Visage (Tête d’homme)

Details

Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Visage (Tête d’homme)
signed with the artist's initials and dated ‘J.D.66’ (lower side edge)
transfer on polyester resin
10 1/2 x 5 7/8 x 4 in. (26.6 x 15 x 10 cm.)
Executed in 1966.

Provenance

Pace Gallery, New York
Howard Wolfson, Chicago
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature

M. Loreau, Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, fascicule XXIII: Sculptures Peintes, Lausanne, 1972, p. 57, no. 40 (illustrated).

Exhibited

New York, Pace Gallery, Dubuffet: New Sculpture and Drawings, April-May 1968, p. 17, no. 12 (illustrated).

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"I aim at an art that is directly plugged in to our current life, an art that starts out from this current life, that immediately emanates from our real life and real moods" (J. Dubuffet as quoted in M. Glimcher, Jean Dubuffet: Towards an Alternative Reality, New York, 1987, p. 127)

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