Live Auction 2848Post-War and Contemporary Morning Session
Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Lot 247

Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)

Chapeau de Philosophe

Closed14 May 2014

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USD 341,000

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Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Chapeau de Philosophe
signed with initials, numbered and dated 'J.D. 72 2b' (inner edge)
acrylic on sheet metal
20½ x 33 x 23 in. (52 x 83.8 x 58.4 cm.)
Executed in 1972. This work is unique.

The Pace Gallery, New York
Private collection
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 4 May 1995, lot 159
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note

"I aim at an art that is directly plugged in to our current life, an art that starts out from this current life, that immediately emanates from our real life and real moods"

(Jean Dubuffet as quoted in M. Glimcher, Jean Dubuffet: Towards an Alternative Reality, New York, 1987, p. 127)