surrealism

Art 4 years ago

Intriguing Surrealist Work Tops Bonhams Impressionist Sale In London

London – There were stellar results at Bonhams’ London Impressionist and Modern Art sale today (Thursday 20 April). The top lot was Composition surréaliste (tableau collaboratif) by the Spanish artist Remedios Varo (1908-1963) with possible additions by Tenerife-born Óscar Domínguez (1906-1957) and Catalan artist Esteban Francés (1913-1976), which sold for…

Art 4 years ago

Remedios Varo, the painter who had to lose a continent to find her art

A Spanish-born surrealist painter who spent her most fertile decades as a refugee in Mexico City, Remedios Varo…

Art 4 years ago

Mystery Surrealist Work Comes to Bonhams London

“The dream world and the real world are the same.” Remedios Varo London – Members of the Surrealist group…

Art 4 years ago

Salvador Dalí, the painter who convinced the world that his madness was a method

The Catalan master invented Paranoiac-Critical technique, painted some of the twentieth century's most precise images, and spent fifty…

Art 4 years ago

Fifty Years of Surrealist Icons at Sotheby’s Paris

A Celebration of the Irrepressible Art Movement, in the City it Was Founded, With the Second Iteration of…

Art 5 years ago

René Magritte Masterpiece Achieves $9.9M at Bonhams New York

New York – René Magritte’s Torse nu dans les nuages (circa. 1937) achieved $9,978,312 at Bonhams white glove sale of The Collection of Amalia de Schulthess today…

Art 5 years ago

Exhibition on Surrealism’s Global Reach Opens Oct. 11 at The Met

New Way of Looking at Surrealism, Focusing on the Worldwide Sweep of the Movement, Presented in Groundbreaking Exhibition…

Art 6 years ago

Leonora Carrington Stars at Bonhams The Mind’s Eye / Surrealist Sale

London – Operation Wednesday by the Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) sold for £682,750 at Bonhams’ inaugural The Mind’s Eye / Surrealist Sale in London today (Thursday 25 March).…

Art 6 years ago

Whitechapel Gallery. Eleven Surrealist women artists take centre stage for the first time since 1936

Phantoms of Surrealism. 19 May – 12 December 2021. Gallery 4 On a hot summer’s day in 1936…