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Jean Dubuffet

Site avec 7 personnages

Lot Closed

October 3, 04:15 PM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Jean Dubuffet

1901 - 1985

Site avec 7 personnages

 

signed with the initials J.D. and dated 81 (lower right)

acrylic on paper mounted to canvas

20¼ by 13¾ in.

51.4 by 34.9 cm.

Executed in 1981.

The Pace Gallery, New York

Marisa Desire Gallery Inc., New York

Helene Wasserman Fine Art, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1994

Max Loreau, ed., Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule XXXIV: Psycho-sites, Paris, 1984, cat. no. 73, p. 28, illustrated

Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia, Jean Dubuffet, Reconnaissance Gallery, 1984

Red Hill, Queensland, Australia, Ray Hughes Gallery, Jean Dubuffet, 1984, no. 11, illustrated

“Portraits and landscapes must come together and it is more or less the same thing, I want portraits where the depiction follows the same mechanism as that of the depiction of a landscape, here ripples and ravines, there a nose, here trees, there a mouth and a house.”


JEAN DUBUFFET