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Surrealist Nude 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
La petite fille sur canape noir, Etching by Hans Bellmer
La petite fille sur canape noir, Etching by Hans Bellmer

La petite fille sur canape noir, Etching by Hans Bellmer

By Hans Bellmer

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Hans Bellmer, German Title: La petite fille sur canape noir Year: circa 1970 Medium: Etching, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 46/70 Image Size: 10.5 x 8 inches Frame...

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1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Etching

Salvador Dali - Nude at the Window - Original Handsigned Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Nude at the Window - Original Handsigned Lithograph

Salvador Dali - Nude at the Window - Original Handsigned Lithograph

By Salvador Dalí­

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 Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Salvador Dali - Old Faust - Original Etching
Salvador Dali - Old Faust - Original Etching

Salvador Dali - Old Faust - Original Etching

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - Old Faust - from "Faust" Original Etching Embossed signature From the edition of 731 Dimensions: 38,5 x 28,5 cm 1969 References : Field 69-1 / Michler & Lopsinger 305

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1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Etching

Feminaire II, Surrealist Etching by André Masson
Feminaire II, Surrealist Etching by André Masson

Feminaire II, Surrealist Etching by André Masson

By André Masson

Located in Long Island City, NY

André Masson, French (1896 -1987) - Feminaire II, Year: 1951, Medium: Etching on wove paper, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 30, Image Size: 9.75 x 8 inches, Size: 14.25...

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1950s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Etching

Fiddle and Mermaids
Fiddle and Mermaids

Fiddle and Mermaids

By Charles Cobelle

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork titled " Fiddle and Mermaids" c.1975, is an original colors lithograph on Wove paper by noted French/American artist Charles Cobelle, 1902-1994. It is hand signed and nu...

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Late 20th Century Surrealist Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Al Quattro Large Surrealist Modernist Lithograph Embracing Couple
Al Quattro Large Surrealist Modernist Lithograph Embracing Couple

Al Quattro Large Surrealist Modernist Lithograph Embracing Couple

By Bruno Bruni

Located in Surfside, FL

Bruno Bruni senior (born 22 November 1935, in Gradara) is an Italian lithographer, graphic artist, painter and sculptor. He became commercially successful in the 1970s. In 1977, he won the International Senefeld award for Lithography. He has since become one of the most successful Italian artists in Germany and one of Germany's best known lithographers. Born in Gradara, in the Province of Pesaro and Urbino on the Adriatic Coast in 1935, the son of a railway attendant, Bruni started painting as a young boy. He was initially a pupil of [Giuliano Vanghi] ; from 1953 to 1959 he attended the Art Institute in Pesaro. He then moved to London, where he became interested in pop art. In 1960, after an exhibit of his work at London's John Whibley Gallery, and after meeting a girl from Hamburg, he moved there to live with her and enrolled at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. He has lived in the city ever since and visits his hometown regularly. In 1961-1966 took a course at the Hamburg College of Fine Arts, where at that time taught artists Georg Gresko, Paul Wunderlich, Horst Janssen, Arnolfo Hausner, and art critic Hans Theodor Flemming. One of his teachers called Bruni Renato Guttuso. He studied in Milan. Along with several young authors Bruni founded in Hamburg group "COOP" - against the commercialization of art. In the 1970s, Bruno Bruni made a name for himself as a draftsman, lithographer, painter and sculptor in the international art world. Bearing stylistic similarities to the surrealist work of Michael Parkes and Leonor Fini. In 1977, he won the International Senefeld Competition for Lithography. He is influenced primarily by German expressionists like Otto Dix, George Grosz etc. and the Italian old masters . In particular, he is noted as one of the few lithographic artists "who paint all work directly onto the stone". He is especially known for his erotic female forms. He has said, "I cannot paint an abstract picture. If I had gone along with the trends I'd have disappeared long ago". He resides in a converted swimming pool, more than a century old, which serves as apartment, workplace and gallery. He sells his art through his wife's gallery in Hanover and is reputedly one of Germany's top earning artists. He is also a keen cook of Italian cuisine, and is a boxing fan and a close friend of former boxing champion Dariusz Michalczewski, for whom he used to cook for before matches. He has also cooked for Gerhard Schröder and has published a cooking book...

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1980s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Three Graces of Cova d’or
Three Graces of Cova d’or

Three Graces of Cova d’or

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Hollywood, FL

ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Three Graces of Cova d'or MEDIUM: Etching with embossed verso SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Galerie des Quatre Mouvements EDITION NUMBER: 55/90 ME...

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1970s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Etching

Leonor Fini Erotica I etching
Leonor Fini Erotica I etching

Leonor Fini Erotica I etching

By Leonor Fini

Located in Paonia, CO

An etching by Leonor Fini depicting three men and three woman interacting in various ways and one of the woman sitting in the foreground is playing the lute. This is a signed limited edition etching numbering 68 out of 100. There is also a signature by the artist embossed in the paper just below the pencil signature. The paper is very fibrous and is deckle -edged. The paper size is 26 x 20.25 Image size 15.50 x 12.50. This original rare etching is in very good condition. Argentinian-born artist Leonor Fini (1907-1996) is considered one of the great female artists of the twentieth century. She moved to Paris in the early 1930’s where she spent most of her life and almost immediately formed friendships with Salvador Dali, Cartier- Bresson, Max Ernst and other intellectuals of the time. At twenty five she had her first one person show in Paris and was included in the 1936 pivotal exhibition at MOMA…Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism…..and that same year had an exhibition at a famous avant garde gallery in New York. Although Fini never considered herself a Surrealist she maintained close personal relationships with several members of the group. One can see how their ideology influenced her work but she remained firmly rooted in the tradition of Symbolism, Metaphysics and Italian and German Romanticism Her works can be found in most important collections of modern art around the world. Fini was renowned as a portraitist and as a painter of erotic sexual tensions with a mysterious atmosphere. She was adamant about being independent and not belonging to any one group. She lived life on her own terms and is sometimes referred to as …..the female Dali. She was also involved with designing for fashion and creating elaborate sets for opera and theatre. As a feminist she was definitely ahead of the times. She produced the first erotic male nude...

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Etching

The Judgement of Paris, Mythology Suite original E.A. etching by Salvador Dali

The Judgement of Paris, Mythology Suite original E.A. etching by Salvador Dali

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Paonia, CO

The Judgement of Paris ( Three Graces ) is an original limited edition Epreuve d'Artiste ( EA ) etching on Rives BFK by Salvador Dali from the Mythology Suite. ( ref: Field 63-3.I / Michler & Lopsinger 123 ). Salvador Dalí’s mythology...

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1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Etching

Salvador Dali - Marguerite - Original Etching
Salvador Dali - Marguerite - Original Etching

Salvador Dali - Marguerite - Original Etching

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - Marguerite - Original Etching from "Faust" suite Stamped signature, as issued From the standard edition of 731 Edition number 7 Dimensions: 38,5 x 28,5 cm Edition Arg...

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1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Etching

Oreste e Pilade, 2e version

Oreste e Pilade, 2e version

By Giorgio De Chirico

Located in New York, NY

The Roman numeral edition of 25, aside from the Arabic numeral edition of 99. Signed, titled and numbered VI/XXV in pencil, lower margin. With the artist's blind stamp lower left. Pu...

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1970s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Etching, Aquatint, Color

Avant Garde Surrealist Abstract Female Nude Signed Limited Edition Lithograph
Avant Garde Surrealist Abstract Female Nude Signed Limited Edition Lithograph

Avant Garde Surrealist Abstract Female Nude Signed Limited Edition Lithograph

By Wilhelm Freddie

Located in Cotignac, FR

Avant-garde female nude lithograph on paper by Danish artist Wilhelm Freddie. Number 80 from an edition of 170. Signed, dated and titled in pencil bottom left, numbered in pencil bot...

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Late 20th Century Surrealist Nude Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Salvador Dali - Nude, Horse and Death
Salvador Dali - Nude, Horse and Death

Salvador Dali - Nude, Horse and Death

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - Nude, Horse and Death - 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 Nude Prints

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Etching

Salvador Dali - Queen Iseult and her daughter
Salvador Dali - Queen Iseult and her daughter

Salvador Dali - Queen Iseult and her daughter

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - Queen Iseult and her daughter - Original Etching Dimensions: 45 x 33 cm Edition: 125 1970 Signed in pencil. On Arches Vellum References : Field 70-10 (p. 60-61)

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1970s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Etching

Marc Chagall "Dédicace"
Marc Chagall "Dédicace"

Marc Chagall "Dédicace"

By Marc Chagall

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Marc Chagall (French/Russian, 1887-1985) "Dédicace" 1968 Color lithograph signed and numbered ##/50 in pencil Image: 17 7/8 x 15 1/4 inches. Framed: 38 x 34 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches. ...

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Mid-19th Century Surrealist Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Limbs, Surrealist Lithograph by Andre Masson
Limbs, Surrealist Lithograph by Andre Masson

Limbs, Surrealist Lithograph by Andre Masson

By André Masson

Located in Long Island City, NY

Andre Masson, French (1896 - 1987) - Limbs, Portfolio: Dessins Erotiques, Year: 1971, Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 23/125, Image Size: 9...

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1970s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Le Viol d'Europe (The Rape of Europa) /// Surrealism Salvador Dali Mythology Art
Le Viol d'Europe (The Rape of Europa) /// Surrealism Salvador Dali Mythology Art

Le Viol d'Europe (The Rape of Europa) /// Surrealism Salvador Dali Mythology Art

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Saint Augustine, FL

Artist: Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989) Title: "Le Viol d'Europe (The Rape of Europa)" Portfolio: Hommage à Albrecht Durer (Suite Mythologique Nouvelle) *Signed by Dali in pencil ...

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1970s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Engraving, Intaglio

Branch, Surrealist Lithograph by Andre Masson
Branch, Surrealist Lithograph by Andre Masson

Branch, Surrealist Lithograph by Andre Masson

By André Masson

Located in Long Island City, NY

Andre Masson, French (1896 - 1987) - Branch, Portfolio: Dessins Erotiques, Year: 1971, Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 23/125, Image Size: ...

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1970s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Lithograph

(Mort de Cleopatre) (The Death of) Cleopatra /// Surrealism Salvador Dali Modern
(Mort de Cleopatre) (The Death of) Cleopatra /// Surrealism Salvador Dali Modern

(Mort de Cleopatre) (The Death of) Cleopatra /// Surrealism Salvador Dali Modern

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Saint Augustine, FL

Artist: Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989) Title: "(Mort de Cleopatre) (The Death of) Cleopatra" *Signed by Dali in pencil lower right Year: 1972 Medium: Original Engraving on Arches paper Limited edition: 197/325 Printer: Ateliers Rigal, Paris, France Publisher: EUKA, Paris, France and Roten Gallery, Baltimore, MD Sheet size: 22.5" x 30.13" Image size: 16.38" x 20.38" Reference: "The Official Catalog of the Graphic Works of Salvador Dali" - Field No. 72-14, page 73; "Dali: Catalogue Raisonné of Etchings and Mixed-Media Prints, 1924-1980" - Michler/Löpsinger No. 820, page 247 Condition: Toning to sheet. Faint stain line at right edge and a few soft handling creases in right margin. It is otherwise a strong impression in good condition Notes: Provenance: private collection - Los Angeles, CA. Numbered by Dali in pencil lower left. Arches watermark lower right. 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 clothes...

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1970s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Engraving, Intaglio

Beach Scene, Surrealist Lithograph by Andre Masson
Beach Scene, Surrealist Lithograph by Andre Masson

Beach Scene, Surrealist Lithograph by Andre Masson

By André Masson

Located in Long Island City, NY

Andre Masson, French (1896 - 1987) - Beach Scene, Portfolio: Dessins Erotiques, Year: 1971, Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 23/125, Image Si...

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1970s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Salvador Dali - Pear and Nude Back
Salvador Dali - Pear and Nude Back

Salvador Dali - Pear and Nude Back

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - Pear and Nude Back - Original Etching Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm Edition: 272/390 1967 On Rives Vellum References : Field 67-4 (p. 32-33) / Michler & Lopsinger 174 to 187.

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1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Etching

Etreinte, Surrealist Etching by André Masson
Etreinte, Surrealist Etching by André Masson

Etreinte, Surrealist Etching by André Masson

By André Masson

Located in Long Island City, NY

André Masson, French (1896 -1987) - Etreinte, Year: 1955, Medium: Etching, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: Epreuve d'Artiste, Image Size: 7 x 10.75 inches, Size: 10 x 13...

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1950s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Etching

Salvador Dali - Sator from "Faust"
Salvador Dali - Sator from "Faust"

Salvador Dali - Sator from "Faust"

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - Sator, from "Faust" Original Etching Embossed signature From the edition of 731 Dimensions: 38,5 x 28,5 cm 1969 References : Field 69-1 K / Michler & Lopsinger 305 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 became the artist's surrealist trademarks. His great craftsmanship allowed him to execute his paintings in a nearly photo-realistic style. No wonder that the artist was a great admirer of the Italian Renaissance painter Raphael. Salvador Dali and Gala. Meeting Gala was the most important event in the artist's life and decisive for his future career. She was a Russian immigrant and ten years older than Dali. When he met her, she was married to Paul Eluard. Gala decided to stay with Dali. She became his companion, his muse, his sexual partner, his model in numerous art works and his business manager. For him she was everything. Most of all Gala was a stabilizing factor in his life. And she managed his success in the 1930s with exhibitions in Europe and the United States. Gala was legally divorced from her husband in 1932. In 1934 Dali and Gala were married in a civil ceremony...

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1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

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La Sirene, Japanese Surrealist Nude Etching and Aquatint by Masuo Ikeda
La Sirene, Japanese Surrealist Nude Etching and Aquatint by Masuo Ikeda

La Sirene, Japanese Surrealist Nude Etching and Aquatint by Masuo Ikeda

Located in Long Island City, NY

La Sirene Masuo Ikeda, Japanese (1934–1997) Date: 1969 Etching and Aquatint on BFK Rives, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 38/45 Image Size: 23.5 x 19.5 inches Size: 28 x 21....

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1960s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

The Magicians Vanite
The Magicians Vanite

The Magicians Vanite

By Salvador Dalí­

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 Nude Prints

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Salvador Dali - Serenade - Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Serenade - Lithograph

Salvador Dali - Serenade - Lithograph

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - Serenade - Original Handsigned Lithograph Dimensions: 51 x 71 cm 1970 Signed in pencil and numbered Edition : /CXX References : Field 70-8

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1970s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Salvador Dali - Oysters and Nude
Salvador Dali - Oysters and Nude

Salvador Dali - Oysters and Nude

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - Oysters and Nude - 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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Surrealist nude prints for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Surrealist nude 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 nude prints created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of orange, blue, yellow and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Salvador Dalí, Enrico Baj, Leonor Fini, and Charles Long. Frequently made by artists working with Etching, and Lithograph 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 nude prints, so small editions measuring 2.75 inches across are also available. Prices for nude 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 $125 and tops out at $14,995, while the average work sells for $1,995.