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Andre Breton (1896 - 1966)
Lot 310: ANDRÉ BRETON
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Sotheby's
May 3, 2012
New York, NY, US
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Description
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED NEW YORK COLLECTION
1896 - 1966
CHANSON-OBJET
Signed André Breton, titled and dedicated A Dora (lower center); inscribed with a poem by André Breton and dated 12-2-1937. (lower right)
Assemblage including a perfume flask inscribed Dans la nuit, pipe cleaners, a sea horse and a ceramic piece mounted in a ladies' headdress box
12 1/2 by 8 7/8 by 2 3/8 in.
31.8 by 22.5 by 6 cm
Executed on February 12, 1937.
Exhibited
London, Tate Modern; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Surrealism: Desire Unbound, 2001-02
Provenance
Dora Maar, Paris (acquired directly from the artist in 1937 and sold by the estate: Piasa, Paris, Les Livres de Dora Maar, October 29, 1998, lot 226)
Acquired at the above sale
About the Artist
Andre Breton (1896 - 1966)
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