Jean Dubuffet
_Jean Dubuffet (Le Havre, July 31, 1901, Paris, May 12, 1985) is a French painter, sculptor and visual artist, the first theorist of a style of art to which he gave the name “art brut”, productions of marginalized people or mentally ill people: paintings, sculptures, calligraphies, from which he acknowledges having largely drawn inspiration himself.
Resources
Jean Dubuffet page of the Galerie de la Présidence
Portrait of Jean Paulhan at the MET
Portrait of Henri Michaux at MoMA
Jean Dubuffet: A life, a work - France Culture
Art brut and Paulhan, Mathieu Lindon - Libération
Jean Dubuffet Foundation - Portraits of Jean Paulhan
Jean Dubuffet finds contemporary architecture “depressing”, 1969 INA video
Jean Dubuffet talks about art brut, 1976 RTS
Society of Friends of the Dubuffet Foundation
Jean Dubuffet - FranceArchives
Correspondance : Jean Dubuffet & Jean Paulhan, 1944-1968
Exhibitions :
News :
- Fifty years of art brut in Lausanne – 2026-03-07
- Art brut, an unconventional artistic movement celebrated this year in Lausanne – 2026-02-27
- Commentary on Groethuysen’s death in Luxembourg – 2023-05-03
- Seeking the gold of time: surrealisms, natural art, art brut, magical art – 2021-09-08
- Lausanne's Collection de l'art brut presents its Anonymous artists – 2021-08-01
See also, by Jean Paulhan :
- Letter to Jean Dubuffet, 1944
- Letter to Jean Dubuffet
- Letters to Marcel Arland
- L'Art informel
- La Métromanie
- Mort de Groethuysen à Luxembourg
Bibliography of texts published in the NRF
The texts below, published in La Nouvelle Revue Française, are grouped into four main sets: texts by Jean Dubuffet, notes and columns by the author, texts about the author, and, when available, translations by the author.
Notes by Jean Dubuffet
These texts by Jean Dubuffet may include reading notes, mood notes, performance reviews, miscellaneous pieces, or previously unpublished texts. They appeared in NRF sections such as Chronique des romans, L'air du mois, Le temps comme il passe, etc., or in tribute issues.
- Une préface, 1953-11-02, Les revues, les journaux
Texts about Jean Dubuffet
These texts may include thematic studies about the author, correspondence, reading notes on works by or about the author, interviews conducted by the author, or works edited by the author.
- L'exposition Jean Dubuffet, by André Berne-joffroy, 1954-05-01, Notes : les arts
- Dubuffet et l'Art brut, by Jean Revol, 1968-02-01, Présences
Chronological distribution of texts published in the NRF (1908-1968)
This chart shows the chronological distribution of texts across the four categories defined above: Texts, Notes, Translations, and Texts about the author.
Textes parus dans les Cahiers de la Pléiade
Les textes qui suivent, publiés dans les Cahiers de la Pléiade, sont regroupés en trois ensembles, les textes de Jean Dubuffet, les textes traduits par l'auteur et les textes dont il est le sujet.