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.
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