JEAN DUBUFFET (1901-1985) - photo 1

JEAN DUBUFFET (1901-1985)

Lot 219
05.03.2026 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1548112
Lot 219 | JEAN DUBUFFET (1901-1985)
Estimate value
£ 1 500 000 – 2 000 000
JEAN DUBUFFET (1901-1985)
J'opterai pour l'erreur (I will choose the mistake)
signed and dated 'J. Dubuffet 63' (lower left); signed, titled and dated 'J'opterai pour l'erreur J. Dubuffet 25 mars 1963' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
44 ¾ x 57 ¼in. (113.5 x 145.5cm.)
Painted in 1963




Provenance

Galerie Beyeler, Bâle and Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris.
Mr. Morris Pinto, New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Elias M. Pinto, New York.
Galerie Daniel Varenne, Geneva.
Solomon & Company Fine Art, New York.
Anon. Sale, Champin-Lombrail-Gautier, Enghien-les-Bains, 21 November 1990, lot 23.
Private Collection.
Anon. Sale, Champin-Lombrail-Gautier, Enghien-les-Bains, 21 November 1991, lot 18.
Galerie Odermatt Cazeau, Paris.
Galerie Bernard Cats Gallery, Brussels.
Roger and Josette Vanthournout, Belgium, by whom acquired from the above in 2002, and thence by descent.



Literature

M. Loreau (ed.). Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet: fascicule XX: L'Hourloupe I, Paris 1966, pp. 66, 200 and 205, no. 130 (illustrated, p. 67).
R. Barilli, Dubuffet, Le cycle de l’Hourloupe, Turin 1976, p. 125, no. 27 (illustrated in colour, p. 27).



Exhibited

Venice, Centro Internazionale delle Arti e del Costume, Palazzo Grassi, L'Hourloupe, 1964, p. 15, no. 8 (illustrated in colour, p. 23)
Paris, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, l’Hourloupe, 1964-1965, pp. 6 and 43 (illustrated in colour on the cover; illustrated, p. 7).
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Jean Dubuffet 1962-66, 1966, p. 22, no. 9 (illustrated, p. 29).
New York, Saidenberg Gallery, L'Hourloupe, 1966, no. 9.
Paris, Centre Pompidou, Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) : exposition du centenaire, 2001, pp. 242 and 390 (illustrated in colour, p. 259).
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