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Portrait de Jean Paulhan - Luxembourg
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Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Portrait de Jean Paulhan - Luxembourg
signed, titled, inscribed and dated 'JEAN PAULHAN Luxembourg 1946 J. Dubuffet' (lower right); signed and dedicated 'Souvenir amical à Marcel Lecomte de notre conversation du samedi 6 novembre 1948 Jean Dubuffet' (on a piece of card attached to the reverse of the frame)
charcoal on paper
13¾ x 10¼in. (35 x 26cm.)
Executed in 1946
Portrait de Jean Paulhan - Luxembourg
signed, titled, inscribed and dated 'JEAN PAULHAN Luxembourg 1946 J. Dubuffet' (lower right); signed and dedicated 'Souvenir amical à Marcel Lecomte de notre conversation du samedi 6 novembre 1948 Jean Dubuffet' (on a piece of card attached to the reverse of the frame)
charcoal on paper
13¾ x 10¼in. (35 x 26cm.)
Executed in 1946
Provenance
Marcel Lecomte.
Galerie Michael Hass, Berlin (#1854).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 19 May 1988, lot 477.
Claude Bernard Gallery, New York (#L-816).
Acquired from the above by the present owner on the 25 of January 1989.
Galerie Michael Hass, Berlin (#1854).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 19 May 1988, lot 477.
Claude Bernard Gallery, New York (#L-816).
Acquired from the above by the present owner on the 25 of January 1989.
Literature
M. Loreau (ed.), Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet: Plus beaux qu'ils croient (portraits), Nouvelle édition, fasc. III, Paris 2003, no. 173 (illustrated, p. 113).
Exhibited
Scottsdale, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, A Museum in the Making: The Stephane Janssen Collection of Contemporary European and American Art, April-August 1991.
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