Surrealist Collections

The Surrealist galaxy, with all its successive dubbings and excommunications, gradually formed a large constellation of painters, photographers, poets and film directors. Jehan Mayoux and Gérard Legrand were part of the shifting coterie. The two hundred pieces in question here come from these two names, and above all from their respective wives, Marie-Louise and Clarisse. Their descendants have now jointly decided to sell all these works in the same sale. Far from being carefully thought-out acquisitions, these works (mostly making their first appearance at auction) were gifts from artists who became…