Campagne Cursive (Avec 4 Personnages)

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JEAN DUBUFFET (1901-1985)
Campagne Cursive (Avec 4 Personnages)
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'J.D. 75' (lower right)
acrylic on canvas
38 1⁄8 x 51 1⁄8 in. (96.8 x 129.8 cm.)
Painted in 1975.

Provenance

Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris
Goldman-Kraft Gallery, Ltd., Chicago
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Galerie Hopkins Custot, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2007

Literature

E. Gribaudo, Fiat Presenta Jean Dubuffet: Coucou Bazar, exh. cat., Turin, Promotrice delle Belle Arti al Valentino, 1978, p. 77 (illustrated).
M. Loreau, ed., Catalogue des Travaux de Jean Dubuffet, fascicule XXX: Parachiffres, Mondanités, Lieux abrégés, Paris, 1980, p. 91, no. 199 (illustrated).

Exhibited

Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs and Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Parachiffres, Mondanités et autres peintures de 1975, January-June 1976, n.p., no. 90 (Paris); n.p., no. 25 (Basel).
Karlsruhe, Badischer Kunstverein and Hagen, Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Jean Dubuffet, Werke 1936-1976, March 1977-February 1978, p. 53, no. 42 (illustrated).
Paris, Galerie Baudoin Lebon, J. Dubuffet, choix d'oeuvres ed 1942 à 1981, September-November 1983.
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Jean Dubuffet: Rétrospective, October 1985-January 1986, n.p., no. 40 (illustrated).
Chicago, Goldman-Kraft Gallery, Jean Dubuffet, Retrospective 1943-1981, April 1986.
New York, Urban Gallery, Jean Dubuffet, Retrospective, November-December 1986, pp. 39-40, no. 19 (illustrated).
Paris, Galerie Hopkins-Custot, Jean Dubuffet, April-June 2007, pp. 52-53 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

“Over and done with the mystical jubilations of the physical world: I have become nauseated by it and no longer wish to work except against it. It is the unreal now that enchants me. I have an appetite for non-truth, the false life, the antiworld; my efforts are launched on the path of irrealism. In the paintings I now plan to do there will only be aggressively unreasonable forms, colours gaudy without reason, a theatre of irrealities, an outrageous attempt against everything existing, the way wide open for the most outlandish inventions.” Jean Dubuffet

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