Collection: Madeleine Alain Brieux

Madeleine Alain Brieux was a French collagist active in Paris in the 1960s, working within the surrealist and post-surrealist tradition of cut-and-paste imagery. Her collages combine Old Master reproductions, anatomical fragments, botanical elements, architectural interiors, and classical bodies into dense, psychologically charged compositions that sit between surrealist automatism, decorative excess, and proto-pop image culture.

She exhibited at Galerie du Passeur, 90 rue du Bac, Paris, during the early-to-mid 1960s, a period when independent Paris galleries were actively presenting work at the intersection of surrealism, figuration, and experimental collage practice.

This collection brings together exhibition ephemera and printed matter connected to Brieux’s practice and institutional presentations.