Pierre TAL-COAT (Clohars -Carnoët 1905 - Saint... Lot 118

Pierre TAL-COAT (Clohars -Carnoët 1905 - Saint Pierre de Bailleul 1985) La cartomancienne, 1937 Original oil on canvas 101 x 81 cm Signed lower right Tal Coat On the back of the stretcher are the old labels Arthur Musée Houston- Agence Maritime Delamare n° 46 la cartomancienne Tal Coat 6 Kunsthalle Berne n° 0881- la cartomancienne 1937 Pierre Tal Coat Contemporary French lent by Monsieur H Benezit Paris - Musée Rath Genève, Pierre Tal Coat retrospective, March 6 - May 25, 1997 We would like to thank Monsieur Xavier Demolon for confirming the authenticity of this work. Provenance Henri Benezit Collection Still in the same family through inheritance Exhibitions : Galerie Henri Bénézit, Paris Kunsthalle Bern, Tal Coat - Hajdu, Bern, June 22 - July 28, 1957 The Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, New York and Paris Painting in the fifties, Houston, January 16 - February 8, 1959 (repr. B&W in cat. unpaginated) Musée Rath, Tal-Coat devant l'image, Geneva, March 6 - May 25, 1997 (repr. coul. in cat. p. 147) Musée d'Unterlinden, Tal-Coat devant l'image, Colmar, June 14 - September 14 1997 (repr. coul. in cat. p. 147) Musée Picasso, Tal-Coat devant l'image, Antibes, October 29 1997 - January 4 1998 (repr. coul. in cat. p. 147) Kunstmuseum, Tal-Coat devant l'image, Winterthur, February 21 - May 3 1998 (repr. coul. in cat. p. 147) IVAM, Centre Julio González, Tal-Coat ante la imagen, Valencia (Spain), June 4 - September 6, 1998 (repr. in color in cat. p. 99) Bibliography: Plaisir de France, revue, no. 252, special issue, October 1959, p. 59 (B&W repr.) Leymarie Jean, Tal Coat, Éditions d'Art Albert Skira S.A, Genève, 1992, p. 42 (color repr.) DNA, n° 139, June 15, 1997 (color repr. on cover)