Adrien DAX (1913-1979) At the Nautilus Feast, 1963 Oil on isorel. Signed lower right. Signed, dated and titled on the back. 91 x 64 cm Provenance : - José Pierre Collection, Paris. - Galerie Thessa Herold, Paris. Exhibitions : - Surrealism, Moderna Museet, then Göteborgs Konsthall, then Sundsvalls Museum, then Malmö Museum, Sweden, no. 18, reproduced in the catalog p. 33 (label on back). - L'Aventure Surréaliste autour d'André Breton, Galerie Artcurial, Paris, 1986, n° 77, reproduced in the catalog p. 148. Bibliography: - André Breton, Le Surréalisme et la Peinture, Paris, Éditions Gallimard, 1965, reproduced (horizontally) p. 381. - José Pierre, Le Surréalisme, Lausanne, Éditions Rencontre, 1967, reproduced p. 79. - André Breton, Œuvres complètes volume IV, Bibliothèque de La Pléiade, Paris, Éditions Gallimard, 2008, reproduced p. 809.