Jean-Michel ATLAN (1913-1960) Composition, 1957 Oil tempera on cardboard. Signed lower right. 74.5 x 103.6 cm Provenance : - Galerie 65, Cannes. - Joseph H. Hirshorn Collection, New York. - Joseph H. Hirshorn Foundation, Washington. - Sotheby's sale, London, 1993, no. 301. - Private collection, Switzerland. Bibliography : Jacques Polieri, Atlan: Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre complet, Paris, Éditions Gallimard, 1996, no. 893, reproduced on p. 406. "The most important point here is a complete change in the means of expression, not so much in themes as, more particularly, in medium..." Catalog raisonné, p. 403.