Confiture matière - lumière (Texturologie LIII) [Preserves of Matter and Light (Texturology LIII)]
1958
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oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 97 x 130 cm (38 3/16 x 51 3/16 in.) framed: 99.1 x 132.4 x 3.5 cm (39 x 52 1/8 x 1 3/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Stephen Hahn Family Collection
Accession Number
1995.29.9
Art Historical Context
Jean Dubuffet's *Confiture matière - (Texturologie L)*, created in 1958, is a vibrant oil on canvas painting measuring 97 x 130 cm, now housed in the National Gallery of Art as a gift the Stephen Hahn Family Collection The French artist, a pioneer of Art Brut (raw art), rejected polished academic traditions in favor of instinctive, childlike expression. This work belongs to his Texturology series, where he obsessively explored the tactile qualities of paint to evoke the raw essence of matter. In Texturology LIII, Dubuffet layered oil thickly with improvised tools—knives, brushes, and fingers—...
About the Artist
Jean Dubuffet
Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) was a French painter and sculptor born into a prosperous family of wholesale wine merchants in Le Havre. His early life revolved around this bourgeois world, with childhood friendships among writers like Raymond Queneau and Georges Limbour shaping his intellectual circle. In 1918, at age 17, he moved to Paris to study painting at the Académie Julian but departed after jus...