La femme étant à l’homme ce que le lit est aux nuages

1942

André Breton French, 1896 - 1966

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La femme étant à l’homme ce que le lit est aux nuages

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Title La femme étant à l’homme ce que le lit est aux nuages

Artwork Date 1942

Artist André Breton

Life Dates 1896 - 1966

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Assemblage in box including wood, paint, paper, self-adhesive letters, rock, ferrous metal, lead, string, board, lace, chalk, and glass

Dimensions Overall: 16 × 18 × 4 inches (40.6 × 45.7 × 10.2 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Modern Art to 1970

Credit Bequest of Margaret Herz Demant

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 2018.141

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March 1942, probably given by the artist to Suzy Hare [Susanna Winslow Perkins Wilson] (New York, New York, USA). 1968, Edwin and Lindy (Betty) Bergman, (Chicago, Illinois, USA). by November 6, 1979, William N. Copley (New York, New York, USA)

November 6, 1979, sold at his sale, (Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, New York, USA), lot 290. after November 6, 1979, Donald Karshan (New York, New York and Port Orange, Florida, USA). by October 1989, (Donald Morris Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, USA)

October 1989, sold to Margaret H. Demant [1926–2018] (Huntington Woods, Michigan, USA)

2018-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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The William N. Copley Collection. Sales cat., Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, November 5-6, 1979, no. 290 (ill.).

Breton, André. Je vois, j'imagine: poèmes-objets. Paris, 1991, pp. 182-183 (ill.), no. 142.

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André Breton, La femme étant à l’homme ce que le lit est aux nuages, 1942, assemblage in box including wood, paint, paper, self-adhesive letters, rock, ferrous metal, lead, string, board, lace, chalk, and glass. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Margaret Herz Demant, 2018.141.