LOT DETAILS

Materials:

large-format gelatin silver print

Measurements:

11.30 in. (28.70 cm.) (height) by 15.51 in. (39.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

exhibition labels from the Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf; the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; and the Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, on the reverse

Condition:

mounted, matted, framed

Exhibited:

London, Hayward Gallery, Dada and Surrealism Reviewed, January - March 1978. Washington, D. C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, L'Amour Fou: Photography & Surrealism, September - November 1985 Madrid, Salon de Exposiciones, The Lost Bodies, Photography and Surrealists, November 1995 - January 1995; and traveling to Barcelona, Centre Cultural, January - April 1996. Greenwich, Connecticut, Bruce Museum, The Surrealist Vision: Europe and the Americas, January - April 1998. Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Puppen Körper Automaten: Phantasmen der Moderne, July - October 1999. Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Dali, Picasso, and the Surrealist Vision, October - December 2005. Riehen/Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Eros in der Kunst der Moderne, October 2006 - February 2007; and traveling to Wien, BA-CA Kunstforum, March - July 2007.

Literature:

This print: Jill Quasha, The Quillan Collection of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Photographs (New York, 1991), pl. 63 Dawn Ades, Dada and Surrealism Reviewed (London, 1978, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 295. Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Puppen Körper Automaten: Phantasmen der Moderne (Düsseldorf, 1999, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 442. Fondation Beyeler, Eros in der Kunst der Moderne (Riehen/Basel, 2007, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 123. BA-CA Kunstforum, Eros in der Kunst der Moderne (Wien, 2007, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 117. Other prints of this image: Rosalind Krauss and Jane Livingston, L'Amour Fou: Photography & Surrealism (Washington, D. C.: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1985, in conjunction with the exhibition), fig. 76 Nancy Hall-Duncan, Photographic Surrealism (Cleveland: The New Gallery of Contemporary Art, 1979, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 33.

Provenance:

The photographer to Galerie André-François Petit, Paris. Private Collection. Acquired by the Quillan Company from the above, 1989.