Jean Dubuffet

Screenprint in black and white on silk backed with rag paper mounted as a scroll on wooden dowels, as issued, 1981, the artist's initials and edition number faded away, numbered 16/80 on a plaque affixed to the interior of the box, published by Pace Editions, Inc., New York, apparently in good condition, framed* (not examined out of the frame), together with the original box with screenprinted cover with a few small chips in the ink, a loss in the veneer at right

The scroll was initialed in red ink by the artist but this has faded entirely so that the vestiges of the signature and numbering appear only faintly upon close inspection at the right end of the scroll at bottom. The screenprint on the cover of the box has a few small losses in the ink and a c. 1 inch loss in the wood veneer at the right edge.
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