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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 15, 2019 | Christie's | New York | Post-War and Contemporary Art Morning Session | 659 | $****** - ****** | Le signe du doigt | |||
May 16, 1990 | Sotheby's | New York | The Collection of Lydia Winston Malbin | 75 | Estimates not disclosed | Le signe du doigt |
paintings
100.3 x 80.6 cm (39.5 x 31.75 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 'J. Dubuffet 54' (upper right); signed again, titled and dated again 'Le signe du doigt J. Dubuffet août 54' (on the reverse)
Galerie Rive Gauche, Paris
Lydia Winston Malbin, New York, 1954
Her sale; Sotheby's, New York, 16 May 1990, lot 75
Private collection, Paris
Galerie Di Méo, Paris
Landau Fine Art, Montréal
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Museum of Art, 20th Century Painting and Sculpture From the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Winston, October-November 1955, p. 10, no. 15.
Detroit Institute of Arts; Richmond, The Virginia Museum of Art; The San Francisco Museum of Art and The Milwaukee Art Institute, Collecting Modern Art: Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lewis Winston, September 1957-May 1958, p. 47, no. 35 (illustrated).
Detroit Institute of Arts, Cobra and Contrasts: the Lydia and Harry Lewis Winston Collection, Dr. and Mrs. Barnett Malbin, September-November 1974, pp. 58-59, no. 32 (illustrated).
Vence, France, Cha^teau de Villeneuve, Chambres pour Dubuffet, July-October, 1995, p. 61, no. 31 (illustrated).
Paris, Galerie Pascal Lansberg, J. Dubuffet, September-November 1996, pp. 16-17 (illustrated).
Saarbrücken, Germany, Saarland Museum, Jean Dubuffet: Figuren und Ko¨pfe, September-November 1999, p. 98, no. 26 (illustrated).
A. B. Saarinen, "Collecting Modern Masters on a Master Plan," Art News, vol. 56, no. 6, October 1957, p. 32 (illustrated).
M. Loreau, Catalogues des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, fascicule X: Vaches-Petites statues de la vie précaire, Lausanne, 1969, p. 58, no. 71 (illustrated).
R. Landau, 20th Century Masters, Montréal, 2005, pp. 82-83 (illustrated).
signed and dated 'J. Dubuffet 54' (upper right); signed again, titled and dated again 'Le signe du doigt J. Dubuffet août 54' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
39 ½ x 31 ¾ in. (100.3 x 80.6 cm.)
Painted in 1954.
