'Typist [from 'Matter and Memory']', Jean Dubuffet

Artwork details

Artist

Jean Dubuffet (1901‑1985)

Title

Typist [from 'Matter and Memory']

Dactylographe [from 'Matière et mémoire']

Date 1944, published 1945

MediumLithograph on paper

Dimensionsimage: 255 x 153 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Purchased 1986

Reference

P77137

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Catalogue entry

Jean Dubuffet 1901-1985

P77137 Typist1944, pub. 1945 from ‘Matière et mémoire' 1945

Lithograph 255 x 153 (10 1/8 x 6) on Auvergne paper 325 x 252 (12 3/4 x 10 1/8); printed by Fernand Mourlot, Paris and published by Mourlot Frères in an edition of 60
Inscribed ‘18' below image b.r. in another hand; printed inscriptions ‘J.D.', ‘25 x 44' and ‘à Georges Limbour' b.l. of image and block of text (see below) near t.r. of image
Purchased at Christie's (Grant-in-Aid) 1986
Lit: Noël Arnaud, Jean Dubuffet Grafik, exh. cat., Silkeborg Museum 1961, p.185, repr. p.24, as ‘Dactylographe'; [Max Loreau (ed.)], Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, I, Paris 1966, p.183, repr. p.191 no… (read more)