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Jean Dubuffet
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May 16, 09:00 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Jean Dubuffet
1901 - 1985
Le pain de la terre
signed and dated 53 (upper right); signed, titled and dated avril 53 (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
28 ¾ by 38 in.
77.5 by 96.5 cm.
Executed in April 1953.
Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris
Paul Facchetti, Paris
Christian Fayt Art Gallery, Knokke-Heist (acquired in 1989)
Briest Paris, 17 June 1989, lot 45
Gallery Urban, Paris
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York
Private Collection, Tokyo
Christie's New York, 13 May 1998, lot 310 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)
Christie's New York, 17 May 2001, lot 157 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)
Sotheby's New York, November 13, 2003, lot 176
Private Collection, Chicago (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Françoise Choay, "Les découvertes d'une rétrospective et la mythologie de la terre dans l'oeuvre de Jean Dubuffet," Art International, vol. V, no. 1, February 1961, p. 31, illustrated
Max Loreau, Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet: lieux momentanes pâtes battues, fasicule VIII, Lausanne, 1967, no. 52, p. 51, illustrated
Frankfurt am Main, Galerie Daniel Cordier, Jean Dubuffet: Lob der Erde, December 1958 - January 1959, n.p., no. 14
Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft and Kunsthaus Zürich, Jean Dubuffet, October 1960 - January 1961, no. 52, p. 38 [Hannover], no. 56, p. 30 [Zurich]
Paris, Gallery Urban, J. Dubuffet: Des années 50 aux années 80, October - November 1990, no. 4, n.p., illustrated in color
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