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Lot 131
  • 131

Jean Dubuffet

Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Jean Dubuffet
  • Loisirs (Webel 809)
  • Signé des initiales "JD" et inscrit "2 bon à tirer"
  • Collage et lithographie sur papier
  • Image: 410 by 519mm; 14 1/8 by 20 3/8 in
  • Sheet: 449 by 644mm; 17 3/4 by 25 3/8 in
  • Exécuté en 1961.
Collage of two lithographs printed in colours, circa 1961, initialled in pencil, inscribed 2e bon à tirer (a working proof before the edition of 40), on two sheets of Arches wove paper

Condition

With margins, in good condition apart from a short tear at left upper sheet edge (measuring 18 mm), the margins with some stray ink and occasional surface soiling, as is typical of a working proof. Inscribed '2e bon a tirer' a second time in red ball-point pen in another hand, framed.
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