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Dubuffet's Hourloupe-tour de force

Paris Commentary by Michel Conil Lacoste

The reappearance of Jean Dubuffet with an extra­ in the Palazzo Grassi as a pre-Biennale attraction. To
ordinary series of recent canvases will be the event of these were added, in the rue de Seine, the complimen­
the year's end. At the time of writing, this is about to tary series of the 'objets Hourloupes·. Claude Bernard
take place at the Galerie Jeanne Bucher. The father of showed the gouaches on the same theme.
'Art brut' is not talkative, he is even a little misanthropic The most remarkable fact in his new works is the
and he never lets any of his intentions escape freely; great strategic reconciliation of Dubuffet with colour,
thus one was a little curious as to which gallery would after so many years of austerity, when the painter
exhibit him since Daniel Cordier. his former dealer, had offered us only the 'hard tack' of his asphalt, his hautes
shut up shop in the noisy conditions we know. pates and his materiologies of a stark brown. But the
But the change of venue is not important. What is graphic structure has also changed completely. With
really important is the revelation to the public at large Paris-Circus. 1 962, Dubuffet had already made a clean
of the important paintings on the theme of the break with the informal and sensory style that he had
Hourloupe, which were shown at Venice this summer practised for such a long time and a Paris full of little

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Jean Dubuffet
Houle du virtue/. 1963
220 x 190 cm.
Galerie Jeanne Bucher

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Hiquily
La femme universe/le, 1964
Iron. 38} in. high
Galerie Claude Bernard

3
Jan Burka
Mouvemenc perpetuel,
Steel, 157 cm. high
Centre d" art cybernetique
de Suzanne De Conninck
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