Bird's Flight

September 1959

Jean Dubuffet
French, 1901-1985

Status: On View, Gallery 397
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jean Dubuffet
Title: Bird's Flight
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1959
Medium: Collage composed of agave leaves on wove paper prepared with sepia wash, laid down on woodpulp laminate board
Inscriptions: Signed and dated, lower right: "J. Dubuffet / 59"
Dimensions: 48.9 × 65.4 cm (19 5/16 × 25 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection
Reference Number: 2018.314
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Max Loreau, Catalogue des Travaux de Jean Dubuffet, vol. 17, Matériologies (Paris, 1969), p. 33. no. 28 (ill.).
Dawn Ades, with Margherita Andreotti and Adam Jolles, Surrealist Art: The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1997), pp. 118–19, cat. 60 (color ill.).

London, Arthur Tooth and Sons, “Jean Dubuffet: Eléments Botaniques,” 1960, cat. 39 (ill.).
Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Gallery, “Jean Dubuffet: Forty Years of His Art,” 1984-85, cat. 52
Art Institute of Chicago, “A Tribute to Edwin A. Bergman (1917–1986): Selections from the Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection,” 1986, pamphlet no. 13.

Arthur Tooth, London [letter from Patricia H. Tompkins of James Goodman Gallery to Adam Jolles, Feb. 25, 1995]. Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva. Stephen Hahn, New York. Sold by James Goodman Gallery, New York, to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, Mar. 8, 1983; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.

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