Le Cérémonieux
Auction Closed
November 19, 12:49 AM GMT
Estimate
2,500,000 - 3,500,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Jean Dubuffet
(1901 - 1985)
Le Cérémonieux
signed J. Dubuffet and dated 54 (lower right); signed again, titled and dated juillet 54 (on the reverse)
oil and enamel on canvas
51 ¼ by 35 in.
130.2 by 88.9 cm.
Executed in July 1954.
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
Morton G. Neumann, Chicago (acquired from the above in 1960)
Sotheby’s, New York, 17 November 1998, lot 117 (consigned by the estate of the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Max Loreau, ed., Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet: Fascicule X: Vaches-Petites statues de la vie précaire, 1969, no. 59, p. 50, illustrated
Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, The Romantic Agony: From Goya to de Kooning, 1959, n.n., p. 18
Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Rétrospective Jean Dubuffet, 1942-1960, 1960-61, no. 128, pl. 58, pp. 153, 225, 267; p. 313, illustrated
(probably) New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Art Institute of Chicago, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Work of Jean Dubuffet, 1962 (Chicago only)
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art and Art Institute of Chicago, The Morton G. Neumann Family Collection, Selected Works, 1980-81, no. 102, p. 102, illustrated in color
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Twentieth-Century Art: Selections for the Tenth Anniversary of the East Building, 1988-90, illustrated in color on the frontispiece (in installation)
Catalogue note
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