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Closed Now
Wed–Sun 11am–7pm
Free Admission
1533 Sul Ross St.
Houston, TX 77006
713-525-9400
Menil
Visit
Exhibitions
Events
Collection
Campus
About
Support
Research
Read Online
Bookstore
Arts of Africa
Arts of the Americas and Pacific Northwest
Arts of the Ancient World
Arts of the Pacific Islands
Drawings Collection
Medieval and Byzantine Art
Modern and Contemporary Art
Surrealism
Witnesses
Wolfgang Paalen, Austrian, active in Mexico, 1905 - 1959
Smoke Painting (Fumage)
, ca. 1938
Oil, candle burns, and soot on canvas
10 ¾ × 16 3/8 in. (27.3 × 41.6 cm)
Painting
1987-07 DJ
© Succession Wolfgang Paalen
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