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JEAN DUBUFFET | Vont et Viennent

Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 EUR
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Description

  • Jean Dubuffet
  • Vont et Viennent
  • signed with the artist initials and dated 80
  • acrylic on paper laid down on canvas
  • 102 x 70 cm; 40 3/16 x 27 9/16 in.
  • Executed on October 28th, 1980.

Provenance

Pace Gallery, New York
Waddington Galleries, London
Private Collection, Greece
Galerie 1900-2000, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2005

Exhibited

Londres, Waddington Galleries, Jean Dubuffet, 9 September - 3 October 1981; catalogue, np., illustrated
London, Waddington Galleries, Jean Dubuffet, 25 April - 19 May 1990; catalogue, p. 60, no. 29, illustrated

Literature

Max Loreau, Catalogue des Travaux de Jean Dubuffet, fascicule XXXIII : Sites aux figurines, Partitions, Lausanne, 1982, p. 81, no. 209, illustrated 

Condition

The colors are fairly accurate in the printed catalogue illustration athough the overall tonality is more vivid in the original work. Upon very close inspection pinholes are visible in each of the four corners as well as along the edges.This work is in very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.
Jean Dubuffet