VICTOR BRAUNER (1903-1966)
VICTOR BRAUNER (1903-1966)
VICTOR BRAUNER (1903-1966)
VICTOR BRAUNER (1903-1966)
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VICTOR BRAUNER (1903-1966)

La lumière noire

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VICTOR BRAUNER (1903-1966)
La lumière noire
signed and dated 'VICTOR BRAUNER 1964.' (lower right); titled 'LA LUMIÈRE NOIRE' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
28 3⁄4 x 23 5⁄8 in. (73 x 60 cm.)
Painted in 1964
Provenance
Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Paris
Acquired from the above by the late owners, February 1965.
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Victor Brauner: Peintures, 1963-1964, January-February 1965, no. 5 (illustrated).
Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sweet Dreams and Nightmares: Dada and Surrealism from the Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection, March-May 2000.
Further details
Samy Kinge has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

Lot Essay

Après les mélanges successifs
que nécissitent chaque début
et chaque fin,
mes formes sont superposées et s’unissent
commes les couleurs du spectre.
« Noces chimiques » de la
vision intérieure qui
interceptent, au-delà de la
frontière de la fascination
les émotions fondamentales.
Mes formes gardent
néanmoins l’essentiel de leur
structure et la signification
de leur langage.

Following the successive mixings,
which every beginning needs
and every end,
my shapes overlap and unite
like the spectrum’s colors
“Chemical wedding” of the
internal vision which
intercepts, beyond the
limits of fascination
fundamental emotions.
My shapes keep
nevertheless the essence of their
structure and the meaning
of their language.

- Victor Brauner (published alongside the entry for this work in the 1965 exhibition at Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Paris)

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