Surrealism

Robert Desnos (1900-1945), French poet, 1927 Photograph: Getty

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Michel Leiris (1901-1990), writer and French ethnologist, at the Cannes film festival, 1951 Photograph: Getty

Raymond Queneau (1903-1976), French writer, 1954 Photograph: Getty

Portrait of French theatre director, writer, and actor Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) taken in 1903 Photograph: Getty

Paul Eluard (1895-1952), French poet, about 1930 Photograph: Getty

Portrait of German painter Max Ernst (1891-1976), New York, 1942. Ernst sits in front of several pieces of sculpture in the house he shared with his then wife, Peggy Guggenheim Photograph: Getty

André Breton (left) talks to René Crevel (second from right) while Salvador Dali (second from left) and Paul Eluard (right) look on Photograph: Corbis

French poets Paul Eluard, André Breton and Robert Desnos pose on a photographic set at a fair in Montmartre Photograph: Corbis

Raymond Queneau, April 26 1973 Photograph: Corbis

American artist Man Ray, Madame Auspach, French poet Robert Desnos and French artist Tsugouharu Foujita (from left to right) sit at a table outdoors, 1930 Photograph: Corbis

Surrealist poets Benjamin Peret (left) and André Breton (second from left) sitting with two friends, 1935 Photograph: Corbis