Yves Tanguy, Composition, 1936 (detail).
First, the location: this show is not in the corner gallery at Geary and Powell (301 Geary, to be exact), but at 291 Geary, across Powell Street, in the same block as Macys. The show features works by a panoply of Surrealists including William Baziotes, Victor Brauner, Alexander Calder, Leonora Carrington, Salvador Dali, Enrico Donati, Oscar Dominguez, Marcel Duchamp, Jimmy Ernst, Max Ernst, Leonor Fini, David Hare, Marcel Jean (who wrote one of the definitive histories of the movement), Gerome Kamrowski, André Masson, Roberto Matta, Joan Miro, Joan Miró, Gordon Onslow Ford, Wolfgang Paalen, Kurt Seligmann, Stella Snead, and Yves Tanguy. A very nicely produced catalogue is available, featuring informative and entertaining essays by Rowland Weinstein and Mary Ann Caws, and nicely written notes on the artists and short bios. Through January 28. weinstein.com/surrealism-new-worlds/surrealism-new-worlds-artists
Works by Duchamp and Matta.
SF posh & polish.
Yves Tanguy, Composition, 193, once owned by Hans Bellmer.
Yves Tanguy, Sans Titre, 1937.
Yves Tanguy, Le Col de l’Hirondelle, 1934, once owned by Paul Eluard.
Kurt Seligmann, Heraldic Apparition, 1947.
Victor Brauner, Le Spécialiste du vide—Petites Annoncés, 1959.
Victor Brauner, À l’Ami, 1949, and La Question, 1963.
Victor Brauner, Clairenrico, 1948, once owned by Enrico and Clair Donati.
Gordon Onslow Ford, Birth of Venus, 1947.
Gordon Onslow Ford, The Signpost, 1947.
Gordon Onslow Ford, Future of the Falcon (Early Version), 1947.
Gordon Onslow Ford, All-Powerful Stranger (Version 2), 1947.
Marcel Duchamp, Eau et gaz à tous les étages, 1958, and Prière de toucher, 1947.
Roberto Matta, Black Mirror, 1947.
Roberto Matta, Horror is Not Truth, 1948; Composition, 1950; and Black Mirror, 1947.
Roberto Matta, Black Mirror, 1947, and Les Courants du Secret, c. 1943.
Max Ernst, decalcomania painting, 1941.
Detail.
Oscar Dominguez, Les Deux Voyantes, 1945.
André Masson, Le Centaure Porte-Clé, 1947.
Enrico Donati, Menagerie, 1946, and Roi d’Éclair, 1945
Enrico Donati, Fist, 1946.
Enrico Donati, Evil Eye, 1946.
Stella Snead, Crisis Birds, 1950, and Gerome Kamrowski, Sycorax, 1939.
Gerome Kamrowski, Italian Calendar, 1943-4.
Gerome Kamrowski, Limitations of Indebtedness to Nature, 1942.
William Baziotes, The Butterflies of Leonardo da Vinci, 1942.
Gerome Kamrowski, William Baziotes and Jackson Pollock, Collaborative Painting, 1940-1.
Marcel Jean, Surrealist Composition, 1947.
Jimmy Ernst, Move On Up A Little Higher, 1947.
Jimmy Ernst, Drum Improvisation, 1948, The Window, 1949, Science Fiction, 1948, and The Elements, 1942.
Jimmy Ernst, The Elements, 1942.
Salvador Dali, Le Ciel de Mercure—La Divine Comédie: Paradise, 1952.
David Hare, The Couple, 1946, and Leonor Fini, Bone Branch.
Leonor Fini, Homme Noir et Femme Singe, 1942.
Leonor Fini, Femme Costumée (Femme en Armure), 1938. This and the next painting belonged to Edward James, the Surrealist collector whom Magritte painted, mirror-gazing à la surrealiste, in La Reproduction Interdite.
Leonor FIni, Femme Costumée (Femme en Armure), 1938.
Leonor Fini, Corset Chair, 1939.
