Winter Discovery Auction Nov 14
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/14/2013
Original Drawing. Original untitled drawing in black ink on a "Comodoro" envelope. Signed and dated, "Jean Dubuffet Oct. 1950." Accomplished on an envelope from the 'Comodoro' Hotel, 4.25 x 9.5 inches. A small detailed work showing a man and womanseated on a bench at left, a second man in a top hat and carrying an umbrella, showing walking a dog
under a street lamp at the right. A characteristic work by the influential French artist whose idealistic
approach to aesthetics embraced so called "Art Brut" ("Raw Art" or "Low Art") and eschewed
traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic
approach to image-making.
Around the time of this drawing, Dubuffet began his close friendship with the Cuban writer and editor
Samuel Feijoo (1914 - 1992), Dubuffet calling him his "frere d'ame" ("soul mate") and publishing
some of his drawings in the journal "Islas y Signos" founded by Feijoo in the late 1950s (Samuel
Feijóo: “Dubuffet,” in Islas IV, #2, January-June 1962, pp. 198-200). Dubuffet himself did not visit
Cuba during this period, though his dealer, Pierre Matisse, traveled to Cuba in 1948 to pick up works
by Wilfredo Lam and it is possible this envelope was obtained from the Havana 'Comodoro' Hotel at
that time and eventually made its way into Dubuffet's hands.
Jean Dubuffet Original Drawing
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