Turning Point of Thirst

1. The artist; sold to Richard Feigen, Chicago, 1958 [letter from Richard L. Feigen & Co., Apr. 12, 2001; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Claire B. Zeisler (1903-1991; formerly Claire Florsheim), Chicago, 1959 [Acquisition justification by Charles F. Stuckey, Nov. 16, 1992; copy in curatorial object file]; sold through Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, jointly to Joseph Pulitzer Jr. (1913-1993) and Emily Rauh Pulitzer (born 1933), St. Louis, MO, and the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 28, 1992 [invoice; copy in curatorial object file]; promised as a gift to the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 16, 1992.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, Galerie Pierre, Exposition Victor Brauner, Dec. 7–25, 1934, cat. 15, as Pivot de la soif.
• Chicago, Richard Feigen Gallery, Victor Brauner: Paintings from 1932-1958, Apr. 26–June 13, 1959, cat. 2, as Pivot de la soif (Pivot of Thirst).
• Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections, Dec. 1, 1984–Jan. 27, 1985, no cat. no., pl. 34.
• Chicago, Richard Gray Gallery, Modern and Contemporary Masters, Including Works from the Estate of Claire B. Zeisler, May 1–June 27, 1992, no cat.
• Chicago, Richard Gray Gallery, Richard Gray Gallery: Forty Years, Sept. 5–Oct. 3, 2003, no cat.

• Galerie Pierre, Exposition Victor Brauner, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Pierre, 1934), n.p., cat. 15, as Pivot de la soif.
• Richard L. Feigen & Co., Victor Brauner: Paintings from 1932-1958, exh. cat. (Chicago: Richard Feigen Gallery, 1959), n.p. cat. 2 (ill.)., as Pivot de la soif (Pivot of Thirst).
• William S. Rubin, ed., Dada and Surrealist Art (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1968), 304, fig. 313 (ill.), 309-310, 481, 514, as Pivot de la soif.
• Terry Ann R. Neff, ed., In the Mind’s Eye: Dada and Surrealism, exh. cat. (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1985), 121, 122, pl. 34 (ill.).
• Didier Semin, Victor Brauner (Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1990), 43, 45, 59 (color ill.), 306, as Pivot de la soif.
• James Wood and Teri J. Edelstein, eds., The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), 68 (ill.).

Prelude to a Civilization

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Primitive Man

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Untitled, from "Le Char triomphal de l'Antimoine"

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Untitled (Two-Sided Monotype)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Machine

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Acolo

Art Institute of Chicago

Alphabet de la Tête

Art Institute of Chicago

Gemini

Art Institute of Chicago

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