Roger Bissière

(French, 1886-1964)

Carré Lune (Composition 206)

, 1954

oil on canvas

signed Bissiere and dated (lower right)

31 1/4 x 29 1/2 inches.

Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

Provenance:

Galerie Jeanne-Bucher, Paris

Private Collection, Oslo

Galerie Jeanne-Bucher, Paris

Theodore Schempp, New York

Joseph Cantor, New York, 1962

Joseph Cantor Foundation, 1981

Gifted to the Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1987

Exhibited:

Hanover, Germany, Lübeck et Recklinghausen, Kestner Gesellschaft, St. Annen-Museum et Städtische Kunsthalle, 1957, no. 40

Eindhoven, Netherlands, Stedelijk van Abbe-Museum et Stedelijk Museum, 1957 no. 49

Paris, France, Musée National d'Art Moderne, 1959, no. 77

Paris, France, Grand Palais, Salon d'Automne, no. 4

Indianapolis, Indiana, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1988, no. 3

Literature:

Bissière, Isabelle & Duval, Virginie, Bissière: Catalogue Raisonné 1944-1964, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 2001, no. 2163, pg. 726

There is slight overall surface dirt and dust; slackening to the canvas tension, scattered craquelure in the upper left quadrant towards the left edge and at the center of the canvas; an isolated area of convex bowing to the canvas in the lower right corner; otherwise this work appears to be in basic good and stable condition.

Framed: 36 1/2 x 34 1/4 inches.

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