Edgar Jené Lot n° 42

Edgar Jené (Saarbrücken 1904 - 1984 La Chapelle St. André), "Torso with Black Coat", 1929, oil on canvas, handwritten title and date on old exhibition label on the reverse, 65 x 52 cm, important early surrealist work, created in the months after Jené's return from Paris, the painting demonstrates the artist's now completed turn to surrealism as "psychic automatism, through which one (....) to express the real process of thought" (Edmund Ringling), in a plain white wooden frame, overall size: 73 x 61 cm. Limit 1800,- >> 1922 studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, studied in Paris, 1945-50 artistic activity in Vienna, 1952 moved to France, numerous exhibitions, including at the Saarland Museum in Saarbrücken, see: Georg Költzsch, Schön ist nur das Wunderbare, Saarbrücken 1984.