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Jean Dubuffet, a French painter, sculptor and printmaker was greatly inspired by the art of children and the mentally ill. He developed art brut, which is meant to be full of vitality and expression and not restrained by academics. Shop a selection of Jean Dubuffet pieces from some of the world’s top art dealers on 1stDibs.
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Le Guerrier (Webel 393), Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
By Jean Dubuffet
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Webel, Sophie, and Jean Dubuffet...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
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Totem (Easter Island Moai) - Original lithograph
By Jean Dubuffet
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean DUBUFFET
Totem (Easter Island Moai), 1958
Original lithograph (Printed in Desjobert Workshop)
Printed signature in the plate
On wove paper 31 x 24 cm (c. 12 x 10 in)
Edition S...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Image XII By Jean Dubuffet
By Jean Dubuffet
Located in London, GB
Image XII
By Jean Dubuffet
1984
Colored felt pen on paper
Signed to lower left ‘J.D.’
10 3/5 × 8 3/10 in 27 × 21 cm
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Waddington Fine Art, Ltd., L...
Category
1980s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Felt Pen
Coucou Bazar at the Grand Palais, Paris, 1973 original poster by Jean Dubuffet
By Jean Dubuffet
Located in New York, NY
Jean Dubuffet
Coucou Bazar at the Grand Palais, Paris, 1973 original poster by Jean Dubuffet, 1973
Offset typeset lithograph and lithograph
Bears publishers' stamp on the back, unsig...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Jean Dubuffet - Le Hochet - Original Screenprint
By Jean Dubuffet
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Dubuffet
Banque de L'Hourloupe
Original Card with a title card
Original edition of 350 numbered sets with 30 hors commerce
Dimensions: 25 x 16 cm
Screen printed by Kelpra Studios, London Editions Alecto, London 1967
Jean Dubuffet (1901 - 1985)
Jean Dubuffet was born on July 31, 1901, in Le Havre, France. He attended art classes in his youth and in 1918 moved to Paris to study at the Académie Julian, which he left after six months. During this time, Dubuffet met Raoul Dufy, Max Jacob, Fernand Léger, and Suzanne Valadon and became fascinated with Hans Prinzhorn's book on psychopathic art. He traveled to Italy in 1923 and South America in 1924. Then Dubuffet gave up painting for about ten years, working as an industrial draftsman and later in the family wine business. He committed himself to becoming an artist in 1942.
Dubuffet's first solo exhibition was held at the Galerie René Drouin, Paris, in 1944; the Pierre Matisse Gallery gave him his first solo show in New York in 1947. During the 1940s, the artist associated with André Breton, Georges Limbour, Jean Paulhan, and Charles Ratton...
Category
1960s Abstract Impressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
SIGNED 1960s Jean DUBUFFET print (Jean Dubuffet exhibition poster)
By Jean Dubuffet
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean Dubuffet Ustensiles Utopiques 1966:
Hand-signed Jean Dubuffet lithographic poster published on the occasion of: "Jean Dubuffet, Recent Pa...
Category
1960s Contemporary Abstract Prints
Materials
Offset, Laid Paper, Lithograph