Last week, I ambled over to the Upper East Side for a sneak peek at a revelatory new exhibition at Di Donna Galleries that groups three stars in the increasingly hot surrealism category: René Magritte, the Belgian painter born in the final years of the 19th century, and husband-and-wife sculptors Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, who arrived on the scene a generation later. It’s a clever juxtaposition, given the art-historical lineage binding the artists across time. The very first work in the show is a 1974 bronze bust of gallerist Alexander Iolas, who has been credited with bringing surrealism to America and famously worked with both Magritte and Les Lalanne. “He was the connective tissue of their sensibilities and the uniqueness of their language,” Emmanuel Di Donna told me.