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Kurt Seligmann
American, born Switzerland, 1900-1962

Kurt Seligmann American, born Switzerland, 1900-1962

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Kurt Seligmann, Sabbath Phantoms (Mythomania), c. 1945
Kurt Seligmann, Sabbath Phantoms (Mythomania), c. 1945

Kurt Seligmann American, born Switzerland, 1900-1962

Sabbath Phantoms (Mythomania), c. 1945
Oil on canvas
36 3/4 x 51 in
93.3 x 129.5 cm
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Further images

  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Kurt Seligmann, Le génie de la conviction, 1943
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Kurt Seligmann, Le génie de la conviction, 1943
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Provenance

Arlette Seligmann, Sugar Loaf
The Mayor Gallery

Exhibitions

Urbana, University of Illinois, Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, March 3-April 7, 1957, no. 118, illustrated in catalogue plate 105
New York, The Jewish Museum, Jewish Experience in Art of the Twentieth Century, October 1975-January 1976, no. 216
Las Palmas, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, El surrealismo entre Viejo y Nuevo Mundo, illustrated in catalogue p. 250
New York, The Elkon Gallery, Surrealism, November 3-December 19, 1992, no. 18, illustrated
Paris, Galerie Patrice Trigano, Kurt Seligmann: a l’enseigne du Surrealisme, September 9-October 23, 1999, no. 9, illustrated in catalogue
Aosta, Centro Saint-Benin, Le surrealisme, une revolution, 1922-1944: hommage a Max Ernst, July 15-October 8, 2000
London, The Mayor Gallery, Kurt Seligmann, June 8-July 30, 2004, no. 4, illustrated in catalogue
New York, Language of the Birds: Occult and Art, 80SWE Gallery, New York University, January 12 – February 13, 201
Potsdam, Enchanted Modernity: Surrealism and Magic, Museum Barberini, October 22, 2022 - January 29, 2023, Illustrated p. 197, no. 68 

Literature

Surrealismo e novo mundo, ed. R. Ponge, Porto Allegre, Brazil, 1999, p. 109
Lea Grundig, Kunst in Zeiten des Krieges, Art in Times of War, edited by Thomas Flierl, Hans-und-Lea-Grundig-Stiftung, Berlin 2015, p. 60
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