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Lucas Dalis

Salvador Dali Museum Lucas Collection 1985 St. Petersburg Fla. Poster
By (after) Salvador Dali
Located in Paonia, CO
collection of the original Salvador Dali paintings owned by the Sidney and Phyllis Lucas family. The Lucas
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Color

Sun Goddess Flower original lithograph by Salvador Dali
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Paonia, CO
. Signed in pencil by Dali Sun Goddess Flower is in excellent condition. Published by Phyllis Lucas, New
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Velasquez Les Menines by Salvador Dali 1974 Lithograph
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Paonia, CO
published by Sidney Lucas, 1974. Master Dali has given us a concept most original and provocative. His
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Dali's Presentation title page Interpretation of Currier & Ives series 1971
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Paonia, CO
Dali's Presentation is the title page for Dali's interpretation of the Currier & Ives series
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Bullfight No. 5 original signed limited edition lithograph by Salvador Dali
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Paonia, CO
Salvador Dali. This collaboration by my parents continued until 1974 and The Lucille Lucas Gallery carries
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Velasquez Le Reddition De Breda by Salvador Dali 1974 lithograph
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Paonia, CO
Masterpieces published by Sidney Lucas, 1974. Master Dali has given us a concept most original and provocative
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Velasquez Le Reddition De Breda by Salvador Dali 1974 lithograph
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Paonia, CO
Masterpieces published by Sidney Lucas, 1974. Master Dali has given us a concept most original and provocative
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

American Yachting Scene Salvador Dali Currier & Ives series lithograph 1971
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Paonia, CO
World Of Currier And Ives as interpreted by Salvador Dali” published by Phyllis Lucas, New York. There
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1970s Surrealist Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Dali Inaguracion Teatro Museo Figueras Espana Septiember 1974 Poster
By (after) Salvador Dali
Located in Paonia, CO
edition lithographs published by Sidney and Phyllis Lucas. This collaboration between Master Dali and my
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Color

"Picador Bullfight" Lithograph Poster by Salvador Dalí (20th Century)
By (after) Salvador Dali
Located in Los Angeles, CA
preserving and exhibiting the works of Salvador Dali. The acquisition from the Lucas Collection indicates
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Vintage 1980s American Decorative Art

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Glass, Wood, Paper

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
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Fire, Fire Fire The World of Currier & Ives as interpreted by Salvador Dali
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Paonia, CO
Currier And Ives as interpreted by Salvador Dali” published by Phyllis Lucas, New York 1974. There are six
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1970s Surrealist Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

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
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

"American Trotting Horses, No. 1"Lithograph Poster by Salvador Dalí
By (after) Salvador Dali
Located in Los Angeles, CA
unique and exclusive Japanese exhibition of the Lucas collection of original Salvador Dali paintings
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Vintage 1970s Japanese Decorative Art

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Glass, Wood, Paper

Salvador Dali American Trotting Horses No.1 rare poster for Tokyo Exhibit 1974
By (after) Salvador Dali
Located in Paonia, CO
the The Currier and Ives Suite of six lithographs published by Phyllis Lucas in 1971 and  shows Dali
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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C Print

Rembrandt Portrait Du Peintre Par Lui-Meme original lithograph 1974
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Paonia, CO
series of six original lithographs in full color, Master Dali has given us a concept most original and
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

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Two Original Lithograph Posters for Dali Editions
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in New York, NY
editions" produced by our gallery. This set of posters is unique and each features one of the "Lucas Dali
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1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Raphael: Le Mariage de la Vierge by Salvador Dali
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in New York, NY
Vierger, directly from the Phyllis Lucas Gallery, the publisher of this and many other Dali lithographs
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Velasquez: la reddition de Breda from Changes in Great Masterpieces
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in New York, NY
, directly from the Phyllis Lucas Gallery, the publisher of this and many other Dali lithographs known as the
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Vermeer La Lettre from Changes in Great Masterpieces
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in New York, NY
from the Phyllis Lucas Gallery, the publisher of this and many other Dali lithographs known as the
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Original Dali Exhibit Poster for Lucas Collection Paintings
By (after) Salvador Dali
Located in New York, NY
Unique Exhibit Poster from original poster printing for exhibit celebrating the Lucas Collection at
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Original Salvador Dali Exhibit Poster for Exhibit in Japan
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in New York, NY
lithographs, published by the Phyllis Lucas Gallery in 1971. Dali reinterprets six 19th Century American
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

The Celebrated Trotting Team Edward and Swiveller
By Currier & Ives
Located in New York, NY
Lucas and Salvador Dali and Currier & Ives for use in the Lucas Dali Currier & Ives lithograph suite of
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1880s Realist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Bullfight No. 5 original lithograph by Salvador Dali
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Paonia, CO
Salvador Dali. This collaboration by my parents continued until 1974 and The Lucille Lucas Gallery carries
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Hommage a Cranach lithograph by Salvador Dali 1971
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Paonia, CO
. Master Dali is paying hommage to Lucas Crananch the Elder , a German Renaissance painter and printmaker
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Les Fleurs et Fruits Salvador Dali Lithograph Interpretation of Currier & Ives
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Paonia, CO
Ives as interpreted by Salvador Dali” published by Phyllis Lucas, New York. There are six original
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1960s Surrealist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Central Park in Winter by Salvador Dali Currier&Ives series lithograph framed
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Paonia, CO
Dali and my parents continued until 1974 resulting in 28 different editions and The Lucille Lucas
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1970s Surrealist Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

American Trotting Horses No. I
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Paonia, CO
interpreted by Salvador Dali” published by Phyllis Lucas, New York. There are six original limited edition
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1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Salvador Dali Museum Lucas Collection 1985 St. Petersburg Fla. Poster
By (after) Salvador Dali
Located in Paonia, CO
collection of the original Salvador Dali paintings owned by the Sidney and Phyllis Lucas family. The Lucas
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Color

The Lucky Number of Dali
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Paonia, CO
/300 publisher: Sidney Lucas size: 30 x 21.50 The Lucky Number of Dali 85 !!!! Salvador Dali
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

The Lucky Number of Dali original lithograph
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Paonia, CO
Dali. This collaboration between Master Dali and my parents continued until 1974 and The Lucille Lucas
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

La Lettre from Vermeer by Salvador Dali
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Paonia, CO
Salvador Dali. In this series of six graphics in full color, Master Dali has given us a concept most
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Dali's Presentation title page Interpretation of Currier & Ives series 1971
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Paonia, CO
Dali's Presentation is the title page for Dali's interpretation of the Currier & Ives series
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Le Marriage De La Vierge from Raphael by Salvador Dali
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Paonia, CO
series of six graphics in full color, Master Dali has given us a concept most original and provocative
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Les Fleurs et Fruits Salvador Dali Currier & Ives lithograph 1965 signed
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Paonia, CO
Ives as interpreted by Salvador Dali” published by Phyllis Lucas, New York. There are six original
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Three Graces original signed limited edition lithograph by Salvador Dali 1966
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Paonia, CO
lithograph by the famous surrealist Salvador Dali and published by Sidney Lucas in 1966 (Field, 1996, p. 149
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Persistence of Memory from Changes in Great Masterpieces by Salvador Dali
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Paonia, CO
Lucas. This collaboration between my parents and Master Dali continued until 1974 and The Lucille Lucas
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Dali Inaguracion Teatro Museo Figueras Espana Septiember 1974 Poster
By (after) Salvador Dali
Located in Paonia, CO
edition lithographs published by Sidney and Phyllis Lucas. This collaboration between Master Dali and my
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Color

Dali Inaguracion Teatro Museo Figueras Espana Septiember 1974 Poster
By (after) Salvador Dali
Located in Paonia, CO
celebrating the opening of the Salvador Dalí Theater Museum in Figueras, Spain, copyright Phyllis Lucas. The
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Color

Salvador Dali American Trotting Horses No.1 rare poster for Tokyo Exhibit 1974
By (after) Salvador Dali
Located in Paonia, CO
The Currier and Ives Suite of six lithographs published by Phyllis Lucas in 1971 and  shows Dali
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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C Print

Dali signed Alpes FRENCH NATIONAL RAILROADS poster
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in New York, NY
Lithograph signed and dated in the plate and pencil-signed by Dali in the Phyllis Lucas Gallery
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1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Two Original Lithograph Posters for Dali Editions
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in New York, NY
editions" produced by our gallery. This set of posters is unique and each features one of the "Lucas Dali
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1770s Surrealist Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Velasquez Les Menines from Changes in Great Masterpieces
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in New York, NY
", directly from the Phyllis Lucas Gallery the publisher of this and many other Dali lithographs known as the
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1970s Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Velasquez: la reddition de Breda from Changes in Great Masterpieces
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in New York, NY
, directly from the Phyllis Lucas Gallery, the publisher of this and many other Dali lithographs known as the
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Vermeer La Lettre from Changes in Great Masterpieces
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in New York, NY
from the Phyllis Lucas Gallery, the publisher of this and many other Dali lithographs known as the
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Sunflower Goddess
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in New York, NY
Gallery the publisher of this and many other Dali lithographs known as the "Lucas Dalis." Like all of the
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"La Lettre" from Changes in Great Masterpieces
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in New York, NY
from the Phyllis Lucas Gallery, the publisher of this and many other Dali lithographs known as the
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Dali Currier & Ives Series Presentation Sheet
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in New York, NY
six lithographs published by Phyllis Lucas (Phyllis Lucas Gallery) in 1971. As Dali's first North
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Inaguracion Teatro Museo Dali Figueras, Espana Septienbre 1974
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in New York, NY
the the Salvador Dalí Theater Museum in Figueras, Spain, published 1974 by the Phyllis Lucas Gallery
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1970s Surrealist Landscape Prints

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Paper

Inaguracion Teatro Museo Dali Figueras, Espana Septienbre 1974
By (after) Salvador Dali
Located in New York, NY
the the Salvador Dalí Theater Museum in Figueras, Spain, published 1974 by the Phyllis Lucas Gallery
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1970s Surrealist Landscape Prints

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Paper

Inaguracion Teatro Museo Dali Figueras, Espana Septienbre 1974
By (after) Salvador Dali
Located in New York, NY
the the Salvador Dalí Theater Museum in Figueras, Spain, published 1974 by the Phyllis Lucas Gallery
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1970s Surrealist Landscape Prints

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Paper

Rare Original Salvador Dali Exhibit Poster for Exhibit in Japan
By (after) Salvador Dali
Located in New York, NY
lithographs, published by the Phyllis Lucas Gallery in 1971. Dali reinterprets six 19th Century American
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Triumph of the Sea
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in New York, NY
Original lithograph by Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989), published by Sidney Z. Lucas (Phyllis Lucas
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

American Trotting Horses No. 1
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in New York, NY
Original lithograph by Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989); published by Phyllis Lucas (Phyllis Lucas
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Flower Magician
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in New York, NY
mother, Phyllis Lucas; with copyright hand-stamp “phyllis lucas". The Phyllis Lucas Gallery was Dali
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1970s Surrealist Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

New York Central Park in Winter
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in New York, NY
, the Phyllis Lucas Gallery /Old Print Center. In 1965 Dali had begun a collaboration with Sidney and
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1970s Surrealist Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

New York Central Park in Winter
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in New York, NY
, the Phyllis Lucas Gallery /Old Print Center. In 1965 Dali had begun a collaboration with Sidney and
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1970s Surrealist Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Bull Fight No. 1
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in New York, NY
of Dali's Taureaumachie Suite of five original lithographs published by the Phyllis Lucas Gallery
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Bull Fight No. 1
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in New York, NY
of Dali's Taureaumachie Suite of five original lithographs published by the Phyllis Lucas Gallery
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Alpes FRENCH NATIONAL RAILROADS
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in New York, NY
Lithograph signed and dated in the plate and pencil-signed by Dali in the Phyllis Lucas Gallery
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1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

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Lucas Dalis For Sale on 1stDibs

An assortment of lucas dalis is available on 1stDibs. Today, if you’re looking for modern editions of these works and are unable to find the perfect match for your home, our selection also includes Post-Impressionist. These items have been made for many years, with versions that date back to the 19th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 21st Century. If you’re looking to add lucas dalis that pop against an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include that feature elements of gray, beige, brown, black and more. Salvador Dalí, Jean Salabet, (after) Salvador Dali, Currier & Ives and Fabrizio Clerici took a thoughtful approach to this subject that are worth considering. Frequently made by artists working in lithograph, oil paint and paint, all of these available pieces are unique and have attracted attention over the years.

How Much are Lucas Dalis?

The average selling price for lucas dalis we offer is $3,800, while they’re typically $271 on the low end and $38,500 for the highest priced.

A Close Look at Surrealist Art

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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Finding the Right Prints-works-on-paper for You

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.