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Surrealist Figurative Prints

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
Et Dimitte Nobis Debita - Lithograph ì- 1966
Et Dimitte Nobis Debita - Lithograph ì- 1966

Et Dimitte Nobis Debita - Lithograph ì- 1966

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Roma, IT

Et Dimitte Nobis Debita - From "Pater Noster" is a colorful illustration (offset lithograph) by Salvador Dalí, from the volume "Pater Noster" published by Rizzoli Editore, Milan, 196...

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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Song of Songs - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1956

Song of Songs - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1956

By Marc Chagall

Located in Roma, IT

Etching on Montval wove paper, realized by Marc Chagall in 1931-39 and published by Tériade in 1956. Edition of 275+30 out of commerce copies. Not signed nor numbered, as issued. ...

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1950s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Empirial Message (Surrealist Black Philadelphia Artist)
Empirial Message (Surrealist Black Philadelphia Artist)

Empirial Message (Surrealist Black Philadelphia Artist)

By Roland Ayers

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Roland Ayers (1932-2014). The Emperial Message, 1959. Drypoint Etching on paper, 15 × 17 ¾ inches. Larger in acid free archival matting. No Frame. A/P (no edition, unique examp...

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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Ink

RENÉ MAGRITTE Le Maître d'École -  1955 Limited edition Lithograph - Surrealism
RENÉ MAGRITTE Le Maître d'École -  1955 Limited edition Lithograph - Surrealism

RENÉ MAGRITTE Le Maître d'École - 1955 Limited edition Lithograph - Surrealism

By (after) René Magritte

Located in Madrid, Madrid

LE MAÎTRE D'ÉCOLE, 1955 (THE SCHOOLMASTER) Date of creation: 2010 Medium: Lithograph on BFK Rives Paper Edition: 275 Size: 60 x 45 cm Observations: Lithograph on BFK Rives paper plat...

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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Leonor Fini, rare original lithograph on paper, circa 1970
Leonor Fini, rare original lithograph on paper, circa 1970

Leonor Fini, rare original lithograph on paper, circa 1970

By Leonor Fini

Located in Saint-Didier, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Rare print numered by surrealist artist Leonor Fini, now rediscovered and inscreasingly esteemed with the movement of rediscovering art by women. It depicts a beautiful feminine figu...

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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Paper

ORBITS - Large Hoeckner lithograph
ORBITS - Large Hoeckner lithograph

ORBITS - Large Hoeckner lithograph

By Carl Hoeckner

Located in Santa Monica, CA

CARL HOECKNER (1883 – 1972) ORBITS, c. 1935 Lithograph, edition unknown but small. Image 11 3/3 \4 x 18 3/8 inches, sheet 12 3/8 x 19. In good condition aside from small margins an...

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1930s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

D.N.A.
D.N.A.

Roman SustovD.N.A., 2007

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D.N.A.

By Roman Sustov

Located in Palm Springs, CA

An ex libris print featuring an elaborate structurewith figures at work on creation. Roman Sustov's prints often provide a fantastic blend of classic technique combined with images from the vast worlds of surrealism, eroticism, fantasy and fairy tales. Signed in pencil artists proof from the edition of 100. Roman Sustov was born in 1977 in Minsk, Belarus. In 1995 he graduated from Minsk Art College and six years later he graduated from the Belarusian Academy of Arts (Department of Graphic). Through this long training he has become a master in etching, lithography and linocut prints. His works can be found in collections in the USA, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Ukraine, Japan, Russia and Belarus, and in the Contemporary Fine Art Museum (Minsk, Belarus). Roman notes...

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Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Aquatint, Etching

Nile Jade Justine Guitar 1998 Signed Lithograph Mourlot Paris
Nile Jade Justine Guitar 1998 Signed Lithograph Mourlot Paris

Nile Jade Justine Guitar 1998 Signed Lithograph Mourlot Paris

Located in Rochester Hills, MI

Artist: Nile Jade Title: Guitar, Year: 1998 Lithograph on Arches Archival Paper Paper Size 28.5" x 38.5" inches Signed in pencil and marked 192/299 Printed by Mourlot Paris Nile Ja...

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1990s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Personne Seule Etendue, Mezzotint Print, Surrealist, Late 20th Century
Personne Seule Etendue, Mezzotint Print, Surrealist, Late 20th Century

Personne Seule Etendue, Mezzotint Print, Surrealist, Late 20th Century

By Maurice Pasternak

Located in New Orleans, LA

Maurice Pasternak's imagery is not organized or presented in a way that makes literal sense. His figures and landscapes have mysterious drama that's open to individual interpretatio...

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Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Mezzotint

Le Temps Menacant - 20th Century, Surrealist, Lithograph, Figurative Print
Le Temps Menacant - 20th Century, Surrealist, Lithograph, Figurative Print

Le Temps Menacant - 20th Century, Surrealist, Lithograph, Figurative Print

By (after) René Magritte

Located in Sint-Truiden, BE

Numbered: 138/275 Color lithograph after the 1929 oil on canvas by René Magritte, printed signature of Magritte and numbered from the edition of 275. The lithograph features the dry...

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20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Antoni Tàpies lithograph (derriere le miroir)
Antoni Tàpies lithograph (derriere le miroir)

Antoni Tàpies lithograph (derriere le miroir)

By Antoni Tàpies

Located in NEW YORK, NY

Antoni Tàpies Lithograph c. 1967 from Derrière le miroir: Lithograph in colors; 15 x 22 inches. Very good overall vintage condition; contains center fold-line as originally issued...

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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

TIE Fighter Beatles Large Oversize Pop Art Print Signed Limited Edition
TIE Fighter Beatles Large Oversize Pop Art Print Signed Limited Edition

TIE Fighter Beatles Large Oversize Pop Art Print Signed Limited Edition

By BATIK

Located in London, GB

TIE Fighter Beatles by B A T I K Pop art work featuring the Fab Four Paul McCartney , George Harrison, Ringo Starr and John Lennon running away from Star Wars TIE fighters chasing...

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2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Black and White, Archival Pigment

Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel
Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel

Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist: Salvador Dali (Spanish surrealist, 1904-1989) Title: Les Songes Drolatiques De Pantagruel Year: 1973 Medium: Lithograph Edition: Inscribed E.A (Epreuve d' Artiste) i...

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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

French Abstract Surrealist Color Lithograph Andre Masson
French Abstract Surrealist Color Lithograph Andre Masson

French Abstract Surrealist Color Lithograph Andre Masson

By André Masson

Located in Surfside, FL

Published Benincasa Carmine. Edizioni SEAT, Torino, Italy. Offset directly from the original plates. Limited edition. This is not hand signed or numbered. Signature in the printing p...

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20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Offset

Spanish Catalan Surrealist Lithograph Portrait Girl with Fruit Still Life
Spanish Catalan Surrealist Lithograph Portrait Girl with Fruit Still Life

Spanish Catalan Surrealist Lithograph Portrait Girl with Fruit Still Life

By Luis Vidal Molné

Located in Surfside, FL

Luis Molné (or Luis Vidal Molné ) painter and lithographer born in Barcelona in 1907 and lived in Monaco where he died in 1970. Friends with Antoni Clavé he belonged to the Catalan ...

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20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989)- Handcolored drypoint etching on Japanese paper - 1975
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989)- Handcolored drypoint etching on Japanese paper - 1975

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989)- Handcolored drypoint etching on Japanese paper - 1975

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Varese, IT

Hand-colored drypoint etching on extremely fine Japanese paper, edited in 1975. Limited edition, numbered in lower left corner as HC (horse commerce). Signed in pencil by artist in l...

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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Etching

Le Singe et le Leopard
Le Singe et le Leopard

Le Singe et le Leopard

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist: Salvador Dali (Spanish surrealist, 1904-1989) Title: Le Singe et le Leopard Year: 1976 Medium: Engraving with hand color stencil Edition: Inscribed E....

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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Engraving

original lithograph

original lithograph

By André Masson

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1972 for the art revue XXe Siecle (issue No. 38). Size: 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches (310 x 237 mm). Not signed.

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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Leonor Fini, serigraph on Rives paper, circa 1970
Leonor Fini, serigraph on Rives paper, circa 1970

Leonor Fini, serigraph on Rives paper, circa 1970

By Leonor Fini

Located in Saint-Didier, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Print handsigned by surrealist artist Leonor Fini, increasingly esteemed with the movement of rediscovering art by women. This silkscreen is in perfect condition and from a series nu...

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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Paper

Les Enchanteurs Signed Lithograph by Marc Chagall, Surrealist, 1969, Mourlot 569
Les Enchanteurs Signed Lithograph by Marc Chagall, Surrealist, 1969, Mourlot 569

Les Enchanteurs Signed Lithograph by Marc Chagall, Surrealist, 1969, Mourlot 569

By Marc Chagall

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 35 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 Figurative Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Death of Orpheus, Surrealist Etching by Pablo Picasso
Death of Orpheus, Surrealist Etching by Pablo Picasso

Death of Orpheus, Surrealist Etching by Pablo Picasso

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Long Island City, NY

Pablo Picasso, Spanish (1881 -1973) - Death of Orpheus from Ovids The Metamorphoses, Year: 1930, Medium: Etching on thin laid paper, Edition: , Image Size: 9 x 6.5 inches, Size: ...

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1930s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Diane de Poitiers
Diane de Poitiers

Diane de Poitiers

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in New York, NY

Color etching with full margins. Signed by the artist and numbered 147/250 in pencil in lower right and left margins respectively. Printed and published by DeFrancony, Paris. Ca...

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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching, Color

La Bataille De L'Argonne - 20th Century, Surrealist, Lithograp, Figurative Print
La Bataille De L'Argonne - 20th Century, Surrealist, Lithograp, Figurative Print

La Bataille De L'Argonne - 20th Century, Surrealist, Lithograp, Figurative Print

By (after) René Magritte

Located in Sint-Truiden, BE

Color lithograph after the 1935 oil on canvas by René Magritte, printed signature of Magritte and numbered from the edition of 300. The lithograph features the dry stamps of the Mag...

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20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

'Fantasia Americana, 1880' — Mid-Century American Surrealism
'Fantasia Americana, 1880' — Mid-Century American Surrealism

'Fantasia Americana, 1880' — Mid-Century American Surrealism

By Lawrence Kupferman

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

Lawrence Kupferman, 'Fantasia Americana – 1880', drypoint etching with sandground, 1943. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Series A, 1971 2/6' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream wove paper, with full margins (2 1/2 to 3 1/2 inches); the paper slightly lightened within the original mat opening, otherwise in excellent condition. One of only 6 impressions printed in 1971, with the added sandground grey background tint. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 11 13/16 x 14 3/4 inches; sheet size 18 x 20 1/4 inches. Collections: National Gallery of Art, Zimmerli Art Museum (Rutgers University). ABOUT THE ARTIST Lawrence Kupferman (1909 - 1982) was born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston and grew up in a working-class family. He attended the Boston Latin School and participated in the high school art program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In the late 1920s, he studied drawing under Philip Leslie Hale at the Museum School—an experience he called 'stultifying and repressive'. In 1932 he transferred to the Massachusetts College of Art, where he first met his wife, the artist Ruth Cobb. He returned briefly to the Museum School in 1946 to study with the influential expressionist German-American painter Karl Zerbe. Kupferman held various jobs while pursuing his artistic career, including two years as a security guard at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. During the 1930s he worked as a drypoint etcher for the Federal Art Project, creating architectural drawings in a formally realistic style—these works are held in the collections of the Fogg Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In the 1940s he began incorporating more expressionistic forms into his paintings as he became progressively more concerned with abstraction. In 1946 he began spending summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he met and was influenced by Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock, and other abstract painters. At about the same time he began exhibiting his work at the Boris Mirski Gallery in Boston. In 1948, Kupferman was at the center of a controversy involving hundreds of Boston-area artists. In February of that year, the Boston Institute of Modern Art issued a manifesto titled 'Modern Art and the American Public' decrying 'the excesses of modern art,' and announced that it was changing its name to the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). The poorly conceived statement, intended to distinguish Boston's art scene from that of New York, was widely perceived as an attack on modernism. In protest, Boston artists such as Karl Zerbe, Jack Levine, and David Aronson formed the 'Modern Artists Group' and organized a mass meeting. On March 21, 300 artists, students, and other supporters met at the Old South Meeting House and demanded that the ICA retract its statement. Kupferman chaired the meeting and read this statement to the press: “The recent manifesto of the Institute is a fatuous declaration which misinforms and misleads the public concerning the integrity and intention of the modern artist. By arrogating to itself the privilege of telling the artists what art should be, the Institute runs counter to the original purposes of this organization whose function was to encourage and to assimilate contemporary innovation.” The other speakers were Karl Knaths...

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1940s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Drypoint, Etching

The Raven and the Fox - Etching  - 1974
The Raven and the Fox - Etching  - 1974

The Raven and the Fox - Etching - 1974

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Roma, IT

The Raven and the Fox is an artwork realized in 1974. Etching and drypoint with stencil, 1974. Printed by Atelier Rigal. Edition XIV/CXX on Auvergne paper. It belongs to the sui...

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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching

TIE Fighter Beatles Large Oversize Pop Art Print Signed Limited Edition
TIE Fighter Beatles Large Oversize Pop Art Print Signed Limited Edition

TIE Fighter Beatles Large Oversize Pop Art Print Signed Limited Edition

By BATIK

Located in London, GB

TIE Fighter Beatles by B A T I K Pop art work featuring the Fab Four Paul McCartney , George Harrison, Ringo Starr and John Lennon running away from Star Wars TIE fighters chasing...

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2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Black and White, Archival Pigment

Parade (Surrealist Black Philadelphia Artist)
Parade (Surrealist Black Philadelphia Artist)

Parade (Surrealist Black Philadelphia Artist)

By Roland Ayers

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Roland Ayers (1932-2014). Parade, 1960 Drypoint Etching, 5.5 × 17.75 inches. Signed, titled and dated by the artist in pencil, lower margin. Small tear, left margin which exte...

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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Ink

La Folie des Grandeurs II -20th Century, Surrealist, Lithogr, Figurative Print
La Folie des Grandeurs II -20th Century, Surrealist, Lithogr, Figurative Print

La Folie des Grandeurs II -20th Century, Surrealist, Lithogr, Figurative Print

By (after) René Magritte

Located in Sint-Truiden, BE

Color lithograph after the 1948 oil on canvas by René Magritte, printed signature of Magritte and numbered from the edition of 300. The lithograph features the dry stamps of the Mag...

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20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Joan Miró “L’Oiseau du Forgeron” 1963 Signed Etching and Aquatint with Debossing
Joan Miró “L’Oiseau du Forgeron” 1963 Signed Etching and Aquatint with Debossing

Joan Miró “L’Oiseau du Forgeron” 1963 Signed Etching and Aquatint with Debossing

By Joan Miró

Located in Miami, FL

JOAN MIRÓ (1893–1983) – “L’OISEAU DU FORGERON” Etching and Aquatint in Colors with Debossing on Arches Paper ⚜ Hand Signed and Numbered ⚜ Custom Conservation Frame A POETIC DIALOGUE BETWEEN INDUSTRIAL MATTER AND THE LIFE OF THE BIRD “L’Oiseau du Forgeron”, or “The Blacksmith’s Bird,” is a 1963 etching and aquatint with debossing by Joan Miró, hand signed in pencil lower right and numbered 48 from the limited edition of 75. The work belongs to Miró’s celebrated Forgeron series, in which the artist used aggressive plate biting and physical debossing of the paper to summon the world of the blacksmith’s forge directly onto the printed sheet. Printed in colors on heavy Arches wove paper with the watermark present, the impression was published by Maeght Éditeur, Paris, the central printmaking publisher of Miró’s mature career, and is documented in Jacques Dupin’s Miró Engraver, Vol. II: 1961–1973 (Daniel Lelong Éditeur, Paris, 1989) as plate 363. The composition is built around a bold visual pairing. At its center sits a heavy gray geometric form, rendered through the combined effect of etching, aquatint, and debossing, the latter pressing the contours of the deeply etched plate physically into the paper to create a tactile, sculptural relief that mimics forged industrial iron. The form is perforated with a constellation of small circles that read as rivet holes and is edged with the irregular notches of a blacksmith’s tool...

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1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio

"Before The Fog" - 1975 Surrealist Lithograph on Paper
"Before The Fog" - 1975 Surrealist Lithograph on Paper

"Before The Fog" - 1975 Surrealist Lithograph on Paper

By Jim Crabb

Located in Soquel, CA

"Before The Fog" - 1975 Surrealist Lithograph on Paper Black and white surrealist lithograph by Jim Crabb (American, b. 1947). Abstracted figures take up the paper, with a pop of go...

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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Ink, Lithograph

Surrealist figurative prints for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Surrealist figurative prints 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 figurative prints 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, red, yellow and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Salvador Dalí, Marc Chagall, (after) René Magritte, and Rafał Olbiński. 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 figurative prints, so small editions measuring 2.5 inches across are also available. Prices for figurative prints 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 $941.