365 Days of Art: November 8 – Surrealists Expel Another Member, Out of Loyalty to Gorky

Matta and Breton c. 1939

November 8, 1948

Andre Breton expels Victor Brauner from the Surrealist group, because Brauner refuses to condemn Matta, who has already been expelled for contributing to Gorky’s suicide, by sleeping with his wife.