LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

44.76 in. (113.70 cm.) (height) by 57.48 in. (146.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'J. Dubuffet 61' (lower center); signed again, titled and dated again 'les grandes artères J. Dubuffet juillet 61' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

Paris, Galerie Daniel Cordier, Dubuffet: Paris Circus, June-July 1962, n.p., no. 6 (illustrated in color). New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Jean Dubuffet: a Retrospective, April-July 1973, p. 147, no. 117 (illustrated).

Literature:

M. Loreau, Catalogue des Travaux de Jean Dubuffet, fasc. XIX: Paris Circus, Lausanne, 1965, pp. 56-57, no. 94 (illustrated). M. Loreau, Dubuffet et le voyage au centre de la perception: de Paris-Circus au grand-art l'Hourloupe, Paris, 1966, pp. 26 and 32. M. Loreau, Jean Dubuffet, stratégie de la création, Paris, 1973, pp. 92-93 (illustrated). Dubuffet Retrospektive, exh. cat., Berlin, Akademie der Künste, 1980, p. 210.

Provenance:

Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris  Collection Madame Thorel, Paris  Cordier & Ekstrom, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1964