Artist: Andre Breton (1896 - 1966)
Nationality: French
Movement: Surrealism
Media: Writing
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Biography:
Andre Breton is credited with founding the Surrealist movement. It began with the publishing of his Manifeste du surrealisme in 1924. A year later, the movement’s first exhibition was held at the Galerie Pierre in Paris. Breton also wrote a number of other articles on the movement and helped launch two Surrealist periodicals, La Revolution Surrealiste and Le Surrealisme au service de la revolution. Breton moved to New York in 1941 where he and a group of other artists assisted in the development of the Abstract Expressionist movement. He returned to Paris five years later just as the Surrealist movement was declining.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Andre Breton - Poem-Object 1941 assemblage mounted o The Museum of Modern Art French
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Odilon Redon - Breton Village c. 1890 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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A Peasant Girl Knitting, 1873 Jules Breton (French, 1827-1906)Oil on canvas; 22 5/8 x 18
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Emile Bernard - Breton Woman and Haystacks c. 1890 oil on pulpwood boar Ackland Art Museum French
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The Weeders, 1868 Jules Breton (French, 1827-1906)Oil on canvas; 28 1/8 x 50 1/4 in.
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Emile Adelard Breton, Clair de Lune, 1881
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Paul Gauguin - Breton Girls Dancing, Pont-Aven 1888 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Paul Gauguin, Breton Girl, 19th - 20th century
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Henri Brispot, Study of a Breton Woman, circa 1885
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Breton Fishermen and Their Families Augustin-Théodule Ribot (French, 1823-1891)Oil on canvas; 21 3/4 x 18
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VVV, Nos. 1 (June 1942)–4 (February 1944) New York: VVV, 1942-1944Serial publication, illustrated; 4 nos.
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Jean Francois Janinet, Louis De Breton, 18th - 19th century
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FÈlix Bracquemond, La Recolte des Pommes de Terre, After Breton, 19th - 20th century
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FÈlix Bracquemond, La Recolte des Pommes de Terre, After Breton, 19th - 20th century
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Henry Wolf, Breton Peasants at Wayside Cross, 19th - 20th century
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Artist: Paul Gauguin Title: Breton Women Beside a Fence Date: 1889 Medium: lithograph on yellow
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Edouard Vuillard - Andre Benac 1936 oil on fabric Cleveland Museum of Art French
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Balthus - Andre Derain 1936 oil on wood The Museum of Modern Art French
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Artist: Adolf Fassbender Title: Cape Breton Beacon Date: 1942 Medium: gelatin silver print Dimensions: H.14-3/4
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George Wooliscroft Rhead, A Breton Peasant, plate 21 in the book, The Etcher (London: Sampson Lowä, 1880), vol. 2 [bound in same volume as vol. 1, 1879], 1880
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Eva Herrmann, AndrÈ Malraux, circa 1935
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Paul Guigou - Landscape at Saint-Andre, Near Marseilles c. 1865 oil on wood panel Cleveland Museum of Art French
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AndrÈ Derain, Les Cheveux Noirs, 1927
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Auguste Andre Lancon, Lion, 1881
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Breton Brother and Sister, 1871 Adolphe-William Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905)Oil on canvas; 50 7/8 x 35
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Andre Delfau, Setting for La Valse, 20th century
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Anonymous, Andre de Ribanpiere, violinist , 1923
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AndrÈ Masson, The Sun from "Verve", 19th - 20th century
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Jacques Callot, (St. Andre) from Les Grandes Apotres (16 of 16), 1632
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AndrÈ Derain, La CËne, 19th - 20th century
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AndrÈ Lhote, Portrait of Loulou Delgouffre, 1919
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Andre Delfau, Sleeping Beauty: setting for Act I, 1957
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AndrÈ Dunoyer de Segonzac, Le Pont Marie, 1924
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AndrÈ Dunoyer de Segonzac, Le Modele a Genoux, 1924
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Andre Dutertre, Portrait of a Young Man with a Sword, circa 1800
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AndrÈ J. Smith, View of Caen, Normandy, 1914
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AndrÈ J. Smith, Little Foundry, 19th - 20th century
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AndrÈ Dunoyer de Segonzac, The Lovers, 19th - 20th century
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AndrÈ Dunoyer de Segonzac, Le Gros Chene a Chaville, 1924
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Thomas Shotter Boys, St. Andre, Chartres, 19th century

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