Pseudonym of Marie Čermínová

Il était la proie des images - 1956

Gouache on paper
20,5 x 20,5 cm
Signed lower right

Provenance:
Sale Calmels-Cohen, Paris, 22 June 2006, lot 165
Private collection, Brussels

Published:
André Breton, Le Surréalisme même, nº1, Paris, October 1956, p.33 (ill.)

Published in the first issue of "Le Surréalisme même", published by the Jean-Jacques Pauvert bookshop. It was one of the major journals of post-war Surrealism through which André Breton sought to give a new impetus to the movement by bringing together various generations of artists and those close to the movement. It had only five issues (October 1956 - spring 1959).