¤ VICTOR BRAUNER (1903-1966) SANS TITRE, 1953 Ink,... Lot 6

¤ VICTOR BRAUNER (1903-1966) SANS TITRE, 1953 Ink, colored pencil and paraffin on paper Signed with the monogram 'V.B,' and dated '25.6.1953' below right Dedicated 'Pour Jean Ramier [sic]' below left Ink, colored pencil and paraffin on paper; signed with the artist's monogram 'V.B,' and dated '25.6.1953' lower right; dedicated 'Pour Jean Ramier' lower left 21,4 X 17,4 CM - 8 3/8 X 6 7/8 IN. The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Mr Samy Kinge. "French painter of Romanian origin, Victor Brauner (1903-1966) became interested late and fortuitously in ceramics. It was not until 1955 that Victor Brauner, during a convalescence in Golfe-Juan, was introduced to this art. Since the beginning of mars 1955 at the Hôte du Golfe, he has regularly travelled to Vallauris to meet the artists in the ville : Anton Prinner, whom he admires deeply, and Picasso, with whom, until then, he was not precisely linked, but whom he then discovered as 'a great man'. Full of admiration, he has 'a colossal feeling that this character, who can touch anything, falls into his hands and turns it into an unforgettable work of art'. It was precisely under the impulse of Picasso, then at Madoura's, that the artist made his first ceramics in the same workshop in 1953, as he opened to his wife Jacqueline, who had stayed at Paris : 'One morning I went up to Picasso's house in Vallauris and as usual there was a lot of people there. After his workshop he took us [sic] to the terracotta factory and introduced me to the owner saying that I was one of the greatest painters and what I did would be magnificent in ceramics. Afterwards there were as usual many journalists and he did photographié  [sic] with me and David Hare who was there saying they are two great artists and take the opportunity to photograph them. He insisted a lot that I decorate in the collection of celebrities (Chagall, Braque, Cocteau, Éluard...) a dish, so I [sic] went up again in the afternoon and he worked in front of me, needless to say that in two hours he decorated 4 enormous vases, while I tried to make a dish, but it must be said that I don't know the technique. I'm going up again this afternoon to finish'". Dominique Forest, "Une originalité braunérienne", in Vallauris, Céramiques de peintres et de sculpteurs, exhibition catalogue, Musée d'art moderne et de céramique de Vallauris, 2 juin-10 septembre 1995, Éditions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris : 1995, pp. 57-58.