Mur à l'Oiseau (Wall with Bird), plate 2 from Guillevic's Les Murs (The Walls)
Jean Dubuffet, French, 1901 - 1985
March 17, 1945; published 1950
Lithograph on Montval wove paper
72/172
Sheet: 15 × 11 1/4 in. (38.1 × 28.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
PR.962.91
Printer
Atelier Mourlot Frères, Paris, France
Publisher
Les Editions du Livre, Paris
Geography/Culture
Europe, France
Period
20th century
Object Name
Classification
Not on view
Inscription
Inscribed, on stone, lower center 17/3/45; numbered, in graphite, lower left: 72/172; inscribed, in graphite, lower left: Dubuffet-Ill. for Guillevic "Les Murs" Paris 1950 Ch 72-2-2; reverse, printed, letterpress, center: Bien des murs sont tachés / De mousse ou de lichen couleur / des vagues / Qui à peine émergés / De l'eau tiède et du sel où vivre / prend figure / Laissent de pierre à nu / Aussi gros que la plaie à ne pas / trop montrer, / Plutôt chérir quand on est seul. [Translated text: Many walls are mottled / with moss and lichen the color / of waves / scarcely emerged / from tepid shallows and salt flats where living / takes shape / Leaving stone bare / Large as a seldom displayed wound / Cherished more when one is alone.]
Provenance
Ferdinand Roten Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland; sold to present collection, 1962.
Catalogue Raisonne
M. Loreau, Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, 1966, vol. 1, no. 406.
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