JEAN DUBUFFET (1901-1985)

Lot 47
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£ 1 200 000
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ID 717728
Lot 47 | JEAN DUBUFFET (1901-1985)
Estimate value
£ 1 200 000 – 1 500 000
JEAN DUBUFFET (1901-1985)

Discoureur fossile (Fossilised Speaker)

signed 'J.Dubuffet' (on the reverse)

oil, sand and putty on canvas

Executed in 1945







Provenance

Galerie René Drouin, Paris.

Morton G. Neumann, Chicago (acquired from the above circa 1940s), and thence by descent to the present owners.





Literature

L. Trucchi, Jean Dubuffet, Rome 1965, p.375, no. 57 (illustated, p. 93)

M. Loreau (ed.), Catalogue des Travaux de Jean Dubuffet: Fascicule II: Mirobolus, Macadam et Cie, Paris 1966, p. 128 and 129, no. 6 (illustrated, p. 18).

A. Franzke, Dubuffet, New York 1981, p. 32 (illustrated in colour, p. 33).

M. Yamaguchi, Dubuffet, Tokyo 1986, p. 98, no. 8 (illustrated in colour, p. 13).

J. H. Duffy, Reading Between the Lines, Liverpool 1998, p. 335.





Exhibited

Paris, Galerie René Drouin, Mirobolus, Macadam et Cie. Hautes pâtes de Jean Dubuffet, 1946, p. 37 (illustrated, p. 19).

Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Jean Dubuffet 1942-1960, 1960, pp. 206, no. 19.

Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, The Morton G. Neumann Family Collection, vol. 1, 1980, p. 136, no. 96 (illustrated, p. 97); vol. II, p. 65. This exhibition later travelled to Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago.





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