The Estate of the Artist Private Collection, France Sotheby's, London, 13 February 2013, lot 119 Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Exhibited
New York, Pace Gallery, Jean Dubuffet: The Last Two Years, 20 January - 10 March 2012, no. 6 (illustrated)
Literature
Max Loreau, Catalogue des Travaux de Jean Dubuffet Fascicule XXXVI, Paris, 1980, no. 59, p. 33 (illustrated)
Catalogue Essay
'Painting is a language much more immediate, and, at the same time, much more charged with meaning. Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words.' Jean Dubuffet
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'J.D. '83' lower left acrylic on paper mounted on card laid on canvas 67 x 100 cm (26 3/8 x 39 3/8 in.) Painted in 1983.