Lot 59
  • 59

JEAN DUBUFFET | Site avec 3 personnages

Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
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Description

  • Jean Dubuffet
  • Site avec 3 personnages
  • signed with the artist's initials and dated 81
  • acrylic on paper mounted on panel
  • 28 by 20 1/2 in. 71.1 by 52 cm.

Provenance

The Pace, Gallery
Private Collection
Galerie Thomas, Munich
Christie’s, London, 2 December 1993, Lot 56
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Munich, Galerie Thomas, Dubuffet bei Thomas, June - July 1983, n.p., illustrated in color
New York, Helly Nahmad Gallery, Jean Dubuffet, October 2009 - January 2010

Literature

Max Loreau, Ed., Catalogue des Travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule XXXIV: Psycho-sites, Paris 1984, cat. no. 95, p. 33, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The sheet is mounted to panel, which is mounted onto a larger panel. The left edge of the sheet is deckled. Under very close inspection, there are some scattered, very minor, unobtrusive pigment losses at the perimeter of the sheet and the 4 corners. There is a slight soft crease to the sheet at the lower left corner. Under close inspection, there is some faint surface dust and a minor accretion to the lower right center. Under Ultraviolet inspection, there is no evidence of restoration. Framed.
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