Composition
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Provenance
Private Collection, Romania
Location
Bucharest, Romania
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Gellu Naum (1915- 2001) was a Romanian writer and translator, recognised as a founder of Romanian Surrealism. He studied philosophy at the University of Bucharest and later in Paris, where he earned his PhD. In Paris, Naum befriended Victor Brauner, who subsequently introduced him to André Breton and to their wider circle of Surrealist artists.
Naum worked with a variety of literary genres from poetry to essays and novels, being best known internationally for his novel Zenobia (1985), as well as, in the Romanian context, for the illustrated children’s book Apolodor (1951). Naum’s drawings and collaborations with artists can be seen as extending his engagement with free association, in visual explorations of subconscious desires.
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