Profusion. 1959.
Lithograph in colors.
Signed, datdt, titled and inscribed "épreuve d'artiste". Artist proof aside from the edition of 53 copies. On Arches wove paper (withh the truncated watermark). 52 x 39 cm (20.4 x 15.3 in). Sheet: 64 x 45 cm (25,1 x 17,7 in).
Sheet 2 of 10 from the album "Géographie", one of 22 albums in the famous graphic cycle "Les Phénomènes" (Oct. 1958-Apr. 1962). [AR].

PROVENANCE: Galerie Meyer-Ellinger, Frankfurt a. Main.
Private collection, Hesse.

LITERATURE: Sophie Webel, L'Œuvre Gravé et les Livres Illustrés par Jean Dubuffet, Catalogue raisonné, vol. I, Paris 1991, cat. no. 666 (illustrated in color on p. 184, different copy).
Max Loreau, Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule XVI: les Phénomènes, Paris 1964, cat. no. 304 (illustrated onn p. 185, presumably different copy).

In good condition. Very slightly browned. One small pinhole in the center of the upper and lower edges of the sheet (from the studio) . According to the catalog, this is a four-color print, but in this artist's copy, the fourth color is barely discernible alongside the black, light gray, and blue.
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