Geometry
Bernard Buffet, French, 1928 - 1999
1949
Oil on canvas
Overall: 51 3/4 × 49 7/16 in. (131.5 × 125.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Julian J. and Joachim Jean Aberbach
P.962.47
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
20th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, upper left to center: 49 Bernard Buffet; on reverse, label: MAYER GALLERY, LONDON
Course History
Studio Art 25.01, Painting I, Lucy Mink Covello, Winter 2024
Publication History
John V. Kulvicki, On Images: Their Structure and Content, New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, 258 pp., ill. p. 210.
Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009 p.211, no.276.
Provenance
Julian J. Aberbach (1909-2004) and Joachim Jean Aberbach (1910-1992), New York, New York; given to present collection, 1962.
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