Lot 10
  • 10

Jean Dubuffet

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 EUR
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Description

  • Jean Dubuffet
  • Barbe de détection des influx
  • signé et daté
  • encre sur papiers collés sur carton
  • 51 x 33 cm; 20 x 13 in.
  • Exécuté en juin 1959.

Provenance

Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris
Collection Gastaldelli, Milan
Galleria Arte Borgogna, Milan
Acquis auprès de celle-ci par le propriétaire actuel

Literature

Max Loreau, Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fasc. XV: As-tu cueilli la fleur de barbe, Lausanne, 1964, no.39, illustré p.35

Condition

This work is in very good condition. Executed on a cream wove paper not laid down. The artist pinholes are visible at the 4 corners and at the centre of each edge. There is a slight frame abrasion along the right edge and a flattened crease at the lower right corner. A few tiny dots of foxing are visible in the head of the figure.
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Catalogue Note

signed and dated; ink on paper mounted on cardboard. Executed in June 1959.

As tu cueilli
La fleur de barbe
Sur la mi côte
C'est le printemps et voici
Que la barbe reverdit
S'en tisse le fil un lundi
A la fin de la semaine
S'embarbe tout le pays

Jean Dubuffet, La Fleur de Barbe, mars 1960

Fig 1. Jean Dubuffet dans son atelier, 1959. - © John Craven.