$14,400Sale Price|20% Off
Winter and Summer Etching, Surrealist, Hand Signed, 1973
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
The Archives, under the direction of Albert Field's successor, Frank Hunter, is able to provide an Authentication Service to owners of Dali prints and other Dali works.
Etching
$1,600Sale Price|20% Off
Symbols Devil Etching, Surrealist Style, Hand Signed, 1970
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
REFERENCE: The Official Catalog of The Works of Salvador Dali by Albert Field page 63 #70-12 A
Etching
$5,200Sale Price|20% Off
Poems Secrets Nude at The Fountain, Surrealist Etching, Hand Signed, 1967
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
REFERENCE: The Official Catalog of The Works of Salvador Dali by Albert Field page 34 #67-10 B
Etching
$3,200Sale Price|20% Off
Faust Vignettes Faust Lisant Etching, Surrealist, Hand Signed, 1969
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
REFERENCE: The Official Catalog of The Works of Salvador Dali by Albert Field page 50 #69-1 a)
Etching
$2,400Sale Price|20% Off
Neuf Paysages Paysage avec Figures-Soleil from Sun
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
REFERENCE: The Official Catalog of The Works of Salvador Dali by Albert Field page 38 #80-2 A
Etching
$2,800Sale Price|20% Off
Memories of Surrealism Surrealist Gastronomy Etching, Hand Signed, 1971
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
REFERENCE: The Official Catalog of The Works of Salvador Dali by Albert Field page 68 #71-15 L
Etching
$3,160Sale Price|20% Off
La Venus Aux Fourrures Woman With Whip Surrealist Etching, Hand Signed, 1968
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
REFERENCE: The Official Catalog of The Works of Salvador Dali by Albert Field page 40 #68-6 B
Etching
$3,200Sale Price|20% Off
La Joie de Vivre Etching, Surrealist, Hand Signed, 1971
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
REFERENCE: The Official Catalog of The Works of Salvador Dali by Albert Field page 68 #71-9
Etching
$2,400Sale Price|20% Off
Fantoms Le Soupirant, Surrealist Etching, Hand Signed
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
REFERENCE: The Official Catalog of The Works of Salvador Dali by Albert Field page 45 #68-14 B
Etching
$2,400Sale Price|20% Off
Dalinean Horses: The Centaur of Crete, Hand Signed Surrealist Lithograph
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
REFERENCE: The Official Catalog of The Works of Salvador Dali by Albert Field page 170 #72-6 S
Lithograph
$2,400Sale Price|20% Off
Aurelia Visage Surrealist Etching, Hand Signed, 1972
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
REFERENCE: The Official Catalog of The Works of Salvador Dali by Albert Field page 72 #72-5 A
Etching
$12,000Sale Price|20% Off
Alice in Wonderland Etching, Surrealist, Hand Signed, 1971
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Alice in Wonderland MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Transworld Art EDITION NUMBER: A IX/XL PAPER: Japon Paper MEASUREMENTS: 29.75"...
Etching
$5,120Sale Price|20% Off
Album Soft Telephone Etching, Surrealist, Hand Signed, Framed, 1968
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Album Soft Telephone MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: 15/150 MEASUREMENTS: 11" x 15" YEAR: 1968 FRAMED: Yes, framed in a lucit...
Etching
$5,000
Moise et Monotheisme, Bronze Embossed Bas Relief, Hand Signed, Edition of 195
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Aventura, FL
Referenced in "The Official Catalog of the Graphic works of Salvador Dali" by Albert Field, 1996 as Figure 75-2. Artwork is in excellent condition.
Paper, Lithograph
$3,960Sale Price|20% Off
To Ev'ry Captive Soul Etching, Surrealist, Hand Signed, 1974
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
The Archives, under the direction of Albert Field's successor, Frank Hunter, is able to provide an Authentication Service to owners of Dali prints and other Dali works.
Etching
$5,520Sale Price|20% Off
Poems Secrets Frontispiece Etching, Surrealist, Hand Signed, 1967
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
The Archives, under the direction of Albert Field's successor, Frank Hunter, is able to provide an Authentication Service to owners of Dali prints and other Dali works.
Etching
$40,000Sale Price|20% Off
La Venus aux Fourrures Suite, 16 Etchings, Hand Signed, Surrealist
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
REFERENCE: The Official Catalog of The Works of Salvador Dali by Albert Field page 40 #68-6
Etching
$1,600Sale Price|20% Off
After 50 Years of Surrealism Freud with Snail Head Hand Signed
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: After 50 Years of Surrealism Freud with Snail Head MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMBER: F 84/195 MEASUREMENTS: 19.75...
Etching
$10,000Sale Price|20% Off
Le Cirque Le Fou (Clown) Etching, Surrealist, Hand Signed, 1965, Framed
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
The Archives, under the direction of Albert Field's successor, Frank Hunter, is able to provide an Authentication Service to owners of Dali prints and other Dali works.
Etching
$1,560Sale Price|20% Off
Le Decameron L'ange Gabriel on Japon Paper Hand Signed Surrealist
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Le Decameron L'ange Gabriel MEDIUM: Etching on Japon Paper SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Jean Schneider, Basel/Pamela Verlog EDITION NUMBER: XIX/X...
Etching
$6,000
Hommage a Picasso (Cannes / Cote d'Azur) Signed Etching, F. Hunter Authenticated
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Aventura, FL
Referenced in "The Official Catalog of the Graphic works of Salvador Dali" by Albert Field, 1996 as Figure 73-5 on page 84.
Paper, Etching
$2,600Sale Price|20% Off
Petites Nus (From Ronsard) A Etching, Surrealist, Hand Signed, 1972
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
The Archives, under the direction of Albert Field's successor, Frank Hunter, is able to provide an Authentication Service to owners of Dali prints and other Dali works.
Etching
$20,000Sale Price|20% Off
Surrealist Etching 'The Giraffe on Fire', Hand Signed, 1970
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
$3,360Sale Price|20% Off
Moses & Monotheism Moses & Akhenaton Etching on Sheepskin, Hand Signed
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
The Archives, under the direction of Albert Field's successor, Frank Hunter, is able to provide an Authentication Service to owners of Dali prints and other Dali works.
Etching
$2,200Sale Price|20% Off
Petites Nus (Ronsard) H Etching, Surrealist, Hand Signed, 1972
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Petites Nus (From Ronsard) H MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Editions Argillet EDITION NUMBER: 26/95 MEASUREMENTS: 15.2" x 11.4" Y...
Etching
$3,000Sale Price|20% Off
Faust Sorceress au Bali Etching, Surrealist, Hand Signed, 1969
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
The Archives, under the direction of Albert Field's successor, Frank Hunter, is able to provide an Authentication Service to owners of Dali prints and other Dali works.
Etching
$10,000Sale Price|20% Off
Trilogy of Love: Love's Promise Lithograph, Surrealist, Hand Signed
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Trilogy of Love Love's Promise MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Levine & Levine for DALART EDITION NUMBER: EA MEASUREMENTS: 2...
Lithograph
$4,500
Allegory: Brave Cecile, Signed Lithograph, Edition of 160, Authenticated, 1969
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Aventura, FL
Referenced in "The Official Catalog of the Graphic works of Salvador Dali" by Albert Field, 1996 as Figure 69-1-B. Authenticated by Frank Hunter on verso.
Paper, Lithograph
$9,000
Alsace, Hand Signed Lithograph, Edition of 300, Frank Hunter Authenticated, 1969
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Aventura, FL
Referenced in "The Official Catalog of the Graphic works of Salvador Dali" by Albert Field, 1996 as Figure 69-2 on page 155.
Paper, Lithograph
$5,200Sale Price|20% Off
After 50 Years of Surrealism The Laurels of Happiness Hand Signed
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: After 50 Years of Surrealism The Laurels of Happiness MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Transworld Art, NY EDITION NUMBER: F 84/195 M...
Etching
$5,600Sale Price|20% Off
Diane de Poitiers Etching, Surrealist, Hand Signed, 1973
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Diane de Poitiers MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: LXVI/C MEASUREMENTS: 20" x 25.5" YEAR: 1973 FRAMED: No CONDITION: Excellen...
Etching
$5,800Sale Price|20% Off
Monument to Picasso Lithograph, Hand Signed, Surrealist, 1973
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Monument To Picasso MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: 158/500 MEASUREMENTS: 22.25" x 30" YEAR: 1973 FRAMED: No CONDITION: ...
Lithograph
$15,600Sale Price|20% Off
Eight Mortal Sins Complete Suite, Surrealist Etchings, Hand Signed
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: 8 Mortal Sins Suite Anger Avarice Dalinean Envy Gluttony Lust Pride Sloth MEDIUM: 8 Etchings SIGNED: Each piece is Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Jean Schne...
Etching
$4,360Sale Price|20% Off
Dalinean Prophecy Etching, Surrealist, Hand Signed, 1975
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Dalinean Prophecy MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: I 135/250 MEASUREMENTS: 30.25" x 30.25" YEAR: 1975 FRAMED: No CONDITION: ...
Etching
$9,600Sale Price|20% Off
The Mythology of Oedipus & The Sphinx Etching on Japon Paper, Hand Signed
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: The Mythology Edipus & The Sphinx MEDIUM: Etching on Japon Paper EDITION NUMBER: XLII/C SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali PUBLISHER: Pierre A...
Etching
$4,200Sale Price|20% Off
The Magicians L'Illusioniste Etching, Surrealist, Hand Signed, 1968
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: The Magicians L'Illusioniste MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Editions Argillet, Paris EDITION NUMBER: 68/100 MEASUREMENTS: Paper: 1...
Etching
$4,600Sale Price|20% Off
The Hippies The Pagoda Etching, Surrealist, Hand Signed, 1969
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: The Hippies The Pagoda MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: XLV/C MEASUREMENTS: 20" x 26.5" YEAR: 1969 FRAMED: No CONDITION: Exce...
Etching
$23,600Sale Price|20% Off
Surrealist Manhattan Skyline Lithograph, Hand Signed, 1976
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Manhattan Skyline MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali PUBLISHER: Levine & Levine EDITION NUMBER: EA MEASUREMENTS: 29.75" x...
Lithograph
$6,000Sale Price|20% Off
Vitraux in Four Sheets Royal Insect, Lithograph, Hand Signed, Surrealist, 1974
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Vitraux in Four Sheets Royal Insect MEDIUM: 4 Lithographs SIGNED: 1 Lithograph is Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMBER: 1 lithograph is numbe...
Lithograph
$4,400Sale Price|20% Off
Florals Rose Etching, Surrealist, Hand Signed, Framed, 1972
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Florals Rose MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: 99/350 MEASUREMENTS: 21.6" x 29.4" Framed: 33" x 41" YEAR: 1972 FRAMED: Yes CON...
Etching
$10,000Sale Price|20% Off
Self-Portrait Sundial Lithograph, Surrealist, Hand Signed, 1966
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Self-Portrait Sundial MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: 103/150 MEASUREMENTS: 22.25" x 18" YEAR: 1966 CONDITION: Excellent ...
Lithograph
$10,800Sale Price|20% Off
Departure of The Fisherman Lithograph, Surrealist, Hand Signed, 1965
By Salvador Dalí
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...
Lithograph
$3,436Sale Price|20% Off
La Venus aux Fourrures: Lady Leaf Etching, Surrealist, Hand Signed, 1968
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: La Venus aux Fourrures Lady Leaf MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: 34/145 MEASUREMENTS: 11" x 15" Framed: 17" x 20" YEAR: 1968 ...
Etching
$4,400Sale Price|20% Off
La Tauromachie Individuelle, Surrealist Etching, Hand Signed
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: La Tauromachie Individuelle MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Pierre Argillet EDITION NUMBER: XXV/C MEASUREMENTS: 25.5" x 20" YEAR: ...
Etching
$6,000Sale Price|20% Off
The Hippies The Cosmonaut Etching, Surrealist, Hand Signed, 1969
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: The Hippies The Cosmonaut MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: 119/145 MEASUREMENTS: 20" x 25.6" YEAR: 1969 CONDITION: Excellent ...
Etching
$10,000Sale Price|20% Off
Fantastic Voyage Lithograph, Surrealist, Hand Signed, 1965
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Fantastic Voyage MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: 139/300 MEASUREMENTS: 22" x 30" YEAR: 1965 FRAMED: No CONDITION: Excell...
Lithograph
$7,800Sale Price|20% Off
Apocalyptische Reiter (Apocalyptic Rider) Etching, Hand Signed, Surrealist, 1974
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Apocalyptische Reiter (Apocalyptic Rider) MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: 166/175 MEASUREMENTS: 22" x 30" YEAR: 1974 CONDITIO...
Etching
$32,000Sale Price|20% Off
La Femme Visible Heliogravure Etching, Surrealist, Hand Signed, 1930
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
REFERENCE: The Official Catalog of The Works of Salvador Dali by Albert Field page 15 #30-3
Etching
$6,000Sale Price|20% Off
Le Cirque Chinois Etching, Hand Signed, Surrealist, 1965
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Le Cirque Chinois MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: 166/175 MEASUREMENTS: 26.25" x 21" YEAR: 1965 FRAMED: No CONDITION: Excel...
Etching
$6,400Sale Price|20% Off
The Magicians Vanite Etching, Surrealist, Hand Signed, 1968
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: The Magicians Vanite MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Editions Argillet, Paris EDITION NUMBER: 39/100 MEASUREMENTS: Paper: 11.2" x 1...
Etching
$11,600Sale Price|20% Off
Judgment of Paris Etching, Surrealist, Hand Signed, 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: The Mythology Judgment of Paris MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: 141/150 MEASUREMENTS: 18" x 29.9" YEAR: 1963 FRAMED: No COND...
Etching
$4,200Sale Price|20% Off
Arnella The Golden Fleece, Surrealist Etching, Hand Signed
By Salvador Dalí
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...
Etching
$3,600Sale Price|20% Off
Vitraux in Four Sheets Puzzle of Life Surrealist Lithographs, Hand Signed, 1974
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Vitraux in Four Sheets Puzzle of Life MEDIUM: 4 Lithographs SIGNED: 1 Lithograph is Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMBER: 1 lithograph is num...
Lithograph
$5,800Sale Price|20% Off
Saint Lucie, Surrealist Etching, Hand Signed
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Saint Lucie MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Michelle Broutta, Paris EDITION NUMBER: 268/450 MEASUREMENTS: 35.5" x 25" YEAR: ...
Etching
$5,600Sale Price|20% Off
Poems Secrets War 1914-1918 Etching, Surrealist, Hand Signed, 1967
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Poems Secrets War 1914-1918 MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Editions Argillet, Paris EDITION NUMBER: 108/145 MEASUREMENTS: 11" x 15...
Etching
$5,600Sale Price|20% Off
Vegetation Inedit (Pineapple) Etching, Surrealist, Hand Signed, 1967
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Vegetation Inedit (Pineapple) MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Les Bibliophiles de L'Union Francaise EDITION NUMBER: EA MEASUREMENTS:...
Etching
$4,400Sale Price|20% Off
The Mythology Narcissus Etching, Surrealist, Hand Signed, 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: The Mythology Narcissus MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Pierre Argillet, Paris EDITION NUMBER: XXXI/C MEASUREMENTS: 18" x 30" YEAR...
Etching
$10,000Sale Price|20% Off
Tauramachie Surrealiste Parrots Etching, Hand Signed, 1970, Framed
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Tauramachi Surrealiste The Parrots MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Pierre Argillet, Paris EDITION NUMBER: 149/150 MEASUREMENTS: ...
Etching
$5,200Sale Price|20% Off
FlorDali/Les Fruits Raspberry Etching, Surrealist, Hand Signed, 1969
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
REFERENCE: The Official Catalog of The Works of Salvador Dali by Albert Field page 54 #69-11 K
Etching
$5,200Sale Price|20% Off
FlorDali/Les Fruits Cherries Etching, Surrealist, Hand Signed, 1969
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: FlorDali/Les Fruits Cherries MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Jean Schneider, Basel EDITION NUMBER: 109/200 MEASUREMENTS: 22" x 30" ...
Etching
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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