Le soleil les décolore
oil on canvasboard
51 by 38 ⅛ in.
129.5 by 96.8 cm.
Executed on 24 April 1947.
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Details
51 by 38 ⅛ in.
129.5 by 96.8 cm.
Provenance
Galerie René Drouin, Paris
Carl van Bogaert Collection, Antwerp
Jos Janssens Collection, Liere
Christie's New York, 15 November 1988, lot 57 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, USA (acquired from the above)
Christie's New York, 11 November 2003, lot 39
Private Collection (acquired from the above)
Christie's London, 14 February 2012, lot 56 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibition
Paris, Galerie René Drouin, Portraits à ressemblance extraite, à ressemblance cuite et confite dans la mémoire, à ressemblance éclatée dans la mémoire de Mr. Jean Dubuffet, October 1947, no. 75
Paris, Musée des arts décoratifs, Rétrospective Jean Dubuffet 1942-1960, December 1960 - February 1961, no. 46, p. 212.
Ghent, Musée des Beaux-Arts, de Menselijke figuur sedert Picasso, July - October 1964, pl. LX, no. 88, p. 96, illustrated
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Jean Dubuffet, June - August 1966, no. 21, n.p., illustrated
Paris, Les Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Jean Paulhan à travers ses peintres, February - April 1974, no. 537, p. 215
Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris-Paris: Créations en France 1937-1957, May - November 1981, no. 197, p. 510
New York, James Goodman Gallery, Dubuffet: Form & Texture, October - December 2015, p. 7, illustrated in color
London, Waddington-Custot Galleries, Jean Dubuffet - A Festival of the Mind, May - June 2018, p. 11, illustrated in color
Brussels, Galerie Jacques de la Béraudière, Dubuffet & les artistes de la matière, January - June 2016
Paris, Galerie François Léage, Jean Dubuffet, no. 15, n.p., illustrated in color
Literature
Max Loreau, ed., Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule IV: Roses d'Allah, clowns du désert, Paris 1967, no. 17, p. 21, illustrated
Marcel Paquet, Dubuffet, Paris 1993, no. 74, p. 67, illustrated in color