Confiture matière - lumière (Texturologie LIII) [Preserves of Matter and Light (Texturology LIII)]

1958

Jean Dubuffet

Painter, French, 1901 - 1985

Jean Dubuffet

Grain-like speckles and dots in shades of sand brown, cream white, smoke gray, and soft black are evenly distributed across the horizontal surface of this abstract painting. The artist signed and dated the upper right corner, "J. Dubuffett '58."
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Stephen Hahn Family Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 97 x 130 cm (38 3/16 x 51 3/16 in.)
    framed: 99.1 x 132.4 x 3.5 cm (39 x 52 1/8 x 1 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1995.29.9

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Stephen Hahn, Santa Barbara, California; gift (partial and promised) 1995 to NGA; gift completed 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2013

  • Angels, Demons, and Savages: Pollock, Ossorio, Dubuffet, The Phillips Collection, Washington; Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, 2013, no. 53, repro.

2014

  • Make it New: Abstract Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, 1950-1975, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 2014, no. 20, repro..

Inscriptions

upper right: J. Dubuffet / 58; upper left reverse: Confiture matière - lumière / (Texturologie LIII) / [illegible, a line of writing that has been crossed out] / juin 58 / J. Dubuffet

Wikidata ID

Q20195009

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