André Breton's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 31 USD to 866,500 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. What is André Breton's most ...

Magic Art, by André Breton.Fulgar Press. A foreword by Robert Shehu-Ansell explains Magic Art was first available in 1957, when it was printed as part of a subscription edition of a thematic series of ...

Breton would devote an anthology to it in 1940, swiftly banned by the Vichy regime. Humour, he writes, is "the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing".

While surrealism had a reputation for misogyny — Breton and the group’s early male hierarchy thought of women within the movement as simply “muses” — women were making and exhibiting art ...

Surrealist writer and artist André Breton’s celebrated inaugural novel Nadja (1928), a first-person, non-linear “account” of a 10-day whirlwind relationship with the emotionally volatile ...

At Breton’s invitation, Kahlo showed two paintings in “Mexique,” an exhibition of artworks by Mexican artists, but was disappointed to find the show poorly organized.

The Persistence of Memory(La persistencia de la memoria) (1931) is a trifecta of superlatives: Surrealism's most famous ...

When André Breton sat down in 1924 to pen the preface to his book of poems Poisson Soluble, he had no intention of writing a manifesto. He just had some things to say about the ideas underpinning ...

The French artist Jean Dubuffet along with Andre Breton first defined outsider art as Art Brut (Raw Art) in 1945 and collected examples of work they considered "uncooked" by either classical or ...

In 1924, French poet André Breton wrote a short text with fellow poet and compatriot Louis Aragon that was to send ripples through the world of art and literature, providing a blueprint for the ...