Artist Monograph

Camille Bryen, French

French, 1907–1977

Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Etching	5	62.5%
Lithography	2	25%
Watercolor	1	12.5%

Production by Decade

3

1940s

1

1950s

4

1960s

Classification Types

Illustrated Book — 6
Print — 1
Drawing — 1

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	4	57.1%
Medium (30–100 cm)	3	42.9%

Range: 15.0 cm → 50.2 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1948	1
1958	1
1964	2
1970	1
1973	1
1976	1
2022	1

French Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 8 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Imaginary Structure (Structure imaginaire) Drawing Acc. 234.1948	1948	Ink and watercolor on paper	19 3/4 x 13 1/4" (50.2 x 33.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan Fund
Folio 11 from Poésie de mots inconnus (Poetry of Unknown Words) Illustrated Book Acc. 490.2022.11	1949	Drypoint from an illustrated book with seven woodcuts, seven etchings (two with aquatint, one with engraving), six lithographs, three drypoints, two engravings, one aquatint, and one linoleum cut	plate (partial): 12 3/16 x 4 5/8" (31 x 11.8cm); page: 12 5/8 × 9 13/16" (32 × 25 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Helen and Sam Zell
In-text plate (folio 11) from Poésie de mots inconnus Illustrated Book Acc. 992.1964.11	1949	Drypoint from an illustrated book with seven woodcuts, seven etchings (two with aquatint, one with engraving), six lithographs, three drypoints, two engravings, one aquatint, and one linoleum cut	plate (partial): 12 3/16 x 4 5/8" (31 x 11.8cm); page: 12 5/8 × 9 13/16" (32 × 25 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Louis E. Stern Collection
Our Little Continent (Notre petit continent) Illustrated Book Acc. 309.1958	1958	Etching and aquatint	plate: 6 1/4 × 4 3/4" (15.9 × 12 cm); page (irreg.): 9 13/16 × 7 15/16" (25 × 20.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Jean Arp
Plate 3 from L'AVANGUARDIA INTERNAZIONALE, Volume 1/L'AVANT-GARDE INTERNATIONALE, Volume 1/THE INTERNATIONAL AVANT-GARDE, Volume 1 Illustrated Book Acc. 800.1963.3	1962	Etching, printed in black	plate 5 7/8 x 4 1/2" (15 x 11.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Peter H. Deitsch
Plate (page 23) from Feuilles éparses Illustrated Book Acc. 202.1970.3	1965	Etching and aquatint from an illustrated book with nine etchings (two with aquatint, one with aquatint and drypoint), two engravings, one aquatint, one drypoint, and one woodcut	plate: 8 1/4 × 6 7/8" (20.9 × 17.4 cm); page: 9 7/16 × 7 7/8" (24 × 20 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Donald Karshan Fund
Fire Sign (Signe de Feu) Print Acc. 653.1973	1967	Etching	plate: 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.6 cm); sheet: 25 13/16 × 19 11/16" (65.5 × 50 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the International Graphic Arts Society
Plate (folio 10) from Hommage à Roger Lacourière Illustrated Book Acc. 15.1976.2	1968	Etching and aquatint from an illustrated book with twelve etchings (two with aquatint, two with drypoint, one with aquatint and drypoint) and one drypoint	plate: 6 11/16 × 9" (17 × 22.8 cm); page: 9 1/4 × 11 7/16" (23.5 × 29 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Mrs. Stanley Resor Fund (by exchange)