Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)

Pantalon aux Chausses II

Details

Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Pantalon aux Chausses II
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'J.D. 73' (lower edge of proper left foot)
polyurethane paint on aluminum
44 x 25 x 18 ½ in. (111.7 x 63.5 x 46.9 cm.)
Executed in 1972-1973. This work is unique.

Provenance

Pace Gallery, New York
Camille Oliver-Hoffmann, Chicago, 1973
Her sale; Sotheby's, New York, 16 May 2001, lot 237
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Literature

M. Loreau, ed., Catalogue does travaux de Jean Dubuffet: Fascicule XXVII, Coucou Bazar, Lausanne, 1976, p. 162, no. 283 (illustrated).

Exhibited

New York, Pace Gallery, Dubuffet : studies for a spectacle, May-June 1973, no. 33 (illustrated).
Lincoln, DeCordova Museum, Primal Images, December 1973-February 1974, no. 49.

Lot Essay

"Within these graphisms, imprecise, fugitive and ambiguous figures take shape. Their movement sets off in the observer's mind a hyperactivation of the visionary faculty. In these interlacings all kinds of objects form and dissolve as the eyes scan the surface, linking intimately the transitory and the permanent, the real and the fallacious" (J. Dubuffet, 'Remarks on the Unveiling of The Group of Four Trees', New York, 24 October 1972, reprinted in Jean Dubuffet: A Retrospective, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1973, p.35).

Pantalon aux Chausses II

Lot Essay

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