20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, 14 February
Provenance
Estate of the Artist Waddington Galleries, London (acquired by 1986) Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Max Loreau, ed., Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet: Site aléatoires, Fascicule XXXV, Paris, 1986, no. 95, pp. 55, 96 (illustrated, p. 55)
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
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, Florida
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'J.D. 82' lower right acrylic and paper collage on paper mounted on canvas 67 x 100 cm (26 3/8 x 39 3/8 in.) Executed on 12 July 1982.
Estimate £150,000 - 200,000 ‡♠
Sold for £187,500
Contact Specialist
Tamila Kerimova
Specialist, Head of Day Sale, Director, 20th Century & Contemporary Art