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Currently not on display

Jean Dubuffet

Le Havre, 1901 - Paris, 1985

Woman's Body (The Hairy One)

Date 1950
Materials and Techniques oil on canvas
Size(cm) 116 x 90
Inscriptions Signed and dated lower left: J. Dubuffet / juin 50
Credit Line Donated by Yamamura Family
Standard ref. Loreau vol. 6, 98
Category Paintings
Collection Number P.1965-0006

Provenance

Robert Elkon Gallery, New York; Minami Gallery, Tokyo, 1964; Donated by Haru & Tokutaro Yamamura, Nishinomiya.

Exhibition History

1954
Jean Dubuffet - Exposition rétrospective, Cercle Volney, Paris, 17 March 1954 - 17 April 1954, cat. no. 66
1985
Action et Emotion, Peintures de Années 50: Informel, Gutaï, Cobra, Musée National d'Art, Osaka, 27 September 1985 - 26 November 1985, cat. 60, col. repr.
1988
Perspective of 20th Century Paintings, Nagoya City Art Museum, 23 April 1988 - 19 June 1988, cat. no. 216, col. repr.
2015
NO MUSEUM, NO LIFE?: Art-Museum Encyclopedia to Come: From the Collections of the National Museums of Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 16 June 2015 - 13 September 2015, cat. no. N-27
2016
A Feverish Era: Art Informel and the Expansion of Japanese Artistic Expression in the 1950s and '60s, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 29 July 2016 - 11 September 2016, cat. no. 1-11, col. repr.

Bibliography

1965
Loreau, Max. Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet. fascicule VI, Corps de dames. Paris, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1965, p. 74, cat. no. 98, repr.
1967
Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 1, 1967, Catalogue of the New Acquisitions. pp. 38-39, no. P-348. repr.
1971
Les cent chefs-d'oeuvre du Musée National d'Art Occidental. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1971 (Japanese), no. 26, repr.
1975
Les cent chefs-d'oeuvre du Musée National d'Art Occidental. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1975 (Japanese), no. 80, repr.
1978
Masterpieces of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1978 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 84, repr.
1979
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 117, repr.
1985
Action et emotion, Peintures des années 50: Informel, Gutaï, Gobra (exh. cat.). The National Museum of Art, Osaka, ed. [suita], The National Museum of Art, Osaka, 1985, pp. 29, 123, cat. no. 60, col. repr.
1988
Perspective of 20th Century Paintings: Inaugural Exhibition (exh. cat.). Nagoya City Art Museum, ed. [Nagoya], Nagoya City Art Museum, 1988, pp. 282, 327, cat. no. 216, col. repr.
2013
Masterpieces: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2013 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 123, col. repr.
2016
A Feverish Era: Art Informel and the Expansion of Japanese Artistic Expression in the 1950s and '60s (exh. cat.). Hirai, Shoichi; Ogura, Jitsuko, eds. Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 2016, pp. 29, 165, cat. no. 1-11, col. repr.

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