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Dubuffet’s Drawings Attracted Artists, Will Collectors Come Back?

February 6, 2017 by Marion Maneker

Jean Dubuffet, Portrait de Jean Paulhan (Portrait of Jean Paulhan), July 1955

The Morgan Library’s show of Jean Dubuffet’s drawings is now at the Hammer in LA. KCRW takes a look at the artist and his waxing-then-waning-now-waxing-again reputation. Listen to this conversation with Hunter Drohojowska-Philp for more perspective:

Immensely popular with collectors and fellow artists in the 1940s and 1950s, Dubuffet’s art lost some of its popularity during the changing tastes of the 1960s. Yet, numerous contemporary artists — Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Thomas Houseago — have responded to Dubuffet’s spontaneity and raucous subject matter[…]. Dubuffet was friends with artists like Fernand Léger and dabbled in making his own art in the 1920s and 1930s but mostly he operated the family wine business. […]

After 1942, when he decided to devote himself completely to his art, children’s drawings were his initial source material, less for their innocence than their awkwardness. […] Portraits of friends, mostly writers and artists, were almost caricatures in their bold simplicity.

Dubuffet drawings | Art Talk (KCRW)

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