International Exhibition of Surrealism
(Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme)
1938
- Medium
- poster: colour lithograph with collage of stamps
- Measurements
- 56.0 × 38.0 cm (image and sheet)
- Place/s of Execution
- Paris, France
- Printing/Publishing
- printed by H. Jourde, Paris
- Inscription
- printed in ink l.r.: H. JOURDE, IMP. – PARIS
- Accession Number
- 2021.747
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased NGV Foundation, 2021
© Kurt Seligmann, licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia. - Gallery location
- Late 19th & early 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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Kurt Seligmann was born in Basel and trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Geneva from 1919, where he met Alberto Giacometti. Seligmann moved to Paris in 1929 and through Giacometti met Hans Arp, who invited him to join the Abstraction-Création group, before he became an official member of the Surrealist group in 1934. Seligmann’s poster for the landmark Surrealist exhibition at the Galerie Beaux-Arts in 1938 demonstrates the biomorphic abstraction that characterised his Surrealist work. The exhibition was organised by André Breton and Paul Éluard with input from Marcel Duchamp, technical advice from Salvador Dalí and Max Ernst, and lighting by Man Ray.
