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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
Go All The Way
Go All The Way

Go All The Way

By Joseph Gilgun

Located in Nottingham, GB

Original artwork, acrylic paints on canvas by Joseph Gilgun With a mixture of street, abstract and fine art influences, most of Joe's work is created using a blend of acrylics, spra...

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2010s Surrealist Art

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Acrylic

Migrant, Painting, Acrylic on Watercolor Paper

Migrant, Painting, Acrylic on Watercolor Paper

By Esam Jlilati

Located in Yardley, PA

The migrant Many people are run away from civil wars, looking for peaceful new home and new life, they left their home without knowing if they would arrive safe to the new home or ...

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2010s Surrealist Art

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Acrylic

Les Chiens Ont Soif I, Surrealist Lithograph by Max Ernst
Les Chiens Ont Soif I, Surrealist Lithograph by Max Ernst

Les Chiens Ont Soif I, Surrealist Lithograph by Max Ernst

By Max Ernst

Located in Long Island City, NY

Max Ernst, German (1891 - 1976) - Les Chiens Ont Soif I, Portfolio: Les Chiens Ont Soif, Year: 1964, Medium: Lithograph, Edition: 165/320, Size: 17 x 24.5 in. (43.18 x 62.23 cm)...

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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Fellowship (A)

Fellowship (A)

By Leonor Fini

Located in Columbia, MO

Leonor Fini was born in Argentina in 1907 but travelled and lived in Europe with her mother from a young age. By 1931, she was in Paris, in the full swing of the Surrealist movement....

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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Art

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Etching

Dragon vert, Surrealist Etching by Andre Masson
Dragon vert, Surrealist Etching by Andre Masson

Dragon vert, Surrealist Etching by Andre Masson

By André Masson

Located in Long Island City, NY

Andre Masson, French (1896 - 1987) - Dragon vert, Medium: Etching and aquatint, signed and numbered in pecnil, Edition: 14/50, Image Size: 10.5 x 8 inches, Size: 16.25 x 13 in. (41....

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1940s Surrealist Art

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Etching, Aquatint

Reflection

Reflection

By Leonor Fini

Located in Columbia, MO

Leonor Fini was born in Argentina in 1907 but travelled and lived in Europe with her mother from a young age. By 1931, she was in Paris, in the full swing of the Surrealist movement....

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20th Century Surrealist Art

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Archival Paper, Etching

Salvador Dali "The Curse Conquered"
Salvador Dali "The Curse Conquered"

Salvador Dali "The Curse Conquered"

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Boston, MA

Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: The Curse Conquered Series: After 50 Years of Surrealism Date: 1974 Medium: drypoint engraving with hand coloring on Arches Unframed Dimensions: 2...

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1970s Surrealist Art

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Drypoint, Engraving

Platypus Conundrum
Platypus Conundrum

AiromPlatypus Conundrum

$480Sale Price|20% Off

Platypus Conundrum

By Airom

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Original painting by artist Airom

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2010s Surrealist Art

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Archival Ink, Oil

The Convict and his Companion
The Convict and his Companion

The Convict and his Companion

By Joan Miró

Located in London, GB

This original etching and aquatint is hand signed in white pencil by the artist "Miró" in the lower right image. It is also hand numbered in pencil 35 from the edition of 50, at the ...

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1970s Surrealist Art

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Etching, Aquatint

Linea Viva, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Linea Viva, Painting, Oil on Canvas

Linea Viva, Painting, Oil on Canvas

By Elena Done

Located in Yardley, PA

A breast remembered, re-formed -not in nostalgia but in voltage. The figure holds itself in swells and dissonances, ripples of line as if the skin remembers sound. In this work, ana...

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2010s Surrealist Art

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Oil

Israeli Mixed Media Painting, Tumarkin Abstract Surrealist Photo Collage
Israeli Mixed Media Painting, Tumarkin Abstract Surrealist Photo Collage

Israeli Mixed Media Painting, Tumarkin Abstract Surrealist Photo Collage

Located in Surfside, FL

Abstract Surrealist Photo collage with painting. Mixed Media with or about Amos Keinan the Israeli Playwright and journalist. Yigal Tumarkin (also Igael Tumarkin) (born 1933) is an ...

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1960s Surrealist Art

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Mixed Media, Silver Gelatin

Grand Collection, Huge Original Painting on Canvas, Hand Signed, Picasso Miro
Grand Collection, Huge Original Painting on Canvas, Hand Signed, Picasso Miro

Grand Collection, Huge Original Painting on Canvas, Hand Signed, Picasso Miro

By Ferjo, Fernando de Jesus Oliveira

Located in Aventura, FL

Original oil painting on canvas. Hand signed lower front by Ferjo. Canvas image size 40 x 60 inches. Canvas is not stretched. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of au...

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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Oil

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 Art

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Etching

Tradition, Surrealist Screenprint by Israel Rubinstein
Tradition, Surrealist Screenprint by Israel Rubinstein

Tradition, Surrealist Screenprint by Israel Rubinstein

Located in Long Island City, NY

Israel Rubinstein (1944 - ) Date: 1980 Screenprint on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 350 Image Size: 38.5 x 25.5 inches Size: 47 x 38 in. (119.38 x 96.52 cm)"

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1980s Surrealist Art

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Screen

Horses in a Mythological Landscape - Lithograph
Horses in a Mythological Landscape - Lithograph

Horses in a Mythological Landscape - Lithograph

By Giorgio De Chirico

Located in Paris, IDF

Giorgio de CHIRICO Horses in a Mythological Landscape, c. 1955 Lithograph and stencil (Jacomet workshop) Printed signature in the plate On light vellum 48 x 38 cm (c. 19 x 15 in) V...

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1950s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph, Stencil

Le Château des Pyrénées - 20th Century, Surrealist, Lithograph, Figurative Print
Le Château des Pyrénées - 20th Century, Surrealist, Lithograph, Figurative Print

Le Château des Pyrénées - 20th Century, Surrealist, Lithograph, Figurative Print

By (after) René Magritte

Located in Sint-Truiden, BE

Numbered: 193/300 Color lithograph after the 1959 oil on canvas by René Magritte, printed signature of Magritte and numbered from the edition of 300. The lithograph features the dry...

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20th Century Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Lovers, Gouache on Cardboard, Modern. Framed, Signed

Lovers, Gouache on Cardboard, Modern. Framed, Signed

Located in OPOLE, PL

Marc Sterling (1895-1976) - Lovers Gouache on cardboard from 1940-1950. Dimensions of work: 23 x 20 cm The work is in Excellent condition. Fast and secure shipment.

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1950s Surrealist Art

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Gouache

Air, Surrealist Etching by Douglas C. Backhaus
Air, Surrealist Etching by Douglas C. Backhaus

Air, Surrealist Etching by Douglas C. Backhaus

Located in Long Island City, NY

Douglas C. Backhaus - Air, Year: 1978, Medium: Hand colored Etching, signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP, Image Size: 9.25 x 7 inches, Size: 13.25 x 11 in. (33....

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1970s Surrealist Art

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Etching

Jane Dickson Brooke Alexander 1988 (announcement)
Jane Dickson Brooke Alexander 1988 (announcement)

Jane Dickson Brooke Alexander 1988 (announcement)

By Jane Dickson

Located in NEW YORK, NY

Jane Dickson New York 1988: A rare 1980s announcement card published on the occasion of Dickson's exhibition at Brooke Alexander, Inc. from January 9 - February 3, 1988; 59 Wooster S...

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1980s Surrealist Art

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Offset

Currier & Ives Fire! Fire! Fire!
Currier & Ives Fire! Fire! Fire!

Currier & Ives Fire! Fire! Fire!

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Hollywood, FL

ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Currier & Ives Fire! Fire! Fire! MEDIUM: Lithograph + Collage SIGNED: Hand Signed PUBLISHER: Phyllis Lucas, New York EDITION NUMBER: 106/250 MEASU...

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1970s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Joan Miro, Overweavings, from Derriere le Miroir, 1973
Joan Miro, Overweavings, from Derriere le Miroir, 1973

Joan Miro, Overweavings, from Derriere le Miroir, 1973

By Joan Miró

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Joan Miro (1893–1983) Title: Overweavings (Sobreteixims) Year: April 1973 Medium: Lithograph on velin paper Paper Size: 15 x 22 inches (38.1 x 55.88 cm), with centerfold, as issued Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Publisher: Maeght Editeur, Paris Printer: Imprimerie Arte, Paris Catalogue raisonne reference: Miro, Joan, et al. Joan Miro Lithographe. Maeght, 1972–1992, illustration 889-891; Cramer, Patrick. Joan Miro: The Illustrated Books: Catalogue Raisonne. Patrick Cramer, 1989, illustration 167 Notes: This exquisite lithograph by Joan Miro (1893–1983), titled Sobreteixims (Overweavings), originates from the April 1973 folio Derriere le Miroir, No. 203, published by Maeght Editeur, Paris, under the direction of Aime Maeght, and printed by Imprimerie Arte, Paris, 1973. The composition reflects Miro’s late exploration of materiality, sign, and gesture, where dense textures and symbolic forms converge into a powerful synthesis of abstraction, surface, and poetic invention. Derriere le Miroir (translated as "Behind the Mirror") was an iconic French art periodical published from 1946 to 1982 by Maeght Editeur, one of the most influential art publishers of the twentieth century. Founded by Aime Maeght in Paris, the publication was conceived as a visual and literary collaboration between leading modern artists, poets, and critics. Each issue functioned simultaneously as an exhibition catalogue and as an autonomous work of art, featuring original lithographs printed directly from the artists stones or plates alongside essays, poems, and critical texts. Over more than three decades, Derriere le Miroir produced over 250 issues and presented an extraordinary range of artists including Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Georges Braque, Alexander Calder, Fernand Leger, Pierre Bonnard, Alberto Giacometti, Eduardo Chillida, Ellsworth Kelly, Francis Bacon, Antoni Tapies, Pierre Alechinsky, Pol Bury, Bram van Velde, and many others. Printed by master ateliers such as Mourlot and Arte, the series established new standards of excellence in modern lithography and graphic design. Closely linked to exhibitions at Galerie Maeght, each issue served as a lasting document of postwar modernism, uniting image, text, and philosophy into a uniquely influential publication that remains among the most important and collectible achievements in twentieth century art publishing. JOAN MIRO (1893–1983) was a Catalan painter, sculptor, printmaker, and ceramicist whose visionary imagination and lyrical abstraction made him one of the most influential and beloved artists of the twentieth century. Born in Barcelona, Miro drew inspiration from Catalan folk art, Romanesque frescoes, and the luminous landscapes of Mont-roig del Camp, developing a deep connection to nature that infused his work with vitality and symbolism. After formal training at the Escola d'Art in Barcelona, he absorbed the lessons of Post-Impressionism and Cubism before moving to Paris in the early 1920s, where he became a leading figure in the Surrealist movement. There, Miro forged a personal visual language of biomorphic shapes, floating symbols, and radiant color harmonies that reflected both spontaneity and spiritual depth. In creative dialogue with peers such as Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, he helped revolutionize modern art by dissolving the boundaries between abstraction and dream imagery. Miro's inventive approach extended far beyond painting, embracing sculpture, ceramics, and monumental public commissions that redefined how art could interact with space and emotion. His expressive freedom and gestural abstraction profoundly influenced later artists including Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Alexander Calder, Jean Dubuffet, Antoni Tapies, and Joan Mitchell, inspiring generations who sought to merge instinct, color, and imagination. Today, Miro's work remains a cornerstone of modernism, prized by collectors and celebrated in major museums worldwide. His highest auction record was achieved by Peinture (Etoile Bleue) (1927), which sold for approximately 37 million USD at Sothebys London on June 19, 2012. Joan Miro Sobreteixims...

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1970s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Matisse - Les Claires-Voies d'un Jeune Regard Embaument La Fête d'un Vieil Arbre
Matisse - Les Claires-Voies d'un Jeune Regard Embaument La Fête d'un Vieil Arbre

Matisse - Les Claires-Voies d'un Jeune Regard Embaument La Fête d'un Vieil Arbre

By (after) René Magritte

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Rene Magritte (after), Belgian (1898 - 1967) Title: Les Claires-Voies d'un Jeune Regard Embaument La Fête d'un Vieil Arbre Year of Original: 1952 Year of Printing: 1968 Medi...

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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

GENEVIEVE ZONDERVAN (1922-2013) FRENCH OIL PAINTING - MID CENTURY PORTRAIT LADY
GENEVIEVE ZONDERVAN (1922-2013) FRENCH OIL PAINTING - MID CENTURY PORTRAIT LADY

GENEVIEVE ZONDERVAN (1922-2013) FRENCH OIL PAINTING - MID CENTURY PORTRAIT LADY

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

"Portrait of a Lady" by Geneviève Zondervan (French 1922-2013) monogrammed oil painting on board board: 14 x 10.5 inches Mid 20th century oil painting on board by the French artist...

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Late 20th Century Surrealist Art

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Oil

Grand Window, Huge Original Painting on Canvas, Signed, Surrealism, 70 x 50 in.
Grand Window, Huge Original Painting on Canvas, Signed, Surrealism, 70 x 50 in.

Grand Window, Huge Original Painting on Canvas, Signed, Surrealism, 70 x 50 in.

By Ferjo, Fernando de Jesus Oliveira

Located in Aventura, FL

Original oil painting on canvas. Hand signed lower front by Ferjo. Canvas image size 70 x 50 inches. Canvas is not stretched. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of au...

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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph
Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph

Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph

By Marc Chagall

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Marc Chagall Original Lithograph 1963 Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm Reference: Chagall Lithographe 1957-1962. VOLUME II. Unsigned edition of over 5,000 Condition : Excellent Marc Chagall (born in 1887) Marc Chagall was born in Belarus in 1887 and developed an early interest in art. After studying painting, in 1907 he left Russia for Paris, where he lived in an artist colony on the city’s outskirts. Fusing his own personal, dreamlike imagery with hints of the fauvism and cubism popular in France at the time, Chagall created his most lasting work—including I and the Village (1911)—some of which would be featured in the Salon des Indépendants exhibitions. After returning to Vitebsk for a visit in 1914, the outbreak of WWI trapped Chagall in Russia. He returned to France in 1923 but was forced to flee the country and Nazi persecution during WWII. Finding asylum in the U.S., Chagall became involved in set and costume design before returning to France in 1948. In his later years, he experimented with new art forms and was commissioned to produce numerous large-scale works. Chagall died in St.-Paul-de-Vence in 1985. The Village Marc Chagall was born in a small Hassidic community on the outskirts of Vitebsk, Belarus, on July 7, 1887. His father was a fishmonger, and his mother ran a small sundries shop in the village. As a child, Chagall attended the Jewish elementary school, where he studied Hebrew and the Bible, before later attending the Russian public school. He began to learn the fundamentals of drawing during this time, but perhaps more importantly, he absorbed the world around him, storing away the imagery and themes that would feature largely in most of his later work. At age 19 Chagall enrolled at a private, all-Jewish art school and began his formal education in painting, studying briefly with portrait artist Yehuda Pen. However, he left the school after several months, moving to St. Petersburg in 1907 to study at the Imperial Society for the Protection of Fine Arts. The following year, he enrolled at the Svanseva School, studying with set designer Léon Bakst, whose work had been featured in Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. This early experience would prove important to Chagall’s later career as well. Despite this formal instruction, and the widespread popularity of realism in Russia at the time, Chagall was already establishing his own personal style, which featured a more dreamlike unreality and the people, places and imagery that were close to his heart. Some examples from this period are his Window Vitebsk (1908) and My Fianceé with Black Gloves (1909), which pictured Bella Rosenfeld, to whom he had recently become engaged. The Beehive Despite his romance with Bella, in 1911 an allowance from Russian parliament member and art patron Maxim Binaver enabled Chagall to move to Paris, France. After settling briefly in the Montparnasse neighborhood, Chagall moved further afield to an artist colony known as La Ruche (“The Beehive”), where he began to work side by side with abstract painters such as Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger as well as the avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire. At their urging, and under the influence of the wildly popular fauvism and cubism, Chagall lightened his palette and pushed his style ever further from reality. I and the Village (1911) and Homage to Apollinaire (1912) are among his early Parisian works, widely considered to be his most successful and representative period. Though his work stood stylistically apart from his cubist contemporaries, from 1912 to 1914 Chagall exhibited several paintings at the annual Salon des Indépendants exhibition, where works by the likes of Juan Gris, Marcel Duchamp and Robert Delaunay were causing a stir in the Paris art world. Chagall’s popularity began to spread beyond La Ruche, and in May 1914 he traveled to Berlin to help organize his first solo exhibition, at Der Sturm Gallery. Chagall remained in the city until the highly acclaimed show opened that June. He then returned to Vitebsk, unaware of the fateful events to come. War, Peace and Revolution In August 1914 the outbreak of World War I precluded Chagall’s plans to return to Paris. The conflict did little to stem the flow of his creative output, however, instead merely giving him direct access to the childhood scenes so essential to his work, as seen in paintings such as Jew in Green (1914) and Over Vitebsk (1914). His paintings from this period also occasionally featured images of the war’s impact on the region, as with Wounded Soldier (1914) and Marching (1915). But despite the hardships of life during wartime, this would also prove to be a joyful period for Chagall. In July 1915 he married Bella, and she gave birth to a daughter, Ida, the following year. Their appearance in works such as Birthday (1915), Bella and Ida by the Window (1917) and several of his “Lovers” paintings give a glimpse of the island of domestic bliss that was Chagall’s amidst the chaos. To avoid military service and stay with his new family, Chagall took a position as a clerk in the Ministry of War Economy in St. Petersburg. While there he began work on his autobiography and also immersed himself in the local art scene, befriending novelist Boris Pasternak, among others. He also exhibited his work in the city and soon gained considerable recognition. That notoriety would prove important in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution when he was appointed as the Commissar of Fine Arts in Vitebsk. In his new post, Chagall undertook various projects in the region, including the 1919 founding of the Academy of the Arts. Despite these endeavors, differences among his colleagues eventually disillusioned Chagall. In 1920 he relinquished his position and moved his family to Moscow, the post-revolution capital of Russia. In Moscow, Chagall was soon commissioned to create sets and costumes for various productions at the Moscow State Yiddish...

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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Le Singe et le Léopard, Salvador Dali
Le Singe et le Léopard, Salvador Dali

Le Singe et le Léopard, Salvador Dali

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Title: Le Singe et le Léopard Year: 1975 Medium: Engraving with pochoir on Arches paper Edition: E.A.; 682, plus proofs Size: 30 x 22.25 inches Cond...

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1970s Surrealist Art

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Engraving

Replaced Reality
Replaced Reality

Replaced Reality

Located in Zofingen, AG

Sometimes I try so hard to hold onto the good things inside me that I start using them as a shield. I gather memories, little joys, beauty, closeness—everything that once helped me f...

Category

2010s Surrealist Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

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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.