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Tree

1964

Jean Dubuffet

(French, 1901–1985)
Culture
France, 20th century
Medium
pen and black ink
Support
Wove paper
Measurements
Sheet: 33.4 x 24.9 cm (13 1/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Louise S. Richards 2005.276
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print

Description

Tree is an example of Dubuffet’s full-blown Hourloupe style. In this drawing, Dubuffet further restricted his Hourloupe palette of black, white, and red to simply black ink on white paper. Landscapes became an increasingly prevalent theme in Dubuffet’s work throughout the 1960s. In addition to drawing and painting trees in the spring of 1964, he also drew isolated domestic objects-a typewriter, a pair of scissors, and a cup of tea-described as landscapes. Dubuffet intended Tree as the embodiment of an idea of a tree, the interpretation of a mental landscape, rather than evocative of the physical presence of a tree.

Tree

1964

Jean Dubuffet

(French, 1901–1985)
France, 20th century

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