Petit Chaise I

Details

Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Petit Chaise I
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'J.D. 68' (lower edge)
epoxy paint on polyurethane
33 x 13 ¾ x 12 in. (83.8 x 34.9 x 30.4 cm.)
Executed in 1968.

Provenance

Pace Gallery, New York
James Goodman Gallery, Inc., New York
Galerie Daniel Gervis, Paris
Private collection
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 9 May 1996, lot 142
James Goodman Gallery, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2001

Literature

M. Loreau, Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Tour aux figures, amoncellements, cabinet logologique,, Fascicule XXIV, Lausanne, 1973, p. 92, no. 83 (illustrated).

Exhibited

New York, Pace Gallery, Dubuffet: Simulacres, November 1969-January 1970, p. 26, no. 10 (illustrated).
Detroit, J.L. Hudson Gallery, Dubuffet, November 1970.
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Jean DubuffetL monuments, simulacres, practicables, February-March 1973, no. 8.
Kunsthaus Zug, Jean Dubuffet : Bilder, Zeichnungen und Skulpturen aus dreissig Jahren, January-March 1983.

Lot Essay

“Dubuffet’s images, although endowed with an undeniable concrete presence, are in fact the transcription of illusions. Concrete reality is not their source. Although figurative in form, the work insists on deliberate delusions to which the artist has given shape, substance, form and presence” (M. Rowell, Jean Dubuffet: A Retrospective, exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1970, p. 27).

Petit Chaise I

Lot Essay

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