$3,000
Le Chimere d'Horace from Dalinean Horses, Surrealist Lithograph by Salvador Dali
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Salvador Dali, Spanish (1904 - 1989) Title: Le Chimere d'Horace from Dalinean Horses Year: 1972 Medium: Lithograph, Signed in Pencil Edition: 250, EA Size: 26.75 in. x 19.75...
Lithograph
$2,929
Salvador Dali - Le Cerf from Le Bestiaire de la Fontaine - Signed Engraving
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
SALVADOR DALI Le Cerf se voyant dans l'eau from Le Bestiaire de la Fontaine 1974 Hand signed by Dali Edition: /250 The dimensions of the image are 22.8 x 15.7 inches on 31 x 23.2 in...
Drypoint, Aquatint
$3,500
Salvador Dalí, "Le dos divin de Gala", original etching, hand colored, signed
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Salvador Dalí "Le dos divin de Gala" (The divine back of Gala) from After 50 Years of Surrealism Original etching with hand coloring, hand signed in pencil 1974 Image size: 15 3/4 x...
Etching
Salvador Dalí, "Dieu, le temps, l'espace, et le Pape", etching, signed
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Salvador Dalí "Dieu, le temps, l'espace, et le Pape" (God, time, space, and the Pope) from After 50 Years of Surrealism Original etching with hand coloring, hand signed in pencil 19...
Etching
$2,929
Salvador Dali - Le Cerf from Le Bestiaire de la Fontaine - Signed Engraving
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
SALVADOR DALI Le Cerf Malade from Le Bestiaire de la Fontaine 1974 Hand signed by Dali Edition: /250 The dimensions of the image are 22.8 x 15.7 inches on 31 x 23.2 inch paper Refer...
Drypoint, Aquatint
Le Chimère d'Horace Lithograph, Hand-Signed, Surrealist, 1970
By Salvador Dalí
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Le Chimère d'Horace (Horace's chimera) Lithograph from 1970.
Lithograph
American Trotting Horse No II from Currier & Ives suite by Salvador Dali
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Paonia, CO
American Trotting Horses No. 2 by Salvador Dali has dynamic movement in the two trotting horses with an added giant Dalian insect head in collage in the upper left corner giving it t...
Lithograph
$1,406
The Woman Taken in Adultery - Etching and Drypoint attr. to Salvador Dalì - 1972
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
The Woman Taken in Adultery is a contemporary artwork realized in 1972. Etching and drypoint on watermarked paper Chiffon de la Dore, (image cm 18x13; sheet cm 31x45) Hand signed a...
Etching
$4,400Sale Price|20% Off
Le Girafe en Feu (Field 76-2-A; Michler & Lopsinger 1449), Salvador Dali
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Title: Le Girafe en Feu Year: 1976 Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper Edition: CXLII/CCL; 250 Roman Numerals, plus proofs Size: 18.5 x 25 inches Con...
Lithograph
"L'Art Dans Les Bijoux"(after) Salvador Dali, 1971
By (after) Salvador Dali
Located in New York, NY
Artist: Salvador Dali Medium: Lithographic Poster, 1971 Dimensions: 26.3 x 20 in / 66.8 x 50.8 cm Classic poster paper - Condition A+ This offset poster by Salvador Dali, was pri...
Lithograph
Dali Inaguracion Teatro Museo Figueras Espana Septiember 1974 Poster
By (after) Salvador Dali
Located in Paonia, CO
Dali Inaguracion Teatro Museo Figueras Espana Septiember 1974 is a rare plate signed vintage poster celebrating the opening of the Salvador Dalí Theater Museum in Figueras, S...
Color
$2,800Sale Price|20% Off
The beloved feeds among the lilies (Field 71-17J; M&L 477), Dalí
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Fairfield, CT
Title: The beloved feeds among the lilies (Field 71-17J; M&L 477), from the portfolio, The song of songs of King Solomon Year: 1971 Medium: Etching printed in colours with gilding on...
Engraving
$4,000
Les Caprices Pinces Princiers from Les Diners de Gala series by Salvador Dali
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Paonia, CO
Les Caprices Pinces Princiers (Princely Pliers Caprices) from the series Les Diners de Gala by Salvador Dali is one of 12 photolithographs of ornate edible creations + a sepa...
Lithograph
Behold his bed The Song of Songs of King Solomon by Salvador Dali
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Salvador Dali Title: Behold his bed from The Song of Songs of King Solomon from the Portfolio Song of Songs of Solomon Year: 1972 Medium: Color Etching with Gold Dust on Arch...
Etching
$4,900
Salvador Dali "My Belowed is like a roe..." from Songs of Songs of Solomon
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: My Belowed is like a roe, or a young hart:... Series: Song of Songs of Solomon Date: 1971 Medium: drypoint printed in color with added color Unfram...
Drypoint
$6,800
Salvador Dalí -- The Blood of Yin and Yang from Conquest of the Cosmos II
By Salvador Dalí
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Salvador Dalí The Blood of Yin and Yang from Conquest of the Cosmos II, 1975 Lithographic in colors with drypoint on BFK Rives. Hand signed lower right Numbered XXVII / CLXXXXV S...
Drypoint, Lithograph
$2,695
Salvador Dalì (1904–1989) - The Horse and the Wolf-drypoint etching with stencil
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Varese, IT
Drypoint etching with stencil on extremely fine Japanese paper, edited in 1974. Limited edition, numbered 245/250 in lower left corner. Signed in pencil by artist in lower right corn...
Drypoint, Etching
Salvador Dalí -- I am my beloved from The Song of Songs of King Solomon
By Salvador Dalí
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Salvador Dalí I am my beloved from The Song of Songs of King Solomon, 1971 Color Etching with Gold Dust on Arches Paper Hand signed lower right Edition E.A. lower left Image size: ...
Etching
Awaiting the Fray Lithograph, Surrealist, Framed, 1970, 98/125
By Salvador Dalí
Located in New York, NY
Awaiting the Fray, 1970 is from the Carmen portfolio; the opera Carmen was depicted by Dali in 25 lithographs on Arches paper # 98 from the Edition of 125 Michler Lopsinger 1323 Pub...
Archival Paper, Lithograph
$3,750
Salvador Dalí, "Le musée de genie et du caprice", etching, hand colored, signed
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Salvador Dalí Le Musée de genie et du caprice (The Museum of Genius and Whim) from After 50 Years of Surrealism Original etching with hand coloring, hand signed in pencil 1974 Image...
Etching
$3,500
Salvador Dalí, "Un entré fracassant aux U.S.A" , etching, hand colored, signed
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Salvador Dalí Un entré fracassant aux U.S.A (A shattering entrance to the U.S.A) from After 50 Years of Surrealism Original etching with hand coloring, hand signed in pencil 1974 Im...
Etching
$5,000
Le Marriage de la Vierge by Salvador Dali Changes in Great Masterpieces series
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Paonia, CO
Le Marriage de la Vierge by Salvador Dali and interpreted from the original Raphael painting is one of six graphics from the series Changes in Great Masterpieces published by Sidney...
Lithograph
$9,500
Fire, Fire Fire The World of Currier & Ives as interpreted by Salvador Dali
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Paonia, CO
Fire, Fire, Fire an original signed limited edition lithograph from the series “The World Of Currier And Ives as interpreted by Salvador Dali” published by Phyllis Lucas, New York 19...
Lithograph
Capricho de Goya n°63 - Héliogravure and Pochoir attr. to S. Dalì - 1977
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Capricho de Goya n°63 is an original héliogravure and pochoir, realized by Salvador Dalí in 1977, hand-signed and numbered n°125/200. Included a wooden frame. In very good condi...
Engraving, Stencil
$2,360Sale Price|47% Off
Salvador Dalí, "Le Cavalier et le Cerf" from Le Bestiaire de la Fontaine
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original engraving with color added by pochoir by Salvador Dali. It is from Dali's suite of 12 original engravings entitled "Le Bestiaire de la Fontaine", which he c...
Engraving
Capricho de Goya n°7 - Héliogravure and Pochoir attr. to S. Dalì - 1977
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Capricho de Goya n°7 is an héliogravure and stencil, realized in 1977, hand-signed and numbered n°125/200. Published by Berggruen Paris in 1977. Image dimensions: 21x15 cm. Incl...
Engraving, Stencil
$4,500
Dali, "The Grand Inquisitor Expels the Savior" from After 50 Years of Surrealism
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original etching by Salvador Dali from the "After 50 Years of Surrealism" portfolio, which consists of 12 original etchings, done in 1974. It is hand signed and num...
Etching
Salvador Dali Daum Pate de Verre with Gold, Glass Plate Sculpture Crystal Art
By (after) Salvador Dali
Located in Surfside, FL
Dali's signature is at the bottom On the back, Daum and Made in France.
Glass
$16,405
Des Rois Pendus aux Arbres - Etching and Drypoint attr. to S. Dalì - 1973
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Des Rois Pendus aux Arbres (Kings Hanging in the Trees) in an original etching and drypoint realized by S. Dalì in 1973. It is part of the Series "King, I Shall Await You at Babylon,...
Etching
$4,500
Dieu, Le Temps, L'Espace et le Pape (God, Time, Space, and the Pope) /// Dali
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989) Title: "Dieu, Le Temps, L'Espace et le Pape (God, Time, Space, and the Pope)" Portfolio: After 50 Years of Surrealism *Signed by Dali in p...
Intaglio, Etching
$4,250
Salvador Dalí -- Le caducee de Mars alimente par la boule de feu de Jupiter
By Salvador Dalí
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Salvador Dalí Le caducee de Mars alimente par la boule de feu de Jupiter from La conquête du cosmos, 1974 Hang signed lower right Edition 158 / 195 Image size: 75 x 55 cm Sheet size...
Lithograph, Engraving
Surrealist Lithograph of Rhinoceros, Signed, Edition 163/275, 1970
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on wove paper, after drypoint etching. Image dimension 36.5x49.5. Edition of 163/275. Hand signed and numbered in pencil. Browned. Ref. Michler-Lopsinger 450.
Lithograph
$4,500
Le cercle visceral du Cosmos from La Conquete du Cosmos Etching by Salvador Dali
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Salvador Dali, Spanish (1904 - 1989) Title: Le cercle visceral du Cosmos from La Conquete du Cosmos Year: 1974 Medium: Etching with Lithograph and Embossing on Arches, signed...
Lithograph, Etching
Signed 1970 Surrealist Lithograph: The Death of Carmen, Edition 67/125
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Published in 1970 by Shorewood Press, Wolfensberger, the suite is an interpretation of Bizet’s famous opera that inspired this set, as well as black and white images of all 25 pieces...
Lithograph
Original Dali Fantasy of the seasons Lithograph
By Salvador Dali and Philippe Halsman
Located in Pasadena, CA
Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904-1989) Date: Circa 1982 Medium: Offset lithograph in color on paper Edition: Limited edition, typically 100 copies; this one is numbered EA Signature:...
Lithograph
I am my beloved from The Song of Songs of King Solomon by Salvador Dali
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Salvador Dali Title: I am my beloved from The Song of Songs of King Solomon from the Portfolio Song of Songs of Solomon Year: 1972 Medium: Color Etching with Gold Dust on Arc...
Etching
$6,500
Thou art all faire, my love: there is no spot in thee, Etching by Salvador Dali
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original hand-signed Dali etching framed in a museum white-gold leaf frame with silk matting and silver bevel. Artist: Salvador Dali Title: Thou art all faire, my love: there is ...
Etching
$5,000
My beloved is like a roe The Song of Songs of King Solomon by Salvador Dali
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Salvador Dali Title: Behold his bed from The Song of Songs of King Solomon from the Portfolio Song of Songs of Solomon Year: 1972 Medium: Color Etching with Gold Dust on Arch...
Etching
Signed Henry IV, Hand Signed Color Etching, Surrealist, 1970, EA Edition
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed and numbered by the artist. From the Shakespeare II suite. Color etching on B.F.K Rives paper. Image size: 6.75 x 4.75 inches; paper size: 17.75 x 12.5 inches. Published ...
Etching, Paper
Salvador Dali American Trotting Horses No.1 rare poster for Tokyo Exhibit 1974
By (after) Salvador Dali
Located in Paonia, CO
Salvador Dali American Trotting Horses no.1 poster for Tokyo Exhibit 1974. This image is from the The Currier and Ives Suite of six lithographs published by Phyllis Lucas in 197...
C Print
Salvador Dali
By Ron Galella
Located in Toronto, ON
Hand Signed au verso (back) Silver Gelatin Print Includes Photographers Stamp
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Salvador Dali, Port Ligat, Costa Brava
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Take It, 1970: Salvador Dali with some of his works at Port Ligat, Costa Brava Staley-Wise Gallery offers photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Getty...
C Print
Price Upon Request
Take It 1970: Salvador Dali with some of his works at Port Ligat Costa Brava
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Estate embossed
Photographic Paper
$5,200Sale Price|20% Off
Faces of Dali #4, Yvaral
By Yvaral (Jean-Pierre Vasarely)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Yvaral, Jean-Pierre Vasarely (1934-2002) Title: Faces of Dali #4 Year: 1977 Medium: Silkscreen on Arches paper Edition: IX/XX, 200, plus proofs Size: 34.75 x 24.375 inches Co...
Screen
$4,400Sale Price|20% Off
Faces of Dali #2, Yvaral
By Yvaral (Jean-Pierre Vasarely)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Yvaral, Jean-Pierre Vasarely (1934-2002) Title: Faces of Dali #2 Year: 1977 Medium: Silkscreen on Arches paper Edition: 104/200, plus proofs Size: 34.75 x 24.375 inches Condi...
Screen
$4,400Sale Price|20% Off
Faces of Dali #3, Yvaral
By Yvaral (Jean-Pierre Vasarely)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Yvaral, Jean-Pierre Vasarely (1934-2002) Title: Faces of Dali #3 Year: 1977 Medium: Silkscreen on Arches paper Edition: IV/XX, 200, plus proofs Size: 34.75 x 24.375 inches Co...
Screen
$15,000
Escargot
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Escargot MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMBER: I/XXV MEASUREMENTS: Paper: 14.48" x 11" Frame: 19" x 15" YEAR: 1970 ...
Etching
Slim Aarons 'Take It Salvador Dali'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Take It Salvador Dali 1970 Chromogenic Lambda Print Estate edition of 150 September 1970: With some of his works at Port Ligat, Costa Brava, painter Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) in a...
Lambda
Symphony Bicyclette
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Symphony Bicyclette MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMBER: 52/200 MEASUREMENTS: 35.25" x 25.5" YEAR: 1970 FRAMED:...
Lithograph
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$4,200
Salvador Dali: Take It: Estate Edition Photograph [Iconic Surrealist, Modernist]
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
September 1970: With some of his mystical artwork at Port Ligat, Costa Brava, painter Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) in a characteristic pose with his trademark walking-stick in vibrant...
Lambda
Iconic Aarons Estate Photograph of Surrealist Salvador Dali: 'Take It'
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
September 1970: With some of his mystical artwork at Port Ligat, Costa Brava, painter Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) in a characteristic pose with his trademark walking-stick in vibrant...
Lambda
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$3,900
Salvador Dali: Take It: Estate Edition Photograph [Iconic Surrealist, Modernist]
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
September 1970: With some of his mystical artwork at Port Ligat, Costa Brava, painter Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) in a characteristic pose with his trademark walking-stick in vibrant...
Lambda
Carmen - Castanets, Bronze Sculpture, Incised Signature, Edition of 350
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Aventura, FL
Bronze sculpture with green patina on a marble base. Incised Salvador Dali signature on sculpture verso. Stamp numbered 224/350 on sculpture verso. Size: 10.2 x 3.5 x 4.3 inches (...
Paper, Lithograph
Tauromachie Surrealiste The Giraffe on Fire
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Tauramachie Surrealiste The Giraffe on Fire MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: LXIV/C MEASUREMENTS: 20" x 26" YEAR: 1970 FRAMED:...
Etching
The Knights of King Arthur - Original Etching, Handsigned (Field #70-10M)
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador DALI Les chevaliers du roi Arthur ("The cavaliers of King Arthur") Original etching Handsigned in pencil Limited to 115 copies On vellum Rives 45 x 32.5 cm This etching ...
Etching
Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel Lithograph, Surrealist, 1970s
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Naples, Florida
Lithograph in colors on Japon nacré paper Printed by Carpentier, Paris Signed in pencil, lower right Dalí’s Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel ...
Paper, Lithograph
$5,659Sale Price|30% Off
Le Cheval de Labeur Lithograph, Hand-Signed, Surrealist
By Salvador Dalí
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Le cheval de labeur Lithograph from 1970.
Lithograph
$9,374
Costumes for Tristan Fou, Flower Women - Original Signed Lithograph (Field 70-2)
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Costumes for Tristan Fou: Flower Women, 1970 Original lithograph (Desjobert workshop) Signed in pencil Numbered X / XXV copies On Japanese paper, 56 x 76 c...
Lithograph
Tauramachi Surrealiste Bullfight with Drawers
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Tauramachi Surrealiste Bullfight with Drawer MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Pierre Argillet, Paris EDITION NUMBER: 101/150 MEASUR...
Etching
Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel Lithograph, Surrealist, 1970s
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Naples, Florida
Lithograph in colors on Japon nacré paper From the Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel series Printed by Carpentier Pencil signed lower right This lit...
Paper, Lithograph
Instantly recognizable by his waxed, upturned mustache, the flamboyant Salvador Dalí is one of modern art’s most distinctive figures. He is also one of the icons of the 20th-century avant-garde Surrealist movement, whose dreamlike images, drawn from the depths of the unconscious, he deployed in paintings, sculptures, prints and fashion, as well as in film collaborations with Luis Buñuel and Alfred Hitchcock.
Dalí was born in Figueres, Catalonia, and even as a youngster, displayed the sensitivity, sharp perception and vivid imagination that would later define his artworks. In these, he conjured childhood memories and employed religious symbols and Freudian imagery like staircases, keys and dripping candles to create unexpected, often shocking pieces.
Dalí's use of hyperrealism in conveying Surrealist symbols and concepts that subvert accepted notions of reality is epitomized in what is perhaps his most recognizable painting, The Persistence of Memory (1931), in which he depicts the fluidity of time through melting clocks, their forms inspired by Camembert cheese melting in the sun. His artistic genius, eccentric personality and eternal quest for fame made him a global celebrity.
“Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure,” he once said. “That of being Salvador Dalí.”
Find original Salvador Dalí paintings, prints, sculptures and other works on 1stDibs.
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.
Find a collection of original Surrealist paintings, sculptures, prints and multiples and more art on 1stDibs.
Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.
Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.
Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.
Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.
Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.
“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.
Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.
For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)
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