Landscape (Paysage)
Jean Dubuffet
French, 1901–1985
1952
An ink-on-board drawing in which Jean Dubuffet flattens and fractures a landscape into a dense field of hand-drawn, biomorphic, maplike cells to express a raw, anti-academic vision of nature.
You notice an obsessive lattice of looping contour lines that form thousands of irregular, puzzle-like shapes across the paper, all capped by a single, flat inky band that reads like a horizon or night sky.
Rooted in Dubuffet’s Art Brut ideals, this work rejects polished illusion and helped steer postwar art toward rougher textures, primitivizing strategies, and a focus on surface, pattern, and the expressive force of line.
Medium
Ink on board
Dimensions
17 7/8 x 23 3/4" (45.3 x 60.2 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
The Joan and Lester Avnet Collection
Accession
60.1978
Palette
Exhibitions
