La dame au pompon
1946
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View on museum website →Medium
mixed media and oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 80.6 x 64.7 cm (31 3/4 x 25 1/2 in.) framed: 84.1 x 68.6 x 4.4 cm (33 1/8 x 27 x 1 3/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Chester Dale Fund
Accession Number
1986.11.1
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...