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Toyen (Marie Cermínová, dite; 1902-1980)

Lot 24
24.09.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 24 | Toyen (Marie Cermínová, dite; 1902-1980)
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€ 400 000 – 600 000
Toyen (Marie Cermínová, dite; 1902-1980)
Dans l'eau du sommeil
signé et daté ‘TOYEN 1960’ (en bas à droite); signé, daté et inscrit 'DANS L'EAU DU SOMMEIL TOYEN 1960 81x54' (sur le châssis)
huile sur toile
54.1 x 80.9 cm.
Peint en 1960

signed and dated 'TOYEN 1960' (lower right); signed, dated and inscribed 'DANS L'EAU DU SOMMEIL TOYEN 1960 81x54' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
21 ¼ x 31 7/8 in.
Painted in 1960




Provenance

Atelier de l’artiste; sa vente, Me. Wapler, Paris, 21 juin 1982, lot 28.
Galerie Françoise Tournié, Paris.
Acquis auprès de celle-ci en novembre 2000.



Exhibited

Prague, City Gallery, House of the Stone Bell, Toyen, mai-août 2000, p. 235, no. 316 (illustré en couleurs).
Montauban, Musée Ingres, Les Contrées du silence, avril-juin 2002, p. 78, no. 70 (illustré en couleurs).



Further Details

Comment parler de Toyen ?
Chaque œuvre se dévoile comme une énigme, aux éléments trompeurs ou cachés. Saisi, le spectateur a l’impression de pénétrer dans l’imaginaire de l’artiste, dans son inconscient, comme si chaque peinture était une facette onirique, comme un pan de rêve peint au matin.
Mais de ces œuvres ne ressortent que ce que l’artiste daigne nous donner.
Solitaire, mystérieuse, Toyen est insaisissable. Très jeune, elle rejoint les avant-gardes de Prague, un groupe dit « poétiste », qui l’emmène aux horizons de l’abstraction lyrique. Puis en 1926 elle fonde « l’artificialisme » avec Jindřich Štyrský, où les peintres devenus poètes créent l’émotion au-delà du visuel. L’art est un artifice et la poésie complète le réel ; l’homme crée et le peintre-poète dépasse.
L’artiste évolue alors tout naturellement vers le surréalisme ; rêve, alchimie, ésotérisme… voilà les thèmes de l’Exposition internationale du Surréalisme en 1947 à la galerie Maeght, où Toyen expose aux côtés de Brauner et Matta.
André Breton disait « la beauté sera convulsible ou ne sera pas », et Toyen joue de cette beauté dans ses œuvres, cette beauté dérangeante, inconsciente, irrationnelle. Avec Dans l’eau du sommeil, où les touches de couleurs glissent ou saccadent la toile, l’artiste nous présente une toile sans aucun élément tangible auxquels se raccrocher. Est-on pris dans la vague, dans les nuages ou les flammes ? Est-ce un rêve ? Est-ce le nôtre ?
Et pourtant cette vision floue s’étend comme un horizon, une ode au mystère et au silence. En 2002, pour l’exposition Les Contrées du Silence du Musée Ingres, Paul Duchein présentera cette œuvre comme « une huile pour laquelle j’ai une grande tendresse ».
Comment voir Toyen ? On plonge, on écoute, on dépasse.

How to speak of Toyen? Each of her works reveals itself as a riddle, with misleading or hidden elements. The viewer feels as if they are entering the artist's imagination, her unconscious, as if each painting were a dreamlike facet, like a piece of a dream painted in the morning. But from these works, only what the artist chooses to reveal emerges.
Solitary, mysterious, Toyen is elusive. At a very young age, she joined the avant-gardes of Prague, a group known as "poetists," which took her to the horizons of lyrical abstraction. Then, in 1926, she founded "Artificialism" with Jindřich Štyrský, where painters turned poets create emotion beyond the visual. Art is an artifice and poetry completes reality; human creates and the painter-poet transcends.
The artist then naturally evolved towards Surrealism; dreams, alchemy, esotericism... these are the themes of the International Surrealist Exhibition in 1947 at the Maeght Gallery, where Toyen exhibited alongside Brauner and Matta. André Breton said, "Beauty will be convulsive or it will not be," and Toyen plays with this beauty in her works, this disturbing, unconscious, irrational beauty. With Dans l'eau du sommeil, where strokes of color glide or jolt across the canvas, the artist presents a painting without any tangible elements to grasp. Are we caught in the wave, the clouds, or the flames? Is it a dream? Is it ours? And yet this blurred vision extends like a horizon, an ode to mystery and silence. In 2002, for the exhibition Les Contrées du Silence at the Ingres Museum, Paul Duchein presented this work as "an oil painting for which I have great fondness."
How to see Toyen? We dive in, we listen, we go beyond.
Artist:Toyen (1902 - 1980)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Auction house category:Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings
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