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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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1968 Original Serigraphy by Jean Dubuffet - Ecrits et lithographies
By Jean Dubuffet
Located in PARIS, FR
Original Serigraphy
Jean Dubuffet, a French painter and sculptor renowned for his bold and unconventional approach to art, played a crucial role in shaping modernism and contemporar...
Category
1960s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Lithograph, Screen
Site avec 2 personnages
By Jean Dubuffet
Located in Miami, FL
Between 1981 and 1982, Jean Dubuffet produced 500 small paintings on paper, later titled Psycho-sites. These works depict indeterminate places inhabited by unspecific characters. In ...
Category
2010s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Acrylic
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
Jean Dubuffet, The Warrior, from XXe Siecle, 1958
By Jean Dubuffet
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985), titled Le Guerrier (The Warrior), from the album XXe Siecle, Nouvelle serie, XXe Annee, No. 10 (double), Mars 1958, originates...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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Lit d'épluchures - Original Lithograph by Jean Dubuffet - 1959
By Jean Dubuffet
Located in Roma, IT
Lit d'épluchures is an original B/W lithograph realized by the French founder of Art Brut, Jean Dubuffet.
Very good condition. Image Dimensions: 51 x 30 cm.
The artwork represent...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rocaille - Lithograph by Jean Dubuffet - 1959
By Jean Dubuffet
Located in Roma, IT
Rocaille is an original lithograph on watermarked paper "Arc". Abstract composition by the French artist Jean Dubuffet. From the album of "Territoires" (1953-1959). In excellent cond...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
