


The unblinking gaze of fashion
1909 – 1945



“Under this mask, another mask”
1894 – 1954

The exquisite agony of self-portraits
1907 – 1954





"I have built an ivory tower of despair"
1898 – 1963

The unconscious mind and a horsehair brush
1908 – 1963

A psychiatrist releases his mind and invents Surrealism
1896 – 1966





A bad time to be an artist in the Baltics
1924 – 1970
The man who ate the world's art
1881 – 1973

Humor, sex, and a new camera
1890 – 1976

Trauma and displacement birth surrealism
1891 – 1976

Enchanted spaces in the city of Nietzsche
1888 – 1978

What's in a name?
1902 – 1980

The Feelbad Lands
1912 – 1981

Hallucinating figures
1902 – 1982



"X = an Orange Rabbit"
1913 – 1985


So much more than a mustache
1904 – 1989

Painting as experience
1915 – 1991

The never-ending scream
1909 – 1992

Strange angles
1918 – 1993

The brilliant bisexual cat-lady of surrealism
1907 – 1996

Fearsome interiors
1907 – 1997



"I'm not anyone's muse"
1917 – 2011

Exploring the strange world of dreams
1910 – 2012

Many souls to save
1953 – 2015


















I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naiveté has no peer but my own.














The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd.














