Live Auction 15969Post-War and Contemporary Art Morning Session
Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Lot 718 Property from a Distinguished New York Collector

Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)

Portrait of Charles-Albert Cingria

Closed18 May 2018

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USD 262,500

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Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Portrait of Charles-Albert Cingria
signed and incorrectly dated 'J. Dubuffet 47' (lower right); titled 'Charles-Albert Cingria' (upper right)
charcoal and gouache on paper
20 ½ x 12 ¼ in. (52 x 31.1 cm.)
Executed in 1946.

Jean Paulhan, Paris
Florence Gould, Juan-les-Pins
Acquavella Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1988

Specialist note

"Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery. I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence madness" (J. Dubuffet, Notes for a Lecture Given at the Arts Club of Chicago, December 20, 1981,  reprinted in Anticultural positions, Aquavella, New York, 2016, p. 29).