Lot n° 224
Estimation :
25000 - 30000
EUR
Result with fees
Result
: 24 700EUR
POL BURY (1922-2005) - Lot 224
POL BURY (1922-2005)
62 balls in perspective, 1996
Unique piece.
Dyed wood, cork and electric motor.
Signed and titled on the back.
Unique piece.
Stained wood, cork and electric motor.
Signed and titled on the reverse.
H_91 cm L_152.5 cm W_152.5 cm
Source: private collection.
We would like to thank Velma Bury who kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Pol Bury was born in Haine-Saint-Pierre near La Louvière. At the age of 16, in 1938, he began studying art, painting and drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Mons. At the same time, he met the Walloon poet Achille Chavée, a master of surrealism in Wallonia. The poet brought Pol
Bury into the surrealist group "Rupture", which he founded in 1934. Influenced by Yves Tanguy, Pol, like many members of the group, adheres to communist ideology and paints his first surrealist paintings. After meeting René Magritte, he worked in 1940 for the magazine
L'Invention collective de Magritte et Raoul Ubac, and participated in the International Surrealism Exhibition in 1945. In 1946, he turned his painting towards abstraction. He goes beyond the representative, thematic and fixed way of painting of the surrealists and reflects on the pictorial possibilities of colour and form. The misunderstanding of his surrealist friends forced him to leave them. He then joined the group of La Jeune
Peinture Belge (founded in 1945) which dissolved in 1948, then joined the revolutionary Surrealist group founded by
Christian Dotremont and Joseph Noiret in 1947, which quickly merged with CoBrA. From 1948 to 1951, he contributed to the writing and illustration of the magazine Cobra, and participated in the group's exhibitions. In 1950, a visit to Alexander Calder's exhibition at the Maeght Gallery greatly influenced him and later encouraged him to devote himself to sculpture. In 1952, Pol Bury was one of the founders of the group Art Abstract, which was better suited to his current artistic research, based
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