Gérard Vulliamy (Paris, 1909 - Labastide d'Armagnac, 2005)
Le Cygne de la Joconde, 1933
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated on the bottom right "Vulliamy 33"
Countersigned and annotated on the back on the frame
81 x 65 cm
Bears an autographed artist's label with his former address, 34 rue de Vanves, crossed out and corrected to "4 Villa St Jacques, Paris XIV" with the mention "Le cygne de la Joconde 1933-34 (84 x 67)"
Provenance:
- Artist's studio
- Former Jean Petithory collection, Paris
- Galerie 1900-2000, Paris
- Geneviève and Jean-Paul Kahn collection, Paris
Exhibitions:
- Paris, Galerie Beaux-Arts de Georges Wildenstein, "Exposition internationale du surréalisme", 17 January - 24 February 1938, described in the catalogue under no. 227, unpaginated
- Paris, Galerie Denise René, 9 November - 4 December 1948
- Paris, Musée national d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, "Paul Eluard and ses amis peintres", 4 November 1982 - 17 January 1983, illustrated in the catalogue p. 187
- Milan, Palazzo Reale, "I Surrealisti", 7 June - 10 September 1989, described in the catalogue p. 645 and illustrated p. 363
- Frankfort, Kunsthalle, "Die Surrealisten", 8 December 1989 - 18 February 1990, described in the catalogue p. 425 and illustrated p. 234
Bibliography:
- Paul Eluard, "Voir", Ed. des Trois Collines, Lausanne, 1948, illustrated in the catalogue p. 137.
- L. Harambourg, "Gérard Vulliamy", Grand Palais RMN, Paris, 2011, described in the catalogue under no. 24, p. 50 and illustrated p. 51
