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...

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...

Created as a screenprint in colors by Jean Dubuffet in 1973, Epiphanor is from the Présences Fugaces series, is hand-monogrammed, dated and numbered in pencil and measures 29 ¾ x 21 ...

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),...

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 ...

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,...

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...

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...