Untitled (Fumage)

1938

Wolfgang Paalen
Austrian, 1905–1959

Status: On View, Gallery 398
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Wolfgang Paalen
Title: Untitled (Fumage)
Place: Austria (Artist's nationality:)
Medium: Oil with smoke on canvas
Dimensions: 91.5 × 71.8 cm (36 × 28 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Joseph Winterbotham Collection
Reference Number: 2023.1323

Constance Schwartz, Charles A. Riley II, and Fariba Bogzaran, Surrealism: Dreams on Canvas, exh. cat. (Roslyn Harbor, NY: Nassau County Museum of Art, 2007), 64 (color ill.), 65.
Masayo Nonaka and Gonzalo Ortega, Guillermina Olmedo, trans., La Danza de los Espectros, exh. cat. (Monterrey: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, 2013), 102 (color ill.), 103.
Stella Rollig, Andreas Neufert, and Franz Smola, eds., Wolfgang Paalen: The Austrian Surrealist in Paris and Mexico, exh. cat. (London: Koenig Books, 2019), 117 (color ill.).
Fariba Bogzara, ed. Gordon Onslow Ford: A Man on a Green Island (Inverness, CA: Lucid Art Foundation, 2019), 184, 5.10, 185
Andreas Neufert, Paalen: Life and Work (Norderstedt, Germany: BoD-Books on Demand; Bork, Germany: The Wolfgang Paalen Society, 2022), 308, (ill.).

Vienna, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Wolfgang Paalen: Zwischen Surrealismus und Abstraktion, Sept. 24–Nov. 7, 1993, not in cat.
Bochum Germany, Museum Bochum, Lateinamerika und der Surrealismus, May 22–July 18, 1993, not in cat.
Rosyln Harbor, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, Surrealism: Dreams on Canvas, May 6–Aug. 12, 2007, no cat. no.
Monterrey, Mexico, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, La Danza de los Espectros, Nov. 8, 2013–Mar. 23, 2014, no cat. no.; Mexico City; Museo de Arte Moderno, Apr. 23–Sept. 21, 2014.
Vienna, Lower Belvedere, Wolfgang Paalen (1905–59): An Austrian Surrealist in Paris and Mexico, Oct. 4, 2019–Jan. 19, 2020, no cat. no.

The artist; Gordon Onslow Ford (1912–2003) and Jacqueline Johnson (1905–1976), San Francisco, later Inverness, CA, after 1951 and by 1958 [email from Fariba Bogzaran, March 22, 2023, copy in curatorial object file; London 2019]; given to the Lucid Art Foundation, Inverness, CA, Dec. 26, 1998 [email from Fariba Bogaran, March 2, 2023, copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, June 13, 2023.

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