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Artist or Maker: JEAN-MICHEL ATLAN (1913 - 1960)

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Description: JEAN-MICHEL ATLAN (1913 - 1960)
Carnaval II
signed and dated 'Atlan 48' (lower right); signed again, dated and inscribed '1948 Peinture - Le carnaval' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
39 3/8 x 32 1/8 in. (100 x 81.7 cm.)
Painted in 1948

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Provenance: Private collection, London, by whom acquired directly from the artist, and thence by descent to the present owner.

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Exhibited: Eastbourne, The Tower Art Gallery, The Margulies Collection, November 1960, no. 9; this exhibition later travelled to Southampton, Southampton Art Gallery; Cardiff, The National Museum of Wales; Aberdeen, The Art Gallery; Kelvingrove, Glasgow, The Art Gallery and Museum; Kingston-upon-Hull, Ferens Art Gallery; Birmingham, City Museum and Art Gallery and to Liverpool, Walter Art Gallery, July 1961.
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Atlan, January - March 1963, no. 11.
Glasgow, The Art Gallery and Museum, Jewish Art, September - October 1979, no. 6 (illustrated).
Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Atlan, premières périodes 1940 - 1954, April - May 1986 (illustrated p. 82).
London, The Barbican Art Gallery, Jewish Experience in the Art of the 20th Century: Chagall to Kitaj, October 1990 - January 1991.

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Published: A. Jorn (ed.), Atlan, Copenhagen, 1950 (illustrated p. 9).
Cimaise, 4th series, no. 3, Paris, January - February 1957 (illustrated p. 13).
J. Polieri, Atlan, catalogue raisonné of the complete works, Paris, 1996, no. 96 (illlustrated p. 189).

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