In the summer of 1949, Dubuffet executed a series of paintings using a heavy cream-colored impasto. The technique of these Grotesque Landscapes was paralleled to lithography for the book Anvouaiaje. Here a series of lithographs use dark underprinting, contrasting with a creamy overprinting, partially obscuring the personnages inhabiting these plates.
JEAN DUBUFFET
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JEAN DUBUFFET
Anvouaiaje par in ninbesil avec de zimaje: Three Plates (W. 273-4, 277-8 and 289-90)
two lithographs in colors and one lithograph in black with facsimile text, 1949, on the full sheets of BFK Rives, all signed in pencil and inscribed 'épreuve d'essai', trial proofs apart from the unsigned book edition of 20, all with full margins, minor surface soiling and pale scattered foxing, otherwise generally in good condition, folded as issued; and another impression of Chasse (W. 274)--lithograph in colors, 1949, on a half sheet of BFK Rives, signed in pencil, inscribed 'épreuve d'essai médiocre', apart from the signed edition of 3, with full margins, surface soiling in the margins and on the reverse, otherwise generally in good condition (4)
Anvouaiaje par in ninbesil avec de zimaje: Three Plates (W. 273-4, 277-8 and 289-90)
two lithographs in colors and one lithograph in black with facsimile text, 1949, on the full sheets of BFK Rives, all signed in pencil and inscribed 'épreuve d'essai', trial proofs apart from the unsigned book edition of 20, all with full margins, minor surface soiling and pale scattered foxing, otherwise generally in good condition, folded as issued; and another impression of Chasse (W. 274)--lithograph in colors, 1949, on a half sheet of BFK Rives, signed in pencil, inscribed 'épreuve d'essai médiocre', apart from the signed edition of 3, with full margins, surface soiling in the margins and on the reverse, otherwise generally in good condition (4)