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, Flora, Dasha Pogodina

Dasha Pogodina

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

€1,850

Painting, Fear, Vladimir Kolosov

Vladimir Kolosov

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

€893

Painting, Wiyakato, Nef

Nef

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

€2,200

Painting, Sanza Player, Angu Walters

Angu Walters

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

€1,985

Print, Le Vitrail, Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali

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

€5,413

Print, Galop de Camargue, Maye

Maye

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

€899

Fine Art Drawings, Que Font Ces Gens, Salvador Dali

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, Ciel ouvert, Roland Topor

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, Temptation, Alexandra Zamfir

Alexandra Zamfir

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

€3,800

Painting, La Chanson Inachevée, Artur

Artur

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

€1,400

Painting, Nietzsche, Beni

Beni

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

€5,900

Painting, Barcode, Gregos

Gregos

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

€1,300

Painting, EVASION, Bernard Rebatet

Bernard Rebatet

Painting . 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting . 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch

€900

Painting, Sage II, Fabrice Leito

Fabrice Leito

Painting . 120 x 120 x 2.5 cm Painting . 47.2 x 47.2 x 1 inch

€5,000

Print, Henry VI, Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali

Print . 45 x 31.5 cm Print . 17.7 x 12.4 inch

€1,000 €800

Print, Fusion, Natalia Naumova

Natalia Naumova

Print . 50 x 40 x 1.7 cm Print . 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.7 inch

€361

Print, Forcé, Roland Topor

Roland Topor

Print . 65 x 48 cm Print . 25.6 x 18.9 inch

€1,390

Sculpture, Unicorna, Richard Texier

Richard Texier

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

€24,800