Jean Dubuffet - Artists - Helly Nahmad Gallery

Jean Dubuffet, Ciseaux I, 1966. A tangled web of red, white, and blue patterns are cut and spliced from multiple aerial perspectives into a single unified construction, revealing a unique vision of a pair of scissors in Jean Dubuffet’s remarkable Ciseaux I. Executed in 1966, it is a highly accomplished large-scale example of the artist’s celebrated Ustensiles Utopiques paintings, in which he applied his signature l’Hourloupe style to a series of ubiquitous, everyday objects.

Jean Dubuffet, Ciseaux I, 1966
Acrylic on canvas
97.2 x 130.2 cm. (38 1/4 x 51 1/4 in.)
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Jean Dubuffet, Les Vacances au Pas-de-Calais, 1973. It is painted with gouache on paper. We can distinguish amongst white lined circles of colors in the background a center piece that can be perceived as a car ( a Citröen) zooming on a road with a couple driving it.

Jean Dubuffet, Les Vacances au Pas-de-Calais, 1973
Gouache on paper
67.3 x 99.7 cm. (26 1/2 x 39 1/4 in.)
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Jean Dubuffet, Site Aléatoire avec 2 Personnages, 1982. This painting is part of the site aleatoire series, it depict two characters each framed by a thick red line who both occupy almost all the space of the canvas. The characters body shape is extremely simplified. They only have a head a torso and two legs. The style of painting is childish, Jean Dubuffet is the pioneer of raw art inspired by art from children. While the contour of the two figures are depicted in a thick and rich blue navy line, the background is composed of thick red lines and blue lines.

Jean Dubuffet, Site Aléatoire avec 2 Personnages (13.6. 1982), 1982
Acrylic on paper laid down on canvas
100 x 67 cm. (39 3/8 x 26 3/8 in.)
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