Lot 21
  • 21

Jean Dubuffet

Estimate
700,000 - 1,000,000 USD
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Description

  • Jean Dubuffet
  • Tasse à thé II
  • signed and dated dec. 65; signed, titled and dated décembre 65 on the reverse
  • acrylic on canvas
  • 51 1/4 by 38 1/4 in. 130.2 by 97.2 cm.

Provenance

Galerie Beyeler, Basel 
Private Collection, New York 
R. Kaller-Kimche, Inc., New York 
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1985

Exhibited

Basel, Kunsthalle, Jean Dubuffet: L'Hourloupe, June - August 1970, n.p., no. 38  (text)
Madrid, Fundación Juan March, Jean Dubuffet, February - March 1976, p. 57, no. 44, illustrated 
New York, Weintraub Gallery, Jean Dubuffet: Paintings and Sculpture, April - May 1984

Literature

Max Loreau, ed., Catalogue des Travaux de Jean Dubuffet: fascicule XXI, L'Hourloupe II, Paris, 1968, p. 120, no. 203, illustrated

Condition

This work is in excellent condition. Please contact the Contemporary Art Department at +1 (212) 606-7254 for the report prepared by Terrence Mahon. The canvas is framed in a wooden frame painted black and silver.
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