DETAILS
- Artist
- Jean Dubuffet
- Date
- 1939
- Medium
- Lithograph
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- Plate: 8 1/16 × 6 3/8 in. (20.4 × 16.2 cm)
- Collection
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Anonymous Gift, in memory of Robert Glenn Price, 1954
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THE ARTIST
Jean Dubuffet
Jean Dubuffet, founder of Art Brut, challenged traditional beauty by embracing 'low art' and unconventional materials like sand and tar in his raw, expressive works.
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