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Lot 116 WORKS ON PAPER FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AVANT-GARDES
The Collection of a Scholar, Sold to Benefit Humanitarian Causes
The Collection of a Scholar, Sold to Benefit Humanitarian Causes
Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Personnage dans un paysage
Closed28 June 2017
Price Realised
GBP 48,750
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`Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they are right. Art is a language, instrument of knowledge, instrument of expression.'
(J. Dubuffet speaking at a lecture at the Arts Club, Chicago 1951 in V. Da Costa and F. Hergott (eds.) Jean Dubuffet: works, writings and interviews, Ediciones Poligrafa, 2006, p. 119).
(J. Dubuffet speaking at a lecture at the Arts Club, Chicago 1951 in V. Da Costa and F. Hergott (eds.) Jean Dubuffet: works, writings and interviews, Ediciones Poligrafa, 2006, p. 119).