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Property from a Private Collection, Europe

Wolfgang Paalen

Rencontre sur une plage

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Property from a Private Collection, Europe

Wolfgang Paalen

1905 - 1959


Rencontre sur une plage

signed Paalen and dated 36 (lower right); signed Paalen, dated 36 and Paris1936 and dedicated à André Breton de tout coeur (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

76 ¾ by 55 ½ in.

195 by 141 cm.

Executed in 1936. 

André Breton, Paris (acquired as a gift from the artist)
Calmels Cohen Paris, 15 April 2003, lot 4386 (consigned by the estate of the above)
Galerie Makassar, Paris (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
London, New Burlington Galleries, The International Surrealist Exhibition, 1936, no. 267 (titled Encounter on a Beach)
E. Tériade, "La Peinture surréaliste," Minotaure, vol. 3, issue 8, June 1936, n.p., illustrated
Gustav Regler, Wolfgang Paalen, New York 1946, p. 21, illustrated (titled Encounter on a Seashore)
Roland Penrose, Quatre-vingts ans de surréalisme, 1900-1981, Paris 1983, no. 165, p. 67, illustrated and illustrated in a photograph (installed in The International Surrealist Exhibition, 1936)
Exh. Cat., Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wolfgang Paalen, Zwischen Surrealismus und Abstraktion, 1993, p. 62, illustrated
Andreas Neufert, Wolfgang Paalen. Im Inneren des Wals: Monografie, Schriften, Œuvrekatalog, Vienna & New York 1999, no. 36.02, pp. 86 and 290, illustrated 
Andreas Neufert, Paalen. Life and Work. Forbidden Land: The Early and Crucial Years 1905-1939, vol. I, Norderstedt 2022, p. 239, illustrated in a photograph (installed in The International Surrealist Exhibition, 1936)