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Jean DubuffetSituation XXVIII1978
1978
$60,000
£45,134.39
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About the Item
Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) took inspiration from the margins of society throughout his career. He coined the term "art brut," and pursued artistic authenticity outside of established conventions, forging a humanistic approach to image-making.
Dubuffet built a dialogue between his past and future selves, creating work that was both novel and self-referential. He was interested in the tactile possibilities of abstraction through texture and materiality, shaped by the Art Informel movement of the 1940s and 50s. He maintained an "anticultural position," valuing and advocating for passion, mood, and madness rather than analysis and reason in his art.
In 1977, Dubuffet began working on his Théâtres de Mémoire series which he would continue for the duration of his life. The paintings and works on paper made during this time were composed of smaller painted elements which were collaged onto a larger surfaces. The resulting imagery was dreamily fragmented, Dubuffet's final scenes reconceptualizing their individual components. The series is considered as one of Dubuffet's most important, and admired because of the innovative technique of repurposing and collaging fragments of his own ouput.
Buzzing with energy, "Situation XXVIII" is a masterfully layered composition and a paradigm of the era. Amongst crosshatched lines and gestural marks, a friendly figure in Dubuffet's signature style stands in a black bubble, waving out from the chaos. While at a distance the work appears to be one-dimensional, upon closer investigation layers of cut and pasted paper emerge, adding to the fray.
Jean Dubuffet's work is held in over 60 public collections worldwide including The Art Institute of Chicago; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC; The Met & Guggenheim, New York; and Tate, London; among many others.
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"Situation XXVIII"
1978
Ink and paper collage on paper
Signed and dated "J.D. 78" lower right
14"H 10"W (work)
21.25"H 17.5"W (framed)
Very good condition.
Literature: M. Loreau (ed.), Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Théâtres de mémoire, fascicule. XXXII, Paris 1982, no. 137 (illustrated, p. 104).
Exhibited: New York, Pace Gallery, Dubuffet, Théâtres de mémoire, Scènes champêtres, Paintings and Drawings, March-April 1979.
Provenance:
Pace Galery, New York (D55)
Private Collection, New York
Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 13 November 1991, lot 174
Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 21 June 2007, lot 208
- Creator:Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985, French)
- Creation Year:1978
- Dimensions:Height: 14 in (35.56 cm)Width: 10 in (25.4 cm)
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- Condition:very good condition.
- Gallery Location:Toronto, CA
- Reference Number:Seller: 05-251stDibs: LU215216555072
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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