About This Artwork

Victor Brauner
Romanian, 1903–1966

Turning Point of Thirst, 1934

Oil on canvas
19 7/8 x 23 1/4 in. (50.5 x 59 cm)
Signed in image, l.r.: "VICTOR BRAUNER/1934"
Promised gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.; restricted gift of Richard Gray; Alyce and Edwin De Costa and the Walter E. Heller Foundation, 1992.652

© 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Paris, Galerie Pierre, Exposition Victor Brauner, December 7–25, 1934, cat. 15.

Chicago, Richard Feigen Gallery, Victor Brauner: Paintings from 1932-1958, April 26–June 13, 1959, n.p. (ill.), cat. 2, as Pivot de la soif (Pivot of Thirst).

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections, December 1, 1984–January 27, 1985, pp. 121-2 (ill), pl. 34.

Publication History

William Stanley Rubin, Dada and Surrealist Art (New York, 1968), pp. 309-310, no. 313.

Didier Semin, Victor Brauner (Paris, 1990), pp. 43-45, 59 (ill.).

James Wood and Teri J. Edelstein, The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture (Chicago, 1996), p. 68 (ill.).

Ownership History

The artist to Richard Feigen, Chicago, 1958 to 1959 [letter of April 12, 2002 from Jeff Bailey of Richard Feigen and Co., in curatorial file]; sold to Claire B. Zeisler (formerly Claire Florsheim),, Chicago, 1959 to 1991 [as per November 16, 1992 committee meeting justification by Charles F. Stuckey, in curatorial file]; probably sold to Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, by 1992; sold to the Art Institute, 1992.