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This oil and collage on canvas is typical of Dubuffet's work. The painting's surface is rough and intensely worked over, combining collage elements with layers of paint.
Source: News, April May June 2007
Exhibition History"Jean Dubuffet 1943-1963: Paintings, Sculptures, Assemblages" Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden June 16 - September 17, 1993 Cat #66
"Jean Dubuffet: A Retrospective", The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (April 26 - July 29, 1973); Grand Palais (September 27 - December, 2o, 1973) Cat #84
"Pierre Matisse Gallery Corp." New York, NY , "Peintures d'Assemblages, Craffiti, Solo, Texturologie and other recent works"
Exhibition History"Jean Dubuffet 1943-1963: Paintings, Sculptures, Assemblages" Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden June 16 - September 17, 1993 Cat #66
"Jean Dubuffet: A Retrospective", The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (April 26 - July 29, 1973); Grand Palais (September 27 - December, 2o, 1973) Cat #84
"Pierre Matisse Gallery Corp." New York, NY , "Peintures d'Assemblages, Craffiti, Solo, Texturologie and other recent works"
DimensionsOverall: 49 1/4 × 39 in. (125.1 × 99.1 cm)
Accession Number 2006.24
Classificationspainting
CopyrightARS
SignedJ. Dubuffet '56 (u, r)
J. Dubuffet (u,l on verso in black)
InscriptionsLes jardins de la chaussée
janvier 56
(assemblage) (u,l verso in black)
ProvenanceArtist; Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York [acquired from the previous, 1956]; Jacqueline and Myron Blank, Des Moines [purchased from the previous, 1978]; Des Moines Art Center [bequest of the previous, 2006]
