Composition
Artist
Jean Hélion
French, 1904–1987
Date1934
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions50 15/16 x 63 5/8 in. (129.4 x 161.6 cm)
Frame: 52 x 65 x 1 3/4 in. (132.1 x 165.1 x 4.4 cm)
Frame: 52 x 65 x 1 3/4 in. (132.1 x 165.1 x 4.4 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Peggy Guggenheim
Object numberGL.57.40.1
On View
Not on viewPublished ReferencesJean Hélion, Carnets III (1934), 14.
James B. Byrnes, "Some Recent Accessions of Twentieth Century Painting," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 1, nos. 4 and 5 (Winter 1957/Spring 1958), briefly discussed and illus. (b-w) 42.
Merle Solway Schipper, "Jean Hélion: The Abstract Decade," Art in America (September-October 1976), 88-92.
Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 269.
"Works on Loan," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Summer 1987), noted and illus. (b-w) 11.
Peggy Guggenheim's Other Legacy (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1987), cat. no. 19, illus (b-w).
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 262.
Henry-Claude Cosseau, Hélion (Paris: Editions du Regard, 1992), listed and illus. (b-w) 311.
Philippe Dagen, Hélion (Paris: Editions Hazan, 2004), no. 92, illus. (color) 92.
Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint de Jean Hélion [Online database: < http://helion-cat-rais.fr>; downloaded Feb. 29, 2012], no. 611, illus. (color).
Exhibition HistoryExhibition History: Hollywood, CA, Howard Putzel Gallery, December 1935, [not listed in catalogue]. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint de Jean Hélion [Online database: < http://helion-cat-rais.fr>; downloaded Feb. 29, 2012], no. 531, illus. (color).
New York, NY, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, "Peggy Guggenheim's Other Legacy," March 6-May 3, 1987; Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, October [ ] 1987-January [ ] 1988, no. 19, illus. (b-w).
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