Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Property from the Brooklyn Museum, Sold to Support Museum Collections
JEAN DUBUFFET | LE MESSAGER
Auction Closed
October 29, 12:08 AM GMT
Estimate
2,500,000 - 3,500,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Brooklyn Museum, Sold to Support Museum Collections
JEAN DUBUFFET
1901 - 1985
LE MESSAGER
signed and dated 61; signed, titled and dated octobre 61 on the reverse
oil on canvas
45 ⅛ by 35 ⅛ in. 114.6 by 89.2 cm.
Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris
Richard and Dorothy Rodgers, New York (acquired from the above in 1962)
Gifted to the present owner by the above in 1970
"Jean Dubuffet, or the metamorphosis of Mr. Macadam," Mizue, No. 688, Tokyo, July 1962, p. 64, illustrated
Max Loreau, ed., Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule XIX: Paris Circus, Paris 1965, p. 103, no. 195, illustrated
Paris, Galerie Daniel Cordier, Dubuffet: Paris Circus, June - July 1962, n.p., no. 33 (text)