Lot 152
  • 152

Jean Dubuffet

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Jean Dubuffet
  • Personnage XXI
  • signé des initiales et daté; titré au dos

  • markers de couleurs sur papier

  • 27 x 21 cm ; 10 5/8 x 8 1/4 in.
  • Exécuté le 4 novembre 1964.

Provenance

Galerie Beyeler, Bâle
Galerie Daniel Varenne, Genève
Succession Marjorie Leshaw, New York
Vente: Sotheby's, New York, Contemporary Art, 13 mai 2004, lot 120
Acquis lors de cette vente par le propriétaire actuel

Literature

Max Loreau, Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule XXI: L'Hourloupe II, Lausanne, 1968, p.22, no.29, illustré

Condition

The colours are fairly accurate in the catalogue illustration although the overall tonality is lighter in the original. The sheet is taped to the mount at the two upper corners and the lower left corner. The work is executed on a cream wove sheet of paper. Eight artist's pinholes are visible at each of the four corners. The sheet is slightly wavy in the upper right quadrant. This work is in very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

signed with the initials and dated; titled on the back; color felt-tip pens on paper. Executed on the 4th of November 1964.