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
"Antique Toys" Priscilla Roberts, Magic Realism, Surrealism, Still Life
Located in New York, NY
Priscilla Roberts
Antique Toys
Signed lower left; identified through gallery label affixed to backing
Oil on board
20 x 24 inches
Provenance:
Grand ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Blue Dream
Located in Bogotá, Bogotá
Immerse yourself in a unique visual experience with this oil painting in shades of blue and violet. The artwork features enigmatic figures of men and animals coming to life in a noct...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Pastel, Oil, Cotton Canvas
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
COLUMBUS DISCOVERS AMERICA(Jack of Swords) Signed Lithograph on Japon Paper, Red
Located in Union City, NJ
COLUMBUS DISCOVERS AMERICA(Jack of Swords)
Medium: Lithograph on Japon paper, signed in pencil
Print size: 29.5 x 21
Year published: 1979
Edition: I-C (100 Roman Numeral) Japon
Publi...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Djinn- Original contemporary surrealistic seascape landscape painting-modern art
Located in London, Chelsea
"Djinn" by Hallie Packard is an original seascape painting that transports viewers into a dreamlike realm where reality blends with fantasy. With bold colors and imaginative imagery,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled - Lithograph by Wifredo Lam - 1974
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is a lithograph realized by the Cuban Surrealist artist Wifredo Lam (1902-1982).
This is a color lithograph on wove paper, properly edited...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Some Night in Spring- Original surrealistic floral wildlife painting-modern art
Located in London, Chelsea
"Some Night in Spring" by Hallie Packard is an original painting that transports viewers into a whimsical world where elements of nature intertwine with dreamlike imagery. With a sur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Dali Divina Comedia engraving painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Work of the Spanish artist SALVADOR DALI.
Engraving of the series LA DIVIDA COMEDIA
4/100
SIGNED IN PENCIL
DALÍ, Salvador (Figueras, Gerona, 1904-1989).
During its early years, Dal...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Art
Materials
Engraving
"The Sun" 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 Dalí, The Sixth Heaven of Jupiter, Paradise: Canto 20) (Field 189-20)
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 Dalí, Beatrice Comforts the Poet (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
Joan Miró, The Singing Fish (Framed)
By Joan Miró
Located in Manchester, GB
Joan Miró, The Singing Fish
Lithograph print
52 x 64 cm
This lithograph is framed in a sustainably sourced black box frame with a gallery acrylic glazing.
'The Singing Fish' b...
Category
1950s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Cascade. Contemporary Surrealist Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Once again Berlin gifts us a different aspect of his art. Within Cascade he is able to echo and reference simultaneously several of the Great Masters and also include his own unique ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"No Time" Photography 31" x 31" in Edition of 7 by Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"No Time" Photography 31" x 31" in Edition of 7 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Not framed. Ships in a tube.
Available si...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Dalí, Le Chevalier Chrétien, Les Chevaux de Dali (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in Colors on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; unframed. Notes: From the folio, Les Chevaux de Dali. Publ...
Category
1980s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Dalí, Caligula, Les Chevaux de Dali (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in Colors on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; unframed. Notes: From the folio, Les Chevaux de Dali. Publ...
Category
1980s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Dalí, Bucéphale, Les Chevaux de Dali (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in Colors on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; unframed. Notes: From the folio, Les Chevaux de Dali. Publ...
Category
1980s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Dalí, Picador, Les Chevaux de Dali (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in Colors on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; unframed. Notes: From the folio, Les Chevaux de Dali. Publ...
Category
1980s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Hourglass butterfly, Painting, Oil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
An original piece from the series “Please do not kill butterfliesâ€
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil
Appareil et Main - Lithograph after Salvador Dalì - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Appareil et Main is an artwork by the Surrealist Catalan artist Salvador Dalí (Figueres, 1904-1989).
This is a color lithograph on wove paper, properly edited by the French magazi...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Ark
Located in Bayonne, NJ
A small but very intricate painting by a Ukrainian artist, Vachagan Narazyan. This oil on linen painting was acquired from Tamara Tumasian gallery in Kharkiv in 2008. It is in excell...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil
Dalí, Saint-Georges, Les Chevaux de Dali (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in Colors on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; unframed. Notes: From the folio, Les Chevaux de Dali. Publ...
Category
1980s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Lithographie Originale (Cover)
By Joan Miró
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joan Miró
Lithographie Originale (Cover)
Color Lithograph
Year: 1975
Size: 15.6 × 12.75 inches
Catalogue Raisonné: Teixidor, Miro Lithographe II, 1953-1963
Publisher: Maeght Editeur, Paris, France
With coverfold, recto - as issued
Recto, right: Typographically annotated: 'Lithographie Originale'
Unsigned, Unknown Edition Size
COA provided
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Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma de Mallorca in 1981
Surrealism, Fauvism, Cubism, Abstract expressionism, Naive art, Expressionism, Suprematism
Pablo Picasso, André Breton, Hans Arp, André Masson, Hieronymus Bosch, Tristan Tzara, Modest Urgell
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Tout se Tient - Lithograph by R.S. Matta - 1975
Located in Roma, IT
T'ou't se tient is an Artwork realized in 1975, by Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren (Santiago, Chile, 1911 - Civitavecchia, Italy, 2002).
Colored Lithograph on paper. The ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Dalí, Le Cheval de Triomphe, Les Chevaux de Dali (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in Colors on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; unframed. Notes: From the folio, Les Chevaux de Dali. Publ...
Category
1980s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Dalí, Lady Godiva, Les Chevaux de Dali (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in Colors on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; unframed. Notes: From the folio, Les Chevaux de Dali. Publ...
Category
1980s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Like No One is Watching, limited edition color print, signed and numbered
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Like No One is Watching, limited edition color print, signed and numbered
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettabl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dalí, Don Quichotte, Les Chevaux de Dali (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in Colors on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; unframed. Notes: From the folio, Les Chevaux de Dali. Publ...
Category
1980s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Breathing Pneumatic Armchair (Michler/Löpsinger 82; Field 75-11E), Salvador Dali
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Title: Breathing Pneumatic Armchair (Michler/Löpsinger 82; Field 75-11E), Imagination & Objects of the Future Portfolio
Year: 1975
Medium: Drypoint,...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Lithograph, Drypoint
Dalí, Pégase, Les Chevaux de Dali (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in Colors on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; unframed. Notes: From the folio, Les Chevaux de Dali. Publ...
Category
1980s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Dalí, Cheval de Troie, Les Chevaux de Dali (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in Colors on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; unframed. Notes: From the folio, Les Chevaux de Dali. Publ...
Category
1980s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Dalí, Le Cheval de la Mort, Les Chevaux de Dali (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in Colors on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; unframed. Notes: From the folio, Les Chevaux de Dali. Publ...
Category
1980s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Pegasus
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this etching and engraving with color aquatint. Signed, dated and numbered 132/150 in pencil by Dali. Published by Argillet, Paris. From "Mythologie."
Cat...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Color, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
Dalí, Le Cheval du Printemps, Les Chevaux de Dali (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in Colors on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; unframed. Notes: From the folio, Les Chevaux de Dali. Publ...
Category
1980s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Dalí, Le Centurion, Les Chevaux de Dali (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in Colors on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; unframed. Notes: From the folio, Les Chevaux de Dali. Publ...
Category
1980s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Civic Center with Matrioska, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
From the series “Red Starâ€
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil
In a Landscape #1, from Long Point Gallery Portfolio (signed/n 22/30)
By Edward Giobbi
Located in New York, NY
Edward Giobbi
In a Landscape #1, from Long Point Gallery Portfolio, 1988
Lithograph on paper with deckled edges
Hand signed, numbered 22/3...
Category
1980s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Hombre contemplando la luna" signed / numbered original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and aquatint. Signed in pencil and numbered 68 of 80. Printed in 1947 on Velin de Hollande paper and published in New York by the Quadrangle Press as a speci...
Category
1940s Surrealist Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Dalí, La Licorne, Les Chevaux de Dali (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in Colors on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; unframed. Notes: From the folio, Les Chevaux de Dali. Publ...
Category
1980s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Dalí, Chevalier Romain, Les Chevaux de Dali (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in Colors on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; unframed. Notes: From the folio, Les Chevaux de Dali. Publ...
Category
1980s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Dalí, Le Cheval de Course, Les Chevaux de Dali (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in Colors on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; unframed. Notes: From the folio, Les Chevaux de Dali. Publ...
Category
1980s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled - Lithograph by Wifredo Lam - 1974
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is an artwork realized by the Cuban Surrealist artist Wifredo Lam (1902-1982).
This is a color lithograph on wove paper, properly edited b...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Two men's heads, ca. 1930, ink on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Mathieu (Matei) ROSIANU (1897-1969)
Two men's heads, circa 1930
Ink on paper
7 x 9 cm
Born in Bucharest in 1897 to an officer in the Romanian National Guard and a mother of French ...
Category
1930s Surrealist Art
Materials
India Ink, Ink
Chromatic butterfly - light blue, Painting, Oil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
An original piece from the series “Please do not kill butterfliesâ€
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil
Happiness - Contemporary Acrylic on Canvas Painting, Vibrant colors, Landscape
Located in Warsaw, PL
ABOUT THE ARTIST
MARTA RYNKIEWICZ is a Polish contemporary artist (born in 1983).
She studied painting with Professor Henryk Czenik and graphic arts with Professor Jerzy Krechowic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Chromatic butterfly - white, Painting, Oil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
An original piece from the series “Please do not kill butterfliesâ€
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil
Bum Glasses by Laure Prouvost, Murano Glass, Contemporary Art
Located in Zug, CH
Prouvost's work is as whimsical as it is penetrating: it addresses miscommunication and ideas becoming lost in translation. The Bum Glass(es) were created on the occasion of her marr...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Glass
Our House, limited edition color print, signed and numbered
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Our House, limited edition color print, signed and numbered
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's im...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Petites Nus (From Apollinaire) I
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Petites Nus (from Appolinaire) I
MEDIUM: Etching
SIGNED: Hand Signed
PUBLISHER: Editions Argillet, Paris
EDITION NUMBER: 42/95
MEASUREME...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Etching
Dalí, Le Cheval de Labeur, Les Chevaux de Dali (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph in Colors on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; unframed. Notes: From the folio, Les Chevaux de Dali. Publ...
Category
1980s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Heaven Canto 24 (The Divine Comedy)
Located in Greenwich, CT
Heaven Canto 24 is a wood engraving on BFK Rives with an image size of 10 x 7" from the popular French edition of the portfolio. Framed in a classic, gold-tone frame.
Cataloging:
M...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Art
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
After Pablo Picasso - Carnaval - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
After PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Carnaval
Dimensions: 50 x 40 cm
Signed and dated in the plate
Color lithograph on Velin D'Arches realized from a drawing
Edition Succession Picasso, P...
Category
1950s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Tower Number 11
Located in Bayonne, NJ
This oil on linen framed painting is an example of an authentic stylistic composition created by Vachagan Narazyan. The painting was acquired from the gallery that represented the ar...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil
Papageno original lithograph limited edition painting
By Karl Hodina
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Papageno original lithograph limited edition painting
Original lithograph signed by hand.
Perfect state
Category
20th Century Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Creation of Eve
Located in London, GB
Original Colour lithograph on vellum
hand-signed and numbered by the artist
edition of 1000
49 x 48 cm
from the portfolio 'Del calendario 5 artistes catalans'
catalogue raisonée: M...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Beauty has thorns, original oil Roses surrealism, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Esam Jlilati
Located in Yardley, PA
Original oil painting, Modern emotional Surrealism Art with Roses hold in hand in landscape environment The Painting title: Beauty has Thorns la beauté a des épines Schönhe...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil
Children of War : mixed media collage
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary collage by Debra Friedkin.
Debra Friedkin’s work ranges from whimsical to darkly humorous, informed by sleek modernism, pulp science fiction and spiritual symbolism.
Debra Friedkin studied art at Lehman College, NYC and Long Island University post-graduate. She mentored privately with Lester Zakarin, an illustrator for Stan Lee Comics...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Paris inondé
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paris inondé (1910), 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
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Find a wide variety of authentic Surrealist art 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 art 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, purple, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Salvador Dalí, Marc Chagall, Joan Miró, and Leonor Fini. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, 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 art, so small editions measuring 1 inches across are also available. Prices for art 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 $1 and tops out at $1,450,000, while the average work sells for $1,426.
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