Victor Brauner (b. 1903 - d. 1966)

Painter, sculptor and Surrealist poet Victor Brauner was trained in Romania, Austria and France. Going through several stages - dadaist, abstractionist, expressionist, his work is infused by the realm of dreams and the unconscious, with an emphasis on occultism. Ranging from mythologies to ancient world cultures, his art constitutes itself as a fertile melange of sources that find their meeting point in Surrealism.  In 1966, Brauner was invited to represent France at the Venice Biennale. His works are included in some of the most important collections worldwide, including the Peggy Guggenheim Foundation in Venice, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

Jacques Hérold (b. 1910 - d. 1987)

Jacques Hérold was a Surrealist painter, whose works are associated with the late-Surrealist period, Lyrical abstraction and Tachisme. Growing up in the Danubian port city of Galați, he later on studied at the School of Fine Arts in Bucharest, which he quit for working in an architecture office. Starting with the 1930s, he moved to Paris where he maintained a close friendship with Constantin Brâncuși, and became accepted in Breton’s group. Hérold’s works possess remarkable originality, and he was a skilled colourist. Jacques Hérold received the Copley Foundation prize in 1958, and in 1959 he had an exhibition at the Tate Gallery, London. In 1986, he exhibited works at the Venice Art Biennale.

Raoul Ubac (b. 1910 - d. 1985)

Raoul Ubac was a French painter, sculptor, photographer and engraver, a versatile artist who built his practice on a very diverse range of artistic interests and abilities. He was particularly interested in photography and worked as a photographer between 1934 and 1942, taking photographs for the Surrealist magazine Minotaure. Some of his notable works include the photograph Tete du Mannequin and La Conciliabule, as well as a color lithograph titled Three Seated Nudes. Despite his diverse range of interests and talents, Ubac was always drawn to the Surrealist movement, and he was heavily influenced by the artistic and intellectual community in Paris during the 1930s.