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, Commode, Natalia Kolpakova

Natalia Kolpakova

Print . 98 x 98 x 0.3 cm Print . 38.6 x 38.6 x 0.1 inch

€546

Print, Topiary, Natalia Kolpakova

Natalia Kolpakova

Print . 135 x 135 x 0.3 cm Print . 53.1 x 53.1 x 0.1 inch

€677

Print, Library, Natalia Kolpakova

Natalia Kolpakova

Print . 98 x 98 x 0.3 cm Print . 38.6 x 38.6 x 0.1 inch

€587

Print, Black or White, Mariko Ando

Mariko Ando

Print . 16.5 x 10.2 x 5.1 cm Print . 6.5 x 4 x 2 inch

€677

Print, Jumping Book, Mariko Ando

Mariko Ando

Print . 16.5 x 11.4 x 5.1 cm Print . 6.5 x 4.5 x 2 inch

€700

Print, The Red Glove, Mariko Ando

Mariko Ando

Print . 22.9 x 11.4 x 5.1 cm Print . 9 x 4.5 x 2 inch

€677

Print, Chilincha, Didier Hamey

Didier Hamey

Print . 32 x 28 cm Print . 12.6 x 11 inch

€470

Print, My Soul, Natalia Kolpakova

Natalia Kolpakova

Print . 135 x 135 x 0.3 cm Print . 53.1 x 53.1 x 0.1 inch

€605

Print, Untitled, Joan Ponç

Joan Ponç

Print . 69.1 x 48 x 0 cm Print . 27.2 x 18.9 x 0.01 inch

€677

Print, Canopia, Christophe Malsert

Christophe Malsert

Print . 90 x 90 x 3 cm Print . 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch

€429

Print, Vespers, Leo Guida

Leo Guida

Print . 70 x 50 x 0.2 cm Print . 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch

€300

Print, Karnaval, Didier Hamey

Didier Hamey

Print . 32 x 28 cm Print . 12.6 x 11 inch

€470

Print, Absinthe, Didier Hamey

Didier Hamey

Print . 32 x 28 cm Print . 12.6 x 11 inch

€470

Print, Midnight Sun, Ian Jones

Ian Jones

Print . 80 x 60 x 0.5 cm Print . 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch

€850

Print, Grotesque, Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali

Print . 38 x 28.5 x 0.1 cm Print . 15 x 11.2 x 0 inch

€1,000

Print, Voyage, Leonor Fini

Leonor Fini

Print . 46 x 55 cm Print . 18.1 x 21.7 inch

€850

Print, Terpsichore, Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali

Print . 65 x 51 x 0.1 cm Print . 25.6 x 20.1 x 0 inch

€3,600

Print, The Dance, Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali

Print . 74 x 54 x 0.2 cm Print . 29.1 x 21.3 x 0.1 inch

€1,400

Print, The Music, Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali

Print . 73.5 x 54 x 0.2 cm Print . 28.9 x 21.3 x 0.1 inch

€1,400

Print, Blanchefleur, Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali

Print . 45 x 31 x 0.1 cm Print . 17.7 x 12.2 x 0 inch

€1,200

Print, Bicephalous, Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali

Print . 39 x 27.5 x 0.1 cm Print . 15.4 x 10.8 x 0 inch

€2,200

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