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632.
By Victor Brauner
1903-1966 |
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Description
Head, signed in English
Technique
Ink drawing
Dimensions
28.5 x 20.5 cm
Condition
very good
Biography
b. Piatra Neamt, Moldavia, 15 June 1903; d. Paris, 12 March 1966. Romanian painter, sculptor and draughtsman, active in France. As a child, he shared his fathers passionate interest in spiritualism, heralding a lasting preoccupation with the occult. In 1912 he accompanied his family to Vienna, and from 1916 to 1918 attended the evangelical school at Braila, near Galati, studying zoology with great enthusiasm; he also started to paint. In 1921 he spent a brief period at the School of Fine Arts in Bucharest, where his first exhibition was held in 1924 at the Galerie Mozart. The same year, Brauner and the poet Ilarie Voronca founded the review 75HP, in which he published his manifesto of Pictopoésie and an article on Le Surrationalisme. From 1928 until 1931 he worked with the Dada and Surrealist review UNU, which reproduced his drawings and paintings. Settling in Paris in 1930, he met Constantin Brancusi, who introduced him to photography, and Yves Tanguy, through whom he met the major Surrealists. He lived in the same building as Tanguy and Alberto Giacometti. His premonitory Self-portrait with Enucleated Eye (1931; Paris, priv. col., see 1972 exh. cat., no. 7) became a cause célèbre for the Surrealists, whom he joined officially in 1932. André Breton wrote the introduction for his first one-man show at the Galerie Pierre in 1934, the year of Monsieur Ks Power of Concentration (Paris, priv. col., see 1972 exh. cat., no. 20) and the Strange Case of Monsieur K (priv. col., see 1972 exh. cat., no. 19), departures from Brauners earlier work and reminiscent of Alfred Jarrys Père Ubu. Returning to Bucharest briefly in 1935, he joined the clandestine Romanian Communist Party but left in 1936 at the beginning of the Soviet show trials.
(The Grove Dictionary of Art).
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Head
Estimate: $1,500/$2,000
Location: Israel
Number of Bids: 3
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