About This Artwork
Victor Brauner
Romanian, 1903–1966
Gemini1938
Oil on canvas
45.7 x 54.3 cm
Signed, l.l.: "VICTOR BRAUNER/1938"
Gift of Albert A. Robin, 2004.763
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Gallery 396A
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Dada, Surrealist and Their Heritage, March 27–June 9, 1968, no. 29; traveled to Los Angeles County Museum of Art, July 16–September 8, 1968; Chicago, Art Institute, October 19–December 8, 1968.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections, December 1, 1984–January 27, 1985, plate 35.
Berkeley, Calif., University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, Anxious Visions: Surrealist Art, October 3–December 30, 1990, plate 61.
Publication History
William S. Rubin, Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1968), p. 136, fig. 197.
Dawn Ades, et al., In the Mind’s Eye: Dada and Surrealism (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1985), p. 121, plate 35.
Sidra Stich, Anxious Visions: Surrealist Art (Berkeley: University Art Museum, 1990), pp. 56–58, 285, fig. 61, plate 61.
Ownership History
Mr. and Mrs. Julien Levy, Bridgewater, Conn., by 1968 to at least January 1980 [New York, 1968 and phone conversation, December 9, 2004, with Pat Magnani, Registrar, Neuberger Museum]. Albert Robin, Chicago, by 1985 [Chicago 1985].

