RECEPTION AUCTIONS RESULTS TERMS OF SALE WHO ARE WE SPECIALTIES NEWS Abstract and Contemporary Paintings, Sculptures at Versailles Enchères Perrin-Royère-Lajeunesse , 78000 Versailles (France) End of sale: December 14, 2014 AVAILABLE RESULT Result with costs MY SELECTION CATALOG INFORMATION TERMS OF SALE SIMILAR SALES CONTACT PREVIOUS LOT BACK TO THE AUCTION CATALOG NEXT LOT ENLARGE MY SELECTION Lot 40 - Jean DUBUFFET "TAPE A L'ŒIL", 1962 Gouache on monogrammed paper and dated [...] Subscription auction > See Premium offers Lot description Jean DUBUFFET “TAPE A L'ŒIL”, 1962 Gouache on monogrammed paper and dated lower right, countersigned and dedicated on the back on the frame 50 × 67 cm Provenance: - Workshop of the artist - Private collection, offered by the artist Bibliography: "Catalog of the works of Jean Dubuffet-Paris Circus", Max Loreau, fascicule XIX, éditions de Minuit, Paris, 1989, reproduced under no 425 page 192 The cycle of “Paris Circus” is a fraternal homage of Jean Dubuffet to the craftsmen, to the small people of the street, to their trades. Urban landscapes seen through the gaze of a stroller, joyful landscapes in which, however, the threat of modern consumer society dominated by the crowd pierces. Mental interpretation of a world in the making where money, numbers, noise will end up destroying a gay and peaceful society. Jean Dubuffet's artistic anarchism deliberately places him on the side of those inspired by brut art, the abandoned, the marginalized, those who are described as crazy. His positive vision of schizophrenia made him prefer the illiterate, the imbecile to the self-taught and ranks him on the side of Rimbaud who confessed "I like silly paintings, door covers, decorations, canvases of acrobats, signs, illuminations. popular ”. However if Jean Dubuffet is in agreement with the thought of the poet, his art is not that of the primary school. It is not an art of scribbling, but an art without artifice which takes its source in the unconscious of poetry, which abolishes the borders of the possible and leads to the magical state of the impossible where only the simple-minded, the enlightened, mystics and sorcerers A prospector of visual material, the works of Jean Dubuffet are less paintings than transmitters of his absolute confidence in life. This thunderous resonant harmonic is the best antidote to destructive and gloomy skepticism. Work that is placed under the sign of play, joy, plunging its roots in popular art, that of toys and fairgrounds. However, the art of Jean Dubuffet, even if towards the end of his life he denies it, cannot be outside art by the simple fact that no one escapes completely from cultural conditioning. Her work belongs to another culture, the culture of the poor which is expected not to be "normal". We want something new, the unexpected, the imaginative. The creation of art wherever it appears is always, in any case, pathological and Jean Dubuffet would like madness to reign over the world to excess. "Tape à l'œil" is deliberately placed in an allusive world from which familiar motifs emerge from the fragmentation of the surface, articulated in a sort of puzzle-labyrinth, the whimsical expression of which extends outside the reducing frame of the painting. . This work "Tape à l'œil" is dedicated to Henri-Pol Bouché, translator and preface of the monograph "Ein Giesteskranker als Künster" devoted to Adolf Wölfli, published by the Musée de l'Art Brut in 1964. There is a lot to bet that Jean Dubuffet, like Blaise Cendrars who made Adolf Wölfli the mad and criminal hero of Moravagine, considered Adolf Wölfli as a satrap, a man who lost his life, like the satraps of Achaemenid Persia lost their political power, their splendor to end up in the confinement of history. Adolf Wölfli was also locked up in a psychiatric hospital in Bern for 35 years. There he left 300 drawings, 44 notebooks and 25,000 handwritten pages from which we will take a book with the strange title "From the cradle to the tomb, or, through work and sweat, suffering and privation, through prayer itself. , towards damnation ”. The characters in this painting in their shops with deliberately iconoclastic signs tell us in a joking tone that the temporal power of which they are the victims is an illusion, a game in which princes and madmen will rock head over heels. A peculiar painting which joyfully rejects the sclerotic intelligence in favor of an incantatory rhythm where the small people of Paris, half clown half acrobat, rise towards the aphrodisiac scents of freedom. “Tape à l'Œil” is a work of great Dionysian significance, with a dynamic power close to frenetic nervousness. A major painting, within a cycle which is no less so, which calls out, questions, worries and smiles to those the flashy world rejects. (This lot is sold in collaboration with the auction house Jean dit Cazaux et associés in Bordeaux) REQUEST MORE INFORMATION Theme: Paintings and drawings ADD THIS THEME TO MY ALERTS On the same topic Paintings and drawings Maybe you will like : IN THIS SALE IN UPCOMING SALES IN PAST SALES Subscribe to the newsletter Contact us Versailles Enchères Perrin-Royère-Lajeunesse 3, impasse des Chevau-Legers 78000 - Versailles France +33 (0) 1 39 50 69 82 +33 (0) 1 39 49 04 17 Sitemap TERMS OF SALE LOCATE US THE HOTEL DES CHEVAU-LÉGER Legal Notice