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Description

A series of photo booth photographs taken circa 1929, used by André Breton to frame Magritte’s painting, I Do Not See the Woman Hidden in the Forest.

Seven prints (some with several portraits on the same film strip). Various photographs were part of the photo booth photography used by André Breton to frame Magritte’s painting, I Do Not See the Woman Hidden in the Forest, reproduced in The Surrealist Revolution, No. 12, December 15, 1929. Pictured among others: André Breton, Paul Éluard, Jacques Prévert, Suzanne Muzard. [Auction catalogue, 2003]

Exhibition

- Paris, Musée national d'art moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou, André Breton, la Beauté convulsive, 1991 (image 2)

Bibliography

- Paris, Musée national d'art moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou, André Breton, la beauté convulsive, 1991, rep.p. 193 (image 2)

Creation datec. 1929
Physical descriptionTirages argentiques sur papier
Place of origin
Reference4232010
Breton Auction, 2003Lot 5373
Keywords, , ,
Categories1924-1930
Set[Journal] La Révolution surréaliste
Permanent linkhttps://www.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100528260
Place of origin