Lot 202
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JEAN DUBUFFET | Paysage Castillian avec deux personnages

Estimate
300,000 - 400,000 USD
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Description

  • Jean Dubuffet
  • Paysage Castillian avec deux personnages
  • signed with the artist's initials and dated 74; signed, titled and dated 74 on the reverse
  • acrylic on canvas
  • 39 1/2 by 32 1/4 in. 100.3 by 81.9 cm.

Provenance

Galerie Beyeler, Basel
James Goodman Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Paris, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Jean Dubuffet: Paysages castillans, Sites tricolores, Februrary - March 1975, cat. no. 3, illustrated
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Jean Dubuffet: Paysages castillans, Sites tricolores, April - May 1975, cat. no. 1, illustrated in color
Madrid, Fundacion Juan March, Jean Dubuffet, February - March 1976, cat. no. 52, p. 39, illustrated in color
Chur, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Jean Dubuffet: Werkauswahl 1945 -1975, March - April 1977, cat. no. 17
New York, Weintraub Gallery, Jean Dubuffet: Paintings and Sculpture, April - May 1984
New York, James Goodman Gallery, Group Exhibition, June - August 1984

Literature

Andreas Franzke, Jean Dubuffet, Basel 1975, cat. no. 115, p. 144, illustrated in color
Max Loreau, Ed., Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule XXVIII: Roman burlesque, sites tricolores, Lausanne 1979, cat. no. 157b, p. 119, illustrated

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. There is evidence of light wear and handling to the edges. The colors are bright, fresh and clean. There is a minor 1/2 in. scuff mark along the right edge approximately 11 in. from the top. Under extreme raking light, there are minor canvas protrusions visible along the upper right edge. Under Ultraviolet inspection, drip accretions fluoresce brightly but are not the result of restoration. Framed.
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Catalogue Note

“When one looks at a painting of this kind, one looks at everything around one with a new refreshed eye, and one learns to see the unaccustomed and amusing side of things.” 
Jean Dubuffet