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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2007.34
People
Jean Dubuffet, French (LeHavre, France 1901 - 1985 Paris, France)
Title
The Warrior
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1958
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/316457

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
image: 30.2 x 17 cm (11 7/8 x 6 11/16 in.)
sheet: 38 x 27.9 cm (14 15/16 x 11 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l. J. Dubuffet 58
  • watermark: u.r. : Arches paper mark
  • inscription: verso, u.r. graphite: Litho. XX siecle No. 9,000

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
6/25
Standard Reference Number
A. 171, W. 393

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of William S. Lieberman
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Accession Year
2007
Object Number
2007.34
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Commentary
After several decades in the family wine-merchant business, Jean Dubuffet rejected all forms of authority-particularly commercialism and the market-in favor of pursuing his stripped-down art with its greater creative authenticity. His esteem for outsider or childlike art, or art brut, comes through in these two Lieberman bequest lithographs. The Warrior is both totemic and a caricature, while the atmospheric Traces Rectilignes from the Entendues series is more purely abstract. Though the lithographic process produces ostensibly flat images, Dubuffet's interest in texture comes through in the craggy silhouette of the Warrior. In Traces Rectilignes, Dubuffet takes this insistence a step further by manipulating the stone and ink by adding grit and other materials that appear to be in slight relief in the final image

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