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
Surreal intimate scene, green and blue, boat and fashion magazine
Located in Carballo, ES
Ventura A. Pérez (1992) is one of the most seductive artists on the contemporary Spanish scene. After earning a doctorate in contemporary art from the University of Vigo, he moved to...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
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
"Femme et Oiseaux dans la Nuit" original pochoir
By Joan Miró
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original pochoir stencil print in four colors. Catalogue reference: Dupin 50. Printed in 1947 in an edition of 1500 by Meriden Gravure and published by Curt Valentin for the ...
Category
1940s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Surrealist composition
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: collotype (after the Miro lithograph). Printed in 1947 in an edition of 1500 by Meriden Gravure and published by Curt Valentin for "The Prints of Joan Miro" portfolio. Size: ...
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1940s Surrealist Art
Materials
Photogravure
Surrealist composition
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: collotype (after the Miro lithograph). Printed in 1947 in an edition of 1500 by Meriden Gravure and published by Curt Valentin for "The Prints of Joan Miro" portfolio. Size: ...
Category
1940s Surrealist Art
Materials
Photogravure
Surrealist composition
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: collotype (after the Miro lithograph). Printed in 1947 in an edition of 1500 by Meriden Gravure and published by Curt Valentin for "The Prints of Joan Miro" portfolio. Size: ...
Category
1940s Surrealist Art
Materials
Photogravure
Surrealist painting on board, bright colors and green shadows, diptych
Located in Carballo, ES
Ventura A. Pérez (1992) is one of the most seductive artists on the contemporary Spanish scene. After earning a doctorate in contemporary art from the University of Vigo, he moved to...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Twins : Men in a Mirror - Print : Grreeting Card for Galerie Chave 1977
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean-Michel FOLON
Twins : Men in a Mirror, 1977
Greeting card (Heliogravure)
Unsigned
Limited edition of 200 unumbered proofs
On Arches vellum 27 x 18 cm (c. 11 x 7 inch)
INFORMATI...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Offset
The Hand - Original signed lithograph (Field #67-2)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali (1904-1969)
The Hand (La main)
Original lithograph
Signed in pencil
Limited edition of 150 ex
On BFK Rives vellum 65 X 50 cm (c. 26 x 20 in)
REFERENCES :
- Catalog...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Femmes et Oiseaux devant la Lune" original pochoir
By Joan Miró
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original pochoir stencil print in five colors. Catalogue reference: Dupin 50. Printed in 1947 in an edition of 1500 by Meriden Gravure and published by Curt Valentin for the ...
Category
1940s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
"Mr Knife, Miss Fork"
By Max Ernst
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: gelatin silver print (photogram). Printed in 1931 and published in Paris for the journal Arts et Metiers Graphiques. A photogram was an experimental technique conceived by Ma...
Category
1930s Surrealist Art
Materials
Photogram
The Dove of the Ark - 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.
...
Category
1950s Surrealist Art
Materials
Etching
Surrealist Large Painting Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ Female Crocodile
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative take...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen
Surrealist composition
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: collotype (after the Miro lithograph). Printed in 1947 in an edition of 1500 by Meriden Gravure and published by Curt Valentin for "The Prints of Joan Miro" portfolio. Size: ...
Category
1940s Surrealist Art
Materials
Photogravure
RENÉ MAGRITTE LA GRANDE FAMILLE, 1963 Limited edition Lithograph - Surrealism
Located in Madrid, Madrid
LA GRANDE FAMILLE, 1963 (THE LARGE FAMILY)
Date of creation: 2010
Medium: Lithograph on BFK Rives Paper
Edition: 275
Size: 60 x 45 cm
Observations: Lithograph on BFK Rives paper plat...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Dream Fragment 5". Surreal Wall Sculpture, Polymer Assemblage on MDF
Located in FISTERRA, ES
Part of the Dream Fragments series, this wall-mounted sculpture by spanish artist Inés Silvalde explores repetition and the uncanny through an assemblage of synthetic fingers. The wo...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Plaster, Oil, Acrylic, Fiberboard
No.119 - black and white surreal double exp. photography, limited edition of 15
Located in London, GB
No.119 captures a phantom ascent in the desert, blending surrealism with the raw textures of nature. Created using double exposure on 4x5 large format film, this haunting black-and-w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Photographic Film, Giclée
Venus à Giraffe - Sculpture by Salvador Dalí - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Bronze, dark and brown patina, realized in 1973.
Dali's printed signature in on the plinth.
Edition 616/1000 on the side.
Foundry stamp "Fonderia Venturi". Published by Euro Art.
...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Bronze
Surrealist composition
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: collotype (after the Miro lithograph). Printed in 1947 in an edition of 1500 by Meriden Gravure and published by Curt Valentin for "The Prints of Joan Miro" portfolio. Size: ...
Category
1940s Surrealist Art
Materials
Photogravure
Ficus Elastica - Original lithograph - Limited / 25 copies
By Max Ernst
Located in Paris, IDF
Max ERNST (1891-1976)
Ficus Elastica, c. 1965
Original lithograph
Unsigned
Numbered / XXV copies
On Japanese paper 57 x 42 cm
INFORMATION: Edition produced by Lucien Treillard, pub...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
DALI SALVADOR "Le Bestiaire de La Fontaine Dalinise" full set of 12 Etchings
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: Le Bestiaire de La Fontaine Dalinise (La Fontaine's Bestiary Dalinized)
Year: 1974
The complete set of 12 drypoints with pochoir in colours, on Japanese ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Etching
Salvador Dali "The Shepherd" from Song of Songs of Solomon Suite
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: "The Shepherd" from the Portfolio Song of Songs of Solomon
Year: 1972
Medium: Color Etching with Gold Dust on Arches Paper, signed in pencil
Edition: 250...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Etching
Salvador Dali "The Beloved is as Fair as a Company of Horses" from Song of Songs
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: "The Beloved is as Fair as a Company of Horses" from the Portfolio Song of Songs of Solomon
Year: 1972
Medium: Color Etching with Gold Dust on Arches Pap...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Etching
Joan Miró, Design for a Tapestry
By Joan Miró
Located in Manchester, GB
Joan Miró, Design for a Tapestry
Lithograph
62 x 82 cm
Artwork is framed in a sustainably sourced gallery black box frame with acrylic glazing.
Design for a Tapestry' by Joan M...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali, "Les Amoureux" Signed & numbered Lithograph Suite Of 3
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
This beautiful suite consists of "Anthony & Cleopatra", "The Garden of Eden", "Lancelot & Guinevere", Portfolio features three lithographs in colors.
Each lithograph editioned and si...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Lithograph
Tienta en Espana - Lithograph (Field #67-2)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador DALI
Tienta en Espana, 1983
Lithograph and embossing after an etching
Printed signature in the plate
On Arches vellum 30 x 37" (74 x 93 cm)
REFERENCES :
- Catalog raisonn...
Category
1980s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali "King Solomon” from Song of Songs of Solomon Suite
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: "King Solomon" from the Portfolio Song of Songs of Solomon
Year: 1972
Medium: Color Etching with Gold Dust on Arches Paper, signed in pencil
Edition: 250...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Etching
Salvador DALI "Dali Discovers America" full set of two Signed & numbered lithogr
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: "Christopher Columbus Discovers America" - Jack of Swords
"Gateway to the New World" -Five of Cups
These piece can be found in "The Official Catalog Of ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Lithograph
Salvador Dali "THE VOICE OF MY BELOVED! BEHOLD!" from Song of Songs of Solomon
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: "THE VOICE OF MY BELOVED! BEHOLD!" from the Portfolio Song of Songs of Solomon
Year: 1972
Medium: Color Etching with Gold Dust on Arches Paper, signed in...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Etching
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...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Miró, Composition, XXe Siècle (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, n°5-6, 1939. Published and printed under the direction...
Category
1930s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
(after) Marino Marini - "Cavalier et cheval, orange et jaune" pochoir
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: pochoir (after the lithograph). Printed by the atelier of Daniel Jacomet, and published in Paris in 1955 by Heinz Berggruen. The image measures 5 x 3 1/4 inches (135 x 85 mm)...
Category
1950s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Salvador Dalí, Composition (Field 69-5, A-M), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on Papeterie de Mandeure vélin paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali "Garden Nuts Fruit" from Song of Songs of Solomon Suite
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: "Garden Nuts Fruit" from the Portfolio Song of Songs of Solomon
Year: 1972
Medium: Color Etching with Gold Dust on Arches Paper, signed in pencil
Edition...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Etching
"The Moon" original lithograph
By André Masson
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Published in Paris in 1938 by Teriade for the second issue of the art revue Verve (Volume 1, Number 2). Andre Masson was invited to contribute an origina...
Category
1930s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali "I am my beloved" from The Song of Songs of King Solomon
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: "I am my beloved" from the Portfolio Song of Songs of Solomon
Year: 1972
Medium: Color Etching with Gold Dust on Arches Paper, signed in pencil
Edition: ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Etching
'Album 21: One Plate Lithograph' by Joan Miró, Pencil-signed Lithograph
By Joan Miró
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 29" x 34.5" pencil-signed lithograph was produced by Joan Miró in the 20th Century. The lithograph floats on matt board and is presented in a white wooden frame with glass. This...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
"The Post-Truth Era: First Impact", Surrealist, Collage, Acrylic Painting, 2018
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “The Post-Truth Era: First Impact” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 20 x 16 x 1.5 inches in pinks, oranges, blues and whites. During the last decade, as the...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Casanova : Sommelier Love with Cucumber - Original etching (Field #67-4E)
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador DALI (1904-1969)
Casanova : Sommelier Love with Cucumber, 1967
Original etching
Signed in the plate
On vellum Rives 38 x 28 cm (c. 14.9 x 11 inch)
REFERENCES :
- Catalog r...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Etching
Diana Bathing with Cupid Mid 20th Century French Surrealist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Diana & Cupid
French Surrealist artist, mid 20th century
oil painting on board, unframed
board: 18 x 13 inches
provenance: private collection, Paris
condition: a few minor scuffs and...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil
Surrealist composition
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: collotype (after the Miro lithograph). Printed in 1947 in an edition of 1500 by Meriden Gravure and published by Curt Valentin for "The Prints of Joan Miro" portfolio. Size: ...
Category
1940s Surrealist Art
Materials
Photogravure
Salvador Dali "Behold his bed" from The Song of Songs of King Solomon
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: "Behold his bed" from the Portfolio Song of Songs of Solomon
Year: 1972
Medium: Color Etching with Gold Dust on Arches Paper, signed in pencil
Edition: 2...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Etching
Salvador Dalí, Composition (Field 69-5, A-M), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on Papeterie de Mandeure vélin paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1979 and published in Barcelona by La Poligrafa in an edition of 1000. Size: 10 x 7 1/2 inches (255 x 188 mm). Not signed.
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Surrealist composition
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: collotype (after the Miro lithograph). Printed in 1947 in an edition of 1500 by Meriden Gravure and published by Curt Valentin for "The Prints of Joan Miro" portfolio. Size: ...
Category
1940s Surrealist Art
Materials
Photogravure
Animal Composition (Framed)
By Joan Miró
Located in Manchester, GB
Joan Miró, Animal Composition (Framed)
Lithograph
47 x 61 cm
Framed in a sustainably sourced black box frame with gallery acrylic glazing.
'Ladders cross the blue sky in a wh...
Category
1950s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dalí, Composition (Field 69-5, A-M), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on Papeterie de Mandeure vélin paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Signed and numbered Salvador Dali etching with gold dust on arches paper
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904 – 1989)
The beloved is as fair as a company of horses
Etching with gold dust on arches.
Signed and numbered ‘204 / 250’ (lower left) and ‘Dali’ (lower ...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Art
Materials
Etching
Miró, Composition (Cramer 83; Mourlot 347), Derrière le miroir (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Derrière le miroir, N° 139-140, 1963. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éd...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dalí, Cerberus (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Suite: Göttliche Komödie (The Divine Comedy)
Year: 1974
Medium: Wood engraving in colors on BFK Rives wove paper tipped to Arches paper mounts
Inscr...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Engraving
"Fire"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Painting “Fire”, or “Female Flame” 🔥 . Relief. The tin is stretched on a metal frame. The drawing is made by a welding semiautomatic device (manual tridet printer). The artist creat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Metal, Iron, Wire
Salvador Dali "Thou art Fair, My Love, and Thy Breats..." from Song of Songs of
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: "Thou art Fair, My Love, and Thy Breats..." from the Portfolio Song of Songs of Solomon
Year: 1972
Medium: Color Etching with Gold Dust on Arches Paper, ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Etching
Faust Marguerite/Gretchen
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Faust Marguerite/Gretchen
MEDIUM: Etching
SIGNED: Hand Signed
PUBLISHER: Editions Argillet, Paris
EDITION NUMBER: 89/95
MEASUREMENTS: 11" x 14.75"...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Etching
Surrealist composition
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: collotype (after the Miro lithograph). Printed in 1947 in an edition of 1500 by Meriden Gravure and published by Curt Valentin for "The Prints of Joan Miro" portfolio. Size: ...
Category
1940s Surrealist Art
Materials
Photogravure
Surrealist composition
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: collotype (after the Miro lithograph). Printed in 1947 in an edition of 1500 by Meriden Gravure and published by Curt Valentin for "The Prints of Joan Miro" portfolio. Size: ...
Category
1940s Surrealist Art
Materials
Photogravure
Surrealist composition
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: collotype (after the Miro lithograph). Printed in 1947 in an edition of 1500 by Meriden Gravure and published by Curt Valentin for "The Prints of Joan Miro" portfolio. Size: ...
Category
1940s Surrealist Art
Materials
Photogravure
Surrealist composition
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: collotype (after the Miro lithograph). Printed in 1947 in an edition of 1500 by Meriden Gravure and published by Curt Valentin for "The Prints of Joan Miro" portfolio. Size: ...
Category
1940s Surrealist Art
Materials
Photogravure
Surrealist composition
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: collotype (after the Miro lithograph). Printed in 1947 in an edition of 1500 by Meriden Gravure and published by Curt Valentin for "The Prints of Joan Miro" portfolio. Size: ...
Category
1940s Surrealist Art
Materials
Photogravure
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