Sold
$1,250,000
Est
$1,200,000
-
$1,800,000
Live Auction
20TH CENTURY & CONTEMPORARY ART EVENING SALE
ARTIST
Jean Dubuffet
Size
27 3/4 x 40 1/4 in. (70.4 x 102.2 cm.)
Description
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED EAST COAST COLLECTION
Le malentendu
Le malentendu
Medium
acrylic on collaged canvas-backed paper mounted on canvas
Signature
Executed on December 23, 1976.
Provenance
The Pace Gallery, New York
Geraldine Spreckels Fuller, New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (bequeathed from the Estate of the above in 1999)
Sotheby's, New York, May 11, 2011, lot 138
Private Collection, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Max Loreau, Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, fascicule XXXII: Théâtres de mémoire, Paris, 1982, no. 40, p. 205 (illustrated, p. 44)