Separated Books and Journals
Scope and Content of Collection
Arrangement note
Biographical/Historical Note
Custodial History
Processing History
Acquisition Information
Preferred Citation
Publication Rights
Access
Selected Bibliography
Contributing Institution:
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Title: Gloria de Herrera papers
Creator:
Lefebvre-Foinet, Maurice
Creator:
Loeb, Edouard
Creator:
Lucas, Jacques
Creator:
Mannheimer Kunstverein
Creator:
Maranz, George
Creator:
Matisse, Amélie
Creator:
Hall, Jacques
Creator:
Hôtel Drouot
Creator:
Inverarity, Robert Bruce, 1909-1999
Creator:
Kaminsky, Adolfo, 1926-
Creator:
Galleria del naviglio (Milan, Italy)
Creator:
Francette
Creator:
Gibbons, Joseph Burroughs
Creator:
Giacometti, Alberto, 1901-1966
Creator:
Gilot, Françoise, 1921-
Creator:
Grepin
Creator:
Dumas, Roland, 1922-
Creator:
Foresta, Merry A.
Creator:
Fonvieille-Alquier, François
Creator:
Tsypina, Rita
Creator:
Tashjian, Dickran, 1940-
Creator:
Young-Mallin, Judith, 1937-
Creator:
Rubin, William Stanley
Creator:
Sidney Janis Gallery
Creator:
Paalen, Wolfgang, 1907-1959
Creator:
Poniatowski, Michel
Creator:
Pfriem, Bernard
Creator:
Mesens, E. L. T. (Edouard Léon Théodore), 1903-1971
Creator:
Matta, 1912-2002
Creator:
Matisse, Pierre, 1900-1989
Creator:
Mitchell, Irene Musillo
Creator:
Meyer, Franz, 1919-2007
Creator:
Messenger, Ivan, 1895-1983
Creator:
Ernst, Max, 1891-1976
Creator:
Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954
Creator:
Man Ray, 1890-1976
Creator:
Copley, William Nelson, 1919-1996
Creator:
Tanning, Dorothea, 1910-2012
Creator:
Byrnes, Barbara
Creator:
Byrnes, James B.
Creator:
Brauner, Victor, 1903-1966
Creator:
De Herrera, David
Creator:
Darbois, Dominique
Creator:
Cowart, Jack
Creator:
Copley Galleries
Creator:
Chavaroche, Marie-Hélène
Creator:
Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976
Creator:
Drouin, René, 1905-1979
Creator:
Dorival, Bernard
Creator:
Dondero, George A. (George Anthony), 1883-1968
Creator:
Delectorskaya, Lydia
Creator:
De Herrera, Mildred
Creator:
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968
Creator:
De Herrera, Gloria, 1929-1985
Creator:
Barton, Patricia
Creator:
Berggruen, Heinz
Creator:
Baldwin, Neil, 1947-
Creator:
Barinov, Igor
Creator:
Burke, John
Creator:
Burley, Dan, 1907-1962
Creator:
Brunius, Jacques-B.
Identifier/Call Number: 980024
Physical Description:
3 Linear Feet
(8 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1936-1996 (bulk 1947-1985)
Date (bulk): 1947-1985
Abstract: American art preparator, restorer, and collector active in Los Angeles and Paris. De Herrera was a close friend of Man Ray,
William Nelson Copley, and other notable artists. The papers include correspondence, documents, artworks, photographs, and
audiovisual materials documenting De Herrera's milieu and activities.
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Language of Material:
English
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Separated Books and Journals
The archive included 41 books and 30 magazine issues which have now been separated to the library. A list of these materials
follows.
Adéma, Marcel, ed.
Guillaume Apollinaire; souvenirs et témoignages inédits de Louis de Gonzague Frick [et al.] Supplément poétique: René Guy
Cadou [et al.]
[Albi]: Éditions de la Tête noire, [1946]
Algérie 1959.
Supplement to
La defense No. 416 de juin 1959.
Artaud, Antonin.
Les Tarahumaras.
Décines: M. Barbezat, [1963]
Arts Council of Great Britain.
The almost complete works of Marcel Duchamp: at the Tate Gallery, 18 June-31 July 1966.
London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1966.
With dedication to De Herrera by Marcel Duchamp.
Avant-garde.
[New York]: Jan. 1968-1971.
Includes no. 10 (Jan. 1970) and no. 12 (May 1970)
Bergot, Erwan.
La guerre des appelés en Algérie, 1956-1962.
Paris: Presses de la cité, c1980.
Bousquet, Joë.
Max Ernst / textes de Joe Bousquet et Michel Tapié.
[Paris]: R. Drouin, 1950.
Breton, André, and Paul Eluard.
L'Immaculée conception.
Paris: Éditions surréalistes, 1930.
With dedication to Eva Sulzer by André Breton.
Butor, Michel.
Jacques Hérold.
Paris: Galerie La cour d'Ingres, 1959.
Cahiers d'art.
Paris: Éditions "Cahiers d'art".
4e année; mars-avril 1929. No. 2-3 (Fascicule consacré a l'art des Océaniens).
Carrington, Leonora.
La dame ovale: avec sept [sic] collages par Max Ernst.
Paris: GLM, 1939.
Copley Galleries.
Max Ernst, 30 years of his work: a survey: the Copley Galleries, January 10 - February 20, 1949.
Beverly Hills: [The Galleries], c1949.
Dedicated to De Herrera by Max Ernst.
Copley, William Nelson.
CPLY.
[Paris, A. Iolas, 1970]
Copley, William Nelson.
William N. Copley: Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 26 novembre 1980-11 janvier 1981 [exposition
organisée par la Kunsthalle Berne; rédaction du catalogue, Marianne Schmidt, Johannes Gachnang]
Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, [1980]
Dada.
Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, [1958]
Exhibition at Stedeljik Museum Amsterdam, Dec. 23, 1958-Feb. 2, 1959.
Eluard, Paul.
A l'intérieur de la vue: 8 poèmes visibles [par] Mx Ernst [et] Pl Eluard.
[Paris: P. Seghers, 1948]
Numbered copy 359 of 610.
Eluard, Paul.
Les malheurs des immortels, révélés par Paul Éluard et Max Ernst.
Paris, Éditions de la Revue Fontaine, [1945]
L'Éphémère.
Paris: Fondation Maeght, 1967-1972.
No. 1 (1967). With articles by and about Giacometti.
Max Ernst [Ausstellung] Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Köln, 28. Dezember 1962 bis 3. März 1963: Kunsthaus Zürich, 23. März bis
28. April 1963.
Köln: [s.n., 1963?]
Ernst, Max.
Max Ernst.
Paris: Orangerie des Tuileries, 1971.
Ernst, Max.
Max Ernst: 4 juillet-30 août 1953, Knokke, Le Zoute, Albert Plage, Casion Communal.
Bruxelles: Éditions de la connaissance, c1953.
"L'exposition retrospective des oeuvres de Max Ernst a été organisée par E.L.T. Mesens et P.G. Van Hecke avec la collaboration
de L'Institute of Contemporary Arts de Londres" - T.p. verso.
Ernst, Max.
Max Ernst, histoire naturelle: dessins inédits.
Paris: Berggruen & Cie, [195-]
Ernst, Max.
Max Ernst: Oeuvres de 1919 à 1936.
Paris: Éditions Cahiers d'art, [c1937]
Ernst, Max.
Die Nacktheit der Frau ist weiser als die Lehre des Philosophen.
Köln: Galerie Der Spiegel; Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1970.
Ernst, Max.
Le Néant et son double.
Paris, New York: A. Iolas, [1968]
L'Esprit nouveau.
Paris: Éditions de l'Esprit nouveau, [1920]-[1925]
Nos. 25 and 26 (1924 or 1925). No. 26 in acidic tissue wrapper: "Numéro spécial consacré à Guillaume Apollinaire."
Europe: Revue mensuelle.
46e année, no. 475-476, Nov-Dec. 1968. Cover title: Surréalisme.
Exposition de trois peintres américains: deux tourangeaux - un parisien: Max Ernst, Man Ray, Dorothea Tanning: Musée des beaux-arts
de Tours, 10 novembre 1956-16 décembre 1956 / sous les auspices de la ville de Tours à l'occasion du Festival international
du court métrage.
[Tours: Le Musée, 1956]
Giacometti, Alberto.
Alberto Giacometti.
Bern: Klipstein & Kornfeld, [1959]
Catalog of an exhibition held from July 18 to August 22, 1959.
Giacometti, Alberto.
Schriften, Fotos, Zeichnungen = Essais, photos, dessins / Alberto Giacometti; hrsg. von Ernst Scheidegger; die deutsche Übertragung
besorgte Ursula von Wiese.
Zürich: Im Verlag der Arche, 1958.
Gide, André.
Montaigne, an essay in two parts.
London: The Blackmore press; New York: H. Liveright, 1929.
Autographed by André Gide. English first edition (1929), numbered 264 of 300 British and 500 American copies.
Hamon, Hervé, and Patrick Rotman.
Les porteurs de valises: la résistance française à la guerre d'Algérie.
Paris: A. Michel, 1979.
Henri Matisse: les grandes gouaches découpées / Musée des arts décoratifs, Palais du Louvre, mars-avril-mai, 1961.
[Paris: Le Musée, 1961].
Jacques Hérold.
Wuppertal: Galerie Parnass, [1960]
Catalog of an exhibition held May 27 - June 26, 1960.
Jazz magazine.
[Paris: Jazz Magazine]
No. 330, juin 1984.
Jeanson, Francis.
Notre guerre.
Paris: Éditions de Minuit, [c1960]
Jeanson, Francis.
Le procès du réseau Jeanson / présenté par Marcel Péju.
Paris: Maspero, 1961.
London Bulletin, March 15, 1939.
London: London Gallery Ltd.
Larrea, Juan.
El surrealismo entre viejo y nuevo mundo.
México: Ediciones Cuadernos americanos, 1944.
Léger, Fernand.
Fernand Léger, Ausstellung 22. Mai bis 23. Juni 1957, Kunsthalle Basel.
[Basel: Die Kunsthalle, 1957]
Les lettres nouvelles.
Paris : Julliard. (Gallimard?)
7e année, no. 6, 8 avril 1959. Contains interview with Alberto Giacometti.
Magritte, René.
Magritte, 1898-1967: 11 janvier-16 mars, 1979.
Paris: Galerie Isy Brachot, [1979]
Matta Echaurren, Roberto Sebastián.
Matta: terres nouvelles: peintures exposées du 8 au 30 juin 1956 à la Galerie du Dragon.
[Paris: La Galerie, 1956]
Minotaure.
Paris: A. Skira, 1933-1939.
Three issues, 1933-34: No. 1 (Mission Dakar-Djibouti 1931-1933); No. 3-4, with article by Man Ray (L'age de la lumière); No.
5, with articles by Man Ray (Danses-Horizons), Max Ernst (Les mystères de la forêt), Paul Eluard and André Breton.
L'OEil.
[Paris, s.n.]
No. 16, avril 1956. With article: Souvenirs rhénans, by Max Ernst.
Opus international.
Paris: Éditions Georges Fall.
No. 19-20 (Oct. 1970). Cover title: Surréalisme international. With short articles on Matta, Man Ray and Jacques Hérold, and
mention of Victor Brauner.
Paalen, W., ed.
Dyn.
[Coyoacan, D.F., Mexico: Printed at Talleres Gráficos de la Nación, 1943]
Nos. 1, 3, 4-5 ("Amerindian number"), and 6, dated 1942-1944.
Picasso, Pablo.
Picasso, oeuvres des musées de Léningrad et de Moscou, 1900-1914 / [introd. par Maurice Raynal].
Paris: Maison de la pensée française, 1954.
Ray, Man.
Les mains libres: dessins de Man Ray; illustrés par les poèmes de Paul Éluard.
[Paris]: Gallimard, 1947.
With title page dedication to De Herrera by Man Ray.
San Francisco Museum of Art.
Dynaton, 1951 [by] Jacqueline Johnson, Lee Mullican, Gordon Onslow-Ford [and] Wolfgang Paalen.
[San Francisco: s.n., 1951?]
The Star screwer.
[Montignac, France]: Nautical Press & Star Screwer, 1972-
Nos. 3-4, 5, 6 plus poster.
Style en France.
Paris: Éditions J.B.V.
Vol. II no. 5, Jan./Feb./Mar. 1947 [appeared 1947 Apr. 15].
Le surréalisme au service de la révolution. No. 1
Paris: Librairie José Corti, [n.d.—1930?]
Le Surréalisme en 1947: exposition internationale du surréalisme, présentée par André Breton et Marcel Duchamp.
Paris: Pierre à Feu, Maeght Editeur, c1947.
Tzara, Tristan.
Morceaux choisis / Tristan Tzara; préface de Jean Cassou.
[Paris]: Bordas, c1947.
Dedicated to De Herrera and W. Copley by Tristan Tzara.
Verve: Revue artistique et littéraire.
Paris: Éditions Verve, 1937-
Vol IX, no. 35-36, 1958. Cover title: Dernières OEuvres de Matisse, 1950-1954.
View.
New York: View, Inc., 1940-1947.
Includes Vol VI no. 1, Feb. 1946 and Vol VI nos. 2-3, Mar.-Apr. 1946.
XXe siècle.
Paris: Chroniques du jour, 1938-1984.
1re année (1938), nos. 1-4. Includes article: La photographie qui console, by Man Ray.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Gloria de Herrera papers consist of ca. 750 items documenting the life of Gloria de Herrera, an American art preparator,
restorer and collector active in the art world in Los Angeles and France in the middle of the 20th century. A close friend
and associate of Man Ray, William N. Copley, Max Ernst and other notable Surrealist and Dada artists, De Herrera is credited
with having glued and made permanent the cut-out collages of Henri Matisse. Later, De Herrera became involved in the struggle
for Algerian independence. The papers bear witness to these activities; they include ca. 180 letters; ca. 170 assorted documents
(including her writings and those of William Copley, incidental publications revealing her political interests, notes concerning
her art preparation work, legal and medical records, and papers associated with her untimely death from cancer); 22 artworks,
68 artwork surrogates and 7 exhibition announcements from artist friends, along with 11 items saved from her Matisse work;
and some 244 photographs documenting her social circles, travels, interests and activities. Also included are 7 oversize items,
7 audio cassettes of an interview with De Herrera, and 1 VHS cassette of an interview of her friend James B. Byrnes, discussing
De Herrera and her milieu.
Highlights of the papers include a scrapbook of photographs of De Herrera's activities, ca. 1950-1953, documenting her transatlantic
voyage and visits to the homes of Max Ernst and Pablo Picasso among other events; the Échantillons Matisse, a set of 72 fragments
of gouached paper left over from her Matisse work, along with 10 full-sized gouached paper sheets; and two oil paintings by
William N. Copley (one very small, one full-sized). Additionally, a set of photographs taken by De Herrera in 1947 documents
a Just Jazz concert in Pasadena, featuring Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and other jazz artists. An additional
71 books and journals owned by De Herrera have been separated to the library; they are enumerated in a separation list at
the end of this finding aid.
Arrangement note
The papers are organized in six series:
Series I. Correspondence, 1950-1988;
Series II. Documents, 1936-1996;
Series III. Artworks, 1945-ca. 1975;
Series IV. Photographs, 1947-1985;
Series VI. Audiovisual materials, 1983-1996
Biographical/Historical Note
Gloria Claire de Herrera was born in Los Angeles on April 26, 1929, of Mexican and German descent. In 1947, while still in
high school, she befriended Barbara C. Byrnes, owner of the American Contemporary Gallery on Hollywood Boulevard, and her
husband James B. Byrnes. In 1949 James Byrnes, at that time a curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, offered De
Herrera a position as project secretary for the California Centennial Exhibition; she also acted as slide-pusher for Byrnes's
course on twentieth-century art at USC, and learned art conservation at the LACMA conservation laboratory. During these years
De Herrera also became friendly with Man Ray and his wife Juliet (née Browner), as well as artist and collector William Nelson
Copley. Through Copley and Man Ray she received entrée to a circle of artists connected to the Surrealist movement, including
Max Ernst, Dorothea Tanning, Roberto Matta-Echauren, Yves Tanguy, and Marcel Duchamp.
In March of 1951, in response to the rise of McCarthyism in the United States, Man Ray, his wife, and Copley departed for
Paris, bringing De Herrera with them. This move proved a pivotal event in her life, as she was never to return to the United
States. In France, De Herrera and Copley found themselves at the heart of the art world, socializing with the Man Rays, Nelly
van Doesburg, writers Valentine and Roland Penrose, poet Paul Eluard, and artists Constantin Brancusi, Alexander Calder, Marc
Chagall, Alberto Giacometti and Tristan Tzara, among many others. De Herrera also became involved in buying and selling art,
and traveled with Copley throughout France, visiting the country homes of Max Ernst, André Breton, Henri-Pierre Roché, Pablo
Picasso and Françoise Gilot.
By 1953 or 1954 the relationship with Copley had ended, and De Herrera had found employment at Lucien Lefebvre-Foinet, a notable Parisian art-supplies store then owned by Maurice Lefebvre-Foinet, whose brother René she had known in Los Angeles.
Here she became an art conservator. After implementing a series of successful repairs on damaged paintings by Mondrian and
Chagall, De Herrera was recommended for the task of applying permanent glue to Henri Matisse's cut-out collages (also known
as découpages or gouaches découpées). Between 1953 and ca. 1959, De Herrera worked on at least sixteen collages, and likely
many more; the work was coordinated through Matisse's Russian-born assistant and model Lydia Delectorskaya, who became De
Herrera's friend as well. De Herrera also undertook a commission for Marcel Duchamp in 1957. She maintained friendships in
this period with Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning, Victor Brauner, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Fernand Léger, Wolfgang
Paalen and Bernard Pfriem.
In the late 1950s De Herrera became increasingly interested in leftist politics. She travelled to the Soviet Union in 1957,
and as France became engaged with the struggle for Algerian independence, she espoused the Algerian cause. She also befriended
the world-travelling photographer Dominique Darbois, and did layout for Darbois's
Enfants du monde children's book series. In 1960 De Herrera was arrested and jailed for two months by French police conducting a sweep of
Europeans who had provided assistance to the FLN (Front de libération nationale: the Algerian revolutionary army). Media attention
focused on the involvement of De Herrera, an American citizen, in the trials of the "porteurs de valises" (suitcase-carriers,
or French supporters of the Algerian independence movement). She was given a separate, secret military trial, and was ultimately
expelled from France. De Herrera took up residence in Brussels, Belgium, as did many of her exiled cohorts. Successive amnesties
declared in March 1962 and July 1968 restored her residency in France, and brought about the return of impounded possessions,
including her automobile.
Returning to France, De Herrera found herself shunned by most of her past art-world friends. Her intimates in this period
included Darbois and the photographer/master forger Adolfo Kaminsky, both of whom had been active in the French Resistance
during WWII. In 1973 she left Paris for the Dordogne region, where she purchased a home near Lascaux, whose prehistoric paintings
she reportedly helped document. There she became friendly with American artist Patricia Barton, also living in the Dordogne.
By 1983 De Herrera had developed terminal throat cancer. At this time James and Barbara Byrnes, who had been hoping to interview
her about her Matisse collage work, finally located her through Darbois. They became her helpmates through her final two years
of life, assisting her in raising money for medical treatment, in selling her house and transporting her belongings to the
United States, and in re-establishing contact with her family, from whom she had been long estranged. Gloria de Herrera died
on June 24, 1985, in Brive (Corrèze).
Custodial History
De Herrera gave her papers to Barbara C. and James B. Byrnes who maintained the archive and added to it until giving it to
the Getty Research Library.
Processing History
J.P. Munro rehoused the items and wrote a preliminary inventory in 2000. Paul Arenson created the series arrangement, separated
the books and journals, and wrote and encoded the finding aid in 2002.
Acquisition Information
The papers were donated by James and Barbara Byrnes in 1998 in memory of their friend Gloria de Herrera, with further donations
made in 2002.
Preferred Citation
Gloria de Herrera papers, The Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 980024.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa980024
Publication Rights
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers, excepting audiovisual materials being reformatted.
Selected Bibliography
Michèle and Michel Auer.
Encyclopédie internationale des photographes de 1839 à nos jours = Photographers encyclopaedia international, 1839 to the
present.
Hermance, Switzerland : Camera Obscura, c1985.
Darbois, Dominique, and Philippe Vigneau.
Les Algériens en guerre. Milan : Feltrinelli, 1961.
Forging identity [videorecording] / a film by Jacques Falck. Brooklyn, NY : First Run / Icarus Films [distributor], 1999.
Henri Matisse, 1950-1954 : les grandes gouaches découpées : [Ausstellung] Kunsthalle Bern, 25. Juli bis 20. September 1959.
[Bern : Kunsthalle, 1959]
Henri Matisse : paper cut-outs / Jack Cowart ... [et al.]. [St. Louis] : St. Louis Art Museum ; New York : distributed by Abrams, c1977.
James Byrnes / interviewed by George M. Goodwin ; completed under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of
California, Los Angeles.
c1977.
Man Ray : Paris - L.A. Santa Monica, CA : Smart Art Press, c1996.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Scrapbooks
Sketches
Photocopies
Photographs, Original
Videotapes
Watercolors
Art -- Collectors and collecting
Transcripts
Clippings (information artifacts)
Tableaux modernes, art contemporain,
Modern art shackled to Communism
Département de la Dordogne. Règlement sanitaire départemental
Estampes des XIXe et XXe siècles
Idolatry and confusion
La vie d'un grand disparu : Jean Jaurès, apôtre de la paix
Soviet Union -- Description and travel
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1953
Auction catalogs
Audiotapes
Slides (photographs)
Art dealers -- France -- Paris
Art galleries, Commercial -- California -- Los Angeles
Drawings (visual works)
Art restorers -- France -- Paris
Collage, French
Art -- Conservation and restoration
Art -- Exhibitions
Art, Modern -- 20th century
Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962
Surrealism -- California -- Los Angeles
Surrealism -- France
Americans -- France -- Social life and customs
Sedona (Ariz.) -- Social life and customs
Paris (France) -- Social life and customs
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social life and customs
France -- Politics and government -- 1958-1969
Oil paintings
Notes
Passports
Paper fragments
Exhibition announcements
Medical records
Interviews
Copy prints
Color transparencies
Documents
Correspondence
Painting, Modern -- 20th century
Jazz musicians -- United States
Sculpture, Modern -- 20th century
Photography, Artistic
Lucien Lefebvre-Foinet (Firm)
Man Ray, Juliet, -1991
Loudmer-Poulain (Firm)
Hodes, Barnet, 1900-1980
Johnston, Ynez, 1920-
Kelleher, Patrick J. (Patrick Joseph), 1917-
Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993
Granz, Norman, 1918-2001
Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
Éluard, Paul, 1895-1952
Eluard, Dominique
Fitzgerald, Ella
Ernst, Max, 1891-1976
Toyen, 1902-1980
Teagarden, Jack, 1905-1964
Zerbib, Marcel
Roché, Henri Pierre, 1879-1959
Rothman, Walter
Péret, Benjamin, 1899-1959
Tanguy, Yves, 1900-1955
Tanning, Dorothea, 1910-2012
Penrose, Valentine
Penrose, Roland, Sir
Pastier, Madeleine
Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973
Picasso, Claude, 1947-
Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954
Mondrian, Piet, 1872-1944
Man Ray, 1890-1976
Cornell, Joseph
Copley, William Nelson, 1919-1996
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968
De Herrera, Gloria, 1929-1985
Bigard, Barney
Boudaoud, Omar
Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
Byrnes, Barbara
Byrnes, James B.
Breton, André, 1896-1966
Brahim, Malika
Brauner, Victor, 1903-1966