The Guaranteed Surrealist Postcard Series: "A l'échelle du désir/The scale of desire", Wolfgang Paalen, 1937

Wolfgang Paalen (Austrian, 1905-1959)

Print (postcard), 9.2 x 14.1 cm.

Series/Book Title: The Guaranteed Surrealist Postcard Series.

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Rick Wester and Jennifer Garvin.

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Wolfgang Robert Paalen (July 22, 1905 in Vienna, Austria – September 24, 1959 in Taxco, Mexico) was an Austrian-Mexican painter, sculptor, and art philosopher. A member of the Abstraction-Création group from 1934 to 1935, he joined the influential Surrealist movement in 1935 and was one of its prominent exponents until 1942.
-Wikipedia

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