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Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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
Salvador Dali - Woman with a Whip - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Woman with a Whip - Original Stamp-Signed Etching Stamp signed by Dali Edition of 294 copies. Paper : Arches vellum. Dimensions : 16x12". Catalogue Raisonné : Fiel...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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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...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

All for Money, Surrealist Screenprint by Israel Rubistein
Located in Long Island City, NY
"Israel Rubinstein (1944 - ) Date: 1980 Screenprint on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 350 Image Size: 25 x 37.5 inches Size: 27.5 x 39 in. (69.85 x 99.06 cm)"
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1980s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Faust Femme au Clown
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Faust Femme au Clown MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: 68/145 MEASUREMENTS: 15.3" x 11.4" YEAR: 1969 FRAMED: No CONDITION: Exc...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Paradise: Canto 27 from The Divine Comedy
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali Medium: Woodblock engraving Title: Paradise: Canto 27 Portfolio: The Divine Comedy: Paradise Year: 1963 Edition: 4765 Framed Si...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

Faust Sorcieres au Bali
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Faust Sorceress au Bali MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Editions Aegillet, Paris EDITION NUMBER: 9/95 MEASUREMENTS: 15" x 11.2" pa...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Paradise: Canto 4 from The Divine Comedy
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali Medium: Woodblock engraving Title: Paradise: Canto 4 Portfolio: The Divine Comedy: Paradise Year: 1963 Edition: 4765 Framed Siz...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Le Buste - Etching - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Le Buste, from the Series "Faust" (La Nuit de Walpurgis), is an artwork realized in 1968/69. Etching, Drypoint, Watercolor and Roulette on Japon Paper. Hand signed and numbered. Ed...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Watercolor, Drypoint, Etching

René Magritte - LE CHEF D'OEUVRE OU... Limited Surrealism French Contemporary
Located in Madrid, Madrid
René Magritte - LE CHEF D'OEUVRE OU LES MYSTÈRES DE L'HORIZON, 1965 Date of creation: 2010 Medium: Lithograph on BFK Rives Paper Edition number: 131/275 Size: 60 x 45 cm Condition: N...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Paradise: Canto 3 from The Divine Comedy
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali Medium: Woodblock engraving Title: Paradise: Canto 3 Portfolio: The Divine Comedy: Paradise Year: 1963 Edition: 4765 Framed Siz...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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"Triangular Sunset Situation" - Surrealist Colored Lithograph #15/16 1978
Located in Soquel, CA
"Triangular Sunset Situation" - Surrealist Colored Etching #15/16, 1978 Surrealist landscape with creatures by James C. Crabb (American, b. 1947). There is a low horizon, with objects that resemble mushrooms, coral, and trees growing from the ground. In the sky, there are other objects and creatures, some of which are recognizable as biological. Titled, numbered, signed, and dated along the bottom edge: Triangular Sunset Situation 15/16 J Crabb...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Laid Paper, Lithograph

Adoration
Located in Columbia, MO
Leonor Fini (Argentine-French, 1907–1996) A fiercely spirited Surrealist unfettered by social mores, Leonor Fini defied convention with her haunting, dreamlike works that explore the...
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20th Century Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Screen

Untitled - III, Surrealist Lithograph by Wojtek Kowalczyk
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled - III Wojtek Kowalczyk, Polish (1960) Date: 2005 Lithograph, signed in pencil Size: 19.5 in. x 13.5 in. (49.53 cm x 34.29 cm)
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Early 2000s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Pleni Luna Complete Suitę
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Wifredo Lam Title: Pleni Luna Complete Suitę Medium: 10 Lithographs Signed: Each lithograph is Hand Signed Edition Number: XXXVII/L matched numbered suite Measurements: 1...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Nudes Nude at The Window
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Nudes Nude at The Window MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: E.G.I. EDITION NUMBER: 55/120 MEASUREMENTS: 22" x 30" YEAR: 1970 FRAM...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Salvador Dali - Serenade - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Serenade - Original Handsigned Lithograph Dimensions: 51 x 71 cm 1970 Signed in pencil and numbered Edition : /CXX References : Field 70-8
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Miró Lithographe II - Plate I - Lithograph by J. Mirò - 1975
Located in Roma, IT
"Miró Lithographe II - Plate I" is a lithograph realized by Joan Miró in 1975. Perfect conditions. It comes from the set of 11 lithographs realized for the catalog "Miró Lithograph ...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Pilgrimage #6, Surrealist Screenprint by Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000) Title: Pilgrimage #6 Year: 1977 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200, 30 AP Size: 26 in. x 34 in. (6...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Ernst, Composition (Spies/Leppien 202D), 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, Homage to Max Ernst, 1971. Published and printed under...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Le Purgatoire I (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), La Divine Comédie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin pur chiffon de Rives paper. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Michler & Löpsin...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Salvador Dali - Pear and Nude Back
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Pear and Nude Back - Original Etching Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm Edition: 390 1967 On Rives Vellum References : Field 67-4 (p. 32-33) / Michler & Lopsinger 174 to 187.
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"Terres de Grande Feu, Miró-Artigas, " an Original Color Poster by Joan Miró
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Terres de Grande Feu" is an original color lithograph poster by Joan Miró for Galerie Maeght Paris. Poster produced for the exhibition of 43 ceramic pieces,...
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1950s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

LE PROPHETE (MOURLOT 713)
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph in colors on Arches paper. Hand signed and numbered by Marc Chagall. Mourlot 713. Edition 41/50. Image size 27.25 x 21 inches. Sheet size 32 x 24.25 inches. Frame size approx 39 x 31 inches. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity issued by Gallery Art. All reasonable offers will be considered. About the Artist: Marc Chagall (French/Russian, 1887–1985) was an artist whose work anticipated the dream-like imagery of Surrealism. Over the course of his career, Chagall developed the poetic, amorphous, and deeply personal visual language evident in paintings like I and the Village...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Bewitched Lake, Surrealist 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: 25 x 30.5 inches Size: 29.5 x...
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1980s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Screen

La Traversée Difficile, Surrealist Lithograph by Rene Magritte
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Rene Magritte (after) Title: La Traversée Difficile Year of Original: 1968 Year of Printing: 1968 Medium: Lithograph, signed 'F.M' by Fernand Mourlot in pencil Edition: 350 ...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Nude - Etching - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and drypoint realized to illustrate Pierre Ronsard's "Les Amours de Cassandre". Published by Argillet, Paris, in 1968. Edition of 299 pieces. One of 165 specimen on Arches ...
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Miró, Composition (Cramer 103; Mourlot 382-383), Miró Cartones 1956-1965 (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Miró: Cartones, 1959-1965, October - November 1965, 196...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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LES ENCHANTEURS (MOURLOT 569)
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph in colors on Arches paper. Hand signed and numbered by Marc Chagall. Mourlot 569 Edition 43/50 (there were also 25 artist's proofs). Image size 22 x 14.5 inches. Sheet size 29.75 x 20.75 inches. Frame size approx 37 x 27 inches. Artwork is in excellent condition. All reasonable offers will be considered. About the Artist: Marc Chagall (French/Russian, 1887–1985) was an artist whose work anticipated the dream-like imagery of Surrealism. Over the course of his career, Chagall developed the poetic, amorphous, and deeply personal visual language evident in paintings like I and the Village...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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El Ultimo viaje del buque fantasma, Plate III
Located in Fairlawn, OH
El Ultimo viaje del buque fantasma, Plate III Color lithograph, 1976 Signed and numbered in pencil From: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, El Ultimo viaie del buq...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Shoe artist and Statue of Liberty - Original lithograph - Limited / 120 copies
Located in Paris, IDF
Max ERNST (1891-1976) Shoe artist and Statue of Liberty, c. 1974 Original lithograph Unsigned Numbered / 120 copies On Arches vellum 52 x 37.5 cm INFORMATION: Lithograph created fo...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Les Venusiennes (II) from Fog Gog Magog Planche 3, Lithograph by Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 - 2002) Title: Les Venusiennes (II) - Fog Ma Gog Planche 3 Year: 1971 Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 47/100...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall Original Lithograph 1963 Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm Unsigned, as published in "Chagall Lithographe 1957-1962. VOLUME II" Edition of several thousand Condition : Excellent M...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Miro, Composition (Mourlot 230; Cramer 39) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From volume, Joan Miro by Jacques Prévert and Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, 1956. Pu...
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1950s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"L'Entree en scene (The Emergence), " Color Lithograph after Rene Magritte
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"L'Entree en scene (The Emergence)" is a color lithograph after a 1961 original piece by Rene Magritte. A transparent bird flies over the ocean. The body of this bird shows through it a clean light sky with fluffy clouds. The view around the bird is instead the dark night, stars shine at the top of the scene. Clouds blow by and the waves are turbulent. Art: 20.25 x 14.25 in Frame: 31.38 x 25.38 in René-François-Ghislain Magritte was born November 21, 1898, in Lessines, Belgium and died on August 15, 1967 in Brussels. He is one of the most important surrealist artists. Through his art, Magritte creates humor and mystery with juxtapositions and shocking irregularities. Some of his hallmark motifs include the bourgeois “little man,” bowler hats, apples, hidden faces, and contradictory texts. René Magritte’s father was a tailor and his mother was a miller. Tragedy struck Magritte’s life when his mother committed suicide when he was only fourteen. Magritte and his two brothers were thereafter raised by their grandmother. Magritte studied at the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts from 1916 to 1918. After graduating he worked as a wallpaper designer and in advertisement. It was during this period that he married Georgette Berger, whom he had known since they were teenagers. In 1926, René Magritte signed a contract with the Brussels Art Gallery, which allowed him to quit his other jobs and focus completely on creating art. A year later he had his first solo show at the Galerie la Centaurie in Brussels. At this show Magritte exhibited what is today thought of as his first surrealist piece, The Lost Jockey, painted in 1926. In this work a jockey and his steed run across a theater stage, curtains parted on either side. Throughout the scene, there are trees with trunks shaped somewhat like chess pawns with musical scores running vertically up their sides and branches sticking out from all angles. Critics did not enjoy this style of art; it was new, different, and took critical thought to understand, but The Lost Jockey was only the first of many surrealist artworks Magritte would paint. Because of the bad press in Brussels, René and Georgette moved to Paris in 1927, with the hope that this center of avant-garde art would bring him success and recognition. In Paris, he was able to become friends with many other surrealists, including André Breton and Paul Éluard. They were able to learn from and inspire one another, pushing the Surrealist movement further forward. It was also in Paris that Magritte decided to add text to some of his pieces, which was one of the elements that made his artwork stand out. In 1929, he painted one of his most famous oil works: The Treachery of Images. This is the eye-catching piece centered on a pipe. Below the pipe is written “Ceci n’est pas un pipe,” which translates to “This is not a pipe.” This simple sentence upset many critics of the time, for of course it was a pipe. Magritte replied that it was not a pipe, but a representation of a pipe. One could not use this oil on canvas as a pipe, to fill it with tobacco and smoke it. Thus, it was not a pipe. In 1930, Magritte and Georgette moved back to Brussels. Though they would travel to his exhibitions elsewhere, their home going forward would always be in Brussels. Magritte had his first American exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York City in 1936 and his first show in England two years later in 1938 at The London Gallery...
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2010s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

A Harlot's Progress - Etching after William Hogarth - 1732
Located in Roma, IT
A Harlot's Progress is an etching print realized after William Hogarth in 1732 Signature on the plate on the lower right. Good conditions, with some foxing. A Harlot's Progress" i...
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1730s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Monument to Christopher Columbus and Marcel Duchamp - 13 Etchings by Artists
Located in London, GB
VARIOUS ARTISTS Title: Monument to Christopher Columbus and Marcel Duchamp Monument à Christophe Colomb et à Marcel Duchamp, 1971 Technique: Complete Set of Thirteen Original Ha...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Marc Chagall - Homage to Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall Original Lithograph 1969 From the revue XXe Siecle, edition of 12,000 Unsigned, as issued Dimensions: 32 x 24 Condition : Excellent Reference: Mourlot 572 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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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

“Perro Herido (Wounded Dog)” from 90th Anniversary Suite Lithograph Ed. 22/110
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract surrealist lithograph of a dog wounded by an arrow. This work is from his 90th anniversary suite, the last prints Tamayo completed, before passing on. Signed and editioned a...
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1980s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Agar dans le désert
Located in Paris, FR
Original lithograph by Marc Chagall from The Bible of 1960 "Agar dans le désert" Unsigned 35 x 26 cm Excellent condition
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The Lovers Condemned, from Tristan and Iseult
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali Title: The Lovers Condemned Portfolio: Tristan and Iseult Medium: Color engraving Year: 1970 Edition: XII/XXV Frame Size: 25 1/4" x 20 3/4" Sheet Size: 17 3/4" ...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

Hölle III (Field 189-200; M/L 1039-1138), Die Göttliche Komödie
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut in colors on vélin de Rives BFK paper, mounted on vélin d’Arches support, as issued. Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches. Inscription: Signed in the block, and unnumbered, as issu...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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'On Voit cette Reine...' Colour Wood Engraving from ‘L’Arte d’Aimer d’Ovide’
Located in Toronto, ON
Artist proof from Salvador Dalí's series of prints 'L'Art d'Aimer d'Ovide' published in 1978 in Paris by Centre Culturel de Paris. This wood engraving is printed on Arches paper and ...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

Le Fil d'Ariane (Ariadne's Clew) /// Modern Surrealism Surrelist Andre Masson
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: André Masson (French, 1896-1987) Title: "Le Fil d'Ariane (Ariadne's Clew)" Portfolio: For Meyer Schapiro *Signed by Masson in pencil lower right Year: 1973 Medium: Original Etching with Aquatint on Rives BFK paper Limited edition: 15/100 Printer: Atelier Crommelynck, Paris, France Publisher: The Committee to Endow a Chair in Honor of Meyer Schapiro at Columbia University, New York, NY Sheet size: 18" x 13.5" Image size: 11.5" x 8.5" Condition: Never framed, has been professionally stored away for decades. In excellent condition Rare Notes: Numbered by Masson in pencil lower left. Comes from the 1974 "For Meyer Schapiro" portfolio of twelve print editions by various artists. The "For Meyer Schapiro" portfolio consisted of four lithographs (one with embossing), three screenprints (one with stamp additions), two lithographs and screenprints (one with embossing), two etching and aquatints, and one duplicated drawing. Various printers were used. In addition to Masson, the following artists also contributed to the portfolio: Stanley William Hayter, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Alexander Liberman, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Saul Steinberg, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol. Biography: André Masson (b. Balagny-sur-Thérain 1896 - Paris 1987) was a French artist. He was brought up in Belgium. He began his study of art at the age of eleven in Brussels, at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts under the guidance of Constant Montald, and later he studied in Paris. He fought for France during World War I and was seriously injured. His early works display an interest in cubism. He later became associated with surrealism, and he was one of the most enthusiastic employers of automatic drawing, making a number of automatic works in pen and ink. Masson experimented with altered states of consciousness with artists such as Antonin Artaud, Michel Leiris, Joan Miró, Georges Bataille, Jean Dubuffet, and Georges Malkine, who were neighbors of his studio in Paris. By the end of the 1920s, however, he was finding automatic drawing rather restricting, and he left the surrealist movement and turned instead to a more structured style, often producing works with a violent or erotic theme, and making a number of paintings in reaction to the Spanish Civil War. Under the German occupation of France during World War II, his work was condemned by the Nazis as degenerate. With the assistance of Varian Fry in Marseille, Masson escaped the Nazi regime on a ship to the French island...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Intaglio, Aquatint

"Back Cover of Derrière le Miroir #235" Original Lithograph
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Back Cover of Derrière le Miroir #235, M 946" is an original lithograph by Marc Chagall. This Chagall is a graphic piece, with black lines on a white paper. The main figure is a je...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Le Combat avec Morhoult from Tristan et Iseult, Surreal Etching by Salvador Dali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Salvador Dali, Spanish (1904 - 1989) Title: Le Combat avec Morhoult from Tristan et Iseult Year: 1970 Medium: Color Etching on Arches, Initia...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

El Ultimo viaje del buque fantasma, Plate IV
Located in Fairlawn, OH
El Ultimo viaje del buque fantasma, Plate IV Color lithograph, 1976 Signed and numbered in pencil (see photos) From: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, El Ultimo viaie del buque Fantasma (The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship (1868), 12 illustration by Wilfredo Lam Edition: 99 (6/99) This one of an edition of 99 from the deluxe edition of the book of the same title There was an additional edition of 200 books, signed and numbered on the justification page Publisher: Poligrafa, Barcelona Printer: Poligrafa, Barcelona The Gabriel Garcia Marquez/Lam book is an illustrated version of the short story, a man recalls the night during his boyhood when an enormous passenger ship went aground in his small town on the shores of the Caribbean. It is considered a Latin American masterpiece of surrealism and transculturation. (See below analysis of the story) Condition: slight yellows (aging) of paper small paper scuffs verso from previous hinges Sheet size: 22 x 29 7/8 inches About the author and the storyline of the book by Marquez: Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927, he is a famous Colombian writer, novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and journalist. In 1982 he received the Novel Prize for Literature. He is an author sometimes inherently related to magical realism and his best-known work is the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude in which we find this literary genre. Summary of "The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship" (1868): The novel by Gabriel García Márquez, The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship, written in 1968, is written in a single great sentence, which tells the surprising and amazing adventure that has changed the existence of a child living in a coastal town with a small port sunny, almost forgotten by civilization. The days are peaceful, the nights are silent and illuminated only by the rotating beacon that, every fifteen seconds, transforms the town into a lunar camp with phosphorescent houses. During one night in March, the boy saw an immense afterlife ship that sails through the seas with all the dead crew and sometimes appears to the living, silently crossing the deserted sea, a huge and unexpected mass whose trajectory suddenly it seems to drift, and then runs aground on the reefs. This cataclysm is accomplished without disturbing the night's silence, and the next day the boy found no traces of the shipwreck and no one believed it, not even his mother. Time passes, and the same shipwreck occurs again, every year, on the same night in March; the adolescent...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Poèmes, Planche VIII
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Poèmes, Planche VIII Woodcut print from 1968. An unnumbered and unsigned copy from a limited edition of 238. Dimensions of sheet: 32.5 x 25 cm Dimensio...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Characters XVIII ∞-C, by Guntars Sietins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The illusions and reflections in Sietins prints often bring M.C. Escher to mind, but his prints have a distinctive feel all their own. The numbers reflect up into the ball, along wit...
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2010s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Mezzotint, Aquatint

La vierge d'Israel
Located in Paris, FR
Original lithograph by Marc Chagall from The Bible of 1960 "La vierge d'Israël" Unsigned 35 x 26 cm Excellent condition
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

LE REPOS (MOURLOT 555)
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Lithograph in colors on wove paper. Mourlot, 555. Sheet size 18.75 x 25.75 inches. Image size 11 x 18 inches. Frame size approx 25 x 31 inches...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

Wifredo Lam (1902-1982) - Color lithography on Hahnemühle paper - 1974
Located in Varese, IT
Color lithography on Hahnemühle paper, edited in 1974. Limited edition of 99 copies + XXV EA, numbered as XXIII/XXV in lower left corner.
 Hand-signed in pencil by artist in lower ri...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

"Moon Birth" Photography 31" x 31" in Edition 4/7 by Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Moon Birth" Photography 31" x 31" in Edition 4/7 by Olha Stepanian Printed on Epson Professional Paper Signed and numbered by the artist Not framed. Ships in a tube. Available ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Paper

Paradise: Canto 29 from The Divine Comedy
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali Title: Paradise: Canto 29 Portfolio: The Divine Comedy: Paradise Medium: Woodblock engraving Year: 1963 Edition: 4765 Framed Size: 19 1/4" x 16 3/4" Sheet Size:...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

Salvador Dali "Thou art Fair, My Love, and Thy Breats..." from Song of Songs of
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Salvador Dali Title: "Thou art Fair, My Love, and Thy Breats..." from the Portfolio Song of Songs of Solomon Year: 1972 Medium: Color Etching with Gold Dust on Arches Paper, ...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper, Etching

Naphtali (Twelve Tribes of Israel), 1973
Located in Greenwich, CT
Naphtali is an etching on paper from Salvador Dalí's "Twelve Tribes of Israel." the image size is 19.5 x 14.75 inches and the framed dimensions are 34.75 x 29.25 inches. From the Eng...
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20th Century Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Etching

Les Amours Jaunes Good Fortune and Fortune
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Les Amours Jaunes Good Fortune & Fortune MEDIUM: Etching + Gold Flakes SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: CLXII/CC MEASUREMENTS: 11" x 14.75" Fra...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Salvador Dali - Biblia Sacra - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Biblia Sacra was published in 1969 by Rizzoli of Rome - SIGNATURE : printed in the image - LIMITED : 1499 - SIZE : 19 x 13 3/4" - RE...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Eschatos #18, Surreal Landscape by Clarence Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000) Title: Eschatos 18 Year: 1977 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200, 30 AP Image Size: 22 x 29.5 inch...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Screen

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