
Maison hantée
Estimate
500,000 - 700,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Victor Brauner
(1903 - 1966)
Maison hantée
signed VICTOR BRAUNER and dated 8-1947 (lower right)
oil on canvas
28 ⅞ by 36 ¼ in. 73.3 by 92 cm.
Executed in 1947.
Samy Kinge has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work.
(possibly) Richard L. Feigen & Co., Chicago (acquired by May 1959)
Galerie Benador, Geneva
Acquired from the above by 1968 by the present owner
Chicago, Richard L. Feigen & Co., Victor Brauner: Paintings from 1932 to 1958, 1959, illustrated
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Surrealism in Art, 1975, no. 15, p. 13, illustrated; p. 60
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, 1999, vol. I, no. 24, p. 74, illustrated in color
New York, Ubu Gallery, Victor Brauner, 2003-04, pl. 33, illustrated in color
Sarane Alexandrian, “La symbolique de Brauner,” Cahiers d’art, vol. 24, no. 2, 1949, p. 322, illustrated
Sarane Alexandrian, Dictionnaire de la peinture surréaliste, Paris, 1973, pp. 8-9, illustrated in color
Xavière Gauthier, “Le surréalisme et la sexualité,” Obliques, nos. 14-15, 1977, p. 44; p. 45, illustrated
Didier Semin, Victor Brauner, Paris, 1990, p. 186, illustrated in color; p. 311
Exh. Cat., Houston, The Menil Collection, Victor Brauner: Surrealist Hieroglyphs, 2001-02, pl. 55, pp. 45 and 124; p. 125, illustrated in color
André Breton, Écrits sur l’art et autres textes, œuvres complètes, vol. IV, Paris, 2008, p. 499, illustrated
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