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Creative chance : Surrealist art and literature from the Laurens Vancrevel and Frida de Jong collection / Saskia van Kampen-Prein, Laurens Vancrevel ; translation Lynne Richards
LIBRA N6494.S8 K36 2021
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kampen-Prein, Saskia van, author.
- Series:
- Boijmans studies ; 16.
- Boijmans Studies ; 16
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Surrealism.
- Vancrevel, Laurens--Art collections.
- Vancrevel, Laurens.
- Jong, Frida de, 1940---Art collections.
- Jong, Frida de.
- Art, Modern--Private collections.
- Netherlands.
- collectioneurs (afzonderlijk).
- museografie.
- collectievorming.
- Nederlandse collecties.
- surrealisme.
- Nederland.
- Local Subjects:
- collectioneurs (afzonderlijk).
- museografie.
- collectievorming.
- Nederlandse collecties.
- surrealisme.
- Nederland.
- Physical Description:
- 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Surrealist art and literature from the Laurens Vancrevel and Frida de Jong collection
- Place of Publication:
- Rotterdam : Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, 2021
- Summary:
- Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen's Surrealism collection is world famous, but this Boijmans Study is not devoted to the oeuvres of great names in the canon like Salvador Dalí and René Magritte. Instead, it tells the story of the idiosyncratic finds made by the Dutch collectors Laurens Vancrevel and his wife Frida de Jong. Long before museums started to take notice, the couple had collected art and poetry by then relatively unknown Surrealists. Over the years, they let themselves be guided by chance, friendships and random encounters, and this has resulted in a unique collection of Surrealist art from which the museum has been allowed to make a selection. The Study examines the fifty artworks that have been gifted and reflects on two approaches to collecting: the creation of a private collection and the way Surrealism was acquired by Dutch museums like Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-178) and index
- ISBN:
- 9789069183190
- 9069183196
- OCLC:
- 1286804953
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