Roger BISSIÈRE Composition 409 (Red or Horizontal Sun) - 1960 Oil on mattress canvas Signed and dated lower right "Bissière, 60". H : 46.0 cm, W : 55.0 cm Provenance : Theodore Schempp Collection, New York Sale, Paris, Loudmer, 1 April 1996, lot 259 European private collection Exhibitions : Paris, Grand Palais, "Salon d'Automne, Hommage à Bissière", November-December 1961 Bordeaux, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, "Bissière", December 1965-January 1966, reproduced under no. 49 Mexico, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, 1962, reproduced under no. 8 Caracas, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1962, reproduced under no. 8 London, Connaught Brown, "Abstracting from nature", May-June 2016 Bibliography: I. Bissière & V. Duval, "Bissière, catalogue raisonné 1944-1964", Editions Indes et Calendes, Neuchâtel, 2001, reproduced in colour as no. 2532 p. 866 h : 46.0 cm, w : 55.0 cm Roger BISSIÈRE H : 46.0 cm, W : 55.0 cm h : 46.0 cm, w : 55.0 cm Oil on mattress canvas; signed and dated lower right