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Surrealism at the V&A

October 2021

  • A version of the Mae West sofa in pink satin is in the collection at West Dean, near Chichester

    How Dalí’s ‘lips’ sofa began life … on the back of an envelope

    Newly opened archive of art patron’s papers reveals a previously unseen sketch for the surrealist work

June 2019

  • Dresses designed by French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent in homage to Piet Mondrian at the Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle, in north-east England, 9 July 2015.

    From the Guardian archive
    The surreal thing – fashion archive, 1988

    27 June 1988 The fact is that high fashion is, and always has been, a surrealist movement

February 2018

  • Maison Pour Érotomane, the painting by Salvador Dalí (cropped)

    Two rarely seen works by Salvador Dalí reach market for first time

    Important paintings by Spanish surrealist, sold to Argentinian countess in 1930s, up for auction

March 2007

  • How the surrealists sold out

  • Does this ring any bells?

  • Jones on art
    The riddle of the rocks

  • Give us a swirl

  • From Swanage with love

  • Art & design blog
    Double vision

October 2001

  • Portrait of the week
    Rrose Sélavy, Man Ray (1921)

    Artist: Man Ray (1890-1976), dandy, dada, and the most formally creative photographer of the 20th century, who invented new methods such as the Rayograph and straddled the two worlds of the avant-garde and fashion photography from his vast bed equipped with special sliding worktables, where, he claimed, he spent most of his time in his apartment in Rue Férou, Paris.

September 2001

  • Surreal thing

    There are no creepie-crawlies or giant eyeballs. Surrealism has succumbed to rational selection - and it works, writes Laura Cumming

  • The depths of desire

    Forget dripping clocks and lobster phones. Surrealism was a more complex, darker beast, says Adrian Searle.

    • 'The earth is blue like an orange'

    • I'm sorry, I don't speak surrealist

    • Jones on art
      For better perverse

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