Which Paris art gallery hosted the first Surrealist exhibition in 1925?

Galerie Pierre hosted the first Surrealist exhibition in Paris in 1925.

The exhibition, titled La Peinture surréaliste, opened at Pierre Loeb’s Galerie Pierre in November 1925. It presented works by artists associated with the emerging movement, including Man Ray, Paul Klee, Joan Miró, and Pablo Picasso. The show demonstrated that Surrealism was not limited to literature, even though Breton’s 1924 manifesto had initially emphasized poetic and psychological ideas.

The event took place during a formative period for the Parisian avant-garde. Surrealists were exploring automatism, dream imagery, chance, and irrational juxtapositions. Later exhibitions, including the 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition in London and the 1938 Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme in Paris, became more widely discussed, so the 1925 event is sometimes overlooked. Galerie Pierre should not be confused with Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York, which later represented European modernists.