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Nadja (1928), the second book published by André Breton, is one of the iconic works of the French surrealist movement. It begins with the question "Who am I?It is based on Breton's actual interactions with a young woman, Nadja (actually Léona Camille Ghislaine Delacourt 1902–1941), [1] over the course of ten days, and is presumed to be a semi-autobiographical description of his ...
From 11 June to 4 July 1936, they held the International Surrealist Exhibition, the first full exhibition of surrealist art in the UK. [1] From 7 June to 28 August 1938, the gallery showed Twentieth Century German Art, the largest international response to the National Socialist campaign against so-called ‘degenerate art’. [2]
Roy Dalgarno (1910–2001), Australian painter and art lecturer; Salvador Dalí (1904–1989), Spanish surrealist painter; Christen Dalsgaard (1824–1907), Danish painter; Thomas Aquinas Daly (born 1937), American landscape and still life painter; Dietmar Damerau (1935–2011), German/Greek painter and sculptor
Jacques-André Boiffard (29 July 1902 – 22 July 1961) was a French photographer, born in Épernon in Eure-et-Loir. [1] He was a medical student in Paris until 1924 when he met André Breton through Pierre Naville, a Surrealist writer, and childhood friend.
Carlo Carrà, 1919, Le figlie di Loth, oil on canvas, 111 x 80 cm, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto.jpg 379 × 530; 111 KB Joan Miró, 1918, La casa de la palmera (House with Palm Tree), oil on canvas, 65 x 73 cm, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.jpg 2,506 × 2,229; 1.18 MB
Surrealist painter of fantastic art in the school of magic realism and a fashion editor. Toyen (1902–1980), Czech painter, draftsperson and illustrator and a member of the surrealist movement. Remedios Varo (1908–1963), Catalan-Spanish surrealist painter who moved to Mexico, she was known for her dreamlike paintings of scientific apparatus.
The Surrealist Manifesto refers to several publications by Yvan Goll and André Breton, leaders of rival surrealist groups. Goll and Breton both published manifestos in October 1924 titled Manifeste du surréalisme. Breton wrote a second manifesto in 1929, which was published the following year, and in 1942, a reflection or a commentary on the ...
[d] [21] A five-day auction of the contents of Monkton, described as "The Edward James Collection", was held by Christie's in June 1986 on the lawn of West Dean College. It raised £4,516,544 (equivalent to £16,715,899 in 2023). [22] [23] [24] The prints, drawings and paintings raised almost £1 million. [22]