CAMILLE BRYEN Original Hand Signed Watercolour 1935

CAMILLE BRYEN 1907-1977 [CAMILLE BRIAND]
Nantes 1907 – 1977 Paris (French)

Title: Surrealist Composition with Nude, Door and Key, ca. 1935

Technique: Original Signed Graphite Drawing and Watercolour on Wove Paper

Size: 32 x 24.5 cm. / 12.6 x 9.6 in.

Additional information: This original graphite drawing with watercolour is signed in pencil by the artist “Bryen” at the lower right margin.
It was created circa 1935.

Note: Camille Bryen – also known as Camille Briand was close friends with many of the Surrealist poets and was himself a respected poet and painter. His work on the fringes of Surrealism are distinctive from his later pieces, which were to evolve into a movement known as Tachisme.

Condition: Very good condition. The sheet slightly toned. Creasing in the upper margin. Remains of hinging tape along the left sheet edge, verso.