Jean Dubuffet

Visage rose en pomme de bambou

Auction Closed

March 7, 03:05 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 400,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Jean Dubuffet

1901 - 1985

Visage rose en pomme de bambou

signed and dated Nov.50 (lower right); signed, titled, dated Novembre 50 and variously inscribed (on the reverse)

oil and sand on Masonite

55 by 45.7 cm. 22⅜ by 18 in.

framed: 60 by 50.5 cm. 23⅝ by 19⅞ in.

Executed in 1950.

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York

Galerie Berggruen, Paris

Paul Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles

Redfern Gallery, London

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1968)

Thence by descent to the present owners

Hanover, Kestner Gesellschaft, Jean Dubuffet, October - November 1960, no. 31, n.p., illustrated

Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Jean Dubuffet, February - May 1965, no. 23, n.p., illustrated in colour

Zurich, Gimpel & Hanover Galerie, Jean Dubuffet, August - September 1965

Cologne, Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Bilder von 1944-1964 von Jean Dubuffet, October 1965

London, Redfern Gallery, Summer Exhibition: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Graphics, June - September 1968

Max Loreau, Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, fascicule VI: Corps de dames, Paris 1987, no. 58, p. 46, illustrated