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Remembering André Breton on his birthday 🎂
📷 Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, 1961
"He was an advocate of the playful who could be unbearably pompous, a priest of love who sometimes seems, in his writings, to have had a purely abstract interest in the subject."
- Jonathan Jones Image
André Breton in his studio, rue Fontaine, Paris, 1956
An outstanding portrait by Sabine Weiss, who we lost last year #RIP Image
Anna Riwkin took this famous 1935 photo of the leading (male) lights of Surrealism.
Tristan Tzara, Paul Éluard, André Breton, Jean Arp, Salvador Dali, Yves Tanguy, Max Ernst, René Crevel, Man Ray
Today we're celebrating Breton's birthday 🎂 Image
The Surrealist Constellation, by Valentine Hugo, 1932
Portraits of Paul Éluard, Andre Breton, Tristan Tzara, Rene Char, Benjamin Peret, Rene Crevel Image
Artists in Exile, by Herman Landshoff, 1942
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Stanley William Hayter
Leonora Carrington
Frederick John Kiesler
Kurt Seligmann
Max Ernst
Amedée Ozenfant
Andre Breton
Fernand Léger
Berenice Abbott
Jimmy Ernst
Peggy Guggenheim
John Ferren
Marcel Duchamp
Piet Mondrian Image
André Breton meets his young followers at his favourite café, The Promenade of Venus
📷 Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, 1961 Image
Surrealists hanging out, photographed by Hermann Landshoff, New York, 1942
Leonora Carrington, André Breton, Marcel Duchamp & Max Ernst with "Akt am Fenster" by Morris Hirshfield Image
André Breton by Boris Lipnitzki
Paris, 1940s Image
André Breton by Boris Lipnitzki, c. 1950 Image
Max Ernst in front of his painting Der Surrealismus und die Malerei.
He's joined by a huddle of Surrealists: Leonora Carrington, Marcel Duchamp & André Breton
📷 Hermann Landshoff, New York, 1942 Image
The Surrealists by Stefano Bianchetti
André Breton, Elsa Triolet & Louis Aragon, Paul & Nusch Eluard
"Opium for the people is how Lenin described religion, & in doing so brought the two things closer together than the surrealists may have liked."
- Walter Benjamin Image
"Cadavre exquis"
Valentine Hugo, André Breton, Tristan Tzara, Greta Knutson, c. 1933
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"In the ordered world, dreams hollow out individuality like the cavity in a tooth."
- Walter Benjamin, from Surrealism: Last snapshot of the European intelligentsia, 1929 Image
André Breton allongé devant un palmier à l’hôtel Vaste Horizon
📷 Dora Maar, c. 1936-37
The two were married, but Maar had recently met Picasso, & she'd soon be off for her new Muse job chez Picasso. Image
In her photographs in the late 20s & 30s, Dora Maar documented the lives of the Surrealists. In "Les amis" we see Nusch Eluard, Lise Deharme & André Breton at an elegant luncheon, c. 1936. A great photo! Image
Reconstruction of André Breton's studio, Musée national d'art moderne
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