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Date 1920 - 1939
Significant Works The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Related Artists André Breton • David Gascoyne • Pablo Picasso • Marcel Duchamp • Luis Buñuel • Claude Cahun • Lee Miller • Joan Miró • Alberto Giacometti • Jean Cocteau • Meret Oppenheim • Leonora Carrington • Leonor Fini • Eileen Agar • Kay Sage • Marcel Broodthaers • Sir Roland Penrose • Man Ray • Max Ernst • Jan Švankmajer • Jean Arp • Guillaume Apollinaire • Salvador Dalí • René Magritte • Arshile Gorky • Wifredo Lam • Philip C. Curtis • Francis Picabia • Antonin Artaud • Frida Kahlo • Dorothea Tanning • Henri Michaux • Jacques Prévert • Louis Aragon • Paul Nougé • Roberto Matta • Antoni Tàpies • Philippe Soupault • Graham Sutherland • Paul Éluard • René Char • Yves Tanguy • Robert Desnos • Christian Dotremont • Gerrit Achterberg • Julian Trevelyan • Tchicaya U Tam’si • Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi • Paul Delvaux • André Masson • Pierre Reverdy

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