Lot Essay
“Dubuffet undermines order, caves it in. He creates ruins, a world of fissures and of vacuums with the power to draw the teeming population of his art into view, flat against the picture plane. Hence the brutal paradox: for his art to be inclusive, it must also exclude; it must banish those simple geometries and unbroken fields of color whose job is to enforce clarity.”
(Carter Ratcliff, “Jean Dubuffet,” Pace Gallery, New York, 1983, p. 2)
(Carter Ratcliff, “Jean Dubuffet,” Pace Gallery, New York, 1983, p. 2)