The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College will host the New England premier of “Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy,” which will be on display from January 15 through March 24.

This national traveling exhibition includes more than 100 drawings, collages, prints, watercolors and photographs by key artists of the Surrealist movement collected by the late Julien Levy, one of the Twentieth Century’s most influential art dealers. The exhibition title comes from one of Salvador Dali’s most famous images, “Accommodations of Desire,” a painting that Levy once owned and counted among his favorites.

Surrealism, which dominated modern art in the 1930s and 1940s, attempted to reconcile everyday reality and the world of dreams into a superreality, or surreality. Levi described the genre as a melding of dream, metaphor, fetishism, nonsense and play. His passion for this art exceeded professional protocol. One observer described the preeminent art dealer and collector as militant about the movement whose cause he advanced through his New York gallery. A public event to celebrate the opening of the exhibition will be held at the McMullen Museum on Tuesday, January 25, from 7:30 to 9:30 pm.

The museum is located in Devlin Hall on the Chestnut Hill campus of Boston College, at 140 Commonwealth Avenue. For information, 617-552-8100 or bc.edu/artmuseum.