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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Print, Ship & Bladebone, Janmar

Janmar

Print . 65 x 100 x 1 cm Print . 25.6 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch

€1,800

Painting, Passage, Michael Mogavero

Michael Mogavero

Painting . 60.96 x 76.2 x 5.08 cm Painting . 24 x 30 x 2 inch

€3,842

Fine Art Drawings, Landscape, Giorgio de Chirico

Giorgio de Chirico

Fine Art Drawings . 13 x 19 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings . 5.1 x 7.5 x 0.1 inch

€10,500

Painting, Icefield Mecha-biotope, Ardif

Ardif

Painting . 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting . 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch

€5,400

Painting, Entrada-L, Ramon Enrich

Ramon Enrich

Painting . 40 x 30 x 4 cm Painting . 15.7 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch

€6,600

Painting, Fata Morgana, Alisa Leonets

Alisa Leonets

Painting . 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting . 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch

€800

Print, Balance, Irena Aizen

Irena Aizen

Print . 25.5 x 22.5 x 1 cm Print . 10 x 8.9 x 0.4 inch

€648

Painting, Silver Moon, Michael Mogavero

Michael Mogavero

Painting . 76.2 x 60.96 x 5.8 cm Painting . 30 x 24 x 2.3 inch

€3,842

Painting, EVASION, Bernard Rebatet

Bernard Rebatet

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

€900

Sculpture, Instrument, Eliot Greenwald

Eliot Greenwald

Sculpture . 47 x 46 x 16 cm Sculpture . 18.5 x 18.1 x 6.3 inch

€7,232

Print, The Great Gig, Janmar

Janmar

Print . 62 x 100 x 1 cm Print . 24.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch

€1,800

Painting, Sweet swing, Morgane Soulier

Morgane Soulier

Painting . 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting . 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch

€2,200

Painting, Green forest, Antonio Presti

Antonio Presti

Painting . 50 x 80 x 2 cm Painting . 19.7 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch

€1,400

Painting, You See It Too, Seromo Okoro

Seromo Okoro

Painting . 91.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting . 36 x 48 x 1.5 inch

€2,260

Painting, Image, Oleksandr Khrapachov

Oleksandr Khrapachov

Painting . 18 x 25 x 0.8 cm Painting . 7.1 x 9.8 x 0.3 inch

€904

Painting, Castle, Marlene Llanes

Marlene Llanes

Painting . 61 x 76.2 x 2 cm Painting . 24 x 30 x 0.8 inch

€1,247

Painting, Frosty stag, Yue Zeng

Yue Zeng

Painting . 50.8 x 40.6 x 2 cm Painting . 20 x 16 x 0.8 inch

€1,103

Painting, Sans Titre, Miguel Macaya

Miguel Macaya

Painting . 50 x 50 x 6 cm Painting . 19.7 x 19.7 x 2.4 inch

€10,500

Painting, Driftwood, Elena Zima

Elena Zima

Painting . 40 x 70 x 2 cm Painting . 15.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch

€1,175

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