$488
COASTAL ROAD Signed Mini Lithograph, Surreal Coastal Landscape, Spool of Thread
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Union City, NJ
miniature surreal landscape by Fanny Brennan that is a fascinating visual eye-catcher for the viewer! Print
Lithograph
FALLING RIBBON Signed Mini Lithograph, Red Satin, Surreal Beach Scene
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Union City, NJ
water horizon completes this engaging Fanny Brennan visual gem! Print size - 7 x 6 in. unframed
Lithograph
$425
TREMOR Signed Mini Lithograph, Surreal Landscape Multicolor Sewing Thread Spools
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Union City, NJ
TREMOR is a hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the American surrealist artist Fanny Brennan
Lithograph
Tremor
By Fanny Brennan
Located in New York, NY
Created by Surrealist Fanny Brennan from 1993-96, Tremor is a lithograph in colors on wove paper
Lithograph
Skyshade
By Fanny Brennan
Located in New York, NY
Created by Surrealist Fanny Brennan from 1992-96, Skyshade is a lithograph in colors on wove paper
Lithograph
Nadine's Bookcase
By Fanny Brennan
Located in New York, NY
Created by Surrealist Fanny Brennan from 1992-96, Nadine's Bookcase is a lithograph in colors on
Lithograph
Falling Ribbon
By Fanny Brennan
Located in New York, NY
Created by Surrealist Fanny Brennan from 1992-96, Falling Ribbon is a lithograph in colors on wove
Lithograph
Ladder
By Fanny Brennan
Located in New York, NY
Created by Surrealist Fanny Brennan from 1992-96, Ladder is a lithograph in colors on wove paper
Lithograph
Art Forms
By Fanny Brennan
Located in New York, NY
Created by Surrealist Fanny Brennan in 1992-96, Art Forms is a lithograph in colors on wove paper
Lithograph
Still Life with Pear
By Fanny Brennan
Located in New York, NY
Created by Surrealist Fanny Brennan from 1992-96, Still Life with Pear is a lithograph in colors on
Lithograph
String And Scissors
By Fanny Brennan
Located in New York, NY
Created by Surrealist Fanny Brennan from 1992-96, String And Scissors is a lithograph in colors on
Lithograph
$798
ECLIPSE Signed Lithograph, Celestial Portrait, Shrouded Moon, Midnight Blue Sky
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Union City, NJ
Fanny Brennan, created using traditional hand lithography techniques printed on archival Arches paper
Lithograph
$595
FOREST Hand Drawn Signed Lithograph, Surreal Mini Landscape Misty Trees Blue Sky
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Union City, NJ
Fanny Brennan, created using traditional hand lithography techniques printed on archival Arches paper
Lithograph
The Visitor
By Fanny Brennan
Located in New York, NY
Created by Surrealist Fanny Brennan from 1992-96, The Visitor is an original lithograph in colors
Lithograph
Tight Rope
By Fanny Brennan
Located in New York, NY
Created by Surrealist Fanny Brennan from 1992-96, Tightrope is an original lithograph in colors on
Lithograph
Safety Pin Cloud
By Fanny Brennan
Located in New York, NY
Created by Surrealist Fanny Brennan from 1993-96, Safety Pin Clouds is an original lithograph in
Lithograph
Nuage a La Neige
By Fanny Brennan
Located in New York, NY
Created by Surrealist Fanny Brennan from 1992-96, Nuage a La Neige is an original lithograph in
Lithograph
Pink House
By Fanny Brennan
Located in New York, NY
Created by Surrealist Fanny Brennan from 1992-96, Pink House is an original lithograph in colors on
Lithograph
Sky Trip
By Fanny Brennan
Located in New York, NY
Created by Surrealist Fanny Brennan from 1993-96, Sky Trip is an original lithograph in colors on
Lithograph
Ribbon Snail
By Fanny Brennan
Located in New York, NY
Created by Surrealist Fanny Brennan from 1992-96, Ribbon Snail is an original lithograph in colors
Lithograph
Fuji Under Siege
By Fanny Brennan
Located in New York, NY
Created by Surrealist Fanny Brennan from 1992-96, Fuji Under Siege is an original lithograph in
Lithograph
Letting Off Steam
By Fanny Brennan
Located in New York, NY
Created by Surrealist Fanny Brennan from 1992-96, Letting Off Steam is an original lithograph in
Lithograph
Deardorff
By Fanny Brennan
Located in New York, NY
Created by Surrealist Fanny Brennan from 1993-96, Deardorff is an original lithograph in colors on
Lithograph
Clarion
By Fanny Brennan
Located in New York, NY
Created by Surrealist Fanny Brennan from 1992-96, Clarion is an original lithograph in colors on
Lithograph
Captive Balloon
By Fanny Brennan
Located in New York, NY
Created by Surrealist Fanny Brennan from 1993-96, Captive Balloon is an original lithograph in
Lithograph
Airplane
By Fanny Brennan
Located in New York, NY
Created by Surrealist Fanny Brennan from 1992-96, Airplane is an original lithograph in colors on
Lithograph
Book Circle
By Fanny Brennan
Located in New York, NY
Created by Surrealist Fanny Brennan from 1992-96, Book Circle is an original lithograph in colors
Lithograph
PONT NEUF Signed Lithograph, Surreal Landscape, Historic Bridge Paris France
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Union City, NJ
in pencil by Fanny Brennan Image size - 2.25 x 3.5 in. Edition size - 250 Year published - 1992
Lithograph
ICY SLICE Signed Lithograph, Mini Landscape, Iceberg, Giant Saw
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Union City, NJ
in pencil by Fanny Brennan Image size - 2 x 3 in. Edition size - 250 Year published - 1992 Printer
Lithograph
$450
FUJI UNDER SIEGE Signed Lithograph, Mini Landscape, Snow Capped Mountain, Duster
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Union City, NJ
Fanny Brennan, created using traditional hand lithography techniques printed on archival Arches
Lithograph
$383Sale Price|20% Off
AQUEDUCT Signed Lithograph, Mini Landscape, Roman Architecture, Sailboat
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Union City, NJ
in pencil by Fanny Brennan Image size - 2 x 3 in. Edition size - 250 Year published - 1992 Printer
Lithograph
$450
SOLO Signed Lithograph, Mini Landscape, White Tree, Green Grass, Yellow Flowers
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Union City, NJ
SOLO is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the American surrealist artist Fanny Brennan
Lithograph
$330
MOUNTAIN LIFT Signed Lithograph, Surreal Mini Landscape, Lasso Rope, Blue Sky
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Union City, NJ
pencil by Fanny Brennan Image size - Mountain - 1.75 x 2.25 in. Edition size - 250 Year published - 1992
Lithograph
$400
BOOK CIRCLE Signed Lithograph, Mini Landscape Red Books, Green Plains, Mountains
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Union City, NJ
in pencil by Fanny Brennan Image size - Book Circle - 2 x 3 in. Edition size - 250 Year published
Lithograph
$310Sale Price|22% Off
QUIET ZONE Signed Lithograph, Surreal Mini Landscape, Jingle Bell, Trees
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Union City, NJ
numbered in pencil by Fanny Brennan Image size - 2 x 2 in. Edition size - 250 Year published - 1992 Printed
Lithograph
Christmas Tree
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Greenwich, CT
48/50 from the edition of 300 (there were also 250 Arabic). Fanny Brennan’s innovative approach to
Paper, Lithograph
$425
BASTED WAVES Signed Mini Lithograph, Surreal Beach Scene, Thread, Sewing Needle
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Union City, NJ
Co. NJ About the artist- Fanny Myers Brennan (1921–July 22, 2001) was a French-American surrealist
Lithograph
CLOSE CALL Signed Lithograph, Surreal Mini Landscape, Cliff, Antique Key
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Union City, NJ
-signed and numbered in pencil by Fanny Brennan Image size - 2.125 x 2.125 in. Edition size - 250 Year
Lithograph
$480
AIRPLANE Hand Drawn Signed Lithograph, Vintage Carpentry Tool, Blue Sky, Clouds
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Union City, NJ
AIRPLANE is a hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the American surrealist artist Fanny Brennan
Lithograph
$425
BUBBLE Signed Lithograph Surreal Landscape Vintage Drafting Tool, Blue Sky, Sand
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Union City, NJ
BUBBLE is a hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the American surrealist artist Fanny Brennan
Lithograph
$420
CLIFF-HANGER Signed Mini Lithograph, Surreal Landscape Seashell, Waterfall Ledge
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Union City, NJ
pencil by Fanny Brennan Image size - 2 x 1.75 in. Edition size - 250 Year published - 1992 Printed at JK
Lithograph
$318Sale Price|20% Off
BIG HORN Signed Lithograph, Surreal Mini Landscape, French Horn, Rocky Shore
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Union City, NJ
BIG HORN is a hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the American surrealist artist Fanny Brennan
Lithograph
WEDDING Signed Lithograph, Mini Landscape, Cathedral, Gold Rings, Surrealism
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Union City, NJ
WEDDING is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the American surrealist artist Fanny Brennan
Lithograph
TAGGED TREE Signed Lithograph, Mini Landscape, Tree, Water, Sky, Surrealism
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Union City, NJ
artist Fanny Brennan, created using traditional hand lithography techniques printed on archival Arches
Lithograph
$420
PINK HOUSE Signed Mini Lithograph, French Country-Style Home, Artist Paintbrush
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Union City, NJ
by Fanny Brennan Image size - 2 x 4 in. Edition size - 250 Year published - 1992 Printed at JK FIne
Lithograph
$460
HIGH TIDE LOW TIDE Signed Lithograph, Mini Seascape, Islands, Beach, Blue Water
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Union City, NJ
Fanny Brennan, created using traditional hand lithography techniques printed on archival Arches paper
Lithograph
$398
CHATEAU Signed Mini Lithograph, French Countryside, Open Book, Surreal Landscape
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Union City, NJ
CHATEAU is a hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the American surrealist artist Fanny Brennan
Lithograph
$625
CASCADE Signed Mini Lithograph, Surreal Landscape, Red Book, Waterfall, Blue Sky
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Union City, NJ
Fanny Brennan, created using traditional hand lithography techniques printed on archival Arches paper
Lithograph
$310Sale Price|21% Off
DEARDORFF Signed Mini Lithograph, Still Life, Retro Camera with Inverted Image
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Union City, NJ
and numbered in pencil by Fanny Brennan Image size - 2.5 x 3 in. Edition size - 250 Year published
Lithograph
DAYTIME KEY Signed Lithograph, Mini Beachscape, Red Box, Sand, Sea, Blue Sky
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Union City, NJ
artist Fanny Brennan, created using traditional hand lithography techniques printed on archival Arches
Lithograph
Balloon Moon
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Greenwich, CT
/250 from the edition of 300 (there were also 50 APs). Fanny Brennan’s innovative approach to painting
Paper, Lithograph
Domino Books
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Greenwich, CT
from the edition of 300 (there were also 50 APs). Fanny Brennan’s innovative approach to painting is
Paper, Lithograph
Mont. St. Michel
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Greenwich, CT
from the edition of 300 (there were also 50 APs). Fanny Brennan’s innovative approach to painting is
Paper, Lithograph
Night Room
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Greenwich, CT
from the edition of 300 (there were also 50 APs). Fanny Brennan’s innovative approach to painting is
Paper, Lithograph
Love Letters
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Greenwich, CT
/250 from the edition of 300 (there were also 50 APs). Fanny Brennan’s innovative approach to
Paper, Lithograph
Floating Books
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Greenwich, CT
/250 from the edition of 300 (there were also 50 APs). Fanny Brennan’s innovative approach to
Paper, Lithograph
Day Room
By Fanny Brennan
Located in Greenwich, CT
from the edition of 300 (there were also 50 APs). Fanny Brennan’s innovative approach to painting is
Paper, Lithograph
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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.)
Find fine art prints for sale on 1stDibs today.