Surrealist Art
SURREALIST STYLE
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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Style: Surrealist
Giorgio de Chirico (1888–1978) - Coloured lithograph on paper - 1970
Located in Varese, IT
Coloured lithograph on paper, edited in 1970.
Limited edition of 90 copies, numbered as 27/90 in lower left corner.
Hand-signed by artist in pencil in the lower right corner.
Pape...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Large Salvador Dali Surrealist Bronze Portrait Sculpture Mexican Master Aguilar
Located in Surfside, FL
Carlos Aguilar y Linares, Mexican Sculptor (1945-2010)
Sculpture chose him. In his hands and his soul he always had the necessary impulse to create wi...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Art
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Salvo (1947–2015) – Mele – Lithograph in colors on paper
Located in Varese, IT
Coloured lithograph on paper.
Limited edition, numbered 11/100.
Signed in pencil by artist in lower right corner.
Very good conditions with deep bright colors.
Paper size: 70 x 80 c...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Untitled XX (Le Tricorne)
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador
Title: Untitled XX (Le Tricorne)
Series: Le Tricorne (The Three-Pointed Hat)
Date: 1959
Medium: Wood engraving
Unframed Dimensions: 12.6" x 8.8"
Framed ...
Category
1950s Surrealist Art
Materials
Engraving
The old hippie, from The Hippies
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: The old hippie
Portfolio: The Hippies
Medium: Color etching on Arches wove paper
Date: 1969
Edition: 67/145
Frame Size: 31"...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Etching
Dubuffet, Personnages I, XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. n°6, 1956. Published and printed under the direction of Gualti...
Category
1950s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
'Hold that Tiger' — Mid-century American Surrealism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Vale Faro, 'Hold that Tiger', color lithograph, 1945, edition 16. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '91' and '15/16' in pen. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on heavy, coated, off-white wove paper; the full sheet with margins (13/16 to 1 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 14 x 9 3/8 inches (356 x 239 mm); sheet size 17 x 11 1/4 inches (432 x 285 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Robert Vale Faro (1902-1988) was a well-known modernist architect and artist associated with the Chicago Bauhaus. He received his degree in architecture and design from the Armour Institute in Chicago and worked at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, from 1924-27, where he was influenced by Harry Kurt Bieg and Le Corbusier. Upon his return to Chicago, Faro worked with the important modernist Chicago architects George and William Keck under Louis Sullivan.
Faro founded the avant-garde printmaking group Vanguard in 1945. The group counted Atelier 17 artists Stanley William Hayter, Sue Fuller, and Anne Ryan as New York members and Francine Felsenthal of Chicago. The Brooklyn Museum mounted a show of Vanguard artists' work in 1946, which subsequently toured several other institutions in the United States.
Faro's visionary graphics from the 1940s are a sophisticated blend of Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism, and Indian Space...
Category
1940s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Leda and the Swan
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador
Title: Leda and the Swan
Series: The Mythology
Date: 1963
Medium: drypoint on Japon paper
Unframed Dimensions: 30" x 18 1/8"
Framed Dimensions: 42" x 34...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Drypoint
Ernst, Deux Oiseaux (Spies/Leppien 438) (after)
By Max Ernst
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Published and printed by Poligrafa, Barcelona, 1970.
MAX ER...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Antonio Monasterio – The Muses in the Blue Forest. No. 4
Located in Firenze, IT
Antonio Monasterio – The Muses in the Blue Forest
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Art
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Wax Crayon, Pen, Color Pencil
Cartones
By Joan Miró
Located in Wilton, CT
numbered 64/180. Published by Atlantis Art Verlag Freiburg
Category
1980s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Les deux moitiés" two figures floating through deep green and blue water
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Les deux moitiés" is a contemporary ethereal nude figures in green and blue water. Astone brought professional dancers into her studio and let them improvise as she painted them. Sh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jacob's Blessing - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1979
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Jacob's Blessing is a beautiful contemporary art realized by March Chagall in 1979.
Color lithograph printed and published by Maeght, Paris, in 1979.
Ref. Catalogue Mourlot n. 94...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Composition (Field 69-3; M/L. 1600), VI tavole dal ciclo della, Biblia Sacra
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin Fabriano charta ex meris pannis "ab alveo" manu fabricata, perlucidis figuris intexta paper. Paper size: 19 x 13.75 inches. Inscription: Signed in the p...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Inferno Canto 5 from the Divine Comedy, Woodcut by Salvador Dali
Located in Long Island City, NY
A surrealist illustration from Salvador Dalí’s (Spanish, 1904-1989) Divine Comedy series based on the Italian writer Dante’s epic poem. Inferno is the first part of the epic, which follows Dante in his journey through Hell, guided by Virgil. The woodblock print is printed on BFK Rives paper and signed in the block.
Inferno Canto 5...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Gluttony, Purgatory: Canto 23, Surrealist Lithograph by Salvador Dali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Salvador Dali, Spanish (1904 - 1989) - Gluttony, Purgatory: Canto 23, Portfolio: Divine Comedy, Year: 1964, Medium: Lithograph, signed in pencil, Edition: EA, Size: 13 x 10.25...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled - Etching by Max Ernst - 1970
By Max Ernst
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 100 prints, numbered and hand signed.
Excellent condition.
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Etching
Composition (Field 69-3; M/L. 1600), VI tavole dal ciclo della, Biblia Sacra
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in colors on vélin Fabriano charta ex meris pannis "ab alveo" manu fabricata, perlucidis figuris intexta paper. Paper size: 19 x 13.75 inches. Inscription: Signed in the p...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
"The Embrace" (2015) By John Tarantola, Original Nude Oil Portrait Painting
Located in Denver, CO
John Tarantola's original nude portrait "The Embrace" (2015) is a beautiful surrealist oil on panel painting that depicts an athletic nude male figure embracing the bright silhouette...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Boy with Red Sun - Original linocut - 1938
By Joan Miró
Located in Paris, IDF
Joan MIRO
Boy with Red Sun
Original linocut
Printed signature in the plate
Published in 1938 by San Lazzaro for XXe Siecle
On wove paper 32 x 25 cm (c. 13 x 10 in)
References : Dut...
Category
1930s Surrealist Art
Materials
Linocut
Magritte, Les bijoux indiscrets (Kaplan/Baum 3), XXe Siècle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. n° 22, 1963. Published and printed under the dire...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Indoor Cloud, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This oil painting transforms a restaurant's holiday ceiling decoration into something realistic and surreal. It captures the memory of a special evening while...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil
Spring is here. Original floral painting . Small .Square.Acrylic on canvas
Located in Oslo, NO
The painting “Spring is here” depicts a bouquet of crocuses and dark purple violets. The main thing in this picture is not the flowers themselves, but the combination of colors.
"Th...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Man Ray, Composition, Man Ray, Electa Editrice Portfolios (after)
By Man Ray
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Man Ray, Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1980. Published and printed ...
Category
1980s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
THE LAST PRIVATE PERSON - DER LETZIE PRIVATIER
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ANDREAS PAUL WEBER (German 1893-1980)
THE LAST PRIVATE PERSON - DER LETZIE PRIVATIER
Lithograph signed in pencil and with the artist's Clan Press Stamp l...
Category
1950s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Outsider Art Surrealist Figural Sculpture)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Rocco Monticolo (b. 1931). Untitled, 2022. Found antique object, wood, paint. Signed on reverse of face.
Monticolo was born in Italy in 1931 and came to America in 1946. He joined ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Steel
Magritte's original poster for the 1965 Salon de Mai - Musée d'art Moderne Paris
Located in PARIS, FR
Magritte's original poster for the 1965 Salon de Mai is an iconic piece of art that reflects the ingenuity and surrealist aesthetic of renowned Belgian artist René Magritte. Created ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Landscape - Woodcut Print on Paper by Mino Maccari - Early 20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original modern artwork realized by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989).
Original woodcut on Ivory paper.
Excellent conditions. Cat. Electa....
Category
Early 20th Century Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Interior Jungle - Original Unique Artwork
Located in London, GB
Interior Jungle 2021
Original Unique Artwork
oil on linen
Interior Jungle 2021
oil on linen 46 x 36 cm
A figure surreal looking figure seemingly without a face sits on a red and white patterned sofa in an interior.
Sarah Jeffries...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil
Act III, Scene I - From “Romeo and Juliet” - Lithograph - 1975
Located in Roma, IT
Act III, Scene I - From “Romeo and Juliet” is an artwork realized in 1975.
Mixed colored lithograph.
Signed and dated in plate on the lower right margin.
Perfect conditions.
P...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
DALI SALVADOR "Le Bestiaire de La Fontaine Dalinise" full set of 12 Etchings
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: Le Bestiaire de La Fontaine Dalinise (La Fontaine's Bestiary Dalinized)
Year: 1974
The complete set of 12 drypoints with pochoir in colours, on Japanese ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Etching
Sans Titre NE 4701, Surrealist Lithograph by Wifredo Lam
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Long Island City, NY
Wifredo Lam, Cuban (1902 -1982) - Sans Titre NE 4701, Year: 1947, Medium: Lithograph, signed and dedicated in pencil, Edition: ~10, Image Size: 12.25 x 9 inches, Frame Size: 18....
Category
1940s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Engraving and aquatint on paper - 1967
By Marc Chagall
Located in Varese, IT
Engraving and aquatint on paper, edited in 1967.
Limited edition of 125 copies, numbered as 74/125 in lower left corner.
Signed in pencil by artist in lower right corner.
Paper size...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Paper, Etching
Leonor Fini, rare original serigraph on Rives paper, circa 1970
By Leonor Fini
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Rare print handsigned by surrealist artist Leonor Fini, inscreasingly esteemed with the movement of rediscovering art by women. This silkscreen is in perfect condition and from a ver...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Art
Materials
Paper
Lovers - Thétis and Pelée - Original etching handsigned and numbered
Located in Paris, IDF
Pierre-Yves Tremois
Thésis and Pelée
Original etching, 1970
Handsigned by the artist
Numbered / XXIV copies (total edition of 90 + XXIV)
Size 57 x 45 cm (c. 22,4 x 17,7 in)
Very goo...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Etching
La Voyante - Lithograph by Paul Delvaux - 1974
By Paul Delvaux
Located in Roma, IT
La Voyante is an original contemporary artwork realized by Paul Delvaux in 1974.
Color Lithograph on Arches Paper.
Hand signed and numbered on the lower margin. Edition of 25/75. ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Night Riders, Mid-20th Century Surrealist Landscape w/ Horse & Riders
Located in Beachwood, OH
Hugh M. Poe (American, 1902-1973)
Night Riders, 1962
Oil on artist's board
Signed lower right
20 x 25 inches
26.75 x 31.75 inches, framed
Hugh M. Poe was an American portrait painte...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil
Miró, Composition (Cramer 102; Mourlot 446), Derrière le miroir (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 151-152. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; printed by Édit...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Hotel du Nord (Little Durer) 5 Color Silkscreen w/ varnish and stencil Signed AP
Located in New York, NY
Joseph Cornell
Hotel du Nord (Little Durer), 1972
Silkscreen in five colors with varnish and stencil additions printed on Buff Arches Paper
Pencil signed and annotated Artists Proof ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Varnish, Mixed Media, Screen, Stencil
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) - Hand watercolored drypoint etching on Japanese paper
Located in Varese, IT
Hand watercolored drypoint etching on extremely fine Japanese paper, edited in 1969.
Limited edition of 145 copies water-coloured, numbered in lower left corner EA (Epreuve d'artist)...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Paper, Etching
Salvador Dali - Venus in Furs - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Original Etching
Stamp signed by Dali
Edition of 294 copies.
Paper : Arches vellum.
Dimensions : 16x12".
Catalogue Raisonné : Field 68-6 (p. 40-41).
Salvador Dal...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Etching
Praying Job - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Color lithograph realized by Marc Chagall in 1960 to illustrate "The Bible".
Edition of 6500, published by Tériade in no. 33 and 34 of the Art Magazine Verve.
Printed by Mourlot a...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Picasso ( 1881 – 1973 ) - hand-signed lithograph on Arches–1962 (Bloch103)
Located in Varese, IT
Pablo Picasso ( 1881 – 1973 ) –Portrait de Famille , Six Personnages
( Ref Bloch 1031; Mourlot 385 )
lithograph on Arches paper, edited in 1962
Limited edition of 50 copies
signed ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Journal D'Un Graveur - Vol. 2 Plate 5 - Etching by J. Mirò - 1975
By Joan Miró
Located in Roma, IT
This is an original etching and drypoint realized by Joan Miró in 1975. Hand signed in pencil on the lower right and numbered on the lower left.
Edition of 75 prints. It represents ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Salvador Dalí, Composition (Field 69-5, A-M), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on Papeterie de Mandeure vélin paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Afternoon In The Garden": Fantastic Realism Painting Golden With Animals
Located in Bogotá, Bogotá
Figurative painting in oil and acrylic on canvas, horizontal format. A journey through the universe, a visit to another invisible world where one can live in peace, an afternoon in t...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Oiseaux Souterrains, Signed Modern Bird Lithograph by Max Ernst
By Max Ernst
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Max Ernst, German (1891 - 1976)
Title: Oiseaux Souterrains
Year: 1975
Medium: Lithograph on Japon paper, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 99
Image Size: 13.5 x 24.5 inc...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Man Ray, Composition, Man Ray, Electa Editrice Portfolios (after)
By Man Ray
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Man Ray, Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1980. Published and printed ...
Category
1980s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali "THE VOICE OF MY BELOVED! BEHOLD!" from Song of Songs of Solomon
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: "THE VOICE OF MY BELOVED! BEHOLD!" from the Portfolio Song of Songs of Solomon
Year: 1972
Medium: Color Etching with Gold Dust on Arches Paper, signed in...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Etching
Decameron - Portfolio of 10 Original Signed Engravings by Salvador Dali
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Portfolio of 10 Original Signed Engravings by Salvador Dali
Title: Decameron
Signed in Pencil by Salvador Dali
Dimensions: 45 x 32 cm
Edition EA 1/5
1972
References : Field 72-8 (p. ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Engraving
Jeremiah's Prophecy Against King Joachim - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Holy Bible - Jeremiah's Prophecy Against King Joachim is Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Med...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
CENTER OF ATTENTION Signed Lithograph, Sci-Fi Landscape, Stone Men Circle
Located in Union City, NJ
CENTER OF ATTENTION is a hand drawn original lithograph printed in blue gray ink using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches printmaking paper 100% acid free. CENTER OF ATT...
Category
1990s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Multi-Facet, Large Surrealist Oil Painting by Ramon Santiago
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ramon Santiago, American (1943 - 2001)
Title: Multi-Facet
Year: 1974
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated
Size: 40 x 34 inches
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Miró, Composition (Cramer 69; Dupin 292; Mourlot 286-294) (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From folio, Miró 1959-1960, 1961. Published by Pierre M...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Le Nid (The Nest)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Le nid ( The Nest)" 1962 is an oil painting on canvas by renown French artist Jean Pierre Serrier, 1834-1989. It is signed, Titled, dated and insc...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil
Surrealist composition
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: collotype (after the Miro lithograph). Printed in 1947 in an edition of 1500 by Meriden Gravure and published by Curt Valentin for "The Prints of Joan Miro" portfolio. Size: ...
Category
1940s Surrealist Art
Materials
Photogravure
Italian Modernist Surrealist Lady With a Hat Oil Painting, Signora dal Cappello
Located in Surfside, FL
Lazzaro Donati (Italian, 1926-1977), "Signora dal Cappello," oil on panel, signed lower left, signed, titled and dated verso, overall (with frame): 22.5"h x 24.5"w
Lazzaro Donati wa...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Vincent's Nightmare (black Lab dog face cop police crime surreal oil painting)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
In VINCENT'S NIGHTMARE, a melancholic black Labrador dominates the composition, its sorrowful eyes reflecting an unspoken tragedy. The rich, textured fur contrasts with the crisp blue sky, creating an atmosphere of quiet despair. A small yet striking figure—a sheriff—stands before the dog, separated by yellow crime scene tape. His posture, with a hand wiping his face, conveys exhaustion, grief, or perhaps regret. The contrast in scale between the enormous, mournful dog and the diminutive officer suggests themes of loss, injustice, or powerlessness. The surrealist juxtaposition of law enforcement with an innocent, grieving creature invites interpretation: is the dog a witness, a victim, or a symbol of something greater? Vincent’s Nightmare evokes an emotional response, urging viewers to contemplate responsibility, empathy, and the weight of unseen sorrow.
keywords; painting on canvas, surrealist painting, americana...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flock of Seagulls - British 60's Surrealist art oil painting birds in flight
By Stuart Maxwell Armfield
Located in London, GB
A superb, detailed and meticulous egg tempera oil on panel from around 1960 by Stuart Maxwell Armfield. The painting depicts a flock of seagulls in a bold, strong and surreal colouri...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Egg Tempera
Salomon - Plate from The Bible I - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Salomon - Plate from The Bible I is an original artwork realized by Marc Chagall in 1960.
Mixed colored lithograph.
Mourlot 131
The artwork is from the series "The Bible".
In 19...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
"L'Ete"
By Joan Miró
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph and pochoir. Catalogue reference: Dupin 1310, Benhoura 396. This lithograph was printed in 1938 at the atelier Mourlot and published in Paris by Teriade for the ar...
Category
1930s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Monaco by Jean Cocteau, 1959
By Jean Cocteau
Located in New York, NY
Artist: Jean Cocteau
Medium: Original Lithograph Poster, 1959
Dimensions: 25.5 x 19.5 in, 64.8 x 49.5 cm
Classic Poster Paper - Excellent Condition A
This original lithographic p...
Category
1950s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Miró, Composition (Cramer 160; Mourlot 865), Joan Miro Lithographs (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Joan Miró Lithographs, Volume I, 1972....
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Vellum, Lithograph
"Austrian accession"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Once my Austrian comrade came to visit me. He asked me if I know who Augustus Gruber is ? At the time, I had no idea about this character. It turned out that August Gruber was a supp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Tree of Knowledge - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Color lithograph realized by Marc Chagall in 1960 to illustrate "The Bible".
Edition of 6500, published by Tériade in no. 33 and 34 of the Art Magazine Verve.
Printed by Mourlot a...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Surrealist composition
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: collotype (after the Miro lithograph). Printed in 1947 in an edition of 1500 by Meriden Gravure and published by Curt Valentin for "The Prints of Joan Miro" portfolio. Size: ...
Category
1940s Surrealist Art
Materials
Photogravure
original lithograph
By André Masson
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1972 for the art revue XXe Siecle (issue No. 38). Size: 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches (310 x 237 mm). Not signed.
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Erotic Grapefruit - Original Hand-Signed Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Erotic Grapefruit - Original Hand-Signed Lithograph
1969
Dimensions: P. 57 x 37 cm
Sheet: 75 x 56 cm
Handsigned, EA (Epreuve d'Artiste)
Excellent Condition
Reference...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
"La Reconnaissance Infinie (The Infinite Recognition)" Litho after Rene Magritte
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"La Reconnaissance Infinie (The Infinite Recognition)" is a color lithograph after the 1963 painting by Rene Magritte. Two of Magritte's bourgeois "littl...
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2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Surrealist composition
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: collotype (after the Miro lithograph). Printed in 1947 in an edition of 1500 by Meriden Gravure and published by Curt Valentin for "The Prints of Joan Miro" portfolio. Size: ...
Category
1940s Surrealist Art
Materials
Photogravure
Les Metamorphoses Erotiques Red Portfolio Book
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Les Metamorphoses Erotiques Red Portfolio
DESCRIPTION: First edition printed in a limited edition of 300. Large quarto in ff. under a folded cover a...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
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Paper
Calder, Composition, A Bestiary (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Letterpress printing on spécialement fabriqué Curtis Rag vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.1875 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, A Best...
Category
1950s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
La Licorne (The Unicorn), Surrealist Lithograph by Salvador Dali
Located in Long Island City, NY
A woman with flowing gold hair kneels before a unicorn. The horse theme was frequently used by Dali throughout his career. The horse is seen as a symbol of beauty and elegance as wel...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
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