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Adrien Dax (Toulouse, 1913 - Toulouse, 1979)
Reliquaire Ardent pour l'Organisatrice du Festin, 1959
Wax bust, stone, metal, strass on wood plinth
Monogrammed, titled and dated on a pendant, "Reliquaire ardent pour l'organisatrice du festin, 11.12.59"
Signed on the back beneath the right shoulder
Engraved with "A. Dax" on the base in a metal medallion
H.: 42 cm
Provenance:
- Galerie 1900-2000, Paris
- Geneviève and Jean-Paul Kahn collection, Paris
Exhibition:
- Paris, Galerie Daniel Cordier, "Eros" Exhibition 1959
Bibliography:
- R. Benayoun, "Erotique du Surréalisme", Ed. Pauvert, Paris, 1965, illustrated in the catalogue p. 166
- "I Surrealisti", Palazzo Reale, Milan, 7 June - 10 September 1989, illustrated in the catalogue p. 523
- G. Durozoi, "Histoire du mouvement surréaliste", Ed. Hazan, Paris, 1997, illustrated in the catalogue p. 500
- G. Durozoi, "Le surréalisme", Ed. Hazan, Paris, 2002, illustrated in the catalogue p. 64
- A. Mahon, "Surrealism and the politics of Eros, 1938-1968", Thames & Hudson, London, 2005, illustrated in the catalogue p. 185, fig.132
