Lot 278
  • 278

Jean Dubuffet

Estimate
600,000 - 800,000 USD
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Description

  • Jean Dubuffet
  • Tour aux Chiffres
  • signed with the artist's initials and dated 70 on the base
  • epoxy with polyurethane paint
  • 67 7/8 by 33 1/2 in. 172 by 85 cm.

Provenance

Gallery Beyeler, Switzerland
Private Collection, Usa
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Jean Dubuffet: a Retrospective,1973, cat. no. 282, p. 276, illustrated

Literature

Max Loreau, ed., Catalogue des Travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule XXV: Arbres, Murs, Architectures, Lausanne, 1974, no. 19, p. 28, illustrated

Condition

This work is in very good and sound condition. The surface is slightly dusty. There are several minor and unobtrusive cracks scattered throughout and evidence of faint soiling.
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