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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
Memories of Surrealism Surrealist Flower Girl
Memories of Surrealism Surrealist Flower Girl

Memories of Surrealism Surrealist Flower Girl

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Hollywood, FL

ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Memories of Surrealism Surrealist Flower Girl MEDIUM: Etching on Japon Paper SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali EDITION NUMBER: A XXX/XL MEASUREME...

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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Hebru Brantley Gaia (Hebru Brantley Lil Mama as Gaia)
Hebru Brantley Gaia (Hebru Brantley Lil Mama as Gaia)

Hebru Brantley Gaia (Hebru Brantley Lil Mama as Gaia)

By Hebru Brantley

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 fabled personification of Mother E...

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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Vinyl

Sun Figures, Surrealist Offset Lithograph by Andre Masson

Sun Figures, Surrealist Offset Lithograph by Andre Masson

By André Derain

Located in Long Island City, NY

Andre Masson, French (1896 - 1987) - Sun Figures from the Omaggio a Michelangelo Portfolio, Year: 1975, Medium: Offset Lithograph, signature in the printing, Image Size: 13 x 9 in...

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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Offset

Les Songes Drôlatiques de Pantagruel, Planche II
Les Songes Drôlatiques de Pantagruel, Planche II

Les Songes Drôlatiques de Pantagruel, Planche II

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in OPOLE, PL

Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Les Songes Drôlatiques de Pantagruel, Planche II Lithograph from 1973. Edition 10/250 on Japon paper. Dimensions of work: 76 x 56 cm Publisher: Carpen...

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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Lithographs II (1046), Surrealist Lithography by Joan Miro

Lithographs II (1046), Surrealist Lithography by Joan Miro

By Joan Miró

Located in Long Island City, NY

Joan Miro was a Spanish Surrealist artist, world-renowned for his unique art style that blended surrealist fantasy and modern life. This lithograph is part of the series "Lithographs...

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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Lono's Fighting Chair
Lono's Fighting Chair

Lono's Fighting Chair

By Ralph Steadman

Located in Hollywood, FL

Artist: Ralph Steadman Title: Lono's Fighting Chair Medium: One color silkscreen on White Rising Stonehenge Deckle Edge Paper Size: 22 x 30 Inches Edition: of 250 Year: 2006 Notes: ...

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Early 2000s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Screen

lithograph

lithograph

By Marino Marini

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: lithograph. Executed by Marino Marini especially for the cover of a rare exhibition catalogue. This impression on smooth wove paper was printed by Mourlot and published in Pa...

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1950s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Plate VI, Le Cocu Magnifique
Plate VI, Le Cocu Magnifique

Plate VI, Le Cocu Magnifique

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Plate VI, Le Cocu Magnifique etching & aquatint, 1968 Unsigned as usual From the unsigned edition of 200 impressions printed on Rives BFK paper There is also a signed edition of 30 i...

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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Florals Water-Hybiscus Swan
Florals Water-Hybiscus Swan

Florals Water-Hybiscus Swan

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Hollywood, FL

ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Florals Water-Hybiscus Swan MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali PUBLISHER: Editions Graphiques Internationals EDITION NUMBER: 62/35...

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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Digitale
Digitale

Digitale

By Pierre Alechinsky

Located in OPOLE, PL

Pierre Alechinsky (1927) - Digitale Lithograph from 1969. The edition ea. Dimensions of work: 44 x 30.5 cm. Hand signed. Publisher: Atelier Clot, Paris. The work is in Excellen...

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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

original lithograph

original lithograph

By Max Ernst

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original lithograph. Catalogue reference Spies/Leppien 202. Published in 1971 by XXe Siecle. Sheet size: 12 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches (310 x 238 mm). Not signed.

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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall (1887–1985) - Sirène et Poisson - Lithograph on Arches paper - 1967
Marc Chagall (1887–1985) - Sirène et Poisson - Lithograph on Arches paper - 1967

Marc Chagall (1887–1985) - Sirène et Poisson - Lithograph on Arches paper - 1967

By Marc Chagall

Located in Varese, IT

Color lithograph on Arches paper, edited in 1967. by Charles Sorlier after Marc Chagall 
Limited edition, numbered XLII/LXXV in lower left corner.
 Hand-signed by artist in pencil in...

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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

Acrobat, Surrealist Etching by James Kearns
Acrobat, Surrealist Etching by James Kearns

Acrobat, Surrealist Etching by James Kearns

By James Kearns

Located in Long Island City, NY

James Kearns, American (1924 - ) - Acrobat, Year: circa 1975, Medium: Etching on Rives, signed, titled and numbered, Edition: 44/50, Image Size: 14.5 x 8.75 inches, Size: 22 x 15 i...

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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Ciudad de Medio Millon y 25 Huevos Duros Giclée Print, Surrealist Art
Ciudad de Medio Millon y 25 Huevos Duros Giclée Print, Surrealist Art

Ciudad de Medio Millon y 25 Huevos Duros Giclée Print, Surrealist Art

By Pedro Friedeberg

Located in Cuauhtemoc, Ciudad de México

-Pedro Friedeberg signed print featuring a fantastical surrealistic scene. Includes whimsical figures, optical art elements, and surreal details. framed in a hand-painted black and g...

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2010s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Giclée

Untitled Composition (Poligrafa, Redfern, Figurative, Surreal, 50% OFF MUST GO)
Untitled Composition (Poligrafa, Redfern, Figurative, Surreal, 50% OFF MUST GO)

Untitled Composition (Poligrafa, Redfern, Figurative, Surreal, 50% OFF MUST GO)

By Jorge Castillo

Located in Kansas City, MO

Jorge Castillo Untitled Composition from "Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona at Redfern Gallery, London" Original Color Lithograph Year: 1979 Size: 10 x 7.325 inches (25.4 × 18.61 cm) Ed...

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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

TIE Fighter Beatles Pop Art Print, Signed Limited Edition, 40x30 in
TIE Fighter Beatles Pop Art Print, Signed Limited Edition, 40x30 in

TIE Fighter Beatles Pop Art Print, Signed Limited Edition, 40x30 in

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 Prints and Multiples

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Black and White, Archival Pigment

Sol Y Dali
Sol Y Dali

Sol Y Dali

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Hollywood, FL

ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Sol Y Dali MEDIUM: Lithograph SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: 153/200 MEASUREMENTS: 16.5" x 21.9" YEAR: 1967 FRAMED: Yes CONDITION: Excelle...

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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Miro a l'Encre I (Cramer 161), Surrealist Lithograph by Joan Miro
Miro a l'Encre I (Cramer 161), Surrealist Lithograph by Joan Miro

Miro a l'Encre I (Cramer 161), Surrealist Lithograph by Joan Miro

By Joan Miró

Located in Long Island City, NY

Joan Miro, Spanish (1893 - 1983) - Miro a l'Encre I (Cramer 161), Year: 1972, Medium: Lithograph on Wove Paper, signed in the plate, Size: 13.5 x 10 in. (34.29 x 25.4 cm), Frame S...

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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Amen - Lithograph - 1965
Amen - Lithograph - 1965

Amen - Lithograph - 1965

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Roma, IT

Amen - From "Pater Noster" is an original lithograph by Salvador Dalí, from the volume "Pater Noster" published by Rizzoli Editore, Milan, 1966. This beautiful and peaceful print re...

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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Untitled III (Jörg Remé, Jörg Krichbaum, ~34% OFF)
Untitled III (Jörg Remé, Jörg Krichbaum, ~34% OFF)

Untitled III (Jörg Remé, Jörg Krichbaum, ~34% OFF)

By Jörg Remé

Located in Kansas City, MO

Joerg Reme Untitled III from "von den Stunden" Folio Color Lithograph on handmade paper with deckled edges 1972 Size: 11.75 x 8.325 inches (29.8 × 21.1 cm) Edition: 31 of 250 Signed ...

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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Winter and Summer
Winter and Summer

Winter and Summer

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Hollywood, FL

ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Winter and Summer MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed EDITION NUMBER: A/P MEASUREMENTS: 25" x 35.5" YEAR: 1973 FRAMED: No AUTHENTICITY: This pi...

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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Joan Miró “Italia 1969” Hand Signed Lithograph, Galleria del Milione, Milan 1970
Joan Miró “Italia 1969” Hand Signed Lithograph, Galleria del Milione, Milan 1970

Joan Miró “Italia 1969” Hand Signed Lithograph, Galleria del Milione, Milan 1970

By Joan Miró

Located in Miami, FL

JOAN MIRÓ (1893–1983) – “ITALIA 1969” Color Lithograph ⚜ Hand Signed and Numbered ⚜ Gilt Wood Frame PUBLISHED FOR ONE OF ITALY’S MOST IMPORTANT MODERNIST GALLERIES “Italia 1969” is...

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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Fantomes Le Soupirant
Fantomes Le Soupirant

Fantomes Le Soupirant

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Hollywood, FL

ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Fantoms Le Soupirant MEDIUM: Etching SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Editions Argillet, Paris EDITION NUMBER: 51/100 MEASUREMENTS: 14.9" x 11" YEA...

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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

'L'Empire des Lumieres' 1998 Offset Poster, Vintage, Large
'L'Empire des Lumieres' 1998 Offset Poster, Vintage, Large

'L'Empire des Lumieres' 1998 Offset Poster, Vintage, Large

By René Magritte

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Rene Magritte (1898 – 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for creating a number of witty and thought-provoking images. Often depicting ordinary objects in an ...

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1990s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Cat Duo

Cat Duo

By Leonor Fini

Located in Columbia, MO

LEONOR FINI Cat Duo 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

Max Ernst Dada Surrealist Hand Signed Lithograph Poster for a Jewish Museum
Max Ernst Dada Surrealist Hand Signed Lithograph Poster for a Jewish Museum

Max Ernst Dada Surrealist Hand Signed Lithograph Poster for a Jewish Museum

By Max Ernst

Located in Surfside, FL

Max Ernst (German, American, 1891-1976) Color lithograph Titled, "Poster For The Jewish Museum" 1966 Hand signed lower right Hand numbered HC I/XVII Dimensions: 34.75 x 28.5 sight 25 X 19.25 Max Ernst (German 1891 – 1976) was a German-born painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and surrealism in Europe. He had no formal artistic training, but his experimental attitude toward the making of art resulted in his invention of frottage—a technique that uses pencil rubbings of textured objects and relief surfaces to create images—and grattage, an analogous technique in which paint is scraped across canvas to reveal the imprints of the objects placed beneath. Max Ernst showed for the first time in 1912 at the Galerie Feldman in Cologne. At the Sonderbund exhibition of that year in Cologne he saw the work of Paul Cezanne, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh. In 1913 he met Guillaume Apollinaire and Robert Delaunay and traveled to Paris. Ernst participated that same year in the Erste deutsche Herbstsalon. In 1914 he met Jean Arp in Cologne who was to become a lifelong friend. In 1921 Ernst exhibited at the Galerie au Sans Pareil in Paris. He was involved in Surrealist activities in the early 1920s with Paul Eluard and André Breton. His work was exhibited that year together with that of the Das Junge Rheinland group, at Galerie Feldman in Cologne, and then in several group exhibitions in 1913. In his paintings of this period, Ernst adopted an ironic style that juxtaposed grotesque elements alongside Cubist and Expressionist motifs. Ernst fought in world war I. Several German Expressionist painters died in action during the war, among them August Macke and Franz Marc. In 1918, Ernst was demobilised and returned to Cologne. He soon married art history student Luise Straus, of Jewish ancestry, whom he had met in 1914. In 1919, he visited Paul Klee in Munich and studied paintings by Giorgio de Chirico. In the same year, inspired by de Chirico and mail-order catalogues, teaching-aide manuals and similar sources, he produced his first collage works (notably Fiat modes, a portfolio of lithographs), a technique which later dominated his artistic pursuits. Also in 1919, Ernst, social activist Johannes Theodor Baargeld and several colleagues founded the Cologne Dada group. In 1919–20, Ernst and Baargeld published various short-lived magazines such as Der Strom, die Schammade and organised Dada exhibitions. Ernst and Luise's son Ulrich Jimmy Ernst was born on 24 June 1920; he later would also become a painter. In 1921, he met Paul Éluard, who became a lifelong friend. Éluard bought two of Ernst's paintings (Celebes and Oedipus Rex) and selected six collages to illustrate his poetry collection Répétitions. A year later the two collaborated on Les malheurs des immortels and then with André Breton, whom Ernst met in 1921, on the magazine Littérature. Ernst developed a fascination with birds which was prevalent in his work. His alter ego in paintings, which he called Loplop, was a bird. He suggested that this alter-ego was an extension of himself stemming from an early confusion of birds and humans. In 1927, he married Marie-Berthe Aurenche and it is thought his relationship with her may have inspired the erotic subject matter of The Kiss and other works of that year. He collaborated with Joan Miro on designs for Sergei Diaghilev Ballet that same year. The following year the artist collaborated with Salvador Dali and the Surrealist Luis Bunuel on the film L'Age d'or. His first American show was held at the Julien Levy Gallery, New York, in 1932. In 1936 Ernst was represented in Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Ernst began to sculpt in 1934 and spent time with Alberto Giacometti. In 1938, the American heiress and artistic patron Peggy Guggenheim acquired a number of Max Ernst's works, which she displayed in her new gallery in London. Ernst and Guggenheim were married from 1942 to 1946. In September 1939, the outbreak of World War II caused Ernst, being German, to be interned as an "undesirable foreigner" in Camp des Milles, near Aix-en-Provence, along with fellow surrealist, Hans Bellmer, who had recently emigrated to Paris. He had been living with his lover and fellow surrealist painter, Leonora Carrington who, not knowing whether he would return, saw no option but to sell their house to repay their debts and leave for Spain. Thanks to the intercession of Paul Éluard and other friends, including the journalist Varian Fry, he was released a few weeks later. Soon after the German occupation of France, he was arrested again, this time by the Gestapo, but managed to escape to America with the help of Fry and Peggy Guggenheim, a member of a wealthy American art collecting family. Ernst and Peggy Guggenheim arrived in the United States in 1941 and were married at the end of the year. Along with other artists and friends (Marcel Duchamp and Marc Chagall) who had fled from the war and lived in New York City, Ernst helped inspire the development of abstract expressionism. His marriage to Guggenheim did not last. In October 1946 he married American surrealist painter Dorothea Tanning in a double ceremony with Man Ray and Juliet P. Browner in Beverly Hills, California. The couple made their home in Sedona, Arizona from 1946 to 1953. He and Tanning hosted intellectuals and European artists such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Yves Tanguy. Sedona proved an inspiration for the artists and for Ernst, who compiled his book Beyond Painting and completed his sculptural masterpiece Capricorn while living in Sedona. As a result of the book and its publicity, Ernst began to achieve financial success. From the 1950s he lived mainly in France. In 1954 he was awarded the Grand Prize for painting at the Venice Biennale. In 2005, "Max Ernst: A Retrospective" opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Contemporary artist tapestries have had their true believers. He produced a tapestry for Gloria Ross...

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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

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