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JEAN DUBUFFET (1901-1985)
Lot 133 Property from an Important American Collection

JEAN DUBUFFET (1901-1985)

Plein Air et Intérieur

Closed10 November 2023

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USD 220,000–280,000

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JEAN DUBUFFET (1901-1985)
Plein Air et Intérieur
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'J.D. 82' (lower left)
acrylic and paper collage on paper mounted on canvas
26 ½ x 39 ½ in. (67.3 x 100.3 cm.)
Executed in 1982.

Pace Gallery, New York
Galerie Zwirner, Cologne
Pace Gallery, New York
Galerie Hopkins Custot, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2007

Specialist note

"One cannot remain indifferent to these images; yet one never succumbs to the illusion that these are real human entities. As subjects, they have no psychological presence; as objects, their physical volume is reduced to a flattened skin pinioned to the canvas. Nonetheless, they elicit a violently physical response," (M. Rowell, “Jean Dubuffet: An Art on the Margins of Culture,” Jean Dubuffet: A Retrospective, 1973, p. 28).