Roger BISSIÈRE (1886-1964) - Lot 49

Roger BISSIÈRE (1886-1964) Composition 295 (Red), 1955 Oil on canvas Signed and dated 'Bissière. 55' (lower right) H_60 cm W_90 cm Provenance : - Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris. - Galerie Beyeler, Basel, in 1958 (gallery label on stretcher; stock no. 1571). - Private collection, Germany, 1967. - Sale, Maître Guy Loudmer, Paris, Drouot, February 14, 1991, lot 22. - Galerie Beaudouin Lebon, Paris (gallery label on stretcher; stock no. BL 9416). - Private collection, Paris. Exhibition : - Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Bazaine, Bissière, Manessier, Nicholson, Vieira da Silva, de Staël, June-July 1958, no. 13 (the present work illustrated). - Wuppertal, Kunstverein, Kunst der Gegenwart, March-April 1965, no. 28. - Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle, Kunst des 20 Jahrhunderts aus rheinisch - westfäliischem Privatbesitz, April-June 1967, no. 38. Bibliography : - G. Durozoi & J.-P. Greff, Bissière, in Dictionnaire de l'Art moderne et contemporain, Ed. Hazan, Paris, 1992, p. 73 (the present work illustrated). - I. Bissière and V. Duval, Bissière, Catalogue raisonné 1944-1964, Ed. ides et Calendes, Neuchâtel, 2001, p. 759, no. 2256 (this work illustrated). Expert : Expert : Thomas Morin Williams