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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, New York

Jean Dubuffet

L'Après-midi chômé

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May 14, 01:12 AM GMT

Estimate

1,500,000 - 2,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, New York

Jean Dubuffet

(1901 - 1985)


L'Après-midi chômé

signed with the initials J.D. and dated ‘78 (lower left)

acrylic and paper collage on canvas

67 ⅜ by 46 ¼ in.   171.1 by 117.5 cm.

Executed on 27 March 1978.

The Pace Gallery, New York

Gallery Claude Bernard, Paris (acquired from the above in December 1978)

Gallery Alice Pauli, Lausanne (acquired by 1979)

The Pace Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in October 1986)

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in April 1987)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, Dubuffet: Théâtres de mémoire, 1978, p. 36, illustrated and illustrated on the exhibition poster

Max Loreau, ed., Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule XXXII: Théâtres de mémoire, Paris, 1982, no. 79, p. 80, illustrated and p. 199, illustrated (on the exhibition poster for Paris, Gallery Claude Bernard, 1978)

New York, The Pace Gallery and Wildenstein & Co., Jean Dubuffet: Towards an Alternative Reality, New York, 1987, p. 269, illustrated in color

Laurent Danchin, Jean Dubuffet, La Manufacture, Lyon, 1988, p. 263, illustrated