André Masson: Meditation on an Oak Leaf, tempera, pastel, and sand on canvas, 1016×838 mm, 1942 (New York, Museum of Modern Art, anonymous gift); © 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris/digital image © The Museum of Modern Art/licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY

Giorgio de Chirico: Soothsayer’s Recompense, oil on canvas, 1.36×1.81 m, 1913 (Philadelphia, PA, Museum of Art); © 2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris, photo credit: Philadelphia Museum of Art/Art Resource, NY

Max Ernst: Gramineous Bicycle Garnished with Bells the Dappled Fire Damps and the Echinoderms Bending the Spine to Look for Caresses, botanical chart altered with gouache, 743×997 mm, 1920–21 (New York, Museum of Modern Art); © 2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris, photo © Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY

Man Ray: Untitled ‘rayograph’, silver-salt print, 218×168 mm, from Les Champs délicieux (Paris, 1922), pl. I (Paris, Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne); © 2007 Man Ray Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris, photo credit: CNAC/MNAM/Dist Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, NY

Pablo Picasso: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, oil on canvas, 2.43×2.33 m, 1907 (New York, Museum of Modern Art); © 2007 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, photo © Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY

Surrealist painting by Yves Tanguy: Mama, Papa Is Wounded!, oil on canvas, 921×730 mm, 1927 (New York, Museum of Modern Art); © 2007 Estate of Yves Tanguy/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, photo © Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY

René Magritte: Les Promenades d’Euclid, oil on canvas, 1.63×1.30 m, 1955 (Minneapolis, MN, Minneapolis Institute of Arts); © 2007 C. Herscovici, Brussels/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, photo credit: Photothèque R. Magritte-ADAGP/Art Resource, NY

Alberto Giacometti: Palace at 4 a.m., wood, glass, wire and string, 718×635×400 mm, 1932–3 (New York, Museum of Modern Art), purchase (90.1936); © 2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris, photo © Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY

Salvador Dalí: The Accommodations of Desire, oil and cut-and-pasted printed paper on cardboard, 8 3/4 x 13 3/4 in. (22.2 x 34.9 cm), 1929 (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998, Accession ID: 1999.363.16); © 2007 Salvador Dalí, Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, photo © The Metropolitan Museum of Art http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/210010275

Surrealist sculpture by Alberto Giacometti: Pointe à l’oeil, wood and painted iron, 127×585×295 mm, 1931–2 (Paris, Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne); © 2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris, photo credit: CNAC/MNAM/Dist. Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, NY

Dorothea Tanning: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, oil on canvas, 407×610 mm, 1943 (London, Tate); © 2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris, photo credit: Tate, London/Art Resource, NY

Automatic drawing by André Masson, Furious Suns, pen and ink, 422×317 mm, 1925 (New York, Museum of Modern Art); © 2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris, photo © Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY

Pablo Picasso: The Dance, oil on canvas, 2.15×1.43 m, 1925 (London, Tate); © 2007 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, photo credit: Tate, London/Art Resource, NY

Meret Oppenheim: 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); © 2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ProLitteris, Zurich, photo © Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY