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JEAN DUBUFFET (1901-1985)

Lot 51
28.06.2023 14:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 51 | JEAN DUBUFFET (1901-1985)
Estimate value
£ 300 000 – 500 000
JEAN DUBUFFET (1901-1985)

Tête en tache de moisissure

signed and dated ‘J. Dubuffet avril 50’ (lower right)

oil and sand on masonite

25 1/2 x 21 1/4in. (64.9 x 54cm.)

Executed in 1950





Provenance

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.

Charles H. Carpenter, Jr. Collection, New Canaan (acquired from the above in 1952).

His sale, Christie’s New York, 16 November 2006, lot 130.

Private Collection, New York (acquired at the above sale).

Dickinson, New York.

Private Collection, New York.

Acquired from the above by the present owner.



Literature

J. Fitzsimmons, Jean Dubuffet: Brève introduction à son œuvre, Brussels 1958, no. 15 (illustrated, unpaged).

M. Loreau (ed.), Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet. Fascicule VI: Corps de dames, Paris 1966, p. 115, no. 27 (illustrated, p. 31).

M. Paquet, Dubuffet, Paris 1993, no. 100 (illustrated, p. 84).



Exhibited

New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings by Jean Dubuffet, 1951, p. 4, no. 25.

Providence, The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, 1900 to Now: Modern Art from Rhode Island Collections, 1988, p. 126 (illustrated in colour, p. 19).

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, Charles H. Carpenter, Jr.: The Odyssey of a Collector, 1996, p. 66 (illustrated in colour, p. 67; illustrated in colour in Charles H. Carpenter, Jr.'s home, pp. 81 and 129).

Ridgefield, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, The Charles H. Carpenter, Jr. Collection: Fifty Years of Supporting the New, 2002.

London, Dickinson, Personnages: Real and Abstract, 2021.



Special Notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent. This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.
Artist:Jean Dubuffet (1901 - 1985)
Applied technique:Oil, Painted
Art style:Post War Art
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Paintings
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