Explore our favourite ten artworks under £10,000. This curated selection features modern masters such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, and Joan Miró, together with pop icons Andy Warhol and Peter Blake, alongside other compelling, vibrant pieces. From the whimsical to the surreal, discover a striking range of expressive works.
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Part of Andy Warhol’s fanciful recipe book ‘Wild Raspberries', ‘Salade de Alf Landon’ is a whimsical culinary creation that features the artist’s signature blotted line technique and the emergence of his iconic pop art style.
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The series 'After 50 years of Surrealism' illustrates significant moments in Dali’s life, 'The Grand Inquisitor Expels the Savior' documents the moment at which Dali was ousted from the surrealist circle by Andre Breton. Rendered in his characteristic surrealist style, Dalí reimagines himself as a burning giraffe, forcibly pushed from a tower by a Pope-like figure representing Breton.
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'Cyclopean Makeup' is part of Salvador Dalí's futuristic and scientific series; here, he envisions a high-tech device for makeup in which computerized cybernetic patterns replace physical makeup and analgyphic glasses are needed to view the transformations. Dali incorporates collage and dreamlike landscapes to illustrate his strange and surreal technological inventions.
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Joan Miró blends his signature abstract and surrealist style with fantastical, whimsical organic forms. In 'One Plate', from Ubu aux Baléares, his playful spontaneity and childlike inspirations are very much at work in this striking composition.
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David Shrigley’s signature approach, using simple, childlike drawings and doodles to transforms everyday anxieties into something both unsettling and humorous is a dynamic clearly at work in 'Untitled (fire)'.
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Icon of the British pop movement Peter Blake's 'F is for Football' is part of the artist’s pop-culture inspired 'Alphabet Series'. The series' bold designs were ingeniously created by carefully combining miscellaneous objects, magazine clippings, postcards and ephemera.
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'Setze jutges mengen fetge d’un penjat' is from Dalí's satirical, nightmarish series 'Les Caprices de Goya' based on the works by Francisco Goya's series 'Los Caprichos', which visualises Goya's bleak caricature of 18th-century Spanish society.
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Les Portraits Imaginaires: One Plate (27.4.69) by Pablo PicassoLithograph in colours
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In Pablo Picasso's 'Les Portraits Imaginaires' series, the artist uses simple, everyday materials like cardboard and packaging paper to make expressive portraits. 'One Plate, 27.4.69' showcases Picasso's mastery of capturing human emotion and character through his iconic abstract style and bold use of colour.
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