Lot 203
  • 203

JEAN DUBUFFET | Personnage coiffé d'un chapeau dans un paysage

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Jean Dubuffet
  • Personnage coiffé d'un chapeau dans un paysage
  • signed and dated 57
  • gouache and paper collage on paper
  • 18 1/8 by 9 3/8 in. 46 by 23.8 cm.

Provenance

Collection of Mira Jacob, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)
Sotheby's, Paris, Collection Mira Jacob - Galerie le Bateau-Lavoir, 23 September 2004, Lot 120
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie le Bateau-Lavoir, La peinture et son double: écrits de peintres, February - April 1974, cat. no. 141

Literature

Max Loreau, Ed., Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule XIII: Célébration du sol I, lieux cursifs, texturologies, topographies, Lausanne 1969, cat. no. 30, p. 28, illustrated

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The edges of the sheet are slightly deckled. There is a slight undulation to the sheet, inherent to the artist’s working method. There are artist’s pinholes scattered along the edges with a subsequent loss at the center of the bottom edge. All collaged elements are stable and intact. Along the top edge there is a minor crease approximately 2 in. in length 4 in. from the right edge. The sheet is hinged to the cardboard at the top edges. Framed under glass.
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