About the Artwork
It's Roots Will Break My Studio Floor
1959
John Bratby
born 1928
English
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Overall: 43 3/4 × 33 1/4 inches (111.1 × 84.5 cm)
Paintings
European Modern Art to 1970
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. James E. Lofstrom
60.221
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Markings
Signed, lower left, vertically: BRATBY
Inscribed, verso, on stretcher, in pencil: Dec 30 | Dec 31, 1959
Provenance
(Zwemmer Galleries, London, England)
Dr. and Mrs. James E. Lofstrom
1960-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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John Bratby Exhibition. Exh./Sales cat., Zwemmer Gallery. London, England, October 19-November 15, 1960, no. 5.
Bulletin of the DIA 42, no. 1 (1962): p. 11, (ill.).
Exhibition of the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. James E. Lofstrom. Exh. cat., J. B. Speed Art Museum. Louisville, May 16-June 19, 1966, no. 9.
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John Bratby, It's Roots Will Break My Studio Floor, 1959, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. James E. Lofstrom, 60.221.
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