Mudlark No. 10 (1998)
Diane Wald | Improvisations
on Titles of Works by Jean Dubuffet
The Cow with a Subtile Nose, 1954
Oil and enamel on canvas
35x45 3/4 in. (88.9 x 116.1 cm.)
Museum of Modern Art | Scan by Mark Harden
Contents
Screen One: Man Wedged into Walls | Half-length Personage: Nose Wrinkler | Woman Pinning Up Her Hair | Thickly Painted Garden | Head of a Worthy Man | Woman Sitting in Front of Shutters | Rope Skipper | Wall with Inscriptions | Cyclist in the Fields | Blue and Red Cow | Large Coaly Nude | Nude Cyclist | Winey Landscape
Screen Two: Terracotta Big Lips | Fossilized Speechifier | Lady Strolling with Umbrella | Asphalt Caperer | The Traveler Gone Astray | Washbasin | Landscape with Moon and Bird | Four Gentlemen in a Car | They Hold Council | Two Arabs Gesticulating | Arab with Rose | Musicians in the Desert | Two Camels with Packsaddles
Screen Three: Grotesque Purplish Landscape | The Farewell at the Window | The Bear Cub (Lady's Body) | The Man with the Blue Hat | Head with Blisters | Time Presses | Botany and Geography (Lady's Body) | Lady's Body Gaudy Bunch of Flowers | Landscape with Troubled Sky, Swan Flying Overhead | Landscaped Table | Table with Leaning Bottle | Landscape of the Formless | Carrot Nose
Screen Four: Ecstasy in the Sky | Landscape with Dead Dog | The Woman of Fashion | Landscape with Auto | The Banished King | Disorder on the Table | Strolling Women in a Red Hat | The Busy Life | Red Hat, Eyes Lowered | Personage in Butterfly Wings | Everyone Wants To Be | Footbath | The Marvelous One
Screen Five: Nose of Apollo Butterfly | Cow with Red Knee | Moonstruck Cow | The School of Botany with Flight of Butterflies | Mother-of-Pearl Garden | Tourist at a Beauty Spot | Window Open to the Sky | My Cart, My Garden | The Donkey at Work | Heavily Worn Roadbed, the Garden of Stones | Run Grass, Jump Pebbles | Farewell My Dwellings | The Very Rich Soil
Screen Six: Hat and Breathing Spell | Tiny Stones Scattered on the Road | Topography with Seven Stones | The Agoraphobic | Rubbish Bed at the Foot of the Wall | Peasant Door | Shrewd Old Dotard | The Albino | High Points of Marriage | The Flower | Crusher | Debonair Individual | Flowers and Viscera of Earth | Beard Map
Screen Seven: Beard of Uncertain Returns | Beard Table | The Vase of Beard | The Sea of Beard | The Lawn of Beard | Epidermal Jubilation | Pearl-Bearing Gravel | Somber Development | The Turbulent Water | Stiff-Necked and Uptight | The Sea of Skin | Brown Dance | The Man of No Substance
Screen Eight: Pursed Lips | The Inner Life of the Mineral | Wall of Plant Matter | Personage with Cigarette | Personage Sticking Out Tongue | The Automobile, Flower of Industry | Looking Well | The Ladies at the Windows | The Shot in the Wing | The Illusory Site | Puppet City | The Genuflection of the Bishop | Counterpoint with Tools
Screen Nine: Street with Pipe Smokers | Automobile with Black Road | Nimble Free Hand | Chain of Memory | Dwelling with Staircases and Many Rooms | Flirts | Uneven and Ambling Theater of Aberrations | Site Inhabited by Objects | Surge of the Virtual | Skedaddle | Married Couple Visiting | Red Beret
Screen Ten: Old Man with Walking Stick | Cup of Tea | The Aleatory Man | Table Holding Things To Be Done | The Gossiper | The Listener | The Candelabra Tree | The Glass of Water | Logological Cabinet | Contrapuntal Landscape | Tower of Ciphers | Enamel Garden | Monument to the Phantom
Screen Eleven: The Merry-Go-Round | Bedroom Under the Tree | Heap with Spike | Bust with Elements Taking | Flight | Cuckoo Bazaar | Loudmouth | The Opening Window | Stroller with Trees | Landscape with Red Automobile with Two Half-Size Personages | Ground and Dog | Pink Landscape with Five Personages | Place for Strolling | Banal Place
Screen Twelve: Mingle Moments | Generalized Activity | The Round of Images | The Decipherer | Tissue of Episodes | Recording Unwinder | Villager with Close-Cropped Hair | The Life of Pleasure | Woman Trying on Hat | The Substance of Stars | Spirit of Tranish | The Puckered Collar | The Old Man of the Beach
Screen Thirteen: Itinerary of the Turning Moon | Dimpled Cheeks | Cow with the Beautiful Nuzzle | Mottled Cow | Profuse Wet Nurse | The Extravagant Lady | Excrescence at Play | Dog on the Table | Squinting Man | Knoll of Visions | Logic-Breaking Stone | Table of Doubtful Form | Bestowing Blessings