(Meynes, 1904 – Paris, 1977)
Nature Morte en Ville, 1940
Oil on panel
Signed and dated lower right Coutaud 2 - 40
Titled and dated on the back « Nature morte en ville » 2-40
46 x 55 cm
Provenance :
- Lucien Coutaud Collection, Paris
- Fonds Coutaud, Paris
- Jean and Maryvonne Binder Collection, Chalon-sur-Saône
Exhibitions :
- Surrealisten, travelling exhibition in 3 cities in Germany, under n° 14 :
. Galerie Czwiklitzer, Cologne, 3 April - 18 May 1957
. Stadtmuseum, Oldenburg, 26 May - 23 June 1957
. Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf, 30 June - 25 August 1957
- Exposition Coutaud, peintures, gouaches et dessins, rétrospective, Château-Musée, Cagnes-sur-Mer, 30 July - 30 September 1965
- Vingt jeunes peintres de tradition française, Galerie Georges Bongers, Paris, 9 March - end of April 1967
- Coutaud, Peintures, dessins et gravures, rétrospective, Musée Ingres, Montauban, 27 June - 30 September 1969, under no. 4
- Lucien Coutaud retrospective, Drouot Montaigne, Paris, 1st - 15th September 1989, under no. 70
- Lucien Coutaud, Le Maître du Surréel. Une collection particulière, Galerie des Modernes, Paris, 7 June - 6 July 2023
Literature :
- Lucien Coutaud by Pierre Mazars, éditions Pierre Cailler, Genève, 1964, reproduced under no. 11
- Coutaud, Peintures, dessins et gravures, catalogue of the Musée Ingres exhibition, Montauban, 1969, described on p. 15 and reproduced on p. 23 under no. 4
- Rétrospective Lucien Coutaud, exhibition catalogue Drouot Montaigne, Éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, 1989, described and reproduced in colour on p. 86 under n° 70
- Lucien Coutaud et la peinture, catalogue of the retrospective held by the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes at the École des Beaux-Arts, Nîmes, Un plus Éditions à Nîmes, 2004, reproduced in colour p. 99
- Association Lucien Coutaud , Bulletin n° 37, published by the Lucien Coutaud Association, December 2013, reproduced in colour on the cover.
- Lucien Coutaud. L'Envers du Surréalisme by Jean Binder, ALC Éditions, 2018, reproduced in colour p. 816
- Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Lucien Coutaud, Tome 1 by Jean and Maryvonne Binder and the Lucien Coutaud Association, ALC Éditions, Paris 2020, described and reproduced in colour p. 92
- Lucien Coutaud, Le Maître du Surréel. Une collection particulière, exhibition catalogue for the Galerie des Modernes, ALC Éditions, Paris, 2023, reproduced in colour p. 16