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Les Murs (Walls), Plate 3
Jean Dubuffet (French, 1901–1985)
Text by: Eugène Guillevic (French, 1907–1997)
Printed by: Mourlot frères, Paris
Text by: Eugène Guillevic (French, 1907–1997)
Printed by: Mourlot frères, Paris
1945, published 1950
Medium/Technique
Unbound book with fifteen lithographs by Dubuffet (printed outer wrap, title page, twelve numbered plates, and colophon) and twelve poems by Guillevic
Dimensions
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.)
Book (closed): 40 x 30.5 x 3.2 cm (15 3/4 x 12 x 1 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Virginia Herrick Deknatel Purchase Fund
Accession Number2012.20.5
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Catalogue Raisonné
Webel 53-67
DescriptionPublished by Joseph Zichieri, Paris
InscriptionsStamped 122/160
ProvenanceEric 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)
Copyright© 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.