Jean Dubuffet

Paysage au Sol - Lithograph by Jean Dubuffet - 1959

1959

Parcours - From Sols, Terres is an original black and white lithograph realized by Jean Dubuffet (1901 Le Havre - Paris 1985). The artwork is the plate n. 10 from the portfolio Sols...

Terre Chamarree is an original lithograph. Abstract composition by the French artist Jean Dubuffet. From the album "Theatre du sol" (1953-1959). In very good conditions. Reference...

Ontogenese is an original lithograph. Abstract composition by the French artist Jean Dubuffet. From the album "Sols Terres" (1953-1959). In excellent conditions. Reference: Cat. S...

Texture de sol - From Sols, Terres is an original black and white lithograph realized by Jean Dubuffet (1901 Le Havre - Paris 1985). The artwork is the plate n. 4 from the portfolio...

Le vent et l'eau Signed, dated, titled and numbered in the lower margin (see photos) Edition: 10 (see photo) There were also 25 impressions with the typeface caption of the title bel...

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...

A superb, richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce, early lithograph. The deluxe edition of only 10 impressions hand-signed by Dubuffet. Signed and numbered 10/10 in pencil. ...

Medium: pochoir (after the lithograph). Printed in 1960 at the Jacomet atelier and published by Berggruen in an edition of 1500. Size: 8 1/2 x 9 inches (218 x 227 mm). There is anoth...