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    • Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
    Lot 256

    Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)

    Parachiffre XXXVI

    Price realised

    USD 93,750

    Estimate

    USD 80,000 - USD 120,000

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    Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
    Parachiffre XXXVI
    signed with initials and dated 'J.D. 75' (upper right); titled 'Parachiffre XXXVI' (on the reverse)
    vinyl on paper mounted on canvas
    26 x 36¾ in. (66 x 93.3 cm.)
    Painted in 1975.

    Provenance

    Pace Gallery, New York
    Private American Foundation, gift from the above, 1983
    Their sale; Sotheby's, New York, 16 May 2007, lot 163
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    M. Loreau, Catalogue des traveaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule XXX: Parachiffres, Mondanités, Lieux abrégés, Lausanne, 1980, p. 21, no. 38 (illustrated).


    Exhibited

    Columbus, Pace Gallery, Jean Dubuffet, May 1979.
    Palm Beach, Hokin Gallery, Jean Dubuffet: Recent Paintings, January-February 1977.
    Toronto, Albert White Gallery, Jean Dubuffet: Paintings, Collages, Practicables, Drawings, Prints, October-November 1977.
    Houston, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Jean Dubuffet: Drawings Collages and Paintings, April-May 1980.
    Berlin, Akademie der Künste; Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst, Wien, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Schweizergarten and Cologne, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Dubuffet: Retrospektive, September 1980 -March, 1981 p. 267, no. 319 (illustrated).


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