HUGNET, Georges. En cours de route... Surrealist collage assembled from reproductions of photographs cut out from magazines, 1947. Created for lower page 14 of Huit jours a trebaumac [1969]. 6 1/2 x6 7/8'.

TONNY, Kristians. Black Composition with Figures, Ca. 1930. 20 x 25" Signed K. Tonny, lower center in original frame. Provenance: W.A. Harriman Collection (No. 13). TONNY, Kristians. Dutch painter and draughtsman. Born Amsterdam 1906. Perfected the transfer drawing technique. In 1931 the Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum mounted an exhibition entitled, Tonny, Tchelitchew, Berard Berman Leonard which included several Tonny drawings similar to our. Tonny was associated with Andre Breton, Georges Hugnet, Paul Eluard and other Surrealists in Europe. Although he was one of the less well known surrealists, Tonny was highly regarded by his contemporaries. He was represented by the Julian Levy Gallery in the late 1930's, and Alfred Barr, James Thrall Soby, and Gertrude Stein included his work in their personal collections. In 1936 Tonny was included in Alfred Barr's "Fantastic Art Dada Surrealism" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Fantastic Art Dada Surrealism, MoMa p. 223, 260.
 

TONNY, Kristians. Black Composition with Horses, Drawing on Transfer paper, c. 1930. 20 x 25" Signed K. Tonny, lower right. In original frame. Provenance: W.A. Harriman Collection 203. TONNY, Kristians. Dutch painter and draughtsman. Born Amsterdam 1906. Perfected the transfer drawing technique. In 1931 the Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum mounted an exhibition entitled, Tonny, Tchelitchew, Berard Berman Leonard which included several Tonny drawings similar to our. Tonny was associated with Andre Breton, Georges Hugnet, Paul Eluard and other Surrealists in Europe. Although he was one of the less well known surrealists, Tonny was highly regarded by his contemporaries. He was represented by the Julian Levy Gallery in the late 1930's, and Alfred Barr, James Thrall Soby, and Gertrude Stein included his work in their personal collections. In 1936 Tonny was included in Alfred Barr's "Fantastic Art Dada Surrealism" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Fantastic Art Dada Surrealism, MoMa p. 223, 260.

TONNY, Kristians.Composition with Nudes, Ca. 1930. 17 1/4 x 27. Signed K. Tonny lower left. In original frame. Provenance: W.A. Harriman Collection (No. 4).