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Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Lot 118

Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)

Effigie incertaine XXXI

Closed7 October 2020

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USD 212,500

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Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Effigie incertaine XXXI
signed with the artist’s initials and dated ‘J.D.75’ (lower right); titled 'Effigie incertaine XXXI' (on the reverse)
vinyl on paper mounted on canvas
25 ½ x 18 in. (64.8 x 45.7 cm.)
Painted in 1975.

Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Galerie Daniel Gervis, Paris
Private collection, Michigan, circa 1975
By descent from the above to the present owner

Specialist note


I think portraits and landscapes should resemble each other, because they are more or less the same thing. I want portraits in which description makes use of the same mechanisms as those used in a landscape—here wrinkles, there ravines or paths; here a nose, there a tree; here a mouth and there a house.
—Jean Dubuffet