Magic Realism
The turn of phrase of magic realism was invented by German photographer, art historian and art critic Franz Roh in 1925 when he wished to describe modern realist paintings that portrayed fantastical or dream-like topics as their subjects of attention. The term originates from Roh's book Nach Expressionismus: Magischer Realismus which translates as “After Expressionism: Magic Realism".
In 20th century European culture, Magic Realism partook in a reactionary movement against modern or avant-garde art, known as the return to order. This movement in the arts was largely founded around a philosophy that came as a result of the legacy of the First World War. Magic realist artists included Giorgio de Chirico, Alberto Savinio and others in Italy, and Alexander Kanoldt and Adolf Ziegler in neighboring Germany. Magic Realism is closely related to the dreamlike depictions of Surrealism and Neo-Romanticism in France. The term is also used to describe the work of certain painters from across the pond in America in the 1940s and 1950s including Paul Cadmus, Philip Evergood and Ivan Albright. It has also been known to describe the practices of literature, such as the writing of Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez.
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Venus à la giraffe
Salvador Dali
Sculpture - 56.5 x 9.5 x 27.5 cm Sculpture - 22.2 x 3.7 x 10.8 inch
€7,000
La Trahison des Images (Ceci n'est pas une pipe)
René Magritte
Print - 45 x 60 x 0.1 cm Print - 17.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€780
L'Art de la Conversation
René Magritte
Print - 45 x 60 x 0.3 cm Print - 17.7 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
€700 €630
Le Tombeau des Lutteurs
René Magritte
Print - 45 x 60 x 0.3 cm Print - 17.7 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
€700 €630
Pantocrator - Christ In His Majesty (Tarot 3 of Coins)
Salvador Dali
Print - 75.9 x 54.3 x 0.3 cm Print - 29.875 x 21.375 x 0.1 inch
€2,744
Homage to Newton (bronze sculpture)
Salvador Dali
Sculpture - 37.1 x 16 x 7.1 cm Sculpture - 14.6 x 6.3 x 2.8 inch
€13,377
Lewis Carroll - Die jagd nach dem snark
Max Ernst
Print - 33 x 25 x 0.1 cm Print - 13 x 9.8 x 0 inch
€2,800
Un peu de l'âme des bandits
René Magritte
Print - 60 x 45 x 0.3 cm Print - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0.1 inch
€700 €630
Le chevalier Chretien, from the series Les Chevaux Daliniens
Salvador Dali
Print - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€6,480
Hemerocallis thumbergii elephanter from Surrealistic Flowers
Salvador Dali
Print - 75 x 56 x 0.1 cm Print - 29.5 x 22 x 0 inch
€7,860
L'Ange de l'Alchimie (The Angel of Alchemy)
Salvador Dali
Print - 77 x 56 x 0.1 cm Print - 30.3 x 22 x 0 inch
€7,260
The Lady Dulcinea from Historia de Don Quichote de la Mancha
Salvador Dali
Print - 76.2 x 55.9 cm Print - 30 x 22 inch
€3,201
Carmen and Don José fleeing on horseback from The Opera Carmen
Salvador Dali
Print - 65 x 50 cm Print - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
€3,860
Dan, from the series Twelve Tribes of Israel
Salvador Dali
Print - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€3,480
Le caducee de Mars alimente par la boule de feu de Jupiter from La conquête du cosmos
Salvador Dali
Print - 99.5 x 69.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 39.2 x 27.4 x 0 inch
€4,260
Autumn from the suite “The Seasons”
Salvador Dali
Print - 56 x 76 x 0.1 cm Print - 22 x 29.9 x 0 inch
€3,890
King Richard from Ivanhoe Suite
Salvador Dali
Print - 75 x 54 x 0.1 cm Print - 29.5 x 21.3 x 0 inch
€3,960
Fujiya Hotel 3
Teppei Ikehila
Painting - 72.7 x 60.6 x 4 cm Painting - 28.6 x 23.9 x 1.6 inch
€2,500
Fujiya Hotel 2
Teppei Ikehila
Painting - 72.7 x 60.6 x 4 cm Painting - 28.6 x 23.9 x 1.6 inch
€2,500
Fujiya Hotel 1
Teppei Ikehila
Painting - 72.7 x 60.6 x 4 cm Painting - 28.6 x 23.9 x 1.6 inch
€2,500
The Lion Returns
Teppei Ikehila
Painting - 72.7 x 60.6 x 4 cm Painting - 28.6 x 23.9 x 1.6 inch
€2,500
Modern Borrowed Scenery Iceberg House
Teppei Ikehila
Painting - 60.6 x 72.7 x 4 cm Painting - 23.9 x 28.6 x 1.6 inch
€2,500
Rembrandt - Portrait du peintre par lui-même
Salvador Dali
Print - 84 x 63 x 0.1 cm Print - 33.1 x 24.8 x 0 inch
€3,980
Eternal Circumcision from Aliyah Series
Salvador Dali
Print - 62.2 x 48.3 x 0.5 cm Print - 24.5 x 19 x 0.2 inch
€2,287
Les montres molles demi sommeil
Salvador Dali
Print - 55.9 x 73.7 x 0.5 cm Print - 22 x 29 x 0.2 inch
€2,287
Les spoutniks astiques elasticots statistiques
Salvador Dali
Print - 55.9 x 73.7 x 0.5 cm Print - 22 x 29 x 0.2 inch
€2,287
Les Entre-plats Sodamises
Salvador Dali
Print - 55.9 x 73.7 x 0.5 cm Print - 22 x 29 x 0.2 inch
€2,287
Les caprices pinces princiers
Salvador Dali
Print - 55.9 x 73.7 x 0.5 cm Print - 22 x 29 x 0.2 inch
€2,287
Les Panaches Panaches from Les Diners de Gala, Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dali
Print - 55.9 x 74.9 x 0.5 cm Print - 22 x 29.5 x 0.2 inch
€2,287
Le Cercle viscéral du cosmos
Salvador Dali
Print - 100 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€4,980
Le Crane, from Anamorphoses
Salvador Dali
Print - 76 x 56 x 0.1 cm Print - 29.9 x 22 x 0 inch
€3,659
Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel
Salvador Dali
Print - 85.09 x 81.28 x 2 cm Print - 33.5 x 32 x 0.8 inch
€4,573
Raphael - Le Mariage de la Vierge
Salvador Dali
Print - 89 x 63 x 0.1 cm Print - 35 x 24.8 x 0 inch
€3,980
Velasquez The Surrender Of Breda
Salvador Dali
Print - 73 x 76 x 0.1 cm Print - 28.7 x 29.9 x 0 inch
€3,980
Flordali - Les Fruits : Révérence du groseiller
Salvador Dali
Print - 56.5 x 37 cm Print - 22.2 x 14.6 inch
€4,400
Scène d'intérieur (B. 74; Ba. 241; Mourlot XXI)
Pablo Picasso
Print - 33.02 x 49.21 x 1 cm Print - 13 x 19.4 x 0.4 inch
€16,921
Terpsichore, from Les Muses
Salvador Dali
Print - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€5,480
Révérence du groseillier from Flor Dali/Les fruits
Salvador Dali
Print - 75 x 53 x 0.1 cm Print - 29.5 x 20.9 x 0 inch
€7,860
Spectacles with Holograms and Computers
Salvador Dali
Print - 77 x 55.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 30.3 x 21.9 x 0 inch
€5,850
