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Salvador Dali - Statue of Liberty - Original Handsigned Etching
Salvador Dali - Statue of Liberty - Original Handsigned Etching

Salvador Dali - Statue of Liberty - Original Handsigned Etching

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - Original Handsigned Etching Title: Statue of Liberty Dimensions: 63.5 x 43.5 cm

Category

1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Salvador Dali - The Knighting of Lancelot - Etching
Salvador Dali - The Knighting of Lancelot - Etching

Salvador Dali - The Knighting of Lancelot - Etching

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - Original Handsigned Etching From La Quête du Graal Dimensions: 45 x 33 cm

Category

1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Salvador Dali - Marguerite - Original Etching
Salvador Dali - Marguerite - Original Etching

Salvador Dali - Marguerite - Original Etching

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - Marguerite - Original Etching from "Faust" suite Stamped signature, as issued From

Category

1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

Materials

Etching

Salvador Dali - Argus - Original Etching
Salvador Dali - Argus - Original 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

Category

1960s Surrealist Portrait Prints

Materials

Etching

Salvador Dali - Cleopatra - Original Etching
Salvador Dali - Cleopatra - Original Etching

Salvador Dali - Cleopatra - Original Etching

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - Cleopatra Original Etching Dimensions: 28x 18.7cm 1969 Edition: /165 Plate signed

Category

1960s Surrealist Portrait Prints

Materials

Etching

Salvador Dali - Magician - Original Etching
Salvador Dali - Magician - Original Etching

Salvador Dali - Magician - Original Etching

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - Magician - Original Etching Stamp Signed Dimensions: 38,5 x 28,5 cm 1969

Category

1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

Materials

Etching

Salvador Dali - Tristan Wounded - Original Etching
Salvador Dali - Tristan Wounded - Original Etching

Salvador Dali - Tristan Wounded - Original Etching

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - Tristan Wounded - Original Etching Dimensions: 45 x 33 cm Edition: 4/125 1970

Category

1970s Surrealist Nude Prints

Materials

Etching

Salvador Dali - The Trenches - Original Etching
Salvador Dali - The Trenches - Original Etching

Salvador Dali - The Trenches - Original Etching

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - The Trenches - Original Etching Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm Edition: 235 1967 Embossed

Category

1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

Materials

Etching

Salvador Dali - Mad Tristan - Original Etching
Salvador Dali - Mad Tristan - Original Etching

Salvador Dali - Mad Tristan - Original Etching

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - Mad Tristan - Original Etching Dimensions: 45 x 33 cm Edition: 125 1970 Signed in

Category

1970s Surrealist Nude Prints

Materials

Etching

Salvador Dali - Cut Cucumber - Original Etching
Salvador Dali - Cut Cucumber - Original Etching

Salvador Dali - Cut Cucumber - Original Etching

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - Cut Cucumber - Original Etching Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm Edition: 390 1967 On Rives

Category

1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

Materials

Etching

Salvador Dali - The Golden Age - Original Lithograph
Salvador Dali - The Golden Age - Original Lithograph

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

Category

1950s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Salvador Dali - Plum - Original Hand-Signed Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Plum - Original Hand-Signed Lithograph

Salvador Dali - Plum - Original Hand-Signed Lithograph

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - Plum - Original Hand-Signed Lithograph 1969 Dimensions: P. 57 x 37 cm Sheet: 75 x

Category

1960s Surrealist Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Salvador Dali - Girl and Pig - Original Etching
Salvador Dali - Girl and Pig - Original Etching

Salvador Dali - Girl and Pig - Original Etching

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - Girl and Pig - Original Etching Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm Edition: 390 1967 On Rives

Category

1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

Materials

Etching

Salvador Dali - Jonas Salk - Original Handsigned Engraving
Salvador Dali - Jonas Salk - Original Handsigned Engraving

Salvador Dali - Jonas Salk - Original Handsigned Engraving

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - Jonas Salk - Original Handsigned Engraving Dimensions: 17.5 x 12.5 cm 1970 Signed

Category

1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

Materials

Engraving

Salvador Dali - Moshe Dayan - Original Handsigned Etching
Salvador Dali - Moshe Dayan - Original Handsigned Etching

Salvador Dali - Moshe Dayan - Original Handsigned Etching

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - Moshe Dayan - Original Handsigned Etching Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm 1968 Signed in

Category

1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

Materials

Etching

Salvador Dali - Nude with Guitar - Original Etching
Salvador Dali - Nude with Guitar - Original Etching

Salvador Dali - Nude with Guitar - Original Etching

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - Nude with Guitar - Original Etching Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm Edition: 235 1967

Category

1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

Materials

Etching

Salvador Dali - Bird on Tongue - Original Etching
Salvador Dali - Bird on Tongue - Original Etching

Salvador Dali - Bird on Tongue - Original Etching

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - Bird on Tongue - Original Etching Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm Edition: 390 1967 On Rives

Category

1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

Materials

Etching

Salvador Dali -  Raspberry - Original Hand-Signed Lithograph
Salvador Dali -  Raspberry - Original Hand-Signed Lithograph

Salvador Dali - Raspberry - Original Hand-Signed Lithograph

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - Raspberry - Original Hand-Signed Lithograph 1969 Dimensions: P. 57 x 37 cm Sheet

Category

1960s Surrealist Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Salvador Dali - Apricot - Original Hand-Signed Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Apricot - Original Hand-Signed Lithograph

Salvador Dali - Apricot - Original Hand-Signed Lithograph

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - Apricot - Original Hand-Signed Lithograph 1969 Dimensions: P. 57 x 37 cm Sheet: 75

Category

1960s Surrealist Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Salvador Dali - John Kennedy - Original Handsigned Etching
Salvador Dali - John Kennedy - Original Handsigned Etching

Salvador Dali - John Kennedy - Original Handsigned Etching

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - John Kennedy - Original Handsigned Etching Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm 1968 Signed in

Category

1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

Materials

Etching

Salvador Dali - The War
Salvador Dali - The War

Salvador Dalí­Salvador Dali - The War, 1967

$2,056

H 14.97 in W 11.03 in D 0.04 in

Salvador Dali - The War

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - The War - Original Etching Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm Edition: 235 1967 Embossed

Category

1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

Materials

Etching

Salvador Dali - The Arrival of Iseult - Original Etching
Salvador Dali - The Arrival of Iseult - Original Etching

Salvador Dali - The Arrival of Iseult - Original Etching

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - The Arrival of Iseult - Original Etching Dimensions: 45 x 33 cm Edition: 125 1970

Category

1970s Surrealist Nude Prints

Materials

Etching

Salvador Dali - Attack on the Windmils - Original Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Attack on the Windmils - Original Lithograph

Salvador Dali - Attack on the Windmils - Original Lithograph

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - Attack on the Windmils - Original Lithograph Joseph FORET, Paris, 1957 PRINTER

Category

1950s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Salvador Dali - Flung out like - Original Signed Engraving
Salvador Dali - Flung out like - Original Signed Engraving

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

Category

1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Salvador Dali - The Beach
Salvador Dali - The Beach

Salvador Dalí­Salvador Dali - The Beach, 1967

$2,056

H 14.97 in W 11.03 in D 0.04 in

Salvador Dali - The Beach

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - The Beach At Sete - Original Etching Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm Edition: 235 Editor

Category

1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

Materials

Etching

Salvador Dali - Serenade - Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Serenade - Lithograph

Salvador Dali - Serenade - Lithograph

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - Serenade - Original Handsigned Lithograph Dimensions: 51 x 71 cm 1970 Signed in

Category

1970s Surrealist Nude Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Salvador Dali - The Drawers
Salvador Dali - The Drawers

Salvador Dalí­Salvador Dali - The Drawers, 1967

$2,298

H 14.97 in W 11.03 in D 0.04 in

Salvador Dali - The Drawers

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - The Drawers - Original Etching Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm Edition: 235 1967 Embossed

Category

1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

Materials

Etching

Salvador Dali - King Marc
Salvador Dali - King Marc

Salvador Dalí­Salvador Dali - King Marc, 1970

$2,238

H 17.72 in W 13 in D 0.04 in

Salvador Dali - King Marc

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - King Marc - Original Etching Dimensions: 45 x 33 cm Edition: 125 1970 Signed in

Category

1970s Surrealist Nude Prints

Materials

Etching

Salvador Dali - Large Flask
Salvador Dali - Large Flask

Salvador Dalí­Salvador Dali - Large Flask, 1967

$3,145

H 14.97 in W 11.03 in D 0.04 in

Salvador Dali - Large Flask

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - Large Flask - Original Etching Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm Edition: 390 1967 On Rives

Category

1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

Materials

Etching

Salvador Dali - Eye Watches
Salvador Dali - Eye Watches

Salvador Dalí­Salvador Dali - Eye Watches, 1967

$3,145

H 14.97 in W 11.03 in D 0.04 in

Salvador Dali - Eye Watches

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - Eye Watches - Original Etching Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm Edition: 390 1967 On Rives

Category

1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

Materials

Etching

Salvador Dali - Six Eggs
Salvador Dali - Six Eggs

Salvador Dalí­Salvador Dali - Six Eggs, 1967

$3,145

H 14.97 in W 11.03 in D 0.04 in

Salvador Dali - Six Eggs

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - Six Eggs - Original Etching Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm Edition: 390 1967 On Rives

Category

1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

Materials

Etching

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Two Original Lithograph Posters for Dali Editions
Two Original Lithograph Posters for Dali Editions

Two Original Lithograph Posters for Dali Editions

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in New York, NY

published by our gallery in partnership with Salvador Dali to celebrate the anniversary of the "Dali

Category

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

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By Pablo Picasso

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The Sun Tree Limited Edition Lithograph after Dali

The Sun Tree Limited Edition Lithograph after Dali

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Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

'Sun tree lithograph' After Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) signed print on thick paper , unframed print: 16 x 12.5 inches provenance: private collection condition: very good and sound c...

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TAUREAU AILE CONTEMPLE PAR QUATRE ENFANTS (BLOCH 229)

TAUREAU AILE CONTEMPLE PAR QUATRE ENFANTS (BLOCH 229)

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Aventura, FL

Plate 13 from La Suite Vollard. Bloch 229. Baer 444. Etching on Montval paper. Signed in pencil, from the edition of 260 (there was also an edition of 50 with larger margins). Printe...

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1930s Cubist Animal Prints

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Paper, Engraving

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Located in Waalwijk, NL

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Joan Miro -  L'Issue Dérobée - Original Aquatint
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Joan Miro - L'Issue Dérobée - Original Aquatint 1974 Dimensions: 36 x 54 cm Edition: 220 Jacques Dupin, L'Issue Dérobée, Maeght Editeur, Paris, 1974 (C. books 187) Biography Joa...

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1970s Modern Abstract Prints

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By Dinesh Boaz

Located in New York, NY

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Salvador Dalí­, "Un entré fracassant aux U.S.A" , etching, hand colored, signed

Salvador Dalí­, "Un entré fracassant aux U.S.A" , etching, hand colored, signed

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Chatsworth, CA

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1970s Modern Abstract Prints

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Etching

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Tibetan Temple Entrance

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Congres National du Mouvement de la Paix - Issy-les-Moulineaux

Congres National du Mouvement de la Paix - Issy-les-Moulineaux

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Salvador Dali Original For Sale on 1stDibs

On 1stDibs, you can find the most appropriate salvador dali original for your needs in our varied inventory. You can easily find an example made in the Modern style, while we also have 6 Modern versions to choose from as well. You’re likely to find the perfect salvador dali original among the distinctive items we have available, which includes versions made as long ago as the 18th Century as well as those made as recently as the 21st Century. If you’re looking to add a salvador dali original to create new energy in an otherwise neutral space in your home, you can find a work on 1stDibs that features elements of gray, beige, white, black and more. Creating a salvador dali original has been a part of the legacy of many artists, but those crafted by Salvador Dalí, (after) Salvador Dali and Christopher Makos are consistently popular. Artworks like these of any era or style can make for thoughtful decor in any space, but a selection from our variety of those made in lithograph, etching and woodcut print can add an especially memorable touch. A large salvador dali original can be an attractive addition to some spaces, while smaller examples are available — approximately spanning 0.04 high and 3.55 wide — and may be better suited to a more modest living area.

How Much is a Salvador Dali Original?

The price for a salvador dali original in our collection starts at $245 and tops out at $31,822 with the average selling for $1,232.

Salvador Dalí­ for sale on 1stDibs

Instantly recognizable by his waxed, upturned mustache, the flamboyant Salvador Dalí is one of modern art’s most distinctive figures. He is also one of the icons of the 20th-century avant-garde Surrealist movement, whose dreamlike images, drawn from the depths of the unconscious, he deployed in paintings, sculptures, prints and fashion, as well as in film collaborations with Luis Buñuel and Alfred Hitchcock.

Dalí was born in Figueres, Catalonia, and even as a youngster, displayed the sensitivity, sharp perception and vivid imagination that would later define his artworks. In these, he conjured childhood memories and employed religious symbols and Freudian imagery like staircases, keys and dripping candles to create unexpected, often shocking pieces.

Dalí's use of hyperrealism in conveying Surrealist symbols and concepts that subvert accepted notions of reality is epitomized in what is perhaps his most recognizable painting, The Persistence of Memory (1931), in which he depicts the fluidity of time through melting clocks, their forms inspired by Camembert cheese melting in the sun. His artistic genius, eccentric personality and eternal quest for fame made him a global celebrity.

“Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure,” he once said. “That of being Salvador Dalí.”

Find original Salvador Dalí paintings, prints, sculptures and other works on 1stDibs.

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.

Find a collection of original Surrealist paintings, sculptures, prints and multiples and more art on 1stDibs.

Finding the Right Prints And Multiples 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.)

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