Photograph of Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville, n.d.

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Photograph of Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville, n.d.

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Photograph of Gysin and Sommerville sitting on either side of a dream machine.

1 photo. : col. ; 20 x 20 cm.

University of Virginia. Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7602776

University of Virginia. Library

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Sommerville, Ian, 1951-

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Gysin, Brion.

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Brion Gysin was born on January 19, 1916, in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England. Gysin first established himself as a painter, attending the Sorbonne from 1934-1935 and associating with figures such as Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, and Salvador Dali. In 1935 he participated in the Surrealist Drawing Exhibitions, although his work was withdrawn by Surrealist founder Andre Breton. Gysin also attended the University of Bordeaux from 1949-1952 and Archivos de India at the University of Seville from 1952-195...