Original Victor Brauner Poster 2020, Paris

This is an original exhibition poster created in 2020 for Victor Brauner — Je suis le rêve, je suis l'inspiration, the landmark retrospective held at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris from September 18, 2020 to January 10, 2021 — the first major Paris retrospective devoted to Brauner since 1972, bringing together over a hundred paintings, drawings, and sculptures including works not shown in France for nearly fifty years.

The poster reproduces Cérémonie (1947) — one of Brauner's most powerful and emblematic works, a monumental canvas depicting two cubist-inspired figures in confrontation: a dominating male form and a woman breaking free from chains. Measuring 190 by 238 centimetres, the work imposes itself by sheer physical presence as much as by its charged imagery, making it the perfect visual ambassador for an exhibition devoted to one of Surrealism's most singular and unsettling imaginations.

Victor Brauner (1903–1966) was a Romanian-born painter who became a central figure of Surrealism in Paris in the 1930s, joining the movement alongside André Breton in 1933. His work is characterized by an extraordinary density of references — alchemy, the Kabbalah, tarot, psychoanalysis, pre-Columbian art — woven into a personal visual mythology of haunting power. In 1938, in a prophetic echo of a self-portrait he had painted seven years earlier showing himself with a gouged eye, he lost his left eye in a brawl — an event that his Surrealist peers regarded as evidence of his visionary powers.

A striking and collectible document of a long-overdue homecoming — one of the great forgotten masters of Surrealism, finally restored to his rightful place in the history of 20th-century art.