Jean Dubuffet

Radieux meteore, 1952

In 1952 Dubuffet returned to Paris and continued the Sols Et Terrains and Lieux Momentanes. In 1953 Dubuffet drew the Terres Radieuses and the Pates Battues series and also stayed in Chaillol with Pierre Bettencourt. Dubuffet also works on lithography with Mourlot in1953. In 1954 Dubuffet attended and participated in a retrospective organised by René Drouin in the Cercle Volney, Paris. Dubuffet also completes the Petites Statues De La Vie Precaire and travels between Paris and Auvergne where Lili (his wife) stays for health reasons. By the end of 1954 Dubuffet also completes the Vaches series. In 1955 Dubuffet moves to Vence where he builds a large studio and a villa. He also completes Assemblages D'empreintes and Tableaux D'assemblage series. Dubuffet also has his
first exhibition in London (Institute of Contemporary Arts) in 1955. (http://www.dubuffetfondation.com/bio_set_ang.htm)

Jean Dubuffet

Lever De Lune aux Fantomes 1951

In 1951 Dubuffet had his first retrospective in Paris at the Galerie Rive Gauche. Then he completed the Sols Et Terrains, Tables Paysagees, Paysages Du Mental series. In November he left for New York with Lili where he stays for six months and developed a Friendship with Yves Tanguy. Also in 1951 the Exhibition at the Arts Club, Chicago also took place, where he delivered his discourse, Anticultural Positions, in english. (http://www.dubuffetfondation.com/bio_set_ang.htm)

Loiseau Bleu 1949

     In 1949 Dubuffet had his third stay in the Sahara. When Dubuffet returned he completed the Paysages Grotesques series. in 1949 Dubuffet also Published L'art Brut Prefere Aux Arts Culturels. Then in 1950 Dubuffet meets Alfonso Ossorio and completes the  Corps De Dames series. Then the publication of Anvouaiaje Par in Ninbesil Avec de Zimaje and Labonfam Abeber Par Inbo Nom also occurred in 1950. (http://www.dubuffetfondation.com/bio_set_ang.htm) 

Jean Dubuffet

Leautaud Sorcier Peau-rouge, December 1946
Museum of Modern Art, New York

       "In 1947 Dubuffet's first exhibition was in New York at the Pierre Matisse Gallery. Then in 1948 Dubuffet had his first stay in the Sahara desert, in El Goléa. Then there was the portraits exhibition at the Galerie René Drouin. Next was the creation of the Foyer de l'Art Brut in the basement of the Galerie Drouin, where many exhibitions were held, before its move to Gallimard and then to the USA in 1951. Then finally thee was the publication of his first text in jargon LER DLA CANPANE. Second stay in the Sahara until April 1948." (http://www.dubuffetfondation.com/bio_set_ang.htm)

Jean Dubuffet

Autoportrait II, 1966

    "Time to look over past work: " In all my work there are two different winds that blow, one carrying me to exaggerate the marks of intervention, and the other, the opposite, which leads me to eliminate all human presence... and to drink from the source of this absence. " The Matériologies cycle reached completion... Time to return, with Paris Circus again, installed in 137 rue de Sèvres, after being in the United States for more than 10 years." (http://www.dubuffetfondation.com/hourloupe_ang.htm)

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Monument With Standing Beast (1984)

"In 1978 Dubuffet collaborated with American composer and musician Jasun Martz to create the record album artwork for Martz’s avant-garde symphony titled The Pillory. The much written about drawing has been reproduced internationally in three different editions on tens-of-thousands of record albums and compact discs. A detail of the drawing is also featured on Martz’s second symphony (2005), The Pillory/The Battle, performed by The Intercontinental Philharmonic Orchestra and Royal Choir.
One of Dubuffet's later works was Monument With Standing Beast (1984). Dubuffet died in Paris in 1985. The Fondation Jean Dubuffet collects and exhibits his work. The Dubuffet Foundation is represented by The Pace Gallery, New York. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Dubuffet)"

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Monument With Standing Beast (1984)
Chicago Illinois

        "In late 1960-1961, Dubuffet began experimenting with music and sound and made several recordings with the Danish painter Asger Jorn, a founding member of the avant-garde movement COBRA. The same period he started making sculpture, but in a very not-sculptural way. As his medium he preferred to use the ordinary materials as papier machier and for all the light medium polystyrene, in which he could model very fast and switch easily from one work to another, as sketches on paper. At the end of the sixties he started to create his large sculpture-habitations, such as 'Tour aux figures','Jardin d'Hiver' and 'Villa Falbala' in which people can wander, stay, contemplate etc. In 1969 ensued an acquaintance between him and the French Outsider Art artist Jacques Soisson. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Dubuffet)"