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Materials:

oil, sand and putty on canvas

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Exhibited:

Paris, Galerie René Drouin, Mirobolus, Macadam et Cie. Hautes pâtes de Jean Dubuffet, 1946, p. 37 (illustrated, p. 19). Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Jean Dubuffet 1942-1960, 1960, pp. 206, no. 19. Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, The Morton G. Neumann Family Collection, vol. 1, 1980, p. 136, no. 96 (illustrated, p. 97); vol. II, p. 65. This exhibition later travelled to Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago.

Literature:

L. Trucchi, Jean Dubuffet, Rome 1965, p.375, no. 57 (illustated, p. 93) M. Loreau (ed.), Catalogue des Travaux de Jean Dubuffet: Fascicule II: Mirobolus, Macadam et Cie, Paris 1966, p. 128 and 129, no. 6 (illustrated, p. 18). A. Franzke, Dubuffet, New York 1981, p. 32 (illustrated in colour, p. 33). M. Yamaguchi, Dubuffet, Tokyo 1986, p. 98, no. 8 (illustrated in colour, p. 13). J. H. Duffy, Reading Between the Lines, Liverpool 1998, p. 335.

Provenance:

Galerie René Drouin, Paris. Morton G. Neumann, Chicago (acquired from the above circa 1940s), and thence by descent to the present owners.