Lot 10
  • 10

Victor Brauner

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 EUR
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Description

  • Victor Brauner
  • VICTOIRE DE LA MATIÈRE
  • signé avec le monogramme de l'artiste et daté Novembre 1942 (en bas à droite), inscrit Victoire de la matière Lion Lumière Liberté (en haut à gauche)

  • aquarelle et encre sur papier

  • 32,9 x 25 cm
  • 13 x 9 7/8 in.

Provenance

Paul Eluard, Paris
Collection particulière, Europe

Exhibited

Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, Victor Brauner ou l'enchantement surréaliste, 1999, no. 13

Literature

Didier Semin, Victor Brauner, Paris, 1990, reproduit p. 202

Condition

Please note that measurements in inches are incomplete in the printed catalogue and should read 13 x 9 7/8 in. Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down. The upper and right edges are slightly irregular. There is a pin-head-sized fly spot to the right of the left foot of the figure, a 2cm diagonal flatten crease in the upper right corner & another horizontal one along the upper left corner. Apart from some light time-staining this work is in very good original condition.
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Catalogue Note

signed with the artist's monogram and dated 'Novembre 1942' (lower right), inscribed 'Victoire de la matière Lion Lumière Liberté' (upper left), watercolour and pen and ink on paper. Executed in November 1942.