Lot 133
  • 133

Jean Dubuffet

Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Jean Dubuffet
  • Paysage Magique
  • signed and dated 55
  • ink on paper collage

  • 29 3/4 by 25 in. 75.5 by 63.5 cm.
  • Executed in March 1955.

Provenance

Pierre Matisse Gallery Corp., New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in May 1960  

Exhibited

New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Jean Dubuffet, Paintings, Assemblages d'Empreintes, February - March 1956, cat. no. 2, n.p., illustrated

Literature

Max Loreau, ed., Catalogue des Travaux de Jean Dubuffet: Fascicule XI: Charrettes, Jardins, Personnages Monolithes, Lausanne, 1969, no. 15, p. 27, illustrated

Condition

This work is in very good condition. The ink appears to have faded slightly with age. Framed under glass in a gilt wood frame. Not examined out of the frame. There are scattered instances of rippling to the sheet, as is expected with the medium.
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