Head of a Man

1945

Jean Dubuffet
French, 1901-1985

Status: On View, Gallery 397
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jean Dubuffet
Title: Head of a Man
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1945
Medium: Brush and black ink and gray wash, with wiping on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed and dated, upper right: "J. Dubuffet 1945"
Dimensions: 27.7 × 19.3 cm (10 15/16 × 7 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection
Reference Number: 2018.313
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Max Loreau, Catalogues des Travaux de Jean Dubuffet, vol. 1, Marionettes de la Ville et de la Campagne (Paris, 1966), p. 207, no. 398 (ill.).
Dawn Ades, with Margherita Andreotti and Adam Jolles, Surrealist Art: The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1997), pp. 114-15, cat. 58 (color ill.).

Sold, Sotheby’s, London, July 4, 1973, lot 265, to Waddington and Tooth Galleries, Ltd., London; sold to a private collector; sold to Waddington and Tooth Galleries, Ltd., London, 1975 [letter from Abigail Willis of Waddington Galleries, Ltd., to Adam Jolles of Jan. 16, 1995]; sold to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago,1977; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.

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