Victor Brauner - Lot with 2 books - 1995-2016

First a Dadaist and familiar with other avant-gardists, then a singular figure of Surrealism, Brauner appropriated the movement’s favored themes (erotism, probabilistic objectivity, dream interpretation, and the occult sciences), thereby giving the movement a distinctive and mysterious character.

From 1920, the period of his early paintings, to 1966, the year of his death, this great artist unsettled sources and genres to arrive at a poetic writing without equal. The dream and the real, the animal the vegetal and the human, the descriptive and the prophetic, erotism and sacred love, modernism and the great spiritual traditions, primitive arts and surrealist painting. This visionary painter, admired by artists and poets, a key figure of Surrealism who developed his work in adversity, poverty and fear at times, managed to formalize an evident and singular coherence and drew to himself an incredible adjectivation.

These two exhibition catalogues offer an overview of Brauner’s work: The catalogue published in Italy presents in bilingual Fr/It texts allowing a better grasp of the richness and influences in Brauner’s work as well as his artistic journey,

+ Victor Brauner 1903 - 1966 Galleria Credito Valtellinese Milano: Works from three major French museums: Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Musée de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d’Olonne and Musée Cantini in Marseille. Texts by Didier Semin, Dominique Stella, Marina Vanci-Perahin, Véronique Serrano, Sarane Alexandrian, Alain Jouffroy, Jean Dausset. 156 illustrations

+ Victor Brauner 1903 -1966. Mythological progression of the Naum Foundation

Between 1920—the period of his early paintings—and 1966, the year of his passing, this great artist unsettled sources and genres to achieve a poetic writing without equal. The dream and the real, the animal the vegetal and the human, the descriptive and the prophetic, erotism and sacred love, modernism and the great spiritual traditions, primitive arts and surrealist painting. This visionary painter admired by artists and poets, a central figure of surrealism who developed his work in adversity, poverty and fear at times, managed to formalize an evident and singular coherence and drew to himself an incredible adjectivation. Victor: Work conceived and created by Mihaela Petrov on the occasion of the exhibition HOMMAGE TO VICTOR BRAUNER, Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer in 2016,

Small rub along the upper edge of the back cover of the Naum Foundation catalogue.