Discover author, sculptor, manufacturer of gouaches Jean Dubuffet

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: Dubuffet, Jean-Philippe-Arthur
signeerde met; 'J. Dubuffet'

Monogram: JD

J.D.

Qualifications: author, sculptor, manufacturer of gouaches, graphic artist, lithographer, painter, draftsperson

Nationality/school: French

Born: Le Havre 1901-07-31

Deceased: Paris 1985-05-12

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Kemeny, Zoltan

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1 hit in RKDimages as artist
105 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
11 hits in RKDlibrary as author
2 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist

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Biographical information

Period of activity: 1918 - 1985
Dubuffet took over his father's wine business in 1925, and withdrew from the art world, he stayed in the wine business until 1942, when he returned to painting

Education: École des Beaux-Arts (Le Havre)
Académie Julian (Parijs)

begon in 1918 aan een opleiding in de schilderkunst aan de Académie Julian die hij na zes maanden alweer beeindigde om zelfstandig te gaan studeren

Active in

Parijs 1918 - 1925
Italië 1923 - 1924
Buenos Aires (prov., Argentinië) 1924
Le Havre 1925 - 1930
Parijs 1930 - 1985
Sahara (woestijn) 1947 - 1949
ging driemaal naar de Sahara
Verenigde Staten van Amerika 1951
Tijdens deze reis ontmoette hij Jackson Pollock, Marcel Duchamp en Yves Tanguy
New York City 1973
Turijn 1978

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Connections with other artists

Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Anzinger, Siegfried
Asmus, Dieter
Baechler, Donald
Rego, Paula
Brown, Mike
Bentum, Rik van

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: abstraction

Medium/technique: gouache (paint)

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 105 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
11 hits in RKDlibrary as author

Vollmer 1953-1962 , vol. 1, p. 598
Vollmer 1953-1962 , vol. 5, p. 440
Bénézit 1976 , vol. 3, p. 696-697
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 84
Saur 1992- , vol. 30 (2001), p. 123-124
Bénézit 1999 , vol. 4, p. 777-781

Fémininmasculin. Le sexe de l'art (tent.cat. Paris 1995) (NFM)
Veiling New York, Christie's, Prints by Jean Dubuffet from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Colin, 9 mei 1995, 427 nummers.
J. van Adrichem, De ontvangst van de moderne kunst in Nederland 1910-2000.Picasso als pars pro toto, Amsterdam 2001, p. 262 en passim
J. Ramkalawon, 'Roland Penrose and the Visitors' Book of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London', Burlington Magazine 145 (2003), p. 282-291
W. Welling, 'Kunst zonder grenzen. Dubuffet en Art Brut', in: Kunstbeeld nr. 04, 2005, p. 44-47
veiling Parijs (Briest) 4-04-2006
veiling Nice (Palloc/Courchet/Fede) 21 december 2006
S. K. Rich, 'Jean Dubuffet: The Butterfly Man', October 119 (Winter 2007), p. 46-74
R.E. Perry, 'Making painting matter: Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier and French art in the 1940s', Center 37 (2017), p. 164-167

http://www.dubuffet.com/bio.htm (januari 2012)

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This field specifies the location of the various RKD documentation materials. Most of the locations refer to our art-historical image documentation. In addition, you will find references to press documentation (clippings and short articles) here.

Archive location: archief W. Jos de Gruyter
Archief en collectie Toon en Alexandrine Kelder

External links: http://www.dubuffet.com/bio.htm

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Creation date: 1991-12-03; Last modified date: 2023-05-16

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