Itineraire
1959
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color lithograph
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph F. Colin
Accession Number
1971.81.19
Art Historical Context
Jean Dubuffet's *Itineraire* (1959) is a vibrant color lithograph from a portfolio classified in the National Gallery of Art's, generously gifted by Mr. and. Ralph F. Colin. Created during the French artist's prolific mid-career phase, this work exemplifies Dubuffet's signature Art Brut style—raw, intuitive art inspired by children's drawings graffiti, and outsider creators. Rejecting polished academic traditions, Dubuffet celebrated unrefined expression as a purer form of creativity, influencing post-war movements like Cobra and Neo-Expressionism. The lithograph medium allowed Dubuffet to ex...
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...