T IV 171
[Sans titre – Peinture acrylique blanche sur tissu rayé blanc et rouge]
[No title – White acrylic paint on white and red striped cloth]
December 1971
White acrylic paint on cotton canvas woven in alternating white and red vertical stripes, each 8.7cm. (± 0.3), wide.
248.5 x 210 cm. (on unstretched canvas).
Paris, France
Description
The last two white stripes at each edge are painted over with white paint on both the front and back sides.
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, announced date CX, Marc Martin-Malburet, Paris, France
. 1995, storage at the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, France
* 2000, March, acquired by the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, France
CollectionMuseum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, brought into the collection the with 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
