Villa sur la route [Villa by the Road]
About this artwork
Dubuffet was influenced by graffiti and art created by those without formal artistic training, including children and people with mental illness. As a way of going against traditional art practices, Dubuffet would paint in thick layers, then scratch into the surface to produce a kind of graffiti, as seen in this painting. This work is one of 24 paintings that the artist produced in Vence, in the south of France, in 1957. The deliberately naïve style was shocking to the art world at the time.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Jean Dubuffet (1901 - 1985) French
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title:Villa sur la route [Villa by the Road]
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date created:1957
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:81.30 x 100.30 cm; Framed: 99.50 x 118.80 x 7.50 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased (Knapping Fund) 1963
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accession number:GMA 830
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
Jean Dubuffet
Jean Dubuffet
Dubuffet was born in Le Havre, the son of a wealthy wine merchant. He studied art in Paris but stopped painting in 1925 to enter the wine trade. Apart from a brief period in 1933, Dubuffet only took up art seriously in 1942. He had his first solo exhibition in 1945, the same year he began to...