Christopher Columbus

Modern Art

1938/39

Victor Brauner
Romanian, 1903–1966

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Victor Brauner
Title: Christopher Columbus
Place: Romania (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1938–1939
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: none
Dimensions: 50.2 × 65.1 cm (19 3/4 × 25 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Albert A. Robin
Reference Number: 2004.764
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Musée national d’art moderne, Victor Brauner: June 2–September 25, 1972 exh. cat. (Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1972), n.p.
Dawn Ades, et al., In the Mind’s Eye: Dada and Surrealism (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1985), p. 121 (ill.).
Didier Semin, Victor Brauner (Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1990), pp. 288 (ill.), 314, as Christophe Colomb.

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections, December 1, 1984–January 27, 1985, p. 121.

Julien Levy, Bridgewater, Conn., by 1972 [Paris 1972]. Albert Robin, Chicago, by 1985 [Chicago 1985].

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