T IV 187
[Sans titre – Peinture acrylique blanche sur tissu rayé blanc et vert]
[No title – White acrylic paint on whiten and green striped cloth]
January 1972
White acrylic paint on cotton canvas woven in alternating white and green vertical stripes, each 8.7cm. (± 0.3), wide.
201.5 x 210 cm. (on unstretched canvas).
Paris, France
Description
The last two white stripes at each edge are painted over with white paint on the front side.
The painting, part of a group of twenty works completed from 1966 to 1977, having belonged to the collector Marc Martin-Malburet and brought together, in December of 1995, as one composite work consisting of twenty parts, was installed on two facing walls for the exhibition "Passions privées" [Private passions], at the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris.
Since the reopening of the museum after renovation, in 2006, the twenty works are displayed on one single wall facing "La Danse", 1931-1933, by Matisse.
Historique• 1972, July 1972, Marc Martin-Malburet, Paris, France
• 1995, storage at the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris
• 2000, March, acquired by the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, France
CollectionMuseum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, France, acquired with the help of Marc Martin-Malburet and of the Society of the Friends of the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris
Inv. : AMVP 2832
