Paysage au château (avec 3 personnages)
Created in Dubuffet's signature Art Brut style, this acrylic on canvas presents a densely packed landscape anchored by a château rendered with raw, childlike energy. Thick, interlocking fields of color define the terrain, while three figures emerge from the composition with a crude, instinctive vitality that challenges conventional notions of artistic refinement. The work exemplifies Dubuffet's lifelong commitment to dismantling aesthetic hierarchies, embracing the visual language of outsider art and untrained expression.
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale
November 8, 2015
Artists in conversation
Karel Appel
Dutch · b. 1921
Appel shared Dubuffet's fierce commitment to raw, childlike mark making and primitive figuration, producing densely packed compositions with crude interlocking color fields and figures rendered with the same instinctive vitality seen in this landscape.
Asger Jorn
Danish · b. 1914
A founding member of the CoBrA movement like Appel, Jorn created gestural landscapes and figurative abstractions with earthy tones and rough expressive energy that directly parallels the Art Brut rawness and dismantling of refined aesthetics evident in this château composition.
Gaston Chaissac
French · b. 1910
Chaissac was a close associate of Dubuffet and a celebrated outsider artist whose densely interlocking color shapes, crude figurative forms, and embrace of untrained visual language make his work among the closest parallels to this specific piece's raw aesthetic and figurative abstraction.
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