Wolfgang Paalen Les Cosmogenes Sells at Sotheby’s
Wolfgang Paalen (1907-1959)
Les Cosmogenes
signed lower right
Oil on canvas
96 x 93 in.
1944
PROVENANCE
Robert Anthoine, New York
EXHIBITED
Mexico City, Galería de Arte Mexicano, Wolfgang Paalen, February 22-March 3, 1945
New York, Art of This Century, Wolfgang Paalen, April 17-May 12, 1945
San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Dynaton, 1951
Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, INBA, Homenaje a Wolfgang Paalen, el precursor, 1967, p. 48, illustrated
Paris, Galerie Viland et Galanis, Domaine de Paalen, 1970, no. 11
Basel, Galerie Schreiner, Creation: Wolfgang Paalen und Gordon Onslow Ford, 1978
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Spiritual in Art 1887-1987, 1987
Gemeentemuseum den Haag, 1988
Stifung Ludwig Wien, Museum Moderner Kunst, Wolfgang Paalen, Zwischen Surrealismus und Abstraktion, 1993, p. 231, illustrated
Mexico City, Museo de Arte Carrilo Gil, Wolfgang Paalen Retrospectiva, June 27-September 18, 1994
San Francisco, Wendi Norris Gallery, Philosopher of the Possible, Wolfgang Paalen, February 6-March 29, 2014, no. 5, p. 29, illustrated in color; also illustrated in color on the cover
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