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Copyright estate of the artist | | | Brauner, Victor (1903 - 1966) Romania
Le Chevalier de Glace, 1938
Oil on canvas; 54 x 65 cm Surrealism
UID 102-74
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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
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
Collection Berardo, Oeuvres Choisies du 20e Siècle Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon, France 05-10-2001 ~ 14-01-2002
Fernando Lemos and Surrealism - The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 26-11-2005 ~ 18-06-2006
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
Art in France 1860-1960: Realism MASP - Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil 15-05-2009 ~ 30-06-2009
Art in France 1860-1960: Realism, Porto Alegre MARGS, MUSEU DE ARTE DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL ADO MALAGOLI, Brazil 13-07-2009 ~ 30-08-2009
Paradise Motel Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 13-11-2010 ~ 26-12-2011
Sous la Dictée de L’image Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 01-03-2010 ~ 26-05-2010
Tudo o que é Sólido Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 07-06-2010 ~ 12-09-2010
Bibliography
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
Collection Berardo, Oeuvres Choisies du 20e Siècle, 2001 Published by Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon ISBN 2711843319
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
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