Lot 26, Victor Brauner - Pictopoème pour André Breton, 1948* - Romanian artists in the spotlight - Art in Central and Eastern Europe <br> 6th of October - Auctions

Pictopoème pour André Breton, 1948*

Description

Size: 27 x 21 cm, with frame 55 x 45 cm

Medium: Chinese ink on paper

Provenance

Private Collection, Bucharest. Previously part of the André Breton Collection.

The work is accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity from Samy Kinge.

Location

Bucharest

Price realised €19,520

Estimate €10,000 - €15,000

Description

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.  During the 1920s, Brauner published the manifest ''Pictopoetry”, a visual kind of poetry Brauner published in the 75HP avant-gardist magazine. Travelling between Paris, where he participates in all the Surrealist group exhibitions, and Romania, where he publishes and exhibits, Brauner produces a consistent body of work in painting, drawing, collage, object-installation and picto-poetry. Noticeable in Pictopoème pour André Breton, the recurring theme of the eye, present in previous works, can be seen. Breton presented many of Brauner's exhibitions and wrote extensively about his work, including on the eye symbol in works which he identified as satirical to the caricatural traits of bourgeois society. 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.

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