Lot 33
  • 33

JEAN DUBUFFET | Site aléatoire avec un personnage

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 EUR
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Description

  • Jean Dubuffet
  • Site aléatoire avec un personnage
  • signed with the artist initials and dated 82
  • acrylic and collage on paper mounted on canvas
  • 67 x 100 cm; 26 9/16 x 39 3/8 in.
  • Executed in 1982.

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 1990

Exhibited

Berlin, Galerie Michel Haas, Jean Dubuffet : 1901 - 1985, 18 September 1987 - 7 November 1987

Literature

Max Loreau, Catalogue des Travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule XXXV: Sites Aléatoires, Paris, 1986, p. 22, no. 30, illustrated

Condition

The printed catalogue illustration does not accurately convey the collage aspect of the figure in the upper right quadrant. The edges are covered by artist tape. The canvas is slightly wavy in the upper right corner. The work is in very good condition.
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