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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Picasso I Els Reventos - Original set of 4 etchings by Joan Mirò
Joan Miró
Print - 56 x 75 x 0.1 cm Print - 22 x 29.5 x 0 inch
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The Sun and the Moon
Giorgio de Chirico
Print - 34.5 x 24.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 13.6 x 9.6 x 0 inch
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Outside of Sight Breath
Teppei Ikehila
Painting - 162 x 162 x 4 cm Painting - 63.8 x 63.8 x 1.6 inch
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Dualité, les muses inquiétantes
Giorgio de Chirico
Print - 38 x 28 x 1 cm Print - 15 x 11 x 0.4 inch
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Marin rêveur avec deux femmes
Pablo Picasso
Print - 25 x 32.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 9.8 x 12.8 x 0 inch
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La Folie Almayer ou L'Arbre Rose - Original Etching After René Magritte - 1968
René Magritte
Print - 28 x 23 x 0.1 cm Print - 11 x 9.1 x 0 inch
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Sculpteur, Modèle et Sculpture Assise
Pablo Picasso
Print - 45 x 34 x 0.1 cm Print - 17.7 x 13.4 x 0 inch
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Cavalli e Rovine (Horses and Ruins)
Giorgio de Chirico
Print - 49 x 60 x 0.2 cm Print - 19.3 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
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Muse of the Music
Giorgio de Chirico
Sculpture - 24 x 5.8 x 0.1 cm Sculpture - 9.4 x 2.3 x 0 inch
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Don Quichotte - Don Quichotte
Salvador Dali
Print - 41 x 33 x 0.2 cm Print - 16.1 x 13 x 0.1 inch
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Dernier Combat de Tristan
Salvador Dali
Print - 44 x 31.6 x 0.1 cm Print - 17.3 x 12.4 x 0 inch
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Plate from 'Tristan and Isolde': The Three Bad Barons
Salvador Dali
Print - 44 x 32 x 0.1 cm Print - 17.3 x 12.6 x 0 inch
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Plate from 'Tristan and Isolde': Isolde of the White Hands
Salvador Dali
Print - 44 x 32 x 0.1 cm Print - 17.3 x 12.6 x 0 inch
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Plate from 'Tristan and Isolde': Le geant Beliagog (The Giant Beliagog)
Salvador Dali
Print - 44 x 32 x 0.1 cm Print - 17.3 x 12.6 x 0 inch
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L'Immortalitè Tetraedrique du cube
Salvador Dali
Print - 60 x 80 x 0.1 cm Print - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0 inch
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Peintre Ramassant Son Pinceau
Pablo Picasso
Print - 40 x 50 x 0.2 cm Print - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
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Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel
Salvador Dali
Print - 76 x 54 cm Print - 29.9 x 21.3 inch
€4,551
Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel
Salvador Dali
Print - 76 x 54 cm Print - 29.9 x 21.3 inch
€4,551
Deux Femmes à la Fenêtre
Frédéric Menguy
Print - 65 x 48 x 0.2 cm Print - 25.6 x 18.9 x 0.1 inch
€150
Man with Butterfly
Salvador Dali
Sculpture - 55.5 x 13 x 13 cm Sculpture - 21.9 x 5.1 x 5.1 inch
€29,640
Hommage à la mode
Salvador Dali
Sculpture - 51 x 27 x 22 cm Sculpture - 20.1 x 10.6 x 8.7 inch
€28,080
Les Merveilleux Nuages
Sorrel Mocchia di Coggiola
Painting - 92 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 36.2 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
€2,000
Miss Guided
Sorrel Mocchia di Coggiola
Painting - 60 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
€3,000
Flux de l'aimant
Joan Miró
Print - 48.5 x 58 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.1 x 22.8 x 0 inch
Price upon request
Flux de l'aimant
Joan Miró
Print - 48.5 x 58 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.1 x 22.8 x 0 inch
Price upon request
Place Fürstenberg
Salvador Dali
Print - 51 x 65 x 1 cm Print - 20.1 x 25.6 x 0.4 inch
Price upon request
Les danseuses nues
Salvador Dali
Print - 32 x 29 x 1 cm Print - 12.6 x 11.4 x 0.4 inch
Price upon request
I'm Happy when the Sky is Blue
Teppei Ikehila
Painting - 33 x 33 x 3 cm Painting - 13 x 13 x 1.2 inch
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Dali Martien Muni d'un Double Microscope
Salvador Dali
Print - 99.5 x 69.5 x 0.2 cm Print - 39.2 x 27.4 x 0.1 inch
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Mounted on the Seventh Terrace
Salvador Dali
Print - 30 x 26 x 0.1 cm Print - 11.8 x 10.2 x 0 inch
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Le Chien Aboyant à la Lune
Joan Miró
Print - 35.7 x 53.8 x 0.2 cm Print - 14.1 x 21.2 x 0.1 inch
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C'est là que l'amour se plut à livrer Bataille...
Salvador Dali
Print - 75.5 x 53.7 x 0.1 cm Print - 29.7 x 21.1 x 0 inch
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Salvador Dali
Print - 17.5 x 12.5 x 0.05 cm Print - 6.9 x 4.9 x 0 inch
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Let him kiss me... from Song of Songs of King Solomon
Salvador Dali
Print - 55.9 x 38.1 cm Print - 22 x 15 inch
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Sainte-Lucie - Le triomphe de la lumière
Salvador Dali
Print - 75.5 x 54.3 x 0.2 cm Print - 29.7 x 21.4 x 0.1 inch
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Les Caprices de Goya de Dalì
Salvador Dali
Print - 45 x 30.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 17.7 x 12 x 0 inch
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Subia las Escaleras Como si Las Bajara
Salvador Dali
Print - 45.5 x 31.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 17.9 x 12.4 x 0 inch
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Portrait of Autumn (The Joys of Bacchus)
Salvador Dali
Print - 73.5 x 52.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 28.9 x 20.7 x 0 inch
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Sans titre (d'après Pablo Picasso)
Pablo Picasso
Print - 32 x 24 x 1 cm Print - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
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