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Victor Brauner
La Porte1932

On view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3
Surrealist oil painting with a caricatured, pale-skinned figure holding a flame and striped flag, surrounded by disembodied eyes, tiny buildings, distorted figures, and a ship's wheel
Artist or Maker
Victor Brauner
Romania, active France, 1903-1966
Title
La Porte
Place Made
Romania
Date Made
1932
Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
Frame: 22 × 28 × 1 in. (55.88 × 71.12 × 2.54 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Burt Kleiner
Accession Number
M.59.19.3
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Provenance
The artist (1903-1966). [Paul Kantor, Beverly Hills]; sold to Burt Kleiner (1925-1988), Beverly Hills; given in 1959 to Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art; transferred in 1961 to LACMA.
Selected Bibliography
  • Montagne, Margaret and Didier, Semin. Victor Brauner: Surrealist Hieroglyphs. Houston, TX: The Menil Collection, 2001.
  • Krebs, Sophie, editor. Victor Brauner: Je suis le rêve, je suis l'inspiration. Paris: Paris Musées, Les musées de la Ville de Paris, 2020.
Copyright
© Victor Brauner Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York / ADAGP, Paris