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Exquisite Corpus: Surrealist Treasures from a Private Collection

Victor Brauner

Sans titre

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November 21, 03:56 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

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Exquisite Corpus: Surrealist Treasures from a Private Collection

Victor Brauner 

1903 - 1966


Sans titre 

signed Victor Brauner (lower right)

oil on canvas laid down on Masonite

23 ⅜ by 27 ⅞ in.

59.4 by 70.8 cm.

Executed in 1938.


Samy Kinge has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work.

Mme Renée Lachowsky, Brussels

Acquired by 1978 by the present owner

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, vol. I, 1999, no. 20, p. 70, illustrated in color

Sarane Alexandrian, Dictionnaire de la peinture surréaliste, Paris, 1973, p. 9, illustrated in color (titled Chimère)

Didier Semin, Victor Brauner, Paris, 1990, p. 92, illustrated in color; p. 307