Gérard Vulliamy (Paris, 1909 - Labastide d'Armagnac, 2005) The Mona Lisa Swan, 1933 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right "Vulliamy 33". Countersigned and annotated on the back on the stretcher 81 x 65 cm Bearing an artist's autograph label on the back with his former address 34 rue de Vanves crossed out and corrected to "4 Villa St Jacques, Paris XIV" with the words "Le cygne de la Joconde 1933-34 (84 x 67)". Provenance : - Artist's studio - Former Jean Petithory collection, Paris - Galerie 1900-2000, Paris - Geneviève and Jean-Paul Kahn Collection, Paris Exhibitions : - Paris, Galerie Beaux-Arts de Georges Wildenstein, "Exposition internationale du surréalisme", 17 January - 24 February 1938, described in the catalogue under no. 227 n.p. - Paris, Galerie Denise René, 9 November - 4 December 1948 - Paris, Musée national d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, "Paul Éluard et ses amis peintres", 4 November 1982 - 17 January 1983, reproduced in the catalogue p. 187 - Milan, Palazzo Reale, "I Surrealisti", 7 June - 10 September 1989, described in the catalogue p. 645 and reproduced on p. 363 - Frankfurt, Kunsthalle, "Die Surrealisten", 8 December 1989 - 18 February 1990, described in the catalogue p. 425 and reproduced on p. 234 Bibliography: - Paul Éluard, "Voir", Ed. des Trois Collines, Lausanne, 1948, reproduced in the catalogue p. 137. - L. Harambourg, "Gérard Vulliamy", Grand Palais RMN, Paris, 2011, described in the catalogue under n° 24, p. 50 and reproduced on p. 51