The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Day Auction

The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Day Auction

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The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined

Jean Dubuffet

Le grand porte-barbe

Auction Closed

November 9, 06:24 PM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined

Jean Dubuffet

1901 - 1985


Le grand porte-barbe

signed and dated 59 (lower right); titled and dated mai 59 (on the verso)

ink and paper collage on paper 

26½ by 20 in.

67.3 by 50.8 cm.

Executed in 1959.

Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris
Pace Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in August 1970 by the present owner
Lorenza Trucchi, Jean Dubuffet, Rome, 1965, no. 216, p. 238, illustrated
Andreas Franzke, Jean Dubuffet: Zeichnungen, Munich, 1980, p. 198, illustrated
Max Loreau, ed., Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule XV: as-tu cueilli la fleur de barbe, Paris, 1985, no. 8, p. 16, illustrated
Paris, Galerie Daniel Cordier, As-Tu Cueilli La Fleur de Barbe, April - May 1960, no. 2, illustrated
Roslyn Harbor, Nassau County Museum of Art, The Avant-Garde of France: The 1940s and 1950s, June - September 1994, no. 7, p. 10, illustrated
Roslyn Harbor, Nassau County Museum of Art, Miro-Dubuffet-Basquiat, March - May 2010
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