What inspired Jean Dubuffet?

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...

This exquisite lithograph and pochoir by Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985), titled Prairie de barbe (Beard Meadow), from the album XXe Siecle, Nouvelle serie, XXIIe Annee, No. 14, Juin 1960,...

This exquisite lithograph and pochoir by Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985), titled Le maitre de ceremonie (The Master of Ceremony), from the album XXe Siecle, Nouvelle serie, No. 6 (double),...

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...

In 1973, Jean Dubuffet, a pioneer of the Art Brut movement, created an iconic poster to promote his interactive and innovative performance art piece, Coucou Bazar, at the Grand Palai...

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 ...