Stories of haunted paintings have circulated for centuries, and we love these tales because they suggest that the creative ...

Zdzislaw Beksinski was a Polish artist best known for his surreal dystopian imagery. His paintings, photographs, and prints depicted macabre otherworldly spaces and figures. “I wish to paint in such a ...

Collectors demonstrated a strong appetite for surrealism on Friday at Sotheby’s in Paris as every one of the two dozen or so ...

100 years on, the movement risks becoming little more than a populist attraction filled with big personalities, schisms and ...

A groundbreaking Surrealism exhibition at the Centre Pompidou features iconic works by Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, and ...

Female Surrealists are having a moment in the sun. Not that Leonor Fini wanted to be considered a Surrealist, or a female artist for that matter. “She would say: ‘I am a painter, that’s ...

setting a record for the Surrealist artist at auction. The painting, carrying a $12 million–$18 million estimate, hit that ...

A painting by René Magritte is expected to sell for at least US$95 million at a Christie’s auction in November in New York.

By Holland Cotter Lisa Schiff acknowledges stealing millions from major collectors who trusted her to buy them fashionable art. By Sarah Maslin Nir His Brutalist buildings, praised during the ...

A decade after his brutal murder, Zdzisław Beksiński’s paintings hold the world spellbound. Is the universal fascination they evoke the result of their author’s own gruesome tragedies, or did ...