Les Chants De Maldoror
1930s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Drypoint
1930s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Etching
1930s Surrealist More Prints
Etching
1940s Surrealist More Art
Paper, Photogravure
1940s Surrealist More Art
Photogravure, Paper
1970s Surrealist Portrait Prints
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Still-life Prints
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Landscape Prints
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Portrait Prints
Etching
1970s Surrealist Portrait Prints
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Nude Prints
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Landscape Prints
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Engraving
Salvador DalíMaldoror : Allegory of Time & Aging - Original Etching, HANDSIGNED (Field #34-2), 1975
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Ink
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Etching
1970s Surrealist Landscape Prints
Engraving
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Engraving
Salvador DalíSurrealist Composition with Bones and Beans - Original etching, HANDSIGNED, 1975, 1975
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Etching
2010s Abstract Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Board
1960s Expressionist Still-life Prints
Lithograph
1970s Surrealist More Art
Paper
1960s French School Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1940s Modern Portrait Prints
Etching
People Also Browsed
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Woodcut
1960s Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
1970s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Woodcut
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints
Woodcut
Antique 19th Century French Paintings
Wood, Paint
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Woodcut
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Engraving
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Woodcut
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints
Woodcut
Mid-20th Century Spanish Mid-Century Modern Prints
Paper
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Woodcut
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Woodcut
20th Century Contemporary Art
Paper
Vintage 1980s Spanish Prints
Paper
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Engraving
Recent Sales
1930s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Drypoint
1930s Surrealist More Art
Paper
1930s Prints and Multiples
Drypoint, Etching
1930s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Etching
20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints
Drypoint
1870s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1930s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Etching
1970s Surrealist More Art
Paper
1930s Surrealist Landscape Prints
Etching
1930s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Drypoint
1970s Surrealist Landscape Prints
Etching
1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1930s Surrealist More Art
Paper
Vítezslav NezvalOeuvres Complètes - Rare Book Illustrated by Various Surrealist Artists - 1938, 1938
1960s Expressionist Landscape Prints
Lithograph
1970s Surrealist Landscape Prints
Engraving
Les Chants De Maldoror For Sale on 1stDibs
How Much is a Les Chants De Maldoror?
A Close Look at Surrealist Art
In the wake of World War I’s ravaging of Europe, artists delved into the unconscious mind to confront and grapple with this reality. Poet and critic André Breton, a leader of the Surrealist movement who authored the 1924 Surrealist Manifesto, called this approach “a violent reaction against the impoverishment and sterility of thought processes that resulted from centuries of rationalism.” Surrealist art emerged in the 1920s with dreamlike and uncanny imagery guided by a variety of techniques such as automatic drawing, which can be likened to a stream of consciousness, to channel psychological experiences.
Although Surrealism was a groundbreaking approach for European art, its practitioners were inspired by Indigenous art and ancient mysticism for reenvisioning how sculptures, paintings, prints, performance art and more could respond to the unsettled world around them.
Surrealist artists were also informed by the Dada movement, which originated in 1916 Zurich and embraced absurdity over the logic that had propelled modernity into violence. Some of the Surrealists had witnessed this firsthand, such as Max Ernst, who served in the trenches during World War I, and Salvador Dalí, whose otherworldly paintings and other work responded to the dawning civil war in Spain.
Other key artists associated with the revolutionary art and literary movement included Man Ray, Joan Miró, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Frida Kahlo and Meret Oppenheim, all of whom had a distinct perspective on reimagining reality and freeing the unconscious mind from the conventions and restrictions of rational thought. Pablo Picasso showed some of his works in “La Peinture Surréaliste” — the first collective exhibition of Surrealist painting — which opened at Paris’s Galerie Pierre in November of 1925. (Although Magritte is best known as one of the visual Surrealist movement’s most talented practitioners, his famous 1943 painting, The Fifth Season, can be interpreted as a formal break from Surrealism.)
The outbreak of World War II led many in the movement to flee Europe for the Americas, further spreading Surrealism abroad. Generations of modern and contemporary artists were subsequently influenced by the richly symbolic and unearthly imagery of Surrealism, from Joseph Cornell to Arshile Gorky.
Find a collection of original Surrealist paintings, sculptures, prints and multiples and more art on 1stDibs.