Surrealism, the great revolutionary movement originating in France in the 1920s, was to change the course of Australian art in the 1940s. A generation of Australian artists including James Gleeson, Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker, Arthur Boyd and Max Dupain encountered Surrealism at a formative time in their careers, and its influence transformed their art forever.
Drawn from the recently acquired James Agapitos, OAM, and Ray Wilson, OAM, collection of Australian Surrealist art, this exhibition shows the extraordinary breadth of Surrealist practice in this country from the 1920s to the 1950s
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