2 May 2022
Surrealism’s Alternative History The 59th Venice Biennale – Nico Kos Earle
The Venice Biennale sparks surreal conversations between past and present in ‘Milk of Dreams’, curated by Cecilia Alemani
Dorothea Tanning The Doors of Perception – Tate Modern – Jude Cowan Montague
Dorothea Tanning is the artist, face hidden to me back then, who drew and painted a short series of paintings that I have loved since a child.
6 January 2018
John Piper Primaeval Haunting Surrealism – Tate Liverpool – Alice Lenkiewicz
There is something very exciting about John Piper’s early works at Tate Liverpool.
19 June 2017
Richard Saltoun Gallery Surveys The Career Of Surrealist Artist Pierre Molinier
Richard Saltoun Gallery announces a solo exhibition of the career and unorthodox life of French Surrealist artist Pierre Molinier (b. 1900, Agen – 1976, Bordeaux). Pierre Moliner – the man and the painter, the genius and the pervert, the ‘lesbienne’ and the guns lover – is not an easy figure to pin down. Existing on […]
Surrealism And The Rue Blomet Explored In New York Exhibition
This Autumn, Eykyn Maclean will present Surrealism and the rue Blomet. This is the first exhibition to explore the rue Blomet, one of the founding centers of the Surrealist movement. “In Paris in the 1920s, the rue Blomet was a hotbed of artistic activity,” explains the curator, Kristy Bryce, director at Eykyn Maclean. “Nearly all […]
25 June 2013
Paul Delvaux Surrealist Master Of Tableaux With Neoclassical References
“I would like to create a fabulous painting I which I would live, in which I could live” – Paul Delvaux (1897-1994) There is a theatrical quality to work of Paul Delvaux where he choreographs narratives of melancholia and eroticism with scenes mostly inhabited by naked women. These strange, but appealing, surreal worlds are occupied […]
Paul Delvaux Belgian Surrealist Painter Major New London Exhibition
Blain|Di Donna are presenting an exhibition of paintings and drawings by the Belgian artist Paul Delvaux. Curated in close collaboration with the Paul Delvaux Foundation, it brings together over twenty oil paintings and works on paper that date from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s, and is the first ever solo show of the artist’s work […]
Dorothea Tanning Surrealist Artist And Wife Of Max Ernst Dies Aged 101
Dorothea Tanning was a leading Surrealist painter during the 1930s. She married Max Ernst in 1946 and was part of a circle of artists who were considered Avant Garde in Europe and America.
Leonora Carrington The Last First Wave Surrealist Dies At 94
Leonora Carrington 6 April 1917 – 25 May 2011 was a British-born Mexican artist, painter, sculptor, writer, alchemist, visionary