Jean Dubuffet - Artists - Helly Nahmad Gallery

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A joyous cacophony of figures, shapes and spaces, Panorama (1978) is a striking example of Jean Dubuffet’s Théâtres de mémoire (‘Theatres of memory’), the reflective series created in the triumphant final decade of the artist’s life.

Jean Dubuffet, Panorama, 1978
Acrylic and collage on paper mounted on canvas
210.2 x 283.4 cm. (82 3/4 x 111 5/8 in.)
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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.)
©Helly Nahmad Gallery NY