Lot 29
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JEAN DUBUFFET | Habitat véhément

Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
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Description

  • Jean Dubuffet
  • Habitat véhément
  • signed with the artist's initials and dated 79
  • acrylic and paper collage on canvas-backed paperboard
  • 20 by 27 5/8 in. 51 by 70 cm.

Provenance

The Pace Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1982

Exhibited

Wildenstein Tokyo, Jean Dubuffet, May - June 1981, cat. no. 19, p. 27, illustrated

Literature

Max Loreau, Ed., Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet: Fascicule XXXII, Théâtres de Mémoire, Lausanne 1982, cat. no. 386, p. 171, illustrated

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. Under close inspection, there is evidence of wear and handling to the edges, including a few scattered and unobtrusive pulled canvas threads visible. All the collaged elements are stable and intact. Also under close inspection, there is a slight undulation to the canvas support. Under extremely close inspection, a 1/8 of an inch loss to the pigment is visible in the lower left quadrant, specifically 5 inches from the left edge and 4 inches from the bottom edge. Under ultraviolet inspection there is no evidence of restoration. Framed under Plexiglas.
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Catalogue Note

"These assemblages have mixtures of sites and scenes, which are the constituent parts of a moment of viewing [...] The mind totalizes; it recapitulates all fields; it makes them dance together. It shuffles them, exchanges them, everything is astir. It also transforms them, cooks them in its sauces [...] After all that, one can expect some effect of cacophony." Jean Dubuffet