We are thrilled to announce that our artists are included in a major exhibition of American surrealism at Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille on view May 11 through September 28, 2021.
This exhibition on Surrealism in American Art, curated by Eric de Chassey, director of the National Institute of Art History and art historian specializing in contemporary American art, is one of the most ambitious projects to be undertaken by Réunion des Musées Nationaux - Grand Palais and the Museums of Marseille. The exhibition brings together major works and an innovative scientific discourse between France and the United States.
Helen Lundeberg, The Isle, 1934, oil on carton, 9 x 17 in. / 22.9 x 43.2 cm, The Feitelson/Lundeberg Art Foundation, Courtesy Louis Stern Fine Arts.
The exhibition catalogue was prepared under the direction of Éric de Chassey, who wrote the main text. It includes essays by Enrico Camporesi (associate researcher at the Centre Pompidou) and Lewis Kachur (professor of art history at Kean University), Guitemie Maldonado (Professor of Art History at the Beaux-Arts de Paris), Scott Rothkopf (Chief Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art), Guillaume Theulière (Curator of the Musée Cantini de Marseille) and Sandra Zalman (Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Houston). The Feitelson and Lundeberg paintings in the exhibition have been reproduced in the catalogue and are the subject of specific analyses.
The Isle, 1934 by Helen Lundeberg and Post-Surreal Configuration: Eternal Recurrence, 1939-40 by Lorser Feitelson are works from their Subjective Classicism period which came to be known as Post-Surrealism. In works of that era, the artists were concerned about principles of subjective association within their paintings.
In The Isle, a plank with swirling wood grain suggesting tidal flow, a stone and a clamshell create an association when combined.
Post-Surreal Configuration: Eternal Recurrence reflects the cycle of life through imagery of regeneration, creativity, love and aging.
Lorser Feitelson, Post Surreal Configuration: Eternal Recurrence, 1939-1940, oil on canvas, 50 x 72 1/2 in. / 127 x 184.2 cm, The Feitelson/Lundeberg Art Foundation., courtesy Louis Stern Fine Arts.