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La multiplication du bizarre
The Multiplication of the Bizarre
- Date
- 1963–1964
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Period
- Early Paris, pink and red, 1963 — 1967
The first painting he made in Paris, begun in the months after arriving with five rolled canvases in autumn 1963.
The estate’s catalogue raisonné is the authority on titles, dimensions and authenticity — see ljuba.fr.
Early Paris, pink and red · 1963 — 1967
He arrived in Paris in autumn 1963 with five rolled canvases and no French. The umber lifts almost immediately. The Multiplication of the Bizarre (1963–64) is the first painting made in the new city, and the first Paris solo show followed in May 1964.
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