Lot 127
  • 127

JEAN DUBUFFET | Empreinte VI

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Jean Dubuffet
  • Empreinte VI
  • signed and dated 57
  • China ink on paper
  • 49,5 x 66,4 cm ; 19 1/2 x 26 1/8 in.
  • Executed in 1957.

Provenance

Lili Dubuffet Collection
Ernst Beyeler Collection (acquired from the above)
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Sale: Cornette de Saint-Cyr, Paris, Art Moderne & Contemporain, 19 December 2011, lot 98
Private Collection, France

Literature

Max Loreau, Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Tableaux d'assemblages, Lausanne, 1969, p.91, illustrated

Condition

The colours in the original work tend more towards shades of grey and black rather than brown. The paper is slightly wavy. There is a crease in the middle of the left edge. there is a small dent in the upper left quadrant close to the upper edge. This work is in good condition.
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Catalogue Note

Basel, Kunstmuseum, Jean Dubuffet: Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Gouachen, Collagen, 6 June 1970 - 2 August 1970
Lausanne, Galerie Claudine Planque, Jean Dubuffet, February - March 1976
Brême, Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner KG, 75 Jahre Graphisches Kabinett, Bremen : Jubiläumsausstellung Teil III : nach 1940, Dubuffet, Fontana, Giacometti, Tàpies, Wols, 16 March 1996 - 27 April 1996 ; catalogue, no. 5, illustrated
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Jean Dubuffet, 20 October 2009 - 9 January 2010
Luxembourg, Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, Jean Dubuffet, 28 September 2017 - 4 November 2017; catalogue, p. 44, illustrated in colour