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Composition Dramatique

Composition Dramatique

1939

Jean Helion

French, 1904 - 1987

Oil on canvas
51 3/16 x 69 1/2 in. (130 x 176.5 cm)
Gift of Peggy Guggenheim
59.38
Provenance: The artist; Signora Peggy Guggenheim
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryOmaha, Nebraska, Joslyn Art Museum, The Thirties Decade: American Artists and Their European Contemporaries, Oct. 10 - Nov. 28, 1971. Text by Allen Porter. Cat. no. 85, p. 43, reproduced.

Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Geometric Abstraction, 1976.

Colmar, France, Musée d'Unterlinden, Helion, La Figure Tombee, June 3 - Sept. 3, 1995.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, International Abstraction: Making Painting Real, May 2, 2003 - Feb. 29, 2004.

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