Le Solitaire, 1955

  • Jean Dubuffet, French, 1901-1985

Paint on canvas

  • Overall: 23 7/8 × 32 × 3/4 inches (60.6 × 81.3 × 1.9 cm)
  • 32 1/2 × 40 3/4 × 1 7/8 inches (82.6 × 103.5 × 4.8 cm)

Bequest of Margaret Herz Demant

2018.140

Department

European Modern Art to 1970

(Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, New York, USA). 1962, Private collection. by October 1983, (Donald Morris Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, USA)

October 1983, sold to Margaret H. Demant [1926–2018] (Huntington Woods, Michigan, USA)

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

Loreau, Max. Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet. Vol. 11, Charrettes, jardins, personnages monolithes. Lausanne, Switzerland: Weber, 1969, pp. 59, no 67 (ill.), 135. Jean Dubuffet: Two Decades: 1943-1962. Exh. cat., Donald Morris Gallery. Birmingham, Michigan, 1983, pp. 34, no 27 (ill.), 54. Cooke, Susan J., Jean Planque, and Peter Schjeldahl. Jean Dubuffet 1943-1963: Paintings, Sculptures, Assemblages. Exh. cat., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Washington, D.C., 1993, p. 106, no 61 (ill.).

Jean Dubuffet, Le Solitaire, 1955, paint on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Margaret Herz Demant, 2018.140.