ID 1425776
Lot 20 | JEAN DUBUFFET (1901-1985)
Estimate value
$ 300 000 – 500 000
Joyeuse commère
signed and dated ‘J. Dubuffet 52’ (lower right); signed again, inscribed, titled and dated again 'Joyeuse commère J. Dubuffet Février 52 New York' (on the reverse)
oil on panel
25 5/8 x 17 ¾ in. (61.6 x 45.7 cm.)
Painted in 1952.
Provenance
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
Cordier and Ekstrom, New York
Mrs. M. S. Dammann, Rye, New York, 1962
Anon. sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 12 May 1994, lot 296
Frans Jacobs Gallery, Hilversum, Netherlands
Private collection, Amsterdam, 1994
The Pace Gallery, New York, 1994
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1995
Literature
M. Loreau, Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule VII: Tables paysagées, paysages du mental, pierre philosophiques, Paris, 1979, p. 81, no. 123 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Hannover, Kestner Gesellschaft, Jean Dubuffet, October-December 1960, n.p., no. 38.
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Jean Dubuffet, December 1960-January 1961, p. 29, no. 40.
| Artist: | Jean Dubuffet (1901 - 1985) |
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| Art style: | Post War Art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Jean Dubuffet (1901 - 1985) |
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| Art style: | Post War Art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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