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THE MANY FACES OF BENJAMIN FONDANE

9 January 2012

The Many Faces of Fondane: Man Ray made a photographic portrait of Fondane with two heads (right) but Victor Brauner’s oil portrait has Fondane as a beheaded Holofernes.

Benjamin Fondane was a Poet, Critic and Filmmaker

Fondane (born Benjamin Wechsler in 1898, and murdered in Auschwitz in 1944)

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Title unknown Painter is Victor Brauner (1903-1966) was a Romanian Jewish painter of surrealistic images. I post this painting simple because I love it and because not so many people know the works of Victor Brauner.

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