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Tête sableuse

Tête sableuse

Artist/Maker (French, 1901–1985)
Date1950
MediumOil on masonite
DimensionsOverall: 28 5/16 × 23 1/4 in. (71.9 × 59.1 cm)
Frame: 29 3/8 × 24 1/8 × 1 3/16 in. (74.6 × 61.3 × 3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Joseph and Enid Bissett
Object number1960.98
Status
Not on view
Copyright© Estate of Jean Dubuffet / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, NYMore Information
Jean Dubuffet signed and dated this work, whose title means “sandy head,” in April 1950, adding at the upper right, with his initials, “in honor of Enid Bissett”. He had been working very steadily that month, as he wrote in several letters to his dealer Pierre Matisse, noting, “I always scrape my paintings very assiduously for a long time,” a reference to the deliberateness of his process, and the complex surfaces that were its result.
Provenance(Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York); purchased 1950 by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bissett, New York; by gift 1960 to Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH¹ ¹Allen Memorial Art Museum took actual possession in July 1968.Exhibition History
Jean Dubuffet: The Bissett Collection
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (May 27, 1988 - September 18, 1988 )
Maidenform to Modernism: The Bissett Collection
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 15, 2017 - May 27, 2018 )
Collections
  • Modern & Contemporary
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