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, Yes, Natia Sapanadze

Yes

Natia Sapanadze

Painting . 15 x 10 x 0.1 cm Painting . 5.9 x 3.9 x 0 inch

€800

Painting, Séance, Natia Sapanadze

Natia Sapanadze

Painting . 26 x 21 x 0.1 cm Painting . 10.2 x 8.3 x 0 inch

€800

Photography, DEEP SOUL 249, Laurence Verney

Laurence Verney

Photography . 76 x 70 x 3 cm Photography . 29.9 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch

€2,000

Photography, Elsewhere, Brooke Shaden

Brooke Shaden

Photography . 100 x 100 x 0.1 cm Photography . 39.4 x 39.4 x 0 inch

€5,200

Photography, Brighter Days, Brooke Shaden

Brooke Shaden

Photography . 100 x 100 x 0.1 cm Photography . 39.4 x 39.4 x 0 inch

€5,250

Painting, La vie en rose, Boris OA

Boris OA

Painting . 105 x 140 x 1 cm Painting . 41.3 x 55.1 x 0.4 inch

€4,900

Print, Orchestra, Natalia Kolpakova

Natalia Kolpakova

Print . 100 x 100 x 0.5 cm Print . 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.2 inch

€564

Painting, The Argument, Farid Saâdi

Farid Saâdi

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

€4,300

Fine Art Drawings, Cabra, Sergio Abrain

Sergio Abrain

Fine Art Drawings . 30 x 22.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings . 11.8 x 8.9 x 0.1 inch

€450

Photography, Kyoto, Audrey Dupre

Audrey Dupre

Photography . 80 x 60 x 1 cm Photography . 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch

€420

Painting, N°12, Masayoshi Hanawa

Masayoshi Hanawa

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

€750

Painting, Wanderers, Daniil Litvinov

Daniil Litvinov

Painting . 48 x 82 x 2 cm Painting . 18.9 x 32.3 x 0.8 inch

€980

Painting, Bear, Igor Galan

Igor Galan

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

€4,500

Painting, Piazza, Bernard Vié

Bernard Vié

Painting . 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting . 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch

€3,000

Painting, Inaro, Françoise Leblond

Françoise Leblond

Painting . 73 x 100 x 2 cm Painting . 28.7 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch

€7,630

Painting, Gotibaco, Stefano Mazzolini

Stefano Mazzolini

Painting . 150 x 200 x 1 cm Painting . 59.1 x 78.7 x 0.4 inch

€3,000

Painting, Zauberschloss, Osse Müller

Osse Müller

Painting . 110 x 85 x 0.3 cm Painting . 43.3 x 33.5 x 0.1 inch

€3,250

Painting, Wheel of life, Nelli Tsenova

Nelli Tsenova

Painting . 23 x 83 x 2 cm Painting . 9.1 x 32.7 x 0.8 inch

€720

Painting, Division, Matheo Delalle

Matheo Delalle

Painting . 100 x 70 x 3 cm Painting . 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch

€2,650

Print, Amaterasu, Olga Rakova

Olga Rakova

Print . 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Print . 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch

€350

Painting, Flower Eye, Ella Jensen

Ella Jensen

Painting . 42 x 32 x 2 cm Painting . 16.5 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch

€291 €262

Painting, N°11, Masayoshi Hanawa

Masayoshi Hanawa

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

€750

Photography, Becoming, Brooke Shaden

Brooke Shaden

Photography . 25 x 25 cm Photography . 9.8 x 9.8 inch

€750

Painting, Silver Soul 4, Olga Marciano

Olga Marciano

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

€7,488

Painting, Café Sète, Boris OA

Boris OA

Painting . 150 x 155 x 1 cm Painting . 59.1 x 61 x 0.4 inch

€7,500

Painting, Mes vœux, Yutao Ge

Yutao Ge

Painting . 100 x 50 x 2.5 cm Painting . 39.4 x 19.7 x 1 inch

€2,200

Painting, Butterfly, Mani Mustafa

Mani Mustafa

Painting . 50 x 76 x 0.1 cm Painting . 19.7 x 29.9 x 0 inch

€1,800

Painting, Landeplatz, Osse Müller

Osse Müller

Painting . 100 x 130 x 0.8 cm Painting . 39.4 x 51.2 x 0.3 inch

€7,000

Fine Art Drawings, Cornucopia, Mina Mond

Mina Mond

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

€500

Painting, N°9, Masayoshi Hanawa

Masayoshi Hanawa

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

€750

Painting, On Rhodes, Vladimir Kolosov

Vladimir Kolosov

Painting . 35.6 x 27.9 x 0.3 cm Painting . 14 x 11 x 0.12 inch

€364

Photography, Supernova, Brooke Shaden

Brooke Shaden

Photography . 25 x 25 x 0.1 cm Photography . 9.8 x 9.8 x 0 inch

€750

Painting, Aero Bomba, Boris OA

Boris OA

Painting . 114 x 198 x 1 cm Painting . 44.9 x 78 x 0.4 inch

€7,500

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