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Alphabet Deaf (Still) and (Always) Blind
E. L. T. Mesens · 1957
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sold by Galerie Furstenberg (Simone Collinet), Paris, to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1959; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, Galerie Furstenberg, "Une Exposition de Collages par E.L.T. Mesens," 1958, cat. 27.
- Brussels, Palais des beaux-arts, "E.L.T. Mesens: Collages," 1959, cat. 59.
Literature
Published references
- 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. 197-98, cat. 98 (color ill.).
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