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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, Bánú So, Ara Deinde

Bánú So

Ara Deinde

Painting . 152.4 x 213.4 x 3.8 cm Painting . 60 x 84 x 1.5 inch

$7,545

Painting, Daydream, Liz Gartz

Daydream

Liz Gartz

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

$2,966

Painting, Orion, Fabien Delaube

Orion

Fabien Delaube

Painting . 150 x 120 x 5 cm Painting . 59.1 x 47.2 x 2 inch

$13,408

Painting, L'hymne à la vie, 17 Kael

L'hymne à la vie

17 Kael

Painting . 110 x 210 x 2 cm Painting . 43.3 x 82.7 x 0.8 inch

$9,492

Painting, En el futuro, Boris OA

En el futuro

Boris OA

Painting . 85 x 105 x 2.5 cm Painting . 33.5 x 41.3 x 1 inch

$3,085

Painting, Falling Pages, Li Jian Hua

Falling Pages

Li Jian Hua

Painting . 139.7 x 139.7 x 2 cm Painting . 55 x 55 x 0.8 inch

$22,637

Fine Art Drawings, Time, Shota Imerlishvili

Time

Shota Imerlishvili

Fine Art Drawings . 61 x 86 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 24 x 33.9 x 0 inch

$3,560

Fine Art Drawings, Make Love, Nef

Make Love

Nef

Fine Art Drawings . 40 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings . 15.7 x 11.8 inch

$534

Painting, Desire, Lena Bera-Pancini

Desire

Lena Bera-Pancini

Painting . 90 x 90 x 4 cm Painting . 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch

$2,254

Sculpture, Kiss kiss 4, Lea Novaro

Kiss kiss 4

Lea Novaro

Sculpture . 20 x 30 x 5 cm Sculpture . 7.9 x 11.8 x 2 inch

$997

Painting, Yes, Natia Sapanadze

Yes

Natia Sapanadze

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

$949

Painting, Séance, Natia Sapanadze

Séance

Natia Sapanadze

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

$949

Painting, Aguita, Boris OA

Aguita

Boris OA

Painting . 82 x 105 x 0.5 cm Painting . 32.3 x 41.3 x 0.2 inch

$3,204

Sculpture, Dali, JM Collell

Dali

JM Collell

Sculpture . 80 x 80 x 1 cm Sculpture . 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch

$3,322