In October 1924, French writer André Breton published what’s now known as the Surrealist Manifesto. The seminal text—which argued for a new style of art and literature that would be “free from any ...

“Existence is elsewhere.” His Manifesto of Surrealism propelled a global, revolutionary art movement that defined 20th-century cultural history. Celebrating its one-hundredth anniversary this ...

Many lesser-known Surrealists who have achieved recent fame were shown within the past decade by his New York gallery.

Collectors demonstrated a strong appetite for surrealism on Friday at Sotheby’s in Paris as every one of the two dozen or so works that were offered found buyers, with more than two thirds ...