PIERRE TAL COAT (1905-1985)

Self-Portrait, 1935 Oil on canvas, signed lower left, some very small cracks, 89 x 116 cm Exhibitions: Galerie de France, Paris National Museum of Stockholm, Research of Contemporary French Art, Stockholm, October 25 - November 27, 1949 (n° 92 in cat.) Gallery Henri Bénézit, Paris Musée des Ponchettes, Comprendre la peinture du XXe siècle, Nice, 10 July - 10 August 1967 (repr. B&W in cat. not paginated) Centre National d'Art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Galeries nationales d'exposition du Grand Palais, Tal-Coat, Paris, 4 February - 5 April 1976 (n° 18 in cat.) Musée Rath, Tal-Coat devant l'image, Geneva, 6 March - 25 May 1997 (repr. coul. in cat. p. 15) Musée d'Unterlinden, Tal-Coat devant l'image, Colmar, 14 June - 14 September 1997 (repr. coul. in cat. p. 15) Musée Picasso, Tal-Coat devant l'image, Antibes, 29 October 1997 - 4 January 1998 (repr. coul. in cat. p. 15) Kunstmuseum, Tal-Coat devant l'image, Winterthur, 21 February - 3 May 1998 (repr. in color in cat. p. 15) IVAM, Julio González Centre, Tal-Coat ante la imagen, Valencia (Spain), 4 June - 6 September 1998 (repr. in color in cat. p. 15) Bibliography : Courthion Pierre, Peintres d'aujourd'hui, Pierre Cailler éditeur, Geneva, 1952, no. XLIII (repr. B&W) Leymarie Jean, Tal Coat, Éditions d'Art Albert Skira S.A, Geneva, 1992, p. 38 (repr. coul.)