Lot 91
  • 91

Jean Dubuffet

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 EUR
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Description

  • Jean Dubuffet
  • Personnage XIV
  • signed with initials, numbered H 119 and dated 64
  • marker on paper
  • 10 5/8 x 8 1/4 in.
  • Executed on October 29th 1964.

Provenance

Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris
François Mathey Collection, Paris
Sale: Tajan, Drouot, Art Abstrait et Contemporain, 7 December 1997, lot 54
Private Collection, Paris

Literature

Max Loreau, Catalogue des Travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule XXI: L'Hourloupe II, Lausanne, 1968, no. 21, p. 20, illustrated

Condition

The colours are fairly accurate in the catalogue illustration but the blue is less turquoise than in the original work. Under close inspection, four pinholes are visible in each of the four corners (two in the lower right). Inspected unframed the sheet of paper is fixed to a cardboard with two small scotch tapes. This work is in very good condition.
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