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Copyright estate of the artist | | | Brauner, Victor (1903 - 1966) Romania
Triomphe du Doute, 1942
Indian ink on paper; 50 x 65 cm Surrealism
UID 102-75
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Biography
Although Victor Brauner mainly worked as painter, sculptor and playwright in France, he was in fact born in Romania. He studied in Braila, Bucharest, where he held his first exhibition in 1924 at the Mozart Gallery. He founded the magazine 75 HP and, between 1928 and 1931, worked on another surrealist and dadaist magazine called UNU, where he published his paintings and drawings. He moved to Paris in 1930 where he met Constatin Brancusi, who introduced him to photography, and Yves Tanguy through whom he met the major surrealists of the time. He held his first one-man show in 1934 at the Pierre Loeb Gallery. He went back to Paris in 1945 and, in 1946, he held another one-man show at the Pierre Loeb Gallery which was followed by participation in the International Exhibition of Surrealism at the Maeght Gallery in 1947. In 1948, at the René Drouin Gallery, he held his most important exhibition. 1959 saw him participate in documenta 2 in Kassel and cut his ties with the surrealists. In the 50s, inspired by the existential philosophy of Heidegger, he produced many pictures which dealt with death in a prophetic manner. Brauner was also one of the artists chosen to represent France at the 1966 Venice Biennale. Some of his works were donated to the Musée Nationale d'Art Moderne (Georges Pompidou Centre) after his death.
Exhibitions
O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho Palácio da Galeria, Câmara Municipal de Tavira, Portugal 12-07-2003 ~ 14-09-2003
Corpus: Visions of the Body in The Berardo Collection Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 10-10-2003 ~ 13-03-2004
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999 Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000
Fernando Lemos and Surrealism - The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 26-11-2005 ~ 18-06-2006
Nova Apresentação da Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 08-11-1999 ~ 01-03-2000
Durante o Fim - Rui Chafes Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 15-10-2000 ~ 14-01-2001
O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho, Sintra Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 04-07-2001 ~ 30-06-2001
Fernando Lemos e o Surrealismo - Colecção Berardo Centro das Artes Casa das Mudas, Calheta, Madeira, Portugal 08-07-2006 ~ 31-01-2007
Berardo Museum Opening Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 25-06-2007 ~ 24-08-2008
De Miró à Warhol. La Collection Berardo à Paris Musée du Luxembourg, France 16-10-2008 ~ 22-02-2009
Bibliography
Brauner, 1990 Published by Editions des Musées Nationaux, Editions Filipacchi
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
Corpus: Visions of the Body in The Berardo Collection, 2003 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 9728176856
Fernando Lemos and Surrealism , 2005 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729903026
Fernando Lemos e o Surrealismo – Colecção Berardo, 2006 Published by Centro das Artes - Casa das Mudas ISBN 9728902034
O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho, 2003 Published by Palácio da Galeria, Câmara Municipal de Tavira ISBN 9728705050
O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho, 2001 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729742847
Victor Brauner, 1972 Published by Musée National d'Art Moderne
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