Jane Graverol (Brussels, 1905 - Fontainebleau, 1984) Cruelty of Memory, 1956 Oil on Isorel Signed and dated lower left Titled on the back 56 x 46.3 cm Provenance : - Sale Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Étude Renaud, "Écrivains du XXème siècle", 9 June 2001, lot 198 - Geneviève and Jean-Paul Kahn Collection, Paris Exhibitions : - Brussels, Galerie Le Verseau, "Les Fables concrètes de Jane Graverol", 8 - 20 December 1956 (reproduced on the cover) - Buenos Aires, Galeria Antigona, "Jane Graverol. Peintures à l'huile (Oleos)", 6 - 18 October 1958, described in the catalogue under no. 2, n.p. - Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, "Jane Graverol, 40 ans de peinture", 31 May - 24 June 1968, catalogue no. 46, n.p. - Antwerp, Galerie GEBO, "Surréalisme", 23 June - 10 July and 3 - 28 August 1970, catalogue no. 14, n.p. Bibliography: - M. Mariën, Revue "Les Lèvres Nues", 1ère série, n.9, nov.1956, text by P. Nougé, "Hommage à Seurat", reproduced p. 29 We would like to thank the Marcel Mariën Foundation and Dr Marie Godet for their contribution in referencing this work. This work will be included in the catalogue raisonné currently being prepared with the inventory number JG-P-56-1.