Artist: Jean Dubuffet (1901 - 1985)
Nationality: French
Movement: Abstract Expressionism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Born in LeHavre, France, Jean Dubuffet studied at the Academie Julien in Paris. However, he soon tired of their teaching, and began to explore on his own. He combined found objects with rough textures and thick paint to create naïve looking works which he called Art Brut, meaning raw art. Although he was often ridiculed, his art influenced the development of Pop Art and neo-Dadaism in the 1960’s.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Jean Dubuffet Nervures Lithograph 1959
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Jean Dubuffet Sourire Lithograph in five colors 1961
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Jean Dubuffet Ustensiles Demeures Escaliers ... Screenprint 1967
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Jean Dubuffet Insouciance Color lithograph 1961
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Jean Dubuffet La Pierre (Antilope) Lithograph in four colors 1962
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Jean Dubuffet Personnage au chapeau color lithograph 1962
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Texturologie duveteuse (1958) by DUBUFFET Jean
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 2 1/4 in. negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 2 1/4 in. negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 2 1/4 in. negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 2 1/4 in. negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 2 1/4 in. negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 2 1/4 in. negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 2 1/4 in. negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 2 1/4 in. negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Jean Dubuffet, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Bill Brandt Title: Jean Dubuffet Date: 20th century Medium: gelatin silver print Dimensions: H.9
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Jean Dubuffet - Childbirth 1944 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art French
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Jean Dubuffet - The Magician 1954 slag and roots The Museum of Modern Art French
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Jean Dubuffet - Idioplasm VI 1984 acrylic on paper, mo Hirshhorn Museum French
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Jean Dubuffet - Oberon 1960 papier-mache with gl Hirshhorn Museum French
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Jean Dubuffet - Joe Bousquet in Bed 1947 oil emulsion in wate The Museum of Modern Art French
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Jean Dubuffet - Gas Stove III 1966 vinyl paint on canva New Orleans Museum of Art French
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Jean Dubuffet - Mi-Temps 1980 acrylic on canvas Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at The University of Oklahoma French
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Jean Dubuffet - Landscape with Three Trees 1959 white mullein, vine, Hirshhorn Museum French
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Jean Dubuffet - L'Ecoulement de la Ville 1962 Gouache on paper The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles French
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Jean Dubuffet - The Soul of Morvan 1954 grape wood and vines Hirshhorn Museum French
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Jean Dubuffet - Exresence at Play 1954 Iron slag on cast ce Hirshhorn Museum French
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Jean Dubuffet - Spirit of Tarnish 1959-1960 metal foil over papi Hirshhorn Museum French
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Jean Dubuffet - Glass of Water II 1966-1967 cast polyester resin Hirshhorn Museum French
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Jean Dubuffet - Legendary Personages 1962 gouache on paper Hirshhorn Museum French
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Jean Dubuffet - Limbour as a Crustacean 1946 oil and sand on canv Hirshhorn Museum French

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (22)
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Stedelijk Museum: Kabinet Overholland - Jean Dubuffet
The presentation is supplemented by 14 paintings and a sculpture, and with work by his contemporaries from the École de Paris. The 60 works on paper from the MoMA collection show his experiments with a graffiti-like style, with chance...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Jean Dubuffet Lithographs
Dubuffet had made lithographs since 1944, but from 1958 to 1962 he immersed himself in the medium, producing a monumental series of 324 prints, The Phenomena (Les Phénomènes). He planned to systematically study the fascinating effe...
Metropolitan Museum: Painters in Paris: 1895–1950
Painters in Paris: 1895–1950, an exhibition of more than 100 paintings by many of the 20th ...
Sasol Art Museum, University of Stellenbosch: Horst Janssen: Early Etchings 1958 – 1964
He was a pupil of Paul Wunderlich, from whom he learned etching. His art was influenced earlier by Edvard Munch and later by ‘art brut’ and Jean Dubuffet. His life was marked by numerous marriages, outspoken opinions, alcoholism, and selfl...
Fundacao Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva: Contemporaries of Arpad Szenes and Vieira da Silva in the Berardo Collection
The choice of this painting done in Paris, after Arpad Szenes and Vieira da Silva had returned from Brazil, was due to the collector's, Comendador José Berardo's, interest in the Paris School, in non-figurative painting and in a new abstraction. ...
Translations Gallery: James Dormer and Paul Flippen
James Dormer's work becomes more an abstraction of his experiences; much of it is arrived at through memory, automatism and the subconscious. The imagery also reflects his interpretation of literature written by Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, W...
Takasaki Museum of Art: Reinhardt Sobye: Part of the Tomio Isahai Collection
Reinhardt Sobye states about is work: "The prevailing attitude in modern culture is that every individual is a world in his/her own right, a world from which all other's are excluded. This is a major lie. The truth is that we are each other's worl...
Tate Gallery, Liverpool: Figurative Art at the End of the Century
Many of these works have only just been acquired by the Tate and are on show in Liverpool for the first time. Together, they create a powerful spectacle and raise issues ...
Kroller-Muller Museum: Longing for the Garden – sculptures from storage
Some of the works are displayed outside on the events area, including a 15-metre high Schwarz/weisse Doppelfahne, a black and white ‘double’ flag by the German artist Reiner Ruthenbeck. Other works are shown in the galleries and corridors of the ...
Swiss Institute Contemporary Art: Dust Memories: Mel Bochner, Fabrice Gygi, Jonathan Monk, Piet Mondrian, Cornelia Parker
EXTRA asked us to search for the limits of reality and pushed us to conclude with a meditation on its limitlessness. Accepting this assumption of the unbounded nature of reality, DUST MEMORIES asks that we look into the supposed empty corners of o...
Sprengel Museum: Cloudcatcher: Horst Antes and the Shift in Painting during the 1960s
Antes developed his figure in the post-war years, a period in which abstraction had been largely accepted as the international art idiom. While the figurative was being vigorously purged from the picture, Antes worked obsessively...
Palazzo Ducale: Arti and Architettura: 1900 - 2000
A utopian adventure, encroaching sometimes into “archisculpture”, whose protagonists – artists and architects from Kazimir Malevich to Vladmir Tatlin, from Antonio Sant'Elia to Giuseppe Terragni, from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to Piet Mondrian, f...
van Gogh Museum: Go(gh) Modern
The presentation is subdivided into four sections, each featuring a different aspect of Van Gogh's affect on contemporary art, and includes paintings, sculptures and videos by various artists and movements - from Appel and Kiefer to Nauman and War...
Queens Museum of Art: Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection
This landmark exhibition will present a wondrous display of 120 contemporary masterpieces, including: a powerful thirty-eight foot mural by Sam Francis; a soaring mobile by Alexander Calder; and a landmark video installation by Nam Jun...
National Gallery of Art: FROM REMBRANDT TO RUBENS AND MONET TO MATISSE, EXHIBITION PRESENTS ACQUISITIONS OF THE LAST DECADE AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY
The exhibition is made possible by Verizon Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Verizon Communications. The Foundation is also funding the development of a ...
Halle Saint Pierre: Douglas Padilla: dougieland Paris
Set at the foot of Sacre Coeur, the gorgeous white cathedral in Montmarte, the 18th arrondissement, home at the turn of the century to the likes of Toulouse-Latrec, Van Gogh, Utrillo, and Picasso, Halle Saint Pierre, part of the Paris museum syste...
American Folk Art Museum: Museum Opens in New Building with a New Name
The name change marks the beginning of a new and exciting chapter in the 40-year history of this institution as we eagerly await the completion of the expansion, said Gerard C. Wertkin, director of the American Folk Art Museum. The new name makes...
Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain (FIAC), Paris Expo: FIAC 2001, 28th Annual Modern and Contemporary Art Fair Opens Today
All 164 FIAC exhibitors are united in their support of the American art community, which has been affected by the recent terrorist attacks on the United States, said Véronique Jaeger, Artistic Director of FIAC.  This gathering of key players from ...
Guggenheim Museum: The Global Guggenheim: Selections from the Extended Collection
This exhibition is sponsored by Fireman's Fund Insurance Company and Delta Air Lines. The permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation constitutes the very core of the institution, said Thomas Krens, Director, Solomon R. Guggenhei...
Contemporary Art Centre of Malaga: The Work of Gerhard Richter
Within the present exhibition, the emphasis is on Richter’s paintings based on photographs, his pure paintings, his famous grisailles and in particular the abstract expressionist works. In each one Richter reveals his virtuoso abilities with regar...
Fortune Cookie Project: New Work : New York
Lucky DeBellevue has developed a unique transformation of a quotidian material, having adopted the chenille stem as a basic unit for creating soft, brightly colored, sculptures and as a tool for stamping and applying paint to canvas. The quirky, w...
Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain (FIAC), Paris Expo: 29th Annual Modern and Contemporary Art Fair Presents 170 Galleries from 23 Countries
This year’s fair includes a rigorous selection of international galleries, focusing on individual and thematic shows, new and previously unseen works, and site-specific installations. The fair will be divided into five sections: Solo Shows; Group ...

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