
Exquisite Corpus: Surrealist Treasures from a Private Collection
Fata Alaska
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350,000 - 450,000 USD
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Exquisite Corpus: Surrealist Treasures from a Private Collection
Wolfgang Paalen
(1905 - 1959)
Fata Alaska
signed WP and dated .37 (on the reverse)
oil and fumage on canvas
36 by 23 ⅝ in. 91 by 60 cm.
Executed in 1937.
We wish to thank Dr. Andreas Neufert for his kind assistance in the cataloguing of this work.
Eva Sulzer, Paris (acquired by January 1938)
Isabel de Paalen, Mexico City (acquired from the above)
Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City
Acquired from the above in July 1970 by the present owner
Paris, Galerie Beaux-Arts, Exposition internationale du surréalisme, 1938, no. 168), no. 168, p. 7, (dated 1936-37)
Paris, Galerie Renou et Colle, Wolfgang Paalen, 1938, no. 2
London, Galerie Guggenheim-Jeune, Wolfgang Paalen, 1939, no. 3
New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Paintings by Wolfgang Paalen, 1940, no. 10
Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, Homenaje a Wolfgang Paalen, 1967, pp. 9 and 16; p. 33, illustrated in color
Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris-Paris: Créations en France, 1937-1957, 1981, p. 77, illustrated, p. 513
Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Wolfgang Paalen, 1993, p. 108, illustrated
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, 1999, vol. I, no. 201, p. 268; p. 270, illustrated in color
André Breton, Dictionnaire abrégé du surréalisme, Paris, 1938, p. 64, illustrated
André Breton, “Wolfgang Paalen,” London Bulletin, vol. 1, no. 10, February 1939, p. 5; p. 12, illustrated
Gustav Regler, Wolfgang Paalen, New York, 1946, pl. 3, p. 25, illustrated
Ida Rodriguez Prampolini, El Surrealismo y El Arte Fantastico de Mexico, Mexico City, 1969, pl. XII, illustrated in color
Sarane Alexandrian, Dictionnaire de la peinture surréaliste, Paris, 1973, p. 49, illustrated in color
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, New York, 1972, no. 187, p. 439, illustrated
Jacques Baron, Anthologie plastique du Surréalisme, Paris, 1980, p. 206, illustrated in color
José Pierre, Wolfgang Paalen, Paris, 1980, p. 22, illustrated in color; p. 79
José Pierre, L’Univers surréaliste, 1983, p. 175, illustrated in color
Mary Ann Caws, Rudolf Kuenzli and Gwen Raaberg, eds., Surrealism and Women, 1990, Cambridge and London, 1990, fig. 5, p. 136; p. 137, illustrated
Andreas Neufert, Wolfgang Paalen: Im Inneren des Wals, Vienna, 1999, no. 37.03, p. 92, illustrated in color; p. 190, illustrated (in photograph of 1938 Paris, Galerie Beaux-Arts Exhibition); pp. 191, 195 and 294
Exh. Cat., Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Surrealism in Paris, 2011-12, p. 261, illustrated (in installation at Galerie Beaux-Arts Exhibition, 1938, Paris)
Andreas Neufert, Paalen, Life and Work. Forbidden Land: The Early and Christian Years 1905-1939, vol. I, Norderstedt, 2022, p. 255, illustrated
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