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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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"Terre des nébuleuses" by Max Ernst, Blue, Fog, Surrealism
Located in Köln, DE
Etching and aquatint in colours (colour variation) by Max Ernst. "Terre des nébuleuses", 1965 38 x 27,5 cm Copy essai 1/1
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching, Aquatint

Tristan Et Iseult - The Giant Beliagog
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Salvador Dali Tristan Et Iseult - The Giant Beliagog 1970 Etching Aquatint 18 x 12 1/2 in. Edition of 125 Pencil signed &...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Etching, Aquatint

Esui Libae
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edition of 7
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

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Woodcut

Tristan Et Iseult - Tristan Wounded
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Salvador Dali Tristan Et Iseult - Tristan Wounded 1970 Etching Aquatint 18 x 12 1/2 in. Edition of 125 Pencil signed & n...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Etching, Aquatint

The Eggs
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. Etching and aquatint. Artist's Proof. Edition of 90 prints. Image Dimensions : 48 x 62 cm
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Etching, Aquatint

Hommage a Picasso (Cannes) (Cote d'Azur) /// Surrealism Salvador Dali Surrealist
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989) Title: "Hommage a Picasso (Cannes) (Cote d'Azur)" *Signed by Dali in pencil lower right Year: 1973 Medium: Original Drypoint Etching on Rives BFK paper Limited edition: L/CC (50/200) Printer: Atelier Rigal, Paris, France Publisher: Felicia, New York, NY and EGI, Beverly Hills, CA Reference: "The Official Catalog of the Graphic Works of Salvador Dali" - Field No. 73-5, page 84; "Dali: Catalogue Raisonné of Etchings and Mixed-Media Prints, 1924-1980" - Michler/Löpsinger No. 719, page 252 Sheet size: 26" x 19.63" Image size: 19.88" x 14.5" Condition: In excellent condition Rare Notes: Provenance: private collection - Clearwater, FL. Numbered by Dali in pencil lower left. BFK Rives watermark lower right. Some dealer reference numbers pencil inscribed on verso. Dali executed this etching in Cannes, France when he learned of Picasso's death. We are specialists in Salvador Dali's printmaking oeuvre, having personally worked with his cataloger Albert Field in the 1980's, we unconditionally guarantee all of our examples to be authentic. Biography: Salvador Dalí (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres, Spain. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media. Dalí attributed his "love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Intaglio, Drypoint, Etching

Unité, Planche 5 (Set of 2) /// Surrealism Modern Art Le Corbusier Abstract
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) (Swiss-French, 1887-1965) Title: "Unité, Planche 5" (Set of 2) Portfolio: Unité *Signed by Le Corbusier in pencil lower right. It is ...
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1950s Surrealist Art

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Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio

Acecho
By Gonzalo Morales
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Oil on Canvas, Signed Dated 2013 14 x 18 Inches
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Oil

PRINCE OF CUPS 1979, Signed Lithograph on Arches, Tarot Card Series
Located in Union City, NJ
Artist - Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989) Title - PRINCE OF CUPS, Tarot Card Series Publisher - DALART N.V. Year published - 1979 Medium - Lithograph on Arches Cover 270 gsm. 100% acid free, signed in pencil, inscribed 2/5 PP (Printers Proof) by Salvador Dali on lower print margin, publishers mark "DALART N.V. Copyright 1979" blindstamp embossed on lower left print margin. Fine impression, vivid colors, unframed, in very good condition. Listed in the Albert Field's OFFICIAL CATALOGUE OF THE GRAPHIC WORKS OF SALVADOR DALI, Reference #79-15. PRINCE OF CUPS from the Tarot Series 1979, is a surrealist style limited edition lithograph by Salvador Dalí (1904 – 1989) Printed on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free. PRINCE OF CUPS depicts a freely drawn, black line portrait of a young Prince wearing his golden yellow crown, sporting a white ruffle collared shirt, looking slightly sideways posed behind a golden chalice...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Salvador Dali - Nude at the Window - Original Handsigned Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Nude at the Window - Original Handsigned Lithograph Dimensions: 76.5 x 57 cm 1970 Signed in pencil and numbered Edition : /CXX References : Field 70-8 Salvador Dali Salvador Dali was born as the son of a prestigious notary in the small town of Figueras in Northern Spain. His talent as an artist showed at an early age and Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali received his first drawing lessons when he was ten years old. His art teachers were a then well known Spanish impressionist painter, Ramon Pichot and later an art professor at the Municipal Drawing School. In 1923 his father bought his son his first printing press. Dali began to study art at the Royal Academy of Art in Madrid. He was expelled twice and never took the final examinations. His opinion was that he was more qualified than those who should have examined him. In 1928 Dali went to Paris where he met the Spanish painters Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro. He established himself as the principal figure of a group of surrealist artists grouped around Andre Breton, who was something like the theoretical "schoolmaster" of surrealism. Years later Breton turned away from Dali accusing him of support of fascism, excessive self-presentation and financial greediness. By 1929 Dali had found his personal style that should make him famous the world of the unconscious that is recalled during our dreams. The surrealist theory is based on the theories of the psychologist Dr. Sigmund Freud. Recurring images of burning giraffes and melting watches...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Untitled
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 100 prints. Slightly discolored with foxing on sheet. Catalogo: Brusberg N.158 .P Image Dimensions : 34 x 20 cm
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Etching

Codex d'un Visage - Etching by Victor Brauner - 1962
Located in Roma, IT
Codex d'un visage is a b/w original etching realized by Romanian Surrealist artist Victor Brauner (1903-1966) in 1962. Signed, dated in pencil on lower margin. Numbered in Arabic nu...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching

Surrealist Woman
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Andre Masson (French) Title: Surrealist Woman Year: 1970 Medium: Color lithograph Edition: Numbered 146/200 in pencil Image size: 24 x 18.5 inches Signature: Hand signed in...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

American Yachting Scene Salvador Dali Currier & Ives series lithograph 1971
Located in Paonia, CO
American Yachting Scene is a vibrant explosion of ocean blue , whitecaps and strong yellow slashes to describe the ships sailing to their destination. There is an insert of a Currier and Ives print of sailing ships that Dali used as his inspiration. This original lithograph is from the series “The World Of Currier...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Ferjo - Surrealist Interior - Signed Oil on Canvas
By Ferjo
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
FERJO Intérieur surréaliste Signed Oil on Canvas 51 x 61 cm Ferjo, Brazilian (1946 - ) Ferjo Technical achievements in art not only in painting...
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1990s Surrealist Art

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Oil

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...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall - The Green Horse - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall Original Lithograph Title: The Green Horse 1973 Dimensions: 33 x 50 cm Reference: This lithograph was created for the portfolio "Chagall Monu...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Nude with Veils ( Nu aux Voilettes) Salvador Dali Original Engraving 1975
Located in Paonia, CO
Nude with Veils ( Nu aux Voilettes ) portrays a female nude with long hanging breasts, a crutch instead of a head and a veil streaming off the top of the crutch with the left ar...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Engraving

Salvador Dali - Biblia Sacra - Offset 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 EDITION: 1499 - SIZE : 19 x 13 3/4" - REFERENCES : Michler an...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Is It Lawful to Pay Taxes to Caesar Biblia Sacra Salvador Dali
Located in Paonia, CO
Is it Lawful to Pay Taxes To Caesar shows Caesar as an imposing seated figure taking up three quarters of the image against a white background with a mounted horseman over Caes...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

The Lobster’s Quadrille Salvador Dali's Alice in Wonderland 1969
Located in Paonia, CO
The Lobsters Quadrille is from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as interpreted by Salvador Dali and published by Maecenas ( a Random House imprint) 1969 and is from the portfolio of one signed etching in colors and 12 heliogravures with remarque, hors-texte, title page, and text. The frontis page etching is signed in pencil by the artist. The Lobsters Quadrille is in excellent condition. It is a limited Edition 764/2500 signed in the plate by Dali on Mandeure paper. Photogravure, also known as heliogravure, is a complex intaglio printing process that photographically transfers an image to a plate and then to the page. After the image has been transferred to the plate, it is then etched onto it before being printed onto paper. The results are of incredibly high-quality.photogravure in its mature form was not developed until the late 1870s by Czech painter Karel Klíč. He first included pigment paper in the process of photo technical transfer in 1879 and is regarded as the inventor of photogravure process.There are two steps to the process. Firstly, a copper plate is coated with a light-sensitive gelatine tissue which is then exposed to the light from a photographic image. The gelatine hardens where the light falls, and remains soft where light doesn’t. Following this step, the plate is etched down to different depths according to the hardness of the gelatine. The result of this is a highly defined intaglio plate that can reproduce in great detail the tones of the original photographic image. The printing plate is etched to a different depth according to the finest tonal values, which can be printed after removal of the remaining gelatine using the gravure printing process. Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Photogravure

Salvador Dali (after) - Roussillon - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Lithograph after Salvador Dali Title: S.N.C.F Blind stamped signature Dimensions: 46.5 x 34 cm Edition: 1700 Numbered in pencil 1969 References : Catalogue raisonne Michler & Lopsi...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

After Pablo Picasso - Women and Dove - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
After PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Women and Dove Dimensions: 50 x 40 cm Signed and dated in the plate Edition Succession Picasso, Paris. Editions de la Paix
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1950s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Salvador Dali - Biblia Sacra - Offset 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" - REFERENCES : Michler and Lopsi...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Surrealist Landscape - Original Lithograph with Printed Signature
Located in Paris, FR
Max Ernst (1891-1976) Surrealist landscape, 1973 Original lithograph in colors Signed in the plate On vellum size 27.5 x 35.5 cm Printed in Pierre Chave workshop Very good condition
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Aliyah, Return, O Virgin of Israel Salvador Dali original lithograph
Located in Paonia, CO
Salvador Dali ( 1904 - 1989 ) Aliyah, Return, O Virgin of Israel, Aliyah suite edition 232/ 250 published Shorewood Press 1968 on Arches paper paper size 25 x 19.63 image size 20....
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Salvador Dali - Biblia Sacra - Offset 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" - REFERENCES : Michler and Lopsi...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Frontispiece for "Le Plafond de l'Opéra de Paris"
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall Original Lithograph Frontispiece for the book "Le Plafond de l'Opéra de Paris (The Ceiling of the Paris Opera)" by Jacques Lassaigne (Paris...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Salvador Dali - Knight & Death, from "Faust"
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - "Knight & Death" from Faust - Original Etching With embossed signature (from the standard book edition of 731) Dimensions: 38,5 x 28,5 cm 1969 References : Field 69-1...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching

Salvador Dali - The Vision - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Vision - Original Lithograph Joseph FORET, Paris, 1957 PRINTER : Detruit. SIGNATURE : plate signed by Dali. LIMITED : 233 copies. SIZE : 41 x 33 cm REFERENCES ...
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1950s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Salvador Dali - Cup of Chocolate
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Cup of Chocolate - 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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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching

Salvador Dali - Magician - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Magician - Original Etching Stamp Signed Dimensions: 38,5 x 28,5 cm 1969 References : Field 69-1 K / Michler & Lopsinger 305 Salvador Dali Salvador Dali was born a...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching

"Fungo Atomico" (Atomic Mushroom) Surrealist Landscape
By Luigi Pretin
Located in Houston, TX
Surrealist painting of a white structure in a barren desert titled "Fungo Atomico" by Italian surrealist painter Luigi Pretin, circa 1976. Signed and dated in lower right corner as w...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Acrylic

Salvador Dali - Nude with Guitar - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Nude with Guitar - Original Etching Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm Edition: 235 1967 embossed signature On Arches Vellum References : Field 67-10 (p. 34-35)
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching

Salvador Dali - Sator - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Sator - Original Etching Stamp Signed Dimensions: 38,5 x 28,5 cm 1969 References : Field 69-1 / Michler & Lopsinger 305
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching

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 Art

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Lithograph

Salvador Dali - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Original Handsigned Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Original Handsigned Etching Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm 1967 Signed in pencil EA in Sanguine Jean Sc...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching

Happiness - Contemporary Acrylic on Canvas Painting, Vibrant colors, Landscape
Located in Warsaw, PL
ABOUT THE ARTIST MARTA RYNKIEWICZ is a Polish contemporary artist (born in 1983). She studied painting with Professor Henryk Czenik and graphic arts with Professor Jerzy Krechowic...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

"East River Dance" original lithograph signed pop art ocean clown fish cityscape
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"East River Dance" is an original color lithograph by Michael Knigin. The artist signed the piece in the lower right and wrote the edition number, 77/275, in the lower left corner wi...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph, Ink

Basilisk - Aquatint and Etching by Fifo Stricker - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Basilisk is a contemporary artwork realized by the artist Fifo Stricker in 1981. Mixed colored aquatint and etching. 
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1980s Surrealist Art

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Etching

Salvador Dali - Attack on the Windmils - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Attack on the Windmils - Original Lithograph Joseph FORET, Paris, 1957 PRINTER : Atelier Mourlot. SIGNATURE : printed in the image LIMITED : 197 copies. SIZE : 64.5...
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1950s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Salvador Dali - Apparition de Dulcinée - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Apparition de Dulcinée - Original Lithograph Joseph FORET, Paris, 1957 SIGNATURE : printed in the image LIMITED : 197 copies. SIZE : 41 x 33 cm REFERENCES : Field 57...
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1950s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Paradise: Canto 33 from The Divine Comedy
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali Medium: Woodblock engraving Title: Paradise: Canto 33 Portfolio: The Divine Comedy: Paradise Year: 1963 Edition: 4765 Framed Size: 19 1/8" x 16 5/8" Sheet Size:...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Engraving

Salvador Dali - Moshe Dayan - Original Handsigned Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Moshe Dayan - Original Handsigned Etching Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm 1968 Signed in pencil EA in Sanguine Jean Schneider, Basel References : Fi...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching

The Giant Beliagog - Drypoint attr. to S. Dalì - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed. From the deluxe edition of 25 prints in Roman Numerals aside from the standard edition of 125. (There were 4 similarly-numbered editions in English, German, Italian, an...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Drypoint

Inevitability
Located in Santa Monica, CA
From the Post Conception series.
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

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Oil, Polymer

Dreaming Under a Cactus Tree and Arizona Wildlife (Set of 2)
Located in Wilton, CT
Dreaming Under a Cactus Tree, lithograph in colors, on wove paper, circa 1977, signed in pencil, numbered 49/125; together with Arizona Wild Life numbered 118/125, lithograph in colo...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Le Cheval (The Horse) — Mid-Century Cubism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Léopold Survage, 'Le Cheval' (The Horse), color etching, edition 60, 1953. Signed and numbered '46/60' in pencil. Initialed in the plate, lower right. A superb, richly-inked impressi...
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1950s Surrealist Art

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Etching

Israeli Modernist Surrealist Etching Cut Pear
Located in Surfside, FL
20.75x14.5 sheet size. 9.5x7.75 image size Shlomo Zafrir is active/lives in Israel, France. Shlomo Zafrir is known for cubist painting. Shlomo Zafrir is a painter and, at the same t...
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20th Century Surrealist Art

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Etching

Le Calumet - Rare Book Illustrated by André Derain - 1920
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 760 copies including 60 original b/w and color woodcuts by André Derain. Copy on vélin blanc des Papeteries de Navarre, in perfect conditions with soft editorial cover and...
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1920s Surrealist Art

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Paper

Magic Butterfly & The Dream Apparition of The Rose
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Magic Butterfly & The Dream Apparition of The Rose MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: 92/250 MEASUREMENTS: 29.5" x 21.3" YEAR...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Les Epingles - Rare Book Illustrated by Apollinaire - 1928
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 835 copies, Copy on Lafuma paper. Includes an original frontespiece by Alexeieff. Language: french. Perfect conditions. Uncut.
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1910s Surrealist Art

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Paper

Gestes - Rare Book Illustrated by Alfred Jarry - 1920
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 1.000 copies plus 40 out of commerce including 7 original etchings and aquatints printed in sepia, the first of which also hand colored. One of the only 50 copies on Japon paper including a suite of the 7 etchings on China paper printed in black and white.  Pages are finely illustrated with pictorial borders and figures in red and black. Original editorial soft covers with original wrappers embossed with a gilt design, and title and name of author lettered in red. Superb copy in perfect conditions and uncut, only binding unglued. Alfred Jarry...
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1920s Surrealist Art

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Paper

Salvador Dali - The Grand Inquisitor
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Grand Inquisitor - Original Signed Engraving Handsigned in pencil and Numbered Edition: F195/195 - Printer: Atelier Rigal. - ...
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Etching

The Fisherman
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: The Fisherman Series: Les Amours de Cassandre Date: 1968 Medium: drypoint with added color Framed Dimensions: 27.5" x 23.5" Signature: Pencil sig...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Drypoint

Lithographie Originale (Cover)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joan Miró Lithographie Originale (Cover) Color Lithograph Year: 1975 Size: 15.6 × 12.75 inches Catalogue Raisonné: Teixidor, Miro Lithographe II, 1953-1963 Publisher: Maeght Editeur, Paris, France With coverfold, recto - as issued Recto, right: Typographically annotated: 'Lithographie Originale' Unsigned, Unknown Edition Size COA provided --------------------------------------- Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma de Mallorca in 1981 Surrealism, Fauvism, Cubism, Abstract expressionism, Naive art, Expressionism, Suprematism Pablo Picasso, André Breton, Hans Arp, André Masson, Hieronymus Bosch, Tristan Tzara, Modest Urgell
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1970s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Tauromachie (Bullfight II) #4
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Tauromachie (Bullfight II) #4 MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Jean Schneider, Basel EDITION NUMBER: I/L MEASUREMENTS: 22" x 30" YE...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching

Histiore d'O
Located in Wilton, CT
Print from the Fini book Histoire d'O, signed in pencil and numbered 9/15
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

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