View of Paris with Furtive Pedestrians

Jean Dubuffet  (French, Le Havre 1901–1985 Paris)

Date:
1944
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
H. 35, W. 45-5/8 inches (88.9 x 115.9 cm.)
Classification:
Paintings
Credit Line:
Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998
Accession Number:
1999.363.19
Rights and Reproduction:
© 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
  • Provenance

    the artist (to Drouin); [Galerie René Drouin, Paris]; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Zadok, Milwaukee and New York (by 1953–65; their sale, Sotheby's, New York, June 22, 1965, no. 22, for $26,600, to Elkon and Fraser); [Robert Elkon Gallery, New York and Robert Fraser Gallery, London, 1965–67; sold on June 8, 1967 to Eugene Thaw, New York for Gelman]; Jacques and Natasha Gelman, Mexico City and New York (1967–his d. 1986); Natasha Gelman, Mexico City and New York (1986–d. 1998; her bequest to MMA)

  • Exhibition History

    New York. Museum of Modern Art, New York. "The School of Paris: Paintings from the Florene May Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx Collection," November 1, 1965–January 2, 1966, unnumbered cat. (p. 54; as "Building Facades, Paris").

    Art Institute of Chicago. "The School of Paris: Paintings from the Florene May Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx Collection," February 11–March 27, 1966, unnumbered cat.

    City Art Museum of Saint Louis. "The School of Paris: Paintings from the Florene May Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx Collection," April 26–June 13, 1966, unnumbered cat.

    Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City. "The School of Paris: Paintings from the Florene May Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx Collection," July 2–August 7, 1966, unnumbered cat.

    San Francisco Museum of Art. "The School of Paris: Paintings from the Florene May Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx Collection," September 2–October 2, 1966, unnumbered cat.

    New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Painters in Paris: 1895 1950," March 8, 2000–January 14, 2001, unnumbered cat. (p. 119).

    New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Pierre and Maria Gaetana Matisse Collection," May 18–September 12, 2004, no catalogue.

    New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Selections from The Pierre and Maria Gaetana Matisse Collection, Part 3," February 15–June 26, 2005, no catalogue.

    Paris. Mona Bismarck Foundation. "Pierre Matisse, passeur passionné: Un marchand d'art et ses artistes," October 20, 2005–January 14, 2006, unnumbered cat. (p. 103; as "Façades d'immeubles").

  • References

    Loreau, Max. Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet. Vol. 1, Marionnettes de la ville et de la campagne. Paris, 1966, no. 225.

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