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Lot Essay
Né à New York en 1917, David Hare s’intéresse dès 1930 à la photographie couleur ; ses expérimentations sont exposées à la Galerie Walker de New York en 1939. Il rentre rapidement en contact avec les surréalistes réfugiés aux Etats Unis et il participe en tant que sculpteur aux expositions internationales du groupe surréaliste de 1942 à New York et de 1947 à Paris. De 1942 à 1944 il est éditeur du magazine surréaliste VVV en collaboration avec Marcel Duchamp, André Breton ou encore Marx Ernst. Peggy Guggenheim l’expose dans sa galerie régulièrement de 1944 à 1947. Il fonde aux côtés de Robert Motherwell, William Baziotes et Mark Rothko The Subjects of the Arts school à New York en 1948. La même année il déménage pour Paris où il ne restera que cinq ans. S’il est loué pour sa sculpture, Hare se focalise sur la peinture à compter des années 1960. Il participe en 1968 à l’exposition The Dada, Surrealism, and Their Heritage au MoMA avant d’être honoré l’année suivante d’un honorary doctorate de l’Institut d’Art du Maryland. Les expositions et les rétrospectives s’enchainent : au Guggenheim en 1977 ou encore à la Hayward Gallery de Londres en 1978 où ses œuvres picturales comme sculpturales sont présentées. Il meurt en 1992 à Jackson Hole.
David Hare was born in New York in 1917. Starting in 1930, he developed an interest in colour photography. In 1939, his experimental work was featured at the Walker Gallery in New York. He quickly became acquainted with the Surrealists who had decamped to the United States, and his sculptures were included in the International Surrealist Exhibitions—in 1942, in New York, and in 1947, in Paris. He was editor of the Surrealist magazine VVV from 1942 to 1944, collaborating with Marchel Duchamp, André Breton and Max Ernst. Peggy Guggenheim regularly showed his work at her gallery from 1944 to 1947. Hare, Robert Motherwell, William Baziotes and Mark Rothko founded The Subjects of the Arts School in New York in 1948. That same year, he moved to Paris, where he remained for just five years. While he is hailed for his sculpture, Hare shifted his focus to painting in the 1960s. In 1968, he participated in the MoMA exhibition titled The Dada, Surrealism, and their Heritage. The following year, he received an honorary doctorate from the Maryland Institute College of Art. His art was shown at a number of exhibitions and retrospectives in the years that followed; for example, he showed at the Guggenheim in 1977, and at the Hayward Gallery in London in 1978, where his pictorial and sculptural work were on display. David Hare died in 1992 in Jackson Hole.
David Hare was born in New York in 1917. Starting in 1930, he developed an interest in colour photography. In 1939, his experimental work was featured at the Walker Gallery in New York. He quickly became acquainted with the Surrealists who had decamped to the United States, and his sculptures were included in the International Surrealist Exhibitions—in 1942, in New York, and in 1947, in Paris. He was editor of the Surrealist magazine VVV from 1942 to 1944, collaborating with Marchel Duchamp, André Breton and Max Ernst. Peggy Guggenheim regularly showed his work at her gallery from 1944 to 1947. Hare, Robert Motherwell, William Baziotes and Mark Rothko founded The Subjects of the Arts School in New York in 1948. That same year, he moved to Paris, where he remained for just five years. While he is hailed for his sculpture, Hare shifted his focus to painting in the 1960s. In 1968, he participated in the MoMA exhibition titled The Dada, Surrealism, and their Heritage. The following year, he received an honorary doctorate from the Maryland Institute College of Art. His art was shown at a number of exhibitions and retrospectives in the years that followed; for example, he showed at the Guggenheim in 1977, and at the Hayward Gallery in London in 1978, where his pictorial and sculptural work were on display. David Hare died in 1992 in Jackson Hole.