Lot 11
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JEAN DUBUFFET | Eblouissante gloire de la terre et du ciel

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 EUR
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Description

  • Jean Dubuffet
  • Eblouissante gloire de la terre et du ciel
  • signed and dated Sept 52; titled on the reverse
  • India ink on paper (feather and reed pen)
  • 49,5 x 65 cm; 19 1/2 x 25 9/16 in.
  • Executed in September 1952.

Provenance

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner 

Exhibited

Basel, Kunstmuseum, Jean Dubuffet: Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Gouachen, Collagen, 6 June - 10 August 1970; catalogue, np., no. 32
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Miro : early drawings collages 1919-1949 - Dubuffet : Early drawings collages 1943 - 1959, 17 November - 19 December 1981; catalogue, np., no. 22, illustrated
Türbingen, Kunsthalle, Jean Dubuffet, Zeichhungen 1942 - 1981, 15 January - 6 March 1983; catalogue, np., no. 48
Hanover, Kunstmuseum; Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Jean Dubuffet : Zeichnungen 1942 - 1981, 20 March - 31 July 1983; catalogue, np., no. 48
 

Literature

Daniel Cordier, Les Dessins de Jean Dubuffet, Paris, 1960, np., no. 80, illustrated
Pierre Guéguen, Aujourd'hui - Art et Architecture no. 29, Jean Dubuffet, chef de file du tachisme et de l'informel, décembre 1960, p. 11, illustrated
Lorenza Trucchi, Jean Dubuffet, Rome, 1965, p. 161, no. 128, illustrated
Max Loreau, Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule VII, Tables paysagées, paysages du mental, pierres philosophiques, Paris, 1967, p. 182, no. 272, illustrated

Condition

The colours are fairly accurate in the printed catalogue illustrated. Tiny pinholes are located allong the edges. There are tiny foxing dots scattered throughout the surface and visible upon close inspection only. This work is in very good condition.
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