
Art Institute of Chicago
Untitled (Fumage)
Wolfgang Paalen · 1938
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist; Gordon Onslow Ford (1912–2003) and Jacqueline Johnson (1905–1976), San Francisco, later Inverness, CA, after 1951 and by 1958 [email from Fariba Bogzaran, March 22, 2023, copy in curatorial object file; London 2019]; given to the Lucid Art Foundation, Inverness, CA, Dec. 26, 1998 [email from Fariba Bogaran, March 2, 2023, copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, June 13, 2023.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Vienna, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Wolfgang Paalen: Zwischen Surrealismus und Abstraktion, Sept. 24–Nov. 7, 1993, not in cat.
- Bochum Germany, Museum Bochum, Lateinamerika und der Surrealismus, May 22–July 18, 1993, not in cat.
- Rosyln Harbor, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, Surrealism: Dreams on Canvas, May 6–Aug. 12, 2007, no cat. no.
- Monterrey, Mexico, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, La Danza de los Espectros, Nov. 8, 2013–Mar. 23, 2014, no cat. no.; Mexico City; Museo de Arte Moderno, Apr. 23–Sept. 21, 2014.
- Vienna, Lower Belvedere, Wolfgang Paalen (1905–59): An Austrian Surrealist in Paris and Mexico, Oct. 4, 2019–Jan. 19, 2020, no cat. no.
Literature
Published references
- Constance Schwartz, Charles A. Riley II, and Fariba Bogzaran, Surrealism: Dreams on Canvas, exh. cat. (Roslyn Harbor, NY: Nassau County Museum of Art, 2007), 64 (color ill.), 65.
- Masayo Nonaka and Gonzalo Ortega, Guillermina Olmedo, trans., La Danza de los Espectros, exh. cat. (Monterrey: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, 2013), 102 (color ill.), 103.
- Stella Rollig, Andreas Neufert, and Franz Smola, eds., Wolfgang Paalen: The Austrian Surrealist in Paris and Mexico, exh. cat. (London: Koenig Books, 2019), 117 (color ill.).
- Fariba Bogzara, ed. Gordon Onslow Ford: A Man on a Green Island (Inverness, CA: Lucid Art Foundation, 2019), 184, 5.10, 185
- Andreas Neufert, Paalen: Life and Work (Norderstedt, Germany: BoD-Books on Demand; Bork, Germany: The Wolfgang Paalen Society, 2022), 308, (ill.).
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