Salvador Dalí -- Le cheval de course
By Salvador Dalí
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Salvador Dali Le cheval de course, 1970 Portfolio: Les Chevaux Dalineins Lithograph Hand signed lower right in pencil Edition EA lower left in pencil Sheet size: 39 x 54 cm Printer: ...
Lithograph
Salvador Dalí - Femme à cheval - Hand-watercolored drypoint etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Varese, IT
Hand-watercolored drypoint etching on extremely fine Japanese paper, edited in 1969. Limited edition of 145 copies, numbered in lower left corner as 14/145. Hand-signed in pencil by ...
Paper, Etching
Le Cheval du Printemps, Signed Surrealist Lithograph by Salvador Dali
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Long Island City, NY
The portfolio from which this piece came is an homage to the animal itself and all the symbols it represents in modern culture, mythology, and the history of humanity and art. Le Ch...
Lithograph
$3,756
Salvador Dalí – Femme à cheval - hand watercolored drypoint etching – 1969
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Varese, IT
hand watercolored drypoint etching on extremely fine Japanese paper, edited in 1969 limited edition of 145 copies water-colored , numbered in lower left corner ea ( artist proof ) si...
Paper, Watercolor, Drypoint, Etching
Salvador Dalí -- Le Cheval De La Mort from Les Chevaux Daliniens
By Salvador Dalí
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Salvador Dali Le Cheval De La Mort from Les Chevaux Daliniens, 1970 Lithograph with embossing Hand-signed lower right Edition EA lower left Image Size: 54 x 39.5 cm.
Lithograph
$2,196
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) - Couple à cheval - Drypoint etching on paper - 1971
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Varese, IT
Drypoint etching with stencil on Rives paper, edited in 1971. Limited edition in 150 copies, numbered as EA (épreuve d'artiste) (artist's proof) in lower left corner. Hand-signed in ...
Paper, Etching
Le cheval de labeur & Le cheval du printemps, Two Signed Lihographs, 1972
By Salvador Dalí
Located in OPOLE, PL
Two original lithographs: 1. Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Le cheval de labeur Lithograph from 1972.
Lithograph
$6,380Sale Price|20% Off
Le Cheval de Course Lithograph, Surrealist, Signed
By Salvador Dalí
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Le cheval de course Lithograph from 1972.
Lithograph
$5,582Sale 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
Femme à Cheval, Original Etching, Surrealist, 1969, Signed
By Salvador Dalí
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Femme à cheval (Woman on Horseback) Original drypoint etching with hand-applied watercolor on Japanese paper, from the deluxe edition of Venus aux Fourrure...
Etching
Le Cheval Marin, Original Lithograph, Surrealist, 1972, Framed, Signed
By Salvador Dalí
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Le cheval marin Lithograph from 1972.
Lithograph
$5,582Sale Price|30% Off
Le Cheval du Printemps, Original Lithograph, Surrealist, 1972, Signed
By Salvador Dalí
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Le cheval du printemps Lithograph from 1972.
Lithograph
$4,047
Salvador Dali etching with drypoint, 1974, signed and numbered, edition of 120
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Created in 1974, Le Cheval et Le Loup belongs to Dalí’s acclaimed Bestiaire de La Fontaine series, inspired by the celebrated fables of Jean de La Fontaine.
Etching
$4,586
Salvador Dali etching with drypoint, 1974, signed and numbered, edition of 120
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Created in 1974, Le Cheval S'étant voulu Venger du Cerf forms part of Dalí’s acclaimed suite Le Bestiaire de La Fontaine, inspired by the timeless fables of the seventeenth-century F...
Etching
$9,143
Le Cheval s’étant voulu venger du Cerf (The Horse that Wanted Revenge on the Sta
By Salvador Dalí
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Le Cheval s’étant voulu venger du Cerf (The Horse that Wanted Revenge on the Stag) Etching from 1974.
Etching
The Horse and the Wolf, Original Etching, Modern, 1974, Signed
By Salvador Dalí
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Le Cheval et le Loup (The Horse and the Wolf) Etching from 1974.
Etching
Le Cheval de Picasso
By Salvador Dalí
Located in New Orleans, LA
Original etching by renowned Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí.
Etching
Le Cheval de Picasso (Picasso’s Horse)
By Salvador Dalí
Located in New York, NY
Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989) Le Cheval de Picasso (Picasso’s Horse) 1968 Etching 15 x 11 inches (66 x 50.8 cm) Edition of 100 Signed and numbered in pencil
Etching
Unavailable
H 15.72 in W 22.83 in D 1 in
Le Cheval et le Loup (The Horse and the Wolf)
By Salvador Dalí
Located in New York, NY
Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904–1989) Le Cheval et le Loup (The Horse and the Wolf) 1974 Etching / Engraving 15.75 х 22.83 in. (40 x 57.98 cm) Edition of LXII (62) Signed
Le femme cheval
By Salvador Dalí
Located in OPOLE, PL
This work will be exhibited at Art on Paper NYC, September 4–7, 2025. – Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Le femme cheval Lithograph from 1972.
Lithograph
Le Cheval de Course
By Salvador Dalí
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) (after) - Le Cheval de Course Lithograph from 1983.
Lithograph
Le Cheval de la Mort
By Salvador Dalí
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) (after) - Le Cheval de la Mort Lithograph from 1983.
Lithograph
Femme, cheval et la mort
By Salvador Dalí
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Femme, cheval et la mort Etching from 1967.
Watercolor, Etching
Le Cheval de la Mort
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Long Island City, NY
The portfolio from which this piece came is an homage to the animal itself and all the symbols it represents in modern culture, mythology, and history of humanity and art. Le Cheva...
Lithograph
L'Etalon Blanc (Hommage au cheval)
By Salvador Dalí
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - L'Etalon Blanc (Hommage au cheval) Drypoint etching from 1974.
Etching, Drypoint
Helen and the Trojan Horse (Hélène et le cheval de Troie)
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
An original signed drypoint etching on Arches wove paper by Spanish artist Salvador Dali (1904-1989) titled "Helen and the Trojan Horse (Hélène et le cheval de Troie)", 1972.
Etching
Salvador Dalí -- Cheval Allegre (Happy Unicorn), 1977
By Salvador Dalí
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Salvador Dalí Happy Unicorn, 1977 Hand signed lower right and numbered 165/300 lower left COA available Image: 47.5 x 58 cm
Lithograph
Sold
H 25.99 in W 19.69 in
Cheval en rose ("rosy horse"), Original etching, Handsigned
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador DALI Cheval en rose ("rosy horse") Original etching and color by pochoir Handsigned in pencil Limited to 300 copies On vellum Arches 66 x 50 cm This etching is pa...
Etching
Le cheval de Troie
By Salvador Dalí
Located in OPOLE, PL
This work will be exhibited at Art on Paper NYC, September 4–7, 2025. – Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Le cheval de Troie Lithograph from 1972.
Lithograph
Le Cheval en Rose (The Rosy Horse)
By Salvador Dalí
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled, Le Cheval en Rose (The Rosy Horse) from the suite, Visions De Quevedo, 1975. is an original engraving with pochoir hand coloring on Richard de Bas paper, by arti...
Engraving
Le Cheval de Picasso - Etching - 1968
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and drypoint realized in 1968 Table from the Series "Les Amours de Cassandre", published by Argillet, Paris. Edition of 56/95 on japanese paper, hand colored. Hand signed ...
Etching
Le Cheval en Rose (The Rosy Horse)
By Salvador Dalí
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled, Le Cheval en Rose (The Rosy Horse) from the suite, Visions De Quevedo, 1975. is an original engraving with pochoir hand coloring on Richard de Bas paper, by arti...
Engraving
Sold
H 26.78 in W 19.69 in D 0.04 in
Le Cheval de Triomphe, Lithograph, Surrealist, 1970, Edition 187/254
By Salvador Dalí
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Le cheval de triomphe Lithograph from 1970.
Lithograph
Le Cheval et le Loup (The Horse and the Wolf)
By Salvador Dalí
Located in White Plains, NY
'Le Cheval et le Loup (The Horse and the Wolf)' 2018 by Salvador Dali, from the series Le Bestiaire de la Fontaine Dalinise.
Drypoint, Etching, Stencil
Le cheval de course
By Salvador Dalí
Located in SAINT BARTHELEMY, FR
Limited edition lithograph on Arches paper. This lithograph comes from the set of 18 color lithographs portfolio "Les Chevaux de Dali", a series of works with a horse as its main the...
Lithograph
Le cheval de triomphe
By Salvador Dalí
Located in SAINT BARTHELEMY, FR
Limited edition lithograph on Arches paper. This lithograph comes from the set of 18 color lithographs portfolio "Les Chevaux de Dali", a series of works with a horse as its main the...
Lithograph
Happy Unicorn "Cheval Allegre"
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Happy Unicorn, lithograph printed in France 1977 hand signed lower right and numbered 177/300 lower left. Printed on Arches paper 22 x30, edition created from the original painting....
Lithograph
$4,797Sale Price|40% Off
H 26.78 in W 19.69 in D 0.04 in
St. George Lithograph by Salvador Dali, 1972, Edition 187/250
By Salvador Dalí
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - St. George Lithograph from 1972. The edition of 187/250. Dimensions of work: 68 x 50 cm. On B.F.K Rives paper as stated in the Field catalogue. Refer...
Lithograph
$1,738
H 16 in W 12 in D 0.1 in
Salvador Dali - Woman on Horse - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Woman on Horse - Original Stamp-Signed Etching Stamp signed by Dali Edition of 294 copies. Paper : Arches vellum. Dimensions : 16x12". Catalogue Raisonné : Field 6...
Etching
$3,476
H 16.15 in W 13 in D 0.04 in
Salvador Dali - Apparition de Dulcinée - Original Lithograph
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Apparition de Dulcinée - Original Lithograph Joseph FORET, Paris, 1957 SIGNATURE : printed in the image LIMITED : 197 copies. SIZE : 41 x 33 cm REFERENCES : Field 57...
Lithograph
$5,597Sale Price|30% Off
H 26.78 in W 19.69 in D 0.04 in
Neptune, Original Lithograph, Surrealist, 1970, Signed, Excellent
By Salvador Dalí
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Neptune Lithograph from 1970. Edition of 187/250. Dimensions of work: 68 x 50 cm Publisher: Simeon Wajntraub. On B.F.K Rives paper as stated in the F...
Lithograph
$4,500
H 29 in W 21 in
Chevalier Surrealiste, Signed Surrealist Lithograph by Salvador Dali
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original hand-signed and numbered Dali lithograph entitled "Chevalier Surrealiste". A rare example that it accompanied with the original folio and the Bowles/Hopkins Certificate o...
Lithograph
$3,500
H 26 in W 19.75 in
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
$1,738
H 14.97 in W 11.03 in
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) - Le torse - drypoint etching on Japanese paper -1969
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Varese, IT
Drypoint, etching on Japanese paper, edited in 1969. Limited edition of 29 copies, numbered EA in lower left corner. Hand-signed by artist in pencil in the lower right margin. Plate...
Etching
$3,756
H 25.6 in W 21.66 in D 2.37 in
Salvador Dalí – La Tête ( The Head ) – hand watercolored drypoint etching – 1969
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Varese, IT
hand watercolored drypoint etching on extremely fine Japanese paper, edited in 1969 limited edition of 145 copies water-colored , numbered in lower left corner ea ( artist proof ) si...
Paper, Watercolor, Drypoint, Etching
Salvador Dalí -- Don Quichotte
By Salvador Dalí
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Salvador Dali Don Quichotte from Les Chevaux Daliniens Lithograph with embossing Sheet size 55.5 x 36 cm Printed by Wolfensburger, Zurich Published by Wajntraub & Carpentier, Pa...
Lithograph
$1,600Sale Price|20% Off
H 20 in W 17.5 in
Salvador Dali "Untitled II (Le Tricorne)"
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: Untitled II (Le Tricorne) Series: Le Tricorne (The Three-Pointed Hat) Date: 1959 Medium: Wood engraving Framed Dimensions: 20" x 17.5" Signature:...
Engraving
$3,756
H 14.97 in W 11.03 in
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) - Drypoint etching on Japanese paper - 1969
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Varese, IT
Drypoint etching on Japanese paper, edited in 1969. Limited edition, numbered as 124/145 in lower left corner. Hand-signed in pencil by artist in lower right corner. Plate size: 31 ...
Paper, Drypoint, Etching
$2,658
H 25.2 in W 19.49 in
Salvador Dalì (1904-1989) - Femme a coussin - Drypoint, etchings - 1969
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Varese, IT
Hand coloured drypoint, etchings on Arches paper, edited in 1969/1970. Limited edition of 145 copies, numbered 55/145 in lower left corner. Hand-signed by artist in pencil in the low...
Drypoint, Etching
Salvador Dali - Don Quichotte
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Don Quichotte - Original Lithograph Joseph FORET, Paris, 1957 PRINTER : Atelier Mourlot. SIGNATURE : printed signature in the plate LIMITED : Total edition of 233 SI...
Lithograph
$346
H 13 in W 10.24 in D 0.04 in
The Centaur Woodcut Print, Surrealist, Limited Edition, 1963, Unframed
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
The Centaur is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. Good conditions. Limited edition of 2900, r...
Woodcut
$7,300
H 35.44 in W 25.01 in D 0.04 in
Sainte Lucie, Original Etching and Watercolor, 1974, Signed
By Salvador Dalí
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Sainte Lucie Etching and watercolour from 1974. The edition 219/450. Dimensions of work: 90 x 63.5 cm. Hand signed. Reference: Field, 73-3; Michler, ...
Watercolor, Etching
$6,480
H 65 in W 50 in
Salvador Dalí -- Neptune, from the series Les Chevaux Daliniens
By Salvador Dalí
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Salvador Dalí Neptune, from the series Les Chevaux Daliniens, 1972 Lithographs with embossing on Rives Image size: 53.4 x 39 cm Sheet size: 65 x 50 cm Numbered 44/250 lower left Han...
Lithograph
$913
H 14.97 in W 10.24 in
Casanova : Snail Lady - Original etching (Field #67-4 K)
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador DALI (1904-1969) Casanova : Snail lady, 1967 Original etching Signed in the plate On vellum Rives 38 x 28 cm (c. 14.9 x 11 inch) REFERENCES : - Catalog raisonné Field #67-...
Etching
Salvador Dali - Argus - Original Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Argus - from "Mythologie" Original Etching Dimensions: 76 x 56 cm 1962 Editor: Pierre Argillet Edition: /150 Handsigned and numbered On Arches Paper References : Fiel...
Etching
Dali, Femme à tete de Roses (after)
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Title: Femme à tete de Roses Year: 2004 Medium: Lithograph on wove paper Size: 30.25 x 22 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Unsigned and unnu...
Lithograph
$5,201
H 26 in W 19.75 in D 0.1 in
Salvador Dali - Flung out like - Original Signed Engraving
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Flung out like a Fag-end by the Big- - Original Signed Engraving Handsigned in pencil and Numbered Edition: F195/195 - Printer: Atelier Rigal. - Paper: Rives vellum ...
Etching
Alice in Wonderland
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
$2,800
H 25.5 in W 19.8 in
Salvador Dalí Whoever Takes Carmen (Salvador Dalí prints Salvador Dalí Carmen)
By Salvador Dalí
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Salvador Dalí Whoever Takes Carmen Away Must Pay with His Life 1970 (from Carmen): Lithograph in colors on Arches paper. 25.5 x 19.8 inches (64.8 x 50.5 cm). Good overall vintage ...
Paper, Lithograph
$11,588
H 16.15 in W 25.2 in D 0.04 in
Salvador Dali - The Golden Age - Original Lithograph
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Golden Age - Original Lithograph Joseph FORET, Paris, 1957 PRINTER : Ballon. SIGNATURE : plate signed by Dali. LIMITED : 197 copies. EDITION : Number 136 SIZE ...
Lithograph
$6,000
H 15.35 in W 21.25 in
La Licorne (The Unicorn), Surrealist Lithograph by Salvador Dali
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Long Island City, NY
A woman with flowing gold hair kneels before a unicorn. The horse theme was frequently used by Dali throughout his career. The horse is seen as a symbol of beauty and elegance as wel...
Lithograph
$8,450
H 38 in W 28 in D 1 in
Salvador Dali Lithograph Limited Edition Hand Signed -The Immaculate Conception
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Plainview, NY
This captivating lithograph by Salvador Dalí ( Spanish, 1904 -1989) , titled The Immaculate Conception, is an original limited-edition piece, numbered 188 out of 250 and hand-signed ...
Lithograph
$5,663
H 26.78 in W 19.69 in D 0.04 in
Lady Godiva, Original Lithograph, Surrealist, 1970, Framed, Signed
By Salvador Dalí
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Lady Godiva Lithograph from 1970. Edition of 187/256. Dimensions of work: 68 x 50 cm Publisher: Simeon Wajntraub. On B.F.K Rives paper as stated in t...
Lithograph
$10,500
H 30 in W 22 in
Bullfight No. 5 original signed limited edition lithograph by Salvador Dali
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Paonia, CO
Bullfight No. 5 is a signed limited edition ( 4/300 ) original lithograph by Salvador Dali from the Taureaumachie Suite of five original lithographs. Published by Phyllis Lucas...
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Nude and Lobster
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Nude and Lobster - Original Etching Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm Edition: 390 1967 Editor : Au Cercle du Livre Précieux On Rives Vellum From the Serie Casanova Unsigned as ...
Etching
Crazy Horse
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Crazy Horse MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: 223/250 MEASUREMENTS: 30.5" x 22.25" YEAR: 1968 FRAMED: No CERTIFICATE OF AUT...
Lithograph
$6,380Sale Price|20% Off
H 26.78 in W 19.69 in D 0.04 in
Bucéphale, Lithograph, Surrealist, 1972, Signed, Excellent
By Salvador Dalí
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Bucéphale Lithograph from 1972 The edition of 187/250.. Dimensions of work: 68 x 50 cm On B.F.K Rives paper as stated in the Field catalogue. Referen...
Lithograph
$6,480
H 25.6 in W 19.69 in
Salvador Dalí -- Le chevalier Chretien, from the series Les Chevaux Daliniens
By Salvador Dalí
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Salvador Dalí Le chevalier Chretien, from the series Les Chevaux Daliniens, 1972 Lithographs with embossing on Rives Image size: 53.4 x 39 cm Sheet size: 65 x 50 cm Numbered 44/250 ...
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.”
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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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