LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

96.06 in. (244.00 cm.) (height) by 92.91 in. (236.00 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

signed lower right

Exhibited:

Mexico City, Galería de Arte Mexicano, Wolfgang Paalen, February 22-March 3, 1945. New York, Art of This Century, Wolfgang Paalen, April 17-May 12, 1945. San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Dynaton, 1951. Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, INBA, Homenaje a Wolfgang Paalen, el precursor, 1967, p. 48, illustrated . Paris, Galerie Viland et Galanis, Domaine de Paalen, 1970, no. 11. Basel, Galerie Schreiner, Creation: Wolfgang Paalen und Gordon Onslow Ford, 1978 . Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Spiritual in Art 1887-1987, 1987. Gemeentemuseum den Haag, 1988. Stifung Ludwig Wien, Museum Moderner Kunst, Wolfgang Paalen, Zwischen Surrealismus und Abstraktion, 1993, p. 231, illustrated. Mexico City, Museo de Arte Carrilo Gil, Wolfgang Paalen Retrospectiva, June 27-September 18, 1994. San Francisco, Wendi Norris Gallery, Philosopher of the Possible, Wolfgang Paalen, February 6-March 29, 2014, no. 5, p. 29, illustrated in color; also illustrated in color on the cover

Literature:

Gustav Regler, Wolfgang Paalen, New York, 1946, p. 55, illustrated. José Pierre, Wolfgang Paalen, Paris, 1980, p. 27, illustrated . Leonor Morales, Wolfgang Paalen, humo sobre tela, Mexico City, 1996, illustrated . Gordon Onslow Ford: Seeing in Depth, Fundación Eugenio Granell, 1998, p. 57. Andreas Neufert, Wolfgang Paalen: Im Inneren des Wals, Vienna/New York, 1999, p. 166, illustrated. Christian Kloyber, Wolfgang Paalen's DYN: The Complete Reprint, Vienna/New York, 2000, p. xii. Amy Winter, Wolfgang Paalen: Artist and Theorist of the Avant-Garde, Westport, 2003, no. 8

Provenance:

Robert Anthoine, New York