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In the wake of World War I’s ravaging of Europe, artists delved into the unconscious mind to confront and grapple with this reality. Poet and critic André Breton, a leader of the Surrealist movement who authored the 1924 Surrealist Manifesto, called this approach “a violent reaction against the impoverishment and sterility of thought processes that resulted from centuries of rationalism.” Surrealist art emerged in the 1920s with dreamlike and uncanny imagery guided by a variety of techniques such as automatic drawing, which can be likened to a stream of consciousness, to channel psychological experiences.

Although Surrealism was a groundbreaking approach for European art, its practitioners were inspired by Indigenous art and ancient mysticism for reenvisioning how sculptures, paintings, prints, performance art and more could respond to the unsettled world around them.

Surrealist artists were also informed by the Dada movement, which originated in 1916 Zurich and embraced absurdity over the logic that had propelled modernity into violence. Some of the Surrealists had witnessed this firsthand, such as Max Ernst, who served in the trenches during World War I, and Salvador Dalí, whose otherworldly paintings and other work responded to the dawning civil war in Spain.

Other key artists associated with the revolutionary art and literary movement included Man Ray, Joan Miró, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Frida Kahlo and Meret Oppenheim, all of whom had a distinct perspective on reimagining reality and freeing the unconscious mind from the conventions and restrictions of rational thought. Pablo Picasso showed some of his works in “La Peinture Surréaliste” — the first collective exhibition of Surrealist painting — which opened at Paris’s Galerie Pierre in November of 1925. (Although Magritte is best known as one of the visual Surrealist movement’s most talented practitioners, his famous 1943 painting, The Fifth Season, can be interpreted as a formal break from Surrealism.)

The outbreak of World War II led many in the movement to flee Europe for the Americas, further spreading Surrealism abroad. Generations of modern and contemporary artists were subsequently influenced by the richly symbolic and unearthly imagery of Surrealism, from Joseph Cornell to Arshile Gorky.

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Style: Surrealist
The corridor of Katmandu, from The Hippies
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali Title: The corridor of Katmandu Portfolio: The Hippies Medium: Etching on Arches wove paper Date: 1969 Edition: Unnumbered proof Frame Size: 34 1/4" x 27 1/2" S...
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Daphnes and Chloé, Planche XXIII (trial proof)
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Daphnes and Chloé, Planche XXIII (trial proof) Lithograph from 1961. Trial proof - unique work. On Arches paper with watermark. Dimensions of work: 56 x...
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Divine Comedy
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dalí’s Divine Comedy is a series of 100 color wood engravings, each corresponding to a canto from Dante Alighieri’s epic poem. Created between 1960 and 1964, these engraving...
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Portfolio: Hamlet
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dalí, 1904–1989 (Spain) Portfolio: Hamlet, 1973 Salvador Dalí’s Hamlet (1973) is a stunning portfolio of ten drypoint etchings with aquatint and ...
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Fleurs de Neige
Located in OPOLE, PL
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - Fleurs de Neige Lithograph from 1958. Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26 cm. Plate signed. Publisher: Tériade, Paris. First, original edition. The work i...
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Femme Bleue
Located in OPOLE, PL
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - Femme Bleue Lithograph from 1958. Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26 cm. Publisher: Tériade, Paris. First, original edition. The work is in Excellent cond...
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Femme Bleue
Located in OPOLE, PL
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - Femme Bleue Lithograph from 1958. Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26 cm. Publisher: Tériade, Paris. First, original edition. The work is in Excellent cond...
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Panem Nostrum - Lithograph Attr. to S. Dali - 1966
Located in Roma, IT
Panem Nostrum is a lithograph realized by Salvador Dalí (1904 – 1989), from the volume "Pater Noster" published by Rizzoli Editore, Milan, 1966. Signed and dated "1966" on plate on ...
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Iesus a Satana Tentatur - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Iesus a Satana tentatur ("Jesus temptet by Satan") is an artwork realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ editionis published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 and 1969. ...
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The Corridor of Katmandu, from The Hippies
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali Title: The Corridor of Katmandu Portfolio: The Hippies Medium: Etching on Arches wove paper Date: 1969 Edition: 43/145 Framed Size: 31" x 26 1/2" Sheet Size: 26...
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Une de Mai
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Une de Mai Lithograph from 1972. Th edition of 49/150. Dimensions of work: 120.5 x 78 cm Publisher: Edition Waintrop, Paris. Reference: Michler/Löpsi...
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Le Faisan
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Le Faisan Lithograph from 1966. Edition: Epreuve d'artiste XXIV/XXV. Dimensions of work: 76 x 59 cm. Hand signed. Dimensions of frame: 114 x 87 cm. R...
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Lono's Fighting Chair
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Ralph Steadman Title: Lono's Fighting Chair Medium: One color silkscreen on White Rising Stonehenge Deckle Edge Paper Size: 22 x 30 Inches Edition: of 250 Year: 2006 Notes: ...
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Savage Journey the American Dream Edition
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Ralph Steadman Title: Savage Journey the American Dream Edition Medium: One color silkscreen on White Conventry Rag Paper Size: 32 × 40 in 81.3 × 101.6 cm Edition: of 150 + 20 AP Year: 2017 Notes: From Hunter Thompson's cult classic, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, one of the most iconic images in the novel is Savage Journey. Ralph has collaborated with Brian Chambers to create this extraordinary, limited edition, screen print. The edition of 150 have all been signed and numbered in red ink and embellished with his trademark flourish, the splat, in Ultramarine Blue. Each is a unique piece in its own right. They are produced by Kentucky based, Master Printer, Joe Petro III who has collaborated for decades with Ralph on his screen prints including the Hunter Memorial print, Vintage Dr Gonzo...
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Up, Up & Up Yours
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Ralph Steadman Title: Up, Up and Up Your's Medium: Three color silkscreen on White Rising Stonehenge Deckle Edge Paper Size: 22 x 30 Inches Edition: of 250 Year: 2006 Notes:...
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Manhattan Skyline
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Manhattan Skyline MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Levine & Levine EDITION NUMBER: 49/150 MEASUREMENTS: 29.75" x21.25" YEAR: 19...
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1970s Surrealist More Prints

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Lithograph

Les Amours de Cassandre Complete Suite
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Les Amours de Cassandre Complete Suite MEDIUM: 10 Etchings SIGNED: Each etching is Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Editions Argillet, Paris EDITION NUMBER:...
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Ultra Surrealist Corpuscular Galutska, from 1971 Memories of Surrealism
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali Title: Ultra Surrealist Corpuscular Galutska Portfolio: Memories of Surrealism Medium: Etching and photolithograph Date: 1971 Edition: AP XIV/XXV (artist's proo...
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Etching, Lithograph

The Travels of John the Baptist - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Holy Bible -  The Travels of John the Baptist is Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Mediolani be...
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Happy New Year - Drawing by L. Gischia - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Happy New Year is an original black marker drawing on paper with autograph wishing notes by the French artist Léon Gischia to Nesto Jacometti, editor and collector of Graphic art. ...
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Permanent Marker

L'Air
Located in OPOLE, PL
Joan Miro (1893-1983) - L'Air Lithograph from 1937. Dimensions of work: 35 x 26 cm Publisher: Tériade, Paris. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast and secure shipment.
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Dog barking at the moon
Located in OPOLE, PL
Joan Miro (1893-1983) - Dog barking at the moon Lithograph from 1952. Dimensions of work: 52 x 35 cm Publisher: Tériade, Paris. On the verso another Lithographs and lithographic ...
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The sun, from The Hippies
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali Title: The sun Portfolio: The Hippies Medium: Color etching on Arches Date: 1969 Edition: 102/145 Frame Size: 31" x 26 1/2" Sheet Size: 26" x 20" Image Size: 15...
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Hommage aux Petits Lits Blancs
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE:Hommage aux Petites Lits Blancs MEDIUM: Lithograph done for Wally Findlay Gallery SIGNED: Hand Signed PRINTER: Mourlot Printers EDITION NUMBER: 87/2...
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Bucéphale
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Bucéphale Lithograph from 1970. Dimensions of work: 68 x 50 cm On B.F.K Rives paper as stated in the Field catalogue. Reference: Field 72-6G The work...
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Etching, Aquatint, Lithograph

Conquest of Cosmos 1 Suite
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Conquest of Cosmos 1 Suite MEDIUM: 6 color Etchings & Aquatints with embossing SIGNED: Each piece is Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Levine & Levine EDITI...
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The Paradise, Canto 25 - St. James of Hope
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - The Paradise, Canto 25 - St. James of Hope Woodcut print from 1960. Dimensions of work: 33 x 26.2 cm Publisher: Les Heures Claires, Paris. The work is...
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Le cheval de course
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Le cheval de course Lithograph from 1970. Dimensions of work: 68 x 50 cm On B.F.K Rives paper as stated in the Field catalogue. Reference: Field 72-6G...
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Etching, Aquatint, Lithograph

Lierre
Located in OPOLE, PL
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - Lierre Lithograph from 1958. Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26 cm. Plate signed. Publisher: Tériade, Paris. First, original edition. The work is in Exce...
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TAGGED TREE Signed Lithograph, Mini Landscape, Tree, Water, Sky, Surrealism
Located in Union City, NJ
TAGGED TREE is a rarely seen, hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the American surrealist artist Fanny Brennan, created using traditional hand lithography techniques printed on ...
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L'Aigle Mademoiselle - Etching by H. Bellmer - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 38 x 28 cm. Hand Signed. From the Portfolio "Petit Traité de Morale", Paris, Editions Georges Visat, 1968. Copy on Velin d'Arches. Includes passepartout. Hans Be...
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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"...
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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...
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Femme Bleue
Located in OPOLE, PL
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - Femme Bleue Lithograph from 1958. Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26 cm. Publisher: Tériade, Paris. First, original edition. The work is in Excellent cond...
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Lithograph

La Venus aux Fourrures Complete Suite
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: La Venus aux Fourrures Complete Suite MEDIUM: 16 Etchings SIGNED: Each etching is Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Editions Argillet, Paris EDITION NUMBER: ...
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Vitraux in Four Sheets Royal Insect
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Vitraux in Four Sheets Royal Insect MEDIUM: 4 Lithographs SIGNED: 1 Lithograph is Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMBER: 1 lithograph is numbe...
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Vox Clamantis - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Vox Clamantis is a Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 and 1969. Signed a...
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Femme Bleue
Located in OPOLE, PL
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - Femme Bleue Lithograph from 1958. Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26 cm. Publisher: Tériade, Paris. First, original edition. The work is in Excellent cond...
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Untitled - Original Lithograph by Henry Maurice - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is a colored lithograph on paper, realized in 1973 by the French artist, Henry Maurice, and published by La Nuova Foglio, a publishing house of Macerata. Hand-signed and numbered in pencil on lower margin. Edition of 100 prints. This contemporary artwork representing a surreal composition with flying monsters surrounded by a wall and fire like in a hell, a scene to decipher as a rebus game, is in excellent conditions. Maurice Henry...
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Moses and Monotheism Moses & Akhenaton
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Moses & Monotheism Moses & Akhenaton MEDIUM: Etching on soft glove sheepskin SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Art et Valeur, Paris EDITION NUMBER: 2...
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The Glass Tower for Jane Perry, Surrealist Etching Poem by Joan Miro
Located in Long Island City, NY
The Glass Tower for Jane Perry Joan Miro, Spanish (1893–1983) Date: 1947 Etching and Aquatint on laid paper, signed in the plate Image Size: 5.5 x 6.75 inches Size: 15 x 11.5 in. (38...
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Etching, Aquatint

Orphée - Original Lithograph by Jeanne Esmein - 1967
Located in Roma, IT
Orphée is an original artwork realized by Jeanne Esmein in 1967. Serigraph on paper. Hand-signed and dated in pencil by the artist on the lower right. Titled and numbered in pencil...
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Dance
Located in OPOLE, PL
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - Dance Lithograph from 1939. Dimensions of work: 52 x 35 cm Publisher: Tériade, Paris. On the back there are two lithographs signed in plate. The prin...
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Baigneuse Dans Les Resaux
Located in OPOLE, PL
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - Baigneuse Dans Les Resaux Lithograph from 1958. Dimensions of work: 52.5 x 35.5 cm. Publisher: Tériade, Paris. Each copy of this Lithograph was origin...
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Imaginations & Objects of The Future Cybernetic Lobster Telephone
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Imaginations & Objects of The future Cybernetic Lobster Telephone MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Merrill Chase, Chicago/Alan Rich, ...
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Marc Chagall - Summer's Dream - Original Handsigned Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall - Summer's Dream - Original Handsigned Lithograph 1983 Printed by Mourlot Dimensions: 48 x 65 cm Handsigned in pencil Justified EA (Epreuve D'artiste, Artist proof) asi...
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8 Mortal Sins Suite
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: 8 Mortal Sins Suite Anger Avarice Dalinean Envy Gluttony Lust Pride Sloth MEDIUM: 8 Etchings SIGNED: Each piece is Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Jean Schne...
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Figure Rouge avec Portrait de Quevedo
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Figure Rouge avec Portrait de Quevedo" from the suite, Visions De Quevedo, 1975. is an original engraving with pochoir hand coloring on Richard de Bas paper, by ...
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Engraving

Forgotten Island of Santosha original vintage surfing movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original: FORGOTTEN ISLAND OF SANTOSHA vintage surfing poster. Artist: Bill Ogden. Size: 27" x 39 3/4". Year: 1974. Original One Sheet from Austra...
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Offset

Act I, Scene I - From “Romeo and Juliet - Lithograph-1975
Located in Roma, IT
Act I, Scene I - From “Romeo and Juliet”  is an artwork realized  in 1975. Mixed colored lithograph. Signed and dated in plate on the higher left margin. Perfect conditions. The ...
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Don Quichotte
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Don Quichotte Lithograph from 1970. Dimensions of work: 68 x 50 cm On B.F.K Rives paper as stated in the Field catalogue. Reference: Field 72-6G The ...
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Litografía original III
Located in OPOLE, PL
Joan Miro (1893-1983) - Litografía original III Lithograph from 1972. Dimensions of work: 32 x 24.5 cm. Dimensions in frame: 52 x42 cm. Publisher: Maeght Éditeur, Paris. Printed ...
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La victime de la Fête
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - La victime de la Fête Lithograph from 1970. Dimensions of work: 68 x 50 cm On B.F.K Rives paper as stated in the Field catalogue. Reference: Field 72-...
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Etching, Aquatint, Lithograph

Woman with cushion, from The Hippies
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali Title: Woman with cushion Portfolio: The Hippies Medium: Color etching on Arches wove paper Date: 1969 Edition: 67/145 Frame Size: 31" x 26 1/2" Sheet Size: 26"...
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Untitled - Lithograph by Dorothea Tanning - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled  is an artwork realized by Dorothea Tanning in 1974. Colored lithograph. Good conditions. Printed by  Atelier Pierre Chave in Vence, France. This lithograph was realized ...
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Deep Waters, Screenprint by Israel Rubinstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
"Israel Rubinstein (1944 - ) Date: 1980 Screenprint on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 350 Image Size: 21 x 18 inches Size: 29.5 x 2...
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Dalinean Horses The Centaur of Crete
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Dalinean Horses The Centaur of Crete MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Simeon Wajntraub & Jacques Carpentier EDITION NUMBER: 170/25...
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Marc Chagall - The Red Rider - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph The Red Rider From the unsigned, unnumbered lithograph printed in the literary review XXe Siecle 1957 See Mourlot 191 Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm Publisher: G. di San Lazzaro. Marc Chagall (born in 1887) Marc Chagall was born in Belarus in 1887 and developed an early interest in art. After studying painting, in 1907 he left Russia for Paris, where he lived in an artist colony on the city’s outskirts. Fusing his own personal, dreamlike imagery with hints of the fauvism and cubism popular in France at the time, Chagall created his most lasting work—including I and the Village (1911)—some of which would be featured in the Salon des Indépendants exhibitions. After returning to Vitebsk for a visit in 1914, the outbreak of WWI trapped Chagall in Russia. He returned to France in 1923 but was forced to flee the country and Nazi persecution during WWII. Finding asylum in the U.S., Chagall became involved in set and costume design before returning to France in 1948. In his later years, he experimented with new art forms and was commissioned to produce numerous large-scale works. Chagall died in St.-Paul-de-Vence in 1985. The Village Marc Chagall was born in a small Hassidic community on the outskirts of Vitebsk, Belarus, on July 7, 1887. His father was a fishmonger, and his mother ran a small sundries shop in the village. As a child, Chagall attended the Jewish elementary school, where he studied Hebrew and the Bible, before later attending the Russian public school. He began to learn the fundamentals of drawing during this time, but perhaps more importantly, he absorbed the world around him, storing away the imagery and themes that would feature largely in most of his later work. At age 19 Chagall enrolled at a private, all-Jewish art school and began his formal education in painting, studying briefly with portrait artist Yehuda Pen. However, he left the school after several months, moving to St. Petersburg in 1907 to study at the Imperial Society for the Protection of Fine Arts. The following year, he enrolled at the Svanseva School, studying with set designer Léon Bakst, whose work had been featured in Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. This early experience would prove important to Chagall’s later career as well. Despite this formal instruction, and the widespread popularity of realism in Russia at the time, Chagall was already establishing his own personal style, which featured a more dreamlike unreality and the people, places and imagery that were close to his heart. Some examples from this period are his Window Vitebsk (1908) and My Fianceé with Black Gloves (1909), which pictured Bella Rosenfeld, to whom he had recently become engaged. The Beehive Despite his romance with Bella, in 1911 an allowance from Russian parliament member and art patron Maxim Binaver enabled Chagall to move to Paris, France. After settling briefly in the Montparnasse neighborhood, Chagall moved further afield to an artist colony known as La Ruche (“The Beehive”), where he began to work side by side with abstract painters such as Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger as well as the avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire. At their urging, and under the influence of the wildly popular fauvism and cubism, Chagall lightened his palette and pushed his style ever further from reality. I and the Village (1911) and Homage to Apollinaire (1912) are among his early Parisian works, widely considered to be his most successful and representative period. Though his work stood stylistically apart from his cubist contemporaries, from 1912 to 1914 Chagall exhibited several paintings at the annual Salon des Indépendants exhibition, where works by the likes of Juan Gris, Marcel Duchamp and Robert Delaunay were causing a stir in the Paris art world. Chagall’s popularity began to spread beyond La Ruche, and in May 1914 he traveled to Berlin to help organize his first solo exhibition, at Der Sturm Gallery. Chagall remained in the city until the highly acclaimed show opened that June. He then returned to Vitebsk, unaware of the fateful events to come. War, Peace and Revolution In August 1914 the outbreak of World War I precluded Chagall’s plans to return to Paris. The conflict did little to stem the flow of his creative output, however, instead merely giving him direct access to the childhood scenes so essential to his work, as seen in paintings such as Jew in Green (1914) and Over Vitebsk (1914). His paintings from this period also occasionally featured images of the war’s impact on the region, as with Wounded Soldier (1914) and Marching (1915). But despite the hardships of life during wartime, this would also prove to be a joyful period for Chagall. In July 1915 he married Bella, and she gave birth to a daughter, Ida, the following year. Their appearance in works such as Birthday (1915), Bella and Ida by the Window (1917) and several of his “Lovers” paintings give a glimpse of the island of domestic bliss that was Chagall’s amidst the chaos. To avoid military service and stay with his new family, Chagall took a position as a clerk in the Ministry of War Economy in St. Petersburg. While there he began work on his autobiography and also immersed himself in the local art scene, befriending novelist Boris Pasternak, among others. He also exhibited his work in the city and soon gained considerable recognition. That notoriety would prove important in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution when he was appointed as the Commissar of Fine Arts in Vitebsk. In his new post, Chagall undertook various projects in the region, including the 1919 founding of the Academy of the Arts. Despite these endeavors, differences among his colleagues eventually disillusioned Chagall. In 1920 he relinquished his position and moved his family to Moscow, the post-revolution capital of Russia. In Moscow, Chagall was soon commissioned to create sets and costumes for various productions at the Moscow State Yiddish Theater, where he would paint a series of murals titled Introduction to the Jewish Theater as well. In 1921, Chagall also found work as a teacher at a school for war orphans. By 1922, however, Chagall found that his art had fallen out of favor, and seeking new horizons he left Russia for good. Flight After a brief stay in Berlin, where he unsuccessfully sought to recover the work exhibited at Der Sturm before the war, Chagall moved his family to Paris in September 1923. Shortly after their arrival, he was commissioned by art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard to produce a series of etchings for a new edition of Nikolai Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls. Two years later Chagall began work on an illustrated edition of Jean de la Fontaine’s Fables, and in 1930 he created etchings for an illustrated edition of the Old Testament, for which he traveled to Palestine to conduct research. Chagall’s work during this period brought him new success as an artist and enabled him to travel throughout Europe in the 1930s. He also published his autobiography, My Life (1931), and in 1933 received a retrospective at the Kunsthalle in Basel, Switzerland. But at the same time that Chagall’s popularity was spreading, so, too, was the threat of Fascism and Nazism. Singled out during the cultural "cleansing" undertaken by the Nazis in Germany, Chagall’s work was ordered removed from museums throughout the country. Several pieces were subsequently burned, and others were featured in a 1937 exhibition of “degenerate art” held in Munich. Chagall’s angst regarding these troubling events and the persecution of Jews in general can be seen in his 1938 painting White Crucifixion. With the eruption of World War II, Chagall and his family moved to the Loire region before moving farther south to Marseilles following the invasion of France. They found a more certain refuge when, in 1941, Chagall’s name was added by the director of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City to a list of artists and intellectuals deemed most at risk from the Nazis’ anti-Jewish campaign. Chagall and his family would be among the more than 2,000 who received visas and escaped this way. Haunted Harbors Arriving in New York City in June 1941, Chagall discovered that he was already a well-known artist there and, despite a language barrier, soon became a part of the exiled European artist community. The following year he was commissioned by choreographer Léonide Massine to design sets and costumes for the ballet Aleko, based on Alexander Pushkin’s “The Gypsies” and set to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. But even as he settled into the safety of his temporary home, Chagall’s thoughts were frequently consumed by the fate befalling the Jews of Europe and the destruction of Russia, as paintings such as The Yellow Crucifixion...
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1950s Surrealist More Prints

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Lithograph

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