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Abstract forms in white, outlined with bold black lines, turn, twist, and curve up around a person with cartoon-like features in this free-standing sculptural piece. The shapes create legs and are pierced with holes, like an abstracted coral reef. The forms are bright white with thick black outlines around all the edges and crossing the curves and angled sides of the forms. In this photograph, it is not possible to see if a vaguely H-shaped section to our left is attached to or stands independently from the row behind it. A person with abstracted eyes, nose, and mouth stands in front of the sculpture, to our right. In this photograph, the sculpture stands on a plinth in a room with a wood floor and a white wall behind it.

Jean Dubuffet

Site à l'homme assis, 1969-1984

Not on View

Medium

polyester resin

Dimensions

height without base: 304.8 cm (120 in.)
base: 8.8 x 370.9 x 262.3 cm (3 7/16 x 146 x 103 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Robert M. and Anne T. Bass and Arnold and Mildred Glimcher, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1991.100.1

Artists / Makers

Jean Dubuffet (artist) French, 1901 - 1985

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Inscription

on lower right "leg" of left-most tree: J.D.84

Provenance

(The Pace Gallery, New York). Robert M. and Anne T. Bass and Arnold & Mildred Glimcher; gift 1991 to NGA.[1]

[1]Provenance according to Art for the Nation : Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, exh. cat., Washington, 1991 (supplement)

Associated Names

Pace Gallery

Exhibition History

1991: Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, supplement to catalogue, color repro.

Bibliography

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 78, repro.

2019: Gleason, James. "Jean Dubuffet: Molding a New Reality." Facture: conservation, science, art history 4 (2019): 194-219, 195 unnumbered fig. (detail), fig. 1, fig. 18.