signed and dated ’36-’37 verso-oil on board 50×61 cm
Provenance and literature
Exhibited: Amsterdam,Galerie Robert, Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme, 1938
About the artist
Kristians Tonny was the only Dutch Surrealist who actually participated in the activities of André Breton’s Surrealist movement in the 1930s.
From 1925 onwards Tonny was in the circle of the American author and patron Gertrude Stein, whose famous salons brought her considerable influence in the Parisian art world. It was there that he became friendly with other young artists like Pavel Tchelitchev, Eugene Berman and Georges Hugnet. In these years Tonny exhibited in The Netherlands with Kunstzaal Bennewitz, The Hague and with Galerie Pierre, Galerie de la Boétie, Galerie Jeanne Bucher and Denise René, all in Paris.