id:			145092
accession number:	1970.273
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1970.273
updated:		2023-01-19 15:25:08.541000

Transfer of Assemblages: Smile, 1962. Jean Dubuffet (French, 1901–1985). Color lithograph; sheet: 64 x 45 cm (25 3/16 x 17 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph F. Colin, New York, through ROGOCO Foundation 1970.273 © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

title:				Smile
title in original language:	
series:				Transfer of Assemblages
series in original language:	
creation date:			1962
creation date earliest:		1962
creation date latest:		1962
current location:		
creditline:			Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph F. Colin, New York, through ROGOCO Foundation
copyright:			© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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culture:	France, 20th century
technique:	color lithograph
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Lithograph
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Webel 812

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CREATORS

* Jean Dubuffet (French, 1901–1985)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 64 x 45 cm (25 3/16 x 17 11/16 in.)
state of the work:	1 of 2 artist's proofs
edition of the work: 	

support materials:

	description:	Arches paper
	watermarks:	

inscriptions:

	inscription:	Signed by the artist at lower right:  "J. Dubuffet 62"; lower left:  "epreuve d'artiste"
	translation:	
	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Lithographs of Jean Dubuffet
	opening date:   1999-12-19T00:00:00
	<i>The Lithographs of Jean Dubuffet</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (December 19, 1999-February 27, 2000).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Cleveland, Ohio:  The Cleveland Museum of Art; December 19, 1999 - February 27, 2000.  "The Lithographs of Jean Dubuffet".

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PROVENANCE

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wall description:
Reports d'Assemblages 
(Transfer of Assemblages) 
Dubuffet not only worked directly on zinc lithographic plates, but also utilized lithographic transfer paper, a specially coated paper from which a design drawn with greasy lithographic crayon or ink can be transferred onto a lithographic plate. In 1961-62 Dubuffet printed some of The Phenomena plates onto transfer paper that he had cut into different shapes. The pieces were arranged to form images of distorted, yet whimsical, faces and figures. The design of each assemblage was then transferred onto a lithographic plate so that multiple impressions could be printed.

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