Lot 2
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Jean Dubuffet

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 EUR
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Description

  • Jean Dubuffet
  • Personnage (buste)
  • signed with the artist's initials and dated 62; dated 13 mars 62 on the reverse
  • gouache on paper
  • 26 x 20,3 cm; 10 1/4 x 8 in.
  • Executed March 13th 1962.

Provenance

The Musuem of Modern Art, New York (gift of the artist in 1968, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph F. Colin)

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Jean Dubuffet: tekeningen, gouaches, 26 November 1965 - 11 January 1966; catalogue, no. 157, n.p.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art; St. Louis, City Art Museum, Jean Dubuffet at The Museum of Modern Art, October - October 1969
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Dubuffet: persons and places, 9 November 1972 - 23 January 1973
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno;  Corpus Christi, Art Museum of South Texas; Bogotá, Museo de Arte Moderno; Caracas, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, A Treasury of Modern Drawing: the Joan and Lester Avnet Collection, April 1978 - July 1979; catalogue, no. 78, n.p.
Tacoma, Tacoma Art Museum; Coral Gables, Lowe Art Museum, Dubuffet, 14 February 1982 - 16 January 1983
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Dubuffet: works on paper, 13 September - 1986 - 13 January 1987
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Jean Dubuffet, 30 June - 26 August 2001

Literature

Max Loreau, Catalogues des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule XIX, Paris Circus, Paris, 1965, no. 310 p. 152, illustrated

Condition

The colours are fairly accurate in the catalogue illustration. The work was inspected framed. There are some very minor wears on the lower corners. A tiny web of hairline cracks on the figure's left eye is only visible under very close inspection. This work is in very good condition.
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