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  • Wolfgang Paalen, Les Cosmogones, 1944, oil on canvas, 96 x 93".

    Wolfgang Paalen, Les Cosmogones, 1944, oil on canvas, 96 x 93".

    Wolfgang Paalen

    Gallery Wendi Norris

    We have, of late, witnessed a surge in scholarship on the Surrealist artists who gathered in Mexico City during World War II, and several recent exhibitions in California have interested a larger public in this group’s multitudinous activities. In 2012, after the Los Angeles County Museum of Art presented “In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States,” the Getty Research Institute’s exhibition “Farewell to Surrealism: The Dyn Circle in Mexico” concentrated on a small group of émigrés who broke with André Breton to establish a “post-Surrealist” practice

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