Gazette Drouot logo print
Lot n° 39

Victor BRAUNER. The Hunter of Unknowing. July...

Estimate :
Subscribers only

Victor BRAUNER. The Hunter of Unknowing. July 16, 1949. Oil on canvas (60 x 73 cm), signed and dated "16 VII 49" lower right, title in red ink lower center : varnished wood frame. Superb oil on canvas signed Victor Brauner. Two labels on the back on the stretcher from the Jan Krugier (Geneva) and Seine (Paris) galleries. Provenance : - Collection Pierre Mabille, France (1960) - Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva - Galerie de Seine, Paris (1975) - Galerie Nathalie Seroussi, Paris (2000) Exhibitions : 1973, Collection fantôme, text by Philippe Soupault, Galerie de Seine (with reproduction p. (Samy Kinge, Catalogue raisonné, Victor Brauner 1937-1954 by Margaret Montagne, n° PB412 - René Passeron, Encyclopédie du Surréalisme, 1975, repr. p.127José Pierre, L'Aventure surréaliste autour d'André Breton, Filippachi, 1986, repr. p. 124).