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Roger Bissière
(French, 1886-1964)
Carré Lune (Composition 206), 1954
Estimate: $15,000-$25,000
Sold
$16,000
Live Auction
Stepping Into Tomorrow
Size
31 1/4 x 29 1/2 inches.
Description
Roger Bissière
, 1954
(French, 1886-1964)
Carré Lune (Composition 206)
oil on canvas
signed Bissiere and dated (lower right)
31 1/4 x 29 1/2 inches.
Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Condition
There is slight overall surface dirt and dust; slackening to the canvas tension, scattered craquelure in the upper left quadrant towards the left edge and at the center of the canvas; an isolated area of convex bowing to the canvas in the lower right corner; otherwise this work appears to be in basic good and stable condition.
Framed: 36 1/2 x 34 1/4 inches.
Framed: 36 1/2 x 34 1/4 inches.
Signature
signed Bissiere and dated (lower right)
Provenance
Provenance:
Galerie Jeanne-Bucher, Paris
Private Collection, Oslo
Galerie Jeanne-Bucher, Paris
Theodore Schempp, New York
Joseph Cantor, New York, 1962
Joseph Cantor Foundation, 1981
Gifted to the Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1987
Exhibited:
Hanover, Germany, Lübeck et Recklinghausen, Kestner Gesellschaft, St. Annen-Museum et Städtische Kunsthalle, 1957, no. 40
Eindhoven, Netherlands, Stedelijk van Abbe-Museum et Stedelijk Museum, 1957 no. 49
Paris, France, Musée National d'Art Moderne, 1959, no. 77
Paris, France, Grand Palais, Salon d'Automne, no. 4
Indianapolis, Indiana, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1988, no. 3
Literature:
Bissière, Isabelle & Duval, Virginie, Bissière: Catalogue Raisonné 1944-1964, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 2001, no. 2163, pg. 726