Jane Graverol (Brussels, 1905 - Fontainebleau, 1984)
Cruauté de la mémoire, 1956
Oil on masonite
Signed and dated on the bottom left
Titled on the back
56 x 46,3 cm
Provenance:
- Paris auction, Hôtel Drouot, Etude Renaud, "Ecrivains du XXème siècle", 9 June 2001, lot 198
- Geneviève and Jean-Paul Kahn collection, Paris
Exhibitions:
- Brussels, Galerie Le Verseau, "Les Fables concrètes de Jane Graverol", 8 - 20 December 1956 (illustrated on the front page)
- Buenos Aires, Galeria Antigona, "Jane Graverol. Peintures à l'huile (Oleos)", 6 - 18 October 1958, described in the catalogue under no. 2, unpaginated
- Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, "Jane Graverol, 40 ans de peinture", 31 May - 24 June 1968, described in the catalogue under no.46, unpaginated
- Anvers, Galerie GEBO, "Surréalisme", 23 June - 10 July and 3 - 28 August 1970, described in the catalogue under no.14, unpaginated

Bibliography:
- M. Marien, Revue "Les Lèvres Nues", 1st series, n. 9, nov. 1956, text by P. Nouge, "Hommage à Seurat", illustrated p. 29

Our thanks to the Marcel Marien foundation and to Dr. Marie Godet for their contribution in referencing this work.

This work will be included in the catalogue raisonné, currently under preparation, under no. JG-P-56-1.