Lot 31
  • 31

Jean Dubuffet

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Jean Dubuffet
  • Personnage en marche
  • signed with the artist's initials and dated 62
  • gouache, graphite and paper collage on paper
  • 26 by 19 1/2 in. 66 by 49.5 cm.

Provenance

Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris
Frank Perls, Beverly Hills
Thence by descent to the present owner

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, L’Hourloupe: gouaches, August 1964 - January 1965, cat. no. 17, n.p., illustrated 

Literature

Max Loreau, Ed., Catalogue de Travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule XX: L'Hourloupe I, Paris 1966, cat. no. 56, p. 32, illustrated
Andreas Franzke, Dubuffet Zeichnungen, Munich 1980, p. 268, illustrated

Condition

This work is in good condition overall. The sheet is hinged on the reverse at the top edge to the backing board. There are artist’s pinholes across the top edge, and light wear to the edges of the sheet. There is a soft undulation and pale time staining to the sheet. Upon close inspection, there is a soft crease to the upper right, lower right and lower left quadrants. Framed under Plexiglas.
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