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Property from the Collection of Ann and Robert Fromer

Jean Dubuffet

Tête d'homme, étrange fruit

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May 16, 09:24 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Ann and Robert Fromer  

Jean Dubuffet

1901 - 1985


Tête d'homme, étrange fruit

signed and dated dec. 57 (lower right); signed, titled and dated 57 (on the reverse)

oil and paper collage on paper mounted on canvas

27 ½ by 24 ⅜ in.

69.9 by 61.9 cm.

Executed in 1957.

Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris (acquired in 1958)

Private Collection

Gallery Hopkins-Custot Ltd, London

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2005

Max Loreau, Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule XIII: Célébration du sol I, lieux cursifs, texturologies, topographies, Lausanne 1969, no. 124, p. 93, illustrated

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Paris, Grand Palais, Jean Dubuffet: A Retrospective, April - December 1973, no. 198, p. 210, illustrated (New York), no. 267, n.p., illustrated (Paris)