The Fourteen Daggers was included in the landmark 1942 First Papers of Surrealism exhibition, organized by André Breton and Marcel Duchamp; the largest surrealist exhibition ever held in the United States at the time, First Papers of Surrealism hailed the arrival of surrealist artists who had fled Europe for the United States at the outbreak of World War II, including Sage. (michaelrosenfeldart.com)
Greatly influenced by the influx of European surrealist artists who emmigrated to the United States after World War II, Bourgeois's early sculpture was composed of groupings of abstract and organic shapes, often carved from wood. (iniva.org)
Random House commissioned surrealist artist Salvador Dalí to do a series of illustrations for Alice in Wonderland in the 1960's. (goodereader.com)