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Surrealist Prelude

Prélude Surréaliste

From 7 June to 6 July 2024
Galerie Les Yeux Fertiles, 27 rue de Seine, Paris 6e

Opening on Thursday 6 June 2024, 5 to 9 pm

It is the centenary of the 1924 Surrealist Manifesto! As a preview of our three successive exhibitions from 5 September, and as part of “Paris Surréaliste” organised by the Centre Pompidou, the Comité des galeries d’art and the Comité Breton, let us meet for a Surrealist Prelude.

Some thirty artists from the Surrealist sphere, some of the works coming from the collections of André Breton, José Pierre and Arturo Schwarz!

With Endre Bálint, Hans Bellmer, Robert Benayoun, Max Bucaille, Jorge Camacho, Adrien Dax, Irena Dedicova, Gabriel Der Kevorkian, R. Garcia York, Henri Goetz, G. Halpern, Jacques Hérold, G. Hugnet, Édouard Jaguer, André Masson, Mayo, Milan Nápravník, Christian d’Orgeix, Manou Pouderoux, Jean-Claude Silbermann, Ugo Sterpini, Max Walter Svanberg, Endre Rozsda, Claude Tarnaud, Jean Terrossian, Václav Tikal, R. van den Abeele, R. von Holten, Yoshiko.

Works shown

  • R. Garcia York, Pheyaudrium Aquaticum, 1964, oil on canvas, 73.3 x 92 cm
  • Claude Tarnaud, Mogadisque, inks and oil on antelope skin, 56 x 42 cm
  • Max Walter Svanberg, Sans titre, 1960, gouache on paper, 45 x 37.5 cm
  • André Masson, Rue Saint-Denis, circa 1955, gouache on paper, 32 x 50 cm, signed lower left, certificate from the Comité Masson
  • Jean Terrossian, En chute libre, circa 1965, oil on canvas, 81 x 100 cm
  • Václav Tikal, Sans titre, 1957, graphite drawing, 34 x 23 cm

Artists: Endre Bálint, Hans Bellmer, Robert Benayoun, Max Bucaille, Jorge Camacho, Adrien Dax, Irena Dedicova, Gabriel Der Kevorkian, Henri Goetz, Jacques Hérold, Édouard Jaguer, André Masson, Mayo, Milan Nápravník, Christian d’Orgeix, Manou Pouderoux, Jean-Claude Silbermann, Ugo Sterpini, Max Walter Svanberg, Endre Rozsda, Claude Tarnaud, Jean Terrossian, Václav Tikal