Nov 03, 2016 - Sale 2429

Sale 2429 - Lot 528

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
JEAN DUBUFFET
Site champêtre.

Linoleum cut, 1948. 180x130 mm; 7 1/4x5 1/4 inches, full margins. Artist's proof, aside from the edition of 20. Initialed and inscribed "Epreuve d'artiste" in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Lacourière and Frélaut, Paris. Published by Ernst Beyeler, Basel. From Vignettes Lorgnettes. A superb, richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce print.

We have not found another impression at auction in the past 30 years. Webel 167.