Details
Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985)
Pisseur a Droite IV
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'J.D. août 61' (lower left)
gouache and ink on paper
17 x 13 in. (43.1 x 33 cm.)
Executed in 1961.
Provenance
The artist
Daniel Cordier, Paris
Michel Warren, Paris
Robert Fraser Gallery, London
Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne
Pace Gallery, New York
Private collection, Medina, Washington, 1976
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
M. Loreau, Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet: Paris Circus, Fascicle XIX, Lausanne, 1965, pp. 71 and 225, no. 120 (illustrated).
A. Franzke, Dubuffet Zeichnungen, Munich, 1980, p. 245 (illustrated).
A. Franzke, Dubuffet, New York, 1981, p. 150.
M. Glimcher, Jean Dubuffet: Towards an Alternative Reality, New York, 1987, p. 188 (illustrated).
Fundació Antoni Tapies, Tàpies Communicació sobre el mur, exh. cat., Barcelona, 1992, p. 37.
Exhibited
London, Robert Fraser Gallery, Dubuffet: Recent Gouaches and Drawings, April-May 1962, no. 37.
London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Study for an Exhibition of Violence in Contemporary Art, February-March 1964, no. 25.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Paris, Grand Palais, Jean Dubuffet: A Retrospective, April-December 1973, p. 221, no. 215 (illustrated).
Seattle Art Museum, Richard and Jane Lang Collection, 1984, p. 21, no. 8 (illustrated).
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