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Jean Dubuffet

Jean Dubuffet

Auction Closed

May 16, 09:00 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Jean Dubuffet

1901 - 1985


Le pain de la terre

signed and dated 53 (upper right); signed, titled and dated avril 53 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

28 ¾ by 38 in.

77.5 by 96.5 cm.

Executed in April 1953.

Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris

Paul Facchetti, Paris

Christian Fayt Art Gallery, Knokke-Heist (acquired in 1989)

Briest Paris, 17 June 1989, lot 45

Gallery Urban, Paris

M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York

Private Collection, Tokyo

Christie's New York, 13 May 1998, lot 310 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)

Christie's New York, 17 May 2001, lot 157 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)

Sotheby's New York, November 13, 2003, lot 176

Private Collection, Chicago (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Françoise Choay, "Les découvertes d'une rétrospective et la mythologie de la terre dans l'oeuvre de Jean Dubuffet," Art International, vol. V, no. 1, February 1961, p. 31, illustrated

Max Loreau, Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet: lieux momentanes pâtes battues, fasicule VIII, Lausanne, 1967, no. 52, p. 51, illustrated

Frankfurt am Main, Galerie Daniel Cordier, Jean Dubuffet: Lob der Erde, December 1958 - January 1959, n.p., no. 14

Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft and Kunsthaus Zürich, Jean Dubuffet, October 1960 - January 1961, no. 52, p. 38 [Hannover], no. 56, p. 30 [Zurich]

Paris, Gallery Urban, J. Dubuffet: Des années 50 aux années 80, October - November 1990, no. 4, n.p., illustrated in color