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JEAN DUBUFFET (1901-1985)
Lot 36 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ALAN DERSHOWITZ AND CAROLYN COHEN

JEAN DUBUFFET (1901-1985)

Profil à Droite (Webel 822)

Closed25 April 2012

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USD 20,000

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JEAN DUBUFFET (1901-1985)
Profil à Droite (Webel 822)
lithograph in colors, 1962, on Arches, signed and dated in pencil, numbered 13/30 (there was also 1 artist's proof), with full margins, generally in very good condition, framed
L. 20 5/8 x 15 in. (524 x 381 mm.)
S. 25¾ x 19¾ in. (654 x 502 mm.)

Specialist note

"C'est dans les bottes de foin qu'il faut mettre les aiguilles! Les mettre en péril. C'est quand on met les choses en extrême péril que leur bonté se met à chanter. Moi j'aime mettre les choses que j'aime en extrême péril. C'est quand on est sur le point de perdre la chose qu'elle s'illumine." ("We should put needles into haystacks! Put them in danger. It's when we put things in extreme danger that their beauty sings. I love to put things which I love in extreme danger. It's when we are on the point of loosing something that it shines.")
(Jean Dubuffet, Grafik, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Silkeborg, p. 95)