
Untitled
André Breton · January 18, 1937
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sold by Robert Elkon Gallery, New York to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1964; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, from 2018.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, "Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage," Mar. 25-June 9, 1968, pp. 94 and 230, cat. 34, fig. 135, as "For Jacqueline"; also Los Angeles County Museum of Art, July 15-Sept. 8, 1968; and the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 19-Dec. 8, 1968.
- Chicago, The Arts Club, "A Second Talent: An Exhibition of Drawings and Paintings by Writers," Nov. 16-Dec. 31, 1971, cat. 25 (ill. upside down), as "Pour Jacqueline."
- New York, Robert Elkon Gallery, "Twentieth-Century Masters on Paper," Oct. 2-Nov. 3, 1976, cat. 40 (ill.).
- Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, "Words at Liberty," May 6-July 10, 1977, pp. 5 and 16, as "For Jacqueline."
- London, Hayward Gallery, "Dada and Surrealism Reviewed," Jan. 10-Mar. 27, 1978, cat. 12.23 (ill.), as "Objet-Poème."
- Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, "Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections," 1984–1985, pp. 23 and 126, pl. 13, as "For Jacqueline."
- Art Institute of Chicago, "A Tribute to Edwin A. Bergman (1917–1986): Selections from the Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection," 1986, pamphlet no. 4, as "For Jacqueline."
Literature
Published references
- Minotaure 10 (Winter 1937), p. 59 (ill.).
- Nicholas Calas, "Surrealist Heritage?," Arts Magazine 42:5 (Mar. 1968), p. 28 (ill.), as "For Jacueline."
- Hilton Kramer, "The Secred History of Dada and Surrealism," Art in America 56:2 (Mar.-Apr. 1968), p. 109 (ill.), as "For Jacueline."
- William Rubin, The Surrealism of the Thirties: Surrealist Objects (New York, 1968), p. 266, fig. 264, as "Poem-Object."
- Nahma Sandrow, Surrealism: Theater, Arts, Ideas (New York, 1972), opp. p. 61 (ill.), as "Pour Jacueline."
- Rutgers University Art Gallery, Surrealism and American Art, 1931-1947, exh. cat. (1977), p. 16, pl. X (ill.), as "Poem Object."
- The Cleveland Museum of Art, Surrealism in Perspective exh. cat. (1979), p. 30, photograph of work exhibited, as "For Jacueline."
- Robert Short, Dada and Surrealism (London, 1980), pl. 136, as "Poem-Object."
- José Pierre, L'Univers Surréaliste (Paris, 1983), pp. 180 and 185 (ill.), as "Pour Jacueline."
- In the Mind's Eye: Dada and Surrealism (New York, 1985), p. 22, pl. 13.
- André Breton: Je vois j'imagine, Poèmes-Objets, (Paris, 1991), p. 172, pl. 17.
- Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, André Breton: La beauté convulsive, exh. cat. (1991), p. 72 (hanging in Breton's home, c. 1939; see fig. 2) and p. 300 (ill.), as "Objet-Poème (Carte Resplendissantede ma vie)."
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