Head of a Man

Provenance

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.

Head of a Man

Jean Dubuffet

1945

Accession Number

118678

Medium

Brush and black ink and gray wash, with wiping on cream wove paper

Dimensions

27.7 × 19.3 cm (10 15/16 × 7 5/8 in.)

Classification

pen and ink drawings

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection