Jean Dubuffet
Banc-Salon (Bench-Salon)

Artist Jean Dubuffet (French, 1901–1985)French, 1901–1985

CultureFrench

Titles

Banc-Salon (Bench-Salon)

Date1968-1970 / 2024

MediumPolyurethane paint on epoxy

DimensionsOther (Bench): 24 13/16 × 216 1/8 × 159 7/16 in. (63 × 549 × 405 cm)
Other (Hanging "kite" no. 1 frog): 35 7/16 × 82 11/16 × 78 3/4 in. (90 × 210 × 200 cm)
Other (Hanging "kite" no. 2 cloud): 25 9/16 × 78 3/4 × 61 in. (65 × 200 × 155 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment

Object number2024.993.A-.F

Current Location

The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building

Atrium Floor 1

On view

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Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Object Type

SCULPTURE

ProvenanceThe artist; Fondation Dubuffet; [Pace Gallery]; purchased by the Museum, 2024.
Exhibition HistoryThe original Banc Salon has been exhibited at the following venues:

Jean Dubuffet: Le Cabinet Logologique, Paris: Centre National d’Art Contemporain, 1970

Jean Dubuffet: Metamorphoses of Landscape, Basel: Fondation Beyeler, January 31–May 8, 2016

Jean Dubuffet, Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, July 1–October 1, 2017

Jean Dubuffet, un barbare en Europe, Marseille: Musée des civilizations Europe, April 23–September 7, 2019; Valencia: l’IVAM, Instituto de arte moderno, October 8 2019 – February 16, 2020; Geneva: Musée d’ethnographie de Genève, September 8, 2020 – February 21, 2021.

Pace Gallery debuted the current example at Art Basel, Switzerland, June 11–16, 2024.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Signed on the underside of the second section: “J.D.” and stamped: “Banc-Salon. 1970-2024. 1/6”

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Catalogue raisonnéLoreau XXIV: 127, no. 188 (illustrated) and Loreau XXV: 93, no. 91 (illustrated).

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