Sketchbook: El Golea, II
Jean Dubuffet
French, 1901–1985
1948
An ink-on-paper sketch of a cloaked, almost childlike figure in which the artist seeks to record a raw, immediate expression rather than a polished, academic likeness.
You’re struck by the spare, looping blue-black lines on brown paper that flatten drapery into rhythmic folds and reduce face and hands to a few decisive marks, making the figure feel both tentative and insistently present.
Dating from 1948, the drawing reflects Dubuffet’s embrace of Art Brut aesthetics—valuing spontaneity, vernacular gesture, and untrained directness as a challenge to conventional postwar art.
Medium
Ink on paper
Dimensions
6 3/4 x 5" (17.1 x 12.7 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the artist
Accession
1333.1968.4
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