Representative work by Jean Dubuffet
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Jean Dubuffet

1901–1985 · French · Based in Paris, France

  • Académie Julian, Paris (1918)
  • Art Brut
  • Painting
  • Sculpture
  • Hourloupe Cycle

Jean Dubuffet rejected academic ideas of refinement and championed what he called Art Brut—work made outside official culture. His own paintings use thick matter, graffiti-like marks, crude figures and later the interlocking red, blue, black and white forms of the Hourloupe cycle.

Painting; sculpture; drawing; printmaking

Gallery Representation

Objects

Artist Films

Major Works

  • 1946Will to Power
  • 1947Dhôtel nuancé d’abricot
  • 1954Cow with the Subtile Nose
  • 1954The Cow with the Beautiful Tail
  • 1958Texturology
  • 1961Paris Polka
  • 1965Nunc Stans
  • 1981Site avec 5 personnages
  • 1973Coucou Bazar
  • 1969–72Group of Four Trees

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Interviews & Writing

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