Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)

Idéoplasme XVIII

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Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Idéoplasme XVIII
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'J.D. 84' (lower left)
acrylic on paper laid down on canvas
39 ¼ x 26 ½ in. (99.6 x 67.3 cm.)
Executed in 1984.

Provenance

Pace Gallery, New York, acquired directly from the artist
Private collection, Glencoe, 1987
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature

M. Loreau, Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet – Fascicule XXXVII: Non-lieux, Paris, 1989, p. 72, no. 175 (illustrated).

Exhibited

New York, Pace Gallery, Jean Dubuffet: Toward an Alternative Reality, April–June 1987, p. 296 (illustrated as Ideoplasme).

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“You will no longer find any object or figure in these paintings – nothing can be named. However, they are not “non-figurative”. Their aim is to represent (or should we rather say “to evoke”) in an abridged and synoptic way, the world that surrounds us of which we are a part. But in these works this world is seen from an unaccustomed point of view: a point of view in which we no longer see things (that which has a name) but rather acts, or more precisely, movements, tumultuous transits in the heart of a continuum without voids’ (J. Dubuffet, Prospectus et tous ecrits suivants, volume 3, Paris 1995, pp. 444-45).

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