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, Moon, Oleg Litvinov

Oleg Litvinov

Painting . 42 x 18 x 2 cm Painting . 16.5 x 7.1 x 0.8 inch

€365

Sculpture, La Greffe 1, VAM

VAM

Sculpture . 14 x 15 x 0.2 cm Sculpture . 5.5 x 5.9 x 0.1 inch

€800

Sculpture, La Greffe 3, VAM

VAM

Sculpture . 19.5 x 15 x 0.2 cm Sculpture . 7.7 x 5.9 x 0.1 inch

€800

Photography, Fish dream, Sam Haskins

Sam Haskins

Photography . 50.7 x 36.2 cm Photography . 19.96 x 14.25 inch

€6,608

Print, Le Mort, André Masson

André Masson

Print . 30.8 x 40 x 0.2 cm Print . 12.1 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch

€490

Print, Le Mort, André Masson

André Masson

Print . 30.8 x 40 x 0.2 cm Print . 12.1 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch

€490

Painting, Take-2, Andrii Davydenko

Andrii Davydenko

Painting . 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting . 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch

€500

Painting, Doppleganger, Niki Singleton

Niki Singleton

Painting . 75 x 101 x 3 cm Painting . 29.5 x 39.8 x 1.2 inch

€7,396

Painting, Anchor point, Irina Petrova

Irina Petrova

Painting . 25 x 25 x 4 cm Painting . 9.8 x 9.8 x 1.6 inch

€551

Print, Phase 2, Nele Zirnite

Nele Zirnite

Print . 22.5 x 26.5 x 0.1 cm Print . 8.9 x 10.4 x 0 inch

€260

Painting, La géante, Chloé Kaemmerer

Chloé Kaemmerer

Painting . 50 x 60 x 3 cm Painting . 19.7 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch

€1,300

Fine Art Drawings, Erotic Scene, Mino Maccari

Mino Maccari

Fine Art Drawings . 25 x 17 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings . 9.8 x 6.7 x 0.1 inch

€580

Painting, Apotheosis, Oleg Litvinov

Oleg Litvinov

Painting . 44.5 x 32.5 x 2 cm Painting . 17.5 x 12.8 x 0.8 inch

€415

Sculpture, Zero gravity, Alex Radionov

Alex Radionov

Sculpture . 35 x 29 x 13 cm Sculpture . 13.8 x 11.4 x 5.1 inch

€3,600

Painting, Gloody Love, Nikolett

Nikolett

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

€1,300

Photography, TEsTacEuS, Louis Blanc

Louis Blanc

Photography . 70 x 70 x 0.1 cm Photography . 27.6 x 27.6 x 0 inch

€6,250

Fine Art Drawings, N°10 - Untitled, Aditi Lago

Aditi Lago

Fine Art Drawings . 24 x 32 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 9.4 x 12.6 x 0 inch

€500

Fine Art Drawings, N°7 - Untitled, Aditi Lago

Aditi Lago

Fine Art Drawings . 21 x 28 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 8.3 x 11 x 0 inch

€500

Photography, Untitled TV I, Rodrigo Etem

Rodrigo Etem

Photography . 55.9 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Photography . 22 x 40 x 0.1 inch

€1,377

Fine Art Drawings, N°8 - Untitled, Aditi Lago

Aditi Lago

Fine Art Drawings . 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch

€500

Painting, Gelede, Rocio Mazuecos

Rocio Mazuecos

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

€725

Painting, Untitled, Oksana Domnytska

Oksana Domnytska

Painting . 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting . 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch

€551

Sculpture, Metamorphosis, Katib Mamedov

Katib Mamedov

Sculpture . 64 x 55 x 25 cm Sculpture . 25.2 x 21.7 x 9.8 inch

€13,766

Painting, Simon, Sandra Boskamp

Sandra Boskamp

Painting . 61 x 50.8 x 1.3 cm Painting . 24 x 20 x 0.5 inch

€551

Painting, Your dreams, Teooart.N

Teooart.N

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

€19,100

Painting, Leda, Valery Tatar

Valery Tatar

Painting . 100 x 150 x 3 cm Painting . 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch

€10,756

Print, Alphabet 3, Jules Perahim

Jules Perahim

Print . 56 x 38 x 1 cm Print . 22 x 15 x 0.4 inch

€250

Painting, Avalon, Mina Mond

Mina Mond

Painting . 35 x 34 x 0.8 cm Painting . 13.8 x 13.4 x 0.3 inch

€400

Fine Art Drawings, Act-II, Stanislav Bojankov

Stanislav Bojankov

Fine Art Drawings . 28 x 20 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 11 x 7.9 x 0 inch

€200

Fine Art Drawings, Nomad 04, Eulogia Merle

Eulogia Merle

Fine Art Drawings . 47 x 32 cm Fine Art Drawings . 18.5 x 12.6 inch

€350

Print, Le pendu, Lionel Morateur

Lionel Morateur

Print . 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print . 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch

€169

Print, L'Ermite, Lionel Morateur

Lionel Morateur

Print . 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print . 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch

€169

Painting, Sans titre, Min Kyoung Lee

Min Kyoung Lee

Painting . 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting . 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch

€2,500

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