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Materials:

oil on panel

Size Notes:

63 x 47

Description:

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Markings:

signed Mathieu and dated 51 (lower right); titled and dated 1951 (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

New York, Kootz Gallery, Georges Mathieu, 1954, no. 1; Arts Club of Chicago,Mathieu / Soulages,1954, no. 1; Ithaca,Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, The David M. Solinger Collection: Masterworks of Twentieth Century Art, 2002-03, p. 114, illustrated

Literature:

James Johnson Sweeney, 'The Young GuardPainters in Paris,'Harper's Bazaar, vol. 87, no. 2907, p. 109, illustrated (with the artist in his studio); 'Reviews and Previews,'ARTnews,vol. 53, no. 2, April 1954, p. 45, illustrated; Georges Mathieu, Mathieu, 50 ans de cration, Paris, 2003, p. 47, illustrated(installed in Mathieu's Paris apartment, 1954); Exh. Cat., Milan, Galleria del Centre Culturel Franais de Milan; and Brescia, Galleria Agnellini Arte Moderna, Georges Mathieu: 1948-1969, 2011-12, pp. 177-9, 181-2; p. 177, illustrated (installed in Mathieu's Paris apartment, 1954)

Provenance:

Kootz Gallery, New York; Acquired from the abovein March 1954 by the present owner