Jean Dubuffet

Echec à l'être

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February 26, 05:59 PM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A Visionary Eye: The Portman Family Collection

Jean Dubuffet

1901 - 1985

Echec à l'être

signed with the artist's initials and dated 71 (lower right); titled (on the reverse)

acrylic on Klegecell

102 ¾ by 198 ¾ by 4 ½ in.

261 by 504.8 by 11.4 cm.

Executed in October 1971.

This work is being offered for sale from an offsite location and is not at Sotheby’s York Avenue location. Prospective buyers may contact alexis.fastlicht@sothebys.com with inquiries. Please note that the successful purchaser must use Sotheby’s shipping services for collection and delivery after the auction at the buyer’s expense.

Galerie Beyeler, Basel

James Goodman Gallery, NY

Mario Ravagnan, New York

Acquired from the above in February 1985 by the present owner

London, Waddington Galleries, Jean Dubuffet : paintings, gouaches, assemblages, sculpture, momuments, praticables, works on paper, June - July 1972, no. 58, p. 37, illustrated in color (in the artist's studio at la Cartoucherie de Vincennes) and p. 46, illustrated

Geneva, Artel Galerie, Jean Dubuffet: L’Hourloupe, May - June 1973, n.p., illustrated

Exh. Cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Jean Dubuffet: A Retrospective, April - July 1973, no. 296, pp. 296-97, illustrated (in the artist's studio at la Cartoucherie de Vincennes)

Max Loreau, ed., Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule XXVII: Coucou Bazar, Paris, 1976, no. 40, p. 16, illustrated (in the artist's studio at la Cartoucherie de Vincennes) and p. 39, illustrated