Portrait of Charles-Albert Cingria

Details

Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Portrait of Charles-Albert Cingria
signed and incorrectly dated 'J. Dubuffet 47' (lower right); titled 'Charles-Albert Cingria' (upper right)
charcoal and gouache on paper
20 ½ x 12 ¼ in. (52 x 31.1 cm.)
Executed in 1946.

Provenance

Jean Paulhan, Paris
Florence Gould, Juan-les-Pins
Acquavella Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1988

Literature

M. Loreau, ed., Catalogue des Travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule III, Plus beaux qu'ils croient Portraits, Paris, 1966, p. 56, no. 74 (illustrated).
A. Franzke, Dubuffet Zeichnungen, Munich, 1980, p. 54 (illustrated).
M. Loreau, ed., Catalogue des Travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule III, Plus beaux qu'ils croient Portraits, Paris, 2003, p. 56, no. 74 (illustrated).

Exhibited

New York, Acquavella Galleries, XIX and XX Century Master Drawings and Watercolors, April-June 1986, no. 22.

Lot Essay

"Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery. I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence madness" (J. Dubuffet, Notes for a Lecture Given at the Arts Club of Chicago, December 20, 1981, reprinted in Anticultural positions, Aquavella, New York, 2016, p. 29).

Portrait of Charles-Albert Cingria

Lot Essay

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