Jean Dubuffet

Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris
Galerie de Neufville, Paris
B.C. Holland Gallery, Chicago
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1974

University of Chicago, The David and Alfred Smart Gallery; Saint Louis, Washington University Gallery of Art, Jean Dubuffet: Forty Years of His Art, October 1984 - March 1985, cat. no. 16, p. 46, illustrated

Max Loreau, ed., Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule IV: Roses d'Allah, clowns du désert, Paris, 1967, cat. no. 48, p. 39, illustrated

This work is in very good condition overall. There are artist’s pinholes in all four corners and at the center of the lateral edges. There is a slight undulation to the sheet, inherent to the artist’s working method. Under close inspection, a few light and unobtrusive abrasions are visible throughout the sheet and there is residue from old adhesive visible along the upper half of the right edge. The sheet is hinged verso to the matte at the corners. Framed under glass.
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"The whole art, the whole literature and the whole philosophy of the Occident rests on the landing of elaborated ideas. But my own art, and my own philosophy, lean entirely on stages more underground. I always try to catch the mental process at a deeper point of its roots, where, I am sure, the sap is much richer."

JEAN DUBUFFET