Personnage des légendes

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JEAN DUBUFFET (1901-1985)
Dubuffet, J.
Personnage des légendes
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'J.D. 62' (upper right)
gouache on paper laid down on panel
sheet: 24 ¾ x 15 ¾ in. (62.9 x 40 cm.)
overall: 25 ¼ x 16 3/8 in. (64 x 41.6 cm.)
Painted in 1962.

Provenance

Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris
Mr. and Mrs. Arne Ekstrom, New York, 1962
Galerie Ekstrom, New York
Stephen Hahn Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1968

Literature

M. Loreau, ed., Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule XIX: Paris Circus, Paris, 1989, pp. 160 and 227, no. 337 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

“I feel a need that every work of art should in the highest degree lift one out of context, provoking a surprise and a shock. A painting does not work for me if it is not completely unexpected. Hence my new concern, which at latest gives me the satisfaction of being taken to territory where no one else has been” - J. Dubuffet quoted in P. Seltz, "Statement on painting, 1961," The Work of Jean Dubuffet, exh. cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1982, p. 165.

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