
Paysage à la vache (Le rendez-vous)
A boldly expressive landscape rendered in Dubuffet's characteristic raw, gestural style, where a cow and its surroundings are reduced to energetic, childlike forms scratched and built up within a thick, textured paint surface. The composition dissolves conventional perspective, merging figure and ground into a vibrant, unified field of earthy tones and spontaneous mark-making. Rooted in his concept of Art Brut, Dubuffet challenges refined artistic tradition by embracing the unpolished visual language of outsider and folk expression.
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Signed
- Yes
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Modern & Contemporary Art Evening Sale
May 14, 2024
Estimate: $700,000 to $1,000,000
Sold: $635,000
Lot 25
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Karel Appel
Dutch · b. 1921

Appel shared Dubuffet's embrace of raw gestural brushwork and childlike figuration, building up thick impasto surfaces with figures and animals rendered in bold, spontaneous forms that reject academic refinement in favor of primal expressive energy.

Asger Jorn
Danish · b. 1914

As a founding member of the CoBrA movement, Jorn created densely textured oil paintings where figures and landscapes merge into unified fields of earthy and vivid tones through agitated mark making that closely parallels Dubuffet's Art Brut sensibility and rural subject matter.

Gaston Chaissac
French · b. 1910

Chaissac was a self taught artist deeply connected to Art Brut who produced naive and whimsical figurative compositions with scratched and roughly worked surfaces, sharing Dubuffet's rejection of refined technique and his celebration of untrained visual language rooted in earthy rural forms.
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