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Jean Dubuffet
The Effacement of Memories1957

Not on view
Horizontal painting with gestural black line figures and animal-like forms over a heavily textured ground in raw umber, sandy tan, and chalky white

Jean Dubuffet, The Effacement of Memories, 1957, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, David E. Bright Bequest, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Jean Dubuffet
France, 1901-1985
Title
The Effacement of Memories
Place Made
France
Date Made
1957
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
35 × 46 in. (88.9 × 116.84 cm)
Credit Line
David E. Bright Bequest
Accession Number
M.67.25.15
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Powell III, Earl A., Robert Winter, and Stephanie Barron. The Robert O. Anderson Building. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1986.
  • Tuchman, Maurice, and Carol S. Eliel. Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1992

  • King, Jennifer, ed. Vera Lutter: Museum in the Camera. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2020.

  • Tuchman, Maurice, and Carol S. Eliel. Visiones Paralelas: Artistas Modernos y Arte Marginal. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 1993.
Copyright
© Jean Dubuffet / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York / ADAGP, Paris