Live Auction 15969Post-War and Contemporary Art Morning Session
Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Lot 716 Property from a New York Collector

Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)

Bowery Bum

Closed18 May 2018

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USD 200,000

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Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Bowery Bum
signed and dated 'J. Dubuffet dicembre 51' (lower right)
watercolor and ink on paper
18 ½ x 13 1/8 in. (47 x 33.3 cm.)
Executed in 1951.

Warner Leroy, New York
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Pace Gallery, New York
Galerie Daniel Varenne, Paris
Private collection, 1985
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 14 May 2003, lot 158
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note

"I feel that a work of art should be wreathed in surprise, that it should present an appearance that we have never seen before, that it should disorient you powerfully and transport you to an altogether unexpected world" (Jean Dubuffet, quoted in Nine unpublished notes dated 5 December 1960 ,Jean Dubuffet, Valerie da Costa, Fabrice Hergott, Barcelona, 2006, p.147).