
Art Institute of Chicago
Genuflection of the Bishop
Jean Dubuffet · 1963
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist; sold through Galerie Beyeler, Basel, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 16, 1964.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Venice, Centro Internazionale delle Arti e del Costume at the Palazzo Grassi, l’Hourloupe di Jean Dubuffet, June 15–Sept. 13, 1964, cat. 33, as L'Agenouillement de l'évêque
- Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Jean Dubuffet 1943-1963: Paintings, Sculptures, Assemblages, June 17–Sept. 12, 1993, cat. 98, as L'Agenouillement de l'évêque (The Kneeling of the Bishop).
Literature
Published references
- Paolo Marinotti and Renato Barilli, Jean Dubuffet, exh. cat. (Venice: Palazzo Grassi, 1964), n.p., cat. 33 (color ill.), as L'Agenouillement de l'évêque.
- Max Loreau, Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, v. 20 cat. rais. (Paris: J.-J. Pauvert, 1964), 100, cat. 183 (ill.), as L'Agenouillement de l'évêque.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1964–65 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1964), 29.
- El Mundo de los Museos, The Art Institute of Chicago, Editorial Codex, S.A. Madrid Spain (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1967), 79 (color ill.).
- Renato Barilli, Dubuffet: Le Cycle de “L’Hourloupe” (Paris: Chêne, 1976), 27, 30, 31 (color ill.)., 125, cat. 33, as L'Agenouillement de l'évêque.
- James Demetrion, Susan J. Cooke, Jean Planque, and Peter Schjeldahl, Jean Dubuffet 1943-1963: Paintings, Sculptures, Assemblages: An Exhibition, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in association with the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993), 145 (color ill.), 149, cat. 98, as L'Agenouillement de l'évêque (The Kneeling of the Bishop).
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