Live Auction 15969Post-War and Contemporary Art Morning Session
Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985)
Lot 717 Property from a Distinguished West Coast Collection

Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985)

Pisseur a Droite IV

Closed18 May 2018

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Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985)
Pisseur a Droite IV
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'J.D. août 61' (lower left)
gouache and ink on paper
17 x 13 in. (43.1 x 33 cm.)
Executed in 1961.

The artist
Daniel Cordier, Paris
Michel Warren, Paris
Robert Fraser Gallery, London
Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne
Pace Gallery, New York
Private collection, Medina, Washington, 1976
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

"Art should make us laugh a little and frighten us a little, but never bore us" (J. Dubuffet, Prospectus aux amateurs de tout genre, Paris, 1946, p.43, quoted in P. Selz, The Work of Jean Dubuffet, New York, 1962, p. 37)