Melanie Klein (March 30, 1882 – September 22, 1960)

Marie Skłodowska–Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934)

Women at the Turn of the

Century

Maria Elena Vieira da Silva [Portuguese-born French Abstract Painter, 1908-1992]

Sophie Taeuber-Arp [Swiss Abstract Painter,

1889-1943]

Sonia Delaunay [Ukrainian-born French Abstract Painter and Designer, 1885-1979]

Gabriele Munter [German Expressionist Painter, 1877-1962]

Suzanne Valadon [French Post-Impressionist Painter,

1865-1938]

Lotte Laserstein [German Painter, 1898-1993]

Berenice Abbott [American Photographer,

1898-1991]

Barbara Hepworth [British Abstract Sculptor, 1903-1975]

Louise Dahl-Wolfe [American Photographer, 1895-1989]

A SURREALIST MANIFESTO, Andre Breton, 1924

1. 1. We have nothing to do with literature; but we are quite capable, when necessary, of making use of it like anyone else,2. Surrealism is not a new means or expression, or an easier one, nor even a metaphysic of poetry. It is a means of total liberation of the mind and of all that resembles it.3. We are determined to make a Revolution.4. We have joined the word surrealism to the word revolution solely to show the disinterested, detached, and even entirely desperate character of this revolution.5. We make no claim to change the mores of mankind, but we intend to show the fragility of thought, and on what shifting foundations, what caverns we have built our trembling houses.6. We hurl this formal warning to Society; Beware of your deviations and faux-pas, we shall not miss a single one.7. At each turn of its thought, Society will find us waiting.8. We are specialists in Revolt. There is no means of action which we are not capable, when necessary, of employing.9. We say in particular to the Western world: surrealism exists. And what is this new ism that is fastened to us? Surrealism is not a poetic form. It is a cry of the mind turning back on itself, and it is determined to break apart its fetters, even if it must be by material hammers!

Bureaus de Recherches Surrealistes,15, Rue de Grenelle

Salvador Dali [Spanish Surrealist Painter, 1904-1989], Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening, 1944, Oil on canvas, 51 × 40.5 cm, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

Leonora Carrington(b Clayten Green, nr Chorley, Lancs, 6 April 1917)

Self-Portrait, ca. 1937–38, Oil on canvas; 25 5/8 x 32 in., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Women Visual

Artists and Surrealism

Palatine Predella, 1946, 35.4 x 99.5cm, Ed.James Fdtn, priv. coll.

Meret Oppenheim(b Berlin, 6 Oct 1913; d Berne, 15 Nov 1985)

Man Ray, "Érotique voilée", 1933

Giacometti’s Ear (reproduced in bronze in an

edition of two, 1959

Ma gouvernante, My Nurse, mein Kindermädchen (1936; installation, Stockholm, Mod. Mus.)

Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure), fur-lined cup, diam. 109 mm, saucer, diam. 237 mm,

spoon, l. 202 mm, overall, h. 73 mm, 1936 (New York, Museum of Modern Art)

Mourir la nuit, gouache and oil on paper, 500×575 mm, 1953, Paris, Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne

(Magdalena Carmen) Frida Kahlo (y Calderón)(b Mexico City, 6 July 1907; d Mexico City, 13 July 1954)

Henry Ford Hospital, 1932, Oil on metal12 1/4 x 15 1/2 in, Collection Dolores

Olmedo Foundation, Mexico City

Self-Portrait, 1926, Oil on canvas, 31 x 23 inPrivate collection, Mexico City

Self-Portrait. 1929. Oil on masonite,79.4 x 70 cm   Private collection

Marxism Will Give Health to the Sick mk104 1953-54 Oil on masonite 30x24in,Mexico City, Mus. Kahlo

Viva la vida. 1954. Oil on masonite. 59 x 50.7 cm. Frida Kahlo Museum,

Mexico City, Mexico

Frieda and Diego Rivera, 1931, Oil on canvas; 39-3/8 x 31 inches, San Francisco MOMA

The Two Fridas 1939. Oil on canvas 68 x 68 in. (173 x 173 cm) Museo de Arte

Moderno, Mexico City

The Broken Column. 1944. Oil on Masonite. 38.6 x 31 cm Dolores Olmedo Foundation, Mexico City, Mexico

Dorothea Tanning(b Galesburg, IL, 25 Aug 1910)

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, 1943. Oil on canvas. 16 1/8 x 24 in. Tate Gallery, London

Birthday, 1942, oil on canvas, 102cm x 65cm, N.Y.

A Mi-Voix  1958, Oil on canvas1302 x 972 mm, Tate

La Table Tragique (1974; installation, Paris, Pompidou)

Revelation at the End of the Month

cloth,1973

Leonor Fini(b Buenos Aires, 30 Aug 1908; d

Paris, 18 Jan 1996)

Ange d'Anatomie, Lithograph30” x 22”

Les Deux Soeurs Jeleaux, 1976 Silkscreen Edition of 275

L'Entre duexOil on Canvas

28.5" x 45"1967

Rasch, Rasch, Rasch . . . Mein puppen warten,

1975, Oil on Canvas

(Study for Monsieur Venus) 1972 Pen and Ink Drawing13" x 10"1948

Eileen Agar(b Buenos Aires, 1 Dec 1899; d London, 17 Nov 1991)

Angel of Anarchy  1936-40Textiles over plaster and mixed media

520 x 317 x 336 mm Tate

Mixed media420 x 340 x 230 mm, Tate

The Reaper  1938Gouache and mixed media on paper210 x 275 mm, Tate

[Marie Čermínová] Toyen (b Prague, 21 Sept 1902;

d Paris, 9 Nov 1980)

The Shooting Gallery (Srp 193), Lithograph after a drawing, 1939-1940.

Untitled    double sided collage on paper,

circa 1960, 31 x 21 cm, Gallery de la Ville de Prague

Louise Bourgeois(b Paris, 25 Dec 1911)

He Disappeared into Complete Silence 1947

Suite of nine engravings with textCourtesy Cheim & Read, Galerie Karsten

Greve and Galerie Hauser & Wirth

'The Destruction of the Father', 1974

Plaster, latex, wood and fabric, 237.8 x 362.3 x 248.6cms

Cumul I, 1968. Marble, wood plinth 20 1/16 x 50 x 48 1/16 inches (51 x 127 x 122 cm) Fonds National d’art contemporain, Pompidou, Paris