Lot n° 92
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Jean DUBUFFET (1900-1985)
Petit paysage baroque, couleur de hareng grillé, 1952
Oil on isorel, signed and dated upper right, signed, dated and titled on the back.
32,5 x 40 cm
Exhibitions:
- 8-17 September 1952, Paris, Salle de la Société d'horticulture de France,
Tableaux peints à Paris entre le 11 avril et le 7 septembre 1952.
- 1958, Francfort, Galerie Daniel Cordier, Jean Dubuffet: Lob der Erde, no. 2 0.
Bibliography:
Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, fascicule VII: Tables paysagées, paysages du mental, pierres philosophiques, Paris, Les Éditions de minuit, 1979, reproduced on p. 156, no. 237.
As far as landscapes are concerned, I think I should point out that there are two kinds. Of the first, such as the Geologist or Lieux solitaires, we can say that they are purely physical; they evoke places, soils, subsoils, sometimes in a very concrete way and free of any mental rambling.
But the matter, in the following, has sometimes been complicated by something else that I will try to explain. The (very numerous) experiments I made with these paintings sometimes led to bizarre aspects, where the fake was mixed with the real, where the landscape took on an absurd air evoking, rather than a real place or real natural matter, some kind of aborted or unfinished creation due, for example, to a tired magician. The very concrete was then mixed with the very aberrant in the same painting, with many forms appearing whose character is ambiguous; they can indeed strike the viewer of the painting, either as representing reliefs or accidents in the terrain, or as depicting living beings (living a singular life, halfway between existence and non-existence, between the real and the imaginary; halfway between belonging to the places objectively represented in the painting or to the painter's mental world alone) whirling and leaping about.
Jean Dubuffet, Notes du peintre, 1953, extract, in: Catalogue des travaux de
Jean Dubuffet, fascicule VII, Tables paysagées, paysages du mental, pierres philosophiques, p. 193, Paris, Éditions de Minuit, 1979 (reprint).
The exhibition at the Salle de la Société d'horticulture in 1952, bringing together 48 paintings from the period 1950-1952, including Petit paysage baroque, was attended by four visitors in total: Pierre Matisse, Michel Tapié, Jean Paulhan and Louis-
Ferdinand Céline.
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