Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Property from an Important Private American Collection
Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)

Le jardinier

Details
Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Le jardinier
signed and dated 'J. Dubuffet 59' (lower edge); titled and dated again 'le jardinier 1959' (on the reverse of the backing board)
oil, dry botanical elements and paper collage on paper
26 x 19 3/4 in. (67 x 51 cm.)
Executed in 1959.
Provenance
Frank Perls, Beverly Hills
Mary Callery, Paris
Arnold H. Maremont, Winnetka
Richard Feigen Gallery, New York
Mr. & Mrs. Abraham Melamed, Milwaukee
Their sale; Sotheby's, New York, 4 November 1987, lot 28
Wendell Cherry, Louisville
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, London, 29 June 1994, lot 22
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Literature
M. Loreau, ed., Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet: Matériologies, fascicule XVII, Lausanne, 1970, p. 43, no. 44 (illustrated).
A. Franzke, Dubuffet, Cologne, 1990, p. 142, no. 54 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Chicago, Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, The Maremont Collection at the Institute of Design, April 1961, no. 26.
Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Treasures of 20th Century Art from the Maremont Collection, May 1961, no. 35.
New York, Museum of Modern Art; Art Institute of Chicago and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The work of Jean Dubuffet, February-December 1962, p. 153, no. 169 (illustrated).

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