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Jean Dubuffet

L’Âge a écrit sur leurs visages

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Jean Dubuffet

1901 – 1985


L’Âge a écrit sur leurs visages

signed and dated 54 (upper left)

oil on canvas

92 by 73 cm. 36¼ by 28¾ in.

Executed in January–February 1954.

Jacques Ulmann, Paris (acquired in 1954 directly from the artist)

The Morris Pinto Collection, Geneva

Baron Elie de Rothschild, Paris (acquired from the above circa 1970)

Private Collection, Switzerland, (acquired from the above in 1989)

Thence by descent in 2010 to the present owner

Françoise Choay, "Évolution et tendances de la peinture depuis 1944," Jardin des Arts, no. 66, April 1960, p. 50, illustrated in colour

Lorenza Trucchi, L'occhio di Dubuffet, Rome 1965, n.p., illustrated in colour

Lorenza Trucchi, Jean Dubuffet, Rome 1965, no. 162, p. 187, illustrated in colour

Max Loreaux, Dubuffet et le Voyage au Centre de la Perception, Paris 1966, n.p., illustrated

Max Loreau, ed., Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule IX: Assmeblages d’empreintes, Lausanne 1968, no. 127, p. 93, illustrated in colour

Pierre Cabanne, "Enigmatique Dubuffet," in Lectures pour tous, no. 215, December 1971, p. 77, illustrated in colour

Max Loreau, Jean Dubuffet: délits, déportements, lieux de haut jeu, Lausanne 1971, p. 172, illustrated in colour; p. 175 (text)

Masao Yamaguchi, Dubuffet, Tokyo 1986, no. 16, p. 20, illustrated in colour

Paris, Cercle Volney, Exposition de peintures, dessins et divers travaux exécutés de 1942 à 1954 par Jean Dubuffet, March – April 1954, no. 128, n.p. (checklist)

Leverkusen, Städtisches Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Jean Dubuffet, August – October 1957, no. 38, n.p. (checklist)

Hanover, Kestner Gesellschaft; and Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Jean Dubuffet, October 1960 - January 1961, no. 65, p. 30 (Hanover) (incorrectly dated 1955), no. 70, p. 17 (Zurich), illustrated

New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; and Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Jean Dubuffet: A Retrospective, April – December 1973, no. 66, p. 105 (New York), illustrated; no. 72, p. 172 (checklist) (Paris)

Berlin, Akademie der Künste; Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst; and Cologne, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Dubuffet Retrospektive, September 1980 – March 1981, no. 137, p. 337, illustrated

Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Jean Dubuffet: 1901-1985, December 1989 – February 1990, no. 51, p. 169, illustrated in colour

Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Dubuffet, March – June 1993, no. 36, p. 69, illustrated in colour

Paris, Centre Pompidou, Jean Dubuffet, September – December 2001, p. 174, illustrated in colour

Retretti, Retretti Art Centre, Jean Dubuffet, 1901-1985, June – August 2006, n.p., illustrated in colour

Geneva, Opera Gallery, 30 years – 30 artists, November – December 2024, p. 7, illustrated in colour