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Jean Dubuffet: Paysages et Lieux de Promenade

Jean Dubuffet, Campagne Heureuse, 1975.

Sept 8 – Oct 22, 2022
13 Rue de Téhéran, 75008 Paris, France

In the early 1970s, Jean Dubuffet was in his 70s. He’d built a new studio in the quaint town of Périgny-sur-Yerres, in the Val-de-Marne, from which he could oversee the production of his large sculptures. Traveling between Paris and his studio, Dubuffet took in the lush countryside, the little towns. At the end of August 1975, when he had just turned 77, he created a series of vibrant vertical paintings. Weeks later, he made more paintings but in a horizontal format. In his signature tangled lines and colors figures can be found—a tree, a house, a bird. He said of these “landscapes,” that they passed from “immediate visual figurations, to denaturations due to whim.” In this exhibition, Dubuffet’s complete series of denaturations is on view. —Elena Clavarino

Photo courtesy of Galerie LeLong & Co.