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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
Les Chiens Ont Soif II, Surrealist Lithograph by Max Ernst
Located in Long Island City, NY
Max Ernst, German (1891 - 1976) - Les Chiens Ont Soif II, Portfolio: Les Chiens Ont Soif, Year: 1964, Medium: Lithograph, Edition: 165/320, Size: 17 x 24.5 in. (43.18 x 62.23 cm...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Joan Miro, Untitled, from Miro Sculpture, 1974
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Joan Miro (1893–1983), titled Sans titre (Untitled), originates from the 1974 album miro sculpture (Miro Sculpture). Publi...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

2 part invitation forming a 3-D Dodecahedron Hand signed by Mark Ryden at Kasmin
Located in New York, NY
Mark Ryden 2 part invitation forming a 3-D Dodecahedron (hand signed by Mark Ryden), 2016 Offset lithograph invitation Hand signed by Mark Ryden 6 1/2 in diameter Ingeniously desig...
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2010s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Offset, Permanent Marker

Acrobates
Located in OPOLE, PL
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - Acrobates Lithograph from 1958. Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.4 cm Publisher: Tériade, Paris. First, original edition. The work is in Excellent condi...
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1950s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Acrobates
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Rachel Goes Away with Jacob- Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Rachel Goes Away with Jacob is an artwork realized by March Chagall, 1960s. Lithograph on brown-toned paper, no signature. Lithograph on both sheets. Edition of 6500 unsigned lith...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Parabole 2 (Sunshine streams through clouds and trees as three men observe)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Maurice Pasternak has created a surreal landscape that includes traditional images of a sun-filled sky, dark shadows cast on water and through leafy trees all under the guise of thre...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Mezzotint

Composition (Spies/Leppien 218), La Ballade du Soldat, Max Ernst
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, La Ballade du Soldat, 34 Lithographies Originales de Max Ernst, 1972. P...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Devouring Mother
Located in Wilton, CT
With 27 full-page colour illustrations (including title). White orig. hardcover with black cover title (somewhat rubbed and soiled, back cover with minimal light...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Vitraux in Four Sheets Puzzle of Life
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Vitraux in Four Sheets Puzzle of Life MEDIUM: 4 Lithographs SIGNED: 1 Lithograph is Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMBER: 1 lithograph is num...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

MOUNTAIN LIFT Signed Lithograph, Surreal Mini Landscape, Lasso Rope, Blue Sky
Located in Union City, NJ
MOUNTAIN LIFT is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the American surrealist artist Fanny Brennan created using traditional hand lithography techniques printed on archival A...
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1990s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Composition (Spies/Leppien 218), La Ballade du Soldat, Max Ernst
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, La Ballade du Soldat, 34 Lithographies Originales de Max Ernst, 1972. P...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Beautiful Beasts 1978 Signed Limited Edition Lithograph Mati (Abdul) Klarwein
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist Mati (Abdul) Klarwein Title: Beautiful Beasts Year: 1978 Print - Lithograph Paper Size 23" x 23½" inches Edition: signed in pencil and marked 18/300 Hand embellished by the a...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Les Chiens Ont Soif X, Surrealist Lithograph by Max Ernst
Located in Long Island City, NY
Max Ernst, German (1891 - 1976) - Les Chiens Ont Soif X, Portfolio: Les Chiens Ont Soif, Year: 1964, Medium: Lithograph, Edition: 165/320, Size: 17 x 24.5 in. (43.18 x 62.23 cm)...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Composition - Etching by W. Freddie - 1961
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original black and white etching on paper, realized by Wilhelm Freddie (born Christian Frederik Wilhelm Carlsen Carlsen), a danish abstract and Surrealistic Artist,...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Idols - Lithograph by Max Ernst - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Idols is a lithograph on Arches paper realized by Max Ernst in 1972. Belongs to the suite "Judith". Limited edition of 500. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Godd conditions. T...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Angel, Surrealist Lithograph by Marcel Marceau
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marcel Marceau, French (1923 - 2007) - Angel, Portfolio: Le Troisieme Oeil (The Third Eye), Year: 1981, Medium: Lithograph on Arches Paper, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition:...
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1980s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Portfolio. Poèmes secrets d Apollinaire
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989, Spain) Portfolio: Poèmes secrets d'Apollinaire, 1967 Salvador Dalí’s Poèmes secrets d'Apollinaire (1967) is a mesmerizing portfolio of 10 drypoint etchings...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Bather, Surrealist Screenprint Poster after Joan Miro
Located in Long Island City, NY
Joan Miro, After, Spanish (1893 - 1983) - Bather, Medium: Screenprint Poster, Image Size: 21 x 30 inches, Size: 23 x 35 in. (58.42 x 88.9 cm)
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Screen

The Crowned Angel - Héliogravure by Marc Chagall - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Héliogravure on brown-toned paper, so signature. Héliogravure on bot sheets, recto and verso. Edition of 6500 unsigned copies. Printed by Mourlot and published by Tériade, Paris. ...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Photogravure

5 Salvador Dali Photolithographs from LES DINERS DE GALA, Priced Each
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989) Marking(s); notes: signed; ed. 34/195; 1977 Materials: photolithograph and engraving on BFK Rives paper Dimensions (...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Engraving, Lithograph

Les Chiens Ont Soif VIII, Surrealist Lithograph by Max Ernst
Located in Long Island City, NY
Max Ernst, German (1891 - 1976) - Les Chiens Ont Soif VIII, Portfolio: Les Chiens Ont Soif, Year: 1964, Medium: Lithograph, Edition: 165/320, Size: 17 x 24.5 in. (43.18 x 62.23 ...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Magicians Vanite
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: The Magicians Vanite MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Editions Argillet, Paris EDITION NUMBER: 39/100 MEASUREMENTS: Paper: 11.2" x 1...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

DALI Saint Mathew from Twelve Apostles suite signed numbered Lithograph 1977
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Lithograph on Arches paper with embossing and gold foil by the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali. From the 1977 Twelve Apostles Suite (sometimes ...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Gold Leaf

Hard Margins - Woodcut - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Hard Margins - Hell Plate 19, is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. Not signed, as issued. G...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Antes de la Corrida, Surrealist Etching by Guillermo Silva Santamaria
Located in Long Island City, NY
Guillermo Silva Santamaria, Colombian (1922 -2007) - Antes de la Corrida, Year: circa 1963, Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed, titled and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP 53, I...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Memories of Surrealism Dressed in The Nude in The Surrealist Fashion
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Memories of Surrealism Dressed in The Nude in The Surrealist Fashion MEDIUM: Etching on Japon Paper SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMB...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Noli me Tangere - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Noli me Tangere 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...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Anemone per Anti-Pasti, Surrealist Lithograph by Salvador Dali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Salvador Dali, Spanish (1904 - 1989) Title: Anemone per Anti-pasti (Anemone of the Toreador) Year: 1972 Medium: Lithograph with embossing on heavy Arches paper, signed and nu...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Summer
Located in OPOLE, PL
Joan Miro (1893-1983) - Summer Lithograph from 1938. Dimensions of work: 35 x 26 cm Publisher: Tériade, Paris. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast and secure shipment.
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1930s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Coloso, Surrealist Lithograph by Jose Luis Cuevas
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jose Luis Cuevas, Mexican (1934 - ) Title: Coloso Year: 1988 Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 300 (Roman Numerals) Paper Size: 35 x 27 i...
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1980s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Tree of Knowledge - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Color lithograph realized by Marc Chagall in 1960 to illustrate "The Bible".  Edition of 6500, published by Tériade in no. 33 and 34 of the Art Magazine Verve. Printed by Mourlot a...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Max Ernst Untitled 1965 #107A Surrealist Etching Aquatint in colors Blue Yellow
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Max Ernst "Untitled" 1965 Etching and aquatint in colors, on Arches paper. 7.8 x 5.39 inches Publisher: Georges Visat, Paris. Total edition: 100 copies +...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper, Etching, Aquatint

The King and his Wife (Song of Songs) - Héliogravure by Marc Chagall - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Héliogravure on brown-toned paper, so signature. Héliogravure  on bot sheets, recto and verso. Edition of 6500 unsigned copies. Printed by Mourlot and published by Tériade, Paris. ...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Photogravure

Le Prophète Jèrémie - Plate from The Bible - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Jèrémie Plate from The Bible is an original artwork realized by Marc Chagall in 1960. Mixed colored lithograph. The artwork is from the series "The Bible" In 1931, on commission f...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Salvador Dali - Plum - Original Hand-Signed Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Plum - Original Hand-Signed Lithograph 1969 Dimensions: P. 57 x 37 cm Sheet: 75 x 56 cm Edition of 340 + proofs Editor : Jean Schneider, Basel Handsigned, EA (Epreuv...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) - Colured lithograph on Arches paper - 1979
Located in Varese, IT
Colured lithograph on Arches paper, edited in 1979.
Limited edition of 125 copies , numbered as G 67/125 in lower left corner.
 Hand-signed by artist in pencil in the lower right cor...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

Obra Inèdita Recent I
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Joan Miró (1893-1983) is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is renowned internationally as a painter, sculptor, printmaker, and ceramicist. Miró’s works, which wer...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Pop Art Edition 2/5 Etching India Lucknow Artist Woman Map Tree Woman Blue
Located in Norfolk, GB
From emerging Indian artist Sonal Varshneya Ojha are the last available works from her Limited Edition of 7 series Kissa Goi. Art 1821 is selling the last 14, different works, of th...
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2010s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper, Etching

Flights of Fancy original lithograph by Michel Pellus 1977
Located in Paonia, CO
Flights of Fancy is an original signed limited edition (060/250 ) lithograph by Michel Pellus showing a man in a top hat floating in the sky in a hot a...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

American Trotting Horse No II from Currier Ives suite by Salvador Dali
Located in Paonia, CO
American Trotting Horses No. 2 by Salvador Dali has dynamic movement in the two trotting horses with an added giant Dalian insect head in coll...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Reclined Nude with Flower - 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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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Le Chimere d Horace from Dalinean Horses, Surrealist Lithograph by Salvador Dali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Salvador Dali, Spanish (1904 - 1989) Title: Le Chimere d'Horace from Dalinean Horses Year: 1972 Medium: Lithograph, Signed in Pencil Edition: 2...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Composition (Spies/Leppien 218), La Ballade du Soldat, Max Ernst
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, La Ballade du Soldat, 34 Lithographies Originales de Max Ernst, 1972. P...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Night in the Desert - Héliogravure by Marc Chagall - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Héliogravure on brown-toned paper, so signature. Héliogravure  on bot sheets, recto and verso. Edition of 6500 unsigned copies. Printed by Mourlot and published by Tériade, Paris. ...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Photogravure

Roger Nellens-Galerie Alexandre Iolas-Lithograph-Mid-Century Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Roger Nellens, a Belgian artist born in 1937, held an exhibition titled "Repertoire" at Galerie Alexandre Iolas in Paris from September 24 to October 12,...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Three Women - Héliogravure by Marc Chagall - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Héliogravure on brown-toned paper, so signature. On bot sheets, recto and verso. Edition of 6500 unsigned copies. Printed by Mourlot and published by Tériade, Paris. Ref. Mourlot,...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Photogravure

STILL LIFE WITH PEAR Signed Mini Lithograph, Surreal Interior, Table and Chair
Located in Union City, NJ
STILL LIFE WITH PEAR is a rarely seen, hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the American surrealist artist Fanny Brennan, created using traditional hand lithography techniques printed on archival Arches paper, 100% acid-free. STILL LIFE WITH PEAR is an engaging miniature interior scene depicting a simple room where a white dish and yellow pear is positioned on a round wood table...
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1990s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Zodiaque - Etching by Max Ernst - 1971
Located in Roma, IT
" Zodiaque " is an etching realized by Max Ernst in 1971. This print is hand signed and numbered. This is an edition of 100 prints. Reference: Catalogue Spies n. 144. Originally a ...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

La Voyante - Lithograph by Paul Delvaux - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
La Voyante is an original contemporary artwork realized by Paul Delvaux in 1974. Color Lithograph on Arches Paper. Hand signed and numbered on the lower margin. Edition of 25/75. ...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Mélika
Located in Columbia, MO
Leonor Fini was born in Argentina in 1907 but travelled and lived in Europe with her mother from a young age. By 1931, she was in Paris, in the full swing of the Surrealist movement....
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20th Century Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Etching

Surrealist Beach Guitar - Original handsigned lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean-Pierre HENAUT (1942-) Surrealist Beach Guitar Original lithograph Handsigned in pencil Limited /275copies On vellum 60 x 54 cm (c. 24 x 22 in) Excellent condition
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Angler - Etching - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and drypoint realized by Salvador Dalì to illustrate Pierre Ronsard's "Les Amours de Cassandre". Published by Argillet, Paris, in 1968. Edition of 299 pieces. One of 165 sp...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Man Ray, Composition, Man Ray (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Man Ray, 1984. Published by Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Ni...
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1980s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Return of David - Héliogravure by Marc Chagall - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Héliogravure on brown-toned paper, no signature. Héliogravure  on bot sheets, recto and verso. Edition of 6500 unsigned copies. Printed by Mourlot and published by Tériade on the A...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Photogravure

Hebru Brantley Gaia (Hebru Brantley Lil Mama as Gaia)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Hebru Brantley GAIA (Hebru Brantley Lil Mama as Gaia): Hebru Brantley’s ethereal art toy features his much iconic, Lil Mama character as Gaia, the...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Vinyl

Sainte Lucie
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Saint Lucie MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Michelle Broutta, Paris EDITION NUMBER: 268/450 MEASUREMENTS: 35.5" x 25" YEAR: ...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall Original Lithograph 1963 Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm Reference: Chagall Lithographe 1957-1962. VOLUME II. Condition : Excellent 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...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Courtesans, Signed Surrealist Etching by Leonor Fini
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Leonor Fini Title: Untitled IV Year: circa 1970 Medium: Etching, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition: 180/280 Size: 26 in. x 19.5 in. (66.04 cm x 49.53 cm)
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Cat Arabesque
Located in Columbia, MO
LEONOR FINI Cat Arabesque 1973 Color lithograph Ed. 157/230 12.5 x 9 inches
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Les Ames Mortes by N. Gogol - Complete Suite by Marc Chagall - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Les Ames mortes (by N. Gogol) is a very rare suite of etchings realized by Marc Chagall (1887-1985). Complete set of 96 etchings hors-texte and 11 etched vignettes en-texte for the ...
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1940s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Surrealist prints and multiples for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Surrealist prints and multiples available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add prints and multiples created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Salvador Dalí, Marc Chagall, Joan Miró, and Leonor Fini. Frequently made by artists working with Lithograph, and Etching and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Surrealist prints and multiples, so small editions measuring 1 inches across are also available. Prices for prints and multiples made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $48 and tops out at $1,450,000, while the average work sells for $916.

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