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The Sleep of Reason: A Private Collection of Surrealist Art Online

PIERRE MOLINIER | LE FESTIN DES MANÈS

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May 20, 04:25 PM GMT

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3,000 - 5,000 USD

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PIERRE MOLINIER (1900 - 1976)

LE FESTIN DES MANÈS


Signed P. Molinier (lower right)

Gelatin silver print

Image: 7⅞ by 6¼ in. (20 by 15.9 cm)

Framed: 19¼ by 17⅛ in. (48.9 by 43.5 cm)

Conceived in 1966 and printed at a later date. 

Paul Benarroche, Paris

Gilles Dusein, Paris

Gallery of Surrealism, New York

Acquired from the above on August 25, 2004

Surrealism: Two Private Eyes (exhibition catalogue), The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1999, illustration of another example p. 798

Pierre Molinier Photographe Retrospective (exhibition catalogue), Galarie Kamel Mennour, Paris, 2000, illustration of another example p. 71