The long-time Paris home of French painter and sculptor Jean Dubuffet has arrived on the market for €12.5 million ($13.9 million). In 1945, the artist rented a cozy studio nestled in a cul-de-sac in ...
“The philosophical basis of Jean Dubuffet’s art has always dealt with the resuscitation of discarded values.” So began an extensive March 1984 Architectural Digest feature on the renowned French ...
LONDON — In 1971, Jean Dubuffet took over a disused factory in the suburbs of Paris and set his assistants to work on fabricating the hundreds of props that make up his colossal “living painting,” ...
Jean Dubuffet: Anticultural Positions (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Mark Rosenthal, Jean Dubuffet, Kent Mitchell Minturn et al. New York: Acquavella Galleries. 2016 Jean Dubuffet: Metamorphoses of ...
Remarkably, Brutal Beauty is the first major survey of Jean Dubuffet’s work in the UK in more than 50 years. Yet, as the curator Eleanor Nairne points out, Dubuffet has remained a source of ...
Art exists everywhere, not just in museums. Grace Banks has delved into the best places in the world to experience art off the beaten track in the book Art Escapes (Gestalten), highlighting some of ...
French artist Jean Dubuffet introduced the world to Art Brut, a predecessor of contemporary “outsider” art. He debuted Coucou Bazar, an “animated painting,” at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. “We expect art to uproot us, to unhinge doors,” wrote Jean Dubuffet in 1963. By then, the French painter, who was ...
Drawings are always better than paintings, Jean Dubuffet once wrote, because in order to arrive at a good one, you make 50 that you discard. To do that with paintings would take weeks or months. It is ...