Lot 152
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JEAN DUBUFFET | Personnage (P374)

Estimate
35,000 - 45,000 EUR
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Description

  • Jean Dubuffet
  • Personnage (P374)
  • signed with the artist's initials and dated 72
  • marker and collage on paper 
  • 50,2 x 29,2 cm ; 19 3/4 x 11 1/2 in.
  • Executed in 1972.

Provenance

Pace Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York
Sotheby's New York, Contemoprary Art Part 2, 18 November 1999, lot 361
Acquired during the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Wilmington, Delaware Art Museum, Jean Dubuffet, 14 March - 28 March 1974; catalogue
New York, The Pace Gallery, Dubuffet: studies for a spectacle, 5 May 1973 - 27 June 1973; catalogue, no. 10

Literature

Max Loreau, Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fasicule XXVII: Coucou Bazar, Lausanne, 1976, p. 84, no. 151, illustrated

Condition

The red and blue colours have slightly faded. Under close inspection, traces of glue are visible under the collage elements, which is inherent to the artist's process. This work i in good condition.
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