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, Scene 16, Andrii Davydenko

Andrii Davydenko

Painting . 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting . 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch

€1,500

Print, Black Birds Fly, Jane Munro

Jane Munro

Print . 80 x 100 x 1 cm Print . 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch

€950

Painting, Shift, Aphisit Sidsunthia

Aphisit Sidsunthia

Painting . 51 x 51 x 4 cm Painting . 20.1 x 20.1 x 1.6 inch

€1,780

Painting, Silver Soul 1, Olga Marciano

Olga Marciano

Painting . 90 x 80 x 1 cm Painting . 35.4 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch

€7,235

Painting, Rakhsh, Zahra Zeinali

Zahra Zeinali

Painting . 100 x 70 x 5 cm Painting . 39.4 x 27.6 x 2 inch

€3,900

Painting, Dix solutions, Shank Arte

Shank Arte

Painting . 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting . 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch

€1,900

Painting, Combattant·e, Diane Corbin

Diane Corbin

Painting . 40 x 32 x 2 cm Painting . 15.7 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch

€3,640

Painting, Time, Oleg Litvinov

Oleg Litvinov

Painting . 79 x 50.5 x 2 cm Painting . 31.1 x 19.9 x 0.8 inch

€1,190

Painting, Leonie, Nef

Nef

Painting . 30 x 24 x 4 cm Painting . 11.8 x 9.4 x 1.6 inch

€500

Painting, Ce jour là, Min Kyoung Lee

Min Kyoung Lee

Painting . 100 x 81 x 3.9 cm Painting . 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.5 inch

€2,800

Painting, The Bow, Marian Williams

Marian Williams

Painting . 30 x 30 x 0.5 cm Painting . 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch

€250 €198

Painting, Ernestine, Nef

Nef

Painting . 30 x 24 x 4 cm Painting . 11.8 x 9.4 x 1.6 inch

€500

Sculpture, La nasse, Pascal Billard

Pascal Billard

Sculpture . 40 x 23 x 10 cm Sculpture . 15.7 x 9.1 x 3.9 inch

€1,280

Painting, The Eve, Vladimir Kolosov

Vladimir Kolosov

Painting . 152.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting . 60 x 36 x 1.5 inch

€1,691

Painting, Sunrise, Vladimir Kolosov

Vladimir Kolosov

Painting . 91.4 x 121.9 x 2 cm Painting . 36 x 48 x 0.8 inch

€1,920

Painting, Marvel Bird, Marian Williams

Marian Williams

Painting . 18 x 24 x 0.5 cm Painting . 7.1 x 9.4 x 0.2 inch

€125 €113

Painting, Loretta, Nef

Nef

Painting . 30 x 24 x 4 cm Painting . 11.8 x 9.4 x 1.6 inch

€500

Painting, Bang! 6, Olena Shtepura

Olena Shtepura

Painting . 150 x 185 x 2.5 cm Painting . 59.1 x 72.8 x 1 inch

€4,000

Painting, Dove, Marian Williams

Marian Williams

Painting . 18 x 24 x 0.5 cm Painting . 7.1 x 9.4 x 0.2 inch

€125 €113

Painting, Fall, Jacob Pescollderungg

Jacob Pescollderungg

Painting . 45 x 35 x 1 cm Painting . 17.7 x 13.8 x 0.4 inch

€300

Painting, Anthroporos, Guy Ghazanchyan

Guy Ghazanchyan

Painting . 139 x 92 x 2 cm Painting . 54.7 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch

€3,200

Painting, Mathilde, Nef

Nef

Painting . 30 x 24 x 4 cm Painting . 11.8 x 9.4 x 1.6 inch

€500

Painting, N°10, Masayoshi Hanawa

Masayoshi Hanawa

Painting . 30 x 21 cm Painting . 11.8 x 8.3 inch

€750

Painting, Metronome, Juris Dimiters

Juris Dimiters

Painting . 70 x 44 x 2 cm Painting . 27.6 x 17.3 x 0.8 inch

€1,300

Fine Art Drawings, Moonlight Sonata, Kirill Postovit

Kirill Postovit

Fine Art Drawings . 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch

€550 €275

Painting, Sandy, Vladimir Kolosov

Vladimir Kolosov

Painting . 76.2 x 91.4 x 2 cm Painting . 30 x 36 x 0.8 inch

€933

Painting, The Parrot, Henrik Diamant

Henrik Diamant

Painting . 80 x 100 x 6 cm Painting . 31.5 x 39.4 x 2.4 inch

€1,800

Painting, Black Birds 6, Marian Williams

Marian Williams

Painting . 30 x 30 x 0.5 cm Painting . 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch

€250 €198

Painting, Cloudy B., Nef

Nef

Painting . 30 x 30 x 0.4 cm Painting . 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch

€700

Painting, Deux enfants, Pascal Marlin

Pascal Marlin

Painting . 81 x 60 x 2 cm Painting . 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch

€1,250

Painting, Strategy, Alisa Leonets

Alisa Leonets

Painting . 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting . 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch

€450

Painting, Lagunaire, Sophie Duplain

Sophie Duplain

Painting . 116 x 89 x 2.5 cm Painting . 45.7 x 35 x 1 inch

€2,200

Painting, Bravo, Angu Walters

Angu Walters

Painting . 78 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting . 30.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch

€1,097

Painting, Asinus, Laurent Messager

Laurent Messager

Painting . 40 x 30 x 3 cm Painting . 15.7 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch

€470

Painting, The shallot, Fransoist

Fransoist

Painting . 81 x 130 x 2.5 cm Painting . 31.9 x 51.2 x 1 inch

€3,200