Dispositif aux vaisselles [Dishwasher]
About this artwork
Between 1962 and 1974 Dubuffet worked on an important series he called ‘l’Hourloupe’, to which this work belongs. ‘Hourloupe’ is an invented word which Dubuffet said, “calls to mind some object or personage of fairytale-like and grotesque state”. Verging on abstraction - a figure can just be made out on the left side, holding a brush and facing a bottle – ‘Dishwasher’ is composed of interlocking, jigsaw-like shapes. The series began as ball-point pen doodles and display what Dubuffet described as his “meandering, uninterrupted and resolutely uniform line, which brings all planes to the surface”. The ‘l’Hourloupe' series greatly influenced Dubuffet’s painted sculptures and culminated in ‘Coucou Bazar (Bal de l’Hourloupe)’ - a performance piece first staged in 1973.
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artist:Jean Dubuffet (1901 - 1985) French
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title:Dispositif aux vaisselles [Dishwasher]
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date created:Dated 1965
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materials:Vinyl on paper laid on canvas
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measurements:99.50 x 69.00 cm; Framed: 124.20 x 92.60 x 9.00 cm
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credit line:Purchased 1980
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accession number:GMA 2151
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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...