Jean Dubuffet - Sourire II - Fine Art Auctions

Art (1945-contemporary) > Figurative Painting (40s-60s ) Jean Dubuffet - Biography

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Jean Dubuffet
1901 - 1985
Sourire II. 1962.
Lithograph in colors.
Signed, dated and numbered. From an edition of 30 copies. On laid paper by "Richard de Bas" (with watermark). 52 x 38 cm (20.4 x 14.9 in). Sheet: 64 x 50,5 cm (25,3 x 19,8 in).
[AR].

• An artist's copy of this color lithograph is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
• Part of an important private collection in Berlin for more than 35 years.

PROVENANCE: Private collection, Berlin (since 1989, Villa Grisebach).

LITERATURE: Sophie Webel, L'Œuvre Gravé et les Livres Illustrés par Jean Dubuffet, Catalogue raisonné, vol. II, Paris 1991, CR no. 823 (color illu. p. 22, different copy).
Max Loreau, Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule XVI: les Phénomènes, Paris 1964 (color illu. p. 224, probably different copy).
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Villa Grisebach, Berlin, 9th auction, June 2, 1989, lot 231 (color illu.).

In good condition. Slightly unevenly browned, somewhat more so in the passe-partout cutout. With small, isolated foxing spots. Minimal soiling on the white edge of the sheet and one small pinhole each at the top and bottom center, caused in the studio. Two to three tiny tears in the edge, max. 0.5 cm.
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