quiet of Fear (surrealism, hard edge, colorful art, color field)
Located in Kansas City, MO
JB Nearsy Probity in the Quiet of Fear 2016 Acrylic on Canvas Size: 18x29in Framed: 27.5x38x2in Signed by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1775 *Framed and matted with a white wood fra...
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2010s Surrealist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

The Big Parade and Random Selection
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Michael Hasted Title: The Big Parade & Random Selection Medium: 2 Lithographs Signed: Both Hand Signed Year: Both 1981 Edition: Both From the edition of 250 Measurements...
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1980s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Bon Fire Night (Body Terrain)
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is number 1 from a limited edition of 12. London-based Photographer and Graphic designer Omer Ga'ash, graduated from Bezalel Academy of Art and De...
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2010s Surrealist Art

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C Print

Dante and Beatrice - Original WATERCOLOR, Signed (Descharnes #d6970_1951)
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador Dali Divine Comedy : Dante and Beatrice, 1952 Original watercolor Signed in lower center Dated 1952 On vellum lined on thin board 42 x 30 cm (c. 17 x 12in) REFERENCES : Th...
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1950s Surrealist Art

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Ink, Watercolor

In Dream - Etching by Guelfo Bianchini - 1995
Located in Roma, IT
In Dream is a Contemporary Artwork realized in Italy by Guelfo Bianchini (Ancona, 1937) in 1995 . Colored Etching on paper. Hand-signed and dated in pencil on the lower corner: G...
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1990s Surrealist Art

Materials

Etching

To have or to have not. Figurative surrealist print, Polish art master
Located in Warsaw, PL
Vibrant giclee limited edition print by worldwidely established Polish artist Rafal Olbinski. Figurative surrealistic print with ballet dancer holding a bird cage. There are trees in...
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2010s Surrealist Art

Materials

Paper, Color

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