Âne Et Charrette (Donkey and Charrette)

Details

Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Âne Et Charrette (Donkey and Charrette)
signed and dated 'J. Dubuffet 55' (lower right)
ink on paper
9¼ x 12 3/8in. (23.5 x 31.5cm.)
Executed in 1955

Provenance

Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris.
Private Collection, France.
Galerie 1900-2000, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

M. Loreau (ed.), Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet: Charrettes, jardins, personnages monolithes, fascicule XI, Lausanne 1967, no. 79 (illustrated, p. 67).

Exhibited

Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Dubuffet Retrospektive, 1980-1981. This exhibition later travelled to Vienna, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts and Cologne, Joseph-Haubrich-Kunsthalle.
Tubingen, Kunsthalle Thübingen, Jean Dubuffet, 1983.
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Passion Privée, 1995.

Special Notice

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Lot Essay

Rendered in Jean Dubuffet's characteristically summary graphic style, Ane et Charette (Donkey and Cart) takes for its subject the artist's new pastoral environment, lucidly exploring the rustic motif of the donkey and cart, another example of which is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Deliberately flattened and removed from the actual objective measurement of things, in ne et Charette Dubuffet was captivated by finding a way of reinstating objects, not seen by eyes focusing on them but from involuntary, unconscious glances. Signalling a pivotal moment in the artist's career, the present work was included in the celebrated 1980 Dubuffet Retrospective in Berlin that travelled to Vienna and Cologne in the following year.

Âne Et Charrette (Donkey and Charrette)

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