Jean Dubuffet

Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris
Acquis auprès de celle-ci par le propriétaire actuel

Paris, Galerie René Drouin, Portraits à ressemblance extraite, à ressemblance cuite et confite dans la mémoire, à ressemblance éclatée dans la mémoire de M. Jean Dubuffet, Octobre 1947, catalogue, no. 63
Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Jean Dubuffet, 1942-1960, Décembre 1960-Janvier 1961, catalogue, no. 251, illustré pl. 119
Arras, Centre Noroit, Les dessins de Jean Dubuffet, Mai-Juillet 1979, catalogue, no. 3, illustré
Tübingen, Kunsthalle; Hanovre, Kunstmuseum; Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Jean Dubuffet: Zeichnungen 1942-1981, 1983, catalogue, no. 22
Vence, Galerie Chave, Au fil du hasard: dessins, Avril-Juin 2008

Max Loreau, Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule III : Plus beaux qu'ils croient Portraits, Lausanne, 1966, p.90, no.134, illustré
Olivier Oudiette, 'Les fêtes de Jean Dubuffet', in L'Evénement, no. 27, Paris, avril 1968, p. 53, illustré
Andreas Franzke, Dubuffet Zeichnungen, Munich, 1980, p. 60, illustré
Andreas Franzke, Dubuffet, New York, 1981, p. 13, illustré
Jean-Pierre Greff, 50 ans de réflexion et d'action en art contemporain à Noroit, Arras, 1990, p. 300, illustré
Andreas Franzke, Dubuffet, Cologne, 1990, p. 17, no. 3, illustré
Marcel Paquet, Dubuffet, Paris, 1993, p. 60, no. 64, illustré

The colours are fairly accurate in the catalogue illustration, although the overall tonality is lighter in the original. The work is executed on a sheet of cream wove paper, laid down on the mount. The sheet is very slighlty wavy. Are only visible under very close inspection : - two in the upper left corner - two in the upper right corner - one in the lower left corner - one in the lower right corner Only visible under very close inspection, a tiny loss of paper (approx. 0,1 cm) along the left edge is located 1 cm from the extremity of the upper left corner. This work is in excellent condition.
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