Limbour as a Crustacean
Date
1946
Artist
Jean Dubuffet, French, b. Le Havre, 1901–1985
Provenance
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York to 10 June 1958 (acquired from the Artist)
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 10 June 1958-1972
Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1972
Exhibition History
GALERIE RENE DOURIN, Paris. "Portraits a ressemblance extraite, a ressemblance cuite et confite dans la memoire, a ressemblance eclatee dans la memoire de M. Jean Dubuffet, peintre," 7-31 October 1947, no. 14.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975.
FONDATION BEYELER, Basel, Switzerland. "Face to Face to Cyberspace," 30 May-12 September 1999. no. 26, ill. p. 39.
CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU, Paris, France. "Jean Dubuffet" 12 September 2001 - 31 December 2001.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Strange Bodies," 11 December 2008-15 November 2009, no cat.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Masterworks from the Hirshhorn Collection," 9 June 2016-6 August 2017, no cat.
Published References
LORREAU, MAX. Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, fascicule 3, Paris, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1966, no. 95, ill. p. 69.
LERNER, ABRAM, ed. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Abrams, 1974), p. 686, fig. 594.
DI MAZZIO, PAUL J. "Book Reviews," Arts in Academe/Arts in Society 12, no. 3 (Fall-Winter 1975), p. 378, ill.
LUCIE-SMITH, EDWARD, SAM HUNTER, and ADOLF MAX VOGT. Kunst der Gegenwart. Propylaen Kunstgeschichte-Supplementbande II (Berlin: Propylaen Verlag, 1978), no. 29a, p. 144, ill.
FRANZKE, ANDREAS. Dubuffet (Koln: DuMont Buchverlag, 1990), ill. 23, p. 96.
DEMETRION, JAMES, et al. Jean Dubuffet 1943-1963: Paintings, Sculptures, and Assemblage (Washington, DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in association with Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993), pp. 20-33.
MCALLISTER, JANE, ed. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: 150 Works or Art (Washington, DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in association with Harry N. Abrams, 1996), p. 70, ill. p. 71.
BENEZRA, NEAL and OLGA M. VISO with ARTHUR C. DANTO (essay). Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century (Washington, DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution; Ostfildern, Germany: Cantz, 1999), fig. 16, p. 29.
AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 117, p. 135.
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School
Postwar European
On View
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), 2nd Floor
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1972
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Accession Number
72.100
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil and sand on canvas
Dimensions
45 3/4 × 35 in. (116.2 × 88.9 cm)
