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Provenance: Galerie René Drouin, Paris.
Carl van Bogaert Collection, Antwerp.
Jos Janssens Collection, Liere.
Her sale, Christie's New York, 15 November 1988, lot 57.
Private Collection, USA (acquired at the above sale).
Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 11 November 2003, lot 39.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
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Exhibited: Paris, Galerie René Drouin, Portraits à ressemblance extraite, à ressemblance cuite et confite dans la mémoire, à ressemblance éclatée dans la mémoire de Mr. Jean Dubuffet, 1947, no. 75.
Paris, Musée des arts décoratifs, Rétrospective Jean Dubuffet 1942-1960, 1960-1961, no. 46, p. 212.
Ghent, Musée des Beaux-Arts, de Menselijke figuur sedert Picasso, 1964, pl. LX, no. 88 (illustrated, p. 96).
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Jean Dubuffet, 1966, no. 21 (illustrated, unpaged).
Paris, Les Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Jean Paulhan à travers ses peintres, 1974, no. 537, p. 215.
Paris, Muée National d'art Moderne Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris-Paris: créations en France 1937-1957, 1981, no. 197, p. 510.
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Literature: M. Loreau (ed.), Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Roses d'Allah, clowns du désert, fascicule IV, Lausanne 1967, no. 17 (illustrated, p. 21).
M. Paquet, Dubuffet, Paris 1993, no. 74 (illustrated in colour, p. 67).
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Notes: Artist's Resale Right ("droit de Suite").If the Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer also agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.
Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Le soleil les décolore (The Sun Discolours Them)
oil on canvasboard
51¼ x 38¼in. (130 x 97.2cm.)
Painted in 1947
