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 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. His hallucinogenic landscapes merge urban and rural environments to create a disorientating space-like backdrop to oversized humans. Her work, Forbidden Fruit sees a giant God-like woman, draw on an apple, in front of pink forests layered onto craggy mountains.

Discover more Surrealism artists here including our female surrealist artists.

About Surrealism

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 Dali 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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    River House by Helen Brough

    River House

    Paintings - 50x50 cmRent for $170 /mo
    Seraphina by Michael James Talbot

    Seraphina

    Sculpture - 92x33 cm
    Aerostat by Diana Rosa

    Aerostat

    Paintings - 91x91 cm
    If I Had a Windowsill by Kim Marra

    If I Had a Windowsill

    Paintings - 76x61 cm
    TAALA by Nae Zerka

    TAALA

    Prints - 100x100 cm
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    The doctor will see you now

    Paintings - 100x130 cm
    Trumpet player by Ta Byrne

    Trumpet player

    Paintings - 130x180 cm
    Looking for Utopia (3) by Heja Rahiminia

    Looking for Utopia (3)

    Photography - 40x60 cm
    This is the Big City Baby by Dan Baldwin

    This is the Big City Baby

    Prints - 56x95 cm

    Outdoor Movie

    Paintings - 76x76 cm

    Place Among the Elements

    Paintings - 127x127 cm

    Flight of Imagination

    Photography - 48x48 cm

    Football Heroes 2

    Paintings - 63x50 cmRent for $100 /mo

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    Sculpture - 160x90 cm

    The fake vulcano

    Paintings - 60x50 cm

    Sharp specie

    Paintings - 92x92 cm

    Entropy

    Prints - 118x84 cm

    Looking Up

    Paintings - 150x150 cmRent for $175 /mo

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    Paintings - 31x31 cm

    Desert Days: Major Tom

    Photography - 59x84 cmRent for $115 /mo

    Keeping it Human

    Paintings - 100x80 cmRent for $170 /mo

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    Prints - 70x40 cmRent for $75 /mo

    Solid Sky

    Sculpture - 27x23 cm

    The Dreamer

    Paintings - 70x44 cm

    La Chéne et le Roseeau

    Prints - 76x56 cm

    Le femme au chapeau

    Sculpture - 11x6 cm

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