La Nébuleuse, 1939

Details

RAOUL UBAC (1910-1985)
La Nébuleuse, 1939
tirage argentique, brûlage positif
annotations variées au crayon (verso)
image/feuille : 39.2 x 29.5 cm. (15 ¾ x 11 5/8 in.)

Literature

Noël Arnaud et Jean-François Chabrun, Revue Transfusion du Verbe, La Main à Plume, Paris, 1941.
Jean Lescure et Raoul Ubac, Exercice de pureté, L. Lucien Cario, Paris, 1942.
Christian Bouqueret, Raoul Ubac Photographie, Editions Leo Scheer, Paris, 2000, p.155 et 186.
Catalogue d'exposition, Explosante-fixe, Photographie et Surréalisme, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1986, p. 62 et 71.
Catalogue d'exposition, Subversion des Images, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2009, p. 364.

Special notice

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Further details

GELATIN SILVER PRINT, POSITIF BURNT; VARIOUSLY ANNOTATED IN PENCIL (VERSO)

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Lot Essay

Like Man Ray, Raoul Ubac experimented with various techniques and from 1939 he created a “Brulage” (Burnt) series which consisted of putting his glass-plate negatives into emulsion that was heated. Under the effect of the heat, the sensitive surface would melt and would create, by chance, an intriguing image. A typical Surrealist gesture from this multi-faceted artist.
Other examples of this image are in the Centre Pompidou Museum in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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