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Jean Dubuffet — Paysage à la vache (Le rendez-vous)
Jean Dubuffet

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

🔨 Auction Lot

Modern & Contemporary Art Evening Sale

May 14, 2024

Estimate: $700,000$1,000,000

Sold: $635,000

Lot 25

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Jean Dubuffet, 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
88.9 x 116.8 cm
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Mid-Twentieth Century, Outsider Art Influence, Naive Style, Male Artist, French Artist, Earthy Tones, Rural Landscape, Modern Master, Animal Subject, Whimsical Mood, Oil on Canvas, Art Brut

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