Contemporary Discoveries
Contemporary Discoveries
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