Lot 113
  • 113

Jean Dubuffet

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 EUR
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Description

  • Jean Dubuffet
  • Personnage XXV
  • signed with the artist’s initials and dated 64
  • marker on paper
  • 26,7 x 21 cm; 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.
  • Executed November 7th 1964.

Provenance

The Museum of Modern Art, New York (gift from the artist in 1968, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph F. Colin)

Exhibited

New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Jean Dubuffet, 1962-66, 25 October 1966 - February 1967; catalogue, no. 55, n.p., illustrated
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art; St. Louis, City Art Museum, Jean Dubuffet at The Museum of Modern Art, October 1968 – October 1969; catalogue, no. 83, n.p.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Otterlo, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller; Paris, Grand Palais; Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum; Oslo, Sonja Henie-Niels Onstad Foundations; Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle, Dubuffet: Persons and Places, 9 November 1972 - 14 July 1974; catalogue, no. 47, n.p.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Jean Dubuffet, 30 June - 6 August 2001

Literature

Max Loreau, Catalogues des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule XXI, L'Hourloupe II, Paris, 1968, no. 34 p. 24, illustrated

Condition

The colours are fairly accurate in the catalogue illustration although the sheet is brighter in the original work. The blue has slightly run, and there is a slight discoloration on the upper right corner. This work is in very good condition.
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