Surrealist Art For Sale

Discover surrealism art for sale. Our collection features the contemporary artists putting a modern spin on the medium, with vivid, imaginative pieces. Shop today to buy surrealism art, including surrealist paintings, surrealist drawings and surrealist collage.

About the surrealist artists

Digital artist, Philip McKay reimagines Dali’s telephone in A New Machine, where his giant Photoshopped phone dwarfs the tiny figures walking towards it on the beach. In Waiting For The Rain, he nods again to Magritte with a figure, suspended in the clouds, who keeps hold of his hat and umbrella, despite missing his head.

The influence of Magritte is also evident in Peter Horvath’s Untitled (Marlboro Man). The Canadian collage artist distorts the iconic image of the brooding, macho cowboy, tracing Margritte’s fine line between familiar and bizarre by distorting the well-known advert.

Alexandra Gallagher is another artist who uses collage to distort reality. The artist’s fantastical landscapes combine classical nudes with unexpected digital edits and natural forms. In Gallagher’s work Entropy (2023), a multi-limbed figure appears in free fall, entwined with flowers, snakes and birds. Neon colours and digital linework are layered on top of an art historical landscape, creating a surreal interplay between old and new.

Discover more Surrealism artists here including our female surrealist artists.

About Surrealism art

Born in 1924, the surrealist art movement had its epicentre in Paris and its goal was to liberate human experience from the boundaries of rationalism. Its co-founder, the artist and poet, André Breton, studied Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis and was fixated on the idea that the unconscious mind was the source of human creativity. That’s why surrealist artists used techniques to allow their subconscious to express itself freely. Automatic drawing, for example, was said to be a way to let the subconscious take charge by letting the hand move freely or randomly across the page.

These techniques may have been more ambition than reality. It was Joan Miró who said in 1952, “I was drawing almost entirely from hallucinations.” However, traces of grids can be seen beneath some of the Catalan artist’s works, suggesting these paintings had been meticulously planned.

Salvador Dalí is the movement’s most famous artist. His well-known surrealist paintings feature dystopian dreamscapes and bizarre motifs, such as his lobster telephone or his iconic melting clocks. But it was Dali’s ability to merge these otherworldly images into his realistic style, making his artwork at once both strange and familiar.

The combination of strange and familiar was also evident in the work of surrealist, René Magritte. The Belgian’s deadpan style makes peculiar subjects seem at first normal; prompting a distrust in the viewer. His images of the headless man in a bowler hat are well-known and in The Spirit of Geometry, Magritte also swaps the heads of a mother and baby, resulting in an effect is both comic and unsettling.

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    Le petit torse… by OLIVIER MESSAS
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    Smoke I (pink) by Delphine Lebourgeois
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    Smoke I (pink) by Delphine Lebourgeois
    Smoke I (pink)
    Prints - 70x50 cm
    Dis-moi la Fleur?-O7 by Emilie Moysson
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    Dis-moi la Fleur?-O7 by Emilie Moysson
    Dis-moi la Fleur?-O7
    Photography - 80x80 cm
    Keeping it Human by Perdita Sinclair
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    Keeping it Human by Perdita Sinclair
    Keeping it Human
    Paintings - 100x80 cmRent for €160 /mo
    L’acrobate… by OLIVIER MESSAS
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    Sculpture - 40x40 cm
    Imago 6 by Mathieu Trezel
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    Imago 6 by Mathieu Trezel
    Imago 6
    Paintings - 50x50 cm
    Rive 2 by Anthony Moreau
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    Rive 2 by Anthony Moreau
    Rive 2
    Paintings - 50x50 cm
    Not in my backyard 4 by Mathieu Trezel
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    Not in my backyard 4 by Mathieu Trezel
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    Paintings - 52x65 cm
    Daydream by Joe Webb
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    Daydream by Joe Webb
    Daydream
    Prints - 90x72 cmRent for €95 /mo
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    RÉSURRECTION  by EVIAL
    RÉSURRECTION
    Paintings - 100x70 cm
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    Syaqrus Schizophylla by Marianne Hendriks
    Syaqrus Schizophylla
    Paintings - 41x36 cm
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    The Beings  by Micheal Haran
    The Beings
    Paintings - 76x101 cmRent for €395 /mo
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    Transition Of hope  by Alexandra Gallagher
    Transition Of hope
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    Brook by Samantha Cheevers
    Brook
    Paintings - 130x105 cmRent for €310 /mo
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    BLUE ICE FLOW by db Waterman
    BLUE ICE FLOW
    Paintings - 50x50 cm
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    Liaison by Marta Grassi
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    Paintings - 101x101 cm
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    An Answer to Darkness
    Sculpture - 42x40 cmRent for €180 /mo
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    Now and Again by Ben Stephenson
    Now and Again
    Paintings - 170x140 cm
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    Outdoor Movie by Kim Marra
    Outdoor Movie
    Paintings - 76x76 cm
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    Howl At The Moon  by Alexandra Gallagher
    Howl At The Moon
    Prints - 100x100 cm
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    ' 9 Realms ' by Micheal Haran
    ' 9 Realms '
    Drawings - 140x110 cmRent for €985 /mo
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    End of the earth by Aziz Anzabi
    End of the earth
    Paintings - 66x102 cmRent for €945 /mo
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    Dis-moi la Fleur?-O6 by Emilie Moysson
    Dis-moi la Fleur?-O6
    Photography - 80x80 cm
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    WARM MEMORIES by db Waterman
    WARM MEMORIES
    Collage - 70x50 cm
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    THE BLUES by db Waterman
    THE BLUES
    Paintings - 110x110 cm
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    Ana Red Shift by Alexander Small
    Ana Red Shift
    Prints - 38x28 cmRent for €65 /mo
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    Eye Will if Eye Wont by Alexander Small
    Eye Will if Eye Wont
    Paintings - 100x100 cmRent for €330 /mo
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    Blossom Keepers 6 by Magdalena Morey
    Blossom Keepers 6
    Paintings - 42x29 cm
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