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A collection of 17 paintings by Jean Dubuffet will feature in a single-owner sale series at Sotheby's spanning London and Paris this spring.

Remarkably, Brutal Beauty is the first major survey of Jean Dubuffet’s work in the UK in more than 50 years. Yet, as the curator Eleanor Nairne points out, Dubuffet has remained a source of inspiration for successive generations of artists. David Hockney’s early career was “set alight” by seeing Dubuffet at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 1955, Nairne says. Jean-Michel Basquiat “completely fell in love with” the Frenchman’s “tumultuous” landscapes and his scribbling marks, she adds. And the impetus for the present show was visiting contemporary artis...

Barbican Art Gallery, London, from 17 May-22 August will host an exhibition with a Brassa photograph of postwar Paris, evoking the "devastated background" that was "a visceral source of inspiration to Dubuffet." The exhibition then takes the audience through the main episodes, from the expressive early figure studies to the dense landscapes that influenced Basquiat, the…

Art should always make you laugh a little and fear a little. Anything but bore’. Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty is the first major UK exhibition of the work of French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) in over 50 years. One of the most provocative voices in postwar modern art, Dubuffet rebelled against conventional ideas of beauty, hoping to capture the poetry of everyday life in a gritty, more authentic way. Drawn from international public and private collections, Brutal Beauty brings together more than 150 works: from early portraits, lithographs and fantastical statues to enamel pain...

Théâtres de mémoire Series to Star in Phillips’ 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale La féconde journée to be offered in London on 15 April LONDON – 2 MARCH 2021­­ – Phillips is pleased to announce Jean Dubuffet’s La féconde journée, executed in 1976, as a star lot of London’s 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 15 April. La féconde journée hails from Dubuffet’s seminal Théâtres de mémoire series and has featured in the major centenary retrospective at the Centre Pompidou, Paris in 2001. La féco...