Judgement Aquatint Etching on Arches Paper, Signed, Edition 217/300
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Aventura, FL
Aquatint and etching on Arches paper from Historia de Don Quixote de la Mancha. Hand signed lower right by Salvador Dali. Hand numbered from the edition of 300 lower left.
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Pylades Loved Ermione Woodcut Print, Surrealist, Signed, 1978 Edition
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Pylades Loved Ermione is a woodcut print on Arches Paper realized in 1978 to illustrated "L'Art d'Aimer" (The Art of Love) by Ovid. Hand signed and numbered in pencil. Dali's Drysta...
Woodcut
Yes, O Beautiful Dione Woodcut Print, Surrealist, Signed, 1978
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Yes, o Beautiful Dione is a woodcut print on Arches Paper realized in 1978 to illustrated "L'Art d'Aimer" (The Art of Love) by Ovid. Hand signed and numbered in pencil. Dali's Drys...
Woodcut
$6,000
Hommage a Picasso (Cannes / Cote d'Azur) Signed Etching, F. Hunter Authenticated
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed lower right by Salvador Dali. Hand numbered 57/200 lower left.
Paper, Etching
La Desse de Cythère Woodcut Print, Surrealist, Signed, 1978, 133/250
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and numbered in pencil. Dali's Drystamp.
Woodcut
Le Legacy Aquatint Etching on Japon Paper, Signed, 4/150, 20th Century
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Aventura, FL
Aquatint and etching on Japon paper from Historia de Don Quixote de la Mancha. Hand signed lower right by Salvador Dali. Hand numbered 4/150 lower left.
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Time Stillness of Time
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Time Stillness of Time MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali PUBLISHER: Levine & Levine, New York EDITION NUMBER: EA MEASUREMENTS...
Lithograph
The Butterfly & The Lips The Lips
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: The Butterfly & The Lips The Lips MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali PUBLISHER: Editions Graphiques International EDITION NUMB...
Lithograph
Le Vitrail
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Le Vitrail MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali PUBLISHER: Argillet Editions EDITION NUMBER: XII/C MEASUREMENTS: 15" x 11.5" YEAR:...
Etching
Trilogy of Love The Eternity of Love (The Tower)
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Trilogy of Love The Eternity of Love (The Tower) MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMBER: III/C MEASUREMENTS: Paper...
Lithograph
Dawn of Port Lligat
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Dawn of Port Lligat MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMBER: 208/250 MEASUREMENTS: 35.37" x 24.62" Frames: 43" x 36" ...
Lithograph
$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
Les Caprices de Goya Rasputin
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Les Caprices de Goya Rasputin MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMBER: 27/200 MEASUREMENTS: Paper: 17.9" x 12.2" Frame: ...
Etching
Ivanhoe Rowena
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Ivanhoe Rowena MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMBER: 36/250 MEASUREMENTS: Paper: 23" x 18" Frame: 38.5" x 31" YE...
Lithograph
New Jerusalem The Messiah
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: New Jerusalem The Messiah MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMBER: G 22/125 MEASUREMENTS: Paper: 22.25" x 30" Frame:...
Lithograph
La Vida es Sueno Portrait de Calderon
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: La Vida es Sueno Portrait de Calderon MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMBER: 194/250 MEASUREMENTS: Paper: 22" x 15" F...
Etching
Changes in Great Masterpieces Persistence de la Memoire
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Changes in Great Masterpieces Persistence de la Memoire MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMBER: E 144/150 MEASUREME...
Lithograph
Les Metamorphoses Erotiques
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Les Metamorphoses Erotiques MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali PUBLISHER: Edita: a L'Erotitiade/Editions des trois continents EDIT...
Etching
Hommage a Picasso
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Hommage a Picasso MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali PUBLISHER: Felicia, New York/EGI EDITION NUMBER: XLVI/CC MEASUREMENTS: Paper...
Etching
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
Paysage Surréaliste
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Paysage Surrealiste MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMBER: XII/LXXV MEASUREMENTS: 24.75" x 25.12" YEAR: 1974 FRAMED:...
Etching
Sainte Lucie
By Salvador Dalí
Located in OPOLE, PL
Dimensions of work: 90 x 63.5 cm. Hand signed. Reference: Field, 73-3; Michler, Löpsinger 640 -- A luminous and visionary composition, Sainte Lucie showcases Salvador Dalí’s deep...
Watercolor, Etching
Les Betes Sauvages Dans le Desert
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Les Betes Sauvages Dans le Desert MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali PUBLISHER: Levine & Levine EDITION NUMBER: 189/450 MEASUREME...
Etching
Gloria vultus Moysi (The Glory of Moses' face)
By Salvador Dalí
Located in New York, NY
color lithograph on wove paper from SACRA BIBLIA 19 x 13 ¾ inches hand-signed by artist - "Dali". Pencil numbered verso - "18/ P6" Excellent condition Accompanied by certificate of ...
Lithograph
Tu es Petrus (#89 You are Peter)
By Salvador Dalí
Located in New York, NY
color lithograph on wove paper from SACRA BIBLIA 19 x 13 ¾ inches hand-signed by artist - "Dali". Pencil numbered verso - "89/ P49" Excellent condition Accompanied by certificate of...
Lithograph
$10,500
Et baptizatus est a Ioanne in Iordane (He was baptized by John in the Jordan)
By Salvador Dalí
Located in New York, NY
color lithograph on wove paper from SACRA BIBLIA 19 x 13 ¾ inches hand-signed by artist - "Dali". Pencil numbered verso - "84/ P59" Excellent condition Accompanied by certificate of...
Lithograph
Sanctus Raphael et Tobias (Saint Raphael and Tobias)
By Salvador Dalí
Located in New York, NY
color lithograph on wove paper from SACRA BIBLIA 19 x 13 ¾ inches hand-signed by artist - "Dali". Pencil numbered verso - "32/ P7" Excellent condition Accompanied by certificate of ...
Lithograph
Noe qui primus plantavit vinea (Noah who planted the first vineyard)
By Salvador Dalí
Located in New York, NY
color lithograph on wove paper from SACRA BIBLIA 19 x 13 ¾ inches hand-signed by artist - "Dali". Pencil numbered verso - "9/P2" Excellent condition Accompanied by certificate of au...
Lithograph
Gala, mon seul desir
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Gala, mon seul desir MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali PUBLISHER: Jean Schneider, Basel EDITION NUMBER: EA MEASUREMENTS: 20.9" ...
Etching
Fleurs Surrealistes Gala's Bouquet
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Fleurs Surrealistes Gala's Bouquet MEDIUM: Lithograph on Japon Paper SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali PUBLISHER: Levine & Levine for DALART EDIT...
Lithograph
Florals Water-Hybiscus Swan
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Florals Water-Hybiscus Swan MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali PUBLISHER: Editions Graphiques Internationals EDITION NUMBER: 62/35...
Etching
Don Quixote
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Don Quixote MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMBER: 80/100 MEASUREMENTS: 30" x 22" YEAR: 1966 FRAMED: No CONDITION:...
Etching
Fleurs Surrealiste Vanishing Face
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Fleurs Surrealiste Vanishing Face MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMBER: HC 24/65 MEASUREMENTS: 21" x 29.5" YEAR: ...
Lithograph
Memories of Surrealism Surrealist Crutches
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Memories of Surrealism Surrealist Crutches MEDIUM: Etching on Japon Paper SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMBER: A XXX/XL MEASUREMENTS...
Etching
Visions Surrealiste Coronation of Gala
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Visions Surrealiste Coronation of Gala MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMBER: EA MEASUREMENTS: 21.37" x 29.75" YEA...
Lithograph
Memories of Surrealism Surrealist King
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Memories of Surrealism Surrealist King MEDIUM: Etching on Japon Paper SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMBER: A XXX/XL MEASUREMENTS: 29...
Etching
Memories of Surrealism Ultra Surrealist Corpuscular Galutska
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Memories of Surrealism Ultra Surrealist Corpuscular Galutska MEDIUM: Etching on Japon Paper SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMBER: A XX...
Etching
Memories of Surrealism Surrealist Flower Girl
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Memories of Surrealism Surrealist Flower Girl MEDIUM: Etching on Japon Paper SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMBER: A XXX/XL MEASUREME...
Etching
Memories of Surrealism Dressed in The Nude in The Surrealist Fashion
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Memories of Surrealism Dressed in The Nude in The Surrealist Fashion MEDIUM: Etching on Japon Paper SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMB...
Etching
Imaginations & Objects of The Future Liquid Tornado Bath Tub
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Imaginations & Objects of The Future Liquid Tornado Bath Tub MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali PUBLISHER: Merril Chase, Chicago/Al...
Etching
Imaginations & Objects of The Future Intra-Uterine Paradisiac Locomotion
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Imaginations & Objects of The Future Intra-Uterine Paradisiac Locomotion MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali PUBLISHER: Merril Chase...
Etching
Memories of Surrealism Angel of Dada Surrealism
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Memories of Surrealism Angel of Dada Surrealism MEDIUM: Etching on Japon Paper SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMBER: A XXX/XL MEASURE...
Etching
Imaginations & Objects of The Future Breathing Pneumatic Armchair
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Imaginations & Objects of The Future Breathing Pneumatic Armchair MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali PUBLISHER: Merril Chase, Chica...
Etching
Imaginations & Objects of The Future Liquid & Gaseous Television
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Imaginations & Objects of The Future Liquid and Gaseous Television MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali PUBLISHER: Merril Chase, Chi...
Etching
Imaginations & Objects of The Future Cyclopean Make-Up
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Imaginations & Objects of The Future Cyclopean Make-Up MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali PUBLISHER: Merril Chase, Chicago/Alan Ric...
Etching
Imaginations & Objects of The Future Spectacles with Holograms & Computers
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Imaginations & Objects of The Future Spectacles with Holograms & Computers for Seeing Imagined Objects MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvado...
Etching
Imaginations & Objects of The Future Biological Garden
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Imaginations & Objects of The Future Biological Garden MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali PUBLISHER: Merril Chase, Chicago/Alan Ri...
Etching
Les Amours de Cassandre The Fairy
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Les Amours de Cassandre The Fairy MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali PUBLISHER: Editions Argillet, Paris EDITION NUMBER:...
Etching
Licone et Gangaride
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Licone et Gangaride MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMBER: 10/175 MEASUREMENTS: 20" x 26" YEAR: 1971 FRAMED: No CON...
Etching
La Petite Chouette 2
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: La Petite Chouette 2 MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMBER: EA MEASUREMENTS: 12" x 18" YEAR: 1968 FRAMED: No CONDI...
Etching
Plage de Cadaques
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Plage de Cadaques MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMBER: Epreuve d'Artiste MEASUREMENTS: 26" x 19.75" YEAR: 1967 FRA...
Etching
Conquest of Cosmos Saturnian Giraffe
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Conquest of Cosmos Saturnian Giraffe MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMBER: EA MEASUREMENTS: 27.5" x 38.5" YEAR: 1974...
Etching
Don Quichotte et l'oursin
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Don Quichotte et l'oursin MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMBER: 4/145 MEASUREMENTS: 19" x 25.5" YEAR: 1963 FRAMED: ...
Etching
Conquest of Cosmos The Blood of The Ying and Yang
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Conquest of Cosmos The Blood of The Ying and Yang MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMBER: EA MEASUREMENTS: 27.5" x 38.5...
Etching
Imaginations & Objects of The Future Cybernetic Lobster Telephone
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Imaginations & Objects of The Future Cybernetic Lobster Telephone MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali PUBLISHER: Merrill Chase,...
Etching
Triumph of Love 2 Piece Suite With Original Portfolio Case
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Triumph of Love Le Triomphe Le Judgment MEDIUM: 2 Lithographs SIGNED: Each piece is Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMBER: 156/175 matched num...
Lithograph
The Mythology Icarus
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: The Mythology Icarus MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali PUBLISHER: Pierre Argillet, Paris MEASUREMENTS: 18" x 30" YEAR: 1963 FR...
Etching
La Quete du Graal The Pass of Gadalore
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: La Quete du Graal The Pass og Gadalore MEDIUM: Etching EDITION NUMBER: XV/XXV SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali PUBLISHER: Pamela Verlog MEASUR...
Etching
Alice in Wonderland Complete Suite
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
Alice's Evidence MEDIUM: 1 Original Engraving and 12 Heliogravures of Original Gouaches SIGNED: The Frontispiece is Hand Signed by Salvador Dali PUBLISHER: Maecents Press, NY EDI...
Etching
La Femme Visible
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: La Femme Visible MEDIUM: original Heliogravure - Etching in the book titled "La Femme Visible" SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali on the frontispie...
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.”
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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.
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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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