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Max Ernst - Birds - Original Lithograph
By Max Ernst
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Max Ernst - Birds - Original Lithograph
Birds, 1964
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
From the art review XXe siècle
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
Category
1960s Surrealist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Maurice Estève - Composition - Original Lithograph
By Maurice Estève
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Maurice Estève - Composition - Original Lithograph
Colorful Abstraction
1969
From the art review XXe Siecle
Dimensions: 32 x 24 inches
Edition: G. di Sa...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Giuseppe Capogrossi - Original Lithograph
By Guiseppe Capogrossi
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Giuseppe Capogrossi - Original Lithograph
Colorful Abstraction
1969
From the art revue XXe Siecle
Dimensions: 19 x 12.25 inches
Edition: G. di San ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Joan Miro - Original Lithograph
By Joan Miró
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Joan Miro - Original Lithograph
1976
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Revue XXe Siècle
Reference : Mourlot 1106
Edition: Cahiers d'art published under the direction of G. di San Lazzaro.
Unsi...
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Joan Miro - a plate from L'Issue Dérobée
By Joan Miró
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Joan Miro - a plate from L'Issue Dérobée
Etching, aquatint and drypoint in colors
1974
Dimensions: 36 x 54 cm
Edition: 220
Jacques Dupin, L'Issue Dérobée, Maeght Editeur, Paris, 19...
Category
1970s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Leonor Fini - Cats - Original Etching
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Cats - Original Engraving
Mme.Helvetius' Cats
Original etching created in 1985, Printed Signature (LF).
Conditions: excellent
Edition: 100
Support: Arches paper.
Dimensions: Paper dimensions: 44 x 28 cm
Editions: Moret, Paris.
Leonor Fini is considered one of the most important women artists of the mid-twentieth century, along with Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, Remedios Varo, and Dorothea Tanning – most of whom Fini knew well. Her career, which spanned some six decades, included painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design (the renowned torso-shaped perfume bottle for Schiaparelli’s Shocking), and set and costume design for theatre, ballet, opera, and film. In this compellingly readable, exhaustively researched account, author Peter Webb brings Fini’s provocative art and unconventional personal life, as well as the vibrant avant-garde world in which she revolved, vividly in life.
Born in Buenos Aires in 1907 (August 30 – January 18, 1996, Paris) to Italian and Argentine parents, Leonor grew up in Trieste, Italy, raised by her strong-willed, independent mother, Malvina. She was a virtually self-taught artist, learing anatomy directly from studying cadavers in the local morgue and absorbing composition and technique from the Old Masters through books and visits to museums.
Fini’s fledging attempts at painting in Trieste let her to Milan, where she participated in her first group exhibition in 1929, and then to Paris in 1931.
Her vivacious personality and flamboyant attire instantly garnered her a spotlight in the Parisian art world and she soon developed close relationships with the leading surrealist writers and painters, including Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, and Max Ernst, who became her lover for a time. The only surrealist she could not abide because of his misogyny was André Breton. Although she repeatedly exhibited with them, she never considered herself a surrealist. The American dealer Julien Levy,
very much impressed by Fini’s painting and smitten by her eccentric charms, invited her to New York in 1936, where she took part in a joint gallery exhibition with Max Ernst and met many American surrealists, including Joseph Cornell and Pavel Tchelitchew. Her work was included in MoMA’s pivotal Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism exhibition, along with De Chirico, Dali, Ernst, and Yves Tanguy.
In 1939 in Paris she curated an exhibition of surrealist furniture for her childhood friend Leo Castelli for the opening of his first gallery.
Introductions to her exhibition catalogues were written by De Chirico, Ernst, and Jean Cocteau.
A predominant theme of Fini’s art is the complex relationship between the sexes, primarily the interplay between the dominant female and the passive, androgynous male. In many of her most powerful works, the female takes the form of a sphinx, often with the face of the artist. Fini was also an accomplished portraitist; among her subjects were Stanislao Lepri...
Category
1980s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Joan Miro - L'Issue Dérobée - Original Aquatint
By Joan Miró
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
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...
Category
1970s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Leonor Fini - Red Cats - Original Etching
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Cats - Original Engraving
Mme.Helvetius' Cats
Original etching created in 1985, Printed Signature (LF).
Conditions: excellent
Edition: 100
Support: Arches paper.
Dimensions: Paper dimensions: 44 x 28 cm
Editions: Moret, Paris.
Leonor Fini is considered one of the most important women artists of the mid-twentieth century, along with Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, Remedios Varo, and Dorothea Tanning – most of whom Fini knew well. Her career, which spanned some six decades, included painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design (the renowned torso-shaped perfume bottle for Schiaparelli’s Shocking), and set and costume design for theatre, ballet, opera, and film. In this compellingly readable, exhaustively researched account, author Peter Webb brings Fini’s provocative art and unconventional personal life, as well as the vibrant avant-garde world in which she revolved, vividly in life.
Born in Buenos Aires in 1907 (August 30 – January 18, 1996, Paris) to Italian and Argentine parents, Leonor grew up in Trieste, Italy, raised by her strong-willed, independent mother, Malvina. She was a virtually self-taught artist, learing anatomy directly from studying cadavers in the local morgue and absorbing composition and technique from the Old Masters through books and visits to museums.
Fini’s fledging attempts at painting in Trieste let her to Milan, where she participated in her first group exhibition in 1929, and then to Paris in 1931.
Her vivacious personality and flamboyant attire instantly garnered her a spotlight in the Parisian art world and she soon developed close relationships with the leading surrealist writers and painters, including Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, and Max Ernst, who became her lover for a time. The only surrealist she could not abide because of his misogyny was André Breton. Although she repeatedly exhibited with them, she never considered herself a surrealist. The American dealer Julien Levy,
very much impressed by Fini’s painting and smitten by her eccentric charms, invited her to New York in 1936, where she took part in a joint gallery exhibition with Max Ernst and met many American surrealists, including Joseph Cornell and Pavel Tchelitchew. Her work was included in MoMA’s pivotal Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism exhibition, along with De Chirico, Dali, Ernst, and Yves Tanguy.
In 1939 in Paris she curated an exhibition of surrealist furniture...
Category
1980s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Max Ernst - Birds - Original Lithograph
By Max Ernst
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Max Ernst - Birds - Original Lithograph
Birds, 1964 (BNF, 63)
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Revue Art de France
ax Ernst was born in Bruhl, a place near Cologne, in Germany. He was raised in a strict Catholic family, and both of his parents were disciplinarians who were dedicated to training their children into God-fearing and talented individuals. Although his father was deaf, Ernst learned so much from him, particularly when it comes to painting. In fact, much of his early years were lived under the inspiration of his father who was also a teacher. He was the one who introduced painting to Ernst at an early age.
In 1914, Ernst attended the University of Bonn where he studied philosophy. However, he eventually dropped out of school because he was more interested in the arts. He claimed that his primary sources of interest included anything that had something to do with painting. Moreover, he became fascinated with psychology, among other subjects in school.
Primarily, Ernst's love for painting was the main reason why he became deeply interested with this craft and decided to pursue it later on in his life. During his early years, he became familiar with the works of some of the greatest artists of all time including Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He was also drawn to themes such as fantasy and dream imagery, which were among the common subjects of the works of Giorgio de Chirico.
During World War I, Ernst was forced to join the German Army, and he became a part of the artillery division that exposed him greatly to the drama of warfare. A soldier in the War, Ernst emerged deeply traumatized and highly critical of western culture. These charged sentiments directly fed into his vision of the modern world as irrational, an idea that became the basis of his artwork. Ernst's artistic vision, along with his humor and verve come through strongly in his Dada and Surrealists works; Ernst was a pioneer of both movements.
It was Ernst's memories of the war and his childhood that helps him create absurd, yet interesting scenes in his artworks. Soon, he took his passion for the arts seriously when he returned to Germany after the war. With Jean Arp, a poet and artist, Ernst formed a group for artists in Cologne. He also developed a close relationship with fellow artists in Paris who propagated Avant-Garde artworks.
In 1919, Ernst started creating some of his first collages, where he made use of various materials including illustrated catalogs and some manuals that produced a somewhat futuristic image. His unique masterpieces allowed Ernst to create his very own world of dreams and fantasy, which eventually helped heal his personal issues and trauma. In addition to painting and creating collages, Ernst also edited some journals. He also made a few sculptures that were rather queer in appearance.
In 1920s, influenced by the writings of psychologist Sigmund Freud, the literary, intellectual, and artistic movement called Surrealism sought a revolution against the constraints of the rational mind; and by extension, they saw the rules of a society as oppressive. Surrealism also embraces a Marxist ideology that demands an orthodox approach to history as a product of the material interaction of collective interests, and many renown Surrealism artists later on became 20th century Counterculture symbols such as Marxist Che Guevara. In 1922 Ernst moved to Paris, where the surrealists were gathering around Andre Breton. In 1923 Ernst finished Men Shall Know Nothing of This, known as the first Surrealist painting. Ernst was one of the first artists who apply The Interpretation of Dreams by Freud to investigate his deep psyche in order to explore the source of his own creativity. While turning inwards unto himself, Ernst was also tapping into the universal unconscious with its common dream imagery.
Despite his strange styles, Ernst gained quite a reputation that earned him some followers throughout his life. He even helped shape the trend of American art during the mid-century, thanks to his brilliant and extraordinary ideas that were unlike those of other artists during his time. Ernst also became friends with Peggy Guggenheim, which inspired him to develop close ties with the abstract expressionists.
When Ernst lived in Sedona, he became deeply fascinated with the Southwest Native American navajo art. In fact, the technique used in this artwork inspired him and paved the way for him to create paintings that depicted this style. Thus, Ernst became a main figure of this art technique, including the rituals and spiritual traditions included in this form of art. Pollock, aside from the other younger generations of abstract expressionists, was also inspired by sand painting of the Southwest...
Category
1960s Surrealist Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Joan Miro - L'Issue Dérobée: one plate - Original Aquatint
By Joan Miró
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Joan Miro - L'Issue Dérobée - Original Aquatint
One plate from Jacques Dupin, L'Issue Dérobée, Maeght Editeur, Paris, 1974 (D. 687-706; C. books 187)
1974
Dimensions: 36 x 54 cm
Ed...
Category
1970s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
After Marc Chagall - Lithograph
By (after) Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
After Marc Chagall - Lithograph
From the deluxe art review, Derrière le Mirroir, printed by Charles Sorlier
1964
Printed signature
Dimensions: 38 x...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - The Oak and the Reed - Signed Engraving
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
SALVADOR DALI
The Oak and the Reed (La chêne et le roseau) from Le Bestiaire de la Fontaine
1974
Hand signed by Dali
Edition: /250
Conditions: A small tear defect has been restaured...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Leonor Fini - Cat - Original Etching
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Cats - Original Engraving
Mme.Helvetius' Cats
Original etching created in 1985, Printed Signature (LF).
Conditions: excellent
Edition: 100
Support: Arches paper.
Dimensions: Paper dimensions: 44 x 28 cm
Editions: Moret, Paris.
Leonor Fini is considered one of the most important women artists of the mid-twentieth century, along with Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, Remedios Varo, and Dorothea Tanning – most of whom Fini knew well. Her career, which spanned some six decades, included painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design (the renowned torso-shaped perfume bottle for Schiaparelli’s Shocking), and set and costume design for theatre, ballet, opera, and film. In this compellingly readable, exhaustively researched account, author Peter Webb brings Fini’s provocative art and unconventional personal life, as well as the vibrant avant-garde world in which she revolved, vividly in life.
Born in Buenos Aires in 1907 (August 30 – January 18, 1996, Paris) to Italian and Argentine parents, Leonor grew up in Trieste, Italy, raised by her strong-willed, independent mother, Malvina. She was a virtually self-taught artist, learing anatomy directly from studying cadavers in the local morgue and absorbing composition and technique from the Old Masters through books and visits to museums.
Fini’s fledging attempts at painting in Trieste let her to Milan, where she participated in her first group exhibition in 1929, and then to Paris in 1931.
Her vivacious personality and flamboyant attire instantly garnered her a spotlight in the Parisian art world and she soon developed close relationships with the leading surrealist writers and painters, including Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, and Max Ernst, who became her lover for a time. The only surrealist she could not abide because of his misogyny was André Breton. Although she repeatedly exhibited with them, she never considered herself a surrealist. The American dealer Julien Levy,
very much impressed by Fini’s painting and smitten by her eccentric charms, invited her to New York in 1936, where she took part in a joint gallery exhibition with Max Ernst and met many American surrealists, including Joseph Cornell and Pavel Tchelitchew. Her work was included in MoMA’s pivotal Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism exhibition, along with De Chirico, Dali, Ernst, and Yves Tanguy.
In 1939 in Paris she curated an exhibition of surrealist furniture...
Category
1980s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Jacques Dupin, L'Issue Dérobée: one plate
By Joan Miró
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
One plate from the illustrated book Jacques Dupin, L'Issue Dérobée, Maeght Editeur, Paris, 1974
Original prints by Joan Miro (C. books 187)
Edition: 220
Individual images are unsigne...
Category
1970s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Frontispiece for "Le Plafond de l'Opéra de Paris"
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall
Original Lithograph
Frontispiece for the book "Le Plafond de l'Opéra de Paris (The Ceiling of the Paris Opera)" by Jacques Lassaigne (Paris...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Joan Miro (After) - Pochoir Pour 'XX Siecle'- Abstract Stencil
By (after) Joan Miró
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Published in the deluxe art review, XXe Siecle in 1958.
Printed by Daniel Jacomet.
1958
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Publisher: G. di San Lazzaro.
Catalogue raisonne: Dupin 1312
Biogr...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Stencil
Raoul Ubac - Original Etching
By Raoul Ubac
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Raoul Ubac - Original Etching
1958
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Edition: G. di San Lazzaro.
The painter-sculptor Raoul Ubac was born in 1910 in Malmédy (Ardennes, Belgium). He went to sc...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
(after) Max Ernst - Blue Bird - Stencil
By (after) Max Ernst
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Max Ernst (after) - Blue Bird - Stencil
Published in the deluxe art review, XXe Siecle, 1958
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Publisher: G. di San Lazzaro.
Max Ernst was born in Bruhl, a place near Cologne, in Germany. He was raised in a strict Catholic family, and both of his parents were disciplinarians who were dedicated to training their children into God-fearing and talented individuals. Although his father was deaf, Ernst learned so much from him, particularly when it comes to painting. In fact, much of his early years were lived under the inspiration of his father who was also a teacher. He was the one who introduced painting to Ernst at an early age.
In 1914, Ernst attended the University of Bonn where he studied philosophy. However, he eventually dropped out of school because he was more interested in the arts. He claimed that his primary sources of interest included anything that had something to do with painting. Moreover, he became fascinated with psychology, among other subjects in school.
Primarily, Ernst's love for painting was the main reason why he became deeply interested with this craft and decided to pursue it later on in his life. During his early years, he became familiar with the works of some of the greatest artists of all time including Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He was also drawn to themes such as fantasy and dream imagery, which were among the common subjects of the works of Giorgio de Chirico.
During World War I, Ernst was forced to join the German Army, and he became a part of the artillery division that exposed him greatly to the drama of warfare. A soldier in the War, Ernst emerged deeply traumatized and highly critical of western culture. These charged sentiments directly fed into his vision of the modern world as irrational, an idea that became the basis of his artwork. Ernst's artistic vision, along with his humor and verve come through strongly in his Dada and Surrealists works; Ernst was a pioneer of both movements.
It was Ernst's memories of the war and his childhood that helps him create absurd, yet interesting scenes in his artworks. Soon, he took his passion for the arts seriously when he returned to Germany after the war. With Jean Arp, a poet and artist, Ernst formed a group for artists in Cologne. He also developed a close relationship with fellow artists in Paris who propagated Avant-Garde artworks.
In 1919, Ernst started creating some of his first collages, where he made use of various materials including illustrated catalogs and some manuals that produced a somewhat futuristic image. His unique masterpieces allowed Ernst to create his very own world of dreams and fantasy, which eventually helped heal his personal issues and trauma. In addition to painting and creating collages, Ernst also edited some journals. He also made a few sculptures that were rather queer in appearance.
In 1920s, influenced by the writings of psychologist Sigmund Freud, the literary, intellectual, and artistic movement called Surrealism sought a revolution against the constraints of the rational mind; and by extension, they saw the rules of a society as oppressive. Surrealism also embraces a Marxist ideology that demands an orthodox approach to history as a product of the material interaction of collective interests, and many renown Surrealism artists later on became 20th century Counterculture symbols such as Marxist Che Guevara. In 1922 Ernst moved to Paris, where the surrealists were gathering around Andre Breton. In 1923 Ernst finished Men Shall Know Nothing of This, known as the first Surrealist painting. Ernst was one of the first artists who apply The Interpretation of Dreams by Freud to investigate his deep psyche in order to explore the source of his own creativity. While turning inwards unto himself, Ernst was also tapping into the universal unconscious with its common dream imagery.
Despite his strange styles, Ernst gained quite a reputation that earned him some followers throughout his life. He even helped shape the trend of American art during the mid-century, thanks to his brilliant and extraordinary ideas that were unlike those of other artists during his time. Ernst also became friends with Peggy Guggenheim, which inspired him to develop close ties with the abstract expressionists.
When Ernst lived in Sedona, he became deeply fascinated with the Southwest Native American navajo art. In fact, the technique used in this artwork inspired him and paved the way for him to create paintings that depicted this style. Thus, Ernst became a main figure of this art technique, including the rituals and spiritual traditions included in this form of art. Pollock, aside from the other younger generations of abstract expressionists, was also inspired by sand painting of the Southwest...
Category
1950s Surrealist Animal Prints
Materials
Stencil
Giuseppe Capogrossi - Stencil
By Guiseppe Capogrossi
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Giuseppe Capogrossi - Stencil
1958
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Edition: G. di San Lazzaro.
Giuseppe Capogrossi
B. 1900, ROME; D. 1972, ROME
Giuseppe C...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Victor Vasarely (after) - Stencil
By Victor Vasarely
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Victor Vasarely (after) - pochoir print by Daniel Jacomet
Published in the deluxe art review, XXe Siecle
1958
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Publisher: G. di San Lazzaro.
Victor Vasarely...
Category
1950s Kinetic Abstract Prints
Materials
Stencil
Henri Michaux - Original Zinchograph
By Henri Michaux
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Henri Michaux - Original Zinchograph
1958
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Edition: G. di San Lazzaro.
Henri Michaux (1899 - 1984)
The French writer, painter and graphic artist Henri Michau...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Zao Wou-ki - Original Lithograph from XXe Siecle magazine
By Zao Wou-Ki
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Zao Wou-ki - Original Lithograph from XXe Siecle magazine
1958
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Edition: G. di San Lazzaro.
Zao Wou Ki (1921 - 2013)
At the tender age of fourteen Zao Wou-Ki...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Alberto Giacometti - Original Lithograph
By Alberto Giacometti
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Alberto Giacometti - Original Lithograph
1964
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
From the journal Derrière le Miroir No. 148, 1964
Edition: Foundation Maeght at Saint Paul
Alberto Giacometti...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - La Fontaine Portrait - Handsigned Engraving
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - La Fontaine Portrait - Handsigned Engraving
1974
Hand signed by Dali
Edition: /250
The dimensions of the image are 22.8 x 15.7 inches on 31 x 23.2 inch paper
Referenc...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Leonor Fini - Cats Trio - Original Hand-Signed Etching
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Cats - Original Engraving
Mme.Helvetius' Cats
Original etching created in 1985
Hand-Signed
Conditions: excellent
Edition: 71/100
Support: Arches paper.
Dimensions: Pape...
Category
1980s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Leonor Fini - Magical Cat - Original Etching
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Cats - Original Engraving
Mme.Helvetius' Cats
Original etching created in 1985, Printed Signature (LF).
Conditions: excellent
Edition: 100
Support: Arches paper.
Dimensions: Paper dimensions: 44 x 28 cm
Editions: Moret, Paris.
Leonor Fini is considered one of the most important women artists of the mid-twentieth century, along with Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, Remedios Varo, and Dorothea Tanning – most of whom Fini knew well. Her career, which spanned some six decades, included painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design (the renowned torso-shaped perfume bottle for Schiaparelli’s Shocking), and set and costume design for theatre, ballet, opera, and film. In this compellingly readable, exhaustively researched account, author Peter Webb brings Fini’s provocative art and unconventional personal life, as well as the vibrant avant-garde world in which she revolved, vividly in life.
Born in Buenos Aires in 1907 (August 30 – January 18, 1996, Paris) to Italian and Argentine parents, Leonor grew up in Trieste, Italy, raised by her strong-willed, independent mother, Malvina. She was a virtually self-taught artist, learing anatomy directly from studying cadavers in the local morgue and absorbing composition and technique from the Old Masters through books and visits to museums.
Fini’s fledging attempts at painting in Trieste let her to Milan, where she participated in her first group exhibition in 1929, and then to Paris in 1931.
Her vivacious personality and flamboyant attire instantly garnered her a spotlight in the Parisian art world and she soon developed close relationships with the leading surrealist writers and painters, including Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, and Max Ernst, who became her lover for a time. The only surrealist she could not abide because of his misogyny was André Breton. Although she repeatedly exhibited with them, she never considered herself a surrealist. The American dealer Julien Levy,
very much impressed by Fini’s painting and smitten by her eccentric charms, invited her to New York in 1936, where she took part in a joint gallery exhibition with Max Ernst and met many American surrealists, including Joseph Cornell and Pavel Tchelitchew. Her work was included in MoMA’s pivotal Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism exhibition, along with De Chirico, Dali, Ernst, and Yves Tanguy.
In 1939 in Paris she curated an exhibition of surrealist furniture for her childhood friend Leo Castelli for the opening of his first gallery.
Introductions to her exhibition catalogues were written by De Chirico, Ernst, and Jean Cocteau.
A predominant theme of Fini’s art is the complex relationship between the sexes, primarily the interplay between the dominant female and the passive, androgynous male. In many of her most powerful works, the female takes the form of a sphinx, often with the face of the artist. Fini was also an accomplished portraitist; among her subjects were Stanislao Lepri...
Category
1980s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dali - The Rider and the Deer - Handsigned Engraving
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Rider and the Deer - Handsigned Engraving
1974
Hand signed by Dali
Edition: /250
The dimensions of the image are 22.8 x 15.7 inches on 3...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Raoul Dufy - French Dinner - Original Etching
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Raoul Dufy - French Dinner - Original Etching
Dimensions: 13 x 10".
Edition of 200
1940
Edition Les Bibliophiles du Palais, Paris
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Raoul Dufy - French Campagne - Original Etching
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Raoul Dufy - French Campagne - Original Etching
Dimensions: 13 x 10".
Edition of 200
1940
Edition Les Bibliophiles du Palais, Paris
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Lithograph after Georges Braque
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Lithograph after Georges Braque
From the deluxe art review, Derrière le Mirroir
1964
Printed signature
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
DLM No. 148, 1964
Edition: Foundation Maeght at Saint P...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Valerio Adami - Original Lithograph
By Valerio Adami
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Valerio Adami - Original Lithograph
1976
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Revue XXe Siècle
Edition: Cahiers d'art published under the direction of G. di San Lazzaro.
Valerio ADAMI was born ...
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Bazaine - Original Lithograph
By Jean Bazaine
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Bazaine - Original Lithograph
1976
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Revue XXe Siècle
Edition: Cahiers d'art published under the direction of G. di San Lazzaro.
ean Bazaine is born in P...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Konrad Klapheck - Original Lithograph
By Konrad Klapheck
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Konrad Klapheck - Original Lithograph
1976
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Revue XXe Siècle
Edition: Cahiers d'art published under the direction of G. di San Lazzaro.
Konrad Klapheck (born...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Pierre Tal Coat - Original Lithograph
By Pierre Tal-Coat
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pierre Tal Coat - Original Lithograph
1976
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Revue XXe Siècle
Edition: Cahiers d'art published under the direction of G. di San ...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Paul Rebeyrolle - Original Lithograph
By Paul Rebeyrolle
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pablo Palazuelo - Original Lithograph
1976
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Revue XXe Siècle
Edition: Cahiers d'art published under the direction of G. di San Lazzaro.
Paul Rebeyrolle (1926...
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1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Palazuelo - Original Lithograph
By Pablo Palazuelo
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pablo Palazuelo - Original Lithograph
1976
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Revue XXe Siècle
Edition: Cahiers d'art published under the direction of G. di San Lazzaro.
Pablo Palazuelo
B. 19...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Joan Miro - Original Abstract Lithograph
By Joan Miró
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Joan Miro Miro Original Abstract Lithograph
Artist: Joan Miro
Medium: Original lithograph on Rives vellum
Portfolio: Miro Lithographe III
Year: 1976
Edit...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
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Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Mission Dolores - San Francisco - Original Hand-Signed Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Mission Dolores - San Francisco - Original Hand-Signed Etching
Title: Mission Dolores - San Francisco
Drypoint
Handsigned
Dimensions: 65 x 50 cm
Edition EA
Catalogue ...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Etching
Salvador Dali - City Hall - San Francisco - Original Hand-Signed Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - City Hall - San Francisco - Original Hand-Signed Etching
Title: City Hall - San Francisco
Drypoint
Handsigned
Dimensions: 65 x 50 cm
Edition EA
Catalogue raisonné: Fi...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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Etching
Hermine David - Workers - Original Etching
By Hermine David
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Hermine David - Workers - Original Etching
Paris, Le Gerbier, 1946
Edition of 340
Signed in the plate
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1940s Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Henry de Waroquier - Portrait - Original Etching
By Henry de Waroquier
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Henry de Waroquier - Portrait - Original Etching
Paris, Le Gerbier, 1946
Edition of 340
Signed in the plate
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1940s Modern Portrait Prints
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Etching
Salvador Dali - Dix Recettes d’Immortalite - Original Signed Artworks
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali, Dix Recettes d'Immortalité
Very Good Condition
Audouin-Descharnes, Paris, 1973
Reference: M. & L. 567-577, Field 73-20
The complete set of 11 signed, numbered and not...
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1970s Surrealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jacques Villon - Surreal Cubism - Original Etching
By Jacques Villon
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jacques Villon - Surreal Cubism - Original Etching
Paris, Le Gerbier, 1946
Edition of 340
Dimensions : 33 x 24.3 cm
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
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1940s Modern Portrait Prints
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Etching
Isia Leviant - Hands - Signed Lithograph
By Isia Leviant 1
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Isia Leviant - Hands
Signed Lithograph
Dimensions: 70.5 x 54.5 cm
Edition of 30
Signed and numbered
Isia Leviant (1914 - 2006) was a Franco Israeli Kinetic painting artist. He is a...
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1970s Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Jean-Michel Atlan - Kafka - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original lithograph by Jean-Michel Atlan
For Description of a Struggle by Franz Kafka
Paris, Maeght Publisher, 1946.
Dimensions: 30.5 x 24.5
Edition: 300 on vellum
Mourlot
JEAN-MI...
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1940s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Gabriel Daragnès - Circus - Original Etching
By Jean Gabriel Daragnès
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Gabriel Daragnès - Circus - Original Etching
Paris, Le Gerbier, 1946
Edition of 340
Jean-Gabriel Daragnes, French (1886 - 1950)
Daragnes
Jean-Gabriel Daragnès was highly regar...
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1940s Modern Portrait Prints
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Etching
Joan Miro - Original Abstract Lithograph
By Joan Miró
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Joan Miro Miro Original Abstract Lithograph
Artist: Joan Miro
Medium: Original lithograph on Rives vellum
Portfolio: Miro Lithographe V
Year: 1981
E...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
André Dignimont - Belle Epoque Portrait - Original Etching
By André Dignimont
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
André Dignimont - Belle Epoque Portrait - Original Etching
Paris, Le Gerbier, 1946
Edition of 340
André Dignimont was born in Paris. He studied at the...
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1940s Modern Portrait Prints
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Etching
Marc Chagall - Cover - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall - Cover - Original Lithograph
1964
Dimensions: 30 x 20 cm
Edition of 200 (one of the 200 on Vélin de Rives)
Mourlot Press, 1964
Marc Chagall (born in 1887)
Marc Chaga...
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1960s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jacques Maret - Dreamy Desk - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jacques Maret - Dreamy Desk - Original Etching
Paris, Le Gerbier, 1946
Edition of 340
Jacques Maret was a French visual artist who was born in 1900. Several works by the artist have...
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1940s Modern Portrait Prints
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Etching
Roger Vieillard - Surrealist Horse - Original Etching
By Roger Vieillard
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Roger Vieillard - Surrealist Horse - Original Etching
Paris, Le Gerbier, 1946
Edition of 340
Roger Vieillard was born in Mans, France on February 9, 1907 and was classically educate...
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1940s Modern Portrait Prints
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Etching
Robert Lotiron - Landscape - Original Etching
By Robert Lotiron
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Robert Lotiron - Landscape - Original Etching
Paris, Le Gerbier, 1946
Edition of 340
Born 29 October 1886, in Paris; died 18 April 1966, in Rueil-Malmaison.
Painter (gouache), watercolourist, draughtsman, engraver, lithographer, illustrator. Landscapes. Murals, designs for tapestries.
Robert Lotiron was a pupil of Jules Lefebvre...
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1940s Modern Portrait Prints
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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
References : Field 69-1 K / Michler & Lopsinger 305
Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali was born as the son of a prestigious notary in the small town of Figueras in Northern Spain. His talent as an artist showed at an early age and Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali received his first drawing lessons when he was ten years old. His art teachers were a then well known Spanish impressionist painter, Ramon Pichot and later an art professor at the Municipal Drawing School. In 1923 his father bought his son his first printing press.
Dali began to study art at the Royal Academy of Art in Madrid. He was expelled twice and never took the final examinations. His opinion was that he was more qualified than those who should have examined him.
In 1928 Dali went to Paris where he met the Spanish painters Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro. He established himself as the principal figure of a group of surrealist artists grouped around Andre Breton, who was something like the theoretical "schoolmaster" of surrealism. Years later Breton turned away from Dali accusing him of support of fascism, excessive self-presentation and financial greediness.
By 1929 Dali had found his personal style that should make him famous the world of the unconscious that is recalled during our dreams. The surrealist theory is based on the theories of the psychologist Dr. Sigmund Freud. Recurring images of burning giraffes and melting watches became the artist's surrealist trademarks. His great craftsmanship allowed him to execute his paintings in a nearly photo-realistic style. No wonder that the artist was a great admirer of the Italian Renaissance painter Raphael.
Salvador Dali and Gala.
Meeting Gala was the most important event in the artist's life and decisive for his future career. She was a Russian immigrant and ten years older than Dali. When he met her, she was married to Paul Eluard.
Gala decided to stay with Dali. She became his companion, his muse, his sexual partner, his model in numerous art works and his business manager. For him she was everything. Most of all Gala was a stabilizing factor in his life. And she managed his success in the 1930s with exhibitions in Europe and the United States.
Gala was legally divorced from her husband in 1932. In 1934 Dali and Gala were married in a civil ceremony...
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1960s Surrealist Nude Prints
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Etching
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 x 56 cm
Handsigned, EA (Epreuve d'Artiste) aside from the edition of 200.
Paper :...
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1960s Surrealist Still-life Prints
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Lithograph
Geneviève Claisse - Kinetic Composition - Original Signed Lithograph
By Geneviève Claisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Geneviève Claisse - Kinetic Composition -
Original Signed Lithograph
Publisher Stamp
Edition: EA
Geneviève CLAISSE, born in 1935 in France, a relative to Auguste Herbin. She is recognized today as one of the most important geometrical abstract French artist of the 1970s. Her approach to painting was influenced by reading Art d’Aujourd’hui, Tribune of Geometrical Abstraction.
1958 First solo exhibits in the Galerie Caille in Cambrai and Galerie Hybler in Paris.
1961 First exhibit in the Galerie Denise René in Paris where she regularly exhibited in the following years.
1965 + Focused work on color (Cercles, ADN)
1967 Museum of Fine Arts of La Chaux-de-Fonds. Biennale of Paris.
1968 “Art...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
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Lithograph
Marc Chagall - The Bible - Job - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall, Original Lithograh depicting an instant of the Bible.
Technique: Original lithograph in colours (Mourlot no. 234)
On the reverse: another black and white original litho...
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1960s Modern Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Sator - Original Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Sator - Original Etching
Stamp Signed
Dimensions: 38,5 x 28,5 cm
1969
References : Field 69-1 / Michler & Lopsinger 305
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1960s Surrealist Nude Prints
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Etching
Valentine Hugo - Surrealist Woman - Original Etching
By Valentine Hugo
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Valentine Hugo - Surrealist Woman - Original Etching
Paris, Le Gerbier, 1946
Edition of 340
French painter and illustrator.
Born 1897 in Boulogne-sur-Mer.
Died 1968...
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1940s Modern Portrait Prints
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Etching
Edouard Goerg - Magic Jungle - Original Etching
By Edouard Goerg
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Edouard Goerg - Magic Jungle - Original Etching
Paris, Le Gerbier, 1946
Edition of 340
Edouard Joseph Goerg ‘Edouard Goerg’: Born of French parents Edouard Joseph Goerg left Austral...
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1940s Modern Portrait Prints
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Etching
Jean Émile Laboureur - Under the Cross - Original Etching
By Jean-Emile Laboureur
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Émile Laboureur - Under the Cross - Original Etching
Paris, Le Gerbier, 1946
Edition of 340
JEAN-ÉMILE LABOUREUR
Founder in 1923 of the Soci...
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1940s Modern Portrait Prints
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Etching