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WORKS ON PAPER FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AVANT-GARDESThe Collection of a Scholar, Sold to Benefit Humanitarian Causes

Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)

Personnage dans un paysage

Details

Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Personnage dans un paysage
signed with the artist’s initials and dated ‘J.D août 60’ (upper left)
India ink on paper
12 x 9 3/8 in. (30.5 x 23.8 cm.)
Executed in August 1960

Provenance

Galerie Berggruen & Cie, Paris.
Marlborough Galleria d’Arte, Rome.
Galleria Gissi, Turin.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

M. Loreau, Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet - Fascicule XVIII: Dessins , Paris 1993, No. 175 (illustrated p. 103).

Exhibited

Rome, Galleria il Segno, Jean Dubuffet, May - June 1962.
Rome, Marlborough Galleria d’Arte, Dubuffet, January 1963, no. 52 (illustrated, unpaged).

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.

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Lot Essay

`Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they are right. Art is a language, instrument of knowledge, instrument of expression.'
(J. Dubuffet speaking at a lecture at the Arts Club, Chicago 1951 in V. Da Costa and F. Hergott (eds.) Jean Dubuffet: works, writings and interviews, Ediciones Poligrafa, 2006, p. 119).

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