BIB_ID
433917
Accession number
MA 22732.24
Creator
Dubuffet, Jean, 1901-1985, sender.
Display Date
Paris, France, 1954 April 27.
Credit line
Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2018.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 27 x 20.9 cm
Notes
Dated "Paris, 27 avril 1954."
Part of a collection of letters and postcards from Jean Dubuffet to Maurice and Ruth Culberg, 1951-1972. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see related records for more information.
Part of a collection of letters and postcards from Jean Dubuffet to Maurice and Ruth Culberg, 1951-1972. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see related records for more information.
Provenance
Purchased from Swann Auction Galleries, Sale 2470, lot 249, 22 March 2018.
Summary
Saying that he is sending a large India ink drawing of a landscape to the Art Institute of Chicago as a gift in memory of Maurice Culberg; including a detailed description of the work, which he describes as halfway between the physical and the metaphysical; writing that It is entitled "Tour un veut etre."
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