Jean Dubuffet French, 1901-1985
Conjectures , 1964
acrylic on paper mounted on canvas
66.7 x 100 cm
signed with the artist's initials and dated '64
Provenance
Galerie Claude Bernard, ParisCollection 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, 04/11/1987, 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
Exhibitions
Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, L'Hourloupe: Gouaches, Jean Dubuffet, December 1964, cat. no. 38, illustratedNew 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 colour
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'Hourloupe I, Lausanne 1966, cat. no. 264, p. 133, illustratedMichel Ragon, Jean Dubuffet, Paris 1995, p. 31, illustrated in colour