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    La Tortue bleue

    Painting

    Author

    By (artist) Aloys Zötl

    Description

    Aloys Zötl
    "Here I am proposing my own personal choice, which-far from any desire to be authoritarian and definitive-is, on the contrary, an invitation to each individual to make his own choice. First because beauty is a personal affair [...] and then because the affinities that we may feel in regard to this or that animal space proceeds from reasons which often are not ruled by our consciousness.
    I like [...] Le Semnopithèque from 1839 [...], La Loutre and Rana varia (one of the most beautiful Max Ernst's I know) from 1863, [...] Le Rhinocéros from 1872 (Oh, powerful marvel of ponderousness and grace) [...]" José Pierre (Julio Cortazar (texte de), Giovanni Mariotti (introduction de), José Pierre (postface de), Aloys Zötl (1803-1887), Milan, Franco Maria Ricci, 1976, p. 140-144).

    Bibliography

    - Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Me Rheims, L'atelier Aloys Zötl, 19 décembre 1955, n° 37
    - Julio Cortazar (texte de), Giovanni Mariotti (introduction de), José Pierre (postface de), Aloys Zötl (1803-1887), Milan, Franco Maria Ricci, 1976, rep.p. 131, p. 154

    Creation date1881
    Date of publication 1881
    LanguagesFrench
    Physical description43,8 x 54,7 cm (17 1/4 x 21 1/2 in.) - Gouache sur papier
    From / ProvenanceAcquis par André Breton lors de la première vente aux enchères d'aquarelles d'Aloys Zötl. Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Me Rheims, le 19 décembre 1955
    Reference2070000
    Breton Auction, 2003Lot 4430
    Keywords, ,
    CategoriesModern Paintings
    ExhibitionL'Atelier d'Aloÿs Zötl
    Permanent linkhttps://www.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100227880
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