The Major Works of Dada & Surrealism,
including Major Influences

See also "The Origins of Surrealism".

  • Henri Rousseau - Snake Charmer - 1907
  • Oskar Kokoschka - Murderer, Hope of Women -1909
  • Augusto Giacometti - May Morning - 1910
  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Bathers Throwing Reeds - 1910
  • Robert Delaunay - Eiffel Tower - 1910-11
  • Umberto Boccioni - States of Mind II: Those Who Go - 1911
  • Carlo Carra - The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli - 1911-12
  • Marcel Duchamp - Nude Descending a Staircase No.2 - 1912
  • Wassily Kandinski - Painting with Black Arch - 1912
  • Francis Picabia - Dances at the Spring II - 1912
  • Marcel Duchamp - Bicycle Wheel - 1913 (and 1951 Replica)
  • Ludwig Meidner - Apocalyptic City - 1913
  • Francis Picabia - New York - 1913
  • Giorgio de Chirico - The Child's Brain - 1914
  • Franz Marc - Composition III - 1914
  • Filippo Tommaso Marinetti - Zang Tumb Tuum - 1914
  • Francis Picabia - I See Again in Memory My Dear Udnie - 1914
  • Giorgio de Chirico - The Evil Genius of a King - 1914-15
  • Francis Picabia - Ici, c'est ici Stieglitz - 1915
  • Wilhelm Lehmbruck - The Fallen Man - 1915-16
  • Hans Arp - Forest, Terrestial Forms - 1916
  • Hans Arp - Geometrical Collage - 1916
  • Hans Arp - Cover of Phantastische Gebete - 1916
  • Hans Arp - Collage Made According to the Laws of Chance - 1916
  • Jean Crotti - Clown - 1916
  • Man Ray - The Rope Dancer Accompanies Herself with Her Shadows - 1916
  • Morton Schamberg - Painting IX / Machine - 1916
  • Marcel Slodki - Cabaret Voltaire - 1916
  • Unknown Photographer - Hugo Ball Performing - 1916
  • Hans Arp - The Entombment of Birds and Butterflies / Head of Tristan Tzara - 1916-17
  • Marcel Duchamp - Fountain by R. Mutt - 1917 (and 1963 Replica)
  • Albert Gleizes - In the Port - 1917
  • Marcel Janco - Zurich Ball - 1917
  • Francis Picabia - Parade Amoureuse - 1917
  • Francis Picabia - Novia, Cover of 391 No.1 - 1917
  • Hans Richter - Visionary Self-Portrait - 1917
  • Hans Richter - Blue Man - 1917
  • Sophie Taeuber - Vertical, Horizontal, Square, Rectangle - 1917
  • George Grosz - Homage to Oskar Panizza / The Dada Funeral - 1917-18
  • Marcel Duchamp - To Be Looked at from the Other Side of the Glass - 1918
  • Else von Freytag-Loringhoven and Morton Schamberg - God - 1918
  • Joaquin Torres Garcia - Composicion vibracionista - 1918
  • Marcel Janco - Mouvement Dada, Dada Movement - 1918
  • Marcel Janco - Prayer, Evening Lightning - 1918
  • Paul Klee - With Eagle - 1918
  • Alfred Kubin - Death the Reaper - 1918
  • Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes - Oceanic Spirit - 1918
  • Arthur Segal - Red Houses II - 1918
  • Kurt Schwitters - Zeichnung A2 Hansi - 1918
  • Sophie Taeuber - Dada Head / Portrait of Hans Arp - 1918
  • Marcel Duchamp - LHOOQ / Portrait of the Mona Lisa with a Moustache - 1919 (and 1964 Replica)
  • Max Ernst - Self-Constructed Little Machine by Minimax Dadamax - 1919
  • Raoul Hausmann - Gurk - 1919
  • Hannah Hoch - Cut with a Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany - 1919
  • Marcel Janco - Mask - 1919
  • Francis Picabia - Mouvement Dada - 1919
  • Francis Picabia - The Carburetor Child - 1919
  • Francis Picabia - The Double World - 1919
  • Ivan Puni - La Fuites des Formes - 1919
  • Man Ray - Admiration of the Orchestrelle for the Cinematograph - 1919
  • Pierre Roy - Adrienne the Fisher - 1919
  • Kurt Schwitters - Construction for Noble Ladies - 1919
  • Joseph Stella - Brooklyn Bridge - 1918-20
  • Julius Evola - Interior Landscape at 10:30 - 1919-20
  • Raoul Hausmann - The Art Critic - 1919-20
  • Johannes Baader - The Author in his Home - 1920
  • Johannes Baargeld - Self-Portait - 1920
  • Max Ernst - The Punching Ball / Immortality of Buonarotti, Self-Portrait - 1920
  • Max Ernst - The Massacre of the Innocents - 1920
  • Max Ernst - Katalina Ondulata - 1920
  • Max Ernst - The Hairy-hoofed Horse, He's a Little Sick - 1920
  • George Grosz - The Engineer Heartfield - 1920
  • Raoul Hausmann - Mechanical Head / Spirit of the Age - 1920
  • Raoul Hausmann - Tatlin at Home - 1920
  • Lazlo Moholy-Nagy - F in the Fields - 1920
  • Christian Schad - Composition in M - 1920
  • Franz Seiwert - The Workmen - 1920
  • Tristan Tzara - Cover of Dada 6 - 1920
  • Jean Crotti - Chainless Mystery - 1921
  • Max Ernst - The Elephant Celebes - 1921
  • Francis Picabia - The Cacodylic Eye - 1921
  • Man Ray - Group Portrait of the Dada Group - 1921
  • Man Ray - The Gift - 1921
  • Kurt Schwitters - Mz 151 / Knave Child - 1921
  • Philippe Soupault - Framed Mirror/Portrait of an Imbecile - 1921
  • Lajos Kassak - Bildarchitektur - 1920-22
  • Max Ernst - At the Rendezvous of Friends - 1922
  • Max Ernst & Paul Eluard - The Fugitive/Les Malhours des immortels - 1922
  • Jean Charlot - Mental Portrait of Maples Arce - 1922
  • Francis Picabia - Les Nuit espagnole - 1922
  • Pablo Picasso - Two Women Running on a Beach/The Race - 1922
  • Man Ray - Les Champs delicieux - 1922
  • Francis Picabia - Optophone II - 1922-23
  • Marcel Duchamp - The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even / The Large Glass - 1915-23
  • Man Ray - Return to Reason - 1923
  • Kurt Schwitters - Interior of the Merzbau - 1923 (destroyed by the NAZIs in 1943)
  • Raoul Hausmann - ABCD - 1923-24
  • Andre Masson - The Four Elements - 1923-24
  • Max Ernst - Two Children are Threatened by a Nightingale - 1924
  • El Lissitzhy - Self-Portrait: The Constructor - 1924
  • Juan Miro - Maternity - 1924
  • Man Ray - Le Violin d'Ingres - 1924
  • Man Ray - Surrealists in the Bureau of Surrealist Research - 1924
  • Max Ernst - The Habit of Leaves - 1925
  • Andre Masson - Furious Suns - 1925
  • Pablo Picasso - The Dance - 1925
  • Hannah Hoch - From the Ethnographical Museum: The Flirt - 1926
  • Rene Magritte - The Menaced Assassin - 1926
  • Juan Miro - Person Throwing a Stone at a Bird - 1926
  • Andre Masson - Figure - 1926-27
  • Salvador Dali - Little Cinders - 1927
  • Max Ernst - Figure - 1927
  • Max Ernst - The Horde - 1927
  • Rene Magritte - The Meaning of Night - 1927
  • Juan Miro - Painting/Blue with Red Nipples - 1927
  • Juan Miro - Musique Seine, Michel, Bataille et moi - 1927
  • Yves Tanguy - Extinction of Useless Lights - 1927
  • Andre Masson - The Butcher of Horses - 1928
  • Rene Magritte - The Treachery of Images/Ceci n'est pas une pipe - 1928
  • Andre Berton, Paul Eluard, Tristan Tzara, Valentine Hugo - Exquisite Corpse - 1929
  • Jacques-Andre Boiffard - Untitled/The Big Toe - 1929
  • Claude Cahun - Untitled/Self-Portrait with Whitened Face - 1929
  • Salvador Dali - The Lugubrious Game - 1929
  • Salvador Dali - The Accomodation of Desires - 1929
  • Salvador Dali & Luis Bunuel - Un Chien andalou - 1929
  • Max Ernst - The Hundred Headed Woman Opens Her August Sleeve - 1929
  • Koga Harue - Bird Cage - 1929
  • Eli Lothar - Abattoir - 1929
  • Pablo Picasso - Nude in an Armchair - 1929
  • Man Ray - The Primacy of Matter over Thought - 1929
  • Yves Tanguy - Outside - 1929
  • Salvador Dali - The Invisible Sleeping Woman, Horse, Lion, Etc. - 1930
  • Alberto Giacometti - Suspended Ball - 1930
  • Rene Magritte - On the Threshold of Liberty - 1930
  • Salvador Dali - The Persistence of Memory - 1931
  • Max Ernst - Loplop Introduces Members of the Surrealist Group - 1931
  • Valentine Hugo - Object - 1931
  • Andre Masson - Massacre - 1931
  • Hans Arp - Head with Annoying Objects - 1930-32
  • Alberto Giacometti - Disagreeable Object - 1932
  • John Heartfield - Millions Stand Behind Me!/Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung - 1932
  • Salvador Dali - Retrospective Bust - 1933
  • Jindrich Styrsky - Emilie Comes to Me in a Dream - 1933
  • Victor Brauner - The Strange Case of Monsieur K. - 1934
  • Manuel Alvarez Bravo - Murdered Striker - 1934
  • Rene Magritte - The Rape - 1934
  • Juan Miro - Escargot, femme, fleur, toile - 1934
  • Man Ray - Nude Bent Forward - 1934
  • Kurt Seligmann - Homage to Urs Graf - 1934
  • Toyen - Prometheus Enchained - 1934
  • Andre Breton - Poem-Object/I See, I Imagine - 1935
  • Rene Magritte - La Magie Noire - 1935
  • Man Ray - Facile - 1935
  • Eileen Agar - Precious Stones - 1936
  • Salvador Dali - Autumn Cannibalism - 1936
  • Oskar Dominguez - Decalcomania without Preconceived Object I - 1936
  • Meret Oppenheim - Fur Covered Tea Cup, Saucer and Spoon - 1936
  • Meret Oppenheim - My Governess - 1936
  • Roland Penrose - The Last Voyage of Captain Cook - 1936-37
  • Leonora Carrington - Self-Portrait/The Inn of the Dawn Horse - 1937
  • O Louis Guglielmi - A Connecticut Autumn - 1937
  • Juan Miro - Aidez L'Espagne - 1937
  • Pablo Picasso - Guernica - 1937
  • Ithell Colquhoun - Scylla - 1938
  • Paul Delvaux - The Call of the Night - 1938
  • Roberta Matta - Morphology of Desire - 1938
  • Kay Sage - A Little Later - 1938
  • Roberta Matta - Untitled/Fireworks Under Water & Under My Bed - 1938-39
  • Frida Kahlo - The Two Fridas - 1939
  • Robera Matta - Fabulous Racetrack of Death - 1939
  • Raoul Ubac - The Battle of the Amazons - 1939
  • Joseph Cornell - Butterfly Habitat - 1940
  • Paul Delvaux - Dawn over the City - 1940
  • Lee Miller - Nonconformist Chapel/Grim Glory - 1940
  • Juan Miro - Constellations: Acrobatic Dancers - 1940
  • Yves Tanguy - Composition - 1940
  • Leonora Carrington - Horses - 1941
  • Gerome Kamrowski - Spectral Time - 1941
  • Wolfgang Paalen - The Messenger - 1941
  • Max Ernst - Europe after the Rain - 1940-42
  • Marcel Duchamp - Installation of String, New York - 1942
  • Wifredo Lam - Light in the Forest - 1942
  • Wifredo Lam - The Jungle - 1943
  • Jackson Pollock - Guardians of the Secret - 1943
  • Arshile Gorky - The Leaf of the Artichoke is an Owl - 1944
  • Frida Kahlo - Broken Column - 1944
  • Pavel Tchelitchev - Anatomical Painting - 1944-45
  • Antonin Artaud - Self-Portrait - 1946
  • Toyen - The Myth of Light/Le Mythe de la lumiere - 1946
  • Wols - Untitled - 1946
  • Leonora Carrington - The Pomps of Subsoils - 1947
  • Jean Dubuffet - M Plume with Creases in his Trousers - 1947
  • Hans Bellmer - The Doll - 1936-49
  • David Smith - Hudson River Landscape - 1951
  • Simon Hantai - Untitled - 1952
  • Judith Reigl - Brovage du vide/The Crushing of the Void - 1954
  • Gaston Chaissac - The Last Supper - 1956-57
  • Remedios Varo - The Creation of Birds/The Chicken or the Egg - 1957
  • Rene Magritte - The Son of Man - 1964

    Modern Surrealists

  • Enrico Baj - Angry General - 1960
  • Jean Tinguely - Homage to New York City/Self-Destroying Assemblage - 1960
  • Konrad Klaphek - The Logic of Women - 1965
  • Jan Svankmajer - Punch and Judy - 1966
  • Cindy Sherman - Untitled #225 - 1990
  • Cindy Sherman - Untitled #305 - 1994
  • Tony Kaye - Fish on a Bicycle - 1996
  • Jonathon Earl Bowser - The Awakening - 1998
  • Charles Moffat - The Cleveland Medusa / Portrait of Art Critic Cassandra Anne Vasu - 1999

  • Marcel Duchamp - Nude Descending a Staircase No.2 - 1912


    Hannah Hoch - Cut with a Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany - 1919


    Salvador Dali & Luis Bunuel - Un Chien andalou - 1929


    Man Ray - The Primacy of Matter over Thought - 1929


    Cindy Sherman - Untitled #225 - 1990


    Cindy Sherman - Untitled #305 - 1994


    Tony Kaye - Fish on a Bicycle - 1996