L'appel des cimes: Tableau Horrible

Details

MARTIAL RAYSSE (b. 1936)
L'appel des cimes: Tableau Horrible
signed twice with the artist's initials 'M R' (on the reverse)
oil, neon, plastic, printed paper collage and espadrille on canvas
51 x 74 3/4 in. (129.5 x 190 cm.)
Executed in 1965.

Provenance

Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Paris
Collection Bernard Monnier, France, 1965
Luxembourg & Dayan, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2015

Literature

H. Pardee, "Hippie Pop: Martial Raysse at the Pompidou", artcritical, Paris, 18 October 2014 (illustrated).
"Itinéraire d'un peintre de la vie moderne Le Jeu de Paume consacre le retour de Martial Raysse," Le Monde, Paris, 1 December 1992.

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Alexandre Iolas, …Made in Japan…Tableau horrible…Tableau de mauvais goût, June-July 1965.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Rétrospective Martial Raysse, maître et esclave de l’imagination, October-November 1965, no. 55 (illustrated).
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Martial Raysse, March-April 1967, no. 23 (illustrated).
Paris, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume; Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst; Valencia, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern Centre Julio Gonzalez; Nîmes, Carré d'Art. Martial Raysse, 1992-1993, pp. 61, 86 and 300, no. 44 (illustrated).
Paris, Centre Pompidou, Martial Raysse, 1960-2014, 2014, pp. 25, 109 and 295 (illustrated).

Further details

This work is registered in the inventory of Martial Raysse's work under archive number IMR-0269.