Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012

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Les Murs (Walls)

1945, published 1950
Jean Dubuffet
Text by Eugène Guillevic
Printed by Mourlot frères, Paris
Each sheet (folded): 38.7 x 29.2 cm (15 1/4 x 11 1/2 in.) Book (closed): 40 x 30.5 x 3.2 cm (15 3/4 x 12 x 1 1/4 in.)
Unbound book with fifteen lithographs by Dubuffet and twelve poems by Guillevic

Classification: Illustrated books

Accession number: 2012.20.1-17

Provenance/Ownership History: Eric Mourlot, Galerie Mourlot, New York (grandson of the printer); October 2006, sold by Mourlot to Irving Zucker Art Books, New York; 2012, sold by Irving Zucker Art Books to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 25, 2012)

The Virginia Herrick Deknatel Purchase Fund