Surrealism

William V. Ganis, PhD

Pittura Metafisica

(Metaphysical Painting)

Giorgio De Chirico

The Great Metaphysician

1917oil on canvas41 1/8 x 27 1/2 in.

Giorgio De Chirico

The Melancholy and Mystery of a Street

1914oil on canvas34 1/4 x 28 1/4 in.

Giorgio De Chirico

The Soothsayer’s Recompense

1913oil on canvas53 1/2 x 71 in.

Surrealism

André Breton

Performing Far-Sighted Manifesto

Translation of sign: “In order for you to like something it is necessary for you to have seen and understood it a long time ago, you bunch of idiots.”

1920

André Breton

Self-portrait

1925photomontage

Man Ray, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró, Max Morise

Exquisite Corpse

1928ink on paper

André Breton, Valentine Hugo, Greta Knutson, Tristan Tzara

Exquisite Corpse

ca. 1930ink on paper9 1/4 x 12 1/4 in.

Max Ernst

Untitled, from Les Malheurs des Immortels

1922collage

Max Ernst

The Robing of the Bride

1940oil on canvas129.6 x 96.3 cm

Max Ernst

The Virgin Spanking the Christ Child Before Three Witnesses: André Breton, Paul Elouard, and the Painter

1926oil on canvas

Max Ernst

La Joie de Vivre

1936oil on canvas28 3/4 x 36 1/4 in.

Max Ernst

Europe After the Rain

1940-42oil on canvas21 1/2 x 58 1/8 in.

Salvador Dali

Anthropomorphic Bread

1932oil on canvas24 x 32 cm

Salvador Dali

The Persistence of Memory

1931oil on canvas9 1/2 x 13 in.

Salvador Dali

The Metamorphosis of Narcissus

1937oil on canvas51.2 x 78.5 cm

Salvador Dali

Young Virgin Autosodomized by Her Own Chastity

1954oil on canvas

Salvador Dali and Louis Buñuel

Un Chien Andalou

1929motion picture

Salvador Dali

Rainy Taxi

1938installation

Salvador Dali, Joan Miró, Max Ernst, Oscar Domenguez

International Surrealist Exhibition Mannequins

1938installation

René Magritte

The False Mirror

1928oil on canvas21 1/4 x 21 7/8 in.

René Magritte

The Empire of Light

1952oil on canvas39 1/2 x 32 in.

René Magritte

The Rape

1934oil on canvas77.5 x 58.7 cm

René Magritte

The Treachery of Images

1928-29oil on canvas23 1/4 x 31 1/2 in.

René Magritte

Time Transfixed

1938oil on canvas57 1/2 x 38 1/2 in.

Salvador Dali

Dream of Venus

1939installation

First Papers of Surrealism Exhibition, New York

1942installation

Art of This Century Gallery, New York

1942

Frida Kahlo

The Broken Column

1944oil on canvas

Frida Kahlo

Henry Ford Hospital

1932oil on metal12 1/4 x 15 1/2 in.

Matta

Disasters of Mysticism

1944oil on canvas38 1/4 x 58 3/4 in.

Wilfredo Lam

The Jungle

1943gouache on paper on canvas7 ft. 10 1/4 in. x 7 ft. 6 1/2 in.

Brassaï

Staircase, Montmartre, Paris

1935-36gelatin-silver print

Brassaï

Bijou

1933gelatin-silver print

Brassaï

Lesbian Couple at Le Monocle, Paris

1932gelatin-silver print

André Kertész

Distortion No. 40

1933gelatin-silver print

André Kertész

Distortion No. 172

1933gelatin-silver print

Man Ray

Anatomies

1929gelatin-silver print22.6 x 17.2 cm

Man Ray

Primacy of Matter over Thought

1929gelatin-silver print20.8 x 29.1 cm

Man Ray

Fingers

1930gelatin-silver print11 1/2 x 8 3/4 in.

Man Ray

Le Violin d’Ingres

1924gelatin-silver print

Man Ray

Larmes (Tears)

1932-33gelatin-silver print

Man Ray

Prayer

1930gelatin-silver print

Man Ray

Minotaur

1934gelatin-silver print

Man Ray

Yves Tanguy

1936gelatin-silver print

Yves Tanguy

The Sun in Its Jewel Case

1937oil on canvas45 7/16 x 34 11/16 in.

Yves Tanguy

Infinite Divisibility

1942oil on canvas

Yves Tanguy

Multiplication of the Arcs

1954oil on canvas40 x 60 in.

Joan Miró

Ciphers and Constellations in Love with a Woman

1941oil on canvas

Oscar Dominguez

Untitled

1936gouache transfer on paper14 1/8 x 11 1/2 in.

André Masson

Death of Ophelia

1937oil on canvas44 3/4 x 57 3/4 in.

André Masson

Vegetable Delerium

1925ink on paper

André Masson

The Seeded Earth

1942oil on canvas60 x 101.6 cm

Meret Oppenheim

Object

1936fur-Covered cup, saucer and spoon2 7/8 in. high

Alberto Giacometti

Suspended Ball

1930-31iron and plaster

Alberto Giacometti

Woman with Her Throat Cut

1932bronze8 x 34 1/2 x 25 in.

Alberto Giacometti

The Palace at 4 a.m.

1932-33wood, glass, wire and string25 x 28 1/4 x 15 3/4 in.

Hans Bellmer

Doll

1936marble

Hans Bellmer

Doll

1935wood, metal, and papier-måché