Contemporary Discoveries

Jean Dubuffet

Livre Ouvert

New York Gantry Point Warehouse

Lot closes

October 2, 05:53 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Starting Bid

8,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Jean Dubuffet

1901 - 1985

Livre Ouvert

signed, dated 1966 and inscribed souvenir amical a Michael Cooper (lower right); titled and dated 23/6/66 (on the verso)

marker on paper

9⅞ by 10⅝ in.

25.1 by 27 cm.

Executed in 1966.

Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please contact Juliette Saylor at Juliette.Saylor@sothebys.com

Michael Cooper, London (acquired directly from the artist as a gift in 1966)

Jeanne Frank Gallery, New York

Private Collection, New York

Christie’s New York, 2 November 1984, lot 122

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Max Loreau, Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, fascicule XXII: Cartes, Ustensiles (1966-1967), Lausanne 1972, no. 128, p. 43, illustrated