Live Auction 14996Post-War & Contemporary Art Morning Session
Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Lot 642

Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)

Table a la Carafe

Closed16 November 2017

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USD 396,500

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Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Table a la Carafe
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'J.D. 68' (on the base)
epoxy paint on polyurethane
44 x 58 ½ x 45 ½ in. (111.7 x 148.5 x 115.5 cm.)
Executed in 1968.

Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Pace Gallery, New York
Private collection, New York
Private collection, Los Angeles, 1989
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 16 May 2001, lot 55
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note

‘The spiritual exercise of integration and intimate unification of the physical with the mental world is aided by several factors, among which must be mentioned the astonishing lightness of the material used, by which the mind is moved to abolish the notion of weight from the objects of the physical world’ ( J. Dubuffet, ‘Note on the Painted Polystyrene Hourloupe Pieces’, in Jean Dubuffet: Writings on Sculpture, Dusseldorf 2011, p. 54).