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WORKS ON PAPER FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AVANT-GARDESThe Collection of a Scholar, Sold to Benefit Humanitarian Causes

Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)

Personnage

Details

Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Personnage
signed with the artist’s initials and dated ‘J.D. août 60’ (lower right)
India ink on paper
12 x 9¼ in. (30.2 x 23.5 cm.)
Executed in August 1960

Provenance

Galerie Berggruen & Cie, Paris.
Marlborough Galleria d’Arte, Rome.
Galleria Gissi, Turin.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

M. Loreau, Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet - Fascicule XVIII: Dessins , Paris, 1993, No. 188 (illustrated p. 112).

Exhibited

Rome, Marlborough Galleria d’Arte, Dubuffet, January 1963, no. 56 (illustrated, unpaged).

Special Notice

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Lot Essay

`Why do I choose to use drawing and painting techniques usually associated with people who have no culture or artistic aspirations…it was done…out of a desire to see the creation of art and its effect exercised absolutely stripped down, under conditions that completely exclude all additions, sham and confusion. It seemed to me that the effect of art produced in conditions so unsuitable to its production would be more impressive and would have more force.'
(J. Dubuffet quoted, in Interview 1960 in V. Da Costa and F. Hergott (eds.) Jean Dubuffet: works, writings and interviews, Ediciones Poligrafa, 2006, p. 149).

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