Exhibition Souvenirs

In his Manifesto of Surrealism of 1924, André Breton celebrated the unbridled imagination as the key to freedom in all aspects of life. Artists responded by inventing a wide variety of new expressive forms designed to stir up the human capacity for...

In his Manifesto of Surrealism of 1924, André Breton celebrated the unbridled imagination as the key to freedom in all aspects of life. Artists responded by inventing a wide variety of new expressive forms designed to stir up the human capacity for...

In his Manifesto of Surrealism of 1924, André Breton celebrated the unbridled imagination as the key to freedom in all aspects of life. Artists responded by inventing a wide variety of new expressive forms designed to stir up the human capacity for...

In The Storm (Black Landscape), a faint horizon line turns a somber picture field into a dark, dramatic vista. Yves Tanguy fills it with enigmatic forms. Some of these forms are loosely vegetable, animal, or mineral, but others cannot be directly related...

The "forest" in this painting is a wall of posts with the color and texture of timber, ragged tops, and the smooth finish of mechanical tubes. Rising from a platform resembling a fallen stone wall, with other posts intersecting it at a steep angle, and...

The "forest" in this painting is a wall of posts with the color and texture of timber, ragged tops, and the smooth finish of mechanical tubes. Rising from a platform resembling a fallen stone wall, with other posts intersecting it at a steep angle, and...

This painting belongs to the “Psychological Morphologies” series, in which Matta sought to discover regions of space hitherto unexplored in the realm of art. It specifically pays homage to Marcel Duchamp’s great allegory of frustrated desire, The Bride...

Salvador Dalí painted this allegory of self-inflicted carnage while living in Paris in early 1936, on the eve of the devastating civil war in his Spanish homeland between Francisco Franco’s right-wing nationalist forces and the elected Republic. The...

This bandana is the perfect accessory for any art enthusiast. Inspired by our Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100 exhibition, this scarf features Salvador Dalí's iconic Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War). Museum exclusive ...

This picture marked an early turning point for Tanning, who was coming into her own as a member of the Surrealist group in New York. Birthday depicts the artist as both a flesh-and-blood individual and a guide to an imaginary realm. Tanning creates the...

This picture marked an early turning point for Tanning, who was coming into her own as a member of the Surrealist group in New York. Birthday depicts the artist as both a flesh-and-blood individual and a guide to an imaginary realm. Tanning creates the...

This picture marked an early turning point for Tanning, who was coming into her own as a member of the Surrealist group in New York. Birthday depicts the artist as both a flesh-and-blood individual and a guide to an imaginary realm. Tanning creates the...

Like many of his fellow Surrealists, Joan Miró utilized an eclectic mix of unorthodox strategies as fuel for his creative process. This painting, in spite of its large scale and nature-derived shapes, was based on a collage that the artist made by...

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A very spare and simple treatment makes this setting of the artist’s family farm in his Spanish home village appear mysterious and imaginary.   Miró’s preparatory sketch for this work had an extra dimension of quirkiness: the...

A very spare and simple treatment makes this setting of the artist’s family farm in his Spanish home village appear mysterious and imaginary. Miró’s preparatory sketch for this work had an extra dimension of quirkiness: the dog’s “bow wow” written out in...

In Fish Magic, Paul Klee creates a magical realm where the aquatic, the celestial, and the earthly intermingle. A delicate black surface covers an underlayer of colors, which the artist revealed by scratching and scrawling designs in the black paint. At...

In Fish Magic, Paul Klee creates a magical realm where the aquatic, the celestial, and the earthly intermingle. A delicate black surface covers an underlayer of colors, which the artist revealed by scratching and scrawling designs in the black paint. At...

In this painting by Giorgio de Chirico, ancient and modern collide to create an atmosphere outside of logical rationality and beyond normal coordinates of time and place. A statue inhabits a deserted Italian city square. It represents the sleeping...

Kay Sage spent most of the 1920s and 1930s in Europe. Upon her arrival in Paris in 1937, she joined the Surrealist movement and met her future husband, artist Yves Tanguy (American (born France), 1900 - 1955). But it was back home in the United States,...