About the Artwork
Le Solitaire
1955
Jean Dubuffet
1901-1985
French
Unknown
Paint on canvas
Overall: 23 7/8 × 32 × 3/4 inches (60.6 × 81.3 × 1.9 cm) Framed: 32 1/2 × 40 3/4 × 1 7/8 inches (82.6 × 103.5 × 4.8 cm)
Paintings
European Modern Art to 1970
Bequest of Margaret Herz Demant
2018.140
Restricted
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Provenance
(Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, New York, USA). 1962, Private collection. by October 1983, (Donald Morris Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, USA)
October 1983, sold to Margaret H. Demant [1926–2018] (Huntington Woods, Michigan, USA)
2018-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Loreau, Max. Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet. Vol. 11, Charrettes, jardins, personnages monolithes. Lausanne, Switzerland: Weber, 1969, pp. 59, no 67 (ill.), 135.
Jean Dubuffet: Two Decades: 1943-1962. Exh. cat., Donald Morris Gallery. Birmingham, Michigan, 1983, pp. 34, no 27 (ill.), 54.
Cooke, Susan J., Jean Planque, and Peter Schjeldahl. Jean Dubuffet 1943-1963: Paintings, Sculptures, Assemblages. Exh. cat., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Washington, D.C., 1993, p. 106, no 61 (ill.).
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Jean Dubuffet, Le Solitaire, 1955, paint on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Margaret Herz Demant, 2018.140.
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