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Jean Dubuffet

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  • Site avec deux personnages pour "Bonpiet Beau Neuille"

Jean Dubuffet

(Le Havre, 1901 - Paris, 1985)

Site avec deux personnages pour "Bonpiet Beau Neuille", 6 October 1982

India ink and marker on paper (with 2 glued patches)
Signed with initials and dated lower center 
J.D. 82 
25 x 17 cm.

This work belongs to the set of drawings for the art book Bonpiet beau neuille
texts and drawings by Jean Dubuffet, Jeanne Bucher éditeur, Paris, 1983
 
Provenance : 
- Zentrum für Kunst, Vaduz (Liechtenstein)
- Galerie 1900-2000, Paris
- Private collection, Paris 

Exhibition :
Jean Dubuffet, Galerie 1900-2000, Paris, from October 8 to December 29, 2013 

Literature :
Max Loreau, Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule XXXV: Sites aléatoires, Les Éditions de Minuit, Paris, 1986, described and reproduced p. 78 under no. 159

Between October 4 and December 8, 1982, Jean Dubuffet produced 59 drawings for the book Bonpiet beau neuille.
27 drawings were reproduced in the original 1983 edition.
Original edition, Paris, Jeanne Bucher, 1983, 89 copies printed on Arches vellum.     

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