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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, Equinox, Nef

Equinox

Nef

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

€1,700

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, 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, Fear, Vladimir Kolosov

Fear

Vladimir Kolosov

Painting . 50.8 x 40.6 x 0.6 cm Painting . 20 x 16 x 0.25 inch

€896

Painting, Wiyakato, Nef

Wiyakato

Nef

Painting . 63.5 x 42.5 x 2 cm Painting . 25 x 16.7 x 0.8 inch

€2,200

Painting, My diary 2, Olga Marciano

My diary 2

Olga Marciano

Painting . 52 x 52 x 1 cm Painting . 20.5 x 20.5 x 0.4 inch

€1,350

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

€1,991

Fine Art Drawings, The Family, Kirill Postovit

The Family

Kirill Postovit

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

€1,293

Print, Le Vitrail, Salvador Dali

Le Vitrail

Salvador Dali

Print . 38.1 x 26.42 x 2.54 cm Print . 15 x 10.4 x 1 inch

€5,431

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

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, Temptation, Alexandra Zamfir

Temptation

Alexandra Zamfir

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

€3,800

Painting, Salvador, Marian Williams

Salvador

Marian Williams

Painting . 20 x 20 x 0.5 cm Painting . 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.2 inch

€100

Print, Childhood, Kirill Postovit

Childhood

Kirill Postovit

Print . 76 x 54 x 0.1 cm Print . 29.9 x 21.3 x 0 inch

€270

Painting, La Chanson Inachevée, Artur

La Chanson Inachevée

Artur

Painting . 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting . 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch

€1,400

Painting, Nietzsche, Beni

Nietzsche

Beni

Painting . 115 x 73 x 5 cm Painting . 45.3 x 28.7 x 2 inch

€5,900

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