Jasper Jones

There is a broad range of jasper jones for sale on 1stDibs. Finding the perfect abstract, modern or Surrealist examples of these works for your space is difficult — today, we have a vast range of variations and more on offer. If you’re looking to add jasper jones that pop against an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include that feature elements of beige, black, gold, silver and more. There have been many well-done artworks of this subject over the years, but those made by Adja Yunkers, Joe Tilson, Igael Tumarkin, Fred McDarrah and Arman are often thought to be among the most beautiful. The range of these distinct pieces — often created in mixed media, screen print and etching — can elevate any room of your home. Some jasper jones are too large for some spaces — a variety of smaller iterations, measuring # 8 inches across, are available.

Jasper jones can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price for items in our inventory is $1,250, while the lowest priced sells for $500 and the highest can go for as much as $5,000.

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.

Find a collection of original Surrealist paintings, sculptures, prints and multiples and more art on 1stDibs.