

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, Florida
190
Jean Dubuffet
Site au Défunt
- Estimate
- £150,000 - 200,000‡♠
£187,500
Lot Details
acrylic and paper collage on paper mounted on canvas
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'J.D. 82' lower right
67 x 100 cm (26 3/8 x 39 3/8 in.)
Executed on 12 July 1982.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
'My desire is to make the site evoked by the picture something phantasmagoric; and that can be achieved only by jumbling together more or less veristic elements with interventions of arbitrary character aiming at unreality. I want my street to be crazy, my broad avenues, shops and buildings to join in a crazy dance, and that is why I deform and denature their contours and colours.' Jean Dubuffet
Provenance
Literature