Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Property from a South Florida Collection
Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)

Site Avec 4 Personnages

Details
Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Site Avec 4 Personnages
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'J.D. 81' (lower left)
acrylic on paper mounted on canvas
19 3/4 x 26 5/8 in. (50.1 x 67.6 cm.)
Painted in 1981.
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Landau Fine Art, Montréal
Evelyn Aimis Fine Art, Miami 
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
M. Loreau, ed., Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule XXXIV: Psycho-sites, Paris, 1984, p. 58, no. 201 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

“Dubuffet undermines order, caves it in. He creates ruins, a world of fissures and of vacuums with the power to draw the teeming population of his art into view, flat against the picture plane. Hence the brutal paradox: for his art to be inclusive, it must also exclude; it must banish those simple geometries and unbroken fields of color whose job is to enforce clarity.”

(Carter Ratcliff, “Jean Dubuffet,” Pace Gallery, New York, 1983, p. 2)

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