Jean DubuffetTheatre des Mèches et Larmes - Original Lithograph by Jean Dubuffet - 19591959
1959
About the Item
- Creator:Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985, French)
- Creation Year:1959
- Dimensions:Height: 25.2 in (64 cm)Width: 18 in (45.7 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
- Medium:
- Movement & Style:
- Period:
- Framing:Framing Options Available
- Condition:Insurance may be requested by customers as additional service, contact us for more information.
- Gallery Location:Roma, IT
- Reference Number:Seller: M-1118711stDibs: LU65037447902
Jean Dubuffet
Jean Dubuffet was a seminal French artist known for his prints as well as his primal figures and sculptures of vernacular subjects.
Dubuffet’s adoption of the term Art Brut or raw art, referred to the art of children, prisoners, and the mentally ill, was a reaction to what he called “art culturel” or refined art. It was his desire to break from tradition by implementing rudimentary mark-making and emulsions made from sand, tar, and trash, as seen in his work Grand Maitre of the Outsider (1946).
“A work of art is only of interest, in my opinion, when it is an immediate and direct projection of what is happening in the depth of a person's being,” the artist said. “It is my belief that only in this Art Brut can we find the natural and normal processes of artistic creation in their pure and elementary state.”
Born on July 31, 1901, in Le Havre, France, Dubuffet went on to study at the Académie Julian in Paris. While at school his peers included Raoul Dufy, Suzanne Valadon, and Fernand Léger. In 1918, after attending classes for only six months Dubuffet dropped out. Taking over his father’s wine business in 1924, he didn’t return to making art until the early 1940s. The artist would go on to form the Compagnie de l’Art Brut with André Breton and Slavko Kopač.
Dubuffet died on May 12, 1985, in Paris, France, at the age of 83. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
Find original Jean Dubuffet prints and other art for sale on 1stDibs.
(Biography provided by Lot 180)
- ShippingRetrieving quote...Shipping from: Grasse, France
- Return Policy
More From This Seller
View All1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Lithograph
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Prints
Lithograph
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1970s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
Lithograph
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Prints
Lithograph
You May Also Like
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Lithograph, Offset
1960s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1960s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Lithograph