Benjamin Péret (Rezé, 1899 - Paris, 1959) Untitled, 1 May 1951 Collage on paper Signed and dated lower right 29×30.5cm Provenance : - Edouard Jaguer Collection - Geneviève and Jean-Paul Kahn Collection, Paris Exhibitions : - Paris, Galerie Daniel Cordier, Exposition inteRnatiOnale du Surréalisme, 15 December 1959 - January 1960, reproduced in the catalogue p16 - Milan, Palazzo Reale, "I Surrealisti", 7 June - September 1989, reproduced in the catalogue p. 332 and described on p.641 - Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, "Die Surrealisten", 8 December 1989 - 18 February 1990, reproduced in the catalogue p. 205 and described on p.422: "S. auch H. Bellmer" (not in the other) - Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts / Bibliothèque municipale, "Le rêve d'une ville. Nantes et le surréalisme", 17 December 1994 - 2 April 1995, reproduced in the catalogue p.432 and described on p. 539 Bibliography : - R. Benayoun, "Le Rire des surréalistes", Paris, La Bougie du Sapeur, 1988, reproduced p.77 - A. de Gaudemar, "Le voilà, Péret", in Libération's Cahier Livres, 12 January 1995, reproduced p.2 Note: On the reverse, there is a label identifying Edouard Jaguer as the previous owner, as well as a label from the Nantes exhibition mentioned above. In pencil, the name "Benayoun".