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Surrealism

Surrealism stands as one of the most influential and enduring movements of twentieth-century art. Emerging in Paris during the 1920s around André Breton and inspired by Sigmund Freud's discoveries on the unconscious, dreams, and automatic writing, it rejected rational logic and bourgeois aesthetic conventions. In doing so, it opened up an unprecedented artistic territory where the strange, the marvelous, and the unsettling coexist in compositions that disrupt ordinary perceptions of reality.

Salvador Dalí and his dreamlike landscapes populated by melting clocks, René Magritte and his juxtapositions of familiar objects in impossible contexts, Max Ernst and his hybrid collages, or Joan Miró and his biomorphic forms floating in undefined colorful spaces, illustrate the diversity of visual languages within a movement united by a shared conviction: that art must draw from the depths of the unconscious to access a reality truer than visible appearances.

This legacy continues to profoundly influence contemporary creation, with many artists extending surrealist ideas through works that explore strangeness, dreams, and unexpected associations in a world where the boundaries between real and virtual, conscious and unconscious, have never seemed more porous.

On Artsper, this selection brings together works that extend this foundational legacy, demonstrating the enduring vitality of a movement whose insights into the unconscious and the imagination continue to inspire contemporary art far beyond its original context.

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Painting, Sanza Player, Angu Walters

Sanza Player

Angu Walters

Painting . 100 x 80 x 0.1 cm Painting . 39.4 x 31.5 x 0 inch

€2,004

Print, Ciel ouvert, Roland Topor

Ciel ouvert

Roland Topor

Print . 58.6 x 43.8 x 0.2 cm Print . 23.1 x 17.2 x 0.1 inch

€1,000

Painting, Flora, Dasha Pogodina

Flora

Dasha Pogodina

Painting . 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting . 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch

€1,850

Print, Galop de Camargue, Maye

Galop de Camargue

Maye

Print . 57 x 63 x 0.02 cm Print . 22.4 x 24.8 x 0 inch

€899

Sculpture, Unicorna, Richard Texier

Unicorna

Richard Texier

Sculpture . 32 x 60 x 28 cm Sculpture . 12.6 x 23.6 x 11 inch

€24,800

Painting, Human, Hom Nguyen

Human

Hom Nguyen

Painting . 200 x 200 x 4 cm Painting . 78.7 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch

€25,000

Fine Art Drawings, Untitled, Adam Sabhan

Untitled

Adam Sabhan

Fine Art Drawings . 30 x 40 cm Fine Art Drawings . 11.8 x 15.7 inch

€800

Painting, Barcode, Gregos

Barcode

Gregos

Painting . 51 x 61 x 3 cm Painting . 20.1 x 24 x 1.2 inch

€1,300

Photography, New York view I, Geert Lemmers

New York view I

Geert Lemmers

Photography . 100 x 80 x 2 cm Photography . 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch

€1,480

Fine Art Drawings, Que Font Ces Gens, Salvador Dali

Que Font Ces Gens

Salvador Dali

Fine Art Drawings . 15.5 x 9.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings . 6.1 x 3.7 x 0.1 inch

€82,000

Print, Zolitarie, Kenny Scharf

Zolitarie

Kenny Scharf

Print . 76 x 101 cm Print . 29.9 x 39.8 inch

€1,640

Painting, Passage, Michael Mogavero

Passage

Michael Mogavero

Painting . 60.96 x 76.2 x 5.08 cm Painting . 24 x 30 x 2 inch

€3,872

Painting, Night Wolves, Co.Co

Night Wolves

Co.Co

Painting . 150 x 100 cm Painting . 59.1 x 39.4 inch

€450

Sculpture, Starget, Kenny Scharf

Starget

Kenny Scharf

Sculpture . 128 x 107 x 1 cm Sculpture . 50.4 x 42.1 x 0.4 inch

€5,466

Sculpture, Shawl, Aurelija Simkute

Shawl

Aurelija Simkute

Sculpture . 17 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture . 6.7 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch

€3,575

Painting, Amphibian Woman, Szasz

Amphibian Woman

Szasz

Painting . 61 x 27.9 x 2.5 cm Painting . 24 x 11 x 1 inch

€6,833

Painting, Nageur, Michel Lablais

Nageur

Michel Lablais

Painting . 42 x 32 x 6 cm Painting . 16.5 x 12.6 x 2.4 inch

€1,200