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Estimate

70,000 - 90,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Victor Brauner

1903 - 1966


Le Père insolent

signed VICTOR BRAUNER and dated 28.X.1944 + 23.6.1945 (lower right); titled (lower left)

oil and encaustic on board

64.5 by 49.5 cm. 25⅜ by 19½ in.

Executed in 1944-45.


Formerly in the collections of Benjamin Peret and Maria Martins.

Benjamin Peret, Paris

Maria Martins, Brazil

Alexander Iolas, New York (acquired by 1972)

Acquired from the above on 15 January 1985 by the present owner

Didier Semin, Victor Brauner, Paris, 1990, p. 127, illustrated in colour (dated 1944)

Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Victor Brauner, 1972, no. 67, p. 98

Lugano, Villa Malpensata, Victor Brauner: Miti, presagi, simboli. Opere dal 1929 al 1965, 1985, p. 68, illustrated in colour (dated 1945)