Live Auction 17647Post-War to Present
Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Lot 113 The Collection of Terry Allen Kramer

Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)

Michel Tapié Condottiere

Closed27 September 2019

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USD 100,000

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Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Michel Tapié Condottiere
signed, titled and dated 'J. Dubuffet 46 Michel Tapié' (lower right)
wax crayon on paper
16 1/8 x 12 in. (41 x 30.5 cm.)
Executed in 1946.

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
Acquavella Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1982

Specialist note

For a portrait to function really well, I need it to be barely a portrait. At the limit that it is no longer a portrait. It is then that its function takes its full force. I love things taken to their extreme limit. - Jean Dubuffet