William Baziotes
The Butterflies of Leonardo da Vinci
William Baziotes
The Butterflies of Leonardo da VinciOil on canvas, 19 x 23 inches, 1942
Exhibited:
First Papers of Surrealism, Whitelaw Reid Mansion, New York, 1942.
Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, October December 1978; traveled to Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York; Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan. The Surrealist Vision: Europe and the Americas, Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich, Conn., January April 1998. William Baziotes: Paintings and Drawings, 1934-1962, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, September 2004 January 2005.Literature:
Robert Carleton Hobbs and Gail Levin. Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1978. Martha Zoubek, ed. The Surrealist Vision: Europe and the Americas. Greenwich, Conn.: Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, 1998. Elizabeth A. T. Smith et al. Matta in America: Paintings and Drawings of the 1940's. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2001. Martica Sawin. Surrealism in Exile and the Beginning of the New York School. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995.
