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Paul Mathieu
Le Souci de Soi (The Care for the Self)1984

Not on view
Wall-mounted ceramic sculpture of overlapping yellow-glazed panels forming an irregular oval, with a gestural face drawn in red, blue, and white lines across the surface, edged with green leaf-shaped ceramic pieces

Paul Mathieu, Le Souci de Soi (The Care for the Self), 1984, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits in honor of the museum's twenty-fifth anniversary, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Paul Mathieu
Title
Le Souci de Soi (The Care for the Self)
Place Made
Canada
Date Made
1984
Medium
Porcelain
Dimensions
Overall: 7 1/2 x 15 1/4 x 15 in. (19.1 x 38.7 x 38.1 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits in honor of the museum's twenty-fifth anniversary
Accession Number
M.90.82.38a-f
Classification
Furnishings
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design
Selected Bibliography
  • Drexler Lynn, Martha. Clay Today: Contemporary Ceramists and their Work: a catalogue of the Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits Collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1990.
Copyright
© Paul Mathieu