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Fanny Brennan
“At the Atelier Art et Jeunesse they were always trying
to get me to fill the entire page of drawing paper. I only wanted to make very, very small
pictures.” — Fanny Brennan
Born in 1921 in Paris and educated in France, Switzerland and
the United States, she studied at the Atelier Art et Jeunesse in Paris from 1938 to 1939. A young
lady with an independent streak, she socialized in the cafes of Paris with artists such as Pablo
Picasso and Alberto Giacometti.
Brennan created whimsical, surrealist lithographs on a very small
scale, never more than a few inches square. These tiny pictures are filled with humor and, in
meticulous detail, present playful images of a mythical world that exists only in her imagination.
Fanny painted more than 300 images on small gessoed composition boards—each
one usually taking one month to complete. Each of these lithographs is made in the traditional manner with
all color plates created by hand.
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