Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)

Site avec 3 personnages

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Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Site avec 3 personnages
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'J.D. 81' (lower left)
acrylic on paper laid down on canvas
19 5/8 x 26 3/8 in. (49.8 x 66.9 cm.)
Painted in 1981.
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Private collection, Vienna
Galerie Thomas, Munich
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2008
Literature
M. Loreau, ed., Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule XXXIV: Psycho-sites, Paris, 1984, p. 86, no. 312 (illustrated).

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“It is the unreal now that enchants me; I have an appetite for nontruth, the false life, the anti-world; my efforts are launched on the path of irrealism. …I continue moreover to think, as I always have, that truly violent and highly efficacious effects are arrived at by skillfully dosing marriages of irrealism with realism, the presence of one seeming to me necessary in order to manifest the other. In the paintings I now plan to do there will only be aggressively unreasonable forms, colors gaudy without reason, a theater of irrealities, an outrageous attempt against everything existing, the way wide open for the most outlandish inventions.”
-Jean Dubuffet, 1981

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