Auction Date:2012 Dec 12 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
French painter and sculptor (1901–1985) known for his authentic and humanistic approach. Early TLS in French, to “mon cher Jakovsky.” One page, 5.5 x 9, no date (but 1945 based upon the accompanying letter). Dubuffet forwards a copy of Lucien de Dardel’s (a Swiss art magazine editor) answer to a letter Dubuffet had addressed to him. Dubuffet had asked Dardel about the publication date of some articles on art that his friend Jakovsky had sent the magazine, and Dardel answers, in the letter copied by Dubuffet, that they will all be published shortly. Dubuffet then remarks to Jakovsky that they could do a swap in Swiss money as he will need Swiss francs for a next trip to Switzerland. At the end of the letter, he insists on Jakovsky writing about the naïf painter Séraphine, and the “Autodidactes de la Rue du Bac,” a group of self-taught artists who exhibited in the streets in Paris that Dubuffet admired for their spontaneity, a concept that he would soon develop into his theory of ‘Art Brut.’ But the most important mention is to a text Jakovsky should write on Jean Fautrier. It was Fautrier’s exhibition, seen the previous year, that changed Dubuffet’s approach to art and led him on his most successful path. The copy of Dardel’s letter (in which Dubuffet retypes the letter he received from Dardel and signs for him, “Lucien de Dardel”) is included in the lot. A single vertical and horizontal fold, rough right edge, and some scattered mild toning, otherwise fine condition.
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