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Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Lot 47

Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)

Site avec 5 personnages

Closed27 September 2018

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USD 324,500

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Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Site avec 5 personnages
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'J.D. 81' (lower left)
acrylic on paper laid down on canvas
19 ¾ x 26 5/8 in. (50.2 x 67.6 cm.)
Executed in 1981.

Estate of the artist
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Private collection, New York
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, London, 2 July 2008, lot 169
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note

“I believe the function of art is to represent things not as we see them but as we think of them.”
-Jean Dubuffet