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JEAN DUBUFFET | Rue Boissy d'Anglas (au Boudin Mystique)
Estimate
2,000,000 - 3,000,000 EUR
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Description
- Jean Dubuffet
- Rue Boissy d'Anglas (au Boudin Mystique)
- signed with the artist initials and dated 62; titled, inscribed and dated 5 juillet 1962 on the reverse
- gouache on paper
- 49,7 x 66,7 cm; 19 9/16 x 26 1/4 in.
- Executed on 5 July 1962.
Provenance
Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris
Collection Jean Planque, Paris
Collection Stephen Hahn Gallery, New York
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris
Private Collection, France (acquired from the above in 1968)
Collection Jean Planque, Paris
Collection Stephen Hahn Gallery, New York
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris
Private Collection, France (acquired from the above in 1968)
Literature
Andreas Franzke, Dubuffet Zeichnungen, Munich, 1980, p. 259, illustrated
Max Loreau, Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Paris Circus, Fascicule XIX, Paris, 1989, p. 198, no. 437, illustrated
Max Loreau, Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Paris Circus, Fascicule XIX, Paris, 1989, p. 198, no. 437, illustrated
Condition
Merci de vous adresser au département d'Art Contemporain si vous souhaitez recevoir un rapport d'état professionnel de cette oeuvre. (guillaume.mallecot@sothebys.com) Please refer to the Contemporary Art Department for a professional Condition report.(guillaume.mallecot@sothebys.com)
"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
Catalogue Note
1961 marked the beginning of a new cycle in Dubuffet's work, today widely considered as his absolute masterpiece. With Paris Circus, the artist put aside his enigmatic "materiologic" researches for a sort of whirlwind, "a restless wellspring (...) ready to project flakes of chaos around", both magnetic and extravagant (Jean Dubuffet, Délits, Déportements, Lieux de haut jeu, Max Loreau, 1971, p. 391). Dubuffet's mineral and ascetical approach gave way to city effervescence, the hubbub of streets, shops and boutiques with their touching collapsible protagonists.
Here, Dubuffet uses urban structures to create hectic works. Rue Boissy d'Anglas (au Boudin Mystique) shows an exuberant microcosm filled with polychromatic shapes emblematic of the circus this representative of raw art set out to bluntly depict, disrupting artistic conventions in a visual chaos he came to master. The work thus reconnects with the vibrant and bubbly cityscapes the artist had set aside for some time. Created in the middle of the winter of 1961 and for the first time exhibited by the mythical Daniel Cordier gallery only a few blocks away from the very chic rue Boissy d'Anglas, a famous artery of the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, the work here presented was first acquired by Jean Planque, who kept it in his private collection for many years, probably considering it as a quintessential example of the prolific and fabulous career of one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, who succeeded in "opening the floodgates of imagination in reality" (Max Loreau). In the text
To those who don't find the world to their liking, I advise not to try to change the world, but to change what they like.
Jean Dubuffet
Here, Dubuffet uses urban structures to create hectic works. Rue Boissy d'Anglas (au Boudin Mystique) shows an exuberant microcosm filled with polychromatic shapes emblematic of the circus this representative of raw art set out to bluntly depict, disrupting artistic conventions in a visual chaos he came to master. The work thus reconnects with the vibrant and bubbly cityscapes the artist had set aside for some time. Created in the middle of the winter of 1961 and for the first time exhibited by the mythical Daniel Cordier gallery only a few blocks away from the very chic rue Boissy d'Anglas, a famous artery of the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, the work here presented was first acquired by Jean Planque, who kept it in his private collection for many years, probably considering it as a quintessential example of the prolific and fabulous career of one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, who succeeded in "opening the floodgates of imagination in reality" (Max Loreau). In the text
To those who don't find the world to their liking, I advise not to try to change the world, but to change what they like.
Jean Dubuffet