LES VASES COMMUNICANTS (ANDRÉ BRETON), 1948
Oil on canvas. 13 x 16in. (33 x 41cm.)
Signed, inscribed and dated 1948. Inscribed verso.
Provenance
Sotheby’s studio sale, London, 24th April, 1985, lot 536.
Bonhams, London, 22nd April 1997, lot 15. Illustrated in colour in the catalogue.
Exhibited
London, RBA Galleries, 1950, No. 386.
Bradford, Cartwright Hall, 1952, No. 274.
The title is a reference to André Breton’s book of the same name. See also the note to Communicating Vessels (1941).