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, Source, Osse Müller

Osse Müller

Painting . 75 x 75 x 1 cm Painting . 29.5 x 29.5 x 0.4 inch

€6,000

Painting, Witness, Osse Müller

Osse Müller

Painting . 100 x 100 x 0.3 cm Painting . 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch

€7,000

Painting, Giratoire, Marie-Aude Molin

Marie-Aude Molin

Painting . 65 x 50 x 0.35 cm Painting . 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch

€480

Painting, Dialogue, Sergey Jelezky

Sergey Jelezky

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

€1,200

Painting, N°8, Masayoshi Hanawa

Masayoshi Hanawa

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

€750

Sculpture, Ave VI, Rocio Mazuecos

Rocio Mazuecos

Sculpture . 27 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture . 10.6 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch

€725

Painting, Herencias, Sancho Medina

Sancho Medina

Painting . 35 x 50 x 2 cm Painting . 13.8 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch

€720

Print, A bird, Rafal Olbinski

Rafal Olbinski

Print . 24 x 18 cm Print . 9.4 x 7.1 inch

€500

Painting, Enigma, Osse Müller

Osse Müller

Painting . 110 x 84 x 0.3 cm Painting . 43.3 x 33.1 x 0.1 inch

€11,000

Painting, The Eye, Dondi Schwartz

Dondi Schwartz

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

€1,100

Painting, N°07, Masayoshi Hanawa

Masayoshi Hanawa

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

€750

Painting, N°06, Masayoshi Hanawa

Masayoshi Hanawa

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

€750

Fine Art Drawings, Urbanity, Osse Müller

Osse Müller

Fine Art Drawings . 51 x 67 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings . 20.1 x 26.4 x 0.1 inch

€1,800

Painting, Greatful, Oceania

Oceania

Painting . 140 x 180 x 3 cm Painting . 55.1 x 70.9 x 1.2 inch

€7,200

Painting, Siddhartha, Pascal Marlin

Pascal Marlin

Painting . 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting . 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch

€700 €595

Painting, The Reader, Dimitri Turava

Dimitri Turava

Painting . 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting . 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch

€250

Photography, Withdrawal, Brooke Shaden

Brooke Shaden

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

€750

Painting, Pop your balloon, Niko Remes

Niko Remes

Painting . 120 x 180 x 3 cm Painting . 47.2 x 70.9 x 1.2 inch

€4,550

Print, Totem, Osse Müller

Osse Müller

Print . 65 x 58 x 0.1 cm Print . 25.6 x 22.8 x 0 inch

€150

Print, Leg, Hans Bellmer

Leg

Hans Bellmer

Print . 36 x 32 x 0.1 cm Print . 14.2 x 12.6 x 0 inch

€450

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