Alphabet de la Tête

1. The artist, until at least 1940; Julien Levy (1906-1981), New York and later Bridgewater, CT, by 1981 [Sotheby’s, New York, Nov. 5, 1981, lot 114]. Richard L. Feigen (1930-2021), New York [no. 14006-D]. Albert Robin (1912-2007), Chicago, by 2005; given to the Art Institute, 2005.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Mexico City, Galería de Arte Mexicano, Exposición Internacional del Surrealismo, Jan. 17–Feb. 24, 1940, cat. 9.

• André Breton, César Moro, eds., Exposición Internacional del Surrealismo, exh. cat. (Mexico City: Galería de Arte Mexicano, 1940), n.p., cat. 9, as Alfabeto de Cabeza (not ill.).
• Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture from the Julien Levy Collection (New York: Sotheby’s, 1981), lot 114 (color ill.).
• Dafne Cruz Porchini and Adriana Ortega Orozco, “The 1940 International Exhibition of Surrealism: A Cosmopolitan Art Dialogue in Mexico City,” Dada/Surrealism, No. 21 (2017), 9, fig. 2 (ill.).
• Camille Morando and Sylvie Patrie, eds., Victor Brauner, écrits et correspondances, 1938-1948: les archives de Victor Brauner au Musée national d'art moderne (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2005), 316.

Acolo

Art Institute of Chicago

Turning Point of Thirst

Art Institute of Chicago

Gemini

Art Institute of Chicago

Christopher Columbus

Art Institute of Chicago

Animal

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

Art Institute of Chicago

Reclining Figure with Crow

Art Institute of Chicago

Prelude to a Synthesis

Art Institute of Chicago

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