Collection Fred Feinsilber, de Giacometti à Brauner

Download Catalogue PDFExactly sixty years after Victor Brauner’s passing on 12 March 1966, no fewer thanelevenmajor works by one of the most influential Surrealists will come to market from the Fred Feinsilber collection.Fred Feinsilber belongs to a generation shaped by exile and history. Born in 1940 in Romania to a Jewish family of Bessarabic origin, he fled communism, passed through Israel and grew up in France.He never saw himself as uprooted and readily described himself as "from everywhere". A scientist turned industrialist, he founded a chemical company along with his wife, which he sold in the early 1990s. This turning point marked the beginning of a new life devoted to his collection, which reflected his three main passions: books (Sotheby's sold his library in 2006), primitive art and 20th-century art.His most intimate connection remained the one he had with Victor Brauner. The elevenworks he treasured constitute the heart and most crucial part of his collection - reflecting a deep affinity between two sensibilities born on the same Romanian soil.