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Wolfgang Paalen
Austrian, 1905-1959

Wolfgang Paalen Austrian, 1905-1959

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Wolfgang Paalen, Les Cosmogones, 1944

Wolfgang Paalen Austrian, 1905-1959

Les Cosmogones, 1944
Oil on canvas
96 x 93 in
243.8 x 236.2 cm
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Exhibitions

Exhibited Mexico City, Galería de Arte Mexicano, Wolfgang Paalen, February 22-March 3, 1945

New York, Art of This Century, Wolfgang Paalen, April 17-May 12, 1945

San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Dynaton, 1951

Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, INBA, Homenaje a Wolfgang Paalen, el precursor, 1967, p. 48, illustrated

Paris, Galerie Viland et Galanis, Domaine de Paalen, 1970, no. 11 Basel, Galerie Schreiner, Creation: Wolfgang Paalen und Gordon Onslow Ford, 1978

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Spiritual in Art 1887-1987, 1987

Gemeentemuseum den Haag, 1988

Stifung Ludwig Wien, Museum Moderner Kunst, Wolfgang Paalen, Zwischen Surrealismus und Abstraktion, 1993, p. 231, illustrated

Mexico City, Museo de Arte Carrilo Gil, Wolfgang Paalen Retrospectiva, June 27-September 18, 1994
Paris, Centre Pompidou, May 7 – August 11, 2008; Munich, Haus der Kunst, September 19, 2008 – January 11, 2009; Traces du Sacré, no. 6

San Francisco, Wendi Norris Gallery, Philosopher of the Possible, Wolfgang Paalen, February 6-March 29, 2014, no. 5, p. 29; also illustrated on the cover

Vancouver, I had an interesting French Artist to see me this summer: Emily Carr and Wolfgang Paalen in British Columbia, Vancouver Art Gallery, July 1- November 16, 2016, illustrated on cover and p. 57

Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), November 7, 2018 - February 28, 2019, traveling to Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Massachusetts, March 28 - June 2, 2019, then to Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, September 3, 2019 - January 6, 2020


Literature

Gustav Regler, Wolfgang Paalen, New York, 1946, p. 55, illustrated

José Pierre, Wolfgang Paalen, Paris, 1980, p. 27, illustrated

Leonor Morales, Wolfgang Paalen, humo sobre tela, Mexico City, 1996, illustrated

Gordon Onslow Ford: Seeing in Depth, Fundación Eugenio Granell, 1998, p. 57

Andreas Neufert, Wolfgang Paalen: Im Inneren des Wals, Vienna/New York, 1999, p. 166,
illustrated, and p. 315, cat. no. 44.08

Christian Kloyber, Wolfgang Paalen's DYN: The Complete Reprint, Vienna/New York, 2000, p.
xii

Amy Winter, Wolfgang Paalen: Artist and Theorist of the Avant-Garde, Westport, 2003, no. 8
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