Lot 263
  • 263

JEAN DUBUFFET | Site avec 6 Personnages

Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
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Description

  • Jean Dubuffet
  • Site avec 6 Personnages
  • signed with the artist's initials and dated 81
  • acrylic on paper mounted to canvas
  • 26 7/8 by 20 in. 68.1 by 50.8 cm.

Provenance

Waddington Galleries, Ltd., London
Private Collection, London (acquired from the above in 1983)
Waddington Galleries, Ltd., Chicago
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature

Max Loreau, Ed., Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule XXXIV: Psycho-sites, Paris 1984, p. 41, no. 128, illustrated

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The edges of the canvas are taped. The right edge of the sheet is deckled. There are artist’s pinholes scattered along the edges. There is a small graphite accretion at the center of the work. The colors are bright and fresh. There are scattered minor losses throughout, including one minor loss to the right of the center yellow area, and one above the left pink area. Under Ultraviolet light inspection there is no evidence of restoration. Unframed.
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