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 Tutundjian, Leon (1905 - 1968)
Armenia

Untitled, 1929

Relief, oil on wood and metal;
59 x 51 cm
Abstraction Between WWI and WWII

UID 102-580



Biography

Asian artist who, in 1923, moved to Paris. In 1925, he produced his first collages and, in 1926, he took part in the Surrealist exhibition at the Surréaliste Gallery, in Paris. In the following year, he participated in the Salon des Surindépendants and, in 1929, he took part in the exhibition of Abstract Art at the Bonaparte Gallery. In the same year, he had a one-man show at the Nay Gallery, in Paris. He worked in a style which was simultaneously geometrically Abstract and Surrealist. In 1931 took part in Salon 1940 and was co-founder of the group, Abstraction-Création. In 1932, he worked exclusively in a Surrealist-figurative style and took part in a Surrealist exhibition at the Pierre Colle Gallery, in Paris. In 1958, his art moved towards a lyrical abstraction and, in April 1966, he took part in the exhibition, Arp, Hélion, Tuntundjian at the Yvon Lambert Gallery, in Paris. In 1978, he took part in the exhibition, Abstraction-Création at the Paris Museum of Modern Art and in Munster.



Exhibitions

Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999
Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal
27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000

A Colecção Berardo a partir do Atelier Brancusi
Galeria Jornal de Notícias, Portugal
26-01-2007 ~ 24-03-2007


Bibliography

Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000
Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém
ISBN 972817652X







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