Surrealist Art
SURREALIST STYLE
In the wake of World War I’s ravaging of Europe, artists delved into the unconscious mind to confront and grapple with this reality. Poet and critic André Breton, a leader of the Surrealist movement who authored the 1924 Surrealist Manifesto, called this approach “a violent reaction against the impoverishment and sterility of thought processes that resulted from centuries of rationalism.” Surrealist art emerged in the 1920s with dreamlike and uncanny imagery guided by a variety of techniques such as automatic drawing, which can be likened to a stream of consciousness, to channel psychological experiences.
Although Surrealism was a groundbreaking approach for European art, its practitioners were inspired by Indigenous art and ancient mysticism for reenvisioning how sculptures, paintings, prints, performance art and more could respond to the unsettled world around them.
Surrealist artists were also informed by the Dada movement, which originated in 1916 Zurich and embraced absurdity over the logic that had propelled modernity into violence. Some of the Surrealists had witnessed this firsthand, such as Max Ernst, who served in the trenches during World War I, and Salvador Dalí, whose otherworldly paintings and other work responded to the dawning civil war in Spain.
Other key artists associated with the revolutionary art and literary movement included Man Ray, Joan Miró, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Frida Kahlo and Meret Oppenheim, all of whom had a distinct perspective on reimagining reality and freeing the unconscious mind from the conventions and restrictions of rational thought. Pablo Picasso showed some of his works in “La Peinture Surréaliste” — the first collective exhibition of Surrealist painting — which opened at Paris’s Galerie Pierre in November of 1925. (Although Magritte is best known as one of the visual Surrealist movement’s most talented practitioners, his famous 1943 painting, The Fifth Season, can be interpreted as a formal break from Surrealism.)
The outbreak of World War II led many in the movement to flee Europe for the Americas, further spreading Surrealism abroad. Generations of modern and contemporary artists were subsequently influenced by the richly symbolic and unearthly imagery of Surrealism, from Joseph Cornell to Arshile Gorky.
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Style: Surrealist
1939 Surrealist Cityscape by Mystery Artist
Located in Larchmont, NY
Mystery Artist
Untitled, 1993
Watercolor on paper
Sight: 13 x 19 1/4 in.
Framed: 25 1/2 x 29 1/2 x 1 1/4 in.
Signed and dated lower right
Category
1930s Surrealist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
French Surrealist Oil Painting Evolving Shapes and Movement
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Composition
signed by Jack Penouel (French 1936-2018)
dated 02'
signed oil on canvas, framed
framed: 26 x 21.5 inches
canvas : 25.75 x 20.75 inch...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil
Aliyah Orah-Horah
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Aaliyah Orah-Horah
MEDIUM: Lithograph
SIGNED: Hand Signed
EDITION NUMBER: 232/250
MEASUREMENTS: 25" x 19.6"
YEAR: 1968
FRAMED: No
CONDITION: Ex...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dalí, The Creation of Angels, Paradise: Canto 29 (Field 189-200)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Wood Engraving in Colors on Rives BFK paper. Edition: 4765, French; 3188, Italian. Paper Size: 13 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Salvador Dali, In the Hands of Antaeus (M. & L. 1039-1138; F. 189-200)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Wood Engraving in Colors on Rives BFK paper. Edition: 4765, French; 3188, Italian. Paper Size: 13 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Exhibition Poster Galerie Gerald Cramer - Lithograph by Joan Mirò - 1969
By Joan Miró
Located in Roma, IT
Exhibition Poster Galerie Gerald Cramer is a contemporary artwork realized by Joan Mirò.
Mixed colored lithograph.
The poster was realized in occasion of the exhibition of the arti...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled - Lithograph by Dorothea Tanning - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is an artwork realized by Dorothea Tanning in 1974.
Colored lithograph.
Good conditions. Printed by Atelier Pierre Chave in Vence, France.
This lithograph was realized...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dalí, The Delightful Mount (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Year: 1963
Medium: Wood engraving in colors on Rives BFK paper
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Edition: 4765 in French; 3188 in Ital...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Engraving
Diggity Dog, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Painted in a realist tradition, a hotdog in a bun takes center stage in this modern still life. Artist Dwight Smith enjoys exaggerating the scale of objects t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Watercolor
Lochusta et Bruchus - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Locusta et Bruchus ("The Grasshopper") is an artwork realized in 1964.
It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ editionis published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 and 1969.
Color lithograph on heavy rag paper.
Signed and dated on plate on the lower left margin.
Perfect conditions.
Provenance: Private Collection, Southern France.
The artwork represents a giant colored Grasshopper with a stylized skull on the lower left margin and a group of small ants...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Devil Emerges from Surrealist Voodoo Drum - Sans titre (Diable)
Located in Miami, FL
An image of a horned devil with pointy claws and bat-like wings emerges from a Voodoo drum. He has with arms stretched out like a Christ figure. The drum grows out of a yellow plant-...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Salvador Dali, News of the Limbos (M. & L. 1039-1138; F. 189-200)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Wood Engraving in Colors on Rives BFK paper. Edition: 4765, French; 3188, Italian. Paper Size: 13 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
DAYTIME KEY Signed Lithograph, Mini Beachscape, Red Box, Sand, Sea, Blue Sky
Located in Union City, NJ
DAYTIME KEY is a rarely seen, hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the American surrealist artist Fanny Brennan, created using traditional hand lithography techniques printed on ...
Category
1990s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
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 pr...
Category
1990s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Abraham Lincoln: Gala Gazing at the Mediterranean Sea - Lithograph
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) (after)
Abraham Lincoln: Gala Gazing at the Mediterranean Sea, 1996
Printografie (photolithography) in limited edition authorized by the Dali Foundation
Si...
Category
1990s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali, In Dark Limbo (M. & L. 1039-1138; F. 189-200)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Wood Engraving in Colors on Rives BFK paper. Edition: 4765, French; 3188, Italian. Paper Size: 13 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Maldoror : Molt Clock, Time Sleeping - Original etching, HANDSIGNED
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador Dali
Time Sleeping, 1975
Original etching
Signed in pencil
Limited to 100 copies (Here numbered 52)
On Arches vellum 32.5 x 25 cm (c. 12.7 x 9.8 in)
REFERENCES :
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Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Engraving
Salvador Dali, The Irascible (M. & L. 1039-1138; F. 189-200)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Wood Engraving in Colors on Rives BFK paper. Edition: 4765, French; 3188, Italian. Paper Size: 13 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Maldoror : The giant with a bag - Original etching, HANDSIGNED
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador Dali
The giantess with a bag, 1975
Original etching
Signed in pencil
Limited to 100 copies (Here numbered 52)
On Arches vellum 32.5 x 25 cm (c. 12.7 x 9.8 in)
REFERENCE...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dali, Fraud (M. & L. 1039-1138; F. 189-200)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Wood Engraving in Colors on Rives BFK paper. Edition: 4765, French; 3188, Italian. Paper Size: 13 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Emperor : Napoleonic Troops Passing Through - Original etching, HANDSIGNED
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador Dali
Napoleonic troops passing through, 1975
Original etching
Signed in pencil
Limited to 100 copies (Here numbered 52)
On Arches vellum 32.5 x 25 cm (c. 12.7 x 9.8 in)
...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Etching
Sinopia, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Sinopia is a term that refers to a reddish pigment used in the past and also to the underlayer drawing of frescoes, also realised with that pigment. This painting is “unfinishedâ€
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil
PPP, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
A humble homage to one of the greatest Italian scholar of all times, the port, director, author, journalist and painter Pier Paolo Pasolini. Acrylic on stretched canvas, 60x80x4 ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Tsundere, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Tsundere, adj. Japanese word used especially in the Anime/Manga world to describe a character who shows initially a cold, hostile and impulsive behaviour, then let gradually emerge ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Acrylic
9 of Pentacles, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
The artwork depicts the Nine of Pentacles card, symbolizing rapidly growing success, incoming financial satisfaction, and wealth. White bison figures represen...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil
10 of Pentacles, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
The artwork portrays the Ten of Pentacles card, symbolizing success, financial satisfaction, and the completion of a wealth cycle. White bison figures, repres...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil
Surrealist Watercolour and Gouache on Paper. 'The Picnic'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th century surrealist watercolour and gouache on paper by British artist Derek Carruthers. Signed bottom right.
An intriguing and beautifully...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Glass sculpture Merkuce from the series The Italians 2008, glass, 37, 5x11x10 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Glass sculpture Merkuce from the series The Italians 2008, glass, 37, 5x11x10 cm
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Art
Materials
Glass
Salvador Dali - Flordali I - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Lithograph
Title: Flordali I
Dimensions: 76 x 106 cm
Printed signature
Edition of 4880
Reference: Field page 233 / Michler & Lopsinger 1586
The artwork is shipped wit...
Category
1980s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Divine Comedy Purgatory Canto 24
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Divine Comedy Purgatory Canto 24
MEDIUM: Woodblock
SIGNED: Hand Signed
EDITION NUMBER: 139/150
MEASUREMENTS: 9" x 13.5"
FRAME: No
CONDITION: Exce...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Untitled #29-1999-22
Located in New Orleans, LA
This work was part of "Body Politics", the August/September 2022 exhibition marked the debut of this work in the region (New Orleans), and the first time any of these works have been...
Category
1990s Surrealist Art
Materials
Pastel, Ink
"Two Seas and a Moon" Surrealism American Scene WWII Modern WWI Denver WPA Era
Located in New York, NY
"Two Seas and a Moon" Surrealism American Scene WWII Modern WWI Denver WPA Era
Arnold Ronnebeck (1885 - 1947)
Two Seas and a Moon
30 x 22 1/2 inches
Oil on Canvas, c. 1943
Signed u...
Category
1940s Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Old City of Warsaw
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Old City of Warsaw" 1994 is an original color serigraph by Ukrainian/American artist Anatole Krasnyansky, 1930-2023. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 117/...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Art
Materials
Screen
Looking at the Swallow Birds - Large Original Painting on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mohamad Khayata’s original figurative artworks are the result of five years of displacement and deal with themes of migration, memory, and identity. Mohamad’s paintings exhibit an ar...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Nick Knight Vinyl Record Art
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Nick Knight vinyl record art 2007:
Off-set print on vinyl record. Unsigned.
Measure: 12 x 12 inches
Excellent condition
Published by Visionaire Fashion, 2007
A very cool frame piec...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Art
Materials
Offset
Rhinoceros, Tribute to Albrecht DURER - Signed lithograph poster (Gaspar #1503)
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Rhinoceros, Tribute to Albrecht DURER, 1971
Original lithograph
Signed in pencil
Numbered / 300
On Guarro vellum 76 x 56.5 cm (c. 30 x 22 in)
REFERENCE : ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Direction blue - black. 2006, glass, copper, author technique 18x56x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Direction blue - black. 2006, glass, copper, author technique 18x56x50 cm
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Art
Materials
Copper
Peter Saville Vinyl Record Art
By Peter Saville
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Peter Saville vinyl record art 2007:
Off-set print on vinyl record.
Measure: 12 x 12 inches
Excellent condition.
Published by Visionaire Fashion, 2007; unsigned from an edition of ...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Art
Materials
Offset, Plastic
Female Artist Surrealism Modern Contemporary Drawing Graphite Landscape Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"True North" is a graphite drawing on paper created by Cynthia Torroll. The artist signed this piece on the lower right of center.
Artwork Size: 10 1/4" x 10 1/4"
Frame Size: 17 1/2...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Graphite
Surrealist Gouache and Watercolour on Paper, 'Sunday School Ghosts'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Surrealist watercolour and gouache on handmade paper by British artist Derek Carruthers. Signed bottom right and signed, dated and titled 'Sunday School Ghosts' to the reverse.
A wo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Untitled Ohne Titel - German French Surrealism
By Max Ernst
Located in London, GB
This original etching and aquatint is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Max Ernst" at the lower right margin.
It is hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 99, at the lower le...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Moloch
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Moloch (1903), 2024.
Giclée print on Hahnemühle paper with archival ink, 14.5 x 24 in. (37 x 61 cm.). Edition: 3 with two APs, signed and numbered.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Giclée
Divine Comedy Heaven Canto 7
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Divine Comedy Heaven Canto 7
MEDIUM: Woodblock
SIGNED: Hand Signed
EDITION NUMBER: 52/150
MEASUREMENTS: 9" x 13.5"
FRAME: Yes
CONDITION: Excellen...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Female Artist Surrealism Modern Contemporary Drawing Graphite Mandala Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Presence" is an original graphite drawing created by Cynthia Torroll. This is a meditation on meditation. It took the artist two months and two days to draw this piece. Torroll ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Flute Player - Lithograph - After PABLO PICASSO
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
After PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Flute Player
Dimensions: 56 x 38 cm
Signed and dated in the plate
Posthumous edition by Edition Succession Picasso, Paris.
Editions de la Paix
Picas...
Category
1950s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Joan Miró ( 1893 – 1983 ) – hand-signed Lithograph on Arches paper – 1971
By Joan Miró
Located in Varese, IT
Color lithograph on Arches paper , edited in 1971
Limited edition of 150 copies
Hand signed by Joan Miró in pencil in the lower right margin ,
and numbered 37/150 in lower left corne...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
Pop Art Surreal Large Colorful Screenprint with Mod Balls of Color Serigraph
Located in Surfside, FL
Titled: After the Beginning, one of his most desirable large serigraph silkscreen works. It depicts inter galactic outer space with planets, orbs of bright day glo, neon color in a s...
Category
1990s Surrealist Art
Materials
Screen
Female Artist Surreal Modern Contemporary Mixed Media Pointillism Signed Collage
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Retrograded" is a mixed media collage on canvas by Cynthia Torroll. This piece was first shown at the Museum of Wisconsin Art during its 2022-2023 member's show. There it won Best o...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Mixed Media
The Summer in LA - Watercolor Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Maria C. Bernhardsson is a colorful artist who lives and paints in Sweden. Most of her works are influenced by the architecture and geometry of houses. Bernhardsson travels the world...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Kawaji Hot Spring
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Kawaji Hot Spring (1920), 2024.
Giclée print on Hahnemühle paper with archival ink, 15 x 24 in. (38 x 61 cm.). Edition: 3 with two APs, signed and numbered.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Giclée
Incredible Vintage Surreal Religious Framed Signed Latin American Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed lower right.
Category
1940s Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pink Composition - Lithograph by Max Ernst - 1974
By Max Ernst
Located in Roma, IT
Pink Composition is an artwork realized by Max Ernst in 1974.
Original colored lithograph.
Good conditions. Printed by Atelier Pierre Chave in Vence, France.
This lithograph was ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Moon Birth" Photography 31" x 31" in Edition 4/7 by Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Moon Birth" Photography 31" x 31" in Edition 4/7 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Not framed. Ships in a tube.
Available ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Candido Ballester Sueño original Magical Surrealism mixed media paper
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Sueño original magical Surrealism mixed media paper painting
Cándido Ballester is a contemporary Mallorcan painter who was born in 1926. As a child he had to emigrate to Argentina. ...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Cardboard
California Dreamin' - Watercolor Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Maria C. Bernhardsson is a colorful artist who lives and paints in Sweden. Most of her works are influenced by the architecture and geometry of houses. Bernhardsson travels the world...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
After Pablo Picasso - Peace Dove - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
After PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Peace Dove
1961
Dimensions: 65 x 50 cm
Signed and dated in the plate
Edition Succession Picasso, Paris (posthumous reproductive edition)
Editions de l...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Divine Comedy Hell Canto 31
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Divine Comedy Hell Canto 31
MEDIUM: Woodblock
SIGNED: Hand Signed
EDITION NUMBER: 18/150
MEASUREMENTS: 9" x 13.5"
CONDITION: Excellent.
REFERE...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
René Magritte - LE DOMAINE D'ARNHEIM Limited Surrealism French Contemporary
Located in Madrid, Madrid
René Magritte - LE DOMAINE D'ARNHEIM, 1962 (THE DOMAIN OF ARNHEIM)
Date of creation: 2010
Medium: Lithograph on BFK Rives Paper
Edition number: 155/275
Size: 60 x 45 cm
Condition: Ne...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
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