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"Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore" - Jean Dubuffet
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Joie de Vivre: Works from the Collection of Vivian Fusillo
JEAN DUBUFFET (1901-1985)
Site urbain avec huit personnages
Details
JEAN DUBUFFET (1901-1985)
Site urbain avec huit personnages
signed with the artist’s initials and dated ‘J.D. déc. 61’ (lower left); titled and dated again 'Site urbain avec 8 personnages 23 décembre 61' (on the reverse)
ink on paper
12 ¾ x 15 7⁄8 in. (32.5 x 40.3 cm.)
Executed in 1961.
Site urbain avec huit personnages
signed with the artist’s initials and dated ‘J.D. déc. 61’ (lower left); titled and dated again 'Site urbain avec 8 personnages 23 décembre 61' (on the reverse)
ink on paper
12 ¾ x 15 7⁄8 in. (32.5 x 40.3 cm.)
Executed in 1961.
Provenance
Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 1962
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 1962
Literature
M. Loreau, Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule XIX: Paris Circus, Paris, 1965, p. 127, no. 241 (illustrated).
Exhibited
London, Robert Fraser Gallery, Dubuffet: Recent Gouaches and Drawings, April-May 1962, n.p., no. 3 (illustrated).
Nacogdoches, Stephen F. Austin State University, An Exhibition of the Fusillo Private Collection of Contemporary Art, October-November 1964, n.p., no. 11.
Nacogdoches, Stephen F. Austin State University, An Exhibition of the Fusillo Private Collection of Contemporary Art, October-November 1964, n.p., no. 11.
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Rachel Ng
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