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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 • Frida Kahlo • Lee Miller • Joan Miró • Eduardo Paolozzi • Alberto Giacometti • Meret Oppenheim • Leonora Carrington • Dorothea Tanning • Leonor Fini • Jean Cocteau • Kay Sage • Marcel Broodthaers • René Magritte • Salvador Dalí • Sir Roland Penrose • Jan Švankmajer • Eileen Agar • Man Ray • Jean Arp • Guillaume Apollinaire • Max Ernst • Arshile Gorky • Wifredo Lam • Francis Picabia • Philip C. Curtis • Antonin Artaud • Henri Michaux • Paul Nougé • Louis Aragon • Jacques Prévert • Philippe Soupault • Roberto Matta • Antoni Tàpies • René Char • Graham Sutherland • Paul Éluard • Yves Tanguy • Christian Dotremont • Robert Desnos • Gerrit Achterberg • Julian Trevelyan • Tchicaya U Tam’si • Paul Delvaux • André Masson • Pierre Reverdy