ID 1045201
Lot 227 | JEAN DUBUFFET (1901-1985)
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 50 000
Corps de Dame
signed, inscribed and dated 'Paris dimanche 15 octobre 1950 Jean Dubuffet' (lower left)
ink on paper
10 5/8 x 8 ¼ in. (27 x 21cm.)
Executed in 1950
Provenance
New Smith Gallery, Brussels.
B.C. Holland Gallery, Chicago.
Dr. Eugene A. Solow Collection, Chicago, thence by descent.
His sale, Christie’s New York, 1 May 1996, lot 263.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
P. Guéguen, ‘Jean Dubuffet, chef de file du tachisme et de l’informel’, in Aujourd’hui: Art et architecture, no. 29, December 1960 (illustrated, p. 6).
M. Loreau (ed.), Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule VI: Corps de dames, Paris 1965, no. 136 (illustrated, p. 93).
S. Feijoo, ‘Dibujos de Jean Dubuffet, Serie con dibujos originales para Islas’, in Islas, April-June 1968 (illustrated, p. 67).
'Jean Dubuffet', in Beaux-Arts Magazine, 2001 (illustrated, p. 9).
Exhibited
Chicago, The David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago, Jean Dubuffet: Forty Years of His Art, 1984-1985, p. 45, no. 24 (illustrated, p. 52). This exhibition later travelled to St. Louis, Washington University Gallery of Art.
Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Collects: Selections from the Collection of Dr. Eugene A. Solow, 1988, no. 13.
| Applied technique: | India Ink |
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| Art style: | Contemporary art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Applied technique: | India Ink |
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| Art style: | Contemporary art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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