Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)

Lieux et action

Details

Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Lieux et action
signed and dated 'J.D. 79' (upper left)
acrylic and paper collage on paper
20 x 27¾ in. (50.9 x 70.4 cm.)
Painted in 1979.

Provenance

Larry Levinson, Hollywood
The Pace Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1982

Literature

M. Loreau, ed., Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet: Théâtres de mémoire, Fascicule XXXII, Paris, 1982, pp. 67 and 209, no. 373 (illustrated).

Lot Essay

"In these assemblages there appear co-mingled sites and scenes which are the constituent parts of a moment and act of looking. Of looking with the mind.... if not the immediate looking with the eyes. One must not confuse what the eyes apprehend with what happens when the mind takes it in... The mind totalizes; it recapitulates all the fields; it makes them dance together. It stirs them together, it exchanges them, in it everything joins in movement." (Dubuffet quoted in A. Franzke, Dubuffet, New York, 1981, p. 247).

Lieux et action

Lot Essay

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