Lot 133
  • 133

Jean Dubuffet

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 EUR
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Description

  • Jean Dubuffet
  • La Reluque
  • signed with the artist's initials and dated 62
  • India ink and ink wash on paper
  • 39 x 30 cm; 15 3/8 x 11 13/16 in.
  • Executed on 12 January 1962.

Provenance

Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Private Collection, France

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Daniel Cordier, Dubuffet: Paris Circus, 7 June - 31 July 1962; catalogue, n.p., no. 39, illustrated
Kassel, Alte Galerie, Museum Fridericiarum, Documenta III 64, 27 June - 5 October 1964
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Jean Dubuffet: tekeningen, gouaches, 26 November 1964 - 11 January 1965; catalogue, n.p., no. 156
London, Institute of Contemporary Arts; Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art; Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester; Leeds, City Art Gallery, Jean Dubuffet: drawings, 25 March - 30 July 1966; catalogue, n.p., no. 63
Morges, Musée Alexis Forel, Jean Dubuffet: dessins, gouaches, lithographies provenant de la collection personnelle de l'artiste, 18 March - 16 April 1967; n.p., no. 65
Basel, Kunstmuseum, Jean Dubuffet: Zeichnunge, Aquarelle, Gouachen, Collagen, 6 June 1970 - 2 August 1970; catalogue, n.p., no. 101

Literature

Max Loreau, Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule XIX, Paris Circus, Paris, 1965, p. 141, no. 274, illustrated
Andreas Franzke, Dubuffet Zeichnungen, Munich, 1980, p. 255, illustrated

Condition

The colours are fairly accurate in the catalogue illustration. There are some light superficial stains located mainly along the upper edge. A small very faint crease located on the lower left quadrant is only visible under very close inspection. This work is in very good condition.
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