Kurt Seligmann American, born Switzerland, 1900-1962
Automne trompette de fourrure (Le carillon muet)aka Trumpet of Fur & Kite, 1938
Oil on glass
20 1/4 x 16 1/8 in
51.4 x 41 cm
51.4 x 41 cm
Provenance
J.B. Neumann, New YorkSid Deutsch Gallery, New York
Exhibitions
Toronto, Roberts Art Gallery, Canadian National Exhibition, September 1938Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, The Sixty-Fourth Autumn Exhibition, October 12, 1938—
January 7, 1939, no. 464
New York, Nierendorf Gallery, Kurt Seligmann: Specters 1939 A.D.--13 Variations on a
macabre theme, September 27—October 15, 1939, no. 12
New York, National Academy Museum, Surrealism USA, February 17—May 8, 2005,
traveled to Phoenix Art Museum, June 5—September 25, 2005; illustrated in catalogue p. 109, fig. 47
Hartford, CT, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Monsters & Myth: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s, October 20, 2018 - January 13, 2019, traveled to Baltimore Museum of Fine Art, February 24 - May 26, 2019, and the Frist Art Museum, Nashvilee, TN, June 23, - September 22, 2019; illustrated in catalogue p. 145, no. 16
Literature
La Révolution surréaliste, catalogue, Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2002, illustrated p. 283Stephen Hauser, Kurt Seligmann 1900-1962: Leben und Werk, Basel, 1997, p. 167