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Lot 16
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Maria Cerminova Toyen

Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 EUR
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Description

  • Maria Cerminova Toyen
  • Et maintenant que passe le temps
  • signed TOYEN and dated 57 (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 60 by 120 cm ; 23 5/8 by 47 1/4 in.

Provenance

Private Collection, Paris (acquired directly from the artist in 1966)

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Furstenberg, Toyen, 1958, no. 11
Aquila, Château d'Aquila, Alternative Attuali 3, 1968, n.n.
Prague, Prague City Gallery, Toyen, 2000, no. 302

Condition

The canvas is not lined. There is some very minor abrasion to the upper edge but no evidence of retouching under UV light. This work is in excellent original condition.
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Catalogue Note

"All of Toyen's work has the singular aim of correcting the outside world according to a desire that stems and grows from its own satisfaction."

Benjamin Péret, "Au Nouveau-Monde, maison fondée par Toyen" in André Breton, Jindrich Heisler & Benjamin Péret, Toyen, Paris, 1953, p. 24