Jean Dubuffet

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris
Baron Elie de Rothschild, Paris
Galerie Daniel Varenne, Genève
Urban Gallery, Paris
Vente: Christie's, Londres, Impressionist and Modern Paintings & Sculpture, 3 décembre 1992, lot 16
Collection particulière, New York

New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Landscaped Tables, Landscapes of the Mind, Stones of Philosophy; Exhibition of Paintings Executed in 1950 and 1951 by Jean Dubuffet, 12 février - 1 mars 1952; catalogue, no. 19, n.p., illustré
Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Jean Dubuffet, 26 octobre - 4 décembre 1960; catalogue, no. 35, p. 17, illustré
Paris, Urban Gallery, Jean Dubuffet: des années 50 aux années 80, 3 - 27 octobre 1990; catalogue, no. 1, n.p., illustré en couleurs
Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Jean Dubuffet: 1901-1985, 12 décembre 1990 - 3 mars 1991; catalogue, no. 101, p. 84, illustré en couleurs
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Jean Dubuffet 1943-1963: Paintings, Sculptures, Assemblages, 16 juin - 12 septembre 1993; catalogue, no. 35, p. 79, illustré en couleurs

Georges Limbour, Tableau bon levain à vous de cuire la pâte: l'art brut de Jean Dubuffet, Paris, 1953, p. 73, illustré
Max Loreau, ed., Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule VII: Tables Paysages, Paysages Du Mental, Pierres Philosophique, Lausanne, 1972, no. 18, p. 24, illustré
Barbara Majewska, Sztuka inna, stuka ta sama: Dubuffet, de Staël, Wols, Pollock, Warsaw, 1974, no. 11, n.p., illustré
Andreas Franzke, Dubuffet, Cologne, 1990, no. 32, p. 122, illustré
"Dubuffet", Beaux-arts Magazine, Paris, 1991, p. 19, illustré en couleurs
"Dubuffet", Connaissance des arts. Numéro hors série, Paris, 2001, pp. 24-25, illustré en couleurs

The colours are fairly accurate in the catalogue illustration although the overall tonality is warmer and has more magenta undertones in the original work. The thick surface of the work has resulted in hairline cracks throughout the work, visible under very close inspection. Some of these have been carefully restored and stabilized and fluoresce under Ultra Violet light inspection throughout the surface.
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“These paintings are an exercise for training the mind to deal with a Being that it creates for itself rather than one imposed upon it…the mind will train itself to vary Being rather than varying itself, the mind will train itself to move through a space in which Being is variable and never anything but a hypothesis... it will learn to rely on illusion, to create the ground on which it walks.” - Jean Dubuffet, 1987