The Baker Museum in Naples, Florida, will present ‘The Surrealist International: Fifty Years of Dreams’, an exhibition tracing the reach of Surrealism through paintings, photographs, sculptures and objects drawn from the collection of Tate in the United Kingdom. The exhibition is scheduled to run from October 17, 2026, through February 14, 2027, on the museum’s third floor.
The presentation is described by The Baker Museum as an exploration of Surrealism’s “long trajectory” and its broader reach as a state of mind. Its selection brings together artists closely associated with the movement alongside figures whose work has received less attention in standard accounts of Surrealism. The listed artists include Eileen Agar, Jean Arp, Leonora Carrington, Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Man Ray and Dorothea Tanning.
The exhibition also includes works by Kati Horna, Malangatana Ngwenya, Osamu Shiihara and Lionel Wendt, whose inclusion expands the presentation beyond the movement’s most familiar European and American names. The museum’s announcement does not provide a complete checklist or specify the number of works to be shown, but identifies the exhibition as a substantial selection spanning multiple media.
A featured image for the exhibition is René Magritte’s ‘The Future of Statues’ (1937), an oil painting on plaster held by Tate Modern. The Baker Museum is also currently presenting ‘Magritte: Reflections of Another World’, an ongoing exhibition of six works by the Belgian artist from the Van Parys family, but that separate presentation should not be confused with the Tate-based exhibition opening in October.
The Surrealist exhibition is part of the programme of The Baker Museum, which operates within Artis—Naples, a nonprofit cultural organisation whose campus includes the museum and the Naples Philharmonic. The Baker Museum’s listed address is 5833 Pelican Bay Boulevard in Naples. Its exhibition programme includes presentations drawn from the permanent collection, loans and collaborations involving visual art and music.
Ahead of the exhibition’s opening, ‘The Surrealist International: Fifty Years of Dreams’ is listed among The Baker Museum’s museum lectures and public programmes for Friday, October 16, at 4pm. The supplied programme information identifies the event as a one-hour lecture. The exhibition itself will open the following day and remain on view through February 14, 2027.
