Live Auction 15969Post-War and Contemporary Art Morning Session
Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Lot 733 Property from a California Collection

Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)

Petit Chaise I

Closed18 May 2018

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USD 225,000

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Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Petit Chaise I
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'J.D. 68' (lower edge)
epoxy paint on polyurethane
33 x 13 ¾ x 12 in. (83.8 x 34.9 x 30.4 cm.)
Executed in 1968.

Pace Gallery, New York
James Goodman Gallery, Inc., New York
Galerie Daniel Gervis, Paris
Private collection
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 9 May 1996, lot 142
James Goodman Gallery, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2001

Specialist note

“Dubuffet’s images, although endowed with an undeniable concrete presence, are in fact the transcription of illusions. Concrete reality is not their source. Although figurative in form, the work insists on deliberate delusions to which the artist has given shape, substance, form and presence” (M. Rowell, Jean Dubuffet: A Retrospective, exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1970, p. 27).