About This Artwork

Jean Dubuffet
French, 1901–1985

Supervielle, Large Banner Portrait, 1945

Oil on canvas
130.2 x 97.2 cm (51 1/4 x 38 1/4 in. )
No inscription
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice E. Culberg, 1950.1367

Loreau, Plus beaux qu'ils croient 161

© 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Jean Dubuffet, Paintings, Gouaches, 1946-48, November 30—December 1948, cat. 6.

New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Jean Dubuffet: Paintings, January 24—February 8, 1950.

The Arts Club of Chicago, School of Paris, December 15, 1951—January 15, 1952.

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, The Work of Jean Dubuffet, February 19—April 8, 1962, cat. 35, traveled to the Art Institute of Chicago, May 18—June 17, 1962, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, July 10—August 12, 1962.

Publication History

“Chicago Asks Which is Real? You answer”, Arts Digest, February 1, 1951, p. 20.

Georges Limbour, Tableau Bon Levain a vous de cuire la Pate, L’Art Brut de Jean Dubuffet, (Pierre Matisse,1953), ill. 91.

Jack Kroll, “Dubuffet in all his Existentialist glory,” Art News, 61 (April 1962), pp. 42-44, 50-52, ill. 43.

Loreau, Max, Catalog des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule III: Plus beaux qu’ils croient (portraits), (Société française des Presses suisses, 1966), cat. 161.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture, (Hudson Hills Press, 1996), p.94.

William Griswold, Pierre Matisse and His Artists, exh. cat. (Pierpoint Morgan Library, 2001), ill. 220.

Ownership History

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, by 1948; sold to Mr. and Mrs. Maurice E. Culberg, 1950; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1950.