Jean Dubuffet

Jean Dubuffet's Autograph Letters - 1950s

1950s

Autograph Letter Signed by the Romanian and French avant-garde poet and artist, Tristan Tzara (Moinești, 1896 – Paris 1963) to the Swissh editor Nesto Ja...

Interesting collection of 4 letters by Jean Dubuffet (2 hand written and 2 typescript) addressed to the swiss editor Nesto Jacometti. All of them are dated 1955. Very good conditions...

This is the Correspondance between Jean-Pierre Guillermet (Porrentruy, Switzerland, 1921- San José 2017) and Nesto Jacometti (Locarno, 1898- 1973). Composed of 8 items written in Fr...

This is a Autograph Letter Signed by François Le Grix, to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt. Paris, June 9th 1939. In French. Two pages, double-sided. Excellent condition, incl...

Artist: Jean Dubuffet Medium: Lithographic Poster, 1959 Dimensions: 30.5 x 22 in, 77.5 x 55.9 cm Dubuffet was a successful propagandist, gaining notoriety for his attacks on the “...

SALE ONE WEEK ONLY "I. Traces grotesques" is an Artist’s Proof Lithograph. “Proofs” are either pulled or printed, and the artist has the option to work out the color and quality issues as they come out of the process. The only real difference between the two is the restricted quantity of prints bearing the AP designation and not the quality of the print. This lithograph is signed and titled by the artist, Jean Dubuffet, which indicates his complete satisfaction with the print. It is from 1958 and a perfect example of his style, “Art Brut.” His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced what is called “low art”, art by non-academically trained artists. It is sometimes referred to as “outsider art.” He did study briefly at the Academie Julian, Paris, but eventually followed his own aesthetics which eschewed traditional standard of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making. This lithograph expresses the beauty he found in the meandering spontaneous black line. Jean Dubuffet began painting at the age of seventeen and studied briefly at the Academie Julian, Paris. He painted off and on for the next 20 years. It was not until 1942 in the midst of WWII in France that he began the work which has distinguished him as an outstanding innovator in postwar Europe. It is said of his work that “he looked to the margins of the everyday – the art of prisoners, psychics, the uneducated, and the institutionalized – to liberate his own creativity and coining the term ‘Art Brut’.” Art Brut is a French term that translates as ‘raw art’, to describe art such as graffiti or naïve art which is made outside the academic tradition of fine art. His paintings from the early forties in brightly colored oils were soon followed by works in which he employed such unorthodox materials as cement, plaster, tar and asphalt-scraped, craved and cut and drawn upon with a rudimentary, spontaneous line. Dubuffet worked in France and exhibited from the early forties on. He was included in the 1946 Pierre Matisse...

Presenting a very important Teddy Roosevelt letter of January 1918. On ‘Sagamore Hill’ letterhead. Fully handwritten and personally signed by President...

Lithograph, stencil on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle série N° 6 (double) J...