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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 24, 2025 | Sotheby's | London | Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction | 23 | $****** - ****** | L"Âge a écrit sur leurs visages |
paintings
92 x 73 cm (36.22 x 28.74 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 54 (upper left)
Jacques Ulmann, Paris (acquired in 1954 directly from the artist)
The Morris Pinto Collection, Geneva
Baron Elie de Rothschild, Paris (acquired from the above circa 1970)
Private Collection, Switzerland, (acquired from the above in 1989)
Thence by descent in 2010 to the present owner
Paris, Cercle Volney, Exposition de peintures, dessins et divers travaux exécutés de 1942 à 1954 par Jean Dubuffet , March - April 1954, no. 128, n.p. (checklist)
Leverkusen, Städtisches Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Jean Dubuffet , August - October 1957, no. 38, n.p. (checklist)
Hanover, Kestner Gesellschaft; and Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Jean Dubuffet , October 1960 - January 1961, no. 65, p. 30 (Hanover) (incorrectly dated 1955), no. 70, p. 17 (Zurich), illustrated
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; and Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Jean Dubuffet: A Retrospective , April - December 1973, no. 66, p. 105 (New York), illustrated; no. 72, p. 172 (checklist) (Paris)
Berlin, Akademie der Künste; Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst; and Cologne, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Dubuffet Retrospektive , September 1980 - March 1981, no. 137, p. 337, illustrated
Rome, Galleria Nazionale d"Arte Moderna, Jean Dubuffet: 1901-1985 , December 1989 - February 1990, no. 51, p. 169, illustrated in colour
Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Dubuffet , March - June 1993, no. 36, p. 69, illustrated in colour
Paris, Centre Pompidou, Jean Dubuffet , September - December 2001, p. 174, illustrated in colour
Retretti, Retretti Art Centre, Jean Dubuffet, 1901-1985 , June - August 2006, n.p., illustrated in colour
Geneva, Opera Gallery, 30 years - 30 artists , November - December 2024, p. 7, illustrated in colour
Françoise Choay, "Évolution et tendances de la peinture depuis 1944," Jardin des Arts , no. 66, April 1960, p. 50, illustrated in colour
Lorenza Trucchi, L"occhio di Dubuffet , Rome 1965, n.p., illustrated in colour
Lorenza Trucchi, Jean Dubuffet , Rome 1965, no. 162, p. 187, illustrated in colour
Max Loreaux, Dubuffet et le Voyage au Centre de la Perception , Paris 1966, n.p., illustrated
Max Loreau, ed., Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule IX: Assmeblages d"empreintes , Lausanne 1968, no. 127, p. 93, illustrated in colour
Pierre Cabanne, "Enigmatique Dubuffet," in Lectures pour tous , no. 215, December 1971, p. 77, illustrated in colour
Max Loreau, Jean Dubuffet: délits, déportements, lieux de haut jeu , Lausanne 1971, p. 172, illustrated in colour; p. 175 (text)
Masao Yamaguchi, Dubuffet , Tokyo 1986, no. 16, p. 20, illustrated in colour
Jean Dubuffet
1901 - 1985
L"Âge a écrit sur leurs visages
signed and dated 54 (upper left)
oil on canvas
92 by 73 cm. 36¼ by 28¾ in.
Executed in January-February 1954.
