Gemini by Victor Brauner
Art Institute of Chicago

Gemini

Victor Brauner · 1938

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist; Julien Levy (1906-1981), New York and later Bridgewater, CT, by 1968 [New York, 1968]; sold, Sotheby’s, auction, lot 44, 1981. Albert Robin (1912-2007), Chicago, by 1985 [Chicago 1985]; given to the Art Institute, 2004.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, Museum of Modern Art, Dada, Surrealist and Their Heritage, March 27–June 9, 1968, no. 29; traveled to Los Angeles County Museum of Art, July 16–September 8, 1968; Chicago, Art Institute, October 19–December 8, 1968.
  • Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections, December 1, 1984–January 27, 1985, plate 35.
  • Berkeley, Calif., University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, Anxious Visions: Surrealist Art, October 3–December 30, 1990, plate 61.

Literature

Published references

  • André Breton, "Des tendances les plus récentes de la peinture surréaliste," in Minotaur, no. 12-13 (1939), 18 (ill.), as Entre le jour et la nuit.
  • Joshua Kind, "Dada, Surrealism-and Us,"ArtScene, vol. 2, 2 (Nov. 1968): 25 (ill.).
  • William S. Rubin, Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1968), 136, fig. 197.
  • Dawn Ades, et al., In the Mind’s Eye: Dada and Surrealism (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1985), 121, plate 35.
  • Sidra Stich, Anxious Visions: Surrealist Art (Berkeley: University Art Museum, 1990), 56–58, 285, fig. 61, plate 61.
  • 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.

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