L'autophage (Fulgurites)

1. Probably sold by the artist to Geo (Georgette) Dupin, Paris [according to an email from Raman Frey of Frey Norris to Stephanie D’Alessandro dated May 5, 2011 on the basis of communication with the Paalen Archiv, copy in curatorial file]; sold to Andreas Neufert, Berlin and Munich, 1980s [according to the email cited above]; sold through Frey Norris Gallery to the Art Institute, 2011.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, Galerie Renou et Colle, Exposition Wolfgang Paalen, June 21–July 5, 1938, cat. Fumages 2 (as Fulgurites).
• London, Galerie Guggenheim-Jeune, Wolfgang Paalen, Feb. 15–Mar. 11, 1939, cat. Fumages 2 (as Fulgurites).
• New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Surrealist Paintings by Wolfgang Paalen: Revolver, “Genius of the Species,” Apr.9–22, 1940 (as Fumages).
• San Francisco, Frey Norris Gallery, Wolfgang Paalen: Implicit Spaces, May 17–July 12, 2007, cat. 8.
• Düsseldorf, Museum Kunst Palast, Le grand geste! Informel und Abstrakter Expressionismus, 1946–1964, Apr. 10–Aug. 1, 2010, cat. 94.

• André Breton, Exposition Wolfgang Paalen, exh. cat. (Galerie Renou et Colle, 1938), cat. Fumages 2 (as Fulgurites).
• “Guggenheim Jeune: Wolfgang Paalen Catalogue,” in London Bulletin II, No. 10 (Feb. 1939): p. 5, cat. Fumages 2 (as Fulgurites).
• Surrealist Paintings by Wolfgang Paalen: Revolver “Genius of the Species,” exh. brochure (Julien Levy Gallery, 1940), (as Fumages).
• Andreas Neufert, “El ser no fáctico,” in Andreas Neufert, La belleza será convulsive o no será: André Breton y la dialéctica del amor y de la muerte, exh. cat. (Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, 1996), p. 66 (ill).
• Andreas Neufert, Wolfgang Paalen: Im Inneren Wals, Monographie-Schriften-Oeuvrekatalog (Springer, 1999), pp. 118 (ill.); 301 (ill.), cat. 38.06.
• Wolfgang Paalen: Implicit Spaces, exh. cat. (Frey Norris Gallery, 2007), pp. 22-23, cat. 8 (color ill.).
• Key Heymre, Susanne Rennert, and Beat Wismer, eds., Le grand geste! Informel und Abstrakter Expressionismus, 1946-1964, exh. cat. (Museum Kunst Palast, 2010), n.p., cat. 94 (color ill.); p. 346.
• Josefa Ortega, México abstracto: la colección del Museo de Arte Moderno en el espíritu de una época (1950–1979), exh. cat. (Museo de Arte Moderno, 2009), p. 33, fig. 26 (color ill.).

Personnage

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Fumage)

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago Installation

Art Institute of Chicago

Arctic

Art Institute of Chicago

Lightning II

Art Institute of Chicago

Left Greave and Sabaton

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Fingered Gauntlet for the Left Hand

Art Institute of Chicago

Andy on Baker Street

Art Institute of Chicago

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