Three Masks (Rene Pontier, Andre Claude, Robert Polguere)

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Object Details

Artist
Jean Dubuffet, French, b. Le Havre, 1901–1985
Date
(1935)
Medium
Papier-mache and paint
Dimensions
in vitrine: 25 x 46 x 6 in. (63.5 x 116.8 x 15.2 cm)
Collection Object Type
Sculpture
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Accession Number
66.1455

Henri-Pierre Roche, Paris
Mme. Henri-Pierre Roche, Paris
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, to 22 March 1962
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 22 March 1962-17 May 1966
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York. "The Work of Jean Dubuffet," 19 February-8 April 1962, ill. no. 2, p. 11. TOUR: ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, 11 May-17 June; LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, 10 July-12 August.
SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York. "Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection," 3 October 1962-6 January 1963, no. 129.
SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York. "Jean Dubuffet," 20 April-29 July 1973, no. I, ill. p. 41.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, no. 467, ill.
CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU, Paris, France. "Jean Dubuffet," 12 September 2001-31 December 2001.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Ways of Seeing: John Baldessari Explores the Collection," 26 July 2006-23 September 2007, no cat.

LIMBOUR, GEORGES. Tableau bon levain à vous de cuire la pâte. L'Art brut de Jean Dubuffet (New York: Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1953), p. 99, ill. p. 17.
UNSIGNED. Bijutsu Techo no. 11 (November 1961), ill. 1, 2, 3, p. 54.
TRUCCHI, LORENZA. Jean Dubuffet (Rome: DeLuca, 1965), fig. 18, 19, 20, p. 68.
LOREAU, MAX. Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet vol. I (Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1966), ill. p. 21.
LOREAU, MAX. Jean Dubuffet: Delits, Deportements, Lieux de Haut Jeu (Lausanne, Switzerland: Weber, 1971), ill. p. 17.
LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974), pp. 685-86, fig. 467.
LANSING, KENNETH, and ARLENE E. RICHARDS. The Elementary Teacher's Art Handbook (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c. 1980), ill. 288.
UNSIGNED. Exposition Jean Dubuffet (Tokyo: Seibu Museum of Art, 1982), fig. 5, p. 152.
[UNSIGNED. Reproduced ? Art Gallery, no. 20 (1982?), p. 86.]
THÉVOZ, MICHEL. Dubuffet (Geneva: Skira, 1986), ill. p. 25.
GLIMCHER, MILDRED, with writings by JEAN DUBUFFET. Jean Dubuffet: Towards and Alternative Reality (New York: Pace Publications, 1987), fig. 1.
FRANZKE, ANDREAS. Jean Dubuffet: Petites statues de la vie précaire (Bern and Berlin: Verlag Gachnang & Springer, 1988), p. 8.
FRANZKE, ANDREAS. Jean Dubuffet: Petites statues de la vie précaire, trans. John William Gabriel (Bern and Berlin: Verlag Gachnang & Springer, 1988), p. 2.
TRUCCHI, LORENZA. "Un programma globale," in Jean Dubuffet: 1901-1985 (Milan: Electa, 1989), ill. p. 25.
ROSENTHAL, MARK et al. Jean Dubuffet: Anticultural Positions (New York: Rizzoli, 2016), fig. 19.

Signature
No visible Signature
Inscriptions
No visible inscriptions

Museum
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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