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Jean DubuffetJean Dubuffet Artist Proof Signed Lithograph "Sophisticated Lady"1944
1944
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"Sophisticated Lady", a lithograph, is an exemplary work indicative of DuBuffet's early work and style. It is a playful and ironic critique of sophistication and femininity. This original lithograph was initialed in plate 21 for the book "Matière et Mémoire", a work that references and critiques Henri Bergson's work of the same name, in collaboration with the poet Francis Ponge. It was proofed by Jean Dubuffet with his initials and 'épreuve and l'artiste' in pencil. The work is signed with Jean Dubuffet's full signature in pencil at the bottom. The lithograph is 12 x 9.5 inches. This work has been professionally reframed in museum glass.
Jean Dubuffet was born in 1901 in Le Havre, France. One of the most influential artists in the 20th century, his works emphasize the roughness and authenticity of the outsider in image-making and using unorthodox materials and the illusion of perspective. He studied painting at the Academie Julian in 1918, befriending fellow artists Juan Gris, Andre Masson, and Fernand Leger. He dropped out six months later and started on a journey of self-study that would inform his art for the rest of his life. He began to make a name for himself in 1946 when the art critic Clement Greenberg took note of and praised his work, beginning a prolific career for Dubuffet in America thanks to the success of the Pierre Matisse exhibition. Influenced by "Artistry of the Mentally Ill", Dubuffet coined the term "Art Brut" to describe outsider norm that was outside social norms and artistic conventions, using what the non-professional people of the fringes could use to express themselves.
Dubuffet died in 1985 from emphysema. He has been exhibited at the Galerie Rene Drouin in Paris, the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, Arthur Tooth and Sons in London, the Hanover Gallery in London, the Museum of Modern Art, the Robert Fraser Gallery in London and the MuCEM in Marseille. In June 2019, Christie's set an auction record for the artist's work Cérémonie when it sold for $11.1 million
- Creator:Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985, French)
- Creation Year:1944
- Dimensions:Height: 20.5 in (52.07 cm)Width: 17.5 in (44.45 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Detroit, MI
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU128617696622
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.
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