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Lot 189
  • 189

Jean Dubuffet

Estimate
70,000 - 120,000 GBP
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Description

  • Jean Dubuffet
  • Repas à Quatre VII
  • signed with the artist's initials and dated 62
  • gouache on paper
  • 84 by 64.5cm.; 33 1/8 by 25 1/4 in.

Provenance

Baudoin Lebon, Paris
Pace Gallery, New York
The Milton D. Ratner Family Collection, Chicago

Literature

Max Loreau, Catalogue des Travaux de Jean Dubuffet, fasc XIX: Paris Circus, Paris 1989, p. 184, no. 407, illustrated

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition. The work is attached to a sheet of card along all four edges and in a few places elsewhere on the reverse. There is light wear, artist's pin holes and light creasing to all four corners. Upon very close inspection, there are a few minute drying cracks visible in some of the thicker areas of white pigment.
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