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Artworks
Jean Dubuffet France, 1901-1985
Lieu de coïncidences, 1975Acrylic on canvas97 by 130 cm (38¼ by 51⅛ in.)Signed 'J.D.' and dated '75' (upper right); titled 'Lieu de coïncidences' and inscribed 'T66' (on the reverse)66291© 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, ParisFurther images
Painted July 30, 1975. Lieu de coïncidences exemplifies Jean Dubuffet’s rebellious aesthetic defined by spontaneous mark-making and a commitment to personal creative authenticity. Dubuffet cultivated what he termed an “anticultural...Painted July 30, 1975. Lieu de coïncidences exemplifies Jean Dubuffet’s rebellious aesthetic defined by spontaneous mark-making and a commitment to personal creative authenticity. Dubuffet cultivated what he termed an “anticultural position” and abandoned convention to explore new methods of representation using unusual materials and techniques. [1] Dubuffet’s artistic experiments coalesced in Art Brut, a movement he spearheaded that recognized art created by traditionally marginalized groups and encouraged artists to produce work according to these principles. In Lieu de coïncidences, a complex network of agitated black lines builds a rhythmic energy that emanates from the composition. The instinctively scrawled contours recall the Surrealist practice of automatism, the process of creating art without conscious thought in order to reach the subconscious of the artist. Seven figures stand interspersed throughout the labyrinth, their disoriented bodies dwarfed by the immense power of the surrounding interplay of planes and biomorphic shapes in the background, reminiscent of the Hourloupe series Dubuffet developed throughout the 1960s and 70s.[1] Jean Dubuffet, “Anticultural Positions” (lecture, The Arts Club of Chicago, 1951), reprinted in Jean Dubuffet (New York: World House Gallery, 1960), 192.
Provenance
The Pace Gallery, New York
Bud Holland Gallery, Chicago
Norman Braman, Miami
Waddington Galleries, London
Knoedler & Co., New York
Sale: Sotheby's London, November 30, 1989, lot 683
Private Collection (sale: Sotheby's New York, November 15, 2001, lot 201)
Galerie Hopkins-Custot, Paris
Private Collection, Tel-Aviv
Sale: Artcurial Paris, June 6, 2016, lot 54
Private Collection
Exhibitions
Chicago, B.C. Holland Inc., Jean Dubuffet New Paintings, 1976
London, Waddington Galleries, Jean Dubuffet: 1901-1985, 1990, no. 25, illustrated in color p. 53
Paris, Galerie Daniel Malingue, Maîtres Impressionnistes et Modernes, 1990, no. 26, illustrated in color
Paris, Galerie Hopkins-Custot, Jean Dubuffet. 11ème Pavillon des Arts et du Design (PAD), 2007, illustrated in color p. 55
Literature
M. Loreau, ed., Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet: Fascicule XXX, Parachiffres, Mondanités, Lieux Abrégés, Paris, 1980, no. 200, illustrated p. 92
M. Paquet, Dubuffet, Paris, 1993, no. 319, illustrated in color p. 214
