Gemini

Modern Art

1938

Victor Brauner
Romanian, 1903–1966

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Victor Brauner
Title: Gemini
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
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed, l.l.: "VICTOR BRAUNER/1938"
Dimensions: 45.7 × 54.3 cm (18 × 21 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Albert A. Robin
Reference Number: 2004.763
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

André Breton, “Des tendances les plus récentes de la peinture surréaliste,” in Minotaur, no. 12-13 (1939), 18 (ill.), as Entre le jour et la nuit.
Joshua Kind, “Dada, Surrealism-and Us,”ArtScene, vol. 2, 2 (Nov. 1968): 25 (ill.).
William S. Rubin, Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1968), 136, fig. 197.
Dawn Ades, et al., In the Mind’s Eye: Dada and Surrealism (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1985), 121, plate 35.
Sidra Stich, Anxious Visions: Surrealist Art (Berkeley: University Art Museum, 1990), 56–58, 285, fig. 61, plate 61.

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.

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].

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