Lot 118
118
Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
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Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)

Effigie incertaine XXXI

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Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Effigie incertaine XXXI
signed with the artist’s initials and dated ‘J.D.75’ (lower right); titled 'Effigie incertaine XXXI' (on the reverse)
vinyl on paper mounted on canvas
25 ½ x 18 in. (64.8 x 45.7 cm.)
Painted in 1975.
Provenance
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Galerie Daniel Gervis, Paris
Private collection, Michigan, circa 1975
By descent from the above to the present owner
Literature
A. Franzke, Jean Dubuffet, Basel, 1975, p. 147, no. 118 (illustrated).
M. Loreau, ed., Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule XXX: Parachiffres, Mondanités, Lieux abrégés, Paris, 1980, pp. 54 and 135, no. 116 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, J. Dubuffet: Parachiffres, Mondanités, et autres peintures de 1975, May-June 1976, no. 15.
Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Jean Dubuffet: Werkauswahl 1945-1975, March-April 1977, p. 22, no. 15 (illustrated).
Amsterdam, Galerie Collection d’Art, Jean Dubuffet, December 1978-February 1979.
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Expressive Malerei nach Picasso, October-December 1983, no. 27.

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I think portraits and landscapes should resemble each other, because they are more or less the same thing. I want portraits in which description makes use of the same mechanisms as those used in a landscape—here wrinkles, there ravines or paths; here a nose, there a tree; here a mouth and there a house.
—Jean Dubuffet

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