Lot 24
  • 24

Jean Dubuffet

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description

  • Jean Dubuffet
  • Personnage XXIII
  • signed with the artist'sĀ initials and dated 64
  • felt tip pen on paper
  • 10 1/2 by 8 1/4 in. 26.7 by 21 cm.

Provenance

Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
Flair Gallery, Cincinnati
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1967)
Sotheby's, New York, September 12, 2007, lot 286
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

Exhibited

Cincinnati, Contemporary Art Center, Recent Acquisitions of Local Collectors, February 1968
Seoul, Shinsegae Gallery; Busan, Shinsegae; Gwangju, Shinsegae, Jean Dubuffet and the World of Hourloupe, October 2010 - January 2011, p. 33, illustrated in color

Literature

Max Loreau, ed., Catalogue des Travaux de Jean Dubuffet: Fascicule XXI: L'Hourloupe II, Lausanne, 1968, cat. no. 32, p. 24, illustrated

Condition

This work is in good condition overall. The sheet is window matted and hinged at the top to the backing board on the reverse. Some of the applied colored ink has faded and bled slightly. There is some light handling evident to the sheet. There are two very minor stray ink marks noted. Framed under Plexiglas.
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