Lithograph in colors in 8 colors. Signed, dated, titled and inscribed "épreuve d'artiste". Artist proof aside from the edition of 53 copies. On Arches wove paper (with truncated watermark). 47.5 x 35 cm. Sheet: 63,3 x 45 cm.
Sheet 1 of 10 from the album "Banalités", one of together 22 albums in the famous graphfc cycle "Les Phénomènes" (Oct. 1958 - Apr. 1962). [AR].
LITERATURE: Sophie Webel, L'Œuvre Gravé et les Livres Illustrés par Jean Dubuffet, Catalogue raisonné, vol. I, Paris 1991, vcat. no. 685 (illustrated in color on p. 188, different copy). Max Loreau, Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule XVI: les Phénomènes, Paris 1964, cat. no. 323 (illustrated on p. 195, presumably a different copy).