Andre Breton, artist and art
Born Febr 19 1896, Birth Tinchebray (Ome), France.
Died Sept 28 1966 deathParis.
Style and technique, exhibitions: Dada, Surrealism, Writing, Collage,Artist biography, artworks, statement, interview, review, exhibition:
Auctions & Auction Results
From leading auction houses worldwide, Andre Breton on Mutualart
Works in the MOMA collection
A lecture given in Brussels on 1st June 1934 at a public meeting organised by the Belgian Surrealists, and issued as a pamphlet immediately afterwards
I Saluted at Six Paces Commandant Lefebvre des Noëttes (Poem object)
Le Déclin de la société bourgeoisie, and other works
André Breton was born in Tinchebray (Orne) the son of a shopkeeper. He spent his childhood on the Brittany coast and started early on to write poems – he knew the poet Paul Valéry while still young. Breton studied medicine and later psychiatry, and in 1921 met Freud in Vienna…
