Jean Dubuffet

Tête constellée

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May 13, 09:05 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Global Abstractions: Property from a Distinguished Private Collector

Jean Dubuffet

1901 - 1985

Tête constellée

signed and dated 52; signed, titled and dated novembre 52 on the reverse

oil on canvas

21 ¾ by 18 ⅛ in. 55.2 by 46 cm.

framed: 31 ⅞ by 28 ¼ in. 81 by 71.8 cm.

Gimpel & Hanover Gallery, Zurich

William Pall Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in February 1976)

Galerie K, Paris

Corporate Collection, Japan (acquired from the above in June 1990)

Sotheby's, New York, 7 November 1991, Lot 216

Landau Fine Arts, Montreal

Acquired from the above by the present owner in June 2006

Max Loreau, Ed., Catalogue de travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule VIII: Lieux momentanés, pâtes battues, Paris 1967, no. 12, p. 22, illustrated

London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculptures by Jean Dubuffet, March - April 1955, cat. no. 9

Detroit, Donald Morris Gallery, Dubuffet: paintings, drawings, gouaches 1946-1966, March 1974, cat. no. 10, illustrated

New York, William Pall Gallery, Dubuffet, January - February 1976

Montreal, Landau Beaux-Arts, Aui rassemble la foule... la captive, October - November 1988

Paris, Galerie K, Dubuffet, May 1990

Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey; Zacatecas, Museo de Arte Abstracto Manuel Felguérez, Abstracciones: Nueva York, París, Cuenca, México, November 2015 - June 2016, pp. 102-103 and 218, illustrated in color