Raoul UBAC : Rythm - Original woodcut, 1962

Raoul Ubac : (1910-1985) born Rudolf Gustav Maria Ernst Ubach on August 31st, 1910 in Malmedy or in Koln (Prussia) and who died on March 24th in 1985 in Dieudonne (Oise), was a belgian photographer, painter, engraver, and sculptor, of the Nouvelle Ecole de Paris. In 1930, he entered la Sorbonne, and acquainted surrealist artists. He used to hang out at the Montparnasse workhops. He met Camille Bryen and Otto Freundlich, André Breton, and was part of the surrealist world. He travelled by foot all around Europe, to Italy, Switzerland, Austria. In Dalmatia, on the Hvar island, il assembled stones he found, and photographed them. He then started experimenting with processes of burning, solarisation, petrification, and exhibited in 1933 in Paris the results of his researches. He rubbed shoulders with Hans Bellmer, Victor Brauner, Benjamin Péret or Raoul Hausmann. In October 1935, he participated to the International Surrealism exhibition under the pseudonym of Raoul Michelet. Some of his photographs were published in the surrealist magazine "Minotaure". He learnt engraving in Stanley Hayter's workshop, and befriended Roger Gilbert-Lecomte. In 1940, Raoul Ubac founded with René Magritte the magazine "L'Invention collective". War took him away of surrealim littled by littled, and made him give up photography. His works are present in numerous french and european museums.

Musée d'Evreux (France)
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Japan)
Abbatiale de Conques (France)
Walker Art Center (The USA)
François Pinault Foundation (Italy)
Musée Fabre (France)
MacVal (France)
Collection Société Générale (France)
FRAC Auvergne (France)
Das Museum Folkwang (Germany)
FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (France)
The Bridgestone Museum of art Ishibashi Foundation (Japan)
Museo Tamayo (México)
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (The USA)
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Portugal)
Deutsche Bank Art Collection (Germany)
Museum Abteiberg (Germany)
Musée des Beaux Arts de Nantes (France)
Musée d'art Moderne et contemporain de Nice (MAMAC) (France)
The José Manuel Rodrigues Berardo Collection (Portugal)
Les Abattoirs - FRAC Midi Pyrénées (France)
Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght (France)
LAM (Musée d'art moderne Lille Métropole) (France)
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) (The USA)
Nykytaiteen museo Kiasma (Finland)
FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon (France)
FRAC Bretagne (France)
Carnegie Museum of art (The USA)
Essl Museum (Austria)
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (France)
Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e contemporanea (GAM) (Italy)
Artothèque du Limousin + FACLIM (France)
National Gallery of Art, Washington (The USA)
National Galleries of Scotland (United Kingdom)
Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein (Liechtenstein)
Institut culturel Bernard Magrez (France)
Centre Pompidou - Musée national d'art moderne (France)
Randers Kunstmuseum (Denmark)
Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje (FYROM)
Artothèque de Brest (France)
Henie Onstad Museum (Norway)
Artothèque de Caen (France)
Collection Thomas Neirynck (Belgium)
UMMA University of Michigan Museum of Art (The USA)
Sara Hildén Art Museum (Finland)
Artothèque, Angers (France)
Centre national des arts plastiques (France)
Musée d'art moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole (France)
Musée des Beaux arts de Lyon (France)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York (The USA)
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College (The USA)
Tate Collection (United Kingdom)
Musée des Beaux arts de Caen (France)
Musée des Beaux Arts, Montréal (Canada)
Ohara Museum of Art (Japan)
mglc (Slovenia)
Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (México)
Collection Michel Fedoroff (Monaco)
Musée Soulages (France)
Fondation Gandur pour l'art (Switzerland)
Biedermann Museum (Germany)
Collection Laurent Dumas (Emerige) (France)
Musée des beaux arts de Rennes (France)