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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Jean Dubuffet, Conjectures , 1963

Jean Dubuffet French, 1901-1985

Conjectures , 1963
Acrylic on paper mounted to canvas
26. by 39 3/8 in. 66.7 by 100 cm.
Signed with the artist's initials and dated ‘64’

Provenance:
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris
Collection of Carmen Bebiano, Paris (acquired in March 1965)
Collection of Brett Mitchell, Paris
Jeffrey Horvitch, Ltd., Los Angeles
Collection of Hope and Abraham Melamed,
Milwaukee (acquired from the above)
Sotheby's, New York, Seven Dubuffets from the
Collection of Hope and Abraham Melamed, 4 November 1987, Lot 30
Private Collection, Montreal
Landau Beaux-Arts, Montreal
Champin, Lombrail, Gautier, Enghien-les-Bains, 21/06/1990
Galerie Odermatt-Cazeau, Paris (acquired in 1992)
Private Collection, USA
Sotheby’s New York, 17/05/19, lot 21
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited:
Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, L'Hourloupe: Gouaches, Jean Dubuffet, December 1964, cat. no. 38, illustrated
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Jean Dubuffet: 1962-1966, October 1966 - February 1967, cat. no. 31, illustrated
Milwaukee Art Museum, Selections from the Hope and Abraham Melamed Collection, September 1983 - January 1984, cat. no. 20, p. 25, illustrated
Montreal, Landau Beaux-Arts, Maîtres du 19e et 20e siècle, Summer 1988, p. 43, illustrated in color
Montreal, Landau Beaux-Arts, Qui rassemble la foule...la captive, October - November 1988

Literature:
Max Loreau, Ed., Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet: Fascicule XX, L'Hourlope I, Lausanne 1966, cat. no. 264, p. 133, illustrated
Michel Ragon, Jean Dubuffet, Paris 1995, p. 31, illustrated in color
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