Lost and found: An 11-foot-tall Dubuffet

Former Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and his brothers amassed so much sculpture — they were the Rockefellers, after all — that their staff could send one statue off to storage and all but forget about it.

Even one that is 11 feet tall, weighs seven and a half tons and has the unmistakable impudence of the French artist Jean Dubuffet, who created it in the 1960s and sold it to Rockefeller in the 1970s.

It languished, stowed in a building with a dirt floor on the Rockefellers’ estate in Tarrytown, N.Y., through the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s and the 2010s.

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